skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others said, you're on call 24/7, but you can make it easier on yourself. My philosophy:

- Keep everything as simple as it can sensibly be. Obviously this will depend on your application but if you can, you're better off having a simple docker compose stack than a complex k8s cluster (as an example), if you don't really need it. This will make it quicker to fix and get back to your vacation when you need to.

- If you can afford it, pay for cloud hosting and other services (like backup services, Route53 domains with certificates etc). Their SRE efforts are going to be infinitely more capable and available than yours are.

- Use password managers and secure them well. Make it so that you could lose your laptop and be up and running again within 30 minutes of buying a new one.

- Keep your development process consistent and documented. I develop everything inside a Docker container and use the same application/service template for everything. Again, this makes it much faster to troubleshoot and bug fix on another machine if required. I do all my development on an EC2 instance using VSCode Remote SSH + Containers so I can connect to the same environment from any machine. This also means if I need to fix something from somewhere with spotty internet, I only need SSH access and I have access to 10Gb internet etc, so uploading new images and patches etc is not affected by my location.

All these things probably cost me a few thousand dollars a year (tax deductible) but to me they are worth it for the peace of mind and the few times I have had to fix something in a pinch, it has more than paid for itself.
From the photo of the scope on the gun, it's pitched down so much the barrel is almost in the way.

EDIT, and I see now that's why they put the periscope ahead of it. That lets them dial past the scope's zeroing limits.
Presumably this happened because of how rarely the OP boots Windows. It was likely feverishly applying months of security hotpatches to itself in the background, trying to outpace the user clicking on an email attachment.

People who use Windows primarily, and leave it running and idle when they’re not using it (even just asleep is fine, for a laptop), don’t have this problem; Windows does this stuff incrementally, and mostly when you’re not using it.
Ground source boreholes are mostly 10-15 metres deep, so not wildly expensive, especially when part of a new construction. You may be thinking of classic geothermal bores? Drilling down to proper hot-rocks would be a much costlier scheme in most of the UK.
I have a Windows dual boot which I occasionally use. The last time was to stream some sports which requires silver light so no Linux.

I booted in 5 minutes before the start of the game but it was unwatchable due to the fact that Windows updates were running at 100% for the first half an hour
As a pedestrian I've had more bad encounters with bicycles in San Francisco than cars.
Huh?

Who pays for the existing electric grid? Or petro infra? California has horrible fires, the gulf has terrible floods, etc due to climate change. We’re not pricing in the full cost of oil externalities because it comes in the form of emergency budgets and aid instead of monthly maintenance bills.

Beyond California, other states are modernizing their grids. Massachusetts is trying to build massive batteries to sustain themselves when in need (they don’t have any native source of energy), while generating supplemental carbon free energy.

It’s sustainable to maintain because it’s less problematic and more resilient and has less externalities. A California where everyone has solar and a battery is a place where the grid demands are smaller (because energy is produce where it’s needed, not transported). It’s a place resilient to crisis (weather, attack, failure, etc) again, because production is localized. Electric cars use more electricity of course, but you’ll save money by not maintaining any petro infrastructure. California can handle their electric cars just fine.

Also what’s up with this attack on some poor bush shitter? Getting paid to shit in a bush? I don’t know what that’s about but thankfully $600 a month is a lot smaller tax burden than most rural Americans who might complain about him are.
There are many problems. First and foremost, the strategic oil reserve was designed to make the US more resilient to a 1973-style oil embargo. Whatever is going on in the US right now pales in comparison; the drawdown is simply a political ploy, a superficial appeasement, bread and circuses. The sale of the oil to offshore refineries of a strategic enemy proves this, does it not?
This isn't a new phenomenon. This strategy is proven to work largely because of people like you who put in time and effort to answer those types of questions with quality information. Stack Overflow was literally built on this very premise.
I love Espanso! https://espanso.org/
Not sure if you're aware, but the card in that video is the same one in the article.
This is used in both bwa [1] and bowtie [2], two of the most popular DNA sequence aligners.

