skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works when the company that takes care of the fiber is owned by the city and have more goals than to make money. Just like the company that create the electricity grid. When they have goals both in terms of how many people they reach with fiber within the area aswell as making money. Then you have a way of creating fiber and an open market where any ISPs can connect to the city-wide or region-wide fiber network and sell their services. Instead of competing in regards to the physical network close to the customer they compete when it comes to redundant connections to the city, quality customer support, prices, public IPs etc. This model is used all over Sweden (and I assume other countries in europe) to provide affordable internet. There are ofcourse still areas here that are only served by a single ISP with their own network. Often there can be a combination of those monopoloy networks and open networks within a single city. Depending on when the houses where built and who the estate owner is etc. Its sometimes cheaper for a smaller estate owner to sign with a single ISP since the initial installation cost may be lower. The end customer will of course pay higher prices for the services going forward.

The electricity works the same. One company owned by the city builds the electricity infrastructure. Then you pick whatever company you want to buy the electricity from.

I can pick between 10+ companies for Internet and many more than that for electricity in my town of around 60k residents.

Works fine as long as the company that takes care of that part does its job. You do put all trust in that one company to not be a douchebag. But seems to work here. Does of course not mean that it will work everywhere.

edit: Seems to work in some parts of the US aswell:
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/broadband/open-infra-inc-got-i...

https://techblog.comsoc.org/2021/10/19/open-access-fiber-net...

An old PDF with some interesting facts, even if they are outdates by now:
https://www.ssnf.org/globalassets/in-english/facts-and-stati...
I kind of like it this way. It’ll help me focus on watching what I came for and nothing more. I’m absolutely going to leave history off.
A great quote. She's absolutely right. C has absolutely polluted people's understanding of what compiler optimizations should be. Compilers should make a program go faster, invisibly. C makes optimization everyone's problem because the language is so absolutely terrible at defining its own semantics and catching program errors.
This is counterintuitive, but in the framing of the article, I think that "y'all doin okay?" would actually be part of Guess culture, not Ask culture. It's just a very up-front manifestation of dealing with Guess culture, I think..? It's not Ask culture because the person who needs something is not doing the asking.

This is abstract, but stay with me here

I'm also Southern, and I think that the inclination towards that kind of belligerent helpfulness comes from trying to figure out what your guests want, and making sure they don't have to ask you for anything.

in my experience the response is "we're all good out here, but thank you!" -- which is classic Guess culture
‘Gigantic’ power of meat industry blocking green alternatives, study finds
> When you're writing your Scheme program, you're usually not targeting "R7RS" or "R5RS + SRFI-1" or whatnot

Why?

> the really interesting stuff

To me, the common standard is what is really interesting.
The standard 8" floppy by 1980 was 2MB, 5.25" never beat that, and 3.5" only beat that technically, 'ED' 2.88MB, LS120 and SuperDisk were all very rarely used in reality.
Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CMZjXHhMR0 (first Canadian PSA)
That framing is at least as bad as the framing you project on the Ask/Guess split.

Clearer communication is always better.
Yeah it’s not just available sunlight, though that is a significant one.

Another factor in plant growth is that chemical reactions happen “faster” the greater the temperature. While temperature doesn’t have as an extreme direct effect on plants as it does microbes, the effect is still absolutely there.
But it's very very profitable.
>selling free software is totally viable if you don't open source it

