skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK is not getting drier. In fact I believe that statistics and models show and predict that it is getting wetter. What is changing is the seasonality with more rain in automn and winter and less rain in summer, and as the article mentions there is high geographical variability.

This means that there are some solutions but they would require large scale infrastructure projects... which are not materialising and which the country is terrible at and so we get floods in winter and water restrictions in summer.

"A new potable water reservoir hasn’t opened in the UK since 1992" (2022) [1]

During that time population went from 57 to 69 million... So there is also the general lack of investment in infrastructure, nevermind climate change, which is a common pattern in the country.

And, food for thought:

"There is a seemingly direct link between the 1989 privatisation of water companies in the UK and the ceasing of new reservoirs being built"

[1] https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/the-challenge-of-bui...
Mitigation: replace them with incandescent bulbs.
It’s the opposite really - even if you have really safe parts, the overall system will be more likely to fail than any particular part.

Say you have 10 independent critical components each with a 0.99 probability of not failing. Well the probability of nothing failing in the system is 0.99^10 ≈ 0.9. So your collection of parts each with a 1% chance of failure has a 10% chance of some critical component failing overall.

Of course it’s more complicated because in real life nothing is really independent, and failure of one component will be coupled to failure in another. This makes simple solutions like redundancy not necessarily helpful (and sometimes even detrimental).
> By what metric?

His record speaks for itself. I know it is tough to imagine what it was like programming 3D engines meant to run on graphics non-accelerated PCs running DOS, without the internet knowledge or collaboration available to us now, but the stuff he was doing was absolutely revolutionary. He basically created PC gaming as we know it today by creating a market for 3D accelerators and before that by doing it in software very well. He also did this stuff in an record amount of time. From Wolfenstein 3D (1992) to Quake (1995) he made three separate engines which each revolutionized the industry one after the other.

EDIT: The metric I am using is 'impact' in an industry and in society in general -- the impact of Doom and Quake on culture and the adoption of computers and PC gaming and many other things can not be overstated. You can draw a direct line from Doom to Quake to nVidia to CUDA and machine learning if you want.
> My wife left a bad review for a restaurant and was stalked and harassed by the restaurant owner for years afterwards.

There are multiple comments like this and I wonder how does it work? Like, you can just tell they guy to f-off, block his number and warn him that you are calling police if he continues to "stalk" you, no?
Parent had the evil bit enabled, maybe this tirade should have been directed to the routers and low-level apis that hid this important context.
Next up, capturing private keys by monitoring the slight power differences in wifi broadcasts. (effectively the same thing, just different wave-lengths of light and you don't need to be as close to it)
What surprises me the most is that this was from a russian university. Compare with today, where "western decadence" is one of the main talking points of the russian narrative.

(The paper is from 2018, so before the invasion, but already after maidan, so the narrative was likely already taking shape)
This is a really insightful topic.

I might be in the wrong here, but I see a number of parallels with gender - a somewhat-strict biological component (age) vs a social component (maturity). Both having alternative models of the normative ones.
> What is hard about things like this is it ultimately boils down to self control.

I'd recommend the research of Wendy Wood, a psychologist who studies habit. The tl;dr here is that willpower doesn't actually have much impact. There's an episode of the podcast Hidden Brain[0] which features her, and I think this soundbite is a pretty good encapsulation of the ideas behind her research:

WOOD: They found that - contrary to all of our expectations, that people who are high achievers, who we think of as having good willpower, good self-control, they didn't actually experience many temptations. They weren't conflicted by having lots of desires that were inappropriate and things they didn't want to do. That was the people who were low in self-control, the people who weren't that successful at achieving their goals in life.

VEDANTAM: In other words, this is not a case of people who have, you know, cake in the refrigerator and are very good at resisting opening the refrigerator to eat the cake. These are just people who don't have cake in the refrigerator.

WOOD: Exactly. Or if they do, they don't see it. (Laughter) They have coded that as, OK, that's my kids' cake. I don't eat that. I eat the fruit, and I like the fruit.

0. https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/creatures-of-habit/
What would have compelled them to cooperate with a Marshall Plan?

I don’t think many Americans realize how tenuous the hold on power Russian politicians was in the 1990s.
GreenPeace has a lot of content on their website[0] with questionable anti-nuclear power content. They have been a force for decades for anti-nuclear content, when renewables were in a hilariously worse state than they are today.