[1] https://github.com/lh3/bwa

[2] https://github.com/BenLangmead/bowtie
Don’t crude oil and associated products lose their potency over time? So emptying older fuel out of the reserve sometimes is a good thing so we don’t need to stabilize it with whatever the scaled version of Sea Foam is?
This is endianessly stupid:)
Kitty and KDE are two real gems!
Or they "just" broke the hash algorithm.
Yeah... While I don't make use of some things (Like, I only have 1HDD, 1SDD (I do plan to change that once I will be building new PC though), so no RAID-Z for me, still, the way datasets work, made things painless (I mean, I can finally have separate / partition by simply making dataset, but not waste space from having separate partition with conventional filesystem, and this just works)) but still, on the desktop, it is a very pleasant experience. Though, there is still a lot for me to learn about ZFS (Stuff like L2ARC, SLOG and such) but that is fine, those things will come with time =w=
The new wave of JavaScript web frameworks
"Plenty of people get outright hostile and dismissive of anything and everything that might create competition with the brand they're religiously following."

Do they? I am not aware of many FB, Android or google fanboys. People just use it. But surely would use something better, if avaiable.

Religious passion is more happening with apple, but it seems to me, they lost faith quite a bit. People use it and are entrenched in the apple universe, but fanatic worship and praise I am hearing way less nowdays, than back in the day, when Jobs was alive.
Reminds me and sort of similar to NVidia's spatial/temporal upscaling DLSS. Lossy compression and upscaling are very closely related.
> I don’t boot into Windows often; it’s only to ensure my software works on it.

There's the issue. And it's the same issue I constantly hear from people who use Windows similar to how the author does. The problem? They use Windows so infrequently that every time they boot into, and out of, it it start downloading/installing/preparing updates + background tasks that have accrued over weeks/months.

Is this situation ideal for the author's use case? Absolutely not. But does it actually get in the way of office work, like the author references? Absolutely not, since those machines will be booting daily and get hiccups, not slogs.
That oil was bought around $30 sold at $100-$120 and now can be bought back sub $80. It was an incredibly good trade.
The former owners were retiring and no longer wanted to be involved. And nobody wanted to buy it.
> otherwise why is the US running down its strategic reserve?

Because it keeps domestic oil prices low which keeps an electorate happy. The government can’t force OPEC to pump more oil at a low price nor can they set prices, but they CAN increase oil supply on the market through reserves.
OP asked a direct question. It is not patronizing to answer that question from experience.
Sounds a lot like pebkac…
Comparing Ethereum’s PoS to Hedera's gossip about gossip and virtual voting
What kind of automation do you need as a photographer?
You can always use dgVooDoo [0] to translate Glide to DirectX. With great performance, too.

[0] https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2
I'm building a job board exclusively for open source companies like Gitlab, HuggingFace, Gitpod, Sentry, etc. Please follow the twitter handle to stay updated about the MVP launch :)
For the tldr crowd the root cause is Windows' insistence on automated self maintenance and updates etc. If you keep a mostly stale out of date windows VM around for when you absolutely have to use it and linux is your daily driver, things will constantly break and require extensive self maintenance on the windows front. If the situation was reversed the most you'll get from linux is notification that there are a very large amount of updates available that you can install when you like.

For this reason I don't think the core argument is really sound, because in almost all corporate environments windows is the daily driver and the regular maintenance doesn't come in massive temporally divided chunks of work that make up the large cited overhead in this instance but instead trickles in on a mostly daily basis.

If windows is going to die it's probably just because Microsoft continues to abuse it and try to turn it into a spyware and marketing platform rather than a workhorse and the equilibrium between a hands off linux install and windows slowly tips to favour linux.
I am reminded of this character study from 1941 about who goes nazi. https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
If it’s this widespread then it either has to be AA maintenance (perhaps a team having a bit of reputational mutiny because AA management pockets tons of cash and exploits cheap contractors and constantly bitches about pilot pay but wouldn’t fly planes without pilots) or it’s remote.

