skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had a thing where the function that gave the user activation feedback was called "SparklePonies". Others found that confusing, especially people whose first language was not English.
I've been a customer (on personal account, not professional), and will never come back.

I had "ghost vms" being billed that I had deleted, but openstack would keep them in "deleting" state for months (or something similar). They were just one short test for an hour and I've been billed over 1200€ in 4 months. The only way I got a (partial, 66%) refund was having some indirect connection to a VP there. If it wasn't for that I would either still be billed while talking to robots on their ticketing system, or been blacklisted and my account sold to some sort of debt
recovery company and it would be a legal battle (which their bots threatened).

Aside for that, I had interviewed with them before, and they are ultra-arrogant smart asses, asking you details on the linux kernel for a 40k/year support role.
'weekend' is still one of my favourites movies all time.
That's not reading, though. My son can do what these crows can: associate familiar symbols with some concept: "green cross" means pharmacy, "Auchan" means the big shop with carts. However, he is disabled and can't read in the sense of "process novel information provided in textual form".
If climate change doesn’t bless Europe with a warmer winter this year I see no way that a bunch of people won’t freeze to death.
It still doesn't solve the issue when you have trains coming from countries like Switzerland which is 100% electrified and you loose tons time switching locomotives.
This is going to be an "at your own risk" thing. If a country wants to build its economy around energy supplies from a regime that has shown it can and will use the energy tap as leverage and as a weapon, don't run crying back to mommy. I think everyone understands that.
There's a Web3 project called Dane. Which seeks to add CAs to the blockchain. I suppose if successful, you wouldn't need to trust a company but instead a blockchain. But with all the web3 hate these days, it probably won't see the light of day.
There are public reports with the results of randomized searches for mercury in various fish oil and fish liver oil products. The results have always been that the mercury concentrations were lower than in other fish products, e.g. whole fish or fish filet.

Regarding liver, e.g. chicken liver, as containing concentrated toxins, that is a myth.

The liver is not a storage place for toxins. The liver is an organ that takes toxins from the blood that passes through it and then destroys them, typically by oxidation.

Immediately after a meal that happens to contain very high quantities of undesirable substances, there will be a time interval when the liver will indeed contain higher concentrations of those. For example after a heavy drinking, for some hours the liver will contain more alcohol, until it is oxidized.

However, after a long enough time since the last meal, the liver will contain less quantities of toxins than most other parts of the body, because they are destroyed soon after taking them from the blood, which other organs cannot do.

The domestic animals that are killed for meat are typically slaughtered after some fasting time, so a higher level of toxins in the liver than in other parts is unlikely.
Top notch content, thanks for publish it Gleicon
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/08/02/hysata-brings-capilla...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...

Throw in some <$100/kWh 4-12hr storage, and it's starting to look really appealing to make your own.
+1 I like your syllogism. API isn't EDI if you apply any logic to determine this.
The article's goal was to dispel the typical pitting of EDI vs. API by showing that EDI can be API.
Hopefully the end game will be to see this as an opportunity to do something against climate change and lower the gas consumption permanently. I doubt that will happen though.
I was actually surprised by how smooth the ride was traveling by hydrofoil in Greece. I was expecting to be jostled and bumped the whole way, but it was much less violent than I was expecting by the complaints I've heard.
I think the point still somewhat stands.

Imagine a “UserProfile” service. It’s accessed from everywhere to show the handle name, address, icon etc. of your user.

Your application grows and your users want way more customization, now they get personas and avatars and can show different profile to different people. Those are full of breaking changes that you want to isolate from the legacy “UserProfile”, how do you name your new service ?
https://youtu.be/FZqs36C5sgM?t=24s
In addition, if someone reaches the "I need two hands to open this and both hands are full" stage and can not figure out a solution, it would appear that IQ is still the limiting factor.
I think Russian bet is that Europe would take 3-7 years to shift dependence away from Russian gas and that in the mean time a lack of access to cheap energy will lead to economic collapse, which will ultimately make the shift even harder. Putin is not testing our resolve but our ability.

