skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Agriculture is a whole lot of “sure it’s stupid, but it works and is cheaper than the alternative”

The fan idea is actually quite okay, cold pockets exist. But let us not forget that "cheaper than the alternative" depends on the prices of everything else.

The problem capitalism constantly keeps running into is that certain externalities are not priced into that "cheaper" choice. You can defrost your fruit with helicopters if the fuel and helicopters are cheap enough, but you may be happily stacking a debt elsewhere, e.g. in the form of polution, social costs, climate crisis, draught etc.

The problem here is that these externalized costs are often not paid by the people who stack them up, which is when regulation can become increasingly benefitial.

Granted, the "crazier" measures like defrosting fruit with helicopters are often just limited stop-band measures in a bad phase that can safe a whole harvest, but if they are used to battle the stacking hidden cost they are in the danger of becoming more and more common while making the problems worse (or at least masking it).

An example: I grew up in the Alps, where skiing is a thing. Each year ski resorts have to rely more and more on artifical snow, which uses extreme amounts of energy and water. Climate change means that the snow mark moves higher and higher each winter, but what about the communities that built a living around the slope and it's tourism if it is their resort that has no snow this winter? That's when you go in with the artifical snow. Twenty years ago that may have been a few bad days in the year or just small parts of the slope, and over slow creeping times it has become more and more. The problem is it just prolongs the needed change, it doesn't solve it. Maybe they are lucky and blessed with snow next year, but what about 10 years down the line? The good ski resort villages are already aware that this is an issue and try to move more towards summer tourism, with the artifical snow just buying them time to do that transformation.

But the only reason they have to do that is because energy is expensive and artifical snow works only down to certain temperatures (to warm and it cannot be produced). These limiting factors may not exist elswhere.
Top title at this moment is 'Vijayakanth', Indian actor-politician who died on Dec. 28. Pageviews not broken-down by region but probable that isn't English-speaking interest.
I don’t do much development but I have a fast Apple Silicon laptop in my office for mostly multimedia editing and some local LLM—though that’s also where I do development when I do. An old iMac in my office for video calls and a lot of web app work and and old MacBook in my kitchen for looking up stuff and when I want a change of scenery for web app work.

Have a NAS to sync data files as needed.
Nah, Dawn Treader is extremely Christian and it's my second favorite. I just don't think it tells a very engaging story. It's a static narrative that spends most of its time in the same few places. A lot of the major events happen somewhere else and you learn about them secondhand. The Calormenes are just as embarrassing as they ever were. The main antagonist is an ape. It just doesn't hold a candle to the previous grand adventures. Frankly, if a lot more of the book was like the overtly Christian apocalyptic stuff near the end I'd prefer it.
They are literally adding 18+X as much fossil fuel as nuclear over that time frame. That’s what’s proving nighttime power.

Adding more capacity is an all hands on deck situation for the China they are throwing everything at it. Nuclear is simply achieving the smallest gains because the ROI is low.
I don't really buy that. An author may have planned out the entire story, but later decides to write and release later parts of the story first, and earlier parts later, as prequels, but not include an assumption in the prequels that the reader has already read the earlier-published works.

I don't know how common this is, but I don't think I'd be willing to assume this has never happened.
The subscriptions page can’t be filtered to show some subset/group of channels. I use PocketTube as a plugin-based alternative.
But you see, their family got the land for free through a Homestead Act a few generations ago after they drove the Natives out (and/or murdered them) and now they get subsided water and property taxes through Prop 13 and cheap labor from undocumented workers, so why not do everything else in their power to maximize profits? That is the only mission in capitalism, after all.
Yeah, but that also requires your local edition of Wikipedia to be good and useful, which is not always the case.
For production, I'd recommend not using any image that isn't in the base image set, which are maintained by Docker, and if you're using Docker Hub, you already trust Docker :) There is also "verified publisher" scheme where Docker have done some verification on the publisher, so you may also want to trust those.

Outside of that any image can have anything in it.(Docker do sometimes remove actively malicious images if they're notified of them)

If you want an image similar to an existing one, you can often just read the dockerfile and create your own.
Clothing design is difficult to copyright. I'm pretty sure just about anyone can defend themselves in the US copyright system. Sure it becomes difficult when you are a small fry (whether indigenous or not) against a big fish, but it can be done.
and it has Peter Cook in it - always a positive!
As the sibling comment says: my VPS is always on, and I can SSH into it from any of my machines, reattach to the screen session, and talk under the same nickname. Besides this, I'm never offline (barring things like netsplits). I'm not doing it for security reasons, although it does provide a level of indirection if your goal is to not expose your home IP address to everyone (getting a cloak is also useful when it comes to this).
The All-in-One AI Writing Copilot
Curious as to why you are interested in 100%+ Keebs.

