skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a NASA story about the March 13, 1989 power outage in Quebec. It was caused by the second-biggest (X-20) recorded flare.

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/sun_darkness.html

The biggest recorded (X 28-45; Nov 4 2003) took out 12 transformers in South Africa. (It's been compared to 1859 Carrington.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_storms

Lloyd's did a 2013 report for North America, looks like that's kept updated.

https://assets.lloyds.com/assets/pdf-solar-storm-risk-to-the...
I don't understand your math. 0.01% of 60,000 is 6.
https://jsloop.net

This is my personal blog. I write technical posts.
>>>As a shareholder you cannot be held accountable for losses of the company

This is true. This could also change on the whim of a government. I don't think that's likely, but in a revolution? Who can say.
We have optimized for efficiency over resilience. It is great while it works but it makes the whole system more fragile.
Exactly One?

There's at least most of NYC, Boston, & Chicago.
Thankfully, it's a game that lends itself well to 22 minute play sessions
https://photonlines.substack.com/

I'm mostly planning on sharing my own personal data structures and algorithms + applied math notes primarily aimed at visual learners.
I love this. I'm frequently experimenting with the "syntactic sugar" possibilities of the TypeScript type inference system, and am truly in awe of your implementation (as well as the excellent and thorough commenting).
That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job
See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36591402

126 points, 11 hours ago, 103 comments
I like that it is written C/C++. I remember Eclipse was written in Java, and I thought that was really cool. Java to edit Java.
It is couple of lines of typedef, what’s the big deal.
Gold exchanges are like that too -- the amount of gold "held" by investors exceeds the world supply.
That gave me a chuckle while eating my morning cereal. Very good! :-)

For those who don't get the reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap,_Crackle_and_Pop
More land mass in the northern hemisphere
See also: https://github.com/tayllan/awesome-algorithms
The only thing surprising here is that the mainstream media is actually covering this case. It has been so long that they've refused to report on anything that didn't fit the narrative. It's been quite frustrating to watch. I don't consider myself a conservative. I'm libertarian. But to see the complete double standard has been unreal.
While we are at bloated things reimplemented in a few lines of shell: https://github.com/mlang/openai-kiss is my CLI client for ChatGPT. No Python, just curl and jq.
"Lisp has no syntax" really means "Lisp has no specific syntax". Any well-parenthesized S-expr is a syntactically valid Lisp program, even if it is nonsensical. Most other languages (including Forth) have keyword and syntax-dependent structuring.
https://laeri.me/blog

I am practicing writing and blogging so most of my posts at the moment are mostly for that purpose. I still have a lot to learn and my blog will hopefully reflect my improvement over time.
> language syntax design is a total sinkhole.

Sintax design, not implementing a parser.

You're arguing that you might not make up your mind and feel compelled to churn parts of your implementation due to your indecisiveness.

That's not the parser's fault, and I fail to see how anyone avoids this indecisiveness by replacing a proper parser with a bunch of ad-hoc hacks.

> chances are really high that you're gonna want me to do something different.

So what? Just work on it. How many parser generator tools are there? It's as if people have been doing this for decades.
Even in the iterator implementation, the values are created on the fly, correct?

What is an example, where a generator would be able to dynamically produce the values while an iterator would need all the source value to exist in some memory?
You can put XFCE and KDE panels on the left or right, resulting in a vertical task bar. This is a 10 second operation...
Why are the ghosts usually wearing clothes from the last few hundred years? Where are the Bronze Age ghosts? Or do ghosts dissipate after a period of time? Has anyone ever asked these questions of ghost believers?
I addressed that in the sentences immediately following what you quoted, but to clarify the point on algorithmic feeds:

I think it is relevant to any new social media, because even with an algorithmic feed, unless it's really badly done, you'll first start to swamp out an increasing number of those you follow once you follow a large number and/or have given a strong signal about which of them you actually engage with, so you're likely to get a "honeymoon period" even with one where the need for a huge following seems less important because your followers are in that situation too.
Same for me. I suspect maybe they add the public keys manually and haven't gotten around to it yet.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-06-reference-cycles.html
The most fascinating of mine are when I am in the situation of doing something like Standup comedy or whatever. By that I mean all the jokes absolutely suck or have no real punchline - it is like jokes made by current LLM. I'm not saying I am great at comedy, but I do WAY better than dream me does.

