skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda trivial but: Neglecting my upper body strength when I was much younger. Just to have more of a "reserve" against injury and for when I get older and start losing it naturally. This is something I've mentioned to both of my kids.
if you believe that the world will become more and more digitalized (AR and VR, stuff like the metaverse), bitcoin-like blockchains absolutely matters.

If you believe Saudi arabia is lying for decades about its oil stock and the EROI of gas and oil will continue to climb as fast in the next decade, stiffling production, bitcoin doesn't matter.

The thing is, in the first case, i'll be employable at amazing rates, so cryptocoins as a monetary value, i don't really care. I like the idea of rock climbing and sailing with AR tools, but let's be honest, my pastimes do not involve digital assets (i do play some 4x games, but rarely more than two hours a week), only my work does, and i thus will only care for bitcoins if my work demands it. If you play games like MTG and other TCGs, maybe this can be of interest?

In the second case, it really doesn't matter in the end, but i feel like being able to write C for a microcontroller will be more usefull than being able to write Solidity code. And tbh, i wrote a smart contract, it's just not that interesting. My dad's chicken coop door automation however, was usefull and interesting.
A lot of EU heats by steam/water radiators. These don't dry the air the same way forced air heating does.

You are right about absolute/relative humidity, but our basement feels damper in winter than summer.
Is it really fair to call 8 bit Atari computer line (on which AtariWriter runs) gaming consoles? They had built-in keyboards, had built-in BASIC, would let you attach peripherals like a disc drive or a printer and let you program in assembly. And could be expanded with RAM expansions and 80 column cards. Of course the later XEGS blurred the line but it's also a bit like suggesting the Amiga or Macintosh were not computers because of the Commodore CD32 and Apple Pippin were a thing.
I can’t wait to use this, to be able to access this information without the temptation to quickly check HN in the next tab
Politicians will always be political.

The question is if your politics and support base means “being political” leads to you pardoning thousands of people for something pretty much everyone agrees is not a crime and making their and their families and kids’ lives immeasurably better, and therefore making the country and the world a better place.

Or, if your political environment leads you to illegally trafficking vulnerable people and leaving the completely stranded and in general making the world a worse place.
I think that's backward. Those are all logically the same solved puzzle grid, not different ones.

That's the number you divide into the impossibly large one to find how many truly different grids there are.
Don't stop doing something you enjoy, thinking there's time to pick it up again later. I played badminton a lot in my teens and loved it. Then I went to uni and didn't continue with it, moved around the world, and every move would casually think "wonder if there's a badminton club around". Now I've finally started playing again and the first thing I did was get an injury because I tried to play like a thin, fit 18 year old in the body of an overweight 39 year old. But I still love it and can't help regret 20 years of being too lazy to just look up a club and go.
Well, yes within your constraints. In the end, you are choosing between two aspects. Same as with screens: you could have resolution (1024x768!!) or color (16bits!).

Edit: the term I could not remember is tradeoff.
we don’t even have healthcare, let us have dryers
I wish I spent more time on my appearance and then chasing girls. I thought it was stupid vanity. Now I'm too old.
Sorry to hear this. Family must come first.

The mastodon.technology had some interesting folks. I've migrated my account to the mastodon.social instance. Moving accounts on Mastodon is pretty easy so that's a positive.
Dude, spaceman_2020, you are young a.f. still. There are predicaments and Chinese finger traps much much worse still. Here is your quote of the day:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6495956-for-what-it-s-worth...
There is, the A1000MA and such.
Absolutely, it would destroy an entire industry. Probably hundreds of billions in costs and a few hundred thousand jobs.
Let's say you have two advisors constantly giving you advice about what action to take next, and all you ever do is choose between them. Over time you might learn that one of them gives better advice in some situations and the other gives better advice in others. In this weird hypothetical, regret is noticing that you followed the advice of the wrong advisor for the situation, and it turned out especially poorly.

What's going on in your brain is a lot more complicated than this, but I think it's still a meaningful concept?
You should read what John von Neumann said about assemblers...
It may be very different. Ever tried using a touchpad on a Linux laptop?
>Why Not Transfer to a New Admin?
Users have put their trust in me with their data. Choosing a new admin would require a massive amount of trust, since they’d have access to over a half decade of user data. Not just data from my local users, but from users they have interacted with.

