skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the south of Sweden there is a general shortage of energy to the point where reserve energy operators have to jump in to supply energy. Those are basically the most expensive energy production you can have. In addition there is a speculative market so available energy production can be bought at one price point and then sold at a higher, making the speculative provider a even higher "cost of production".

If however there is a energy surplus in a region then two things happens. Reserve operators don't need to be used, and the speculative market risk holding energy that they can't sell, thus forcing lower prices.
This.

In my experience, people that insist in never adding new things can only afford to do that because they push all of the flashy problems their "boring" options create onto somebody else. And that somebody else tends to be severely underrated because they lose all their time fixing the crazy problems that come from ignoring tool selection.

But also, people that insist on novelty all the time usually can only afford to to that because they abandon their code as soon as the complexity of joining all new pieces together starts to appear. Usually leaving it for somebody else to deal with.

As a rule, developers that always choose X, for almost any X create many more problems than they solve. But they do make great strawmen to fight against in HN comments. As soon as you see people equating them to the technique, you can know the comment is worthless.
You can also buy a rapidly depreciating asset like a sports car.

Or you can buy high-risk meme stocks. Or crytpo. Or derivitives.

There's a million ways to fritter away money.
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Yeah, I am considering purchasing ISRB "for research". Some people I love suffer with chronic inflammation due to various autoimmune diseases. I know plenty of amateur body builders buy chemicals "for research" but use them as supplements. They keep tabular and video artifacts like most body builders do, so I wonder to what degree the activities are illegal?
I stopped using earlyoom because I got frustrated with it always seeming to be exactly the wrong thing for a given moment that would be killed. Now though OOM events seem to turn into situations that require me to force a reboot, because kswapd goes crazy, using all available CPU, and I can barely (if at all) register any keyboard/mouse input.

Seems like a bad reason to disable swap, but I can't find a way to do what I really want, which is simply to reserve some CPU for input. And then I suppose in order to do something useful with it, require that any process that wants it be allowed at least some small allocation. Maybe that's the hard part and why I haven't found a way? It doesn't happen often, it's just really annoying when it does.
Thanks - great explanation.

Smart contracts on blockchain scare me, because I just don’t think humans are capable of writing (or auditing!) perfect code.
It really doesn't. When the author article writes about swap helping "Under moderate/high memory contention" -- most people have already powercycled their device at this point (or monitoring has pulled the struggling node from production). It's utterly useless, due to the huge difference in latency between RAM and storage.

On most production systems, memory allocation is roughly 1% system and 99% application (not counting temporary, evictable allocations like disk cache). Modern applications are not designed to have their pages swapped out to disk and it is not particularly helpful to swap the teeny tiny bits of OS.

There are parts of this article which are true, but the overall picture it paints is not accurate and the conclusion that swap is helpful is not correct for high performance systems - both workstations and servers.
There are other countries you know, ones that are neither of the above
> Being able to sync for free (I just pay for S3 costs) means I got cross-device/platform support and know I will never lose my notes.

This is also the case with Obsidian! Because the files are just loose `.md` files in a folder, I personally use Syncthing and Git to keep them synchronised across devices for free. Sync is another option to complement those, for people who don't want to roll their own solution.

By default in Obsidian you own the data (and it never leaves your hard drive), you pay for them to host it for you so that it 'just works' across devices
You can't solve quintic equations (Galois theory approach)
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Your microglial cells are overly reactive.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742...

Try NAC, CBD, PEA (Palmitoylethanolamide; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9406356/), DHA/EPA (fish oil) and other things to reduce brain inflammation.

But trans-ISRIB looks exactly on point in its particular mechanism.

You can already import it in bulk from manufacturers like nutrabiotechchem.com.
Somewhat fair, except that Google has historically been more tolerant of the "outside" leaks than many others. Just stop to imagine what would happen to the people involved if something like this were to leak from Apple. It's inconceivable to imagine them keeping their jobs. From what I have heard and seen from Apple, there is a veil of heavy internal secrecy that falls even between departments and projects. Zero tolerance for external leaks. That kind of thing was starting to creep into Google before I left, but on the whole that wasn't the culture there.
Managed cockroachdb, along with some others like fly.io.
I just watched Tiangong space station with my bare eyes. Beautiful.
Looking forward to watch 14 starlink satellites tomorrow.
Thank you so much for your website.
> Lobbying is legalized bribery

That's an unhelpful take. Bribery as defined by law is inherently illegal, and lobbying is defined by law as legal, so legalized bribery is nonsensical. It can't exist.

On the other hand, there are certainly arguments to be made for why lobbying can feel anti-democratic. But they come smack up against rights to freedom of speech, association, etc.