But I am like you, they almost never have any cogent meaning or structure. As Charlie Brooker put it once "Dreams are... weird"
Wouldn't the following be a better version of the above.

Use css variables everywhere, and have a defs-dark.css and a defs-light.css that define the colors.

Then, on nginx, serve the correct stylesheet based on cookie value.

Better than subdomains for dark and light, no?
Why would someone want to pay to get rid of their stocks? In the worst case they would be worthless or not?
Once again I'll mention "A Time Odyssey" series by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter and to be exact, the second book in the series Sunstorm. In which Earth is preparing to mitigate - as much is possible, a massive solar eruption with megascale engineering projects. The major outer space idea is to reflect this eruption with a giant shield made of Fresnel lenses fully built in space and installed at Lagrange 1 point
I thought all keyless fobs had secret keys inside of them.

There's one inside the one for my Lexus (and you have to pop the cover off the door handle), and on Mercedes the start/stop button is removable to reveal a slot where the fob actually clicks in.
That's a construction issue.

If you're used to the stick-built homes and ballon framing, then the article quote from Vanwyck is right: “The majority of North Americans haven’t experienced high-quality housing, and so they also don’t know what they’re missing and what they can ask for.”

In the apartment house I live in Sweden, I hear less of my neighbors than when I lived in a detached house in the US. The walls and floors here are SOLID! I had to get a impact drill so I could install curtains, the concrete is that tough.

Some apartment complexes have a private courtyard garden where you can bbq and play with the kids (and play with the dogs, though you'll need to go elsewhere to let them pee and poop), and have the upkeep paid by your rent.

Ours doesn't, but our nearest park is across the street and the nearest big playground 5 blocks away, see https://www.google.com/maps/@58.2841034,12.2930193,3a,75y,23... . And we have several large shared rooms in the basement where the kids can play on wet dreary days, or hold a birthday party or, in my case, work during the COVID restriction years.

Now, I hate mowing and gardening, which is why I also paid someone to do it for me in the US. For those who like it, I can totally see how having a yard would support that hobby.
Can you elaborate a little on why you think programming is "completely artless"? I hear many coders making comparisons of their work with art, so this kind of contradicts my intuition.
cat /dev/audio | <( mkfifo && netcat )

...semi-unironically...

(whoops, forgot the gzip/gunzip filters...)
https://sklivvz.com

I write about coding, electronics, technical leadership and open source.

- https://sklivvz.com/posts/announcing-cthulhu-a-javascript-in...

- https://sklivvz.com/posts/i-dont-love-the-single-responsibil...

- https://sklivvz.com/posts/team-leadership-for-high-performan...

- https://sklivvz.com/posts/i-built-a-hardware-rng-for-christm...
I know I can but the vertical bars are not first class citizens was my point
Ah, so the worst parts of the job, great…
You used the keyword, "niche".

But most businesses are not niche, that's why it's called a niche.

People sell food, clothes, accommodations, services.

You can't fight wall-mart on general food or nike on shoes, or any big player on phones.

If you create a new tech product, your only chance is to go reddit, HN, etc, like the pine phone. Because you can't advertise it like apple with the iphone.

You can't buy product placement in movies and video games, you can't be at every bus stop.

So sure, if you sell biodegradable bamboo socks, your ads can do something.

But that's not 99% of what are sold in the world.

What is really sold is transparent to people, because they are so used to it. They don't realize they have maybe 3 choices of providers because all those brands belong to the same big super company. And each of them have their own dedicated marketing department.
Good thing it was always called climate change and both extreme hot and cold days are part of it.

