skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ratio of writes (few) to reads (lots) on a blog/cms is such that SQLite is ideal. Even better this positions WordPress well for edge deployment on platforms such as Fly or CloudFlare Workers.

With these edge platforms you really want your DB at the edge with you app code to reduce latency. In fact not doing so can make your app slower due to increased latency on multiple round trips to the DB. SQLite with this type of app is ideal for it, just copy your DB file to the edge VM/Worker any time it changes.

Effectively you move your whole app and DB closer to the user, and being a small embedded sql engine rather than a full server, your edge deployments become very light weight. Makes it possible to have more of them distributed closer to a higher number of users.
And what powers the turbopumps that make your plumbing work? What powers the streetlights? Or datacenters that run your internet services and cell phone networks? Or the smelters, factories, and chemical plants essential to a developed society? If we're going to load shift (read: turn off the power) to these industries, then the cost of reduced industrial output needs to be included. If you only run your smelters half the time, then your steel output is reduced by half, and the cost of steel increases along with any products that use steel.

The world uses 60,000 GWh of electricity per day. Global battery production is only ~400 GWh of batteries per year. A day's energy storage amounts to over a century of battery production. Storage is nowhere near as simple as "buy a battery".
don't worry, he will lease you your next flat. You don't deserve to own it:

https://nypost.com/2022/08/15/wework-founder-adam-neumann-sc...
I'm sure the lawyers looked at all the legal angles but I don't know if they thought about the perception. But on a scale from 1 to "what were they thinking" this is pretty minor.
You don’t though. Your risk calculation is the same.
I’m sorry, but u were tripping over CP and scam bots before? I’ve never seen CP on Twitter, am I outside the norm? Have you seen any reported evidence of these reductions or is this all anecdotal? I’d love to read a report on this as people keep repeating it without evidence.
But the FBI was not actively hacking the emails. You are really just proving my point about the FBI unnecessarily involving itself in these issues. They are supposed to be impartial. That's this story should be taken seriously from a bipartisan perspective.
Ok, ya, last time I used Ubuntu I didn't like it either. I like Debian (Ubuntu is derived from it apparently), with MATE desktop.
From a 2020 paper:

> Human consumption of freshwater is now approaching or surpassing the rate at which water sources are being naturally replenished in many regions, creating water shortage risks for people and ecosystems. Here we assess the impact of human water uses and their connection to water scarcity and ecological damage across the United States, identify primary causes of river dewatering and explore ways to ameliorate them. We find irrigation of cattle-feed crops to be the greatest consumer of river water in the western United States, implicating beef and dairy consumption as the leading driver of water shortages and fish imperilment in the region. We assess opportunities for alleviating water scarcity by reducing cattle-feed production, finding that temporary, rotational fallowing of irrigated feed crops can markedly reduce water shortage risks and improve ecological sustainability. Long-term water security and river ecosystem health will ultimately require Americans to consume less beef that depends on irrigated feed crops.

* https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0483-z https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0483-z

* PDF: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/323061602.pdf

> Irrigation of cattle feed crops is the single largest consumptive user at both regional and national scales, accounting for 23 percent of all water consumption nationally, 32 percent in the Western U.S. and 55 percent in the Colorado River basin.

* https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2020/march/beef-dairy-consumptio...
We need a synthesis of rules based symbolic systems and statistical systems.
> Right. The author missed this as one of the major attack vectors that this aims to protect against.

Did you read the article? He mentioned that right upfront.
Thanks for that recommendation. It sounds like Andor should be worth watching.

I was totally sceptical about new Star Wars shows when Rogue One came out and had no interest in going to see it. However, I ended up watching it while I was tired (but not able to sleep) on a long-haul flight. To my surprise, I thoroughly enjoyed it as a solid adventure film and I watched it again a year or two later on Disney+.
>Hunter-gatherers (...) worked less hours on average than we do today.

Yeah, other apes also work less hours on average than humans do.

>even medieval farmers, worked less hours on average than we do today.

On their lord's farms. After serfdom, they needed to provide for themselves too.
You gathered incorrectly. Not a single journalist posted Elon’s real-time location.
If you live in the U.S., you might look into asking for an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

I don't know whether or not it's always a smart move, but my understanding is that it reduces the risk that your employer will give you an unreasonably hard time.
The cheap cynicism here is not just sad, it's also bad for your career.

At worst, self-reviews take up an hour of your time per year -- at a full time job, that is about 1/2 of a percent of the total hours you work in a year. You spend more time on a lot of other stuff that is more annoying and less beneficial to yourself.

Do you want to get promoted? Do you want to make more money? Do you at least want to avoid getting laid off? If so, it is your job to demonstrate that you deserve those things. In many cases, the people who make the decisions do not know who you are and will only ever see your self review, peer reviews, and your manager's review of you. Even small companies often have this problem.

