skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How is everyone electric bill looking like?
Since last year, my electric bill has spiked by over $200 (currently $500/month). This is way bigger than the gas issue, and no one is covering it. I am having to turn on only one monitor at a time to save costs.

I know the summers in Texas have been hot with the Air Conditioners, but this spike is unbelievable.
>it’s overloaded with mid to low value commentsi

Because these types of comments take little effort to post, and to read

People who could post an interesting technical comment about zero knowledge proofs or monetary theory will be discouraged, if the responses are low effort rants like "Crypto is a scam" or "Bitcoin will destroy fiat"

So intelligent and informed people don't bother to join these discussions on HN any more
Fish cooked in ghee. Both are rich in omega3. And you will notice a difference haha.
$590M BNB moved to Tether-blacklisted wallet amid rumors of Binance hack
Yeah. Basically instead of treating ! specially, Bash treats it like any other command that sets $? afterwards. And since it always succeeds, you always end up with $?=0 after it.

I don't know what kind of shell scripts the designers of this write, but the number of times I've wanted or found it helpful for ! to modify $? is has been exactly zero.

I am almost certain that >99% of people who write shell scripts do not find this intuitive.
Built something super similar in Go for user avatars (no sloths, sorry. I'll add them though haha) - github.com/devclad-inc/serverless-userpics
Looks v interesting but seems light on details that make me want to commit. For example:

- Radios need timing sources, typically PTP backed by GPS. Not clear what they do here. Esp important when you have multiple radios and you want your devices to be able to move between them. Then again, its not really stated that this is possible, either via S1 or X2.

- I cant see any packet core control software, eg wheres the EPC that the radio units talk to? That is a complex beast but not obviously present on their github/ukama.

- is it made in China, or not? The kind of (serious) people that would appreciate the website's claims that it's made in the USA are equivalently the people for whom China is just out of the question. Hey, I don't make the rules, just report them.

- CBRS needs a SAS. You can't throw up an outdoor radio in CBRS unless you are an approved installer and you have to configure the radio to ping the SAS every few minutes to get permission to broadcast. Not clear what ukamas position is on all this or if they just hope you'll buy and figure it out yourself.
Bankruptcy is a public process. Unsure if a judge can override that.

In Canada the bankruptcy judge can and hide creditors (and the quadrigacx creditors are almost all unpublished).

Not sure if the US judge decided not to, couldn't, or nobody asked so they couldn't decide.
There is also the option for "fish oil" on a bottle. I have recently tried that - but it is... not that delicious.
A nice way to recognize contributors' efforts. Would be nice if GitHub has this feature in-built.
WASM, yes. Tailscale, yes. In the browser, sure, I'll take it.

But what I really want is a capability-based WASM sandbox runtime (like wasmtime or workerd from Cloudflare) that provides an API that lists people that it can send messages to (through Tailscale.)

I configure the runtime with my contacts, and say which apps can communicate with which people.

And then a Dynamic DNS-like system for me to have an identity key, and look up the servers to find them. In case my contacts need to migrate to a new server. Maybe Tailscale already does this?

The runtime keeps the apps updated (like Sandstorm.io).
Ok, what caused the unprecedented spike in excess deaths over the period in which covid was widely spread?
Python implementations of time series forecasting and anomaly detection
That's a blanket statememt if I've ever seen any.

So if you like crypto you must not be very smart or honest. /s

Crypto has its uses. Blockchain tech is here to stay.
It's explained here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/32251

From help let:

Exit Status:
If the last ARG evaluates to 0, let returns 1; let returns 0 otherwise..