I think that's a very salient and responsible choice. With the freenode debacle coming to mind immediately I think it's important to remember how risky a change of ownership can be in particular if the users are not aware of it. Certainly a painful decision to shut the instance down, but a decision with a lot of foresight. An active migration might create disarray but it also forces people to make an active choice to trust another host.
Leonardo would be valued in our culture. After all, he was insanely productive and his failures were better than most people's successes. What we pathologize is people who can't get anything significant done, and who don't have the social capital to make it work.
Or even meet and not turn on your webcam, which is the norm in all engineer meetings I attend.
How can they know or prove that he was even texting with Signal? How do they know those messages existed?
Interesting that it looks like Blu-Rays in all forms have much shorter longevity than the preceding DVD and CD formats. Presumably due to tighter tolerances required to fit more data on the same platter size?

I had switched to large format 50-100GB M-DISC BD-Rs a few years ago, but to be honest I'm often too lazy to bother with the process of burning discs for offline storage.

I should probably upgrade my NAS/external HDD&SDD stack again.
I would advise anyone going the NAS route to think carefully and read reviews on RAID devices. It's probably safer & easier to keep 2 copies in 2 formats on 2 different media in the end. I have had numerous consumer grade NAS RAID devices fail to the point I almost find it an additional failure mode rather than level of safety. Fragility of consumer grade RAID reminds me there's a reason our employers hire storage engineers!
https://pocketbase.io/

Seems very promising!
Peruvian Congressman Edgar Villanueva's Reply to MS Peru's Attack on FOSS (2002)
Shipping to Production Faster (?)
IIRC Tailscale tries to keep their cost at minimum with high NAT traversal success rate so that DERP servers are rarely required. But this approach would always require using DERP servers which would increase tailscale’s bandwidth cost a lot if widely used. I wonder how Tailscale think about this
Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) 1.1 Released
> relying on infrastructure with a low bus factor is risky

There are risks to every "bus factor," but I can totally get behind requiring a team of a certain size to be behind whatever infrastructure I rely on.

Most of my dependencies have a bus factor of 1 (Yours Troolie), as I write packages for my own consumption.

They are really, really good modules, and I publish them as general-purpose modules, but don't expect people (other than me) to really use them.

I did write a fairly massive infrastructure project, and managed it, alone, for ten years, then it was taken over by a team, and "went viral," in a sense. The best thing I ever did for that project, was toss the keys to the new team, and walk away. It's in very good shape, now.
Network effects of twitter. Your friends are already on twitter if they still use this style of broadcast text based social media.

Also recent privacy concerns and less recent issues with internet hostility means we're already past peak twitter, so mastodon is having to break into a declining market.
It's probably the average situation for most people.

In their 30s, most average people are busy with kids and work and have little time to socialize.

But eventually they will reunite with their lifelong friends and make videos like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g3OT7w1u5s (I have no affiliation with those people)
If you worked with color (like graphics designer for example) you wanted to avoid turning off your monitor because you needed at least 30 minutes of warm up to stabilize brightness and color fidelity of a CRT. Showing anything beside blank screen indicated to you that the computer is turned on. Animation has been obvious to avoid burn in.
Having 1-2 alcoholic drinks more that I should have, making the next day a wash. x 1000
> Turns out that basically the most common oils and red meat have ratios of 20:1 (the wrong way) and so just avoiding oil and red meat ends up accomplishing the same goal.

It’s inaccurate and misleading to group red meat and oils together.

Beef, and grass fed beef in particular, is generally 5:1 ratio. Or less. Chicken has more omega 6 than beef. And seed oils (not all oils) have many times that. Some >50:1. Thanks for the vegan propaganda though.
Do you need anything right now? If so, write me an email and let's chat. I'm sorry you are feeling this way, I can identify, sometimes.
this is a bad idea for society, because it disadvantages poor people even more.
It's the paradox of many successful individuals. We look at some of their flaws and become frustrated because it seems they are messing up a great situation that we would kill to be in. In reality, however, it's this very same personality mix that propelled them forward and the reason we've heard of them to begin with.
On the one hand, I am sad to hear about it and even more so due to the circumstances.

On the other, I feel a bit validated in my belief that we need to have professionally managed instances on the fediverse. "Community Support" only goes so far. Thousands of people using a service, but how many of them actually help with its upkeep?

I know that my instance has only a handful of paying users, and it is barely paying for itself, and far from paying all the work that I've put into it. But charging for access brings a lot of benefits: it keeps spammers and bots away, it is a good filter against trolls and best of all makes it explicit what is expected of all parties.
Oh -- thanks!

It is just a repurposed HN reply, which is why I did not post it myself.
"The common denominator in this list is that you won’t necessarily get rapid development if you avoid the mistake, but you will definitely get slow development if you don’t avoid it."