It's incredibly difficult to draw the lines here for what is "democratic" and "anti-democratic", where "legitimate democratic politics" turns into "corruption". All of democracy is about individuals and groups trying to influence candidates and politicians, and providing or withholding support to do so, and candidates and politicians actively seeking support of individuals and groups via policy.

Fortunately, we've decided that some lines are relatively easy to draw: politicians can solicit/receive contributions for campaigns, but not personally. But what you're arguing against doesn't have any kind of clear line. Federal money and tax breaks go to lots of different groups, and lots of different groups lobby. It's hard to see how that either of those should be illegal, or how tying them together could be made illegal, without the end result being even more anti-democratic.
Without touching military secrets and export controls, what does/will this actually do? Specifically, is it actually meant to do any AR stuff?

From publicized informations it seemed to:

- show simple edge-detection overlay at night

- show basic HUDs, such as compass bearing, brightness

I’d imagine it would:

- connect to Wi-Fi

- report locations, “$NAME take a picture”, make VoIP calls

- show vehicle paths for satellites and aeroplanes as needed

…which are/would be cool but not too much arficifial realitying. Notably, feature sets above don’t necessitate multi-camera array at all. Which makes it still cool and futuristic, but AR?
This makes no sense. If your population is fat, doesn't it make sense to study fat people?

> The reasons are largely practical ones. Most medical school tables are not large enough to accommodate a human being larger than 200 lbs or longer than 6' tall.
> Donated bodies also have to be moved by students and/or researchers, and heavier bodies are harder to move, posing injury risk.

These also seem like bad reasons. Why not dismember the body? Why not use them for crash tests or other cadaver-driven science?
>Tinkering with microcontrollers is probably the most satisfying

Not so satisfying when seeing the pay-grade compared to other CS fields.
thankyou so much for writing such a detailed comment

i really don't see this as a bloomberg killer, this is more like terminal for indiviual investors, i really feel like everyone sees things as black and white, on one hand you have your hedgefund investors and on the other you have wallstreetbets who dont care about fundamentals, this is for the middle ground, like a value investor who looks at fundamentals and invest for the long term, even the infamous face of the game stop saga DFV was a hardcore value investor

i really am going after that crowd, they don't need those advanced data youre refering to like they're not gonna trade spreads or swaps, so operating terminals backend would be magnitudes cheaper, which i will pass down to my customers, you made really great points i just view this as completely different product
Which is also why those cards aren't addressed at the gamer market. Not even the "not average/must have the best" gamer market, because that's not big enough to sustain them: they're sold to ML and crypto
Reread what they said. The only thing incognito ever offered was not saving local history.
There's approximately zero churn in Emacs. Moved up four major versions a few years ago and I think I had to regigger one line in my config, out of a config of over 2000 lines.
The appeal for firebase is that you can get away without your own backend for quite a while. It's perfectly feasible to consume databases directly from your frontend app without having to deal with a lot of caching or networking concerns, the firebase SDK does that for you. You basically get a complete API layer without having to write a lot of code yourself. It is very similar with stuff like auth handling, which is also tightly integrated into the database offering.

This makes development incredibly easy, especially in early stages and if you're starting out as a solo/small scale project. It is even better if you don't have an in depth knowledge about backend development/architecture and just want to build a product.

You don't get any of those benefits with a regular managed Postgres offering, at least not that I'm aware of. Supabase comes a lot closer to firebase than a regular managed postgres + ORM offering would but you also get an oepn source project that you could potentially self-host.

from what I heard self-hosting Supabase is possible, but a rather complex undertaking. There is some documentation around it, but is definitely a lot more complex than using their hosted offering is.
> "but it can swap out unused areas" in which case you should fix the program to not allocate a ton of memory it doesn't need

Isn't this basically asking every application to independently reimplement their own swap-style functionality? Surely it makes more sense to have swap as a system level feature that every application can take advantage of?

That way the system has more information available to make swapping decisions since it can take into account the memory usage of all applications and drivers/etc together, and applications can take advantage of the most advanced swapping algorithms in the latest versions of the system without having to be individually updated.
On the Samsung J5 2017 you need to delete the Google accounts before resetting.I haven't tested FRP on anything newer.
Does the fun come from high resolution and fancy shaders though?

Or is this more like hi-fi zealotry?
Im in the same boat. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33216287
If your satisfaction comes from a paygrade, it’s probably a false positive
> To ensure public trust, CDC must provide accurate, science-based evidence on vaccines,” Kulldorf said. “They have failed to do so.”