Since var++ is post-increment, I guess the last argument does evaluate to zero. Subtle...
the inspiration is the number line, small numbers at the left, larger numbers at the right, because we write left to right, and the sequence is 1 2 3 4..

which is why you always want the larger ones on the right.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221005184158/https://www.theat...
Not your parent commenter. I'd expect let command not to return a numeric value at all, since bash uses the returned numeric value to indicate success/failure. But that admittedly doesn't have anything to do with the design of "set -e".
Why worry, if it works?
The concern here is that if you are charged federally with marijuana possession, you probably weren't a light user. You were probably a drug trafficker who was associated with gangs and much stronger drugs, and I'm not sure I want those people back on the streets any sooner then necessary
https://web.archive.org/web/20221007033712/https://www.nytim...
I always wondered what would happen to Dr. Barry Marshall if Twitter had existed back then.

Would he have been banned for "disinformation" too?

"In 1982, they performed the initial culture of H. pylori and developed their hypothesis on the bacterial cause of peptic ulcers and gastric cancer.[9] It has been claimed that the H. pylori theory was ridiculed by established scientists and doctors, who did not believe that any bacteria could live in the acidic environment of the stomach."

"In 2005, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Marshall and Robin Warren, his long-time collaborator, "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall
Binance Estimates $100M Was Stolen in Blockchain Hack
Even in crypto communities the level of discussion is low. Among proponents, it's mostly memes and proselytizing. I'm not sure when real money is on the line that objective, high-quality discussion is possible (or rather, the signal-to-noise ratio will always be low enough to be effectively zero)
microacquire guy, he tweets a lot of sensible stuff
What does one actually discuss about crypto.

Blockchain is interesting but it’s been around for decades (it’s older than Bitcoin) and no one’s really come up with any good uses for it. There’s very few uses where the decentralized nature helps over a distributed but centrally owned DB.

Cryptocurrencies could be interesting, but they don’t live up to any of their promises. The entire crypto currency space is going through the exact same scams and problems that regular currencies went through in the early 1900s, for which all these regulations that crypto was supposed to provide freedom from. But the entire industry is realizing the hard way that most of those regulations came about for a reason. Add those regulations back in and it’s not clear what purpose it serves. It’s very hard to discuss a technology with any sort of excitement when it’s rediscovering very well known century old problems.

I suspect we will see a digital dollar (and digital versions of other major currencies) and that will be the end of all the other random crypto currencies. And it’s not even necessary for digital currencies to be built on a blockchain.

NFTs. Well, we know NFTs are a scam because they aren’t even what they purport to be. They do not give you any sort of rights to whatever they are supposed to give you rights to. Any rights they do confer will only exist as long as they are enforced by real world legal and enforcement systems. At which point the distributed aspect is just superfluous. A centralized DB (several services could provide these DBs, so it would be a monopoly) will be much more efficient and simpler and effective.

Smart contracts are highly dependent on oracles. You have to place your trust on the Oracle anyways. So if you’re doing that then why not just trust the entire process on a single entity? And besides, with properly signed legal contracts you also have backup enforcement through regular legal channels, as well as recourse if someone tries to break the contract. If your smart contract also depends on the legal system, again, it’s not clear what advantage it provides over a standard contract.

There’s not much to discuss about crypto because there’s not much there. The entire argument in favor of crypto is “I bought this Dogecoin for $0.001 and now it’s worth $1000”. In over a decade of hype, and even longer since the technology itself existed, that’s almost the entire positive value proposition from crypto.
i unfollow founders who use a lot of cringey emojis good lord
I wonder if fish is that cheap even in area where fishing is a big industry. Compared to meat, growing and processing fish looks more finicky and expensive, and in particular fresh fish with vitamins and nutriments still intact looks to be pretty big logistics challenge driving prices up.

For instance in Japan fish isn't cheap by any measure compared to chicken or pork for instance.
yyyoink

wow this pdf really slows down my iphone to read. safari doing too much, but yeah 14,000 pages is improbable and a lot

only 9.5mb though

synced to icloud

edit: acrobat reads it at the expected 60 fps
Perhaps you are being downmodded for the off-the-cuff sounding statistic? But, your general point stands. Control of messaging is extremely powerful. One could argue that Casey achieved success decades ago E.g., the majority of Americans believed ?still do? that Iraq had something to do with 9/11 and that the US war in Iraq wasn't just an opportunistic war of aggression to serve American oligarchs. And, the majority of those misled Americans are not horrible people.

