skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
macOS has awesome memory compression and overcommit -- it's no wonder Firefox never crashed for you. I can't speak for my own experience because I rarely ever used Firefox on my Mac, but the TL;DR is that even if an application has a pretty egregious memory leak, you will probably never even notice, unless that memory actually gets filled up with data.
We will see if companies can stay low tech for longer than developers can stay out of a job. I'm thinking the first one.
The real question is if the cost to change is less than the current or future costs of inaction. I find what you said a manipulate style of argument used frequently today.

"What about lithium mines" ignoring the various oil disasters and the effects of drilling

"What if the vaccine had a 2% chance of killing me" ignoring the probability of dying from covid (made up numbers here)

I'm not claiming which side is right but these are often framed as the choice between the cost of the change and no cost.
> A similar technique is also used in other parts of the world, such as the UK, but under the name Coppice and Pollarding. While the technique is similar, it's not exactly the same, as daisugi only works with seedlings from a specific mutant cedar in a specific location in Kyoto.

Dang, that's a shame.
Right process aren't "shared nothing" but at least it makes you work a little bit before you can shoot yourself in the foot..
The Mississippi must have been gigantic in summers when some of the glacier ice did melt.
Agreed on your points with regard to waging war.

But with regards to destroying an electrical grid, it would be a very topical intro to the idea. And there's some interesting info, in that destroying a grid is proving to be much harder than one might expect. Russia is a particularly incompetent foe, much like the Pakleds in Star Trek, but even with their massive armament, and being able to target an indefensible number of positions spread over an indefensible geographic area, they have not yet been fully successfully in their technical aims of grid destruction.

And to fail at the technical aim, while also accomplishing the exact opposite of your social aim (Ukrainians are more resolved, rather than demoralized), is utterly embarrassing and pathetic.
If it looks like your pipes are going to freeze, you bite the bullet and simply drain them, using the provided fittings and valves.

And, you add some antifreeze to your toilet, after you flush it to empty the tank.
Playing to Win: https://www.alicemaz.com/writing/minecraft.html

A beautifully narrated real story about hacking the economy of Minecraft.
Lisa: "Can we report from that or do we need confirmation from another source".

James: "That call is above my pay grade" + "I'm at a doctor's appointment".

Zeina says "source is vetted".

Newsflash sent. Then later retracted.

Laporta fired.

Just flabbergasting.
Do you think your work was useless? When I was in the army, my team was requested to move a huge pile of wood logs from A to B. I later discovered that another team was moving them from B to A. With no other purpose than keeping the soldiers busy, not having any imminent war to get ready for. At least mopping the floor resulted in a cleaner floor!
Seriously Cloudflare? A delayed generic signup modal on a forum while I'm trying to read a post?

https://imgur.com/a/QDEjlQ3

My reasons to dislike CF keep growing.
> Can someone speak, at a high-level, on how Ada manages memory?

It is low level ;). There is a function like malloc that allocates memory, but there is no free, since re-using freed memory is a common source of bugs in C programs. The idea is that you do all your memory allocation (buffers etc.) during program startup. If an allocation fails, you log the error and exit. Once the program is up and running, you don't allocate any more. Embedded systems, remember. You do everything in fixed memory regions. In critical systems there are some tools that make sure your stack allocations never exceed whatever. Ada programs are not allowed to crash.

That said, most Ada implementations do have something like free, but it is not part of the standard and you are supposed to be very careful with it.

You might like this, "random walk through Ada": http://cowlark.com/2014-04-27-ada/index.html
I came to a similar conclusion years ago. Yes, there are examples of applications that have done it, but they often have very elite engineers. Most teams are comprised of various levels of engineers and its extremely difficult to get right.

I work more in web dev now and I suspect the majority of my team does not know the difference between a thread and a process. HN readers may scoff but these are productive engineers who have build some honestly pretty impressive apps and systems.
WSL in the Microsoft Store is now generally available on Windows 10 and 11
That’s fantastic that learning new languages works well for him as a form of speech therapy! Best wishes to your family as well during this time.
Similarly I do not like authoritarians and therefore feel very bad for North Korean citizens. However I don’t understand why they are not allowed (or Iran, or any country) to build their own nuclear weapons.

