skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a gap.

A planned system, as you indicate.

Prior poster indicated the item was a mere gap.

The system operator does not treat the problem as a gap, and also has had no authority to enforce appropriate remedation at the generator-plant level, and the gas-supply level to reduce the cold-caused shutdowns encountered.

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The Texas Electric Grid Failure Was a Warm-up:
One year after the deadly blackout, officials have done little to prevent the next one—which could be far worse.

By Russell Gold,
Texas Monthly (February 2022)

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-electric-gr...
It's not meant to be "untraceable". But it's fast, and as mentioned not a public ledger.

If you want untraceable, you can go out of your way to achieve that using something akin to tornado.cash

I think the point is that the technology is already here and available - it's just not evenly distributed yet.
And aren't there any open source tools to do roughly similar analyses?

I'd be surprised if there aren't any. Any large-scale criminal action can be strategically simulated and analyzed on those to make these guys' job harder up to the point that it's no longer feasible for many situations.

(clarification: while I do not support any criminal action, I equally hate government survelliance)
The GBD was basically a recitation of the WHO Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response. How could you trivially classify it as harmful to society?
But whether it's a repeat offense is taken into account by almost every criminal justice system. A first-time thief might get off with a light sentence by claiming that they needed money and made a stupid mistake. That's not going to fly when it happens for the third time.
when will the sport of baseball stop wreaking havoc on the justice system at last?
We’re in a golden age for skateboarding games
And A&M.

But there is no density in Texas. Dallas, Austin, and Houston are 4 hours apart. There is virtually no synergy between them for a corporation other than existing under the same state laws. If these three were all half the distance from each other, and the weather was mild year round, and they were on the coast, it would be a different story.
Are you constantly adding new users and having to update retention policies as users try to fill up your machines?
With "some effort" you can block anything. Encryption is better than open, federated and encrypted is better than centralized and encrypted, federation over a mesh network is better than just federation.
Being written in go already implies that it is much easier to deploy and the how and why it is easier to deploy (because it is written in go).

So contains more useful information than saying "easy to deploy".
Yes. They don’t know how to measure output when the work is abstract.
I was literally looking for a lightweight Elasticsearch alternative for a couple of days now... This is great, will set it up asap.
I always loved C++ as a language. Most of the use cases for it nowadays are when performance is key, and people use python for everything else. But I miss the structure that C++ provides without the heavy hand that Java and C# require. I definitely do not miss memory leaks and investigating core dumps though.
Dollars are created by the Federal Reserve, not Congress.

Banks are backed by FDIC insurance which, although it has been able to pay each claim ever filed, did get cold feet in the 2015 crisis and obviously does not hold a dollar for each insured dollar. In fact some cursory research shows they hold about $6 for every $10000 and in a major collapse like the 2015 crisis, which could have been even worse, they could very well get in trouble.
You have it backward, Amazon and Samsung's own appstores are desperate attempts to get enough traction out of Play Store so that they are not forced to succumb to Google's demands. The issue here isn't Android not being open (which it is), the problem is Google having a lot of control (including full veto power) on devices shipping with Google Play Services, while making them an increasingly necessary part of Android. You can make an Android device without having to let Big G call the shots, but they're banking on you NOT doing that because no one wants a phone without the Play Store and its related services.
It was deeply disturbing to me that throughout the COVID epidemic many highly credentialed doctors and researchers were getting de-platformed for anything that remotely questioned the government's position on anything related to COVID.

Science is about asking questions, testing hypotheses and independent research corroboration. There have to be checks and balances.

I expect the chilling effect from this experience will remain in the scientific community for a long time.
Thanks. No hard feeling TBH. Actually my wife told me to man-up a few times and I know that I have always been a big kid all my life.

It's just difficult to get rid of that personality and move into a new one.
The objective evidence for Tulsa, Oklahoma having "quite strong momentum" is extremely poor. They are still paying people to move to Tulsa. There are still fewer jobs in Tulsa than there were in 1990, in the same 30 years that employment in Austin has tripled, and employment in Seattle has doubled.

https://tulsaremote.com/
Opening a private phone number and email solely for the purpose of banking and identity, would be one solution
More people have tried to sell me on the lightning network on the basis that it offers privacy and reduces net transaction fees than on the basis that it offers speed.
by that logic, so is every fiat payment processor, bank, what have you.
Most bosses are baby sitting. Maybe I’ve been incredibly unlucky but I have never had a boss in tech who produced anything but meeting invites.

If there are teams that need fat trimmed it’s HR, PM, and management. THE tool necessary to check if software eng are at work exists; source control. Rather than having managers do data entry in Jira, read your source control logs into unified place for them; Google sheets, or some dashboard. Their data entry jobs are not producing business functionality. IT is not the cost center anymore but the backbone of business.

