skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much of the article is an interesting attempt to try to match star charts and planetary movements to a record carved in stone. If you assume the stone carving is a star chart and is accurate to some meaningful degree but not clear exactly what they meant by the symbols used, then it's potentially a means to determine an exact date.

It ends on a conspiracy theory type vibe, which is potentially fun if you are into that sort of thing. But star charts -- whether astronomical or astrological -- are highly mathematical and can be used to mark a date because some things simply don't occur very often. One thing that doesn't occur often is the grouping of three or more bodies very closely ("in conjunction") and that's part of what is apparently recorded and investigated here.
> his consistent grey t-shirt and jeans

I’m pretty sure they were talking about that consistency.

The story that I have heard, is that Jobs wore the same thing, every day, so his mind wouldn’t be “bogged down,” with minutia, like what to wear.

I think some folks also have superstitions about dress.
Know Your Razors, Guillotines and Hammers
That’s wildly over-apocalyptic for such a general statement. (biochemist)
> I’m surprised that’s the #1 magic-wand project for anyone.

It seems like Dr. Hipp is frustrated that Fossil hasn’t had mainstream adoption, and that git has, he’s talked about it quite a bit in Fossil docs and here on HN. Given that SQLite is very stable and adoption is an absolutely runaway success, I’m not too surprised his wish list now turns to Fossil.

> Fossil’s mental model is, by choice, way different from git.

Is that accurate? It does come with a ton of extra features, but seems like the core version control model is quite similar conceptually, and differs more on implementation (SQLite backing instead of file system) and workflow dogma (Fossil’s moralizing of rebase and commit graph edits). The Fossil docs even start with “The feature sets of Fossil and Git overlap in many ways.” Fossil was released after but within a year of git being released, the timeline and docs and comments from the authors generally suggest it’s a reaction to git, taking the good parts and trying to, in the authors’ eyes, improve and fix their perceived problems with git.
The fact that soon the internet will be so flooded with bots that you'll be floating eternally alone in a sea of imposters unless we create some draconian real person ID system is a tragedy so great it's crazy it has not dawned on people yet.

I started out loving the net because of the feelings of connection and partly because of the honesty and discussions stemming from at least pseudo anonymity, both silly stuff and egghead discussions on history and tech - but i always felt a "human presence" and community out there behind the screens.

Now anonymity is dying and the value of discussions will plummet because you'll be just be arguing, learning or getting inspired from a selection of corporate PR bots, state sponsored psyopping or "idiot with an assistant" that will try to twist your mind or steal your time 24/7.

Christ this is going to be so incredibly boring, paranoid and lonely for everyone in a few years time!

I'm honestly having an existential crisis, the internets is already filled with too much noise and people are already lonely enough.

Back to local community and family i guess, it was amazing while it lasted..
From my perspective, SQLite is stable enough to be considered "done". For our product, we could go back to builds from 2020 and none of our customers would be able to detect a difference.

SQLite is not something we wire up and expose bare-ass to the public internet. We don't worry about 0-day security issues in this context. It's more like a wrapper our product uses for structured disk access. Anything that would warrant urgent patching is in .NET vendor or in-house software piles.

If something horrible happened and the entire SQLite dev team was wiped off the face of the planet, I'd make a note to look at alternatives by ~2025.
It's awesome what can be done when you clear away all the bureaucracy.

I bet nuclear plants could be built on the same timescale.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke
I just run W10Privacy program every now and then, and it disables all the ads, telemetry and bloatware in Windows. Takes 5 minutes. No such program exists for Android or iOS, it just can't exist.
That's what I'd expect from formats where the audience isn't expected to have as much knowledge of his online name.
The point of an assessment like this is to identify potential risks. That one is categorized as “informational”, and isn’t a defect.

