skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As far as I know, military bases don’t have their own nuclear reactors or coal plants.

Well the nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers have power plants, and a few military bases used to be powered with nuclear (Camp Century, Ft. Greenly, McMurdo Station). But your point is reasonable. We'd be able to counterattack militarily, but it still would not be a happy day, nor a lasting integrity.
We just need to look back and see how Ukraine handled it in a year or so for lessons learned.
A long time Elon hater here. It is very infuriating to see this guy do anything and people cheering him on. Everything he does is more infuriating then the last, and I can’t help hating him more and more every day. I think this is a very human feeling. I also think it is very healthy, we should hate people that hold so much power through their wealth. We can’t elect him out or anything, the only thing we can do is hate.
Growing in the 80s up on the rural olympic peninsula the power routinely went off for a couple of weeks after windstorms. Even still it will be off for a few days every year. There are just a lot of power lines and a lot of trees and they have to check the whole system before it turns back on though they usually get it on for the schools and grocery stores pretty quick.

Everyone has a wood or propane heat source. We kept a non cordless land line, it worked fine with out power and i guess the phone lines are lower on the poles and not high voltage so it isn't a big issue if one is on the ground.

One year we had to cook a turkey on top of a wood stove.
Are we still the good guys?
The parent is using multi-processing to mean: “no shared memory concurrent processing”

Which still isn’t quite good enough because files (especially mmaped files) can be abused as shared memory even between multiple processes. But the general point is good, “you’re better off with mutable xor shared memory while concurrently processing”.
Here's a thread from MacAskill addressing some criticisms of the book, including those raised in this article:

https://twitter.com/willmacaskill/status/1583098954601750528
This might sound silly (as I have no experience in the field), but if this problem is due to the "largeness" of an organization (say "large" being N = 300, for the sake of argument), then presumably it's because certain false positives become more frequent as they have more employees than N, which causes the security monitors to tune out similar behavior, correct?

So instead of hiring the same constant number of security monitors/auditors independently of the organization size, can't you "solve" this problem by hiring one per every N employees, and having them monitor solely that group?

It sounds to me like either this solution should work (a "large" organization should be able to afford this!), or the problem isn't really related to the size of the organization.
Clearly, the problem with this book is that the long term isn’t long enough. The end game is the sun goes nova, the earth burns, and is followed by the heat death of the universe, completely nullifying all of their math.
Windows Setup Helper
An open-source setup framework to help you deploy Windows automatically. You can debloat bundled apps, tweak shell components, optimize essentially, get useful features, and add packages to install easily.

It's suitable for your new laptop bought on the upcoming Black Friday, or for equipment manager!
The article doesn’t jump to conclusions.

As the article points out, large enterprise clients require a human relationship and that’s something hard to provide with a massive staff cut.

They also don’t tolerate their brand being used alongside extreme content, and Twitter is telling the world that it’s going lax on moderation. Elon stated that directly in the recent tweet where he described the shadow banning process.

Twitter is looking at $1 billion a year just in interest payments, which is basically a 20% increase in total expenses compared to 2021, and they’re facing lower revenues.

No real alternative? Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snap, Pinterest, YouTube, Reddit, Tumblr…

On top of that, any sales professional will tell you that competition includes doing nothing. Advertisers can just not spend and wait out the Twitter situation, especially during a recession.

Elon is going to need to show advertisers that he represents stable leadership rather than posting memes of women’s asses with Twitter logos on them. He’s not used to running a company where customers are buying a product that projects the customers’ own image into the world.

You know how Zuck is a boring G-rated robot? Advertisers love that.
Megafauna were actually the norm. Just look at the Dinosaurs and Mammoths. So being smaller is a recent change.

Larger animals are more efficient with their calories, expending less energy per pound vs a smaller animal. Large animals also have a better volume to surface ratio, making it easier for them to keep themselves warm.
*F-250
At least for me personally there aren't any real alternatives.

* Facebook/Meta: I'm a life long non-facebook user and never will use any facebook product.

* Reddit: I'm on Reddit and have been for a long time but moderators ban people on a whim constantly for the slightest disagreement. My primary account has been banned from several major subreddits for a long time. Any community that grows to any size becomes a cess pool. It also doesn't work for news, as news is delayed by up to a day before getting any kind of traction.

* Mastodon: Becoming a left wing echo chamber that mixes the worst parts of Reddit and the worst parts of Twitter.

* Truth Social: Don't get me started...

* Forums: I still use a number of site-dedicated forums.
I think in a zombies scenario, the country is best. But in a real world scenario, I think urban or suburban is better due to the greater resources (gas stations with tanks, grocery stores stocked with a few weeks worth of beans, etc).

