skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One day we will need to pass laws against celebratory satellite launches on holidays and the urban microphone networks will be calibrated to detect heavy-lift launches by gangstas. New nations will enshrine the right to launch satellites in their constitutions. Elementary schools will go on lockdown when a student is discovered to have built a satellite and fuelled their boosters.
> what is the end outcome of this.

Rising revenue for healthcare treatment of symptoms. Reduced entrance requirements for military recruits. Shorter lifespan so less pension payments.
To give context to who acidburn is, he's been a long time HN user, has a PhD in nuclear engineering, has worked in fission and fusion for over a decade, and has blogged about it for years. The take here is the take of an expert and not just a nuclear bro.
> They lobbied PG&E with a study they paid for that, under the insane assumption that california's energy use would _decrease_ in the future, concluded renewables would be cheaper

Usage in California has gone down, and renewables are cheaper, just look at the blog series in the original article. Calling these well-known and irrefutable facts "insane" does not bode well for the plethora of other questionable assertions in your comment. For the usage:

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...
Just curious but is there really a risk on public WiFi if you’re using DNS-over-HTTPS and connecting to a site over https?
Utility-Scale Solar, 2022 Edition
Afaik the bonds are issued by the PE firms executing the deal, and it's taken many months to close. The debt has sat on bank books for a significant portion of time, so the yields are reflective of the price needed to unload them in the current market vs a market that was more conducive to the offering when the deal was initially agreed upon
Golang – Pull all the structs out???
Something I am dealing with at work right now is the idea of pulling all the main structs of our packages into a single package to alleviate(not get rid of) cyclical import issue.

The issue I have with this is that when we pull all of the main structs from there packages you disconnect the logic from data structs that us it. Plus remove certain core functionality like more advance logic that would go into a method that cant be simple getters and setters in that struct package.

The other issue I contend with is that in doing so it just doesn't "feel" like idiomatic Go. For the many years I have been using Go both core package and open source ones(big and small) and I just don't see many cases where packages completely pull their main structs out. I also try to think about what more advanced developers would do like Rob Pike(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c&t=568s), Brad Fitzpatrick, Russ Cox, I assume they wouldn't think this is a good idea. Presenting various example and quotes from core Go developers didn't seem to sway them.

Does anyone have experience in this area? Has anyone pulled their main structs out and have been better off for it? Has anyone pulled them out and then realized it was bad and moved them all back?

What are your thought?
Thanks! I thought it was because of a bug or some interesting behavior.
I wonder if this will affect the open core XenServer project.

backstory:
Citrix has been releasing a community version of their xenserver product (based on the open source Xen project) but over the last few years they have been removing features from the open core version, going so far as to remove Xen from the name in late 2019

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15974615

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19479483
What is shocking is the content is so low quality it's appalling it came from a big, respected company as Microsoft. A lot of the posts are often clickbaits, and there are ads carelessly interspersed between the posts all over the page.

I know it makes a lot of money for Microsoft but the fact they chose to keep the quality so low really looks bad.
Yes, but quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

With the driver's license, the police officer can usually easily see if you've been behaving like someone who found their license in a packet of chips or not.

Does the certificate issuer perform any kind of due diligence to determine if the certificate should be given to this program?

Racket protection's determining characteristic is that the outfit can't care less what you do as long as you pay your dues and don't cross them. And if you don't, it doesn't matter how upright a citizen you are or how paranoid about safety you are, your shop will burn.
An old-timer I used to work with once told me, "A warranty is only as good as the company selling it." There is more truth to the saying then I want to believe. Many of you have proved this by your comments.

In many states the "contract" is invalid if it wasn't presented as a requirement in the sale or when it was agreed upon. It doesn't matter if it is in the TOS if the TOS isn't signed and dated by the person paying for the Internet access. Legally you have a leg to stand on. You would need to get a lawyer and possibly go to court. Then trust them to honor the warranty later. That sounds like fun doesn't it.

Good luck.
> This certainly doesn't describe Chicago at all, or even nearby suburbs.

Probably because a good portion of things were built pre-WW2:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0

Anything post-WW2, which is probably most of (North) America, had a more car-centric design.
Here is one anecdote in contradiction? ok

(fair enough, since it's not like I provided any support either lol)
I think of you say "genuinely happens a lot" you should give some examples, because this seems odd to me.

More likely sites get cloned, improve their SEO over the original, and distribute malware.
Dorsey was never the controllable option, his net worth is tied into his other weird crypto scam, not twitter. He might have come back out of love, but he never showed twitter the attention it deserved- at a minimum, working 9-5 on twitter not block.
I agree.. I think the length of the time the data is stored and who has access to it and whether that access is audited or not are the important factors to legislate on.

