skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of suboptimal analyses.

The human isn't a single core, 100% pegged on that task for those 20 minutes. Even actively working at something that energy consumption is likely to be less than 10% of that. There's a whole lot of energy being burned by the cardiovascular system, respiratory, digestive and renal, endocrine, muscular system (all that typing, moving and focusing of the eyes), and we haven't even got to the energy of the "OS" execution in the brain to control all that.

I don't think your numbers are the insight you think they are, nor accurate - not even particularly close.
Spoken like a true American. Despite the name, the BTU is an American customary unit, used almost exclusively in America for measuring the power of air conditioners. In practice, it's not quite extinct in the UK as gallons are, but it's on the way.
No.

AI is what we've called things far simpler for a far longer time. It's what random users know it as. It's what the marketers sell it as. It's what the academics have used for decades.

You can try and make all of them change the term they use, or just understand it's meaning.

If you do succeed, then brace for a new generation fighting you for calling it learning and coming up with yet another new term that everyone should use.
> until you realise there is a built-in assumption of 4,000 kWh/month homes.

No idea where you got that figure - you're off by a factor of four.

https://www.google.com/search?q=US+electic+usage+per+home

For example:

> The U.S. Energy Information Administration notes that the average homeowner used about 914 kWh per month in energy

and https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/electricit...

It should be noted that the average for an apartment unit in most of the country is half that, and a substantial portion (40%) of the US population lives in apartments.
> At the end of the last century, coal was used to generate more than 95% of the UK's energy, but last year it had fallen to 1%.

That looks like an impressive change, even if the coal use hasn't been replaced with renewables. But looking up details, the 95% number doesn't appear to be true:

- "Energy mix of UK"[1] shows no time when coal was above ~55%, and even total fossil fuel use was over 95% in 1965, not around the year 2000. But this may be total energy use, not just for electric (not sure).

- "UK electricity production by source"[2] shows that around the year 2000 fossil fuels made up perhaps about 70% of the mix.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Energy_mix_of_UK.svg
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UK_electricity_production...
Cartridges didn't actually get that big for years though. When actual cartridge size started surpassing 100 megabits (12.5 MB) in 1992 or so, an additional screen reading "The 100 Mega Shock!" would appear.

Even at 100 megabits or less, the Neo-Geo cartridges were still huge. SNES cartridges started out at 4 megabits.
Show HN: Ripoff – Generate fake data in PostgreSQL from YAML
Hello all!

This is my first time sharing a project here - I built ripoff, a fake data generator for PostgreSQL that goes from templated yaml files to rows in your database.

In my personal and professional work I found that fake data was usually either generated in the application layer, which is awkward and slow(er than SQL), or way too focused on random generation resulting in a database full of data that’s unsavory for humans.

ripoff is built for cases where you know the shape of your data, like local development, integration testing, and setting up demos. Unlike other fake data generators ripoff isn’t aware of your schema or app, so it feels more like writing templated SQL than using a DSL.

The yaml format is a map of unique identifiers to column values, where column values can be literal strings, references to other rows, or functions that generate random data.

All random data generated by ripoff requires an explicit seed, which is neat because re-running ripoff will always generate the same content. That determinism enables ripoff to perform upserts when re-run on the same database, so you don't have to wipe your DB after editing fake data.

Here’s a complex but real world example of what a ripoff file might look like: https://github.com/mortenson/ripoff/blob/main/testdata/real_...

I just published it so there’s some rough edges, but you should be able to give it a try with any project that uses PostgreSQL! Information on installation and use can be found in the README.

Thanks and let me know what you think!
Turns out the sheer amount of hardware in the Neo Geo and cartridges does kinda explain the price of everything around it! (Too bad about the game library...)
> Brief history lesson: the U.S. Constitution gave the federal government strong, broad powers after the abysmal failure of the Articles of Confederation demonstrated the abject uselessness of a weak central government. Thus, for the first 2 centuries of U.S. history, powers were assumed to belong to the federal government unless explicitly carved out.

Respectfully, this is not history, this is a fiction. The Constitution was designed to be stronger than the Articles of Confederation but it was not intended to assign powers to the federal government by default. On the contrary, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution (ratified in 1791) uses almost the exact inverse of the language you use to take all powers not explicitly granted the Federal government and grant them instead to the states:

> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The States were sold on the idea that something stronger than the Articles of Confederation was needed but that they would still maintain a large degree of sovereignty. The history of the first two centuries of the US is one where the powers that the states initially retained were gradually moved into the Federal government.

We can debate whether or not that process was a good thing (I think in general it was, with exceptions), but you're arguing from a foundation of an alternate history and I don't really know how to proceed from there.
The curious piece of this is that every instance of deflation that I've actually experienced in my life has been a good thing.