Many countries have nukes - what is their right to have them? Shouldn’t every country have the right to mutually assured destruction?

I wish nukes would go away, but morally speaking if one country can have them then all countries can have them. It’s power politics after that.
Take google for example, from search to gmail, from gmail to Adwords, Adsense.

Another example is Tencent, from social network to a mail client, then WeChat, also expanded to games. QQ which is the original social network Tencent was built on, stayed almost the same with or worse with 100x head-counts.

It is always a rare event, but when it happens, it is a 1000x win for a company. It is something worth betting on.
Detecting bacterial infections and viral infections isn't close to the same level of difficulty. The existence of a home strep test says nothing about the viability of a home flu test.
If you are thinking rural alaska, possibly. Your typical US suburb is build of houses that don't do well without HVAC in neither the winter nor the summer. The amount of gasoline that needs to be spent to go shopping is high, and you can't expect gasoline to do well either during a grid collapse.

I don't have high expectations of Manhattan in the winter, but I'd bet on them over, say, Kenosha, or the Kansas City suburbs.
This works if you live in a house, but lots of people live in apartment buildings where they don't have access to the necessary valves. The building's superintendent could theoretically do it, but it's a huge task for a large building.
Longtermism reminds of Soviet version of communism where problems of today were justified in the name of “the bright future”.
True, but the omission is for a reason: it’s not possible to reason about dates in a global context without considering time.
Obviously, people would not die. What was the expectation? That we will die within a day after no power?

Electricity is not human's natural basic need like water and oxygen. But civilised life will be extremely terrible, society will collapse, that's the story.
Yes, and I mean I think that's exactly the point: people aren't expecting their exchanges to be a bank that puts their assets at risk, they're expecting them to be a custodian only, and ding them with fees when they trade, or possibly to actively charge them fees for holding deposits. The only reason actual banks get with putting customer funds at risk is that deposits (up to a certain point) are insured by the government.

If the exchange wants to offer interest-bearing deposits (eg: loan out your crypto), well then you'd expect to no longer be able to verify your deposits because you'd know they were loaned out, or that the exchange was trading with them, or whatever else. You'd also be forced to confront the fact that your assets are at risk at that point.
Why do you assume the filtering/selection process has to be centralized?

Why not a decentralized rating (and commenting/reviewing) system by scientists for scientists? Similar to how Twitter wants to be a news filter for the masses by the masses.
In a place I used to work at, I attended a workplace party where I was approached by a newly hired staff member. His many questions was all very leading, along the lines of: 'I like drugs, do you like drugs?' Apart from the clumsiness of his technique, what gave him away was his haircut (very military).
Many academic libraries have thrown out their bound periodicals in favor of JSTOR. This is often because of space constraints and building costs, so it's ultimately up to school administrators who would rather the library just pay a subscription than maintain their own infrastructure.

On a somewhat related note, small college libraries are utterly abused by journal subscription costs, but it actually varies significantly by discipline. The American Chemical Society is notorious for strong arming libraries into paying unreasonably high sums, and some library directors think of them more as racketeering syndicate than a professional organizarion whose purpose is ostensibly to help chemists. The odd thing is that american physical society journals are much cheaper, and many are open access (which the APS pioneered), plus there is ArXiV where everyone posts their preprints publicly. Physics research is no less costly to publish than chem research, so the difference must boil down to culture and/or incentive structures with these organizations. If one group believes that knowledge should be given freely, and another believes knowledge is a product worth whatever people are willing to pay, they will come up with different systems.

My point is that there are alot of wrinkles to the problem, and many avenues of possible attack. Personally i think if we could get all disciplines on the same page as the APS, we would be more than halfway there.