If it can still be useful while protecting the rights of the citizens, then why should the police not use it? If it can't be useful with these protections in place, then why would the police spend money on it?
Who is we? BR games have one map and reload it every time they start and even loading the menu takes extremely long. Then they go on top make the time between matches solid minutes to wait for people to be pointlessly loading the map. Fortnite for example (haven't played it in years but it was like that in the first 2-3 years). There's literally no excuse. Now that I got myself ranting on BR games I'll note that their quality is an order of magnitude worse (bugs, performance) than games with 5 minute rounds, while they have 30 minute rounds. Meh anyway I guess I'm attacking your random thought too hard.
Uhm, you know that there are other languages than c++?
Oh! Menus. I was confused, having come from a Hacker News link.
I don't think the idea morphed into "any optimization" is evil. But it is the unfortunate consequence of leaving optimization until after functional requirements are met. Same with any kind of tech debt. A mentality of "Let's just get this out the door now any fix it later" results in later meaning never.
It is, in large part, right down at what you might call the heart of the whole thing. Though I haven't read the React source code since a bit after Hooks were added so I guess maybe that's changed—though I doubt it.
Why don't we just call it what it is: "Microsoft redirects all browser traffic through their servers". At first it sounds great but in two years when the start selling the data or start injecting ads, what will the privacy advocates think then? How long until Microsoft decides they don't like your site, so they're going to block it? Yet another move towards centralization of the internet, NO THANKS.
You are actually parroting what every communist apologist does despite you claiming otherwise.
> US laws

I don't really think this is about laws, but even in that arena, companies already do their best to avoid those within the US, nevermind internationally. See e.g. recent Patreon controversy for an example of this. There's man others. So I don't really think law is the problem here.

> US morals

This is the real issue and unfortunately these are finely weaved deep inside US corporate culture itself - they're part of culture fit for hiring in US multinationals and are thus highly unlikely to ever be disrupted from within the workforce of those companies.
Brits ultimately lost that one due to a hurricane anyway.

I’ve enjoyed many months in Quebec (I went to Med School in Vermont and went up there many times) but I never got Montreal. Totally acknowledge I might have just not have spent enough time in the right areas.
That's one of the core points of https://www.amazon.com/Changing-World-Order-Nations-Succeed-...
So Edge users are going to be impacted by this - whats that like 35 people outside the development team who made it?
You're right, the novelty would wear off quickly, but it doesn't hurt anything for me to organize a data set about myself just in case
Kind of yes... not all dependencies are direct for the app, a lot are just dev dependencies. Just to get eslint/prettier to warn, auto format and cleanup my code when I save a file, it is 13 direct dev dependencies in my project [0].

[0] https://github.com/lookfirst/mui-rff/blob/master/package.jso...
Are we "funding police" or are we "funding enforcement?" And should all enforcement funding be viewed through the lens of political reform? Why is that necessarily a winning move?
Careful, the renationalization is due to a lot of factors, the main one is that the EU forced EDF to sell its nuclear eneegy at a loss to private energy providerd in order to "free the market". Look for ARENH if you would like to learn more (quick Google https://www.nusconsulting.com/energy-blog/arenh-reform-could...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
Your evidence seems to be repetition of the word 'Russia'. Seems a tad thin.
my country has between 3 and 20 isp's per city. of a country of 7 million.
H-1B visas could soon be stamped inside U.S.
energy austerity is incompatible with climate change mitigations. eg thermal industrial processes currently powered by fossil fuels need to be moved to grid power.

their proposal was to spend $2B to lose 2GW of carbon free baseline power

everything in my statement is true and based on documents in the public record
This is a good suggestion to check your system carefully.

I have seen and investigated cases where malware runs for everyone except in certain locations or even excluding only the site operators.

Look for weird scripts, includes, base64 decode and exec calls in your codebase/site.
"Hey Joe, run that article of yours through the anonymizing AI first!"
> with drivers, install disks

Depending on what the drivers are for, you may be a prime candidate for MitM. People already go to your site to download software they're going to run in the most privileged mode. This is a perfect candidate for a type of watering hole attack.

Considering you're providing those for 90s machines, you could be the last resort website for a few interesting industry computers with no security restrictions around them.
Like log4j!
You're right but even this comment seems to demonstrate that oh so very odd cultural bias in the use of the word "legitimate"...
From my experience working as on-campus tech support in college, most people who aren't tech savvy will quickly give up or look to someone else for help. They will likely not think to click Advanced -> Continue Anyway (unless they have been taught to do that before).