As an audio person, musician, producer blah blah, that is totally human. Likely recorded and filtered a few times. By the inflections I think Eastern European. The sound of it reminds me of a Slavic based vocal upbringing. Doesn’t seem like North Korean, Latin, or North American to me.

Probably about a couple minutes of audio looping somehow at the source. Far too many for it to be a hardware exploit because honestly who wants to invest that much in this kind of prank? This isn’t Zug Super Bowl level[0].

My guess is they’re coming through the least secure provider for a third party service - probably the WiFi enterprise thru being on the inside of them - and AA is their first playground where people are noticing. How they get from there to the intercom is probably buried deep in a couple audio wires plugged into overlapping sources unintentionally or there is some kind of frequency band that isn’t shielded properly so it’s possible to push the audio signal over something else and cause garbled noise and almost impossible to find.

Like, in the past it was funny when picking up FM radio signals through my guitar amp, but it sucked when trying to have a serious jam session and talk between playing. Audio signals can be really powerful compared to other delicate systems IMO.

Definitely curious and want to see how this unfolds!

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zug_(website)
But, but, you won't program unless your PRs are stamped with emojis! And you also don't know how to dance! (??)
I just wrote something relevant:

https://tamagui.dev/docs/intro/compiler

I use:

- Tamagui + React + React Native

- Hasura + Postgres + GQty[1]

- A long-fought after monorepo with a bunch of stuff to make this all dev nicely and deploy with a push (for now Docker Swarm + Hetzner. GCloud + Kubes was too heavy, tried Fly a while ago and it was a bit too green).

[1] https://gqty.dev
It's the only site I've seen that doesn't work with dark reader. My millennial retinas are seared from the rays of brightness.
Older generations sometimes do. My grandma and her sisters nearly never uses "on".

It is often used for larger groups or when the group is not very personally connected. For instance when talking about your company doing something you will often use "nous". I would also use "nous" to refer to the whole list of invitees to a wedding. And in formal contextes like research papers, reports etc. You would never use "on", always "nous".
Lots of good entries, I'll add a few that haven't been mentioned yet:

- ncdu, to find out which files and folders take up most of the disk space [1]

- julia, because scientific programming was never so fun and fast [2]

- midnight commander, because a TUI implementing Norton Commander dual-pane view is so useful! [3]

- lazarus, because creating multi-platform desktop apps couldn't be simpler [4]

- zstandard, its performance are awesome!

[1] https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

[2] https://julialang.org/

[3] https://midnight-commander.org/

[4] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

[5] http://facebook.github.io/zstd/
Interesting to know how it works - a variac is used to manually control motor speed, I guess maybe the C=64 has a speed and vibration sensor somehow.
I know that my page was hacked as i got notifications fro Facebook that someone wa trying to login into my account. Unfortunately I did not manage to change my password in time as they had already taken over my account. The location of the login was US while I live in Malta EU. Facebook should know this kind of details.
This brings back some memories of making 3d games in the 90s. 3DFX cards were the best. I think our graphics programmer bought some 3dfx stock. It was great at the time but who wanted to support GLIDE? Our engineers. But DirectX was the obvious thing to do.

At the time we had deals with most of the 3d card manufacturers. I remember we had a press event with NVIDIA like in 1999, with the GeForce2, and I think we had one card beforehand, I am not sure. And every computer at this even had one with lots of journalists there to play. At the event it was the first time our frame rate wasn't smooth. Up to that point all we did was to make the rendering time even in ms. So we didn't think that much about unevenness in physics or networking. Rendering was the bottleneck. But once the rendering started to get really fast we realize we had a new problem.