This didn’t prove anything about them failing to do so. This is just a bunch of assumptions into conflicts of interests with zero actual evidence.
I clicked on the article, and read it; then I clicked on the report. In neither did I find an explanation of what is meant by "DNS abuse".
Which distros can you think of offhand? I wasn’t aware of this.
What was it about Windows 7 that introduced network-sniffing, privacy-intruding malware?
That seems to be covered by "Your activity might still be visible to: Websites that you visit"?
Yep and realistically the pricing is on key. GPNVGs are easily in 40-50k alone before helmet, coms, and anything else that might be carried. I think people just aren't aware of how expensive mil-tech can be. That's a different issue, but it's how it is.
For what I know Musk has already said he will leave Starlink active.
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Early 90s 3D engines. Raycasting, sprite scaling, SNES mode 7, voxels, early flight/space sims.
Can I get your use case? What is the data you have to index? If it's logs, indeed, Meilisearch will not be the best fit. I would recommend https://quickwit.io. If it's structured or unstructured data, even if 10TB seems huge for our use cases, I would love to put you in contact with my engineering team. We would find a way to manage it.
Don't expect much. My YouTube feed is full of Terraria and Minecraft and Skyrim thanks to my son... mixed with CMU Database CS lectures, telemark skiing, gardening, and LoTR mythology videos, but let me tell you that YouTube has failed to syncretize anything interesting from this fusion :-)
I happen to be watching Steve Sanderson's Why web tech is like this presentation, which has some early history, runs the original TBL projects. Might be fun for some interested in HTTP's (and a lot of other web tech, HTML/CSS/JS's) evolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QEoJRjxnxQ
For me, Firebase is mostly about convenience/development ease:
1. Authentication? Firebase Authentication

2. Database? Firebase Cloud Firestore. Sometimes, you don't need SQL.

3. Push notification? Firebase Cloud Messaging

4. File storage? Firebase Cloud Storage

All of my needs are served by single platform. Seems like Supabase handles all of them, except #3. Let's try :)
I struggle because I want to upvote these comments, because that's the world I want to live in. But the opposite side of that coin is who is going to author the incredibly arcane specification of TCP against which any such implementation is formally verified?

Maybe TCP stacks are one of the few cases where that make sense, but I'd suspect if it was "worth the cost" it would have already been done
How about cerebrolysin? A friend of mine who suffered a traumatic brain injury swears by it.
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A vote is not just "encrypted information going to a server". The law says that every voter must be able to vote once (and only once), and that the vote must be secret, towards other voters and towards the government. A vote must be authenticated, it must be ensured that it's only counted once, but the counting system may not know what you voted (at least as long as the vote is tied to your identity). This means that you cannot use classic encryption algorithms, because for tallying the votes, you must be able to sum up votes for which you're not allowed to know what the vote is. This requires "novel" schemes like homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, etc. (Not novel in the academic sense, but in a practical sense, there is still quite little practical experience with this kind of cryptosystem, compared to TLS for example.)

I have yet to find someone that can explain me how homomorphic encryption works in a way that I fully understand. And I'm a software engineer. I understand RSA or Diffie Hellman. A lot of people understand RSA or Diffie Hellman. Almost nobody understands homomorphic encryption. This means that almost nobody even has the necessary base knowledge to even being able to review an e-voting system.

Without voting secrecy, I'd say that building a robust system would work reasonably well. With voting secrecy, it's a different story.
seems like something an engineer might fix on their own time if they were feeling feisty about the matter. Something tells me if it went on for 20 years it was an edge case that only very rarely came up and was mostly a non-issue.
Just gave up. It wasn't feeling nice anymore. It's been 8 years or so.

I guess sports help. I'm been training jiu jitsu for 16 years now and I felt drinking in the weekends would fuck my performance up
I agree with all this. As a heavy user of pg_search I can also say that it is also not nearly as good when you need to combine multiple full text indexes in very complex queries. A dedicated indexing tool seems to have so many advantages, with the only 2 disadvantages being complexity increase and a slight indexing delay.

Overall, pg_search is an amazing tool for low-complexity systems. Once you need really complex searching going on, a dedicated tool wins by a lot.
Both. Or rather, marketing the latter given the former.
> I would argue it's the natural ruggedization of the existing tech (hololens platform) … Looking at the kit it's clear it's not some crazy deviation.

The contract is not just for headsets - it’s also for the backend infrastructure that allows them to function. Microsoft is not getting $21B to add gaskets and swap ABS out for PA6 Nylon.

I’m not super familiar with the broader Hololens platform as it exists today but I can’t imagine that much of it would be widely useful for e.g. a Marine on the ground in Baghdad to task an F-35 pilot with close air support by looking at a 3D map of the building he’s standing in front of.
Supabase is awesome and open-source
I can't say there is no spam, but in 10 years of use I don't think I've personally seen any. "Random" people sometimes reach out, but it's usually for ok reasons. Spamming people is a very quick way to ruin your firm's reputation. And depending on what you do, there may be regulations against that type of stuff.
I don't get it, what is the difference between what was done here and paying a lobbyist?
For what it's worth, just as an amateur chemist staring hard at the molecule, it looks like the ligand (the outer bit that plugs into receptor binding sites) consists of a monochlorinated benzene ring. Which would likely put this in the same drug class as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromantane, whose ligand is a monobrominated benzene ring — and which is also a "cognitive enhancer" nootropic with a thusfar not well understood mechanism-of-action.