Tech support comes in many forms. The owner of the website, a friend who knows about computers, someone else in the workplace, the vendor they purchased their laptop from.
Interesting. There was commentary about finding anonymous/throwaway accounts, but on mine, I did not find my anonymous account (although I use that very rarely). The accounts that turned up seemed to be all real, and in a couple cases I could guess what might have made the checker match us (e.g., mentions of MFAs or Apple //e or similar politics), but not all. I didn’t notice any linguistic similarities.
Milton Friedman had a television show on PBS in the 1980s. It's not as though economists don't sell well on television.
> What are people using tellers for?

They need to look you in the eyes to see if you are pure of heart and deserve a mortage.
I would wager a majority of the final costs are from damages to houses not "on the edge of the ocean". Hurricane damages stretch for miles inland. Heck pick any east coast state and check out the areas covered by flood warnings and watches. They're hours from the coast in places. If it was only the houses on the edge of the ocean, this would be relatively cheap.
Statecharts (hierarchical state machines) for the modern web:

https://github.com/statelyai/xstate#readme

https://xstate.js.org/

Interactive visualizer: https://stately.ai/viz
How to prepare for a blackout during a hurricane
Can you elaborate on why conditions will be good for M&A?
The four most recent generations all have around 70m people currently (depending on exact years of cutoff). So this is simply false.
I've seen HSTS not let me continue without the server having the expected certificate recently, so I think that's still a thing.
Understanding implications of face recognition training with CC-licensed photos
Spot on.

Additionally, if the entire world stock market is $100tn, the US is sitting pretty, because at $49tn the US stock markets represent HALF of the entire world stock market.
The speech samples are really funny. Very Sims-esque.
> I've never been convinced that efficiency and automation would result in fewer jobs.

It hasn't in 250 years of automation.
Our nations were far less wealthy when the existing stock of nuclear power plants were built, the technology available for building them have improved since then, and the raw resources needed as their inputs aren't a constraint, so why have costs risen so much relative to what we are willing to spend on it?

Environmental and safety regulations are supposed to be explanations for this rise in cost, not rival explanations to "cost is the issue" (since they take that as given).
>not even Microsoft can afford to maintain their own browser engine

MS can afford it financially. The desire to put in the effort to is not there.
Did you just list the advantages of web tech in the first half and then called PDF spec a behemoth? :D

Actually, PDF is not that bad at all. Sure, it has gotten some additions over the years, but even those are not actually too foreign to the original design.
This has been a beautiful year for pushing corporate cybersecurity improvements in Mexico. Banks, telcos, government and now the army have been hacked, you barely need to convince people about the risks of not preparing.
Montreal was also home to MindGeek, the tech company that owns the largest pornographic sites in the world. They still have offices, but moved HQ.
If they are providing "green energy" into the grid, are they doing it for free or is there some kind of financial consideration for them? If so.. are they actually being charged _more_ than others who simply use power from the grid, or are they receiving an entirely different class of service all together?
Whatever it is they are speaking, French it ain't. It's a _superthick_ accent. I have the same with many a Brit btw, they can produce some of the most ununderstandable English I've ever heard.
> Are you familiar with these systems at all? You can't lock someone into an inverter brand.

Unless everything speaks standard protocols and can easily be swapped to a different control and monitoring system (including one the owner runs locally if they want to do that), you can lock somebody into a subscription, on pain of having to replace an expensive durable asset that should otherwise last a LONG time and requires expensive skilled labor to swap out.

And, without having read the ToS, I have a suspicion that you can also Alter the Deal under which that service is provided.

> The industry went through a rough patch ~5 years ago, a fair number of restructuring. Literally zero incidents where products were EOL'ed due to remote servers turning off.

5 years ago, how many installed, Internet-connected systems were already 5 or 10 years old? How many different backends were supporting them?

> But the gist of it is that these are revenue generating assets many of which have large financial institutions holding the bag.

I accept that that reduces the chance of them being turned off. I would in fact be interested in hearing more about this revenue model.

Of course, you now have me worried about the risks of them being remotely meddled with in various ways to suit the interests of whoever is providing this revenue. It's usually a bad sign if you buy something, but somebody else thinks it's still their "revenue generating asset".
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Thank you for sharing! Looking forward to reading through these.
Putting aside the wisdom of such massive defense spending, the question is what is the alternate good that could perform the job?

If we spend $12B on a 1GW reactor, we have far far better alternatives. A 1GW nuclear reactor has a 90% capacity factor of undispatchable, hard to throttle electricity. At today's prices, thay $12B could instead buy 6GW of solar at 20% capacity factor, and 24GWh of batteries. This combined solar plus storage is more flexible, more responsive, and delivers 30% more overall energy. And this is with a stupid design of splitting the cash to half storage half solar. A smarter design more tailored to the actual demand curve would remove some flexibility but become far cheaper.

There's zero reason to build nuclear unless you want to line Bechtel's pockets.
> What smurfing refers to here is existing players with high MMR creating a separate fresh account, and tearing through new players (because new accounts, rightfully, get placed in a lower MMR matchmaking pool, along with other new players).

