skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't remember if mtime is updated on each write call or just on fopen but I could see this being a huge performance overhead, namely for applications that are FS bound. I wonder if io_uring would help the situation though since it's mainly geared toward filesystem operations.
Silly rituals are a pretty big part of monarchies, IMHO because monarchs have always understood they have no legitimate right to rule so they use the pomp and circumstance as a form of fake legitimacy.
At least in Germany, not everyone uses gas heating - lots of domestic and institutional oil furnaces and tanks still around, like the recently-filled one in our basement that holds two bad winters’ worth of luxurious (21-22 C) warmth, or four normal winters’ worth of careful (18-19 C) usage. If needed, we can clamp down even further, closing off some rooms.

My husband’s parents switched to gas two years ago when their old oil furnace finally became irreparable, so my husband set them up with a diesel heater in their bedroom with enough fuel for two or three days, and the intention of bringing them down here in the worst case.

I’m sure that families and friends all over Germany and the rest of the EU have similar plans.
Also https://itch.io/games/tag-twine since it gives different results.
> RTL8156

I never have a good experience with Realtek networking chipsets, especially on 2.5Gbps.
That's a cycle and has happened before, long before these claims.

Do better please
It's the only one I've watched and that stopped me from watching more of his movies, it just bored me so much, I wonder if all his movies are at the same pace or if I should give another try to `A bout de souffle`.
Those numbers ARE ABSOLUTELY WORHTLESS. "capacity filled in percent" is a WORTHLESS METRIC that tells the lay reader NOTHING at all.

Austria might have a max capacity of 60% of their yearly demand, Germany might have 200% (made up numbers for illustration). In that case with full capacity, Austria could survive 4 months, while Germany could go two years. Yes, this disregards cross-country sharing, but even averaged across different countries, percentage means nothing. It doesn't tell us anything. The one and only question is: "How long can we go without new gas?" and percentage values don't answer it.

Capacity should be displayed either in average-demand days or a timeframe (= How many days could we satisfy demand with our stored gas alone?).
Yes. The advice is contextual. If you're making a public web framework, probably don't call it Web Framework. If you work at a company and you're writing the one and only hotel booking service, do call it Hotels instead of forcing your coworkers to memorize yet another cute name.
I give mine “whimsical” names that have alphabetic first letters, and may correspond to positions in a hierarchy.

For example, I tend to use a “layered” approach to servers. In one of my projects, the DB layer is the lowest, and is unnamed (it would start with “A,” if I had named it), so I named the DB connector “BADGER”[0]. The layer above that, is called "CHAMELEON/COBRA" (They are basically at the same logical layer).

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/forensic-design-docu...
We do grasp mathematics, some of us anyway, so clearly that’s false but I doubt it was meant literally. The linked articles are interesting, thanks, they seem to show the cognitive mechanisms we use to engage in mathematical thinking. I’d rather say that understanding or performing mathematics is, how to say this, cognitively expensive for human minds. It takes an awful lot of effort, because while we have cognitive mechanisms suitable to the task, there not very efficient for that purpose.

> Also, I'm not sure how Godel's death is relevant.

Godel did a lot of seminal work on how to analyse statements and beliefs and how to reason about their truth or falsehood, yet died as a direct result of holding a (presumably) false belief.
That does not sound much like a “weekly release” though

> rather-trivial engineering cost

I personally disagree with this. To implement feature flags your engineers have to reason about all the places where the feature needs to be on/off, implement those flags, write and maintain test cases for both the on and off case, rollout the code, then go back and refactor everything to remove the flags afterwards.

It’s not insurmountable. But it’s not trivial in my experience.
It should be pointed out that Corbet himself has come out in support of subscriber links posted here and at other places. That's why they provided that capability. That said it shouldn't be abused and I suspect if it ends up becoming too much they might remove that ability.

I agree with one of the other posters, we should support quality journalism, and lwn definitely is.
What I learned as employee #2 at a scaling startup – year 1 at incident.io
You can catch the panic. It will panic, but I don't know if the driver will catch it. I hope so :)
"transitioning away from oil" is part of esg isn't it.
Will you let your cat starve to death when they depopulate all the birds? That's the natural way to keep predators in check
Me too. A flagging economy would make capital investments in green energy even more difficult. If China decides to sanction us we will also lose access to most of the underpriced green energy. A flagging economy, no gas and skyrocketing solar panel/wind turbine prices will mean a lot more coal.

Europe didnt make enough hay while the sun was shining.
> But nuclear power does not give that kind of value to a user

That wasn't the point. The point is that right now people can't even envision that nuclear can be done more efficiently because there isn't being invested much in nuclear. Just as people couldn't imagine cheap IMUs or electrical cars that were actually as good, and often better, than cars with combustion engines.

It was an observation about people. Not things.

