skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to be really careful about these sorts of things otherwise they become like the reccomendation algorithm on youtube or something.

One stray "water is nice out of a glass bottle" or picking out the yellow m&m from a bowl turns quickly into an assistant with a list of demands like "water, glass bottle, 9.4 degress. Bowl of plain M&Ms, no more than 76 no fewer than 38, yellow only"
Australia plans to export solar power in two forms;

short haul to Singapore via an undersea cable,

long haul to Germany via cracked Hydrogen reformed as Ammonia (Larger molecule, easier to handle, harmless Nitrogen byproduct).
> What if you're just too young to remember a business cycle because you weren't an adult or were still in college so were insulated from 2008?

This. Whole article is trying to blame a whole lot of trends which were already very much present in 2008 (and in some cases specifically responsible for 2008) on what happened afterwards when interest rates were lower

It's not low interest rates that make people believe that Uber has a route to profitability (higher interest rates might kill off some small-margin businesses reliant on debt funding and reduce valuation of all companies; they won't make people investing sovereign wealth funds in US equities smarter about which companies they allocate their funds to), and higher interest rates certainly aren't going to encourage companies to reinvest their cash piles in R&D or help new market entrants compete away the monopoly power that generates those cash piles
The whole system is so dysfunctional, it's no longer funny.

- fiscal policies (money printing)

- prevalence of bullshit jobs (70%+ of jobs are unnecessary/harmful)[0]

- exploitation of nature / future for profit motives of individuals

- systemic economic inequality

- subsidizing the most harmful things (oil, animal agriculture, plastics)

- agriculture based on degrading soils and spraying poisons

- health/medicine focused on perpetual treatment instead of prevention of diseases

If it doesn't work as it should, it's always the money somewhere behind the curtain.

One can't but think of the final chapters of the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, where administrative workers and phone headset cleaners hoard tree leaves, in an attempt to reconstruct the economic system (note to myself: read it again).

[0] https://libcom.org/article/phenomenon-bullshit-jobs-david-gr...
That's IIRC how C++ also does this, so... yeah, it's not great but lots of things are not great about C and/or C++ and the standard advice is "yeah, don't do that if that hurts".
Very interesting perspective, thanks for sharing! Curious how people perceive my employer who is in the same line of business. I thought we'd deliver consistent quality, also because we're not a big team, but yeah it's not like it's an exact science where we'd always find every important bug in a given week.
You are naive as the m3 is not just m1. The original thinking is that once increase the base it has to cut back. It never did and for some reason (china) the inflation never came! It was until the pandemic underway and masked so much that the world except USA has too late to control the inflation. And putin is not helping. And that firm did not die especially big one does not help, just like russia and later china.

The idea that interest rate has to be at least 2% above the inflation will cut and hurt. It is not about the 0 interest rate. But the inflation and the difficulty and having the political will to let the central bank (and they have the clear head) to do the right thing, guy.

So far only USA seemed working. And if war in Europe and later in pacific rim ongoing, once again we have USA.
>vaporware

Have you never heard of ITER? Its set to power on in 2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
I've seen that stuff floating around and it brings me back to my warez days. I've put that behind me though and I just want an honest relationship now and I'm consistently finding that in the open source community, it's like a breath of fresh air.
> Isn't actual response in words more useful to you?

Yes, but if it has actual content. +1 comments are inferior to upvotes.
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome During My Time at Meta as a SWE
For the record both times were auto theft. One was in Davis CA and the other was in Los Angeles CA.

I never got a full story other than it was some larger operation where plenty of other things were recovered.

I think if you walked into a police station and said you had something stolen when very reliable tracking information and was able to convince a detective, they'd likely be very interested. By as cynical as you want but things like that are exactly why they took the job.

I'm pretty sympathetic to the defund movement but catching occupational criminals sounds pretty much exactly what I think the police should be doing
Compares digital consumption to food. I dont know everyone has a vice or 2 or 3.
> This guy Zooms

Shirt and tie up top, shorts below the camera line. Rock the same at the bosses dinner.
If you want your structs to be zero initialized, then you just wouldn't declare default values in the struct declaration, and everything would work as before.

Also, once you initialize structs with values somewhere in the code (for instance with designated init), there's a high chance that the compiler will put a copy into the data section anyway, which is then memcpy'ed into the runtime struct (it depends on the compiler and compile options).
Can't check code by just running it, either.