I also think defense is easier in the city as neighbors can band together for local policing, but I think farms would be at risk from criminals who have a gas tank and don’t mind murdering people with no one around to help.
Or, he/Apple was busted gathering private identifiers in stark contrast to their public claims, and decided it was a good time to withdraw. I mean, literally the same day:

https://twitter.com/mysk_co/status/1594515229915979776?s=20&...
This should not be controversial. Startups should become profitable not weapons wielded by rich investors that disrupt society while they get richer.

Uber and AirBnB got rich by being subsidized and breaking regulations. Uber is now just a normal taxi company except its also national duolopoly with Lyft. DoorDash and Saucy sold me on grabbing groceries: except now they don’t have half the items they advertise and make money by sink costs (fine I’ll settle for X.). My orders are wrong or cold and even when I get a completely wrong order door dash takes a few (Uber eats is the same)

Our entire economy is a bloated and artificial mess because of VCs pumping companies and money being so free there was no risk.
Soldiers and their families would likely be some of the last to starve. Hardened.
The thing about these discussions is that the situations they imagine are entirely avoidable, it would only take a complete revamping of our social isolation and dependence on monocultural agriculture / long distance food miles for starters.
That's odd, I just tried Notepad.exe in Wine and couldn't get Insert/Overwrite mode to work at all. Notepad++ has that mode, and it worked, but I can't find a way to use free cursor placement with it. LMK if you know fixes/workarounds for these.

You reminded me, I think pedit, breeze (both really good) or one of the other MS-DOS editors I used earlier this year had that now that you mention it. But better desktop integration would be needed in this case anyway...
In the country you can assume it'll take longer to get power back.

But, assuming an extended outage, it'll also be safer, and easier in the country. Until of course the city folk get hungry.

It'll all be good-will and friendly neighbors in the city until the food runs out. Then lawlessness will go through the roof, and, I expect, the dystopian future of so many movies kicks in.

Assuming fuel is scarce, country areas near the city will be raided first. After the first wave of starvations all pretence at civilization ends.

For texas-grid failure, there's at least hope from outside. If the hunger can be averted, country-side remains safe.

But outside of texas is a whole-country grid. If that comes down hunger will kick in, and texas alone won't have the resources to help.

The situation will get _really_bad before it gets better.

Ideally the grid would have the ability to come up one station at a time, feeding, and being fed by, the immediate area. But its rarely going to be that simple.
Nobody here was until you did. I would hope that HN would be above that stuff. We always complain that the MSM gets engineering work wrong. We value our own understanding of technical stuff better than the MSM's understanding. As such, I'd be curious how many were referencing laypeople or the MSM when they talk about Twitter's technical capabilities and risks here. I certainly would have assumed that we're all just talking about technical stuff as technical people, forget the laypeople and the MSM.
'Top Gun: Maverick' Cinematographer Pushed Camera Technology Limits
That just means you have written a lot of go. I truthfully don't notice lifetimes or the borrow checker most of the time when I write rust.

I actually think that, ironically, the if err problem with go is worse for reading code than writing code. If you are used to the pattern it's not that difficult to add the `if err != nil` after a fallible function call, and as is mentioned elsewhere, linters can help catch if you miss it. However, if you are trying to figure out what a function is doing, it can be very difficult to follow the flow, when 3/4 of the code is

if err != null {
return err
}

especially if you don't have a lot of experience reading go code. And that 3/4 is not an exaggeration. I have had to read functions where literally every line of normal logic is followed by those three lines to propagate the error from the other function. A function that would otherwise fit on a single screen now takes up over three screens worth of scrolling.
Linux and FreeBSD aren't slouches on large boxes either.

Current Microsoft server licenses are priced based on core count, and I think you have to go to 'Datacenter' edition if you have a lot of ram, so I'm not sure you save that much in licensing by building up vs building out. Anyway, hardware pricing usually strongly suggests building out after a certain point, going above two socket Xeon in the 2600v[1-4] era was usually a poor choice, not sure where the line is right now.

But, yeah, if it's a good fit, the cost probably doesn't matter. And as an enterprise product, there's probably a far bit of room for discounts if you're buying in quantity.

Running on a platform provided by a third party with no source isn't how I'd run things, but not everyone is willing to dig into kernel code to solve problems either, so you know. I hear Microsoft support can be pretty good, especially if you have the right contacts working your case.
> Critical facilities like cellular base stations and data-centers often have an on-site backup generator. These generators have enough fuel to extend the resiliency beyond 24 to 48 hours.

During the 2019 hurricane here in Nova Scotia people stole the fuel (and even a few generators somehow), so don’t even count on that.

We had no internet, cellular, or landline service for days where I live as a result, much less power. The only reliable communication option in a true disaster is as it always has been, amateur radio.
suing them only helps if you think they'll still be running in a year or two.
lol - (re: linking) ask and ye shall receive!