Edit: it looks like the ACS has softened its position on posting preprints!
>That's 1980s China, not 2020s China.

HOOOO, boy. Are you wrong there. Major cities sure, and they're improving as a whole, but SO much of China's heavy-industrial and rural provinces are still run on and over systems that mentally invoke the <internally screaming> meme.
Heh, it’s like the US is the king of the world and FDA the official global authority. You realize there are hundreds of other countries, federations and unions with their own administrations?

See https://www.vapormed.com/en/
Restructured several failed projects, and it is never a painless process.

A few common warning signs:

0. No mission project summary, or a moving finish-line fiasco in progress

1. Top-heavy management budget allocation, or 4 levels of managers involved with zero stakeholder input into the project design/testing stages

2. No hallway testing, or your interface requires explanation and has already failed before coding starts

3. Entrenched incompetence, or people doubling down on failed project inertia rather than recognizing the issues

4. Relative skill value perception in HR, and the trivialization of workmanship standards. Translation: Letting the family Dog drive.

5. Failure to translate business ops needs into actual deliverables

6. Failure to quickly fire people engaged in counterproductive behavior.

7. Perfectionism: nothing is perfect in all use-cases

8. Novelty bias... Translation: Letting the puppy drive.
Without cutting DOWN trees. I was trying to guess how they could grow square trees.
Looks like researchers are looking into it "The technique works well, says William Bahnfleth, an architectural engineer at Pennsylvania State University in University Park who focuses on indoor air quality."

Also the article notes there's a safety aspect
I think that you're right, it's related to Cloudflare's SaaS SSL product [1].

I'm totally ignorant of how it works but I guess that because everything is taking place within Cloudflare's network they're not hitting the DNS record after it's initially set up, they're just routing the traffic internally.

[1]: https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl-for-saas-providers/
Sorry, the other reply explained what I meant. "Multiprocessing" has many meanings but specifically when contrasted with "multithreading" it usually implies the thread/process distinction in the Unix sense of the terms.
When a prominent CEO reverses a prior decision, it’s often newsworthy. Especially when it relates to a 2024 Presidential candidate.
So are they always watching? If so, what a creep
Bitpanda Lands Crypto Operating License in Germany
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> I'm surprised that this article doesn't even mention the ongoing, continual attacks on the civilian Ukrainian electrical grid, in a concerted effort to take it out with thousands of cruise missiles and loitering drones.

I would guess that it was an intentional decision to avoid. Grady goes to great lengths to prevent anything political in his videos, and the Ukrainian war happens to be politically charged in America currently.
I was honestly confused for a bit, then realised that your site was redirecting to Gitbook.

;; ANSWER SECTION:
help.leavemealone.app. 0 IN CNAME help.leavemealone.com.

help.leavemealone.com. 0 IN CNAME leavemealone.helpkit.so.

leavemealone.helpkit.so. 0 IN CNAME helpkit-ssr.onrender.com.

helpkit-ssr.onrender.com. 0 IN CNAME helpkit-ssr.onrender.com.cdn.cloudflare.net.

helpkit-ssr.onrender.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. 0 IN A 216.24.57.3

helpkit-ssr.onrender.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. 0 IN A 216.24.57.253
I had the same issue migrating an app off of Render (they also use Cloudflare for app routing).

Cloudflare would refuse to route to my new IP for hours on end. Incredibly frustrating and I almost pulled my DNS off of CF as a result.

I was able to work around it by disabling the orange cloud for the domain for a couple hours, then turning it back on, which must have reset some sort of cache on CF's end.

Ultimately, it's not a DNS issue, it's an internal CF routing issue - it only happens with CDN (orange cloud) on. It seems CF's just caching the orange cloud's original route (via the SaaS provider) way too long internally somewhere and it's not being cleared when the route is changed off of the SaaS.
> Especially including the radiation in the emissions from coal burning power plants, which kills more people every year than any nuclear power plant accident.

I once did the maths, Chernobyl was on the order of 100 times Chinas current yearly nuclear emissions caused by coal burning.