The problem with text is deeper. Checking the source of information is only a part of the problem, that human speech or prose itself is barely adequate for the information overload we find now in.
It's not surprising, there's a ton of recommendation websites on the internet. I don't think anything from OpenAI hasn't been tweaked to have a better experience for the average consumer instead of being a more "plain" models like the kind StablilityAI releases.
UUID type for a database Primary Key
Ah, I missed the zip file with the screenshots in. Yes, Akonadi loves RAM. I'm a bit confused as to why it's installed and running by default in this case - is this a Fedora-ism? I don't think Kubuntu or Arch install it by default, it's only installed as a dependency if you install elements of the KDEPIM suite.

FWIW, after baloo_file_extractor finished indexing new files on my Steam Deck, it exited, and KDE RAM usage was down to ~600MB.
> Specifically syncing services do not need to hang in notification area, when it is needed to monitor or reconfigure them, it is trivial to launch the controlling app (see syncthing).

I want them there, so that's more than enough reason why they need to be there on my systems. No one forces you to have them on your system.

And this has nothing to do with branding nor is it useless noise, because the icon provides valuable information to me. I don't want to have to use `http://localhost:8384/` or `journalctl` every time I want to know:

* Are there some issues which prevent syncing?

* Is a sync in progress (which means I might not want to suspend/poweroff my machine just now)?

* Is syncing paused or idle?

By your logic we should also get rid of status elements like the clock, network, volume, ... because all those information can be monitored and configured with in their respective applications and system settings.
Wasn't that supposed to buy them time until they got everyone vaccinated?
Consequences of what? Doing better research than a person would do? I am all for censorship of poorly crafted content which adds nothing to the narrative, but even a person can do the same - with poor research or no new ideas.

Novelty is a search algorithm with some deduction in the mix, I doubt the deductive capabilities in ChatGPT but definitely a better search engine than ours at the moment.

Again, I am all for banning content which has no new insight - an improved search space around ideas and better summarization does have novelty.
> The best solution, though, is to raise the community bar for what counts as a good comment. Whatever ChatGPT (or similar) can generate, humans need to do better. If we reach the point where the humans simply can't do better, well, then it won't matter. But that's a ways off.

XKCD 810: https://xkcd.com/810/
"They are just like those white castle ones you see people eating in mukbang challenges online"
As their licenses (https://support.binance.us/hc/en-us/articles/360050532193) state, it's entirely appropriate to use Binance for transmitting payments, for which they're approved and regulated, and entirely inappropriate to trust Binance for any investment, for which they are not licensed. The key part of being a bank or a broker is about properly holding others' funds as liabilities or in custody respectively (and so are the relevant regulations), which Binance.us can't do.

From the slogan at Binance.com homepage "buy, trade, hold" it's approved to do only the first two.
That's some 3 KW of lightbulbs in total, based on original comment, and I'm not sure if the OP is running them all at the same time. Even if, that's in ballpark of household appliances, and I imagine it isn't running 24/7 (and most of those lights are likely active only during 1/4 - 1/5 of the year).

Sure, it probably triples their power bill. But electricity is dirt cheap anyway - and if it mitigates their SAD, then it pays for itself.

I'm also guessing OP doesn't have any problem with heating in winter.

EDIT: I misread, OP isn't using 100/500W bulbs, but 100/500W equivalent - so the actual power use is not ~3KW, but probably under 1KW. It's very much in ballpark of combined use of household appliances, so I doubt it even doubles their power bill.
Ask HN: Any good solution for cloud and managed large db?
So in my company we are currently searching for a replacement for elasticsearch. (Its not my job to find it but i am curious about your opinions).

We dont wish to deal with servers, uptime or performance tuning etc.

We have tables/collections with ~500M and ~100M rows which need to be joined. Tables have collection/array columns.

We need to perform search which includes sorting, filtering by up to 50 columns (but most of the time just few) and joining with second table (where we can also filter). (one condition can be "contains array column item 'x'")

We tried one solution (wont mention them) but essentially it was too slow, we do need search results in like 2s.

Anything obvious, not necessarily technology, can be a saas which offers such service.

Think we have like 10k budget per month, could be more.
So I did genuinely dream this last night. I have vivid dreams ever since taking lamotrigine for bipolar disorder.

DREAM I dreamt that i was camping in my garden in a 1980s orange one-man tent and outside was a small fire with small knee-high elves sat around. They stank and were pretty angry and intimidating and they made me sing for them. In the end i was so tired that i was just making up words and sounds. They seemed to be genuinely fascinated by my singing but at the same time, they would make fun of me. After several hours i plucked up the courage to challenge them shouting and threatening them. I then picked up the most aggressive by his feet and threw him over the wall onto the road where i could hear him making threats. I then threatened to throw the rest into the fire if they didn't leave. I then went into my tent and was scared

/////////////

Your dream is an indication of your inner struggle with feeling intimidated by powerful forces in your life.