If you're selling it then it's not free as in beer, and if it's not open source then it's not free as in freedom. The little loophole you describe doesn't make it FOSS.
In that case it's probably smart he's doing this as a non-profit rather than a business. A business might go under if the sargassum stops, a non-profit can just wait or just go to other localities where they are getting sargassum and help them build homes there instead.
Ask HN: What do .NET Leads do?
I'm a .NET developer with 3+ years of experience and 1 year as a lead in a startup with up to 3 people in a team. I'll be interviewing for a .NET Lead position soon. I feel inexperienced, considering that I've never worked in a large organization with defined project management methodologies(Agile), in a remote international team. I appreciate any tips and materials to learn from.
This sums up the experience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V12ZAZ4Jn8Q
More the former.
It's still fundamentally a misunderstanding of what the compiler is doing, and thinking about it that way is just going out of your way to cause confusion. The compiler saw a use of an uninitialized value, concluded that it must not be reachable as that's the only way for it to be a legal C program, and then deleted the dead code. You can make up all sorts of other behaviors that the compiler could have done which would have had the same result in a specific scenario, but why would you?
Still they didn't got me lol
Yeah, on the other hand, I recently was looking for an old land cruiser and got in touch with a local guy on facebook. Knew I wanted it and sent him 1k to hold the car for me for a few days until I could rent a trailer. He did so and I picked up the suv without a hitch.

I'd never do this in Los Angeles where I live part time.

I context switch based on which home I'm at, North Georgia or Los Angeles.
Do topless protests work? I remember turning the corner in Paris one summer and running into a FEMEN protest. A dozen bare chested women shouting. Their bare chests drew more attention, perhaps for the wrong reason, than the message. Like protests to allow women to go topless in general encounter this dilution of their message. It has made me wonder if topless protests work or is the public de-sensitized to topless women?
I don’t think profits being made in part due to tax payers is an issue. It is an issue though that the taxpayers, through the government, do not have equity in the profit making machine, yes.
because you can't turn it 90 degrees?
The author, Russ Cox, was one of the inventors of Go.
Why Wall Street Is Gung-Ho on the Housing Market
My default response is, "Oh, you know." I never know if I mean it as a statement or a question. Send help.
You did a better job of explaining what I meant. Thanks.

I have struggled with a sugar addiction my whole life. I've read that sugar is in nearly every packaged food. It's just too hard to avoid, unless you make all your own food from scratch.

Also, sugar is everywhere. Trying to avoid it is nearly impossible. People bringing sweets to work, going to the store, bakery (obvious, but sometimes you go to pick up bread), coffee shop, etc. It's literally everywhere.

Companies definitely intentionally overwhelm our willpower.
I dunno, I live in Redmond, WA and see my neighbors regularly. Greeted at least three people on the trail on my run this morning, greeted a few more on the dog walk. I'll probably wave at the neighbor across the street at some point when we're mutually outside. People walk by the house all day long. I don't know how much more suburban you're going to get than Redmond (you have to cross water to even get to the city).

Now, I'll qualify that by saying that Redmond in general is a lot more pedestrian-friendly than a lot of suburbs I've experienced. And in the last twenty years or so, it's also quite wealthy. And seeing your neighbors also entails getting outside. ;-)
City of Yellowknife is evacuating due to wildfires
Excellent observation

Vande Rose Farms states: ALL NATURAL INGREDIENTS

but — among them is "cultured celery powder" which indeed "contains nitrites as well."

It would appear Vande Rose Farms is hiding behind the USDA definition of uncured — as do other makers — to seem more "natural."

They also offer a Dry Cured version: https://vanderosefarms.com/product/americas-best-cured-bacon...

I am reminded of a dialogue I had with an area representative for Boars Head Meats whom I met while he was arranging his display in a Kroger store.

We got to talking about cured vs. uncured meats and I decided to really get to the bottom of it (this was maybe 10 years ago).

After significant effort I discovered that "Uncured" products actually contain MORE nitrites and nitrates than "Cured" because it is impossible to accurately measure nitrite/nitrate levels in the celery powder extracts used in "Uncured" meats so manufacturers routinely add much more than they would otherwise need to so as to be able to always pass FDA tests for bacteria etc. growth. required for certification.

I sent my findings to the Boars Head rep and he was surprised and agreed that I was correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(programming_language)

There were several similar languages that could have filled the same ecological niche.