If you look at the current energy crisis in Europe, that's one of those wakeup calls that could, and should, change our awareness of energy mix. Even before the Ukraine war, Europe was heading for an energy crisis because it was not investing enough in constant power sources. Focus has been on renewables, which is well and good, but wind and solar are intermittent. And as Norway is discovering, with changing weather patterns, hydroelectric becomes a challenge as well.

To illustrate how serious the crisis is: a lot of businesses are energy intensive. For instance a grocery store requires enormous amounts of cooling. Bakeries require electricity to drive huge ovens. Some of these businesses see nearly an order of magnitude higher electricity costs. There are farms where crops get plowed into the ground because farmers can't afford the energy to process the produce and bring it to market.

This doesn't scare people nearly as much as it should. So the value is rather obvious at this point.
Stop with the cute cryptic names. If you want descriptive names that can be said with one word consider a good acronym, otherwise just say the whole name.
If i see the words "whimsical", "delightful" or {insert emoji} on a project readme, I will instantly dismiss that project. I've learnt not to trust such projects.
>It allows web browsers to sell that search bar default to the highest bidder.

Does Mozilla do that?
The loss of inhibition is culturally learned, not biochemical. You can relax and let loose because society judges you less harshly when drunk (and, if you have internalized it, you judge yourself less harshly too). In some cultures it's not present at all, and even in some you may visit it's much weaker. Be aware of this if you get drunk as a tourist.
> they don't actually have a serious and nuanced appreciation of art and they don't have a good understanding of all the types of work that artists do.

I would extend this lack of nuance and understanding to the deep learning implementation side also. A lot of people seem to have some very foundational misconceptions about what deep learning is and what it does. In the case of generative art: these models are “simply” sampling from the frozen statistical structure they have learned from web images and their captions. They don’t understand the relationship between objects in space, they have no ideas or feelings to express, and they communicate nothing. That’s why the even the best output of these models tends to have a perceptible hollowness: you can detect the lack of a coherent authorial intent in it.
Written by my colleague Lisa, this is a punchy write-up of three lessons learned during the first year of incident.io's life.

Lacking a hackernews account she's asked me to post, but I'll relay any comments her way :)
Blockchain Backer – Another Dishonest Crypto YouTuber Gets Reviewed
This is strange, everything I heard is that Germany is in trouble with the gas situation but here it seems they have the most stored gas? Is this correct in content and meaning?
I would be much happier with something like an Apple Surface.
> Have a QR code printed on the bin that simply leads to a website

This comment is the perfect specimen of why our industry is a fucking joke. It should be illegal for us to call ourselves engineers.

This is how a vending machine that takes coins gets replaced by a vending machine that requires internet, a smartphone, two apps and three passwords to buy a water bottle.

This is how you get critical infrastructure like elevators where display showing floor number lags (!), it needs wifi and the elevator goes down for software updates.
I can only see that happening if spender goes insane.
There's an interesting graphic in this Guardian story a few days ago showing graphically how dangerously close we are to a lot of these tipping points.

("The risk of climate tipping points is rising rapidly as the world heats up"/
"Estimated range of global heating needed to pass tipping point temperature").

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/08/world-on...

(Based on the data in the study this story is referring to.)
The article outlines that API IS NOT JSON over HTTP, albeit it's the most popular case.
You can send a text file/binary (that contains X12, EDIFACT) to an API as easily as JSON.
In fact, that's what EdiNation does; it allows you to send EDI files to a web API. So it shouldn't matter if you deal with EDI or JSON, just convert one to the other, and off you go. Another way to do what everybody else is doing anyway.
You can see it graphically (with more data) at
https://gasdashboard.entsog.eu/
(scroll down a bit)

There's also Bert's Gazmon for quick overview

https://berthub.eu/gazmon/
There are plenty of issues with this line of argument. Black swans (monarchies everywhere we look), crystal ball gazing (we can't see the future so we can't identify if we're living in aberrant times), might is right (the powerful are the first to take control, which is interpreted as governance), elitism (power passes to the powerful), and probably more.

Although "proof by Civ" is incontrovertible, of course.
There probably should be some friction for getting divorced. Imagine the divorce and re-marrying rate if you could just open your phone settings and toggle divorce/stay. Like unfollowing on Instagram.
The situation in australia is very different from other regions, in a previous discussion on HN we've already established that for central europe, domestic cats have a negligible effect on wildlife. (As in, orders of magnitudes below the next higher causes, which are mostly wild cats and pesticides).
Anyone able to comment on this? Difficult to check before the new limits' deadline though...
China is 100% beholden to fossil fuels and is now Russia middle man.

China is going to collapse due to demographics and is one of the worst abusers of climate.

Their renewables are a joke, it's coal and gas and massive pollution.