I can manage all my HR needs from a slick website now. I have not connected with an HR person since I was hired into my current gig 3 years ago.

Given how simple it is to build complex software stacks now, the endless hiring of middle management has just increased the gamification of office work. They have little productive work to do and engage, unintentionally maybe, in distracting efforts to appear on top of things.

Frankly; who cares if past orgs used to in-office life can’t survive this. That’s a free market. Managers keep chanting “disrupt!” and similar shallow sound bites. Keep following orders; disrupt away the unproductive sycophants who went into tech management the last 10-15 because of the boom itself, with zero ability to produce.
EU has decided to make a living out of fining the tech companies regularly.
to be clear that is 2 hours of playtime, not realtime. You can refund something you bought months ago but never played.

A lot of big box stores don't want to do 1:1 refunds if the seal has been broken.
As an immigrant who has been all around this country, I don't think it's the lack of hospitality to immigrants that keeps them away from places like Ohio. Immigrants don't go there for the same reason native-born Americans aren't moving there (and in fact, Ohio is a net exporter of domestic migration) -- it's perceived as not having economic opportunities.

Your cause and effect seems reversed; that is, Ohio is older and whiter because people have been moving out, and not that people are avoiding Ohio because it is older and whiter.
Yup. And if you put Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg in jail for a year or two, watch the tech industry whip itself into shape in weeks. Hold people actually responsible for the damage they do and you'll see real change.
I'm more concerned about how possible it is that one of these systems is used to harm humans deliberately.
Very hard to implement. Many apps use web views for core functions. These shouldn't spawn full Safari
It’s not really an OS problem: it’s the userland allocator that needs to implement this. So on Linux that would mostly be a glibc change to how malloc/free is implemented. The OS itself doesn’t know whether or not a processes memory page is logically „in use“. It only knows that once the process returns it (using for example munmap). But once you do that, any access crashes the process already.
> I may be able to choose from different manufacturers on the Android side, but on the software side there are just two options.

What do you mean by "just two options"?

The AOSP ecosystem has a healthy range of ROMs to choose from on many devices. The process of installing alternative firmware may not be for everyone, but the choice is there, which is pretty much nonexistent for iOS devices.
If you're interested, there's a fascinating book called Life of a European Mandarin that provides an insider view and manages to be entertainingly written despite being about the incredibly dry work the EU does. It gives a vivid glimpse into how hard and tedious it is to accomplish things that are obvious wins like harmonizing trivial differences in laws across borders. You would expect it to be the kind of book you have to force yourself to finish, and there are certainly moments like that, but overall it reads more like a guilty pleasure, and I highly recommend it. It gave me respect for that kind of work and also makes me very glad I chose a different profession.
What data are you referencing?
According to US Census Bureau, the diversity index in Ohio is up ~6%.

Diversity Index (61.1%, up from 54.9%).

Race and ethnicity (White alone 61.6%; Black alone 12.4%; Hispanic 18.7%; Asian alone 6%; American Indian and Alaska Native alone 1.1%; Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone 0.2%; Some Other Race alone 8.4%; Two or More Races 10.2%).
But this would hit on workers who might be really innocent/unaware, depending on their roles. If you go this way, then just jail current/past executives, it would be more fair.
I do use Steam Link, and it's great, but it'll be even more amazing when I neither need to own the games nor the computer. I want to be able to rent a computer in the cloud (like Nvidia Geforce Now) and rent the games as well, on a subscription basis (like Xbox Live/Xbox Cloud Gaming).
Temporal Python SDK Beta 2 – Fault-tolerant asyncio-based workflows
Ha, I can see why; I work in an institute that receives funds from time to time for infrastructure enhancements and large projects. We have those logos scattered throughout some equipment, hanging in rooms, etc. It's far from intrusive, though. I would rather see a sign that says "EU helped pay for this" than product placement, if I'm being candid.
For some reason you cannot create threads in chat groups but you can in Teams feature.
Cool. The EU does have its [many!] faults. But they have a pretty good track record when it comes to consumer rights and consumer choice. Next up I'd like to see them do the same for the plethora of incompatible cordless power-tool systems out there as they did with insisting all mobile phones standardise on a USB connector.
I wasn’t referring to Great Barrington Declaration, so unclear to me why that is critical.

For ex:
p516 is a request from a redacted sender in which the sender shares an elections-related post and then asks to know how it was handled. The message footer references CISA policy. I think the tone is a little strange and could be reasonably construed as a way to work around the policy of not seeking action laid out in the message footer.
This is mostly snake oil, perhaps efficient against the dumbest of criminals. The newer generation coin laundry service, for example Chipmixer, will have pre-funded addresses already waiting in the blockchain before the "client" even makes an account. In exchange for a deposit in a wallet controlled by Chipmixer, the client will receive a set of corresponding private keys that add up to the total value being laundered.