I suspect the goal is also also to trigger conflicts between EU member nations over energy scarcity. E.g. Germany has enough gas to last Germany for the winter so it prioritizes Germany and throws Lithuania under the bus so Lithuania lashes out, etc. A short term scarcity will lead to long term fractures - maybe even EU exits.

Meanwhile, this opens the door for politicians who will make peace with Russia and bring the gas taps back online and revive a sputtering economy - a role that Orban seems to be trying to fill pre-emptively.
This is counterintuitive because the more productive your development team is the more security holes they will leave behind. The thing is how to keep the productivity while increasing the security.

Here is a list of OSS developer security tools:
https://github.com/boxyhq/awesome-oss-devsec
What are other causes that make the pen fail? How does starch randomly end up on money?
> Did you just notice you're in a monarchy? Have you never seen parliament open? You missed prorogation with the silly Black Rod nonsense?
I'm not sure how you can characterize this as some creeky system that's just showing its face now lol

Hehe :) Yeah fair. The accession of Charles has been on another scale though. It's national and public, rather than in a palace.
If this institution lacked power, would it be featured 24/7 internationally, whether we like or not? So maybe there is in fact some unspoken power involved here, even though we're told "it is ceremonial". Sometimes makes you wonder, did the British Empire really die or is it like the un-Dead Soviet Union waiting in the wings to make a comeback?
> I assume the taps from Russia will turn back on

Why? The current trend is to work hard in order to reduce any form of business with Russia that would help them to rebuild the army and become a threat again.
I'd say it gets the worst of both worlds, or maybe even worst of three worlds. It is long, it is cryptic, and it actually leads you down the false path of trying to guess why jeans and why they're blue.

I mean if you go with cryptic then at least call it something short and obviously cryptic. "Chrome" good, "VersatileGopher" bad.

PS Yes I know that Chrome actually has an explanation, but it does not sound like it means something that you could guess if you thought hard enough. I'm also not criticizing Ubuntu release names because the context is obviously different.
To put this in relation, here is a comparison of gas storage capacities in Europe:

https://erdgasspeicher.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ines_ga...

Here is table from Sunday which also shows the total gas stored in each country, along with the capacity ("Working volume"), annual consumption, and injection / withdrawal capacities:

https://agsi.gie.eu/

Missing from the list is Switzerland, which does not have any gas storage capacities at all.
Creativity flourishes with the right restrictions. In this case, the graphics and sound limitations. Also, just because you're targeting old platforms doesn't mean you need to use old platform's tools. Modern tools make it so much easier to develop on these old platforms, check out this talk about coding in C++17 for the Commodore 64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkNBP00wJE
> Additional units can be purchased from the GitLab Customer Portal at $60/year for 10GB

$6/year per GB. My Backblaze costs me $0.06/year per GB, so it’s only a factor of 100 more expensive.

Am I the only one that thinks that’s pretty insane?

What I think is even stranger, is that the number of users you pay for apparently has no effect on your storage allowance. Whether there’s 1 or a 100 accounts, the limit is the same.
That is not true, to the point it'd be fun to make a contest where each line has to look simple, but the result is hard to understand or easy to misunderstand.

Sort of like the underhanded C code contest, but optimizing for simple parts that create a complex whole.
UserProfile2
> Its the natural order of things

So was The Plague
This reminds me of a "problem" we had in a code base that we maintained. It was a test framework written (and I use the term loosely) in perl. Someone wrote a throwaway script which later grew like a mould into a "tool" that was used by a large business group. None of the maintainers (including myself) knew perl properly. Of the 8k odd lines, 5k was a single function descriptively called `run`.