I know that everyone has a different comfort zone, especially for their daily driver (which is a 60% split for me) and the only reason I can think of (besides aesthetics, of course) is a „feeling of power“ when handling a larger battlestation.

I’m not shaming or judging in the slightest yet am genuinely curious.
Sports photos of 2023: Great images and the stories behind them
Man, this is something that I really wish was open source. I've been looking for something like this for a while, but having it on someone else's servers just isn't really something I can handle
Everyone wants a quick fix these days, in all parts of their life.

How to do X in [an hour, a day,one week of lunches, 30 days.]
Heal yourself from X in [an hour, a day, one week of lunches, 30 days. ]
Eat/Dont eat this get slim in [ one week of lunches, 30 days, 60 days]

A long time ago I studied martial arts (Karate).
Our structure went up to the master in Japan.
Once you got past the orange belt, the only way to progress
was when the master was visiting.
the master also decreed that you had to have a belt for min 1 years,
in brown 2 years. in black 4 years before you could try to graduate.
He said people needed to grow into their skills and mature.

I haven't thought much about that until a few years ago a colleague told
me her daughter had just gotten her first black belt.
Knowing her child was no more than 12 that seemed odd,
but she had studied hard for almost 2 years.

That seemed like some form of fast-food martial arts.

By pure coincidence I met the son of my previous master at a train .
I knew him but the last time I saw him he was still a kid.
He was Japanese as well but he spoke excellent English.
Something his father had no interest in.
He had taken over from his father and was now the master.
We talked a bit his dad, the clubs.
I mentioned this rapid progression that my coworker's daughter had done.
He leaned back and laughed a little.

"Ah, we call those dirty white belts"

A little like coding bootcamps I think.
Please make it self-hostable. My organization doesn't allow putting work related things on cloud.
When you own a company, you're responsible for that company's actions. There's no "maybe" about it. Daihatsu is Toyota.

You'd have more of a point if the acquisition had happened this year, but Toyota took majority ownership in 1998.
There's a number of image scanners which (IME) can produce different results from each other, although it's not always as clearly right/wrong as you might expect. Trivy (that this page is based on), Docker Scout, and Grype are three of the more common ones.
Society, as a complex system, is always undergoing turning point transformation on sets of sub systems. It's possible to construe 'turning point' narratives about any well documented time period.
I recently made my first pcb in kicad and ordered it at jlcpb, it was $4 including shipping for 5pcs. At this price I wouldn't bother with home made.
The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard of [video]
I think my primary distaste for Wi-Fi tends to be generations of obtuse binary blobs, and driver support that's scattershot and years coming.

TBH, I'd love to see Wi-Fi presented as a bridge device rather than a direct NIC-- the host PC sees an Ethernet chipset that has drivers that work on anything from MS-DOS 3.3 onward, and when first booted, you connect to a simulated network containing a REST endpoint/web page which lets you configure the WLAN side.
For a good time, go read up about Stewart and Lynda Resnick and their impact to water in California.
> If I use cameras and track everybody I see on the street and put them in a database, then that's problematic and illegal in many places.

Afaik not illegal in the US. You put a camera on your own private property (window), use it to record what’s happening in a public space (the street outside), and then store that data in a database (that other people can presumably access). Unless I am missing something, this scenario is perfectly legal in the US.

Inbefore I get hit with “not every country is like that at all,” NYT is based in the US and the lawsuit is filed in the US. So how a bunch of other countries deal with similar issues shouldn’t really have as much bearing on this specific case.
This seems like an odd comment. Yes there is law that protects trade secrets. But you still need to keep the secret a secret. If the secret gets out, it is no longer a trade secret.
It's worth noting that whilst vulnerability scanners are very useful, they pretty easy to bypass, if someone creates an image and doesn't want them to flag things up.

One very basic example is https://raesene.github.io/blog/2023/04/22/Fun-with-container...
It's because that's usually the data scientist's job, and most eng infra teams don't have a data scientist and don't really need one most of the time.

Most of the time they deal with data the way their tools generally present data, which correlate closely to most analytics, perf analysis and observability software suites.

Expecting the average software eng to know what a CDF is the same as expecting them to know 3d graphics basics like quaternions and writing shaders.
Why is "Skathi (moon)" 12-th most popular in 2022?
I'm not sure it's so steep: Starter is $16/user, Pro is $23/user (with the $10k minimum) and then Enterprise is expecting 100+ (into the many thousands) of users and companies often want to discuss that pricing alongside support constraints etc.

The Pro plan contains a load of features like insights, audit logs, API access, etc that you don't get in Starter, hence the increase per-seat bill.