You might trace that the coins went into a laundry, but you will never associate with the previously laundered coins that the client got.
Isn't this largely true of anything in the self-help genre? Usually they take historical and personal anecdotes and try to weave some thread. They're certainly not academic treatises.
It does all those things to different degrees?
> This is against the rules now, which is fine, my frustration stems from continuing to see this practice everywhere.

This kind of sounds like being mad that the cop pulled you over for speeding, despite everyone else also speeding. I know it sucks and it feels like you're being singled out, but generally "everyone else is breaking the rule, too" has never been convincing to rule enforcers.

I worked at a company that always tried to walk the line right up to the edge of Apple's rules, and unsurprisingly kept running into trouble with app reviews. The company kept wanting to dig in and fight because "our_competitor does the same thing". My advice was always that it's pointless, and we'd be better off just concentrating on our app and fixing it.

At this point in my career, I almost feel like I could make money simply being an "AppStore Rules Consultant" who flies into a company, says "Just Do What Apple Said In Their Message!" and take home my fee.
I guess you are referring to the "log search" use case? We don't use it for that so that isn't really an issue, and it's mainly about beefing up memory / cpu.
The TH3 test is proprietary and, IIRC, it might only be available to SQLite Consortium members and that's $125k/year. We do pay for SQLite support at Fly.io but not quite to that level.

We do have plans to run against the Tcl test suite[1] although most of that test suite is not applicable to LiteFS since it tests higher level constructs.

Since LiteFS acts on the raw pages, it really just functions similar to a VFS. Out of the 130K source lines of code in SQLite, only 4.8k are for the Unix VFS. As such, the testing coverage from the SQLite test suite mostly tests non-VFS code.

[1]: https://github.com/superfly/litefs/issues/17
Open-Source Automated Insulin Delivery in Type 1 Diabetes
Which will have to be through remediation... I never said the world was coming to an end. I said we aren't likely to stop polluting, so we should get really good at remediating what we will have wrought.
I see flash sales often, what is your definition of a flash sale?
Taking my children to museums does not reduce my anxiety.
The periods where America was most globally dominant were not the periods where it’s immigration policy was most lax, if anything, the opposite is true.
I'm certainly a layman. But it seems that the predicted strings are supposed to have been caused by the hot-dense early universe cooling off in a particular way, rather than anything to do with how the hot-dense state happened. So it's not clear that making the universe cyclic helps you solve the problem. A much simpler solution would be just that the behavior of the early universe somehow prevented them forming or made them much rarer than we thought.
I remember an episode of Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman on PBS where one of the challenges was to build a scale model of the Solar System by placing planets on the sidewalk. The kids had to walk for miles to get it to scale. My at-the-time 12 y/o brain was blown
I have experienced several things on that list, a long time ago. I haven't lost an image in the past year. It seems these days when I call someone when they're calling me it just connects and works and connects. I don't have issues with missed notifications. I'm using the Windows client though.
You can, over time, unlock the new characters in League of Legends without having to pay real money though, right?
well if misinformation is causing the protests it's still a good thing. the Iranian people need to free themselves of the regime. wether it is done under false pretenses does not matter, just that it is done.
Democrat aligned rioters brought rifles to central Seattle, and then staged an insurrection where they drove police out of a station, set up their own guards, and executed Antonio Mays Jr for joyriding on their turf.

That’s just one of several dozen violent attacks the US faced in 2020, “The Summer of Love”.

Just yesterday, a Republican teenager was murdered by a Democrat over political differences. [1]

Pretending a rowdy protest at the Capitol is anything like that sustained political violence is deeply dishonest.

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/north-dakota-man-ran-down-005221620.h...
> Tesla is the only car brand where such a minor recall (that can be fixed via an OTA update) results in a news article by a major news distributor.

If Kanye West clothing brand were to be found using slave labor it would make way more noise than if a generic brand did it.

Matter of fact the sole ownership of a brand by some famous person increases scrutiny.

That's because fame produces about an equal amount of admirers and haters.

Point is that it's really foolish to feel sorry for people like Musk and the Kardashians, they did it all out of their free will, nobody forces them to keep injecting themselves in the newscycle. They aren't employees so there is no record executive or movie producer dragging them by the hair to do media.

When Bob Dylan got tired of the inconveniences of fame he simply fired his agents and embraced a low profile, same with Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Daniel-Day-Lewis all the way to George Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter etc.