You may be trying to stand up for yourself, but feel overwhelmed with the intensity of the situation. Your dream is highlighting your inner battle between wanting to feel powerful and in control but also feeling vulnerable and scared. The orange tent symbolizes your desire for protection and safety, while the fire and the elves represent the forces of fear and aggression that you are experiencing. The act of singing to the elves is an example of you trying to find a way to use your creativity as a means of self-expression and to find a way to connect with these intimidating energies. Your courage in standing up to them and throwing the most aggressive one over the wall is a sign of you finally taking control and asserting your power. The threats you made to the rest of them is a sign of your determination and strength, and going into the tent is a sign of you finding safety and comfort in your own space.
Make a bash file. Have the platform specific yaml call your bash file. call it a day
I don't know of any other non-Military program that had cost $93,000,000,000 dollars. Surely that's a significant historic first.
In the pandemic no one believed that you could shutdown large parts of the economy and everything would still worked. Now we are watching the world burn.
I feel like my team lead has forgotten what iterative means, and expects much shorter turnout times in recent months for things that will absolutely not fit into a 2 week sprint. Since he kept going on about tickets that were getting stale due to last-minute unrelated scope expansions and me not being able to reprioritize new commitments on old tickets, I've just started being more strict. No, this ticket intended to literally just fix a typo is not also going to fix this unrelated bug qa discovered while testing.
What about the exchange that potentially steals 70 billion (though I guess their own holdings of Binance token of 17 billion is possibly a more accurate estimate)?
Looking up docs: While you can look up docs outside the editor in your browser, it makes it much faster and easier to look up docs within your editor

Yes, being able to look up .info manuals in Emacs is so useful.

Emacs is so good at it that it has 5 different options, eshell, term, shell, vterm and eat.

6, actually: while you should never use it, Emacs has ansi-term.
We know they hold a lot. That’s not the same thing as owning.

The attestations Tether and Binance like to call audits are like printing off your house's appraised value of $1M. Real audits are the sort of thing that reveal you're underwater on its mortgage and leveraged its value to borrow another $1M to buy a pile of Beanie Babies.
It depends on what interests you.

A couple of criteria would be what programming languages or web frameworks do you want to hear about? Also do you want to hear about solo devs or large companies?

If you want to hear about large companies, the Mux episode is at https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/31-mux-is-an-api-bas.... They handle billions of monthly requests to serve video. They use a lot of Go and Elixir.

If you want to hear about custom hardware products run by a solo developer, the TinyPilot episode is at https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/105-tinypilotkvm-let.... It's mostly Flask driven.

A mostly solo dev also created RealPython which is a large community site for Python developers, that episode is at https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/4-real-python-is-one.... It's a big Django app hosted on Heroku.

Another solo dev episode is on how GoRails generates millions of dollars with a custom Rails driven video platform on a single DigitalOcean server. That one is at https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/12-learn-ruby-on-rai....

If you want to learn more about Unikernels there's https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/79-nanovms-let-you-r....

I feel bad not listing more because there were so many episodes that were good but I wanted to cap it at 5. I wouldn't necessarily say these are the top 5 episodes and the others are worse. I recorded some of these 2-3 years ago and while I remember the gist of most episodes, the intricate details of every episode is mostly lost.
Remember that there’s already two commonly used elements of logic and programming (bitwise OR, logical OR) that may well form part of condition/other-condition, so while if/then/or may (subjectively) scan a little better in isolation, I think “else” might have been the right call
Yeah, I agree. Limiting to one is tricky, when years like 1982 are famous for having multiple amazing films (in this example all released in the summer)

You're right that "Greatest Hit of that year" is going to wildly swing in quality, and you could miss other films that are arguably the better film.

Take that 1982 example again, the writer chose E.T. .. an amazing film by all accounts, but ignored Bladerunner, Empire Strikes Back, The Thing, Tron, Conan the Barbarian, Wrath of Kahn etc etc...

Sure not all these films are equal, but the metric of highest grossing film might work fine in the older years.. but I'm going to say that lately, that metric doesn't work anymore. And it doesn't work because honestly, was Spiderman the best film from last year?
English is picking up brilliant new words from around the world
> Something like a file or connection is already not just 'plain old data' though.

OK? But now you need to… have two different mechanisms, when one can do both?

> In my mind, 'data' are the pixels in a texture (while the texture itself is an 'object'), or the vertices and indices in a 3D mesh (while the 'mesh' is an object), or the data that's read from or written to files (but not the 'file object' itself).