All the variables were global since there were not functions to pass things into and we had a problem similar to what the OP posted about using variable names that someone else might be using somewhere else. One thing we needed was `machine_type`. There were some references to `MachineType` and `machine_type` and `machineType` so, a colleague decided to use the name `MaChInEtYpE` to make it unique. For all I know there are still people who trip over themselves on the keyboard typing this while maintaining it.
There was a hydrofoil connection between Helsinki and Tallinn but they couldn't run in bad weather. There was also a water jet and a helicopter (that sadly crashed). Only regular ships currently. It's about 80 km and quite a lot of traffic.

A modern hydrofoil might be a great fit for this, and very energy efficient so I wonder if it could even run on batteries (like Candela). They're also planning a tunnel or hyperloop.
Why do you keep feeding the obvious troll?
Ask HN: Good Django Open Source Projects focused on social impact
I have been searching for a good open source project focused on social impact, something along the lines of Ushahidi and DHIS2. My experience is mainly on enterprise CRUD applications in Django and whatever common JS Framework is in use during that time.

Can anyone suggest any such projects?
Tangentially related, but I have often thought that we need to update how we explain some of these classic, 20th century computer science ideas (Gödel's incompleteness theorems, the halting problem, the P vs NP problem, etc) to 21st century audiences. These ideas are often incorrectly summarized as statements of the form "computers will never be able to do ___________", which is no longer a great explanation in a century where computers are already starting to do ___________ and widely projected to do far crazier things, for any choice of ___________ you want.
Reducing energy consumption will only lead to impoverishment.
As a counter example, there are plenty of successful projects/brands with highly descriptive names: TypeScript, RHEL, GitHub, AWS, GraphQL, HAproxy, Sendmail, QuickBooks, …
> Those are full of breaking changes that you want to isolate from the legacy “UserProfile”, how do you name your new service ?

Sound like it's better to make a new service. Isn't that the point of Single Responsibility concept?
> [...] that's a terrible reason to abandon IMAP and force people to use Outlook. It's so terrible a reason it's hard to imagine that was their only one.

Strange... IMAP isn't the opposite of Outlook. And using IMAP-based email client keeping data locally is a better choice than to use webmail and to rely on email storage services of mail provider.
> This Bag Has Contained 10,000 mAh Thermal Runaway Events.

Is it just me, or is their choice to use mAh—a meaningless unit in this context—a major red flag? Five figures for a bag, and they can’t even get their units right? Is there some “standard voltage” of which I’m not aware?

> Our bags were tested on 4 separate occasions with an overheated laptop, each containing a 3,500mAh - 4500mAh Lithium-Ion battery. The computers melted and burned during these 1 hour tests. The bags showed zero exterior damage. The pull over flaps combined with our carbon liner also absorbed a significant amount of smoke.

That’s meaningless unless we know the voltage. Amp-hours don’t measure energy.

> Tests were conducted with an overheated laptop and cell phone battery (combined capacity of 8,000 mAh- twice as much power as a typical laptop). Our bag passed this test with 100% containment.

Amp-hours don’t measure power—that’d be watts. Neither are measures of energy. This is misleading at best.

Maybe I’m being pedantic, but if I’m paying five figures for a bag and trusting my life with this company, I think it’s fair to expect technical correctness in the product description. This reads like a scam—maybe it isn’t, but the wording is far from reassuring.
Ukraine is at 28.4%, that probably speaks how much reserve storage they have. After the war it will be important location for Azerbaijan gas transit (via Georgia and Black Sea). The pipeline will take some time to build, but it will make it more likely that they eventually join the EU and NATO as well.
I hereby dub this "The Protectiva Paradigm" - an injunction to name things whimsically, not descriptively because a) its fun and b) the function of the thing changes so "give yourself wiggle room".

