skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While winterization did effect the generation of renewables during the outage, a larger issue was just.. a lack of wind.

Thermal generation was and is the leading cause of the outage - namely a lack of gas supply which offlined much of the states thermal generation.
> Dubai

A grand total of 6 lines for all departing flights?
The "if you want to get into it..." - Escape Analysis in the HotSpot JIT Compiler - https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/escape-analysis-i...

If you can prove that that a particular value never escapes the scope, it may be possible to allocate it on the stack instead which also reduces the amount of garbage collection needed later.

And other related reading:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120214195433/http://www.ibm.co...

https://www.javaadvent.com/2020/12/seeing-escape-analysis-wo...
Ask HN: How did the Starlink POC work?
Lately I've heard that the network latency in Starlink has reduced to indistinguishable level. Curious how SpaceX ran the POC for a planetary scale project.
NASA details doable not science fiction plan sending Mars rocks to Earth
The SAFe Delusion
Workflow: I store tiny bits of code, shell lines, reminders, tiny text drafts, links, random notes. I frequently search backwards to find some specific lines of code or shell script.

Tools: I use a single org-mode file and I have a shortcut command in Emacs to launch it (M-x wl). When I run this command, it generates a new entry with the date and time and places my cursor so I can type right away.

(defun wl ()
"Open work log"
(interactive)
(find-file "~/dailylog/wl.org")
(newentry)
)

(defun newentry ()
"New log entry"
(interactive)
(search-forward "#now#")
(beginning-of-line)
(insert "\n\n* ")
(insert (shell-command-to-string "date"))
(dotimes (i 50) (insert "="))
(insert "\n\n\n")
(forward-line -2)
)

;; bonus function
(defun codeblock ()
(interactive)
(insert "#+NAME\n")
(insert "#+BEGIN_SRC javascript\n")
(insert "#+END_SRC\n")
(forward-line -1)
)

Format: No particular format except the auto-generated date above. There needs to be the string '#now#' in ~/dailylog/wl.org, this is where new entries are generated.
Nope this is not open source, but the flow interface is made with react-flow which is

https://reactflow.dev/
Windows worm evolved into slinging ransomware
Like I said, low-effort humor at the expense of marginalized people is just bullying. You can read a lot into the Bees "joke" but none of it is there. It's just low-effort and doesn't speak to any larger social issues.

The editors shouldn't go to jail, but its obviously the type of hate content that will drive away users and advertisers and twitter was wise to ban it. It adds nothing to the discussion.
Products that are sold after the year they have been manufactured are not scams.
We also just have fewer regulations about what can be built and where, and there are fewer block points in the approval process here.
Animation-GIF is a。Awesome app
Thanks. The remodel is overall mostly done, and the common rooms have been basically left to our department. Perhaps instructional technology/etc. would talk to us and offer suggestions but I don't expect them to assume any responsibility.

Totally agree that I am not the expert here, but in practice it looks like I may well end up calling the shots.
That is common in Texas but it is far from being a unique thing.
>Secret: housing is cheaper than most American cities.

Whatever my housing costs are, it's irelevant to compare them to US housing costs since I don't make US wages. I make local wages, and compared to those, housing is expensive.
"just do it"
> Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia: dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than it's worth. But trust me on the sunscreen.

I, like you, grew up with religious parents who tried to equip me with the tools that helped them navigate their lives. As an adult, I try to be extremely skeptical of unsolicited advice, but I absolutely seek advice from people who have been in situations similar to mine.
I'm a good general developer, but what I seem to be much better than others in is refactoring legacy hell code into decently organized and workable code, without introducing bugs.

I sometimes dream of becoming a highly paid Code Janitor that swoops in and saves your organization from starting over from scratch.

But I don't see a way to get into that field. For one thing, it doesn't even seem to be an existing "field".
BoringSSL is more for client side tbf. It was built for Chromium.

It is not recommended to use for general parties, even Google does not recommend.
> You can put on your CV that you have such and such a reputation but it amounts
to nothing in dollar terms for you. I have better things to do with my time [...]

