skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...also having used all BSDs for a week each.

On bare metal, or virtualized?

> ...lack of GPU acceleration

Depends, for some older chipsets it was there, for me, then. Though I have to concur, that is annoying, when your's is much too new, and thus badly supported, if at all.

> ...shady Bluetooth and Wi-Fi support

I'm a caveman and really don't care about that. Not even under Linux :-)

> ...and overall slowness

Yes. That was unimpressive. But it went away after https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-kernel.html and even more so after https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-updating.html with https://pkgsrc.se/devel/cpuflags

( Could probably be done from elsewhere with https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-build.html also, because cross-compiling is built in! )

Lastly applying some https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-tuning.html#tuning...

That sounds all really complicated and time consuming, but at the times it wasn't. Because the base is smaller, the compilers were faster. Expecting it to perform out of the box without adapting it to the environment will lead to frustration.

It really can fly.
Unlikely to be a source but a good benchmark is to have this stuff in place because
a)It takes almost no effort,
b)You don't know if it makes a difference or not, and
c)There is pretty much zero chance it's going to have a negative impact.
That second definition is likely derived from colloquial usage. The closest parallel diagnosis from DSM is probably Internet Gaming Addiction, which does require harm or unwanted effects.

The colloquial definitions get silly. The second definition for "literally" is "not literally".
hahaha, i think you're right.
I've listed all the causes I can think of. Does any strike you as "the one"?
What part of “blew past several sanity checks” gave you the impression I’m not concerned?
Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs
Advice from a European woman in a liberal magazine about how MEPs should dress: https://www.politico.eu/article/what-to-wear-at-the-european... (“For the most part, bare arms just look unprofessional.”).
Your article is really interesting. I was wondering what you think about the type of maths Krugman does here [1]?

“ This willingness of foreigners to hold American cash means, in effect, that the world has lent the U.S. a substantial amount of money — maybe on the order of $1 trillion — at zero interest. That’s not a big deal when interest rates are as low as they are now, but in the past it has been worth more — maybe as much as 0.25 percent of G.D.P.”

What is the mechanism where being global reserve currency leads to greater benefits than what Paul calculated?

1. https://archive.ph/Zpp0a
This is an Irish article, the system is different over there.
It’s fairly common, but also insane in a world where the average tenure at a company is a few years. Basically a way to say you contribute to a 401K without actually contributing anything.
The Tech industry is very cyclical. In two years Stripe, and other companies that handled redundancies badly, will be asking themselves why they struggle to recruit top talent.
There are multicast protocols that do that, but I have no idea how widely used they are.
does anyone else think we're reaching some kind of critical point where the general public's dissonance with the complexity of what's under the hood (obligatory pun acknowledgement) of computers is going to cause significant issues...

I realize this comment is loosely relevant, but it just keeps coming up in my head when people are like "why do they not do <x>"
Amazon does this. Most other tech companies do not (eg pretty much any other FAANG).
More like Coca-Cola making your urine a water-based mixture.

Your body was able to transform what was in the soda (sugary water) into a completely different thing (ammonia and water), while preserving a key attribute (water).

Our assertion that the preserved attribute is "key" is the act of us choosing what to be impressed about.

GPT was trained to be impressive by preserving the logical soundness of expression when semantically transforming expression. It did not explicitly choose the logical conclusions: only the semantic match that contains them.

Expressing logical conclusions in natural language is inherently ambiguous, which makes this a very large and incoherent problem space.
> Does "blog post learning" ever really work?

It depends on what the intention is. Is it to promote comprehensive understanding, proof, and the ability to then apply the concept in all situations? Then no.

Is it just to point out something interesting a make a point? Sure. There's nothing wrong with that. It's OK to explore aspects of a subject without a dense canonical treatise. There's a time and place for all sorts of explanations.
I’m not sure it does. In lieu of serving ads, the major clients pay for Twitter V2 API access which they recover from their users through subscriptions.

Twitter could have placed ads in the API feed and required certain analytics, it chose not to. Similarly, the revenue from these clients comes from countries where Twitter Blue is not available.

Moreover these third party clients are predominantly used by the kinds of power users on the platform who act as a draw for other users to join and stay on Twitter. They have value far in excess of their direct revenue.

I can’t see any way that this makes sense from a revenue perspective.
I believe it can be used to verify calculations of new digits of pi. For example, if you tell me you just computed five trillion digits of pi, I can ask you for specific digits near the end and check that they match what this formula produces
How about: the energy consumed by 125 million dot-matrix printers printing the Library of Congress every second per second. Fantastical values require incomprehensible comparisons.
Confusing post for me.

Ad redirects? are we talking page URL redirects or just image URL redirects?

the GSC pattern looks a lot like page URLs changed. did they?