These types of recommendations are useful in context. You may have a moderate finding or series of findings that in context are more significant because of some informational finding.
True dat. Some of the mishaps can be attributed to incompetence and some to lack of desire to be real ISPs for the future. Too bad one is usually geographically restricted to one or a very few ISPs, especially when all of them are doing IPv6 wrong.
So you have like three molecules of experience and you are generalizing??
I am on win 10 n do every single update except upgrading to 11 and I m pretty satisfied
Unfortunately, practical EISA was too expensive, to compete with MCA.

MCA was completely defeated only when happen PCI.

Because of this, some time exists Vesa, and some other exotics.
This sucks, almost nobody replied
Historically, many approaches to AI have shown excellent early results but then plateaued. There's no guarantee that this approach will continue to have major improvements in results.
New York recently shut down one of its main power plants. Indian Point Nuclear power station.

From Wikipedia.

"As a result of the permanent shutdown of the plant, three new natural-gas fired power plants: Bayonne Energy Center, CPV Valley Energy Center, and Cricket Valley Energy Center were built, with a total capacity of 1.8 GW, replacing 90% of the 2.0 GW of carbon-free electricity previously generated by the plant.[6] As a consequence, New York is expected to struggle to meet its climate goals.[9][3]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Point_Energy_Center
> Nuclear is as clean as clean diesel

If you ignore the long term waste. There is no way to place a cost on storing that waste. So people hand wave it away. Hoping a way to deal with it is found.
> it's not even close to as good as a full Linux desktop

I use "a full linux desktop" at work (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) and the desktop UI bugs and limitations are a nightmare. Give me Windows and WSL any day in comparison. At least there I know that basic stuff like clipboard and screen sharing/capture always works flawlessly, and windows don't magically get stuck to one aspect ratio and nost wasting my time trying to google fixes for snap/wayland/apt bugs.

Sure, some of these bugs I encountered could be Ubuntu, or Gnome, or Wayland, or pipewire issues, but as an employee, I don't have time to distro hop at work in search for the Linux experience with the least amount of jank or find out which component of this bazaar engineering efort is the one responsible for this jank.

Sure, I don't see ads in my Ubuntu install, but it's 2022 and the clipboard in Firefox in Ubuntu still stops working randomly, which causes me way more productivity loss than seeing a candy crush icon in the Win start menu. Firefox bug tracker says the clipboard issue fixed on their end whenever this bug gets reported and says it must be now a Wayland issue, while Wayland devs say this is a Firefox issue, meanwhile me and severa other Ubuntu users are complaining about our clipboards being broken in FF. FML, it's 2022 and I still can't have a working clipboard on Linux, one of the most used basic features on any OS. "Year of the Linux desktop." Yeah.

Not to mentions the lack of hibernate(not sleep) on Ubuntu. I spend almost an hour trying various tutorials and command line incantations that had the risk at bricking my OS, to get hibernate working, and no cigar, and I realized Ubuntu really, really wants you not to use hibernate at all cost. I never thought it would be missing a basic feature so simple as "dump entire RAM contents to SSD, then at power on, copy them back to RAM and resume". Sure, Linux boffins will tell me this is a limitation due to the use of Z-RAM compression or something, but me as an end user, I don't care which technical decision has lead to this limitation, as it doesn't fix my problem of not having hibernate.
HN doesn't update anything. That will obviously never happen.
I tried this with Ubuntu a few years ago. Once I had to deal with hidpi issues and screen tearing while scrolling in Firefox, I went back.
The two-part xbox episode was my personal favorite, because I remember that scene in my early years but never knew the story behind it.

The North Korea 3-parter is equally good IMO.
That’s simply untrue. I have a phone, a tablet, and a laptop. I do different things on each. None has supplanted the others; they all supplement each other.
I am familiar with the research cited in that article. I am also familiar with the United States' prolonged history of foreign interference and human rights abuse.

But in the United States I can openly kiss my same-sex husband in public. In Zambia I would be arrested.