That's one way of seeing it. Another way it is that you're part of this hive-mind of people who can afford to occasionally help a random stranger on a topic you care about. Other people do crosswords or sudoku instead.

As a consequence of helping that hive-mind to exist, you can also query it. But ultimately it is a limited resource, so attention and response quality can a be a bit random.

Yes, SE is heavily gamified, monetizes your contributions, exploits your sense of status/vanity. But it's the place where I least mind it. I like being tricked into writing about a topic I care about (refreshing my knowledge instead of scrolling news and being politically manipulated). I like being tricked into writing helpful answers (instead of controversial comments).

Personally, I only asked a single question on Math (but wrote a lot of answers on SO). Maybe knowing how it works helps, but I got an excellent answer (and the name of the problem I was trying to solve).
Ask HN: How do you deal with the impulse of taking it out on everyone
I just feel this way. It’s not violent, but certainly bitter and resentful.

I want to curse someone out.
If we are going to talk about slaves,
Then that also includes America which has slave labor from prisons, where people work an entire month for less than a dollar.

And of course that's without talking about countries America destroyed and stole their Natural resources like Iraq.
I went through that process when I first heard the announcement. The fixes have been applied to master which is tagged for a release. You can search issues by severity tag and it becomes pretty obvious which of the few issues is related to the problem (one of the contributors flat out stats a change must be merged for a major security fix). Went looking at PRs and came across a buffer overflow. I stopped at this point you are welcome to reverse engineer the changes and create the exploit.. I moved onto more interesting problems

Edit: once upon a time I went to a google container security conference and the kubernetes vulnerability disclosure process was described. I noticed there is at least 12-18 hours from patching a vulnerability before binaries are generated and the public notice is made. More than enough time to identify, exploit, and 0day into the wild
Taxi/Uber drivers are not affected by energy prices? That's 90% of the Teslas you see in Europe.
Happens for me. Ad says "gimp.org" but links to "gimp.monster". Reported.
For all of El Reg's tongue-in-cheek reporting style, they do a tip-top job on obituaries.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/24/in_memoriam_stephen_w...
https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/17/sir_clive_sinclair_ob...

and so on...
Texas is more wind focused too (24%
wind vs 6% solar) which is better for the local economy. 80% of solar panels come from china.
'Psalm for the Wild Built' and 'Prayer for the Crown-Shy', both by Becky Chambers.

They are a pair of sci-fi novellas that explore the idea of finding purpose (and much more) through a series of adventures and conversations between a monk and a robot.

They are incredibly good thinky-feely books. I have ordered a copy of Psalm for at least a half dozen people in my life in the last month.
provided faster than light travel is possible right? Cause the galaxy is pretty big isn't it?
Not as good as chess.com

Go world is mostly on websites only (not mobile native apps). Also the largest servers are In Chinese with minimal English translation (fox).

No standard equivalent of stockfish engine integration (while we are here, stockfish please add go support).

On baduk subreddit, top recommendation is goquest, which is like flappybird compared to super Mario brothers.

No 9x9 ladder climbs on YouTube to learn from like chess rating climbs by GM’s like levy and Aman.
There is one feature in Twitter which was promised and I am really need but it does not work for me without any error codes. This is ability to publish twitter using nothing more except SMS (no Internets required). Does anybody used it ever? Does anybody knows will it be available?
In cities? Yes. You start preferencing more space efficient modes of transport, and traffic jams go away, while transport time decreases.
If you’re going to put a tunnel with fixed access points under a city, it makes a lot more sense to run trains than private cars.

If you’re going to have a 4 lane road reserve two of the lanes for super high capacity vehicles (busses).

Traffic jams are a byproduct of the limits of physics. Once you reach a certain density it is simply impossible to provide enough private car parking and lane capacity.
Read “Don’t Shoot the Dog” by Karen Pryor. Use operant conditioning to change their behavior. Make them your bitch.
A business owner neighbour told me that marketing is the first chapter in all business books. No marketing, no business. Applied to my career, that advice changed my life.
Yes the nagging is annoying. I finally added this to my prefix header.