Happy ending: I bought stock in that NVIDIA company.
Agreed, but as a sidenote:

It's crazy that this is how it works. No other OS does this. I can not not into MacOS or Linux for years, and this still wouldn't happen.
Right; the page https://the-algorithms.com/algorithm/fibonacci-numbers details a smart algorithm using matrix powers and then lists implementations for many languages. But the Haskell implementation is the dumb exponential one rather than the smart one shown.

Btw, another less cryptic way to generate the list of Fibonacci numbers is

fibs = f 0 1 where f a b = a : f b (a+b)
Whenever I hear about daylight saving I remember this thing I read on the internet. Apparently it’s a native american saying. “Only the white man think he can cut the top of a blanket, saw to the bottom, and get a longer blanket”. If it’s a real saying or not I don’t know but it’s a good saying I think.

Changing the time seems silly. I can think of better solutions just at the top of my head.

1. Instead of changing the time ( God, what an arrogant concept this is ) why not change your schedule/working hours.

2. Instead of changing the time or working hours, just keep going as it is. We have artificial lights we don’t really solely on the sun, and in most places it’s not like lights are not used anyway.

3. But people want some sunlight. Well they don’t get it anyways in the north and they get it anyways in the south. Daylight saving is only partially effective around the 45th degree parallel. So, how about give people a midday break, make them go outside, touch grass. Productivity might actually increase.

I think people can come up with better reasons and ideas if they ponder more then the half minute I spent while offering a sacrifice to the porcelain god.
I have this issue on my older laptops with Windows 10 that I rarely use. The culprit is some Windows Store "optimization" process (wsappx). It'll run for days at 100% if you don't boot Windows for long enough. I hear the exact same from friends. It's clearly a blatant bug that's been going on for years now, and Microsoft doesn't give a shit.
Does oil go bad? (Genuine question, I have no idea, but assumed it can just be stored indefinitely)
Please go look at a price chart. It will tell you volumes more than whatever late stage narrative is being pushed. Wall Street has been shilling "the SPR might go to zero" narrative since January.

The SPR was filled to the brim during the COVID crash by the Trump admin. This was at record low (negative!) prices. The SPR was released during this recent price panic by the Biden administration mostly near all time highs $90-120. They plan to refill the SPR at current prices. Crude is now $78.

This was an incredibly good trade. We're talking 300-400% price appreciation here. Even if the US government was selling SPR crude to China, they sold it at a massive premium and will buy it back at a lower price.

What's even more interesting is that the futures market had predicted this trade existed in the futures market even when oil was trading at $120. Refilling the SPR at a lower price was guaranteed at the time of release.

Not a huge fan of this admin overall, but they navigated this crisis far better than I thought they would.
Hosting a dedicated server in games. Everything has been replaced by a matchmaking button. Gone are the days where one would regularly play on a single server and make friends there; every game is now full of random people that will never play again against each other.
I have a similar kind of fun story. The emergency phone on the elevator at work had a phone number somewhat close to that of an appliance store. People would call the number, the elevator phone would immediately put them on speaker phone. I figured this out one time I heard a faint phone breathing sound, and I started speaking with the caller. This happened again about once a year, and I had a fun time explaining to the callers that not only did they have the wrong number, but they had reached an elevator emergency phone. This response always caused a great deal of confusion.
What DB UI tools do you use with Maria that don’t have a postgresql equivalent or compatibility?
They might be doing that out of caution just to keep it from being exploited. Sounds like something management or the Flight Crew might decide is a band aid if one tries it and it works then everybody starts doing it. Knee jerk reaction but sounds like they’re stumped.
yeah this is like someone complaining their petrol car keeps gumming up because they only start it every 2 years.
More commonly called "silphium" -- for the benefit of those searching for past HN threads,

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=silphium&type=all
Tech stack of Binocs the CLI-first uptime monitoring (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32923326)