C was widely available and de facto standardized (with an existing body of code as a forcing function + the existence of pcc). The others were not.
Of course. “Retrieval” in RAG doesn’t require a special kind of retriever. As long as the relevance is tuned for the top documents to seed the prompt context, it doesn’t matter what kind of search backend you use.
> Even when I was getting started, I read a ton on VC funded businesses but not a lot on non VC funded businesses.

Any suggested reading for the non VC funded business?
> AllSides itself leans right, other similar services say

Yeah, bias ratings have a very big natural quis custodiet ipsos custodes problem even if you assume good faith efforts, and then you have to consider how attractive thing for anyone deliberately trying to sell a particular bias.
Lunarvim
Eugenia Cheng explores abstraction, real and complex numbers
AI is speeding up scientific discoveries and helping to spot new ideas
As one of the idiots living there yes, very much so. Calling the DDR Osteuropa can not be racist.

I would however be happy to hear your qualification on this.
Or we need to collectively stop using dotenv in favor of other, more formal formats like TOML.
Thats impressive. Do you mind sharing some tips that helped you scale your bootstrapped business to 4million profit?
I assume that manufacturing micro-chips is tedious, repeating chore. Rinse and repeat describes it well I assume. There has to be a maniacal devotion to cleanliness.
You get hardware banned from Xbox Live when a mod is detected, simple as. There's not much incentives for offline modding because most of the 360's library is easily moddable on PC
Can you not split the 10k files into modules for incremental/parallel compilation?
Dirty downside of 'return to office'; ending WFH could make climate crisis worse
Original title: Dirty downside of 'return to office' - Push to end work-from-home could make climate crisis worse
The C abstract machine isn't a physical machine, so temperature is not a side effect :)
Yes, and in this case 6W TDP and cheap enough for a $500 tablet seem like key drivers of the N200's design. Of course the Apple M1 is probably twice as fast at similar cost and power but compared to everything outside Apple the N200 looks pretty decent.
My favorite poet of the Zaum is Daniïl Kharms... But not sure how much of his works were (or even can be meaningully) translated into English...

I guess he was technically founder of OBERUI (collaboration of real art) which was an off-shoot of Zaum.

He was making a living publishing children's literature, which is ironic, because he hated children. But he couldn't publish his Futurist works, because they were deemed to be anti-soviet.
For all the completely deserving bad rep Bobby Kotick has accrued over the years, the MechWarrior 2-era of Activision was fucking magical. Bobby clearly squeezed the fruit beyond recognition but boy was the juice magnificent.

The fertile lands that bore the Interstate games, I fear, are no longer. I can't imagine a name stay like Activision experimenting like this today. Though, the odd one leaks out, like Hi Fi Rush.

In many ways, the gaming industry (and the tech industry along with it) have already had their 60s-70s auto industry moment that Interstate monopolized so well. Now so much of what we see is boilerplate, repeating year after year because it works, rather than because it is good.

(We have indies and they're great, I love them dearly, but the net dilution effect can be tiring. If only companies could take a successful game like Baldur's Gate 3, and be somehow forced to spin out new fresh IP in short order, reusing as much tech as possible. Sadly the constraints simply aren't there. Engines are too powerful and flexible, perhaps. The genericism we experience appears to be a direct decedent of the genericism of the elements involved in their creation.)

((Don't get me wrong, I would not willingly travel back to this era and give up the modern comforts of gaming -- it's the best it's ever been in so many ways -- but boy does thinking about MW2 and I76 evoke a nostalgic, unscratchable itch in me that is simply infuriating.))
New Mexico and Arizona (Phoenix in particular) actually had a record-breaking heatwave this year, a full month of daily peak temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
A notable number of people fight the idea of degrowth, claiming it's really all about reducing the population to zero. Recent HN have shown this mindset.

Degrowth from war is one technique, I expect it will happen at some point.
Aren't there other major news organizations funded by organizations with (maybe justified) hidden political purposes that controls them?