#define GL_SILENCE_DEPRECATION 1
It also happened in 2011, and nearly again in 2014: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/22/texas-power-grid-ext...

The market has abjectly failed customers in texes - but the utilities made off like bandits charging outrageous amounts each time.

The texes power grid is broken and the market won’t fix it. There is a reason the regulations they don’t want to implement exist.
Is Your Twitter Embarrassing?
Originally the hierarchy was supposed to be much more defined. But domains are so cheap nobody bothers. You see it a bit in .gov and .edu where subdomains are actually delegated somewhat sometimes.
It came from his git server so I’m assuming so.

> Obtained from: git@git.zx2c4.com:wireguard-freebsd @ 3cc22b2
An old IRC friend of mine was a consultant who described his job as "coming in and de-spaghettifying old codebases." Have you looked for consulting jobs?
Since no one has mentioned it, there are companies and numerous resources related to dealing with legacy code. Point this out, since in my opinion most likely person to fix a bug is person that wrote it — but at the point they are not, skills required to understand bugs are very similar to understanding legacy code. Beyond that, companies specializing in legacy code are able to offer additional services like updates, integration, migration, documentation, patches, training, etc.
For those that need a reliable drive, ignore every drive listed that doesn't have a 5 year warranty and that pretty much filters out all the scams.

edit: and filter for new and use your normal Amazon smarts to not buy if there are few reviews or from a seller that has poor ratings. It would be helpful if diskprices.com showed the number of reviews and average review for the drive as well as who it is sold by and what their review count and average review is. Also a filter for shipped/sold by Amazon (I'm aware of commingling of inventory). And a filter for the number of warranty years.

Also good idea to run a tool like f3 (fight flash fraud) before putting anything on the disk.
What do you expect banks and other regulated industries do? YOLO patch whatever and whenever?

I don't work in a regulated industry where it's required, but we do similar with a proper change control process and there's not a single individual that's authorised to perform changes without oversight, (even if that oversight from senior leadership comes retrospectively).
Genuinely curious…

Is there any security benefit to moving a WireGuard bastion from fully patched Ubuntu to FreeBSD?
The cost to winterize the grid is.. relatively small, like the cost to winterize it would be exceeded by the cost of alternative non-grid generation and "warming shelters". You'd also have to convince people to go, and that's a larger problem - the largest killer during the outage was carbon monoxide poisoning.

I'd also note, the parts of texas that are not part of ERCOT didnt have wide scale outages and they are winterized.
True that. I gave a demo of NeWS pie menus, emacs, and the HyperTIES browser and authoring tool to Steve Jobs once, and he jumped up and down and shouted "That sucks!" Overall I got about a 3:1 sucks to neat ratio.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17098824

Steve Jobs had poor enough taste to say that pie menus suck! ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17098179

It's the 30 year anniversary of CHI’88 (May 15–19, 1988), where Jack Callahan, Ben Shneiderman, Mark Weiser and I (Don Hopkins) presented our paper “An Empirical Comparison of Pie vs. Linear Menus”. We found pie menus to be about 15% faster and with a significantly lower error rate than linear menus! So I've written up a 30 year retrospective:

This article will discuss the history of what’s happened with pie menus over the last 30 years (and more), present both good and bad examples, including ideas half baked, experiments performed, problems discovered, solutions attempted, alternatives explored, progress made, software freed, products shipped, as well as setbacks and impediments to their widespread adoption.

Here is the main article, and some other related articles:

Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective. By Don Hopkins, Ground Up Software, May 15, 2018. Take a Look and Feel Free!

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/pie-menus-936fed383ff1

Steve Jobs Thought Pie Menus Sucked “That sucks! That sucks! Wow, that’s neat! That sucks!”