Show HN: CodeLink: create links to blocks of code in your IDE

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33711480
I'm curious are there any open source "behavior analytics" projects that are gaining traction?
It's only in your opinion that is what he is. If you've actually been following him in detail for any length of time you'd realize that doesn't really describe him.
We need to nationalize Elsevier and the other big publishers. Then we can make the accumulated knowledge of mankind available to all for free. After all, tax money funded almost all of the research anyway.
If you haven't already, the Nerves Project which is an embedded systems/IoT platform based on Elixir, might interest you.

https://www.nerves-project.org/
Spoiler alert: The chicken went bad.
I haven't needed it in so long but I remember doing ANSI and ASCII artwork in many of the editors and believe they had it too :) Ahhh, memories. ACiDDraw for example.....
emacs and vim people write code that is as confusing as their editors. change my view
Si tuvieras que empezar aprender a programar,qué recursos/videos/libros usarías?
Si tuvieras que empezar aprender a programar, qué recursos/videos/libros/etc usarías?

En Español, por supuesto.

Desde 0 hasta conseguir un trabajo.
I had to do this for an undergraduate business degree here in the US and it feels like a super power working in software.
seems rhasspy is good too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22703035
Agree with the sibling comment.

Snapchat, TikTok, Hacker News, and LinkedIn are all social media sites. In the sense that you can only pay attention to one thing at a time, sure, these are competitors to Twitter.

But as far as actual content, value, or user experience, none of these are direct competitors. How exactly would the White House or your local school district go about making an announcement on TikTok?
We want civilian EMP hardening not just for a nuclear war, but also for an unexpected solar event. We want to be able to handle whatever nature throws at us, our fellow apes combined.

I just rounded off my most recent expansion to 120kw peak production with 500kwh storage, all EMP hardened to well above carrington event levels.

Most of you have a house full of IoT crap dependent on AWS (region) to function.
Also why I like playing instruments and drawing with pen and paper and sculpting with clay. After awhile I just got so tired of screens and living in essentially virtual reality.
This is one of those situations where there are no backups, and no one has any plans to make any backups.

A power outage disaster-hardened country has a populace that's deeply knowledgeable about self-governance, organized combat, agriculture, medicine, sanitation, power generation, engineering, textiles, supply logistics, and construction. If the citizens of a western country like the US somehow earned the free time and energy to start regularly studying and executing these skills for themselves and their neighbors, it would be disastrous for the profit margins of most industries. People would necessarily have to spend fewer hours in the workforce (@David Graeber, "Bullshit Jobs") completing nothing worthwhile and more time running a nation-state without money changing hands at every transaction of labor.

I have given up any hope of "power-outage" hardening at a large scale and have resolved to stash my own house with supplies, although I'd be quite vulnerable to raids in the long term.
Lots of cans of Diet coke.
Those are the people that need to understand that a lot of security depends on simpler file formats.
Thanks, I just tried in 4.6 and it works with the arrow cursor keys, and ^T P is the shortcut. The mouse won't work for ad hoc cursor placement though, with -mouse on the command line. Do you know if there's a workaround?
In some light it could be seen as "bad," at least as currently structured in this country: we basically allow people to withhold tax money and instead direct the money as they see fit, which has an anti-democratic implications -- in effect it as though we went to the richest Americans and said "why don't you decide how a substantial chunk of tax dollars are spent rather than Congress?" Beyond the more philosophical aspects, having been in the sausage factory for a bit, and having read about others, I think it is very easy for charities to just happen to serve their mission in a way that just happens to be more beneficial for their patrons (even if they could put superficially convincing numbers on it to prove they're highly "effective").

But I suppose I would say it's neutral; it could be good or bad depending on various characteristics of the charity itself.
Easy Software Products.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070109004135/http://www.cups.o...
Given the vintage I expect they are Soviet missiles —though the actual factory of these unlike Anyonov were/are in the Moscow general area.
Perhaps that work is an escape hatch should anyone threaten some kind of antitrust action or similar. They want it theoretically able to boot something else for legal reasons.
Naval nuclear reactors use HEU and are horrifically expensive even compared to civilian ones.

Additionally when your capital and fixed O&M costs are higher than renewables with the same net power + batteries, then the costs of your peaking energy skyrocket even further.

Far better to build less nuclear + storage. And then realise that the generation doesn't need to be nuclear in most places.
I find it difficult to believe that "embracing the idea that what is legal should be legal on a platform designed for conveying speech" should be considered evil. Unless you believe that American law with regards to speech is also evil.
>just an identification of these as AA missiles would have been enough to kill the story

Oh, you don't know the story how Ukraine constantly blames Russia for striking civilians by repurposed S-300 missiles!

I bet this is the reason they are still in denial about the Poland incident. Because it breaks the legend and points to the real cause: issues with the missiles they launched. Meanwhile there is a constant flow of videos where Ukraine's S-300 missiles fly into land.
I feel your clear and general disdain for the press is coloring your interpretation of events here and the reality of editing and sourcing.