[0] https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/challenges/nuclear-power
what does a software engineer do besides sitting around staring at a screen, typing and googling? anyone can be a reductive ass. not that i think reddit power mods are good but any forum’s moderators do more than that and you’re just being a dick in bad faith
Please no. I know it's a joke, but please.
I'm pretty sure it was just a browser plugin. So probably native code unlike nowadays when you can get proper 3D with WebGL.
clickbait aside, this seems like a myopic take on social media IMHO.

i would like to rather contrast it with the notions of web3 and people wanting ownership of their content, or at least be able to use the platforms without ads or data harvesting.

while the real argument in this post seems to be that the api should be priced "fairly", we need to recognize the limited revenue streams the site has been employing till now, including the meaningless awards.

the underlying costs might be apple and oranges, but the ads till now have not been super-intrusive à la youtube with its upto 5-6 continuous ads, or more relatably 5 banner ads or autoplay videos like many publications.

moreover, given the technically inclined audience here, we can all agree that they have not been fighting back adblockers on their web ui like twitch or news websites.

i have no websites with major traffic or ever got blessed with the "HN effect" on my web infrastructure, but those who have can attest to the unaccounted costs of running a public site for free. so i find it ironic that the most backlash has been from this crowd, who also tend to be happy to pay for chatgpt plus for personal use at a monthly rate costlier* than prime and netflix combined.
> You can even tell that from the quality of Quake's levels which start with beautifully crafted and intricate levels, and as you approach the end, progress into "whatever, let's just ship it, this is gonna sell" kind of levels that were mostly just filler to pad the play time.

This rings really true to me. I only had played the shareware version of quake and only recently played the full game, and the second half really felt like padding.

Some gimmicks in particular were really overused later on (I specifically recall that at a certain point I could just tell "There's going to be an ogre hidden in this corner").

I'm not sure if there was also some other reasons - maybe they decided to use some of the best designs for the shareware, maybe ran out of space for more enemies or maybe there's just way more nostalgia for the first levels - but I'm happy to see that some people share a similar opinion.
Not exactly. Some countries have laws in place that prevent a provider from removing service due to non-payment to a business. Instead they must follow a process, including physical paper notices, before removing service.

DO should have done something like that as well, just cutting off service because you sent some emails is kinda shitty.
Given that recent versions of Blender have an extensible node based UI framework and a video editing pipeline feature, I'm surprised there are no plugins that actually do this.
Only around 60% of the GDP is labor, though. 40% of the GDP on pensions doesn’t seem reasonable for a variety of reasons.

If pensions are considered part of the labor cost, that would mean not 25% of income going to retirement, but 66%! Or, if pensions are separate from labor, you’ve used up all 100% of the GDP, just between labor and pensions. Neither seems reasonable.

Furthermore, the US only spends 7.5% of the GDP on pensions all told.[0] If these numbers are equivalent, that means 85% of pension dollars are going to government workers.

[0]: https://data.oecd.org/socialexp/pension-spending.htm
Oh, looks like I got that wrong. Rear bars are required, but the US standards are well lower than the Canadian ones and periodic inspection isn't required.

https://www.trucknews.com/features/are-standards-for-trailer...

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/iihs-recognizes-semitrailer...
cool, 1 year of updates seems like a good alternative to subs
Try hard mode: Young, slim person in a country with poor healthcare, heh.
Aggregating wine rankings with a Borda count
You're still flipping a coin… how is this communication?
Handwritten Signatures in KDE Okular
They have never been Allies. They just had aligned goals for a while.
The columns scroll independently on my device.
My hope is that Intellij guys will move faster with their tools now that there is presure from copilot. There are still plenty of code refactorings that could be automated and are not and also there are obvious bugs that their code analysis do not catch(though I understands JS is a shit language to analyze).

When this open LLM could run on my local machine, I could at least use them to find stuff for me, I work on a big old project, I know there is soem functin or code that does X somewhere but I no longer remember th e files or function names. So a smarter search would be helpful.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect that multiple channels of communication will be tried before cutting off service, especially not for services provided to a business.
I always find it strange that the “wealth” of people like Larry Ellison is based on the public market price of their companies. He owns 42% or Oracle, and so there is no way that he could realise that value at current market rates. Oracle has more debt than it has assets, and a significant proportion of that debt has been used to implement a stock buy back, putting cash in Larry’s pocket and increasing his ownership share of the company, and therefore his nominal wealth. If the company can keep borrowing it could buy back more of the stock giving him majority ownership of a company that would technically be worth less than nothing, and become the richest man in the world.

Wizardry!

(I know that’s not how valuation of companies like this works, but even so…)
The 'given enough time' is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in this argument.

Humans approach large complex proofs with symmetry arguments and case splits.

These are not necessarily going to be universal in all kinds of reasoning.
Using anything other than PCR 7 is going to make it very fragile, yes - I have no idea why that doc is recommending using PCR 4 as well.
What will actually happen is NY will become less attractive to HFT/Prop firms and people jumping in and out of these firms will see lower sign-on bonuses
Interesting you use Nim, would you have some resources/pointers for using Nim on embedded devices.
Do you use a native compiler or cross-compile it for this (RISC-V) chip ?
That’s not a given
Nicely put. Another way of seeing this: any Lorenz curve will intersect the “other” diagonal (from top left to bottom right).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_curve
The response is pretty clear and 100% correct: family is important but not in need of medical care. Making doctors focus too much attention on the needs of third parties will worsen the outcomes for actual patients.