Working class Americans now have flat screen TVs and smartphones because of massive deflation in the prices of consumer technology. Technological advancements have also been deflationary in lots of less-obvious ways like energy efficient appliances, zero-commission stock trading or medical imaging machinery.

A million dollar super-computer of a couple decades ago now rivals the power of a smartphone. It's largely a regulatory and cultural failure that's prevented us from driving down the cost of housing through technology.
Laundry day, nothing to wear
That is a difficult escalation. When talking to your boss, it's almost always better to be discussing the solution to business problems, specifically those that are financially incentivized goals of your boss.

Talking about other problems, and suddenly you're 'that' guy. The boss might stop listening even and decide you are the problem, and not the fugly baby.
Study suggests connection between anxiety and Parkinson's disease
"So moderate cigar and pipe smoking ought to be regarded as within the realm of acceptable risk"

I believe that you have the right to come to this personal conclusion, but I do not think it is true, as a general statement.

(also please be consciousness about where you smoke, other people might not share your enjoyment)
As far as I could tell from a few minutes of googling the emergency stations were at West Burton, but both have been decommissioned as of 31st March this year.
Nam Shub!
Ideally this would be run within a k8s cluster, to easily fit with the other services.
While some Tiptap Pro extensions would have made things a little easier, I appreciate that the core and majority of the extensions are open source. It has the building blocks to create custom extensions without limits.

Docmost does not depend on any Pro Tiptap extensions.

The team at Tiptap are doing something really amazing. I believe it is fair that they find avenues to make revenue from it.

I like Lexical, but I found Tiptap first and loved it.
I think your service should not exist, that the advocating the enforcement of ignorance is pretty close to Evil, and that providing a paid service to do it actually is Evil. With the capital.

Obviously not everyone agrees, so perhaps you'll have happy customers. If I ever meet their victims I will take great delight in teaching them how to fix their routing and avoid your service.

Good luck finding better uses for your abilities.
This would increase the complexity, but you could always run something like rqlite [0], even if only for the items that require distribution and synchronization.

Or if you truly only need to store simple values in a distributed fashion, you could probably use etcd for that part.

[0]: https://rqlite.io/
I remember biking to elementary school in 1989/90. I was in fifth grade and loved the freedom. After school, I’d go back home to say hi to mom and then off I was to the mall in my bike. Those were the days …
Lie detection algorithms disrupt the social dynamics of accusation behavior
I think modern war also truncates decision making, things happen fast, you need computers to crunch the numbers and update battle field realities.
> I'm not a sociologist, but I think the degree to which people can't turn it off maps fairly well onto the "low-high trust society" continuum

We're not fully aligned here....I'm thinking more like: stop (or ~isolate/manage) non-intentional cognition, simulated truth formation, etc.....not perfectly in a constant, never ending state of course, but for short periods of time, near flawlessly.
That's a very narrow view, to the point of being flat-out wrong. I was a CISO. Before that, I was a staff platform engineer who wrote the software other people would be evaluating.

I never, not once, pushed an upstream dev to fix a thing. I provided plenty of PRs over the years. If they didn't get merged, we maintained our own locally patched version.

My job was to find a way for us all to do as little as possible to meet our security goals. Those goals were lofty and sometimes that turned out to require quite a bit of work. But we never, ever, made our problem someone else's problem.

You see the CISOs that are a pain in the ass. You don't see the ones quietly going about their business trying to make the world a little safer.
From the article: “We estimate that without wind, the butterflies could have flown a maximum of 780 km [485 miles] before consuming all their fat and, therefore, their energy.”

So they can fly 485 miles without wind? that is still an unbelievably long way!
That does not sound like they wanted to change the definition of “free software”, only rename it. And “free software”, as (originally, and still) defined by the FSF, has always required permitting commercial use.
“Practically everyone knows what veganism is, but vegans are actually a very small minority.

There are more Americans with gambling addictions than there are people committed to vegan diets!”

Chart: https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1805367282270433791?s=4...
Show HN: Free Online Note Taker
Hey HN community,
Yesterday I developed a simple online note taking app. Please share your feedback and let me know which features you would like to see included!
At least they got rid of their nice clean nukes.
If you are spiritual but not religious, how do you want to die?
Well, I would like to loose that bet and do all I can that I would loose it. So sorry, I am not betting against my interests ..
That is fair. Two things to validate from a biz perspective:

1. Is there some threshold where this would make sense financially (n billions of messages.)

2. Are the extra developer features (ie, larger message sizes, observability, DAGs) worth it for people to switch?

Would love your thoughts - what, if anything, would make you even entertain moving to a different queue system?
I mean, think about how fulfilling life with a kid is, given how parents have this recurring problem
The point is that media hype predicted 500 of the last 2 technological revolutions... and only missed 1 or 2.