Particulate matter and nitrogen oxides are the real issue (and sulphur dioxide where it’s not filtered out yet).
>Let's say Brexit leaves GDP 2% lower than it currently is by the end of 2023. Now to grow 22% in 9 years (i.e. get back to even), they need 2.4% annual growth

Why do they need to get back to even? Why is this assumed to be a realistic goal in the first place? This seems to assume the rest of the EU is going to be just fine.

The only things that matter are if the UK will do better or worse than it would have if Brexit hadn't happened, and how they'll do compared to the EU.

Before, Brexit looked pretty stupid, and the rest of the EU looked like they were in a much better position. This is no longer true; maybe the Brexiteers will turn out to have been correct after all. Only time will tell.
I think, there are a lot of easter eggs in google!
There is a setting to use vi this way (sorry not at computer), but I think it is ‘virtualedit’. I use it myself! I wish vscode would add it…
Also I think Ada is more memory safe than both C++ and rust! (with SPARK!)
NIST Zero Trust Architecture recommendation:

https://www.nist.gov/publications/zero-trust-architecture
I have had good experiences using commit messages for documenting the reasoning behind code changes.
I suspect it only happens if it is good for Bezos. Maybe advertising Amazon stuff on Twitter and all that juicy tracking data of users would be worth it.
How did the police situation happen?
> but it's very easy to incorporate.

As someone who is adding this to a Go project with hundreds of unchecked errors, I disagree.
The domains resolves to an IP announced by AS397273 (https://render.com/) the web server at this IP returns a 302 redirect to https://dinkydani.gitbook.io/leave-me-alone-help/. What exactly can I see here?
When you talk to Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) most are uncomfortable with UV. Reason being that while you can get rid of viruses, you can also create volatile compounds. Our homes' air is like a soup of natural and synthetic chemicals. From your flooring wear to your decor off-gassing to cooking, there are elements in your air that may be safe as they are, but they can completely change when they hit something volatile like ozone (from cars). Subsequently there can be a chain reaction with other compounds, potentially causing particles in your air that are bad for your health. If you could see that with magical glasses it would seem as if there are fireworks happening in your air triggered by those volatile compounds. So while UV has clear benefits, the byproducts that the lab conditions usually don't catch, make the applications limited.
Yes. DNS shows it should be redirecting to leavemealone.helpkit.so but it actually redirects to dinkydani.gitbook.io
You don't need to pay bills.

As Elon Musk Cuts Costs at Twitter, Some Bills Are Going Unpaid - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/technology/elon-musk-twit...

> ...

> Mr. Musk also issued an order to slow or in some cases halt transfers of funds to Twitter’s vendors and contract services, the people said. Any expenditures for services need to be approved by Mr. Birchall, three people said. Mr. Musk has since declined to pay for the travel services incurred by the former Twitter executives, the people said.

> ...

> Mr. Davis, the president of the Boring Company, has also directed Twitter employees to renegotiate the deals that the company has with firms such as Amazon and Oracle, which provide computing and tech services, the people said. The employees were told to suggest to those companies that Mr. Musk’s firms would not work with them in the future if they refused to renegotiate, the people said.

> After Twitter’s contract with one software vendor expired under Mr. Musk’s ownership, that company voided a discount it had given to Twitter, one engineering manager said.
> You basically have to show up to work and you are micromanaged by the queuing software. Sounds horrible

Sounds like a godsend to me!
I imagine elves use trees like that. Haha.

Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33715443
I wonder what makes it so much worse on those 2 specific tasks. Especially k-nukleotide one.
They do both, but it has been the case for a while that the NSA prioritizes offense. You can agree with that stance or not, but it is there, criticism on this point goes back at least a decade.