This is not hard. List your achievements and good personal qualities in a way that highlights their value to the business.

Your manager can't fight for you to get a raise or a promotion if you don't provide any ammo. So you should care about your performance review and put some effort into it.

Don't have a manager like that? Leave, and find one.

At companies with annual reviews you will almost always get annual raises and/or promotions. At companies without reviews, you often won't. Much like an "unlimited vacation time" policy, a policy of going without reviews is often actually worse than having a defined process.
(replying with more details, because I think it's pretty cool, and I'll definitely try this out)

The linked item is to https://blog.mro.name/2022/08/pwned-diy/, where the author converts the passwords list to a CDB (Constant DataBase) file, a simple, fast lookup database format created by D. J. Bernstein.

https://cr.yp.to/cdb.html

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/cdb.1.html
I think Steam will sooner or later (if it hasn't already) run into the same problem as the 8-bit gaming industry did in the 80s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
> “ Of course, you could argue the same about much of human "reasoning", too...”

This my point - you can argue the exact thing for humans. I thing Turing was actually more prophetic with his test than people give him credit for.

Of course humans aren’t looking up and reporting back the exact text of an article, but neither is gpt.
2070 PARADIGM SHIFT has to be the best Ted Talk takedown:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9cflCyyEA2I
Hardly, the UK completely replaced coal and reduced it’s dependence on natural gas with renewables from 2010 to 2020. Meanwhile that wasn’t enough time to bring any new nuclear online in the current environment. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Electric...

Looks like renewables where simply the better, cheaper, and faster option. Which is shocking considering how little hydro and solar they have.
In 2012 we had in EU access to exceedingly cheap natural gas from Russia and electricity prices where around 2 cent per kw/h, and was getting cheaper each year. No one was in a rush to build nuclear power that costed around 3-4 cent per kw/h, especially since prices were predicted to reach 1 cent per kw/h, and there is little incentives from government speed up the regulative process. Building capacity was mostly a cost center, and nuclear power represented a significant political risk.

In 2022 we have significant energy shortage and the prices are now closing to 50 cent per kw/h (and rising). Inflation is at record high is directly linked to energy prices. Elections can be won or lost based on stances regarding electricity production and efforts to reduce the cost. A nuclear plant planned today should take significant less than 15 years.
> Access is the biggest issue, as the OS only supports telnet, and serial access.

OpenSSH works on it. This page has links to precompiled packages:

https://scosales.com/knowledge-base/how-to-install-ssh-for-s...

links:

ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/osr5/vols/openssh-3.4p1-VOLS.tar

ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/osr5/vols/prngd-0.9.23-VOLS.tar

ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/osr5/vols/zlib-1.1.4-VOLS.tar

Probably better to grab the sources and compile them yourself if you can, though.

> Migrating to Linux might be an option, but is most likely going to be hugely painful.

Probably. At least it sounds like you only have a few users for it, so getting them to adapt to a change of software might be easier.
Right, but then how do you displace the remaining fossil fuel use? It's only a matter of time until the "other places" are also saturated. How do you get from 40-50% decarbonized energy to zero?

The solution is non-intermittent energy generation. Hydro and geothermal are great for places that have the right geography and geology. But nuclear is the only other non-intermittent form of decarbonized energy we have*.

* Some would point to biomass, but I don't consider them decarbonized: the biomass could have been a carbon sink if it wasn't burned. It's emissions by virtue of opportunity cost. An it's not a very scalable form of energy anyway.
It's really easy to un-fuck windows when it dies in one of the few common ways, but in most other cases no amount of expertise can help you. Whereas with Linux, with enough knowledge and experience, you can fix pretty much anything, but you need a decent amount of it even for basic fixes.
> How about the other way. I define a few test cases and the AI writes code for a generalized solution. Not just code that regurgitates the test cases, but that generalizes well to unseen cases. You'll notice this is simply the machine learning problem restated.

I think Barliman does something similar (http://minikanren.org/)
2023 IEEE Medal of Honor: Vinton G. CERF
Disturbing Details About Phone Tracking in 2022 [video][21 mins]
Win10+ has virtual desktops built in, before that I used the SysInternals Desktops utility.

To get Alt-1,2,3,4 working I use AutoHotKey. I can’t recall which script I use (been ages since I changed it) but it works like this one with some edits for keys.

https://github.com/pmb6tz/windows-desktop-switcher

For windows I definitely recommend also installing PowerToys. You can set up different snap grids for each desktop. Keeps things tidy with no overlapping windows.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
What are the criteria by which the EU determines that you're a journalist? If I were to go meet that criteria and then get myself banned off of Twitter, would the EU go to bat for me and sanction the richest man in the world?