Would be interested if that makes more sense to you? (I work there, always keen to hear feedback)
As everyone mentions their stories: I've once reverse-engineered the Foobar2000 index file format to sync my playlists with Plex.

https://darekkay.com/blog/foobar2000-playlist-index-format/
Adding Vision to the SunFounder PiCar-X
Like 75% of it is a great adventure story, but boy, that remaining 25% is rough sailing.
It is not that bad (hint: check Logarithmic scale)

https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedi...
Why does a rapper who's been dead for years occupy the eighth position?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXTentacion
When you're incrementing by using UPDATE ... SET value = value + 1, the database holds the locks for the minimum time needed. Everything else is less efficient.

In more complex scenarios, FOR UPDATE is the solution.
Aren't there like 120 million people in India who speak English, with about 80 million who have it as their first or second language?
Back to Basics (2022)
2 days ago (12/27), "Web Hosting Service" was the most common page visited, with <0.1% mobile (compared to >70% for the rest of the top 10). Did something happen that would cause this? Or is this a bot farm that's visiting wikipedia? Odd.

Edit: Looks like there were also around 3m "automated" views to the page based on user agent. Maybe some bot script went awry but used non-bot user agents half the time?
My guess would be that every French government website uses the same cookie banner and it includes a link to the Wikipedia article

Mmmh... biscuits...
But her boyfriend got life in prison.
Apache Arrow and Substrait have been working towards making this a reality.
I see a future where executing a query can/will send plans to many different engines distributed across the cloud, but also locally on your on machine.
I'm sure the author is right about Narnia, but I stopped reading at this point. It shows a lack of taste.
Gmail only :/
People who type "pornhub" into Google and then misclick because they're unzipping at the same time
I make it 88% mobile web, 9% desktop, 3% mobile app (why Wikipedia wastes money on a mobile native app is beyond me, but hey).
The Horse and his Boy is unadaptable at this point. You'd have to change too much for it to be filmable.
> But focus on the two most important words in EE: REFERENCE DESIGNS.

„I avoid application notes as if they were the plague, because frankly, more than 95% of them are incorrect.“
https://youtu.be/QG0Apol-oj0?si=KTdYlKAlRhGVEDfB
Piracy isn't what the OP is talking about (at least I don't think they are) what they mean is a bigger business will come and steal the small/medium content. Since they are bigger they can do a better job of selling the content than the small/medium person.
Yeah, try choosing Platform: Mobile app

https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=en.wikipedia...
I do it. I don't know how to explain why but these pages sometimes contain more information than people think. Like the critics, key-people, government involvement, controversies, etc. And the best part is that I can trust this information to be neutral and factually correct.
But this promote better flow to Norway that has the hydropower, ultimately making more profit to the Energy Companies there. Sell expensive hydro energy when there is no wind, buy cheap wind energy at night when no pnes need it and pump water to the reservoirs. It would be good to see how this cable was lobbied and some estimates in the gain in profit the multinational energy companies are making. Or did everyone think this was made for bringing energy to UK homes and lower the carbon footprint.
It was ostensibly pried from the cold, dead hands of a Native American not so many decades ago, so at least there’s precedence. A bit more about that: http://mojavedesert.net/mojave-indians/traditional-territory...
I wish there was a Wiki table/website that showed total working hours for many projects
You mean like buckets to hold the water? Those would cost money, but would be a one time purchase.
Author here. Thank you (and others) for mentioning SELECT FOR UPDATE. Definitely missing at least a footnote in the article.

Note that "one step" updates (e.g., SET followers_count = followers_count + 1) are still not in place. They are regular transactional updates that rewrite the entire row. Still, they can achieve higher throughput because there is no application/database roundtrip between locking and committing.
Tractors, Rockets and the Internet in Belarus [video]
we're just not stating the assumption that we mean "if placed in wind and connected to customers who will pay".

It's not very interesting to be asked "what if it is built without consideration".

Same goes for any capital expenditure, ROI is zero if it is unwanted
This is an article from Jan 2022 when we were a company of 10, and now are a company of ~80.

Worth some observations that:

- We're still using Fivetran for the EL stages. Costs are much more significant than they were before and we're looking (for the high volume sources) into options like DataStream as cost savers, but it's not unmanageable.

- dbt is still working great, even if we've done a lot of investment having now built a 5 person data team (BI, DA, DE) around it.

- Still use Metabase but have some frustrations and are considering other options.

- We no longer use Stitch :tada:

There's a post that followed this on improvements we made to our setup that may be interesting: https://incident.io/blog/updated-data-stack

The OP is still full of relevant, useful information, though (imo, of course).
I don't know much about rap, but I do know that dying young makes you very popular. When I was a teenager it was tupac.
I used magrittr %<>% a lot back when I used R on a regular basis. Given that |> made it into the language, a pip-assignment operator doesn't seem too outlandish.
The argument being made is that solar and wind aren't "emission free" .. that they don't waft into our neighbourhood from trees in our backyard.