Considering the example that you just gave, the word "rightfully" in "because new accounts, rightfully, get placed in a lower MMR matchmaking pool, along with other new players" is exactly the bug in the game code that enables smurfing.

If such new players with win streaks far above than what is to be expected by their level ranked up very fast (and if they are not that good, get thus "picked apart"), smurfing "to have fun killing some low-level players" would be impeded by a lot.
Scion Asset Management isn't open to clients.
I have a tangental concern, which is that all things microsoft these days seem to be evolving towards an advertising platform or a subscription. The way they keep adding integrations into their other stuff is understandable, and doubtless convenient for many people, but I can't help but think that someday after they are deeply embedded in the workflows of large swaths of the development community a message will appear in your editor suggesting an upgrade to the pro version of some tool or plugin and the freemium experience will have arrived.
> On the contrary, I think that's a self-fulfilling perception.

So is using SQL. My point, as well as the parent author's point, is that I've found a technology that has been a useful source of value for my entire career. I make no claims that there aren't other useful sources of value, but I've never for a second regretted the time I've spent getting better at writing object-oriented code.

I'm also quite comfortable writing functional and dataflow-oriented code, but I've never found those to be as exciting as some people seem to.
He's not saying there is. He's saying that it's pretty unlikely that the malware authors are going to phone Microsoft and ask why their site is flagged, so putting in some reasonable road blocks that a legitimate business would definitely jump over (e.g. talking to real people) would be plenty to remove the oracle issue.
Ok, we've changed to the first link from https://github.com/simonw/action-transcription-demo. Thanks!
I think he only invests for himself now. According to wikipedia he closed scion capital in 08. What's his fund now?
In the event crypto craters hard, how likely are Gemini and Abra Earn not to go bankrupt if they're offering 7% returns guaranteed (I assume).
Environmentalists have not been, are not now, and will likely never be the decision makers for building nuclear power plants.
Until fail-safe fission technology is ready (unlike fail deadly technology which all current and planned systems currently are) nuclear power seems to me a sophisticated example of cutting off your nose to spite your face
A project I've been working on has roughly 40 dependencies. If you run `npm install` it'll pull about 1050 npm packages.

Change one minor version number and everything breaks. Forget one dependency and npm will not tell you that a dependency is missing but instead it'll complain that Steam has a broken link in the home directory (this is a known open issue for years and the only two solutions are to uninstall Steam or to use a Docker container)

Needless to say I am not a fan of large web projects.
2 people 1 middle income wage with kids (most I knew had young kids).... is close to scraping by. Some were on foodstamps. Meaning - it can be done by many in the U.S. - that's the take-a-way for everyone reading this.
This sounds like someone using company funds to fund their new house lol
100% - works great with Grafana, Metabase, Tableau, etc because it’s just Postgres :-)

If you are into the idea of "dashboards as code", you may also enjoy our HCL+SQL approach in mods [1] - runs in your cli, open source, composable, great DX [2]

[1] - https://hub.steampipe.io/mods
[2] - https://steampipe.io/blog/dashboards-as-code
Adding that in general a country's law (data protection/privacy in this context) usually targets its own citizens; traffic related to foreign citizens (as in the case of VPNs) would for sure have a lower degree of protection.
You overestimate my reading speed and underestimate my clicking speed, good sir
If you have exactly two logging operations in your entire program:

log(“Began {x} connected to {y}”)

log(“Ended {x} connected to {y}”)

We can label the first one logging operation 1 and the second one logging operation 2.

Then, if logging operation 1 occurs we can write out:

1, {x}, {y} instead of “Began {x} connected to {y}” because we can reconstruct the message as long as we know what operation occurred, 1, and the value of all the variables in the message. This general strategy can be extended to any number of logging operations by just giving them all a unique ID.

That is basically the source of their entire improvement. The only other thing that may cause a non-trivial improvement is that they delta encode their timestamps instead of writing out what looks to be a 23 character timestamp string.

The columnar storage of data and dictionary deduplication, what is called Phase 2 in the article, is still not fully implemented according to the article authors and is only expected to result in a 2x improvement. In contrast, the elements I mentioned previously, Phase 1, were responsible for a 169x(!) improvement in storage density.
> In-game chat isn’t bound by any requirement to support everything that stupid people can do in real life.

Do you seriously claim that "not preventing" already means "supporting"?!
Doing the same as I ever did over the last 9 years since I moved to the US. Buying Vanguard funds, going index with 401k. My only recent addition was Fundrise 2 years ago.
> +1 I was also shocked to hear in a news conference the EU president Ursula von der Leyen threaten the Italian voters right before the election.

This is the very first time I've heard such a thing. Do you have a source showcasing what you claim to be threats?