The answer is probably not. So why this then? There's something more interesting going on here. I would guess at least one of these journalists has some role somewhere a bit more important to someone powerful than just "journalist."
> they think it's cruel but has important culinary value

You mean it's cruel but it tastes good, so shrug? I mean that's certainly a position to take. I'm pretty neutral on it but mostly because it is possible to get cruelty-free foie. [1]

[1] https://nuvomagazine.com/daily-edit/guilt-free-foie-gras
Ask HN: Help with Meta
This is a long shot, but I am a desperate dad reaching out to my developer network, and I thought I would also try here.

Unfortunately, my daughter inherited my autism, which made growing up difficult. She had no friends and was bullied so severely that after multiple schools, we were forced to home-school for most of her teenage years, then through the COVID lockdowns.

Social media became an essential part of her life, mainly Instagram.
She worked hard on it for hours every day. She started modelling free collaborative work with photographers. She took the hard path; no bikinis, lingerie or sexualised content. She did this for years and eventually got enough followers to get regular paid modelling work, and at 19, this is now her job, along with singing which we started to help with her confidence.

We are unsure how it happened, but after four years, her account has been banned for impersonation. The only thing we can think of was a week ago, she ran into some of the girls who bullied her years ago, and they probably reported her out of spite.

There were no warnings, and the remediation process was a form that came back rejected with no ability to try again, even though she has a business registered for the account, driver's license and other identification. We have tried everything else, and now she cannot even create a new account, as it is getting banned for spam if she tries contacting her old network.
This is not only her job but her life, her network, and her friends; it's all gone.

I know these are first-world problems, and it's probably stupid to reach out to HN, but it broke my heart to witness the decade of pain she has gone through, every birthday party, not a single friend.
Now watching her go through this, inconsolable, I am worried she will do something stupid to hurt herself,I am asking for any help.

I am looking for any contacts at Meta to see if there is any back channel to try and get her account reinstated or advice on how to move forward.
Omg, THANKS!
You must be in management.
Sorry, just have immuno-compromised family who are still home bound and couldn't get medical care for more than a year.

I think the other thing that people forget is that covid immune response can give you the same myocarditis (along with clots and heart attacks) as vaccines for much the same reasons, but at higher rates. The fact that the stabilized (Novavax, Pfizer, Moderna) vaccines have 10x lower rates of myocarditis than unmodified spike RNA (ChadOx, Sputnik) indicates that reducing the immune surface variation lowers risk.
The difference in muzzle energy from a .38 special revolver and a mini-14 (5.56 NATO with an 18.5" barrel) is so high, it's not surprising.
I agree slack is awful. People run discovery and project management through slack and it is insane.

I’ve been trying to think of slack applications and associated software to tame that beast.

So Close slack man. That sounds like a workable solution. But first!!

You have a diagnosed disability talk to HR or your boss for an accommodation. You get formal legal protections in the USA when you disclose.

A lot of folks are hesitant to do this for good reasons. But If you are at a large company you are probably not the only one though. And if they decide to fire you for any reason they have to think twice or three times.

But you are probably a great worker etc… your disability is a creative asset and a super power when you can concentrate, so come up with a plan. Talk to your doctor or therapist about what accommodations would be reasonable. Maybe even talk with a disability/employment lawyer to understand what is reasonable. Not too sue but to understand what your rights are. This counts as doing your homework for any future issues.

Your company depending their sophistication should work with you.

People using slack in this way makes it sound like the entire company has ADHD.
> Ever hear of the Sam Vimes Boot Theory?

Generally at least once a week on this very website. And on reddit. And on something awful.
> The pandemic was an immensely scary time for everyone

I was in a truck fixing heavy equipment at mines, construction sites, oil & gas pads, and the only thing that changed was I could calculate drive time based on mileage because most everyone was at home. I didn't get fake safety gear or a big bonus check for sitting at home.

Not everyone was scared. Mine sites were great because behind the gate everyone was normal. Unlike the OSHA scaremongers, MSHA eventually released guidance which said roughly, "Policies to stay home when sick are always in effect and miners are always safe and keep being safe. And safety."

One mine site had their yearly pig roast with tables under a tent that Spring, and everyone was shoulder to shoulder, no masks, no gloves, no gel stations. It was awesome.
Your link talks about the IEA, which is the International Energy Agency.
I was citing the EIA, which is the US Government Energy Information Administration.