Doctors are, on average, quite empathetic people. But humans in general are what they are, and the politics and economics of medicine prevent the doctors from saying the right thing[0] to overbearing or emotionally distraught third parties, so I can easily see how inserting a chatbot in between would improve the outcomes of actual patients.

(Though I am surprised there isn't dedicated staff for that yet. Or does it not work when people know they're talking to a PR doctor instead of the one treating their loved one?)

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[0] - "Get the fuck out of my sickbay!" - https://giphy.com/gifs/paramountplus-star-trek-lower-decks-e...
How confident are you about the edge case here?

An AI which is just about intelligent enough to need containment, and can be contained only by the smartest N humans.
> What do you mean by "top of the tower"?

I meant the executives, board members and such. Poor phrasing on my part.

> The 5 minutes are so people have a break in their Outlook calendar.

This is a good point. Multiple consecutive meetings with no break sucks.
This reminds me of the thing that used to happen on HN a lot, where a top-level comment would be someone going “I was wondering why someone wrote an article about ‘Butt-Native Functions’, but then remembered I have the Cloud-to-Butt extension running.”
To be fair, I can set up a new service on bare metal in minutes too, mostly because I don't need to set up everything from scratch.

I don't really need to set up a database or load balancer or anything like that because it already exists on the server. Just create a new database schema, new systemd service, new nginx rule.
There is nothing new under the sun: Luddites did the same thing in 19th century. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
I don't use any services that validate phone numbers in any way. Why would I?

Whenever a website asks me for a phone number I just make up random digits. Have never run into problems. Credit card companies definitely don't care what phone number I give to merchants.
Let's be fair... the vaccine conspiracies have a lot of backing by the gaslightng of our own government and media. I live in a small country of slovenia, we didn't approve any of the russian or chinese vaccines, so for normal people, there were four options - astrazeneca, J&J, moderna and pfeizer vaccines. All of them were marketed as safe, the marketing material from our government was that the 90-95% of the vaccinated won't get a symptomatic covid, and that everyone should get vaccinated "now", with any of the vaccines.

Then a few people died nearby, and astrazeneca was temporarily removed from the list of options and wasn't recommended anymore. But the other three vaccines were safe and effective.

Then a young girl died here from from a J&J vaccine (the popular choice, due to it being a single-shot one), and we stopped using that. Suddenly the "classic" vaccines were not ok anymore, and the "all four are safe and effective" became "you should get a mRNA vaccine".

Then a bunch of young men ended up with heart issues after the moderna vaccine, and suddenly only pfizer is "safe and effective".

Also the "95% chance you won't get symptomatic covid" became a slightly "lower chance of hospitalizaton or death".

All of this of course came after the "masks are ineffective and you don't need them" that almost literally overnight (it was over a weekend) changed to "masks are mandatory in xyz places".

I mean sure.... science, conspiracies... but if you want to fuel a conspiracy theory, the best way to do it is to say something, then change what you said, and ban people who continue saying what you said a few days earlier.
Origin of biological homochirality by crystallization of an RNA precursor
> Good chance it was John Carmack, probably one the top 10 programmers of all time.

Where would you rank Linus Torvalds?
> The credit card entered into the account had expired, there was no backup card, and the contact email on the account went to a shared inbox that was not monitored.

The using of an unmonitored email is the one that really gets to me.
Why would society want to prevent the employee from freely entering into such an agreement? I don’t see sufficient upside to warrant the restraint on freedom that making this illegal would impose.

“You’re allowed the pursuit of happiness, but not in this particular way.”
DO should have done something like that as well, just cutting off service because you sent some emails is kinda shitty.

DO should abide by the law of the country they operate in. If that means they can shut off services for non-payment then that's what they're entitled to do. By the sounds of it they gave plenty of warning and 30 days service they weren't getting paid for.

Email is the expected form of business communication in 2023. I don't think any of the hosts I use even have my physical address. Maybe they could SMS me. I doubt they have my phone number either though.

I would expect a billing warning notice when I SSH into the service though. Maybe that was in place for the 30 days before they shut the customer out. I certainly hope so.
On the related topic of store buffers and write coalescing, can anyone point me to some good articles discussing how this works in practice for merging small writes to the same cache line? I have a workload where we are appending different size payloads (of sizes between 1 and 64 bytes) to an in memory log. One option is to just store each entry in its own cache line. A more space efficient option is to pack each write tightly one after the other. My hypothesis is that due to write coalescing in store buffers this will also be more memory bandwidth efficient since writes to the same cache line will be merged. Is this correct? Note that metadata for each entry (e.g. the size) will be stored separately.
IME, if a drive is going to fail, it's going to fail in the first hundred hours or so of use. In my entire life (of using hundreds of disks), I've only had three failures. Two of those were on the same server, at the same time, in the same RAID array and took out the whole array -- the data was gone forever. Thank the gods for backups.