This “data” does not have a destructor, and thus is not a concern.

> C is all about data manipulation (the 'pixels', 'vertices' and 'indices'), less about managing 'objects'.

I think that would be news to every C program I’ve written.

> there are plenty cases in C++ where they are not

In which case you can just not have them, and not care.

> A 'defer mechanism' is just the right sweet spot for a C like language IMHO.

If by “a C like language” you mean “a language refuses to take any complexity off of the user’s back” then sure.
What if those appropriate tools include upvote/downvote/flag/vouch by community members?
Shotwell runs SpaceX, according to NASA chief: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/spacex-leader...

Based on Musk’s recent antics, pretty sure a VP runs Tesla too.
Seems like a shallow comment, but it's not. Some (many?) die long before they die physically. These folks retained their vitality long into old age.
It was my first proper language too, if you discount what I did on my graphical calculator. Now I'm a Rubyist, heart and soul, make of that what you will.
> "Fedora" is mentioned prominently in the comparison. Not sure if I could do more :-)

My bad, I only read the title here and never parsed behind the parenthesis on the original page.

Nonetheless the overall language seems to put a lot of weight on the different desktop environments, not the spin/distribution choices.

> Could you show the top output for your distros? I wonder why there's such a huge discrepancy.

This is from MX Linux: https://pastebin.com/7drT8LWt

Not activating the whole Akonadi PIM subsystem by default should easily free two or three hundred MB on KDE. Not sure about the rest.
Not a kindle user but from what the article shows, it is not and unskipable ad that you have to see before reading but a video ad that shows up in the same section that other ads would appear, you can still scroll pass and ignore it. Clickbait title
I'm not being conspirational. You can F right off with that implication.

Follow the incentives. You will NEVER see them show you the difference between like a 93 and 94 of a given model (tons of vehicles went from airbags optional to airbags standard over that year so that's basically what you'd be testing) because a single variable or low variable test doesn't get them the DARE-esque messaging and "look how far we've come" back patting that these sorts of old vs new comparisons are meant for. Watching a dummmy face plant into the steering wheel of a 93 OJ bronco and then do the same thing into the airbag of a 94 (to just pick one example) just doesn't scratch those itches the same way comparing vehicles that are half a dozen major engineering revisions and 20yr of model bloat apart from each other.

>Arguably the other thing you can do is live in a state with a 55~65mph max speed limit.

Eh, I think you're reading too much into it.

Speed limits don't reflect reality, anyone from the northeast will tell you that limited access highway speeds are predicated on traffic, weather and road conditions and 80mph middle lane speeds aren't uncommon pre and post commuting "hour" (in sarcasm quotes for obvious reasons).

Reducing potential for high speed traffic conflicts probably matters a lot more than you're giving it credit for. You almost never have cross roads just dumping traffic onto a state highway where traffic goes 70+ in the northeast. This is pretty standard once you get out of the beltway in the more rural states and account for a lot of avoidable crashes.
No I have not. I only took on course on options and futures in college and never really understood it. I am also far too risk averse.
MEP Eva Kaili on the global race for AI (2022/05)
I used 3rd party toner and it's cheap / fine.
Don't know why most of the distros default to gnome. It's an absolute nightmare for usability. Without extensions even bare minimum things can't be done. If you are a windows user switching to Linux, should definitely stay away from this steaming mess of a wannabe osx clone.
And based on timing it might not be vaccine related
It's not enough info to interpret it. You would need to start by breaking down some of the symbols.

Crosses are a Christian symbol. Are you Christian or not?

Crosses were used by the Roman Empire to punish people and were so painful they had to invent a new word for it: Excruciating.

Crosses get used in popular fiction as protective symbols against monsters, like vampires and werewolves.

But what does a cross mean to you?

Knees can be a symbol of humbleness, a la "get down on your knees." They can also be a symbol of a point of vulnerability.

But what do knees mean to you?

A window might be a "window of opportunity" -- ie a time frame in which something could occur. Pushing a person onto a window sill could be putting something in place for a particular time frame.

But what does a window sill mean to you?

Dreaming of individuals you actually know rarely is about that person. Instead, that person symbolizes something to you or sometimes your description of them in the dream is a play on words. When I had a corporate job, dreams of my ex husband were really dreams about my job. I was "working for The Man" and "married to my job," so my job was "The Man in my life."
The moon wasn't the predominant source of light at night for most pre-industrial people. Fire was, and is what we evolved with, which is likely why red light doesn't cause your eyes to constrict (https://thehikingauthority.com/red-light-night-vision-a-myth...)
> modern neo-colonial liberal democracy proponents

What does this even mean?