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

- William Casey, CIA Director 1981

I think the media issue can be resolved by media that is not affiliated with corporations, rich benefactors or government. E.g., MI5 used to vet BBC employees to ensure no one on the left would have any editorial influence (MI5 had veto power over hires). And, the CIA had/has journalists on their payroll at major US publications to ensure "proper" messaging. Advertisers can strongly influence what is reported e.g., an oil company threatens to cancel ad campaign if media outlet reports on their suppression of climate research. A single rich man can set the direction of a media organization-- including having their organizations spread known falsehoods in support of their personal ideologies e.g., Murdoch or Hearst.

A model that mostly[1] works is that of listener support (not the PBS model with government and corporate funding and also begging listeners for money, but rather the Pacifica model which accepts no funds from anyone but listeners.

Pacifica has a few programs that are usually quite good, like "Letters and Politics" (also available as podcasts linked from kpfa.org). They do have their share of dreck, though. And, being a bunch of lefties (the network was founded by pacifists who met while in US prison for protesting a war) they are equally critical of lefties like themselves, the mainly center-right to right "liberals"/Democrats and the far-right to extreme far-right Republicans (left right spectrum here is based on where the policies, of these groups, fit within the spectrum of world politics).

[1]Pacifica's New York station self destructed after the board was taken over by a group of listeners into all manner of woo, so Pacifica's model still has some issues.
I am a professor and have seen both extremes. I am worrying about how to keep high scholarly standards all the time --- also on teaching, and especially when supervising theses.
Not gonna lie, I thought Obama or Trump or someone had already done this. Had this previously been discussed under a different presidency and not gone through? Was I thinking of a similar blanket pardon but not exactly the same?

Was I dreaming?
Doesn't the lack of security updates give you pause? Or did you install a different OS or something?
How does it work? Is it translating the C source code of the 8cc C compiler to lambda calculus?

So like C -> ELVM IR -> lambda calculus?

https://github.com/shinh/elvm

If so, it seems like 8cc is doing most of the heavy lifting
Weed wasn't as big of an issue back then, and I don't recall any states that had legalized it (except maybe for "medical" use) at the time. I mean Obama also opposed gay marriage when he started his term; the left has moved left incredibly quickly over the last ~10 years
Classic. Tulips!
Now we need to bring in how mucj energy we spend mining bitcoin and we're done.

People confidently will tell you all the reasons why crypto is bad but will not for a second stop to question how out current finacial system is working or even if it's working.
This is typical for court cases. Even if a party may have little to do with what’s going on trial, if they’re a relevant party in any way they can get sucked in and be forced to give a deposition. It’s totally possible to “plead the 5th” here, but the rationale here is all the relevant facts to a case have to be brought to light in order to make an informed judgment.
https://archive.ph/3TEYV
This is probably not true. Most studies showed no significant increase in radioactivity at all outside the plant. Some very motivated anti-nuclear groups argued otherwise, but... I guess it depends on who you want to believe.
Well, they just painted targets on peoples back. Attackers are going to run this pdf through code, and target people who have large balances and lot's of transactions. Attackers will have first and last names, that's all they need now a day.
it hurts to read, but how about the ethical if you care… AND the poor-human way? flaxseeds and chia are cheap for what they provide! and dirt cheap if you have time & possibility to buy directly from a farmer
How can someone use so many words to say "use kiwix".
> Years ago I bought a tub of Piracetam that felt a little bit like that stuff in the movie Limitless. No Piracetam I bought afterwards felt that way so I wonder if I'd really gotten something more like amphetamine.