They are not the same thing.
Unfortunately the solar potential north in New York is pretty bad. It's not just the weather, it's the angle of incidence with the sun. The further away from the equator you go, the less light per square meter of land you get.
> given the amount of deliberate self-sabotage

I never got the impression that it was deliberate self sabotage. I understood that he simply had over confidence going into the woods, and that he stayed a bit too long in an unfamiliar area and consequently couldn’t make his way back due to snowmelt flooding.
I may be just a simple engineer with mostly postgres experience but why in hell would businesses go through all this pain for oracle's db product when there are all sorts of alternatives? Is the product really that much better?
8 / 2(2+2) was an internet meme, so not that astonishing. It should be in the training set somewhere.
The reviews aren't for your manager. They are for your manager's manager, and so forth, up the chain to the people who make the compensation and promotion decisions. Reviews give your manager some ammo to deal with those people.
You should absolutely continue to protect your kids from screens (and I think some kind of active role is a good thing), but as someone who was raised in a very restrictive household: be careful not too go too far the other way. For example, I was not allowed a mobile phone until I was 16 years old, and this was incredibly socially isolating and made it hard for me to participate in the shared social life of my peer group.

My suggestion would be to listen to your kid when they inevitably ask for access to these things, and while you should acquiesce every request, you shouldn't dismiss them out of hand either, and should take their reasoning into account.
16 Dec | flagsake.com
Attempts: X X O (3 attempts)
Clues: O - - - (1 clue of 4 used)
While I do enjoy hating on Elon like everyone else, this doesn't seem as clear cut as the headline makes it seem:

"Twitter may argue it had a right to terminate the contract early. Imply's complaint said there is a dispute between the companies as to "whether Twitter had the unilateral right to terminate the License Agreement before the end of its term." "
I wonder if they'll be making payroll.
Probably because it's relatively small potatoes after the Snowden PRISM revelations. And that the new ownership of Twitter is illustrating that the platform is irrevocably compromised regardless of who was doing it. If it wasn't the feds, it'd be the legions of for-pay spambots that are always there.
Single income one with wife as SAHM. We live on one software engineer's salary (not FAANG). We make sacrifices with things like size of our house, etc and feel it's worth it to invest that opportunity cost into our children.

I understand that not everyone can live on one income. But more often I see in my circles people that can make it work, but choose not too because they don't want to make that career/financial sacrifice. Instead both parents work and send their kids to daycare. Of course that's totally their choice. I've made a different choice and perhaps this is an unpopular opinion this day and age, but I think it's the best choice if you can make it work financially and are willing to put in the effort that it entails.
Great to see his mention that Audacity is up for the same treatment.
It's a noble idea, and good if you're waiting on a new hot-surface ignition unit or gas valve.

But most gas-fired water heaters fail when the tank rusts through and dumps the contents into the floor. This setup doesn't take that into account.
Apparently some lobby found my little comment too. :)

Food for thought: in a distribution chain you will find lots of small value adds. Take sea ports, there are loads of companies that handle import of materials or products. The price they charge for their goods/services are dominated by their import costs.
that's how i learned it (equally stressed syllables) from my history of science professor, who (sadistically) assigned gravity's rainbow for the meticulously researched, and fanciful, historical digressions strewn throughout the book. glad to know he wasn't wrong about the pronunciation.

that was my intro to pynchon, being thrown head-first into the deep end. i did actually read the book, but it was... challenging. i appreciate the experience in hindsight, but rued every minute of it at the time.
The .22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer could probably do it with modern propellant
Exactly a lot of the time as a startup you google your sign ups to figure out who you should focus your energies on!
You reckon it's the FBI?
>Whether they apply "reasoning" or "extremely multidimensional synthesis across hundreds of thousands of existing solutions" is a question of semantics.
>but practically it doesn't seem to matter.

I don't think you should dismiss it so lightly. This sounds like someone saying the theory of computation doesn't matter...
You clearly did not read the actual article. Here's a sample from it:

$ curl https://google.com/.curl.se
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: google.xn--com-qt0a.curl.se

Get it? That `/` after `google.com` isn't an ASCII `/`, and the TLD (se) doesn't have anything to do with this.
Vint Cerf Helped Create the Internet on the Back of an Envelope
I was addicted to computers when I found them in middle school. My parents banned me and I didn't follow my passion at university. Now I'm a programmer with above average social skills and below average computer skills. Not sure it was the right decision.
Obviously it's a news article and not a legal judgment but $8M is worth suing for so this is more of a sign that things are pretty dire at Twitter than anything else. It makes you wonder if they'll make payroll and to what extent their administration is still functional.
No, certainly not for the case you’re describing. The ultimate root of evil is our economic systems assumption that there always has to be growth and that it can continue unbounded. That only occurs in one instance in nature: cancer.
https://dexpot.de/?lang=en is really good.

It has hotkey support and pretty much everything you can ask for to quickly manage and switch between desktops and toggle common window attributes like "always on top".
"I'm thinking about closing Slack and opening it 2-3x a day."

You've found your own fix. There's nothing wrong with shutting down distractions. Just let people know about it.

My problem has been the open office environment. If I need to get stuff done I put on some headphones and focus on my job. Everyone knows that I'm working and leave me alone unless it's important.