Also, even if we correct the terminology in your post, climate change denial is what is dying out. Denial was all the rage until ten years ago.
Nice seeing you on HN again.
I really like your blog posts and I hope you'd post them here more often :)
I mean, that's fundamentally what the website did. Claims without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. However, without any justification for the belief the author apparently has, the author asserts you cannot even expose MongoDB's API as part of your own application within the terms of SSPL, and that is neither in the letter nor spirit of the license terms, which solely relates to selling the software in question (MongoDB here) as a service offering principally as itself.

The author, of course, relies on the claimed vagueness of the license as an excuse to take every claim to the most ridiculous extent possible, even though no reasonable person would believe anything claimed here, such as the suggestion that it might entail you release the source code for your computer's BIOS.

In a section with truly atrocious spelling and grammar, the author asserts that somehow this kills real competitors (even though real competitors would presumably have their own actual product offering, not just re-ship a product offered by the SSPL software developer at a predatory pricing rate only made possible through monopolist behavior). They then make the ridiculous claim that this entirely removes the ability for the customer to choose their cloud provider. Meanwhile, in the land of reality, between either forks or licensing agreements, there is plenty of competition, but the developers have an opportunity to sustain development instead of all of the profit being skimmed off by Amazon, who contributes nothing back and does none of the work. Having to raise their prices above the original developers' due to license fees, of course, doesn't even remove the value add for choosing AWS, where the benefits are bringing it into the same datacenter and platform as the rest of your other cloud needs.

The author then tries to villainize software companies using SSPL by pointing out how many thousands of employees and how many millions in revenue they have, without acknowledging that the sole benefactor of making SSPL look bad is Amazon, which brings in hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue and has over 1.5 million employees.

This train wreck is then finished up with their suggestions that these companies should just remain unsustainable and rely entirely on business models for open source we all know don't work very well.

I would say the author is arguably wasting their $10 a year domain registration on this garbage article, but considering the lack of public attribution present, I assume Amazon's paying for it.
> Where the author made a mistake was in trying to make "what the market wants" rather than just making stuff he/she actually wanted to make and trying to see if it was possible to make money from it. I

The author did try.

From the post:

> And yet, in spite of my passionate “passion”, I never made enough money to quit the day job. I followed my passion and all it gave my was wrist pain.

Writing for the market was their second attempt at trying to make money.
I don't think the point is lost by correcting the value to 0.1%.
If I take a loan on a house, or a car, or some other tangible good it can be taken back. I can't take back the education you never paid for. The government should have never gotten into backing college loans, house mortgages or any of those things. The free market should do it, it should be competitive and there are simply some people that don't deserve to go to college on someone else's dime...
Cue everyone graduating with more than 50k in debt immediately filing for bankruptcy.
Basements are actually far from ubiquitous in the tornado alley states. Where they are ubiquitous is in the colder regions where you need your foundation mostly below the frost line.
> Huh, I've been playing SC2 for about 14 years now and have no idea what SC2 arcade is.

It's the custom games section. I'm really surprised you don't know the name, even in the competitive scene people know what it's called, even if they don't usually use it.

> I think the game is pretty much dead but don't take my word for it.

Queue times for 1v1 are still largely fine. The larger team games have longer queue times, but it's usually not too horrible until you get higher in MMR.

But yes, Blizzard has largely dropped support for it, so it'll likely slowly die.
Nearly every asset depends on the existing regime for its value.

Public and private corporations are chartered by governments.

Real estate is titled into existence by governments.

Currency and bonds are issued by governments.

When the regime ends, these assets may or may not be recognized by the new regime.

Gold, fine art and crypto are the exceptions to the rule.
I only share dreams with a sentence or two, and only with specific loved ones who will enjoy the one or two details that would be interesting to them. Like, my dad's dead, so I tell my mom if I have a nice dream with him in it. Or a friend said something snarky to me in a dream, and she guffawed when I told her. Why was Donald Trump driving a moving truck for me last night?