The average citizen of the United States still enjoys a relatively high standard of living. Sanitary conditions. High wealth (compared to the rest of the world). Human rights. I find comparisons to banana republics to be hyperbole which ultimately distracts from your arguments.
Let me guess, the nadir happened in 1971?
My Dad was a morse intercept operator for the US Army, mid 60s, stationed in Northern Japan. He has stories of them naming all the Soviet morse operators by the way the tapped.
If it's a scam, it's a damn clever one, because a whois query reveals a domain registered to Microsoft, with azure-dns name servers and a Microsoft contact email.

Also one that's, erm, been flying under the radar for a long time because I've been getting these things for years. Not sure about parent but this is pretty well-known by people who've had to deal with it.
Occasionally I'd agree, but overall I feel a pleasant mixture of hope
and some horror.

There are people here with a compassionate, humane understanding of
technology, who see the dangers alongside benefits and get the complex
social implications. Amongst the general population, and even within
academia, I often feel isolated, but people here give me enormous hope
and courage that I am not alone as a critical thinker. Their good
humour lifts my spirits.

A smaller group are callous, parochial, selfish but dangerously
intelligent people with a Dr. Strangelove style fetish for Brave New
Worlds, Singularities and Technological Master-Races. They believe
they are a "majority", that others should get out of their way, and
they hide behind the banner of "inevitable progress". They would
steamroller over the weaker, poorer and less intelligent margins of
humanity, burn freedom and sell their souls to make a buck. They are
also humourless and prickly in defence of technological
golden-calfs. En masse they constitute a blindly-progressive mob-rule
centred around technology that terrifies me as much as any far left or
right wing political or religious extremists.

On balance, I think the former, reflective group have the upper hand.
All kinds of opinions are fairly represented here in HN. That
co-existence and mutual recognition gives me significant hope.
The search term you want is just "Replica." RWI, RWG, RepTime on Reddit, and other private forums will analyze the quality and details of these clones in ridiculous detail. They also have reviews of each reseller and each factory.

I don't even own any fake watches at this point and I've found these forums highly addictive/interesting - honestly, the average skill/knowledge level is quite high compared to most "watch enthusiast" forums.
My case exactly! Also mid 30's and I also have floaters unfortunately and according to my trustful ophtalmologist, there is little to be done about it.

It is not that I have a problem per se, but this condition made me realize that my eyesight won't get any better and since I depend on it for a living, well.
This is so sick. Vscode now integrates vscode server, so you can: launch vscode headless & web access it.

The web is such a superpower & it's so great how code bought in, invested heavily on making the web platform sing for it.
Your argument is obviously wrong. If that were the case, all launch systems would have the same cost per kg, since they all are operating on the same planet with the same gravity.

But in fact, the minimum cost imposed by gravity (the energy needed to get into space) is incredibly low. The minimum fuel cost is a very small fraction of the cost of launching with current launch vehicles. The costs come from expendability and manufacturing and non-fuel operating costs. None of these are dictated by gravity.
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> For ~$70k you used to be able to get a Model S, which now STARTS at $105k. Easily configurable into the $130-160k range now.. insane.

For a shit car with the interior fit and finish of a poverty-spec Skoda, and all the important controls replaced with a bloody great iPad that blinds you at night.

Oh, and it's from an obscenely "techbro" company.

Am I the only one not impressed in any sense by Teslas?
1. a documentary on the last remaining nomadic tribes

2. common sense. Nomadic tribes are nomadic for survival. How are they going to take them along? Carry them on their backs? They have no choice but leave them behind.
You report it stolen to your service provider. They blacklist the IMEI and it's unusable in most of the world except for countries that do not respect the global blacklist. Like... China.
I'm pretty sure that JSON does not have a well defined serialization pattern between languages. If you rely on ECMAscript 6 (ES6) engine, then folks in other languages will have to reproduce the quirks of how serialization is done there to verify and reproduce hashes.
> Give me a digital payment option without KYC...

Dude, most anything in violation of KYC is sketch.
Even though SQLite bugs are rare, those can be found occasionally.