- Golang, Redis, TimescaleDB - an absolute game changer for time-series data

- Fargate, SQS, Lambdas in AWS

- Docker and GitHub Actions
I think he's mostly ranting, and his conclusions on the death of Windows are conclusions on that ranting -- i.e. nonsense -- however! Saying the reason Windows does this is X, doesn't excuse anything. It's insane that this is how it works.
Out of curiosity, what makes you think that the commenter you replied to is in the US?
Oh, I use ncdu too. Really wonderful tool, loving it.
Also zstd, yeah, I use it on ZFS, and man, it saves me so much space its impressive, even on games lol
Another idea:

1. Build turbines

2. Stick Bitcoin miners in them (or the off-shore substation?)

3. Disconnect Bitcoin miners when export cable is complete

4. Repeat

5. Save the world
As far as Chrome and its myriad knockoffs go, I'd say Edge is probably the least bad. It at least works as a browser, and it's among the few that has an option for a vertical tab bar instead of shoving all the tabs into the top and squishing them together into teeny tiny slivers like an absolute fucking maniac.

I still prefer Firefox, though.
For this use case would it then be faster to simply download a new VM image each time you needed Windows? That is to say if Microsoft creates images with all the required patched applied?
To me this can be done with a simple collision attack (assuming you can fiddle with some bytes inside the manifet file while freezing everything else in advance), which can be found under a second for MD5 with a laptop, and a few hundred thousands dollars of cloud resources for SHA1.
It's a reference to quine. A program which has it's own source as output.
A fun brain teaser that I recommend trying
The problem with that plan is convincing someone to be interested enough to actually take the subsidy.

In this example, the old owners were retiring, and nobody wanted to buy it. There isn't a lot of revenue for a Grocery store in a town this small. So it was easier for the town to just buy it and then operate it.

Apparently the store was profitable before the sale, and the town operated store in the neighbouring town also operated at a 3% profit.

But looks like this town have made the choice to keep prices lower (probably to compete with the dollar general) and operate it at a slight loss, at least for the 2021 year, which is the only year they have released the annual report for since they bought it. Maybe the 2021 year included to startup costs and it would have otherwise been profitable.
I shouldn't need to run my laptop for days at 100% to please some Windows Store optimization service, just because I haven't booted it up for a month. I have a desktop, the laptop is for emergencies. But it's useless because Windows insists on emptying the battery when I need it.
What a bunch of corpo-authoritarian BS...

Keep the sheeple dumb and dumber, and two generations later they'll be even more subservient and docile, pleading to be milked incessantly for $$$ all of their life instead of actually learning and exercising critical thinking, and thus possibly turning on your efforts to milk them.

You can only learn if you make mistakes. They want to "protect" you so they try to stop you from making mistakes, and in the process, take away your ability and will to have individual agency. Fortunately, people are starting to realise the truth.
You can turn all the auto updates off if you have windows pro and above.

I cant say ubuntu is immune for example, I've booted into a rarely used ubuntu installation on my laptop before and wanted to test something, and apt was locked due to the update manager running in the background.
The author of this article also wrote the for me mind blowing things like MathBox2 [0], the Pixel Factory [1] and many more. The often mentioned clone of React in the article, described in "The GPU Banana Stand" [2] is something that wasn't heavily discussed here as I think the concepts are just very advanced. I mention this as I believe this is what the author is concerned about and what some might haven't experienced. Using React for "advanced" things were it just doesn't cut it and one has to go back to manual DOM manipulation, or having to dig very deep to understand how one can build UIs were the elements update 60 times per second. React works great for things were this is not a concern, but if the standard has these innate restrictions, what applications will the future hold if all people know is React?

Though not a fan of some rants and the bashing on Zoomers, give them a chance to build the next iteration of the common tools, the oldest Zoomer is 25 at the moment.

[0]: http://acko.net/files/pres/siggraph-2014-bof/online.html

[1]: https://acko.net/files/gltalks/pixelfactory/online.html#17

[2]: https://acko.net/blog/the-gpu-banana-stand/
I'm embarrassed to say that writing about that has been on my Soon™ list for quite a while ;)