But most of the time, I agree, my dreams are garbage that nobody needs to hear.
Not if a totalitarian regime decides that you cannot own stock and live at the same time.
Points 3 & 4 could be combined: like .plan, each user has an o+r .status file. Its contents are a user's status message, but its modified time is used specially to indicate when that user was last active. Anytime the usuc client writes a message to a channel, it would simply touch the .status file. And whenever an expanded usuc or some other tool lists the users in a channel (that is, all users in the group that owns the channel file), it would mark as idle any who had a .status mtime older than 30 minutes, say.
The twitter account of the author is openly creating fakes as well. https://twitter.com/aeroconcepts1/status/1387227601098268672
A German(?) flag over the brand name of an Indian low-cost airliner on the vertical stabilizer?

No.
It also doesn't require that eating there is prohibitively expensive.
First free access to higher education should be a cornerstone of a
democracy as it is in many countries.
(Private institution can still exist and be popular but a -decent-
public option should be available).

This whole issue deft political stunt by Biden.

I believe Biden and his advisers knew there was little chance
to no chance of it being implemented.

Thus, they did not have to worry about the real-life consequences.

The republicans and/or the supreme court would knock it down.

Then the Biden administration can then make a big issue out of
how the evil opponents stopped the handouts.
If it wasn't for SCOTUS and congress/senate, you would all have
less student debt.

Vote for me and I will do my best to have it passed.
You understood perfectly well what the last part you quoted meant given the part you cut off. You could put quotes around "choices" to make it clear if you like. The point remains.
Another benefit is watching NSFW content.
Even if it did - the current copyright regime is already so extortionate as to be dystopian, so is it truly a loss?
https://cookie.engineer

I don't have many posts, but some ideas in the pipeline that I'm working on. Planning on documenting a lot more about the hardware tinkering I am doing.

I also added a bunch of secrets and games to the website, with the idea that the source code can be used to explore and learn. There's even an unsolved crypto puzzle in there, but it seems to be a little too hard considering it's been unsolved for over 10 years now.
Looking to who's rulling desktop and mobile OSes, doesn't seem like UNIX did win.

Yes there is a UNIX under macOS, and some POSIX under iOS/iPadOS/watchOS, Android, which hardly matters to userspace frameworks and official programming stacks.

And naturally Windows is a kind of VMS reboot in spirit.

UNIX only won on the server room, and even that seems to start to be irrelevant in the age of cloud computing and OS abstraction infrastructure.
I'm a minimalist fanatic myself. I've tried astro and Sveltkit. IMHO - Sveltkit is really very minimal on top of an already very minimal component library, Svelte.

With +page.ts and appropriate setting, you can even generate static website or can go MPA or SPA .
Thank you for conceding.
https://gilmi.me

31 posts. I write mostly about Haskell, compilers, webdev, and my hobby projects.

- https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2016/10/14/lisp-to-js - Compiling a lisp to JavaScript from scratch in 350 LOC

- https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2022/04/24/learn-twain-bulletin-a... - Build a bulletin board using Twain, Haskell, and friends

- https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2021/04/06/giml-type-inference - Giml's type inference engine

- https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2022/12/13/learned-from-haskell - 7 things I learned from Haskell

- https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2023/07/01/why-i-use-twain - Why I use the Twain web framework
TL;DR - no change
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36594916
Out of the 140,744 total voters, 132,773 voted for Hawaii to become a US state. How can you argue that it shouldn't be one, then, without also arguing against the right to self-determination?
It doesn't work. I asked GPT-4 to migrate the following PHP code to JS:

$csv = array_map('str_getcsv', file($argv[1]));

And this is the result:

const csv = readFileSync(filename, 'utf-8').split('\n').map(line => line.split(','));

You can't parse CSV this way, because you need to respect delimiters. Counter example:

1,"1,5",2

"1,5" being the German notation for "1.5". Hence, a simple split(',') will break this thing.