Do not hold them up as a standard.
I assume countries in the EU will no longer eschew longer gas contracts in favor of the spot market. The contracts have always been available and you might not have much faith in Russia any more but Europes second largest gas provider, Norway is still here. It's only a matter of making the choice.
My favorite argument is that China - a very populous country - pollutes more and therefore it's out of our hands. Nevermind North America's disastrous per capita emissions, despite not being the world's factory.

It seems like everyone will point fingers right until collapse.
By your metric, the most "socially backward" country that joined the EU was the United Kingdom, as its the only one that actually exited so far.

EDIT: regarding your edit - yep, Ukraine is currently a very backwards and crappy country, basically no better than Russia. While Russia is propped up by infinite monies flowing from the ground, Ukraine doesn't have it, so it's much more dilapidated. It's a small miracle that it didn't collapse economically and became Putin's client, just as Belarus had before. However, the one huge difference is that Ukraine doesn't have centuries of imperialistic and autocractic traditions that define Russia - so, it's population is not excited about subjugating other nations, and is ok with democracy as a form of government.
Lots of European countries are having trouble with gas, Germany was (IMHO) singled out due to being content about their situation of being reliant on russia (see NS2) before the invasion.
Aside from maybe the coldest two weeks, the climate is not even uncomfortable if you are inside (no wind or precipitation), wear thick clothing, and move a little. If you do physical labor, you're going to be sweating.

Nobody is going to die from cold in western Europe's semi-oceanic climate, even without any gas at all. For the vulnerable, there's plenty of alternative fuels. But we do have gas and lots of it, so this seems entirely baseless.
"Royalty" never really ruled anything completely in history. There were always ministers, even a prime minister, bureaucracy under the King/Queen. The King/Queen only maintained enough political power to veto any decision in any branch of the government. That's pretty much it.

Nothing much really changed per se after Democracy. Bureaucracy still remains the largest and still a unelected branch of the government. You still can't interfere with anything to do with Armed Forces and Judiciary, and they too are unelected. Only thing the public got was a way to elect the (prime-)minister(s). But even the merits of this are up for a debate, Democracy doesn't work well if your masses are not empowered to make good decisions, or they have all the empowerment or they just can't make right decisions for themselves.

Ask yourself this, why would anybody want to be elected? To serve the people? People do anything because its personally profitable to them, that begs the question, do they even have your best interests in their decisions and work?

Regardless a huge range of decisions remain outside the control and scope of the common masses.

Also beyond all this, these are political definitions, just like boundaries they expand and contract every century or so, this is with any country. So you really have to ask at the end of the day, what are you fighting for?
A view from Germany:

Up to Russian invasion this February: old oil furnaces were being avidly replaced with natural gas ones. Solar installations were starting to slack off. Lots of re-roofing and new exterior wall insulation.

Since then: no slacking in the roofing and exterior wall insulation, but now everyone has a keen interest in heat pumps, and solar panels are being installed everywhere.

Gonna be hard to convince people to take their chances again with a fuel from such an unreliable source in the next few years, I think, especially if this is a bad winter and rationing happens.
Why and how GitHub paused feature development to focus on DevEx
Of all those the only one that bugs me is macros. They are legitimately alien to the Rust language and remind me of Perl (a.k.a. Herl). I do understand why macros are a sub-language because they're doing something totally unlike what the main language does, but could the syntax have been less fugly?
I've used the words "stock photography" in an image and saw the shutterstock logo across the image in the output. Not sure how that happens but try it out.
> Do you wanna live on an empty planet?

Don't worry we won't survive it.
It's not the best science available, it's the most politically consumable science , which is different.

If you haven't figured it out yet, it was never about environmentalism.
Ask HN: Where can I learn the architecture of 2FA/SMS verification systems?
I want to know how these systems work at a technical level. Not just how to connect an API. Reason is, i want to build a verification system very similar to SMS verification, but using a different protocol. Specifically USSD.

Any white papers, literature etc on this would be greatly appreciated. As well as just advice on approaching this. I could very well be overestimating what i need to build to achieve my goal.
> I’m not sure if this applies to NiCd but due to much less regulation around them in general and a better safety profile that is what we went with.

I think if the nominal voltage difference is less than 9V, it's only subject to prevention of short circuit (to avoid fires). >=9V is on a separate category which requires formal testing and labeling (still not as strict as lithium batteries though).
In Snow Crash, there was a giant CIA earth that held all the data for everything and you could zoom in and out.

While the UX is probably "executive demo" rather than "daily power user", this and other data is perfect for such an approach.

It tells a meaningful OSInT story.

Basically, as a data user, where are my flying cars?
> Records use : in their literal form, which is overloaded with type ascription. This is also annoying in cases where you might want to move a field into a let binding.