The name itself comes from Dune, where the Bene Gesseret Missionaria Protectiva is itself whimsical (on some level) and cryptic. https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Missionaria_Protectiva
NewUserProfile, obviously :-)
Show HN: Constellation – An always encrypted Kubernetes engine
Hey HN,

my colleagues and I have been working on Constellation for 1.5+ years. We open sourced it today under AGPLv3. It's a standalone Kubernetes engine/distribution that operations-wise is very much vanilla K8s (v1.24). Security-wise, it comes with some new concepts: It's designed to shield K8s clusters as a whole from the cloud. The goal is that not even the cloud provider and its employees can access any data in a cluster. Constellation basically ensures that all nodes in a cluster (1) run inside verified "Confidential VMs" and (2) encrypt all network traffic and storage.

Confidential VMs are VMs that have the AMD SEV feature. Intel TDX and Arm Realms are similar. CVMs protect workloads against a compromised host and malicious admins. For this, CVMs remain encrypted at runtime in memory, are strongly isolated, and have cool remote attestation capabilities. This is also often referred to as "confidential computing".

CVMs are currently available in Azure and GCP. Constellation comes with a Fedora CoreOS-based node image that is optimized for CVMs and protected with Sigstore. More info in the README/docs.

What do you think?

-Felix
Randall Munroe on Imagining What If? – Sean Carroll Mindscape Podcast
This may be resolved in newer versions but definitely bit me before in older ones. I just have a script that drains off the backends we need before putting them in maintenance mode. Makes working on individual hosts much easier.
It's mostly a VRAM limitation at this point though, since even a 81x slowdown with something like Stable Diffusion would be perfectly acceptable to produce the final high-quality render.

Which is to say, it sounds like the solution is dedicated GPUs that focus on VRAM over speed.
> start with the error string - find it in the file

This has never ever worked for me, unless it was some prepared example.
There just never are any meaningful strings in the EXE.
Le Mépris (Contempt) is by far my favourite movie, peak cinema. Absolutely stunning Mediterranean cinematography, beautiful coastal and indoor shots, a decent plot with Odysseus in the background, and certainly not hurt by Brigitte Bardot's onscreen presence. Overall unbeatable aesthetics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF0Ju0ONwGU

Watching it is like taking a short vacation. Phenomenal.
> People cannot cope with even the slightest gray area, so they end up saying and doing ridiculous things. Everything has to be 100% good or 100% bad.

I suggest this binary positioning is a very American phenomenon; the cultural reasons for which I'm unable to suggest a reason for.
All I will say is if I need to use the dictionary on every paragraph it is probably a bit too much! Props for where he linked to definitions though.
Buy a few ESP32 boards and make an LED blink. Once you get past that, the sky is the limit.
So it's our job to use the correct words and tell people what we're really talking about.
> You can't fight evolution

Oh, so you are unvaccinated,
don't wear clothes for warmth, have survived the plague and only eat what you've killed yourself?

A true self-sufficient specimen of survival?
https://UserProfile/v2/
Except that you can't see easily whether you intended correctly or not, especially during editing the existing block.
Malthus always gets his due in the end no matter how much we kick and scream
I'm trying to disassemble photoshop CS4 wish me good luck because it seems they pretty hide it
Cars also cause a lot more road wear than bikes do, and they require a lot more road surface area than bikes. It makes perfect sense that car users pay for the majority of road maintenance.
It also ignores ingenuity. 1 person can outdo a 100 with the right idea. Infact I was in a 10 way meeting today, first time in years and was reminded how superficial the discussion has to be as the number of people goes up. Simply because of coordination.
End software patents in the US and just watch how the economy boosts up.
Is HN a type of Marvin Minsky's society of mind with more consciousness than a pet rock?
the best&newest is

https://www.flightlist.io/

by kiwi.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/CheapFlightsSearchResults

https://www.cheapair.com/

https://www.kiwi.com/

https://www.flyblueair.com/
I agree. It reminds me of the second screen apps (designed for iPads/tablets) Disney launched in the 2010s to get people to buy Blu-rays. Never passed the novelty stage.
>For me, this is probably the main reason why I cannot abide space-sensitive languages such as Python.