I agree that the security environment is awful, but that doesn't excuse NSA making it worse.
The existence of a home strep test says the FDA is capable of working with manufacturers to bring home test kits to market. The question then is: how much does the market want flu tests?
In Japan there are 4 major natural disasters that occur on a semi-regular basis (earthquakes + tsunamis, typhoons + floods) so the society is fairly prepared for prolonged blackouts, even if there hasn't really been a major blackout for a while since the gvmt has also been preparing for those heavily.

People would have at least a stock of water bottles, and I've heard as a recommendation if a typhoon is coming to fill your bath as well to use as gray water (flushing, washing yourself). I believe that's also why most families also have a small gas stove (with gas canisters), the common usage is usually to have a small party dinner with the stove for cooking in the dinner table, but it's also very useful in case of blackouts and you can probably survive eating cooked rice+whatever you find for few weeks if needed. I don't know if people store other foods (cans, etc) for emergencies, I should probably inform myself a bit better.

While Japan hasn't been close at all of a major blackout disaster like this for a long time (AFAIK), I cannot imagine how quickly e.g. Tokyo could get into chaos if there's a major prolonged food, electricity or water disruption.
Thing is, everyone's value system is different. What is busy work for one person can be satisfying for someone else. So the bottom line is to do work which you derive value from. If you are working on a team of 100 people working on a feature which you believe is pointless, but it is still technically challenging and you are learning and you are having fun, then that's fine. It is paying the bills and you are getting something you value out of it.

e.g, there are people who think Metaverse is pointless. Does that mean all the engineers working on it are wasting time? Of course not, they are all getting something of value out of it - may be money, chance to innovate, chance to work with amazing people.
This almost looks like they are giving a wrong answer to attract the right one.
In order to turn say right you have to step further forward and out to the left to create a right-backward lean, otherwise you'll just stumble over your own foot.
> Shouldn’t every country have the right to mutually assured destruction?

not really. If you didn't already have nukes, but your regime is much against the west, i'd argue that it is the right thing for the west to deny it from them. I am attaching no moral argument to this - simply a practical, utilitarian argument.

The reason russia has free reign to invade ukraine is _because_ they have nukes. Iraq invaded Kuwait just the same, but was pressed back in a war - imagine if they did have nukes; it would mean that Iraq could've acted with impunity, and they'd control all of the oil resources that was Kuwaits'.
Ugh, one of my least favorite feelings is when I can tell someone is attempting some 'method' on me or a group I'm in. It instantly moves them into the "treat with caution" column in my brain.
Taxes have a bigger effect on the poor, while pollution is caused overwhelmingly by the rich.
Standard Reference Materials [video]
In my case I don't have the orange cloud on! But yes it must be an internal routing issue.
One use of a Zoom or face-to-face meeting is to get someone s undivided attention for a period of time.

Interested to understand how this would be done?
Youtube video is bad, there's no video to see how things are really done.
The Russian war is actually one of the least political things in the US right now, there is great bi-partisan support, and it's hard to imagine anything else that garners such broad support from all but the most fringe of fringe (the left-right red-brown alliance against Ukraine is so tiny that it can barely be found).

But it is a very timely issue. Maybe in a couple years, after it's no longer timely, he will dive into it a bit more, such as with the Oroville dam failure, when there's a lot more solid retrospective data to look at.
i see i was out of date on this, thanks for the heads up. better late than never.
It’s the champagne of pollarding
I would say that using Rust for backend APIs seems a bit off. I like Rust, but introducing languages that can be made unsafe / can at a minimum memory leak seems irresponsible.

Its dumb when the C++ community refuses rust when it guarantees memory safety, so why would you bring in a language you prefer to an area that doesn't need it if it introduces that issue?

If you like Result<> or concurrency, use a GC language with those things. Go may not have them, but your choice isn't just Go.
For what it is, that's really quite good:) I wouldn't run a prod database in it, but for development/testing/debugging 3.5x is completely fine.
I agree from a western perspective. In a power struggle of west vs. various eastern alliances, it is in the west’s interest to prevent the spread of nukes.

From a plain and simple moral perspective, IMO every country has the right to build them. Preventing that is about what team you are on rather than morals.