This one is getting fixed by removing type ascription - https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3307.
They report only what is novel and salient for the target audience. If something is on-going but not novel it won’t be reported on until something novel happens (e.g. climate change only gets reported on when there’s some kind of study, report, natural disaster or climate conference), and they will only report what they consider salient facts (e.g. general news will not report on the actual science, because that’s too technical and boring, only on controversy around the science or controversial conclusions drawn from the science).

What is novel and salient is only a tiny fraction of what is relevant to come to an informed opinion. That’s why news is set up for failure if its role is seen as informing the public. I see more potential for documentaries when it comes to informing the public, but the news controversies around past climate documentaries have made the category somewhat burnt.
> there has never been AI art before now.

This is a bold claim. I disagree with it.

Here is a book from 2006 that already touches on genetic AI creatures evolving and similar topics as art.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262731768/metacreation/
In fact, the only thing the rules call out as not ok with regards to pay walls is complaining about them.
> It's important to remember that the IPCC, the UNs group of scientists who study climate change say that the worst case scenario is that growth in GDP will be 4% less by 2050 due to climate change.

How many lives could be saved using 4% of global GDP?

How much would it cost to avert climate change? Several studies have shown that the cost to avoid the damage of climate change is much cheaper than dealing with the outcomes. If you think 4% is nothing to be concerned about, why don't we spend 4% of global GDP fixing the problem?
As a reference point for just how expensive, the Caltrain electrification project in SF is currently estimated at $2.44 billion dollars for 82 km of track, and still climbing. And this is for what's almost a best-case infrastructurally: flat land, few bridges or overpasses, etc. (But, admittedly, what just might the world's worst regulatory environment.)
Yeah. I'm not sure if I still have that 900MB tif but this has spurred me on to look for it. If I find it I'll take another careful look to see if it's embedded or not.
None of what you said is even remotely true.
Not all reduction of consumption decreases output. For example, leaks could be plugged, insulation can be improved, more efficient machines could be used.

Also, not all output is equal, not does all output have to be done at a fixed time. Heating homes has to be done during winter, but some factories can postpone production a few months to wait for more favourable circumstances.

Furthermore, it's only a reduction in a few energy sources that are required, with gas being the most important. Other sources could be used to compensate to an extent. We're seeing some gas power plants moving back to coal for example. Not great for carbon emissions, but it has more and more flexible sources.
Really hoping to see power2gas facilities scale up. Gas storage seems like the most credible solution for stable, season-scale, grid-scale energy storage. Of course there are large conversion inefficiencies in a chain like wind->electricity->electrolysis->hydrogen->CCGT, but that’s where massive overbuilding of renewable generation capacity comes in.

The UK is aiming to have 50GW of wind capacity by 2030. It needs at least 300GW to decarbonize and ensure energy security.
Is Stable Diffusion a big deal?
Yep, that's becoming mainstream. UNECE is currently working on a JSON schema for EDIFACT, due next year, as far as I'm aware.

The EDI standard was made independent from the transport (AS2, SFTP, etc.), so files can be transferred in any reliable/secure way, even web API/HTTP.

With this UNECE initiative, it begins to separate the syntax from the specification, e.g., to be able to transport an invoice as both a text file in EDIFACT syntax, and a JSON file in a matching hierarchy/structure.
Another new(ish) one - "clawback".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clawback - "The term clawback or claw back refers to any money or benefits that have been given out, but are required to be returned (clawed back) due to special circumstances or events, such as the monies having been received as the result of a financial crime, or where there is a clawback provision in the executive compensation contract."

Etymonline at https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=clawback says:

> To claw back "regain by great effort" is from 1953; as a noun, an act of this, from 1969. Earlier clawback (n.) meant "one who fawns on another, a sycophant" (1540s), from phrase claw the back "flatter, curry favor" (late 14c.); compare the more recent expression scratch (someone's) back in a similar sense.

However, that's used as verb. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/claw%20back defines the noun in two forms:

> a : the recovery of tax allowances by additional taxation Next year sees the resumption of a 3% clawback that penalizes most upper-bracket taxpayers.— William Baldwin

> b : the reclaiming of money or benefits under special circumstances stipulated in a contract —usually used before another noun

Google n-gram shows about a 200-fold increase in use starting around 1965.
golang is not semicolon insensitive, otherwise you'd be able to write

if
{
// ...
}
else
{
// ...
}

but the compiler doesn't let you.
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The UK has 35Mtpa LNG port capacity and spain has 44Mtpa which is more than the rest put together though (Germany has 0!), so it probably balances out in terms of screwedness.

The UK also produces about half of it natural gas.

Each country has differing reliance on natural gas too. The UK is particularly reliant, for example.

Only the Netherlands looks well prepared - 8.8Mtpa of LNG import capacity, 120TWh of storage and a relatively small population.

Somebody should make a model of country per country screwedness that takes all of this into account.