So, just make sure you take backups pretty regularly because you never know.
Petition of the Candlemakers (1845)
I wonder how Alexa found those domains in the first place. Were there links to them, or did it use some kind of DNS dump?
The current browser is Chrome 85.0.4183.121 Which appears to be from Sept 2020
Yeah. I'm not proud of it.
Yes, it was a plug-in. The game was released simultaneously too early for WebAssembly, and too late for the masses who might have liked it
Not sure if you’re being entirely serious but is there any truth in that? Just curious.
Indeed there is several monitors that can be used to measure “awareness” including entropy, bi-spectral index, and SEDline to name a few.
SEDline is my personal favourite as you can see when a patient has complete “burst suppressions” - this is a total absence of brain activity at all and has been associated with post anesthetic delirium particularly in elderly patients.
Gabo: GitHub Actions Boilerplate Generator
Agree.

Your thinking appears to align pretty much with the messages of this podcast (not only this episode). In case you don't know it already, you may well find it interesting, never mind the esoteric sounding name:

https://thegreatsimplification.libsyn.com/electric-vehicles-...

Degrowth aka massive reduction of consumption of basically everything would be the only solution, but it's not going to happen.

The sad part is that all the irrational optimism from the renewable energy proponents/lobby is a significant contributor to preventing more people from realizing this. Which in turn will mostly prevent politics from trying to enact the necessary policies.
There are bad and good uses of that phrase. I like the reading that goes "trust the intentions and skills of the other person, but recognize they're only human and can make mistakes, so if the thing is high-stakes, double-check anyway".
Sounds like you have to decide if you want to focus on being an IC vs managerial
Stay at home woman will "take care of children and household". Stay at home man will be first of all "unemployed".
> This framework for viewing ways of organizing society as equally valid and inconsequential defeats the purpose of what, I believe, social sciences are for. I don't need a taxonomy of options, I want actionable insights!

social sciences suffer from a lack significance and repeatability more than others, which suggests to me that they are indeed foremost required to establish taxonomies and definitions because anything more is just guessing with a great potential to harm ppl.
What countries are those?
Isn't that broadly what allies means in geopolitics? Not many relationships are considered allies where one or both sides are going against their own interests, at least in theory?
I SSH'd plenty. There was no billing notice.

I think that + allowing customers to add more than one credit card to an account are reasonable suggestions. Maybe they do that now - this was 7 years ago.

I'm not trying to shirk responsibility though. We didn't, for example, pass the buck by telling our customers our site was offline because of DO.
Keanu spent 8 hours a day for months doing one thing. You can bet your bottom dollar that the director, Stahelski, didn't do that; and that if he had, the movie wouldn't have been a success.

I think the proper recognition here is that there are different kinds of work. In order to scale past a single person, there needs to be coordination work; the work of coordination necessarily means that someone throws a ball to you, you ponder it briefly, and then toss it to someone else. The deep, full-throttled, do-only-one-thing kind of work that Keanu did was made possible by the juggle-dozens-of-obligations work that Stahelski and the other support staff did. Division of labor: Stahelski juggled the balls so that Keanu could focus.

I think where this breaks down is where managers don't realize these different kinds of work. They must juggle lots of balls; this kind of juggling is necessary for scale; and usually people who do well as managers actually like the juggling at some level. So they naturally project that onto the people working for them. Whereas the ideal manager will recognize that their primary job is to juggle balls so that their stars can do a completely different kind of work than they do.
Snooze alerts? Why don't you direct people to use team channels.. that way over time the knowledge base is there.
The mystery of the shrinking FD limit: A deep dive into JVM file limits
>Long tail/"short tail" paradigm is about the distribution of purchases/views/streams etc. A statistical property, not about mere quantity.

not exactly, it is also about narrowing of people's interests based on the wider range of opportunities.

If the wider range of opportunities means that the people can now stop wasting their time on Sexy nurse stories and Voracious Space Aliens by narrowing in on their true interests - Sexy Nurses that marry voracious space aliens to exclusion of other stories - but if instead what happens is a wider range of media being consumed without narrowing in on very specific sub categories then what has happened is not a long tail but simply consumers expanding their range of choice.

Both of these phenomena - long tail and expansion of choice would lead to limits of viewership because there is in either case more media fighting over the viewership but while the result is pretty much the same the causes are slightly different.