I would recommend to this kind of analysis https://www.fullstackoptimization.com/a/google-update

so basically

- did the page URLs change?

- 4 SEO tests

- and then winner/loser pages analysis.

Update: 4 SEO tests are better outlined here https://www.fullstackoptimization.com/a/seo-basics
Not all mobile browsers support this, in particular iOS Safari doesn’t.
Which lobbying organization is that? If you're referring to the AMA then you're wrong. They have actually been lobbying Congress to increase the number of physicians by funding more residency slots.
To follow-up on this, it’s a good habit to never personalize your projects in the first place. Don’t say “my project” unless specifically asked for history or ownership of it. Be “we” everywhere.
It is about a small number of employees in Ireland. Maybe "Ireland" should be added to the title?

In the U.S. (I'm not familar with Ireland), vested benefits, whether defined or contributed, cannot be "clawed back". But unvested ones can, that's what "unvested" means.
The way I read it was the early spring thaw was to blame.

> The extra moisture and early spring thaw turned the Hungarian plains into marshes and swampland.

As in, they expected frozen ground not marshland that time of year. But reading the abstract of the original source, it seems like it was a combo.

> Documentary sources and tree-ring chronologies reveal warm and dry summers from 1238–1241, followed by cold and wet conditions in early-1242. Marshy terrain across the Hungarian plain most likely reduced pastureland and decreased mobility, as well as the military effectiveness of the Mongol cavalry
Minor note: "sinusoids" (as you say yourself in your final sentence) is enough. No need to mention sines & cosines as distinct types.
That's perfectly ok -- it's saddening when there are demeaning comments like above -- it's elitist and exclusionary.

You keep doing what you're doing -- I'm pleased to have encountered the world's most popular blogging anesthesiologist!
Ask HN: Does anyone have a cold storage for their cloud photo backups?
Hi HN!

I'd like to make sure I have a copy of all my pictures that I have on google photos, just in case (google shuts me out, google loses them, etc.).

What is the best method to do this in an encrypted manner?

Ideally I would save it to a hard drive once in a while.

Alternate options are to pay another cloud provider (eg.: iCloud or OneDrive), but I'd feel more secure with a hard drive and probably costs less in the long run.
How sad you also can't explain why the lump of labour fallacy isn't a fallacy.

Maybe save the snark until you have at least a high school level understanding of the subject matter?
It is about a small number of employees in Ireland. Maybe "Ireland" should be added to the title? (copied from my other reply)
Spelling nazi hat on

> Yea he should of phrased the title as a question.

... he should have phrased ...

Spelling nazi hat off
Tea seems interesting, but the antagonistic tone in the README is very off-putting. Just tell me what it does without ranting about every other tool I currently use, and presenting yourself as the next best thing. Chances are you actually aren't.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Only metrics resistant to Goodhart will work here, and most of them are illegal to use in the US under the current employment law paradigm. One of the reasons software as an industry makes so much money is there are still ways to implement Goodhart-resistant hiring in the US. Going into too much detail here is somewhat hazardous, so I will leave it there.
I noticed a fair amount of complaints about this in the thread, so am sorry for the poor experience.

In an attempt for simplicity I used a simple <input type=date> field which means it uses your OS or browser’s native date picker. As a Mac/iOS user I’m pretty familiar with those, but I’ll admit I did not test this across Windows or Android devices which apparently have not done a great job at this UI element.
> the NPM registry is rather 'tooling agnostic' and publishing there would make it available to a lot more people ...

The sqlite project is populated entirely by C coders (my primary language), none of whom have either experience with, nor a need for, NPM, so we're not eager to claim any level of support for it. Trying to support a tool one neither uses nor understands is like trying to wave away darkness with one's hand.

> ... with a lot less effort.

A lot less effort on their own parts and a lot more on ours ;).

Future NPM support has not been outright ruled out, but it is admittedly nowhere even close to currently being on our radar.
From the article:

> Stripe cut around 90 jobs from its Dublin office as part of a wider restructuring of its global operations, which saw it reduce its overall workforce by 14 per cent from 8,000 employees down to around 7,000 today.