On October 25, 1988, I gave Steve Jobs a demo of pie menus, NeWS, UniPress Emacs and HyperTIES at the Educom conference in Washington DC. His reaction was to jump up and down, point at the screen, and yell “That sucks! That sucks! Wow, that’s neat! That sucks!”

I tried explaining how we’d performed an experiment proving pie menus were faster than linear menus, but he insisted the liner menus in NeXT Step were the best possible menus ever.

But who was I to rain on his parade, two weeks after the first release of NeXT Step 0.8? (Up to that time, it was the most hyped piece of vaporware ever, and doubters were wearing t-shirts saying “NeVR Step”!) Even after he went back to Apple, Steve Jobs never took a bite of Apple Pie Menus, the forbidden fruit. There’s no accounting for taste!
I hope to see it. RIP
The best advice I ever received was never compare yourself to anybody else. As a person who came from a humble family, in Africa, that advice got me going. I would see children from privileged families having better opportunities but I worked hard and was happy every time I looked back on where I have come from.
The number of times I’ve heard [insert recent weather event] was a 1 in 100 or 1 in 1,000 tail event just in the last 10 years makes me really want to go to a casino
Tritiy, glad you like Swurl. Swurl isn't on Github, it isn't open source. But it is mostly JS, you can just view source to take a look.
> The elephant in the room here is that within the mathematics, physics and computer science communities there are a signiﬁcant proportion of people who are “on the spectrum”. They lack empathy and are usually appalling teachers. If you are a student who has not “clicked” with the subject these people will never get you to a point where you understand it.

Says the author without providing any piece of data or source of information. In particular

- where is the data that shows there's a significant portion of peoples on the spectrum in these fields?

- where's the data or source of information that proves that people on the spectrum are less empathetic?

- where's the data or source of information that proves that people on the spectrum are appaling teachers?

You can't launch such a statement without providing any source of information or data. Please, do good science, specially when talking about a vulnerable group.
>You’re not punching down when the near entirety of all cultural institutions, journalists, and technology platforms have mobilized to protect your target from all question and criticism.

Unfortunately that isn't really true. Trans folks, especially trans women face discrimination and violence on a daily basis in society. You see, they actually exist in the real world and somehow Twitter mods can't keep people from saying and doing terrible things in real life.

>When you can be censured, deplatformed, and even lose your job for stating an objective truth like “men cannot get pregnant”, your words, by any possible definition, are punching up.

Spare me and your culture war nonsense. I'm sure you believe that white men are under attack and marginalized.
>Amazon said Thursday that revenue growth in its cloud-computing unit slowed in the third quarter to 27.5%.

27.5%. It is lower that their previous 33% over the past few years, but at the current size of AWS growing 27.5% is still ridiculously good. To put this in perspective, if AWS continues to grow at 33% in 2022 and 2023. Then the whole 2023 33% growth alone, would equal to the size of the entire AWS in 2018. It is not the first time Amazon said they are limited by how fast they are building out Datacenter and getting hardware resources ready.

It will be interesting to see further details given out in AWS re:Invent 2022. Especially on Graviton roadmap.
Ask HN: Why don't more companies self-host repositories?
Most companies have an organization on Github and use it for their public SDKs, API wrappers, etc.

These companies tend to not take pull requests or anything, so there's little social interaction. Why don't most of these companies self host read only repositories for these SDKs?

It seems like they add a dependency (Github) for little gain (maybe some SEO link juice and the rare issue that gets reported).
Is HN next?
While it is likely that the issue affecting OpenSSL is memory safety related, how do you know for sure that it is and that rust would have prevented it without having a performance impact? While a language which prevents certain memory errors by design is going to be safe by design, it's entirely possible this bug is in code so hot that it has been repeatedly optimized further and further and that an equivalent implementation in rust would require an unsafe block. Now it is all great to respond to this by saying "safety should never preclude performance" but in that case, why would you write in rust when there are even safer languages such as spark? Moreover, if your secure solution is too slow, nobody will want to use it.