Project Mockingbird (and its modern incarnations) comes to mind. So does Jeff Bezos' ownership of the Washington Post, Elon Musk's control of Twitter,
Rupert Murdoch and Fox, etc.
After working for a few years in a similar industry, it makes me happy to see that young startups are still trying to improve the lives of a few people!
Except these public or low bar access machines are there for generally vulnerable people - elderly, homeless, migrant workers, or others who generally don’t have a dedicated machine they can secure. Most people don’t “think” about security at all, it’s beyond their education and familiarity. Banks, for instance, offer access to their services to everyone - not just hacker news readers. They’ve started adding fees to in person or phone interactions directing people who can least afford the fees towards online access, which they often don’t have direct access to. ISP fees can be expensive, computers as well, or in the case of elderly they often just don’t know how to get started and value accessing via the library. If you’re homeless you don’t have a place for an ISP subscription, and many access devices at shelters. People in jail or prison also use shared devices.

Yes they’re overall very exposed to bad actors and the machines they use are really insecure. So, short lease credentials definitely reduces blast radius. If you have a key logger, but no automated account drain scripts, a 5 minute timeout will effectively prevent you unless you’re actively watching.

Finally, some of these are regulatory requirements for better or worse. That doesn’t forgive the regulation, but it does sometimes explain the policy.
"Ideally it's a compile time error."

I agree with that, but the standard does not agree with both of us. My point is that choosing C or C++ makes sense if you see an advantage in programming against an ubiquitous and almost universal standard. If you have the freedom to implement against a particular compiler implementation there is no good argument to not also taking the freedom to choose a different language altogether.

I know in the real world this is not so easy. I worked in automotive with their certified C compilers long enough and I wouldn't have had the choice to select another language. Doesn't mean everyone wouldn't have been better off with a language without UB in the first place and I think we are getting there.
Btw, I really enjoyed Lucifer's Hammer (1977, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle) as it explored the issues we are discussing. The source of that story was a meteor and not a solar flare, but the effect is the same.
https://archive.is/QzFl6
Their way being "badly". In fact I think this is the problem. The scene effectively made "non-corporate" and "untalented" synonyms for the people in it. I think that's a huge mistake. The new era of DIY music largely eschews that idea which has been a major win for the scene. Doing things your own way shouldn't mean that you're just doing it worse.
Grit: Fix Tech Debt, Automatically
- Intellecual Property Theft

There, I extended the list with the most recent addition to the pile.
> Everything is carcinogenic. It's the dose that is a poison not the substance. That's what scientific evidence over long years of research shows.

Definitely not my area of expertise, but I think this statement of yours is plain wrong. There are indeed certain substances (mutagenics) that are known to be carcinogenic where are others that are not. I think it doesn't depend on the quantity but on the substance itself.
This Red Rising sounds like something I would like, and I’ve been wanting to get back into sci-fi. Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check it out once I finish up WoT :)
I might have missed one but it looks like there is only one city (Miami) with an NFL team and a Republican Mayor. Las Vegas has an independent, former Dem. That list of team cities is:

Arizona (Phoenix), Atlanta, Baltimore, Buffalo, Carolina (Charlotte), Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Green Bay (and Milwaukee), Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minnesota (Minneapolis, St. Paul), New England (Boston), New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa Bay, Tennessee (Nashville), Washington D.C.
The second case isn't probably good for founders either. I don't think it would be easy to convince investors to let you take cash out of the business to any meaningful degree, but I suppose that depends on how much control you have over the business at that point.
We are way down from peak coal and its not really solar/wind that's taking it's place it natural gas.

renewables usage has doubled in the last 10 years. In electricity generation.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
> the bots have only gotten worse since he took over

I don’t know how widespread this is, but in my circles, most people get 2-3 extra likes by bots (nicknamed sexbots) with attractive looking avatars and some generic female name. I suspect these bots are an undocumented feature of new Twitter because blue checks were complaining about lack of engagement.
Hey hey, post author here.