Everybody (one would hope) understands that about coal, oil, and natural gas.

Many people (it seems) overlook that for wind, solar, and battery technology.

It's akin to ignoring | being wilfully ignorant of what happens to material in the recycle bin.

Think of it more as a plea to remember that all this clean energy comes with a boatload of waste that needs addressing, that is often in other people's backyards, and the you don't get $64 billion US worth of copper without the digging up of what some consider to be sacred ground.
I was confused because the reference counting in the "Why Koka" part (section 2) of the book [1] seemed mismatched, so i looked it up in their reference counting TR [2]. It turns out it uses a seemingly novel approach to reference counting where any function you pass a reference to is responsible for decrementing and possibly freeing that reference. If you need to pass a reference to two functions you have to dup it once.

This makes it possible for fold to free all the Cons cells as it is mapping over it. The reuse analysis is cool, too, with in-place updates of structures that won't be referenced again.

[1] https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html
[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/perceus... (see section 2.2)
Last time I tried to use it (which was quite long ago), it barely had a print function, making it pretty much unusable.
Anyone attending the 2023 version of the talk? Any differences from the 2022 version?
When the government did crack down on a big employer of illegal immigrants, in 2008, there were screams. A prominent Jew did go to jail for years, until pardoned by Trump. That was the last time enforcement got serious.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postville_raid
Japan, Toyota Production System (TPS) is a merger of culture and the work of William Edwards Deming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

The wiki has this line that sums it all up perfectly:

In 1982, Deming's book Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position was published by the MIT Center for Advanced Engineering, and was renamed Out of the Crisis in 1986. In it, he offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but also by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved products and services. "Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment."
> learn as much Mathematics as possible because this is how things work,

I disagree: I spent 10 years in math and theory, ending up in grad school at Berkeley. I took something like 6 semesters of Calculus and I just about never use any of it. It was mostly a waste of my time, and the further it got form computing, the more it was a waste of my time. I certainly regret terribly how much of my time was wasted by listening to those Modern ("pure") Math assholes.

Note that Modern ("Pure") Math is distinct from Numerical ("Applied") Math which is quite useful if you are dealing with physical reality, but it is really just the computing approach again.

The important thing is that whatever abstractions you are studying, that their value is measured by their ability to help you solve problems in _reality_. Abstractions by themselves have no value and the Neo-Platonist belief that they do just makes people pathological. Notice how friendly Numerical Methods people are compared to how nasty Modern Math people are. (Seriously: you can tell people in each field apart just by their personalities.) The feedback loop with _reality_ is what makes the work valuable and the people normal and happy.

Does "infinity plus 1 equal infinity"? I can prove that the first transfinite cardinal, aleph-0, cardinal-plus 1 cardinal-equals aleph-0, whereas, in contrast, the first transfinite ordinal, omega, ordinal-plus 1 does not ordinal-equals omega. That is the formally correct answer according to ZFC (see below). Who cares? It will not help you with anything.

Modern mathematicians teach a formalism called Zermello-Frankl Set Theory Plus Choice (ZFC). It is a terrible abstraction for thinking about reality. In reality the mathematicians are now coming to computing people to ask for help proving their theorems formally using Calculus of Constructions. That shows that the computational approach is better than the mathematical approach. Computing has literally beaten mathematics at its own game.

My former boss ended up as Chair of Computer Science at Stanford. His specialty included formal methods for ensuring software correctness. Pretty mathematical, right? He likes to brag that he cannot remember the formula for the circumference of a circle. That's some pretty basic math to not remember and be a specialist in formal methods at Stanford.

If you want to code, do that. Do not let anyone tell you that any work in reality needs math. It is the other way around: math needs reality or it is just useless junk. Some formal methods may help, but only if it bubbles up from reality. Always make sure you work is in touch with reality. The way to do that is to always work on real problems and only use abstractions that help you with real problems.

In other words, just build something that helps someone solve a problem in reality. Everything else is secondary. Once you see your work help someone in reality, you will never forget it and you will have the path towards a life worth living.
Runestone Monorepo and Server Structure (Python)
The value of canonicity (2020)
Here's docs about Polylith for Python: https://davidvujic.github.io/python-polylith-docs/
As someone that came away confused after reading the article, this was hugely helpful - thanks.
I too come from Blaze and tried to use Bazel for my personal project which involves backend + frontend dockerized, the build rules got weird and niche real quick and I was spending lots of time working with the BUILD files making me question the value against plain old Makefiles, this was 3 years ago, maybe the public ecosystem is better now.