Years ago, I bought some Piracetam when I was traveling in Asia. One of my relatives, who's an MD, didn't want me to take it and did some research in actual medical databases. IIRC, he said pretty all the articles praising it traced back to a single study.
A lot of people don’t live in the real world and see themselves as greedy actors like they should. Most people are when you get down to brass tacks. I’m 35 and can count on one hand the number of truly saintly people that I’ve met who would give everything almost to save a stranger. Politicians are people and they are calculating, I’m good he did it whether or not it was altruistic or political survival and I hope he does more of it. I know that Trump and most republicans never would have done this.
I love the GW-2310. Solar battery, Multi Band 6 for accurate to the second time PLUS the ability to show two time zones at the same time. With the second time zone set to UTC, it's super handy for sys admin work.
Those people aren't his constituents, I don't think he could order an executive order for them either way
> he simply wanted to buy votes

Isn't it the very basis or our systems ?

There's very strong chances a lot of us share little with an old rich powerful white man, expecting decisions to all come out of beliefs and care would be difficult.
You can also find vegan sources of these nutrients, such as algae oil, which keeps you from contributing to the devastation of the oceans - not to mention protecting you from being poisoned by mercury and microplastics.
In the 2000s, I was running extensive sets of simulations and data reduction scripts for a scientific experiment, and I was heavy relying on scripts to run the programs, collect the results, and distribute them over several servers. At first I developed those scripts using bash, but I needed to do math and complex iterations over file names and different parameter files, and I continuously stumbled upon weird behaviors and had to rely to hard-to-understand quirks like the ones explained in the article (which bit me more than once!).

After a while I stumbled upon scsh [1], which at first didn't impress me because I ran it as an interactive shell, and from this point of view it was really ugly. But then I realized that scsh was primarily meant as a way to run shell scripts, and I immediately felt in love. I had the power of a Scheme interpreter, the ability to easily use mathematical expressions (the awesomeness of Scheme's numerical tower!) and macros, and a very effective way to redirect inputs and outputs and pipe commands that was embedded in the language [2]!

In those years I used scsh a lot and developed quite complex scripts using it, it was really a godsend. Unfortunately the program got abandoned around 2006 because it was not trivial to add support for 64-bit architectures. However, while writing this post I've just discovered that somebody has revived the project and enabled 64-bit compilation [3]. I would love to see a revamp! Nowadays I use Python for complex scripts, but it's not the same as a language with native support for redirection and pipes!

[1] https://scsh.net/

[2] https://scsh.net/docu/html/man-Z-H-3.html#node_chap_2

[3] https://github.com/scheme/scsh
> Many people have been skeptical of the idea of the 10X engineer.

Why is 10x anything such a skeptical concept? We see it everywhere.

We see it in quality, impact, and effort.

Linus wrote git in days, and it was way better SVN.

Messi is probably 100x better in terms of stats and skills and 100000x better in terms of earning when comparing to an average soccer player

Apple's iPod is 10x better than Zune and makes 100000x more money.

A great entrepreneur is probably 10000x better (more impact more money) than a good one.

It is not strange that one engineer would be 10x of the other engineer in certain aspects.
Affluence is a sign of "genetically driven higher mental acuity"?

Source?
I think you’re missing the point. It’s not about eliteness as much as role. If you can imagine a difference between a edge manager, a director, and a ceo, then you should be able to imagine differences between mid, senior, and staff engineers.

Having these distinctions help clarify exceptions from both consumers of the employees work and aspirers who want to do a certain type of role or not.
Yea… nothing I’ve seen from them is compelling.

My bet is Mark is going to burn a LOT of money, fail to get mass adoption, cancel the project, and lay the design team off.

But who knows! Maybe we’ll all be taking work meetings in MetaLife this time next year! Just make sure you login to your meeting 5 minutes early to preview the new season of BigBrother and score an extra 60 seconds of microphone mute time!
Where can I find the PDF?