I remember a bug finder took the sqlite documentation off their website. Collected all their keywords, made up millions of jumbled up queries of random combination between keywords and then ran those overnight to find 10 bugs where the engine crashed. And yes those were also reported and fixed quickly.
Yeah, I seen Compaqs of near times. Have some quirks, but overall impression good.
Depends on where you are in Canada. In Québec where electricity is cheap, most homes rely on electric heating. Of course, in Alberta where gas is cheap and electric is ~2.5x more expensive it's not surprising gas furnaces are the default choice.
The problem was also, that everyone had secondary motives in that conversation. Poland and Ukraine earned money by passing gas through from Russia, the US and UK sell LNG and oil and would benefit from it.

And do not forget, Germany is historically twice in the situation to keep the balance between east and west. Once after WWII and once in 1990 after the reunification. pumping money into Russia was also part of a global appeasement politics. That geopolitical game is well understood.

As a German, that is what I remember of that screaming. And now, some months in, we still have no clear statement who blew up the pipelines.

This whole pipeline game is far more complex than just "bad reliance of Germany from Russia"
Chromebooks I suppose. https://www.gsmarena.com/pc_and_tablets_see_strong_sales_per...
> ...coping with the boredom of being able (afford) to do anything.

That’s mostly a lack of sufficient education and rearing to arm them with enough knowledge and grit to choose and tackle from an infinite number of problems to advance towards a possible solution. Most of those problems don’t take generational wealth scale money to make a dent into, but a tremendous amount of hard work for years and even decades without expectations of acclaim commensurate with their generational wealth background.

Which points out the other problem: most of them want (or are pushed since childhood to want) the acclaim accrued by their inherited wealth also attached to their efforts in whatever direction they choose. It’s why we get the dilettante phenomenon among them so much.

Tightly coupling wealth to accomplishment across generations is possibly a very leaky abstraction.
'Star Wars'/Industrial Light and Magic Sculptor Richard Miller Dies at 80
Yeah the last point is quite crucial. Should we ban things that are hard to enforce? Does that lead to selective enforcement by looking into responses you don't like?
One of my comments, in another thread, got called out for being a ChatGPT-generated response[1]. It wasn't; I wrote that comment without any artificial assistance.

A part of me felt quite chuffed to be accused of being the current hottest new shiny in tech. Another part of me - the poet part - felt humiliated.

If a ChatGPT comment ban does get put in place, please don't also auto-ban me by accident. I don't enjoy being collateral damage.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33886209
Sqlite billions of tests - Interview with Richard Hipp
I know a lot of Italians who are less arrogant than this guy. I don't think you can blame it on him being Italian.
Why do you say nuclear is as clean as diesel? That is clearly not true.

CO2 emissions equivalent to wind and solar (actually slightly better). Safety (deaths per kWh) also equivalent to wind and solar. And land use much much better. Waste is tiny for the energy produced and easily contained unlike other industries, which is why no one has died from waste.

So basically you're rejecting the safest power source with the least environmental impact, and the only source along with hydro that has actually empirically (in the real world) accomplished deep decarbonization of an electricity grid (e.g. Ontario, France, Sweden).

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source
Here's a test; if you express discomfort in a defensive way and they double down, it's probably bullying. If they back off, it was probably good natured. If someone interprets your discomfort as vulnerability they can exploit - there you go. (It's probably not worth conducting this test, josephg's advice to get sincere instead of defensive elsewhere in the thread is probably the best response in either case.)

Not foolproof but I think it's a solid rule of thumb. I dunno if I just have a different set of social gifts and deficits from other people in this thread, but I don't feel like I have much trouble determining when someone gleefully manipulates my emotions to wind me up. People who are genuinely just teasing don't get excited if they upset you.
It's impressive to find a bug in something like sqlite, which is famous for its larger than the codebase test suite
The fact that she developed cancer in the first place means that she is more likely to continue developing cancer, via a plethora of mechanisms. Cancer is always just a matter of time, for all of us. Subtle mutations accelerate the timeline, and they accumulate over time.
Both of my Range Rovers are 25 years old. One's heading for a light refurb and overhaul at nearly 300,000 miles, the other has just had its first "big" service at 100,000 miles.