There was an editorial failure, certainly, but in a rapidly changing situation due to a misunderstanding of the evidence given by a vetted source (such sources are seldom named even internally). Don't forget five or six nations were "squabbling" over the origin and nature of these missiles for days afterwards. Russian missiles did hit Poland, but they were Russian-made, not Russian-launched. It's not hard to imagine how easily this message could be muddled somewhere between Lviv and New York.

The person saying US intel was unlikely to be wrong was not evincing a blind trust in government but expressing that a vetted source was unlikely to volunteer information of this nature, in this situation, that was inaccurate, given that Poland had essentially confirmed there was a crisis event unfolding.

It was not a third hand story (US intel official claimed direct knowledge), reporters are not second hand (they interpret, contextualize, and synthesize) and editors are not third party (they are an integral part of the news process).

News organizations are under immense pressure from every quarter. It is very easy to pick apart the process in retrospect and suggest they should have distrusted a trusted source or questioned the somewhat ambiguous wording of the message from the reporter. News, and reporting about war especially, is complex and messy - remember this all took place within 9 minutes.

That does not make these people "doomsday reporters," "hacks," or that they need to be fired and attend remedial journalism school. It was an honest mistake not unique to virtual newsrooms but exacerbated by them. They retracted the story when it was clear that the intel their source provided was mistaken, fired the reporter for, I would guess, failing to communicate and handle the news properly, and likely chastised the editors for erring too far on the side of shipping the news.

Sorry for this long comment, I just completely disagree with your assessment.
I just tried it. You mean insert-mode only as in there's no free cursor movement without padding with spaces first, is that right? I can't seem to move the cursor around unless I'm in an already-typed-on position...
2fa broke because Elon ordered all the micro services to be shut down
> Anything that isn't in the "happy path" of the AdsUI probably gets handled by some engineer making some API calls to a prod API

Prior to going private, Twitter would have had recurring Sarbanes-Oxley audits. Auditors understand the need for occasional emergency break-glass methods of making manual database queries or API calls, but they are less tolerant about that being a normal way of operating.

Plus, if you use emergency access often you'll eventually waste more time explaining each individual access to auditors at the end of the quarter than it would have taken to just implement a UI for the feature in a code-reviewed and audited internal admin console or user-facing UI.
Stack Gives Back to Open Source 2022
The subscription thing won’t work either.

Discord is the closest thing to a successful subscription only social media business. Compare what Nitro offers to Twitter Blue.

Twitter Blue is like buying the “I am rich” app while Discord Nitro solves actual customer pain points.

Discord has about 10% of their active users paying for Nitro by my calculation based on available information. Twitter getting anywhere close to that level is not likely. Discord has been building their service around paid features for years.

Luckily, Twitter has a large and skilled engineering team capable of quickly rolling out valuable new features to entirely change their business model!

(Sidenote: has anyone ever heard of a generally stable ~10 year IPOed tech company pivoting so drastically? It’s insane)
In Puerto Rico a few months back we lost power and water due to the hurricane. Living without power and water, even for a few days starts to have a severe psychological impact.

You don't realize how much of a luxury and a blessing it is to have clean running water until it's no longer available. You can't flush the toilet, freshen up, shower, wash your dishes, or wash your clothes.

If you don't have a backup power generator, all the food in your fridge starts rotting in a few days.

There are so many luxuries which we take for granted up until they're taken away from us. Nature is cruel and harsh.
Emacs: Feature/tree-sitter merged into master
This is a smart instinct, but the ammunition only lasts so long. Someone deep in the boonies with a good stash will be okay, but anyone within 1-5 day's march near the cities had better be prepared to "stack 'em high' for a long time before the stream of starving city ex-pats slows to a trickle.
Open a file in emacs and do M-x artist-mode.
My family jokes that, while everyone stocks up on “survival” products… cigarettes and alcohol will probably be in high demand. Got video games, maybe some solar power (just enough for a TV and a Switch)? Parents will want those to keep the kids sane. Got Blu-rays, DVDs? When people can’t stream, you might get some good resources for them. Got a PC with some offline CAD software? Makes planning making things out of wood easier. And so forth.
This "systems phenomenon" — where governments are mostly constrained to act against our ecologically-enlightened self-interest — is brilliantly described by the lead author of Limits to Growth.

https://youtu.be/HuIoego-xVc?t=938s
No, I don't, but 'mouse' support must also be supported by the terminal emulator you use. The joe manpage only mentions xterm, so try running it in an xterm to see if mouse support works.
Elixir Phoenix + LiveView
This guy has an amazing YouTube channel and just released a really cool book. I'm doing a book club going through it right now and it's really cool!
Disappointed to not see "Developer(s) rebuilding something that works perfectly fine because they want to try HotNewTech and pad their resume"