EDIT: Nevermind, found it [0]

[0] https://ia601401.us.archive.org/28/items/celsius/celsius.pdf
This looks like the sort of website my friends and I would've setup when we were running local community teams for Ubuntu and running computer expo and flea market tables trying to get people to try it. In 2005. I checked, this domain was registered May 2022.
I read somewhere that those omega-3s from seeds are less effective than those in fish, as a conversion step is needed.
My comments got upvoted, while yours got greyed-out; but your perspective seems a lot wiser and more reflective than my own. I'm glad I read it.

(I would still prefer virtuous leaders, though. If such things exist. It's very unsatisfying to settle for "wrong people doing the right thing").
All of these problems are fixed in OSH.

It runs your bash scripts but you can also opt into correct error handling. The simple invariant is that it doesn't lose an exit code, and non-zero is fatal by default.

See https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/error-handling.h...

Oil 0.10.0 - Can Unix Shell Error Handling Be Fixed Once and For All?

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/05/release-0.10.0.html

This took quite awhile, and I became aware of more error handling gotchas than I knew about when starting the project:

e.g. it's impossible in bash to even see the error status of a process sub like diff <(sort left.txt) <(sort OOPS)

If you have bash scripts that you don't want to rewrite, try

1) run them with OSH

2) Add shopt --set oil:upgrade at the top to get the error handling fixes.

Tell me what happens :) https://github.com/oilshell/oil

I spent a long time on that, but the post didn't get read much. I think it's because it takes a lot of bash experience to even understand what the problem is.

(rehash of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33075915 which came up the other day :) )
The new show "The Terminal List" talks about it and uses such as a plot device (as a PTSD prophylactic).
But it will need all of those things to be more useful than the current system. People don’t mail cash to buy products anymore. People transfer cash to exchanges and are safe from attacks like this. Bitcoin and other crypto must provide the same functionality or it will not gain traction.
> Perhaps a more accurate description would be “houses built using giant house-shaped balloon walls that get cement pumped into them.”

Surely it would be better to call these injection moulded homes?
and please _c3ag, adopt any poor children at early age and let them eat books and consume any type of scientific podcast and feel how they build up!
> flaxseeds and chia are cheap for what they provide!

My understanding is that the Omega-3 from these is not particularly bio-avaiable compared to fish/krill oil.
Well we’re have to agree to disagree then. I also don’t think trump was being controlled. These guys are not always on, but you can see that both of them are making decisions and those decisions taking place.

There’s no drug in the world that makes someone go from doddering to able to give long speeches and stay on point.
This seems awful. The inflatable form is not reusable.
They also recently seem to be doing this thing where they pay _way_ too much for certain trade-ins.

I got a pixel 6a for $150 because I traded in my dying pixel 3a that was also losing software support, and they threw in a free pair of their wireless earbud things.
yeah, that’s true, requires a little scripting

but I’ve always found it easy to find an individual based on an amount a range of dates (with a bonus of knowing probable destinations)

not interested in that but yeah its there
Youtube star FPSRussia was just using them for target practice. He ultimately got convicted of possession of hash oil (with intent, seemingly solely because he shared it with his girlfriend). While he plead down to the possesion w/ intent it's my understanding the original charges included prohibited possessor. I don't think he'll get the pardon either since he got a distribution charge for toking with the GF.
The first deeper problem is state. Other commenters have talked about distributed databases.
But the second deeper problem is data sovereignty. In, what I would argue is most cases, you don't want your data to be replicated around the globe. Local laws forbid it, and the marginal utility of having better latency when your customer goes on vacation somewhere that needed a 12 hour flight is pretty close to zero anyway. So why play with fire?

99% of the time that you want geo-distributed databases, I'd argue that building out a directory kind of service, where you use something like Cloudflare Workers KV to map the customer's ID to find which regional API endpoint to use (US/EU/APAC), is what you actually want.