My current hobby horse/reductionist take on almost everything in life is that we are great at identifying problems and trash at fixing them.
Simplified SSO with AWS Application Load Balancer and Azure AD OIDC
London. Cold enough that anything in an old Victorian building won't dry but warm enough that the air remains humid.
100GB M-DISCs are still pretty decent archival means. All photos/videos I've ever generated are roughly 1.2TB so that's 12 of those M-Discs.
Regret, like everything else, is an evolutionary corollary built out of destiny optimization that allows for counterfactual consideration of painful paths to avoid similar outcomes in the future. In the end, what physics decrees shall occur shall occur and the only thing we can do in those times of war is burn down the ships behind us and continue charging forward in this strange yet charming universe we find ourselves shackled within.

In the end, we must imagine Sisyphus—the final mirror—happy.
Bitcoin uses approximately 130 TWh annually. The US residential electricity usage from 2018 (latest I could find) was 1,461 TWh. So 1461 * 6% you get 87.66 TWh annually for drying clothes. Thankfully we can address energy waste in many different areas at the same time. In the latest bill there were rebates passed for heat pump dryers which can reduce energy usage for a dryer by 50%
All these comments on GitHub are amazing to me. How do you let a new build of your project with a new version of a such a fundamental dependency get deployed to _production_ without being tested first, manually or otherwise?
So now you get the reason why a person might want to buy 98% pure SN: to have a stockpile that lasts long, just take a bit of SN and dilute it to the required concentration.
Nope. It is never too late.
As long as you are alive, you can change things.
It certainly won't be easy. But it is doable. The only thing that is stopping you, is your own mind. And I believe in you. You can do it!
Also I wish you a nice day, hopefully.
I want AfterDark science graph generator.
I personally found the repetitive "no household uses" to be a weak and sensational argument. There are any number of uses for something like this for someone who might have a hobby involving these chemicals.

Plus, it's not like there aren't many things _with_ household uses that can be used for suicide too.
Aw man. That sucks but it's totally understandable. Mastodon.technology was the first instance I ever joined back when someone told me what the fediverse was. I eventually left because I wanted to selfhost, but the general warm reception I got on that instance made me think the fediverse could really go places.

Best of luck in the future and best of luck with your family.
That is great. We should replace all those hydroelectric dams located in Europe so we don't need to run the risk of flooding. We could try to replace them all with molten salt storage, but I am unsure how much you would need to cover the electrical need of Europe for a few winter weeks/months.

It would be interesting to see an insurance companies evaluation of a person living downstream of a hydro electric dam where the energy is made from wind, solar and hydro, compared to a person who live near a nuclear plant where the energy is just made from that single plant.
> Although I get her point I think she’s antisocial and being a bad neighbor. Especially by insisting to hang it in the front yard.

That’s a very restrictive view of what a good neighbour should be. Those who are offended by the view of drying clothes and insist on dictating other people’s lifestyle are much worse neighbours than she is.

> To live peacefully in a society you have to compromise and you can’t just do as you please.

Exactly. Like accepting that some people hang their clothes to dry. That’s a step towards keeping a peaceful neighbourhood.

> What if someone decides they shiujd park their car on the front lawn since the boat and camper take up the driveway? Or just set a clinch up on the front lawn because I like to have a nap there?

Who the fuck cares? Whom would this hurt?
There are investments you can make right now that will have the same return - why aren't you making those?
> Especially by insisting to hang it in the front yard.

We don't know if she has a backyard, so it may be just... the yard.

> What if someone decides they shiujd park their car on the front lawn since the boat and camper take up the driveway?

I don't understand. What then? Why shouldn't they?

I'm not sure what a clinch is or why it's not welcome on the front lawn...
My educated guess would be something along these two threads:

* Higher data density => tighter tolerance => same physical degradation is more catastrophic (DVD ~7x density of CD, BD-R ~20/10/5x DVD density = up to 140x CD density)

* Produced later and therefore like all consumer goods, less regard for durability and more regard for absolute cost optimization
HOA is the problem, taking away our unmentionable freedoms
Depends on the quality of the archival media. Magnetic hard disks aren't without their own failure modes. The magnetic signals on the disk eventually fade causing errors. Motors and arms fail. Cosmic rays flip magnetic state. Or just stray strong magnets if you don't store it right.

Really good archival optical media isn't susceptible to the same cosmic ray it magnetic fade while reducing the chances of disc rot or delamination.
A lot of commenters suggesting "pipefail" aren't realising the full extent of the problem. Here's an example that might be clearer, from https://david.rothlis.net/shell-set-e

This prints “a”, as you’d expect:

set -e
myfun() { printf a; false; printf b; }
myfun
printf c

...because the “set -e” terminates the whole script immediately after running the “false” command.