All of them were much bigger names than Musk and the Kardashians, and some of them were also employees so they had to re-negotiate their position with the record labels and movie studios to do less media, and sure enough they got out of the newscycle. So it can be done, but something tells me that both the Kardashians and Musk don't want to give up their fame acquired for shitposting and dicking around on TV.
Tesla allows other companies good faith use of their patents and do not enforce people using their patents.
Did you know that OpenSearch has JDBC/ODBC drivers? https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql
The Executive branch doesn't control the courts.
Exactly, they were never confident in that workers are productive. This is understandable in many cases, but it almost nothing to do with remote work then. They could only measure that employees were busy before, not that they were productive.
Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative
>There are hundreds of ways to implement and optimize similar functionality that I feel like an artist writing in it.

Perl? Can even write poetry in it. https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl/prog3/ch27_02.htm
It seems like #2 is what had happened to Alex Berenson. Kicked off Twitter, sued the U.S. govt and won, and how he's back on Twitter!
> There was a time when the official narrative said "You will not get COVID if you get these vaccines"

I've seen this claim, but don't recall "you won't get it at all if you have the vaccine" being the narrative when I got mine, which was pretty damn early. I've seen a couple articles posted on here by people making this claim, in support of it, but when I read the articles they end up failing to support it (though a poor or motivated-to-misunderstand reader might think they do)

When was this? Was it for such a brief time that I might have missed it?
That’s absolutely not true. The reasoning behind free speech exceptions like fighting words, sedition, pornography and others all hinge on harm to society.

The Supreme Court has already recognized False Statements of Fact concerning “issues of public concern.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_statements_of_fact#Issue...
Better for memory compression, at least.
I wish we could say the same about BMX games. I'm baffled that there hasn't been a single studio that has put in the effort to produce a franchise. There have certainly been attempts at making a BMX game, like BMX The Game[0] but it is an indie project, and not nearly as hype as game that would be produced by a massive studio.

[0]: https://www.bmxthegame.com/
Oh for sure, use better types to express the problem in ways that the compiler can catch mistakes. But... you do need to show at some point that your code actually does what you claim it does, even if just for a single use case; might as well piggyback sanitizers since you're running tests anyways.

Re: Dijkstra, I'm not trying to prove that the code has no memory errors, I'm trying to make sure none get triggered in production ie. the difference between computer science and software engineering. If there was a simple and easy way to do behaviour proofs I'd be happy to use that, but coq et al. are a real pain.
Deep sleep rulez :)
Rather than fine the company, fine the shareholders of public companies. If they can’t afford their share of the fine, then they have to sell their shares to pay it.

That would immediately force them to comply.

Edit: Although looking at that and this fine, if you own $1000 of google shares, you would owe $3…
Either

"Hi, we do have a bug bounty program, please submit through the link here... Please note, disclosure and all further communication must be through the bug bounty portal"

or

"Hi, unfortunately we do not have a bug bounty program or other compensation, but we would love to address the vulnerability you found, please send details to ..."

That could be you, or a security team mailing list or whatever is appropriate.

Most likely, they'll tell you your site is missing browser security headers or something that they found with a vulnerability scanner, but sometimes there's good reports. Sometimes they'll try to get you to do ad-hoc compensation, which I would refuse (smells like extortion).
Sounds similar to what jemalloc (default libc allocator in FreeBSD) calls “junk filling”.
For the purposes of having the next Silicon Valley, I'd wager the salient factor is pro-competition laws (such as California's ban on noncompetes), not pro-employee laws. It's virtually guaranteed that if California adopted French labor laws -- which are at least nominally very pro-employee -- and made hiring and firing burdensome, Silicon Valley will stagnate and many of those companies will go elsewhere.
Your question sounds rhetorical, but measuring productivity is intrinsically hard. I can sympathize with people who have trouble doing it.
Seems like it's still worth it for the tech companies, so I'd say it's a smart move.
Since it cleared up on its own, it was probably that.

Another cause could be that you have some malware on your network that is attacking sites.

The author could be infected with something that wakes up sporadically (perhaps on external command) to participate in an attack, and then returns to dormancy. So the Cloudfare block being lifted isn't necessarily evidence that all is well.
It's also really not the outcome wanted by regulators. Everyone losing access to their email and information, YouTube, etc would create absolute chaos. Antitrust's job is to rein in profit, not destroy markets.
Either way these requests should be PUBLIC
For one it is actions you are relying upon preventing, not people. There will be no prior record in first time offenders. Masks (even if they must be a head box to obscure shape) defeat facial recognition. So if it cannot be relied upon to stop somebody from say, tossing a lit molotov into a crowded parliament, or a suicide bomber what good is it?
Swish – SWI-Prolog for SHaring
> so hell bent against making more money

They may still be making more money by regional licensing than just opening up paid streaming to the rest of the world. The support on that alone might be ... expensive.
Adding the words 'vast' and 'regime' to the already-divisive word 'censorship' seems pretty baity to me - that's clearly political rhetoric. The current title is a bit, too (that's why I asked for alternatives) but at least it's less so.
why does it matter who owns and sells a software package that is being bought and paid for by your employer?