I do agree that OpenSSL is a pile of trash, but an overwhelming amount of the crust of OpenSSL is not C related.
> 16 times (!) the population density

This might come as a surprise to you, but that's the nightmare Europeans don't want. Europeans don't want to live as cramped as people in the big Asian metro areas do, and neither do the people living there which is why they emigrate if they can.

So yeah, while it's technically possible to keep increasing population density several times over, most Europeans don't want that, as it means a decline in living standards and quality of life.

We might as well just live in pods in giant towers like the humans farmed for energy in The Matrix, if that's the end game of human living density, but nobody wants to live like that.
Encourage persons interested in these letters to read The Anarchy by William Dalrymple. Summarizes establishment of East India Co. and subsequent financial outcomes and violence.
Thanks. I love chess as well. But go is under marketed in the west and has potential in the rest of the world (non chinese).
A formal diagnosis has helped many people significantly in living their lives. It allows them to get medications and/or support that they need.

It might be useful to actually talk to people who receive these diagnoses. In my personal experience I have seen people benefit greatly from formal diagnoses (even if initially it takes time to make sense of it).
But even if there are people who are hurt by a formal diagnosis, their numbers are absolutely demolished in comparison to the numbers of people who would benefit by help for mental health issues but never seek it out.

Complaining about people who might not be responding perfectly to a diagnosis seems like a drastically minor issue relative to people who have undiagnosed mental health issues.
HN Title: Google alerted Californians to an earthquake before it happened

Actual (accurate) Title: [How] Google Alerted Californians to an Earthquake Before It Hit

Hit vs Happened is a critical difference. (I think the "how" is trimmed by HN and not objectionable.)
Not sure I'd blame the cloud cover over the polar airmass wrt intensity. I think we had at least a couple sunny days in Houston (I remember opening blinds to get as much free heat as possible) and still didn't get out of the low 20s iirc.
To see the OP without enabling javascript:

https://nitter.net/gimp_official/status/1586330082221510656
(Typo. 'Assembly', "contracted notation", is a language. Made to make human readable the elements of those pieces of binary information that the 'Assembler', executed code, assembles.)
Two Questions to Ask During Hiring Reference Checks Instead of “Where Can They
Musk admitted in court that the term ‘pedo guy’ was not meant to be taken as a literal accusation of pedophilia.

Basically Musk said that he was just insulting him in a general sense and that the man was not a pedophile
Btw, I read through the article later, but forgot to comment again- He murdered someone?? And got exiled(no jail?). And ended up in fight, that crippled him before he died the next year? Dude was a renegade.
That's a very good video, thanks for sharing.

I think it does a great job of highlighting why meat crew on a single vessel is perhaps a difficult proposition.

I think we need anyway a colonizing swarm, not a single ship.

I know this goes into scifi territory, but I can imagine a scenario where compute based caretakers could take the seeds of a human civilization (hibernating or embryos) to a system with human compatible worlds.

I would guess we would populate asteroids before other solar systems, and experiences from asteroid based colonies could probably be replicatable in most hospitable systems.

You need to scout the system pretty well. And send many, many ships with multiple redundancies.
I don't typically engage with people who don't address the argument at hand and instead engage in diversionary tactics. What I addressed was your holding up a slave/petro/religious state as an example of anything good (I can't think of any major lessons they can give to anyone on anything to do with civil rights or labor practices).

In this case, I abhor the US stance on prison labor enough that I feel compelled to agree with you. It does not excuse any of the slavery in the Middle East, but the US does have its own issues. As a clarification, the lowest wage I could find was $0.13/hr, so not a month for a dollar, but not functionally different ($1/day or so).

As for the Middle East wars... yeah. Not a fan of those.
I think he means that your local time passed will be 40 years, while much longer for the rest of non accelerating people.

And of course I have no idea if the maths check out :)
Part of it is very favorable geography. But part of it, yes - You can throw up a wind farm in Texas cheaper and with less red tape than just about anywhere else.
> Generally the more west you go, more optimistic people are and more willing they are to invest in unproven companies and fields.

I'm going to raise money in Hawaii then :-p