But this script prints “a-b-True”, where some people (myself included) might have expected it to print “a-False”:

set -e
myfun() { printf a-; false; printf b-; }
if myfun; then
printf True
else
printf False
fi

The “set -e” is ignored completely. Putting another “set -e” inside the definition of myfun doesn’t make any difference.
Ask HN: Instant Observability for Graph Data
I'm a single person working on a real-time data hobby project in Scala. The rough of the app is:

- subscribes to a bunch of feeds over websockets

- aggregates the messages somewhat

- passes them through some ML models and decision makers which are organised hierarchically

- executes the decisions

- listens on feeds that relay decision updates

A lot of it is CRUD and a lot of it is actors passing messages around. I'm getting to the point where I don't want to be scanning through log lines anymore and need to set up some visibility but time is scarce so want to ask around:

What is there apart from Kibana?

Kibana is a pretty good fit, there's a Scala library that extracts structured logs from string interpolations (https://izumi.7mind.io/logstage) so before long I could have a very searchable log and all kinds of dashboards.

The one nice-to-have that I'd miss is capturing my hierarchies. It'd be more helpful if I could also have a network view of all my entities, their nestings and the throughput between them. That'd be really nice but again, it's a nice to have and I'd like it to be very low setup

Am I missing something obvious? Grafana?
>The 10000 hour rule is nonsense

You should probably read a bit about the "rule" before calling it nonsense.

It's vague, flexible, and refers to attaining mastery in some skill. Nowhere is it implied you'll be a world champion chess player after 10,000 hours.

It says practice will make you better at something. That's hard to dismiss.
It's strange that Americans have decided that drying clothes on a line is as much an expression of antisocial tendencies as keeping trash in your front yard.
US Residential electricity use in 2022: 1477 billion kWH. [1] 6% constitutes about 88 billion kWh according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

As of August 2022, published estimates of the total global electricity usage for crypto-assets are between 120 and 240 billion kilowatt-hours per year, a range that exceeds the total annual electricity usage of many individual countries, such as Argentina or Australia.[2]

Then again, the US is the third most populous country in the world with a population of 330 million. It's also second in yearly electricity consumption globally after China (4 million GWh vs 8 million GWh).[3]

In that regard, your equivalence is false. Sure, dryers clearly use up a ton of electricity and it's perfectly reasonable to question the value of having your clothes dried by an electrical machine. Then again, clearly crypto uses a ton of electricity as well, while you could equally argue that there are clear alternatives, which don't require all of that just to be able to have a means of payment.

Of course, the meta discussion being that laundry drying machines have a clear marketable value and direct use to the vast majority of the U.S population, whereas with cryptocurrencies, the vote is very much still out there.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-power-use-rise-20...
[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/09-202...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...
If the blog is purely for personal/household use, it would be entirely exempt from the GDPR per Article 2(2)(c) GDPR.

Otherwise, it falls within the scope of the GDPR even re the access logs if IP addresses are logged.
I agree there'll be a market for the ai stuff. It'll have to improve though. For example, say you get an illustration done and you say "yeah it's good but can you just modify it a bit and then I want 5 variations doing different actions with the same characters". The AI tools can't do that, they'll come up with completely different images for very minor prompt changes. And if the input set doesn't contain the desired action then they cannot generate it at all.

For now I think it'll only replace some low level commercial stuff and perhaps add images where there were none before.
Exactly, and other behavior like thinking twice before ingesting something probably offsetd whatever harm health authorities may (perhaps unwillingly) cause.
Green activists can be against this huge waste of energy, as well as bitcoins. We can have opinions on more than one thing.
Yeah, I'm really having a tough time believing in free will anymore. Sure seems like we're just along for the ride - consciousness without free will, what a combo!
Buying a thatched cottage in Ireland.
It's very pretty, and it checks all the boxes (bike ride from train station), etc. but Ireland's insanely strict protection rules and ridiculous insurance payouts have resulted in every insurer of thatched buildings leaving the country. Additionally, when I applied for permission to build a separate house on the land (it's a few acres) the heritage officer insisted we only build an extension, despite neighbours being permitted to build separate houses on their land, in order to force us to live in the house and "preserve" it. It's a very Irish approach. I extended it just in time to find the extension (and original cottage) completely uninsurable, so unmortgageable, so effectively worthless. A quarter million euro to have a beautiful unsellable unrentable house.

Good discussion of this at https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/oir-media-hourly-files-r2...
I have seen this kind of thing(no lock files) in few of recent clients' work when trying to fix their issues that came "out of nowhere" after recent deployment, as they said.
At home we stopped using the dryer and the electricity bill got reduced like a 30%. It's impossible to dry all the cloth in rainy winter weeks (imagine 10°C(50°F) and 90% of humidity), so now we are hanging towels, bed sheets and similar stuff and using dryer for small stuff, probably 50% and 50%.