I completely understand you, I mean why would you ever want to use a _space_ when a perfectly functional and normal Tab already exists.

(This is a joke ... ait' I'mma Tab out~)
Archive link: https://archive.ph/2aWUK
Fire extinguishers are easier to carry than a dumbbell. They're a tall cylinder with a handle at the top.
UserPersona, where a single UserProfile may have multiple UserPersonas?
I hope from my comments here and this of others that recent events are not just a "pageant". If you can explain how there is really "nothing more" to it and why we shouldn't care, I'd be grateful for the revelation.
What made you come to the conclusion that there is one embodied in the universe?
Indeed. They even provide a mailing list you can subscribe to which will notify you whenever an article goes free. I think you need to have an account with them firstly though.
The magic about how modern OS boot
Searching 3000 times faster than Adobe Acrobat Reader
The article is terrible and gives no examples or absolute figures
Talk to Pakistan about that.
PyTorch now governed by the Linux Foundation
> Therefore, our only hope for superlinear productivity lies in changing the task which is being executed.

This is the key insight for me. If you're adding people to a team but you're not putting them in a position to affect what work that is being done you will be stuck with the linear scale as the ceiling

This helps me explain an intuitive belief that I've always held for a long time, you should have a say over what you're doing. If I can't influence what work is being done and how it's being done, I don't feel like I can contribute much.

I was hoping the rest of the article would talk about how to build an organization geared towards empowering employees, but it seems to focus on strategies for dividing up work and suggesting that companies should just become more companies under one umbrella to try and reach the linear scale ceiling, blegh!
Where is the surprise? Marriage was created first and foremost as an institution to provide economic security. The idea of “marrying for love” has been a fairly recent one, AFAIK. And those who have married for love, or for physical attraction, often find out pretty soon that those other “unromantic” aspects might actually be much more important for the long term survival of the marriage.
Not a computer scientist, but surely COBOL could be machine translated to another more modern language - or even a dialect of a modern language specifically created to make such a translation verifiably correct?
It would be much more interesting to see how many days of gas runway each country has based on historical usage.
Question: Are US cannabis dispensaries run by independent qualified medical professionals, or are they simply businesses interested in flogging cannabis to everybody to make as much profit as they can [1]?

Given the (bonkers IMHO) profit motive of the US medical industry, I suspect the latter, though I'd be interested to hear from those with experience.

[1] Given some of the stuff I've read online, I'm pretty sure they would prescribe cannabis for an ingrowing toenail if you asked.
I'm in groups where you can see that people have left (a message shows '[a phone number or the contact if they are in your addressbook] left). Not sure if this is a setting that can be toggled. Likewise if an admin removes someone you can see that too.
Diagram of "it's Greek to me"-type language relations here, partly based on this paper:

The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/graph2a.png

source: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1024
How do these Rust kernel modules handle out of bounds access in an array?

In a C module it would be undefined behaviour leading to kernel panic or weird bugs, in a Rust userspace binary it would be a panic that terminates the process with an error message, what happens here? Would it be a kernel panic as well? or is there a possibility of handling it?
Rules are a bit more subtle: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html (see: "Are paywalls ok?")
> In all its 13 years (and counting) our cat has taken maybe 5 birds

reminder: what you see is not what you get.

cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds a year, study says. Outdoor cats are the leading cause of death among both birds and mammals in the United States, according to a new study, killing 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion birds each year.
The mammalian toll is even higher, concluded researchers from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ranging from 6.9 billion to 20.7 billion annually.
I opt to compromise and use middle ground name, which both related and fun.

A tool for sending mails via Mailgun? “Railgun” then, for example.
There is no deal. They just signed a "joint declaration of intent".
They still have neither the wind turbines nor hydrogen production facilities.
It is according to the faq[0]

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From your link: "It's difficult for me to conceive of a metaphor for a real number raised to a complex power, but if there is one, I'd sure like to see it." — Joseph Auslander"

https://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/questionCorner/complexe...