PHP's str_getcsv is, of course, a proper CSV parser and not a string splitter. Unless your code uses basically zero stdlib API calls, you will have to double check everything.

Please note that this kind of bug isn't even easy to catch if you test CSV file doesn't contain a quoted entry.
Anyone wanna compare this to Seldon, Ray, MLflow, etc?
What's the point of this bad photoshop?
The final "happy trading!" denounced the text probably was written by ChatGPT.
If you remove the ads, suddenly, it evens the playing field. They have to compete with the product, not the brand. With what they bring to people, not the image they can create with money. With producing for society, not rent seeking.

Plenty of businesses would die without ads, they would be naturally selected out of people lives because without the brain washing, they are just not that important enough.
> manufacturers are reportedly growing concerned that EVs are starting to become less attractive due to their premium cost.

Good morning.
The only "advantage" of an electric is that someone else (power plant) burns the gas for you. But at 1.5 times the price of a regular car is a no go.
I regularly do a 200 mile mountain pass with a 75MPH limit, and have been explaining all this to my wife regarding our new Tesla.

But I'd have never admitted how much more efficient our old ICE car would have been at 50MPH than the usual 85MPH I preferred (it's 3 lanes wide and empty, so it's not unsafe to go slower, I just didn't want to).
Quick reminder: you can register your personal blog at https://indieblog.page/ and everyone interested in discovering new personal blogs can check it out.

I will later add the blogs mentioned in this thread.
Diagnostics yes, but try to reset the warning light on a German car after fixing the fault. This can apply even when replacing seemingly purely mechanical parts (I think some suspension parts on bmw/Mercedes). You will need vag-com for any vw/Audi and something else proprietary for Mercedes or bmw
Writing code is just one part of the overall list of things that an engineer does. Infact, barring the early versions of product/project more time is spent elsewhere in subsequent versions. With code it is more reading than writing new code. Other things on which time is spent are:

1. What needs to be built? What is feasible?

2. Investigations (bug reports, production issues, performance issues, etc)

3. Quality control (code reviews, writing tests)

I am only listing things which require considerable thinking and multi-domain skills. So LLMs (as of now) really only helps with one part of overall things to do.

Also, Rate of code generation with AI >> Rate of effective code review. So the bottlenecks will still be humans.

PS: About quality control: I think AI writing code and generating the test code is not desirable. If the underlying LLM has issues even the test code will have issues. Generating boilerplate is one thing but the key things about the tests (i.e. inputs/scenario & things to check) needs much better curation. This needs human intervention.
There's a bit of a Turing Tarpit here because they're both ultimately just namespaces under the hood so you can with effort get them to do equivalent things.

The original idea behind LXD was to build packages in a system equivalent to your real system but without spamming your dpkg database and filesystem with all the required -dev files. The idea behind Docker (which podman is a better implementation of and extension to) was to be able to have three different versions of Apache ephemerally on your system to match the versions used by three different projects today.

Ultimately you can do both with either (and I generally use podman to build packages, as an example) but if you do that you aren't playing to the project's strengths.

Toolbox and distrobox are sort of middle grounds that do both of them well enough to be tolerable.
http://blog.stargrave.org/russian/ with more than 4.8k of posts, but on russian.
I like acme.sh
That's one of the elements which is actually real (original photo: https://www.airliners.net/photo/IndiGo/Airbus-A321-271NX/528...) - the German flag (as well as the German registration and the MSN) are apparently added over the airline's paintjob until the plane has been delivered to the customer and is allowed to use its Indian registration (which is to the right of the Indian flag over the rear passenger windows, covered with a white sticker).
Only because the stock market doesn't include private businesses, sole proprietorships, etc. If, hypothetically, all economic activity was securitized, and the price of those securities collectively went to zero, then yeah, that's what an observation would look like of a non-functional economy.
Jesus. Is that why my work laptop keeps crashing every 3-4 days?