> The pension clawbacks, which are legally permitted under Irish pension rules, only applied to staff who had been working with the company for less than two years.
What exactly do you think becoming more like e.g. civil engineering actually entails?
https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2Ffortune.com%2F2023%2F...
Not enough electric sockets.
Well both of your complaints were already addressed. Android introduced the scoped storage system to remove and fix abuse of "full" disk access, and they also added the foreground notification system which forces a system notification to be displayed if any app is doing work in the background, so that you know about.
I mean, it's no replacement for learning something rigorously, but I still find little snippets like this helpful for building intuition. Frankly, I'm not really great at rigor myself, and for areas that aren't my areas of expertise (like signals & systems), intuition is all I really have to go off of. I took undergrad signals & systems years ago and probably could not say anything coherent about the Fourier transform today. Still had enough intuition kicking around somewhere to get the SNR of this ADC signal down via oversampling and an IIR filter, though. I remember churning through blog posts for things like PID loops and Kalman filters as a teen, and eventually got to the point where I kinda understood them. But then when it came time to actually learning them, having that small bit of background helped immensely, since I didn't have to build that basic intuition in the span of a single semester course.
I’ve also read (somewhere) about pumping air into underwater bladders. Sort of a reversed pumped hydro.
> is sending a resignation notice to the person's manager

Or a message that says "I love you very much"
I monitor all outgoing traffic.
Self-hosted nextcloud with Hetzner storage box
From the article:

> The pension clawbacks, which are legally permitted under Irish pension rules, only applied to staff who had been working with the company for less than two years.
I actually did add a Bing authentication XML file to my site, but Bing deindexed me again anyway.

Bing is the problem. It's broken.
> Add a robots.txt

Likely not the cause but not having a robots.txt can cause weird crawling problems.

Since it takes two minutes to set up, why not. And, here's a tip, don't try and be clever, keep it simple:

User-agent: \*
Disallow:
Helpful information because as someone in the US I assumed the idea of a pension (outside of government jobs) had all but disappeared.
I'm not gonna call it a random occurence, it's more like the cumulation of a number of complex issues that have an influence on each other.
The combination of financial, environmental and operational advantages of natural gas over the alternatives is pretty obvious so I'm not terribly surprised by their choice given that they wanted to move away from nuclear and coal. I think they should have had more alternatives given that Russia's invasion of Crimea happened in 2014, extending nuclear would likely have been the best bet but opening up for extending nuclear was probably a very difficult sell at the time. Fukushima and the subsequent decision of Germany regarding nuclear was less than 3 years old then.
Wyoming senators want to phase out sales of EVs
Toei Animation Sets New Box Office Record with ¥32B in 2022
Also, after considering this further, I think the only reason these schools would not attempt an actual prohibition on the app itself is that it would be very difficult to enforce and they likely don't have the IT capacity to do it. It would not surprise me at all to see these schools start to require students consent to have their phones "managed" by the school, using tools like configuration profiles. "To prevent cheating" or whatever.

That's why the eventual fall of Apple's control of the App Store concerns me. While I think it's ethically dubious for Apple to control what you install on your device, in practice getting rid of it opens the door for institutions like these with an outsized amount of influence on people's agency and autonomy to suddenly be in a position where they can force the installation of apps that don't have to follow Apple's relatively consumer friendly rules. That's very scary to me, and I think universities would be one of the first places to take full advantage. They have the perfect mix of compliant, infantilized customers who are used to being told what to do and maladaptive incentives of university administrations.

When I look at the app Life360, and how many kids (into their teens and even 20s) were forced to be tracked every single place they were by their parents for their childhood, I see a much bigger version of that happening here.
What if he’s wrong? Computers do things their programmers don’t expect them to literally all the time. Security bugs generally come from a mistaken assumption about how something behaves.

He doesn’t have to be a liar to be telling you untruths about how it works.
https://developers.google.com/search/updates/ranking

Your rankings tanking on/around 10/19's update looks like a strong correlation. Your GSC with congruent drops in impressions and clicks doesn't immediately look like KWs you were top 3 for suddenly dropping further down the page-- else impressions would be similar but AP/CTR would just be tanking.

If you're using GA and your traffic doesn't have tons of seasonality, look at the landing page report month over month and see which pages have had the largest drop (can also do this in GSC). Then check in GSC and see what those pages' APs have done over the same period.

What types of links is GSC showing? Google says they don't count bad links, but if they make up a large proportion of your site's backlinks, SpamBrain (their spam AI-- publicly announced more frequently) may bucket your site that way.

SEMrush, ahrefs, Majestic, Moz OSE are all decent for checking who is linking (and maybe disavowing), but LinkResearchTools is probably going to focus more on identifying suspicious backlinks, if that is in fact what is impacting your site.
This is about John Reber and the Reber Plan, which would have created massive dams across the San Francisco Bay, parallel to the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge and the Bay Bridge. In addition, major parts of the bay would have become landfill.

The article has a map showing the proposed plan. The red areas of the map are where the dams and landfill would have been.

If these were built and the plan worked, it would turn the northern and southern parts of the Bay into freshwater lakes and leaving only the center part as saltwater, connecting to the ocean at the Golden Gate.

The Bay Model in Sausalito was built to test the plan. Fortunately, it showed that the plan would not work. You can still visit the Bay Model today. It is fascinating to see.
I am a distrohopper and don't use phone for calling and some messaging apps.
How does productivity translate to sustainability? Historically, as countries became more developed and increased productivity, they also increased resource consumption.