The naive assumption some people make is that bromantane (and so probably also ISRIB) would have an at least partially similar MoA to amphetamine, given that amphetamine has a plain old benzene ring hanging off of one end of it; but IIRC that is incorrect, as, in amphetamine, the benzene is not the ligand — rather, the amide group on the other end is.
The nice trick with stones is that I don't care how much they are.

They're nice and vague enough that it's like .. if I go from 10 stone to 11 stone, I need to care. If I go from 10 to 10.1 I don't need to care. I don't convert them to pounds or kilos because I don't want to know the answer, it just adds anxiety that I don't need.

The funny thing is I'm otherwise metric-all-the-things. But for body weight, the lack of precision lets me focus on the trends instead of worrying about the details.
"This setup has worked rather well for the better part of a decade and has managed to scale from 15 developers to 150"

LOL
> And occupies a different temperature reading on the thermometer.

You are unable to explain how reducing the space occupied by the initial configuration you proposed could change the temperature - which you say is 0 in all those cases - or the macrostate - which you call absolute zero macrostate in all those cases. The entropy would be the same whenever the particules are more concentrated than in your example - even though they would have lower probability of ocurrence. Don't you agree?

> With enough cubes and boxes such a state has a very low probability of occuring.

Sure. The thing is that if you calculate an entropy using Gibbs formula from the distribution of microstates for a given macrostate the value that you obtain depends on how many cubes are used to define the macrostate. There is no entropy of the microstate - the entropy depends on how you decide to define the macrostate. If the lattice is fine enough, and the particles indistinguishable, in the limit the entropy is zero - the macrostate becomes the same as the microstate and one single microstate is possible.

It all depends on the description we make of the system. The "I have balls in a box and I know their positions" example was incomplete.

If for example I have N of those balls in equilibrium in an isolated box of volume V and I know the energy E I know the equilibrium macrostate. The energy won't change because it's isolated. The macrostate will not change. The (equi)probability distribution of the possible microstates corresponding to the macrostate won't change. Gibbs entropy which is calculated using that distribution won't change.

If by sheer luck all gas particles moved to the exact left side of the container the energy wouldn't change, the macrostate wouldn't change, the entropy wouldn't change - it doesn't matter how unlikely that is. It doesn't matter if you know the position of each particle. The entropy for the thermodynamical system described in the previous paragraph is independent of your knowledge of where the particles are or how unlikely you think their positions are.

I agree that you could use alternative ways of defining the macrostate where that happens! (And calculating Gibbs entropy will give different results. One can even get zero entropy using the microstate as macrostate - and one may actually want to do that if the microstate is known!)

> Even at equilibrium it can lower in entropy. The equilibrium is simply the highest entropy state.

I would understand that you said either:

"the equilibrium is the highest entropy state but there may be fluctuations that shift the system temporarily out equilibrium"

or

"the equilibrium is the highest entropy state and possibly a distribution of states around it."

Both concepts are used. When you say that the equilibrium is simply the highest entropy state but the equilibrium entropy can also be lower I'm not sure if it can be read as one of those or you're saying something else entirely.
>Authentication out of the box is nice. (Built-in Firebase email-verification is, in our opinion, a poor experience though).

>Firebase mandates Google / GSuite sign-in

Is Firebase authentication different from GCP Identity Platform? I've read the docs for both Firebase and Identity Platform and the lines seem blurred..

Do these issues extend to Identity platform? I haven't heard of many people using it, but it looks very feature-rich.
ATT and Verizon are two of the shittiest corporations in existence. Both carriers raised their prices between $6 and $12 a month back in June. This was an obvious "inflation" corporate pile on. The two biggest carriers raised their rates by the same amount at the same time? Perhaps the Justice Department should be looking at that. It's like Ma Bell never went away.

>"BELLEVUE, Wash. — May 31, 2022 — The Carriers called. They want their greedy reputations back. AGAIN. AT&T is raising its rates, increasing customers’ bills by $6 to $12 per month."[1]

>"Wireless postpaid consumer customers on all metered shared data plans will see a plan rate adjustment charge of $6 per month for a single-line phone account and $12 per month for multi-line phone accounts, effective with their next bill cycle, according to Verizon."[2]

[1] https://www.t-mobile.com/news/offers/takes-aim-at-att-and-ve...

[2] https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/verizon-quietly-hike...
Exactly. s/closed-source/google/

I've not used Firebase, but seeing as it's not, as far as I can tell, "core" Google (i.e., not related to search or advertising explicitly), I'd be concerned about relying on it in any substantial, business-critical, way.