This is a really good point that wasn't fully clear to me - this post definitely focuses on the \COPY from psql, rather than the CopyFrom backend.

I've gone ahead updated the post in the introduction to highlight that this post is about `psql`. My goal here is to try and understand Postgres better - so thank you for pointing this out :). I think writing a future post going into the backend code you mentioned is necessary. My goal is to have solid reasoning on why `COPY` is faster, and I'll need to keep writing these posts to get there.

Let me know if you think it's still unclear - I don't want to leave up any article that's potentially confusing.

I've also cleaned up the language a bit around `libpq`, I mistakenly restated the description of `libpq` from the Postgres , which is stated as "libpq is the C application programmer's interface to PostgreSQL. libpq is a set of library functions that allow client programs to pass queries to the PostgreSQL backend server and to receive the results of these queries.", but you two are correct, my statement was confusing.
> It fails to deliver a consistent representatiuon of reality.

I'm curious by what precisely you mean by this. Last I checked, reality itself has problems consistently representing itself.
Huh. Guess I will stop donating to Wikimedia. Not that I don’t support those causes. I just thought my money went to maintaining Wikipedia.
Boston University hires Harvard's dismissed disinformation scholar Joan Donovan
Don't forget the attacks on the first and the second amendment.
https://archive.ph/U88xF
I think they were always anti-CCP, but they made the mistake (I think) of getting 100% behind Trump a few years ago. It's a mistake because Trump won't be around forever but they'll never live that down.
You make the claim that local politicians are "much more hostile" to ISP monopolies that federal ones. But what's the evidence for this?

I know of several members of the house & senate who are severely hostile to ISP monopolies, but power at the federal level lies mostly with the FCC, thus blunting the effectiveness of any particular elected representative.

At the local level, get the mayor pissed off at you (and a legal framework that allows it), and you (may) have a problem.
Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll have to workshop it a bit more, when I see this I almost read AntiMath which would be an unintended mistake haha.
Design definitely can be improved, but its an amazing starting point! Will try it out in the next few days for sure ;)
It reminds me of the method redis used for evicting keys: it would randomly choose N keys and evict the oldest of the set. It approximated evicting the oldest key in the database (more or less, depending on your value of N) but was cheaper than keeping track of the oldest keys. And it needed to be cheap because when the database filled up it happened a whole lot.
I'm not sure if I see it that way, both extremes equally lead to dysfunctional interactions.

You shouldn't feel bad for asking for help when you need it and other people haven't noticed it, and it's good to be mindful of those around you and what they need. A balance of both should be healthy.
The drives aren't password protected. Why would one need to take the drives apart? Besides, the text was about extracting the drives, i.e. taking them out of the computer box.
“ threats described above are easily fixed” This is not correct. Non tech users do not understand any of this imho.
People get so upset that charities do things with money that they don't agree with, but that's like the entire point of charity? That the money is no longer yours? The only people who DO put such limits on their charity are extremely rich people pretending to "donate" for PR reasons while still controlling the money through their own charity or whatever.

If you don't like what a charity does, don't donate to it?
>So yes, it is stable, but it comes at a price.

That's called a trade-off, a very fundamental concept in pretty much everything in life.

And no, snapshots don't come out every month. They come out ~5 times every week. The most number of packages I've had to update was maybe around ~3500 and that's after 6 month of not upgrading my system.

I agree for "true" rolling distro enthusiasts, Arch is still the top choice, but Tumbleweed is great for those seeking to use a rolling distro without sinking too much time into configuration.
If that's all it takes to speak authoritatively on the topic, then, greetings from Poland.

I for one wouldn't describe myself as an idiot.

As you are a person who has previously shared Kremlin propaganda on this website, I have nothing more to say to you.

Good day.