Growth has its limits. It is generally sigmoidal (S curve), not exponential. It’s reasonable to assume we’ll hit the inflection point long before the sun becomes a problem.

My point is that we’ll need to find some kind of equilibrium that doesn’t rely on continual growth, because that won’t be sustainable. After we manage that, there’ll be still enough time to worry about the sun. And if we don’t manage that, we’ll be doomed regardless of the sun. (Barring interstellar travel, in which case we may stop caring about the sun anyway.)
Because they haven’t reversed aging in this experiment and the partial reversal they did achieve was using tools that already exist. The point of the experiment was to prove that epigenetic information loss is the cause of aging. The next step is to figure out how to completely reverse epigenetic information loss.
It’s a way potential employees will understand as devaluing the benefit. Basically making it likely a pointless inducement to join. About 50/50 of the companies I joined offered 401k matching vested immediately.
Good ole Plouffe!
That’s the neat thing: I don’t!
> And without an official one I imagine there will quickly emerge dozens of unofficial ones, many of which will end up poorly maintained in the future.

Seeing as none of us in the sqlite project use NPM or node in any capacity whatsoever, nor do we have any interest in doing so, i'll opine that "unofficial" ones would be of much higher quality than any we would put out.

To repeat what i just said in another comment on this topic: Trying to support a tool one neither uses nor understands is like trying to wave away darkness with one's hand.
They said in the article that using it on university-owned devices is fine, as long as it's not connected to their WIFI.

I don't think it makes a ton of sense from a cybersecurity perspective, but it is pretty similar to a workplace where similar rules could be in place.
Today, I'd instead look at 64bit RISC-V, as that's where computing seems to be going.
The site is nearly all excerpts including the section with “practical advice” - those ten suggestions are nearly verbatim from the book author from the last chapter
>I have taught these kind of undergraduate subjects and, in the context of a course, the Fourier transform never struck me as something very complicated.

It's great that it was "never complicated" for you. In contrast, the author (David Smith) of this blog post admits that he initially struggled with the Fourier Transform -- and wants to share some insights he gained after he understood it.

He has already graduated with a degree in statistics and computer science and also developed add-on software packages for R so he presumably first got exposed to FT within the _context_ of a college course. So he actually did what you suggested. Nevertheless, he wants to share why some supplementary material he didn't initially have might be helpful to others.

Alternative presentations of topics can sometimes flip the "light bulb" in some brains. I don't think it's a useless blog post.
If you get delisted from search and don't show up on exact match searches then I'd say that they banned you in some way. That is what Twitter does and what Bing did here. We call what Twitter does "shadow ban" since they still show you to yourself, to people subscribing to you and people with a direct link, but nobody else can find you, it isn't a total shadow ban but they are doing something very similar to a shadow ban.

What shall we call that instead, "bubble ban", since it is like a shadow ban for specific bubbles and for everyone else it is as if that bubble never existed on the site?
> Controls like aggressive screen lockouts are one of the few options available to allow some categories of workers to work outside of a company controlled premises.

What does the policy really protect against?

If it's being locked out after 15 minutes of inactivity because of roommates or kids it doesn't protect you against anything in the grand scheme of things. For example if I leave my office for lunch and you step in 10 minutes later then you have a solid 40-50 minutes to do whatever damage you plan to do while I'm gone.

The only time it makes a difference is if it locks really fast, such as 30 seconds but then using the computer naturally would be ridiculous because you couldn't stop touching the keyboard or mouse without being locked out.

Also, what if your room mate planted cameras in your office that let them see exactly what keys you're pressing on what screens without ever compromising the machine itself? Now everything is compromised and they have full reign to do whatever they intend to do.

> The argument that you live alone etc is irrelevant as I have no idea (and don’t want to know) whether that’s true

This is the real problem. Everyone gets treated like an equal criminal when in reality none of the measures taken really do anything to provide the security they were designed to do. It reminds me a lot of "for the children" but applied to corporations for "compliance reasons".

I'd be more ok with the precautions if they worked.
There's also https://github.com/llllllllll/phorth, an implementation of forth that compiles to cpython bytecode
numbers look like garbage, I think this is the culprit:

font-family: system-ui, 'Noto Emoji', sans-serif;
There's no ads.

Over time I've change page URLs, partly as a migration from Blogger to Docusaurus, partly due to just changing page URLs without thinking about it.

I've changed image URLs by switching from PNG to WebP and back again.

Thanks for the link will check it out.
What is long term storage in the context of renewables? Scaling UKs PHES capacity times 40 so that it lasts a whole day doesnt seem like an impossible task. I might be naive, but it seems extremely possible, given how those 24 GWh capacity were achieved with little to no political support.