Fuel availability considerations notwithstanding, there's very little that would stop them going another 25 years.
I enjoyed listening to:
- Command Line Heroes (https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes): super polished, mostly about high level concepts and history.

- Data Engineering Podcast (https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/): Podcast about Data engineering and Databases.
I use https://justgetflux.com/ and have it set to night mode at all hours. I also wear glasses with blue light filtering. No issues with my eyes anymore personally
Same! It's one of those things nobody tells you about apparently. I remember being on a plane and looking out the window and seeing them everywhere all of a sudden, and naturally thinking something was majorly wrong. Rushed to the eye doc when I got home, he just did a few checks, shrugged, and said it's normal.
I left Windows for Mint about 2 months ago and it's just so much better. All that stupid bullshit you have to deal with on windows just went away, I felt actual relief. No more ads, no more forced updates because you walked away from your computer, no processes that it forces you to run so that it can spy on your mics. It just works. If you want it to look like windows 7 you can, if you want it to look like an iPad you can. I've made mine into a weird hybrid of windows 7 and OSX which I love. My start button actually shows my programs instead of loading bing and showing me 100MB of pictures of nigerian football players.

The only thing that was stopping me before was games, but games all work on linux now. Other than one or two that require specific anti-cheats that use 0days to hijack windows, there's basically nothing that doesn't run on linux now. In fact, a lot of my games actually work better because proton dynamically patches out bugs from the original windows implementations.

I don't think I've found any software or anything that I use that hasn't got a linux version. Windows is dead to me, I haven't used it since.
Have you benchmarked the storage? That might be the bottleneck.
Yes, Dr. Hipp mentioned it once that there is a foundation in place to take care of things and increase the bus factor. I think that was one of the conditions before Nokia signed their agreement to license SQLite for Symbian.
Now I think I can use ChatGPT to find model answers for my IELTS exam preparation.
There’s a subset of people who see the Netherlands as a public transport/biking perfection utopia.

No idea how true it is.
For those interested in the theoretical, historical, or experimental fringes of computing, you may enjoy the monthly-(ish) podcast from the Future of Coding community: https://futureofcoding.org/episodes

The most recent episode is about Bret Victor's 2006 essay Magic Ink, but other recent episodes have covered Alan Kay and Doug Engelbart, and older episodes feature interviews with people working at the edges of what it means to program a computer, including Devine Lu Linvega (Orca), Toby Schachman (Apparatus, Cuttle), Ella Hoeppner (Vlojure), and even Miller Puckette (Max/MSP, Pure Data).

I'm the current host of the podcast, so if you have suggestions for future episodes or other feedback about the show, I'm all ears.
Microsoft acquires startup developing high-speed cables for transmitting data
While the show is great, the dialog can be hilarious. "We have to find the cause. Let's check the flight voice recorder." (One always checks the voice recorder.)
This had been the opposite of my experience though. Maybe I got lucky with hardware, but I've never had issues with out-of-date drivers (outside of CUDA dependencies for research work) or having X or Gnome or whatnot break during an update.

But, I need to use Windows at my employer, and it's horrible. I wish Windows were at a point where it was ready for development.

Right now, the best dev setup is "install Linux in a VM" or "install this collection of incomplete ports/emulation/virtualization of Linux tools".

With Proton for gaming and Electron for desktop especially, Linux on the desktop is way different than it was 10 years ago, let alone 20.
You could solve this by compressing the helium onboard, replacing it with air filling a balloon inside. Of course this complicates matters.

Another way would be to ditch gases altogether and go for containers able to hold a vacuum against air pressure. Something along the lines of an aerogel with an airtight membrane around it.
What do you think is the best way to combat them?
Anyone else remember the Walmart checkout area lined up with boxes of 'Yaffa Blocks' around the late 90s?