(And well, the OP's example of the internet is one that they missed.)
Related:

LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33969490 - Dec 2022 (153 comments)

Lossless-cut: The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24883030 - Oct 2020 (10 comments)

LosslessCut – Save space by quickly and losslessly trimming video files - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22026412 - Jan 2020 (1 comment)

Show HN: LosslessCut – Cross-platform GUI tool for fast, lossless video cutting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12885585 - Nov 2016 (33 comments)
The problem with the initial response and why it was basically bad faith is that the definition of the word "whistleblower" can be broad, and it also is fairly unrelated to the central point.

So when the other person brought that up, as well as when you are arguing about it, what you are doing is being both wrong on the point and pendant in a way that is irrelevant to the central thesis.

Instead of trying to claim that someone was wrong about 1 single word, the good faith way of approaching the argument would be to talk about the thesis, which was that it wasn't really a "conspiracy" when the US government absolutely had strong motivation to go after him.

The word "whistleblower" which has multiple meaning is basically irrelevant.

And his original justification, of using a Google search definition, is absolutely valid.

Or, it is at least valid enough that I don't think you are justified in being upset about a perfectly normal way of using a word.

Especially when the use of the word, that is supported by Google, is irrelevant to the thesis statement.
Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer advocates warn
The score is mechanically calculated from the reported properties of the vulnerability, and heavily weights the breadth of possible attack vectors. That RCE vulnerability reports that the attacker must be adjacent to the targeted system; this one would be an 8.8 as well if it had that limitation.
"Critical: your Google Maps API key is visible in your web page as required."
So be more optimistic than your comments lead you to be. Pragmatically speaking, the manufacturing learning and deployment curves speak for themselves.

Humans suck around this urgent transformation need, but renewables and storage are a freight train that can’t be stopped, based on all available evidence.
Conway's law.

REST/GraphQL is the result of different teams/orgs working on frontend and backend.

Backend-for-frontend/Remix is the result of the same team working on frontend and backend.
Meanwhile, I walked 1km to Kindergarten on my own with 51/2 in Germany.
IBM still wishes we were in the mainframe age where a single vendor had supreme authority and maintenance fees rule the day. You can say that many of today's SaaS vendors have similar sway in their more niche markets but none have the almost complete dominance of their market as did / does in some places IBM.
From observation over the years, one that has supports/can use a gui interface that a newbie can use to build things (postgress, sqlite, libreoffice) without need to have coding/db coding knowledge. Ideally, one that has support for what's being used to build the web app (aka .net, python, ruby, etc), forms/reports, etc.

IMHO, pre-built/ready made content relation management tool (crm) would seem to match what's been stated.

For just straight up dumping contacts in a table without considering data/security issues:

a) https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/announcing-sqlpage-build-dynamic-web-applications-in-sql-2672/

b) https://execsql.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

c) https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/html_node/index.html

tutorial : https://gist.github.com/gmolveau/6be062d9b9005cf985cda98dabdf0baa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=A1whwi-Gc0Y

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Misc postgres gui tools : https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Community_Guide_to_PostgreS...
No public demo yet, but I can create a temporary one for you if you email (in bio) me.
kids wearing baloney mask.jpg

Nice someone exploring this, but seems like priority should be on eyes/lips movement. The leap Valve made to make avatars more believable by improving those domains is much larger than SSS and other efforts to increase skin realism a decade later.
Because that only goes back to 1965 and we've been burning coal since the 19th century..?
QNX Muon removed the global kernel lock so it has much better multi-core performance.
>I reflashed the BIOS to kill the whitelist

Still boggles my mind that people praise ThinkPads as an option for those looking for repairability and upgradability while casually talking about the built-in BIOS whitelist designed to block all that.

To me that means an instant black ball.

It's cool hackers are patching this out, but this anti-consumer feature should not be present in the first place in something people recommend.
There is NO market where “ASIL” is required.
Of course if something happens you better have a safety case as described in the ISO26262, or a good excuse.
That being said, that a system has a safety case according to ISO26262 ASIL D, does bot mean at all that all pieces must be certified.

Currently working in a project where ASIL D is reached by having an independent microcontroller, whatching out the whole QM mess.
What I think goes wrong periodically with our Grafana Loki on restarts
Well, modern IT seems to be the best tool to coordinate... And most potential WFH people actually are in or anyway use, so should at least know enough, such powerful tool...

My fear is that people today is unable to unite in general, for no matter what.
Scientists Just Discovered a New Formula for Pi Accidentally [video]
I think that the stuff they are putting out on sourcefirst.com is more of a formal treatment of their licensing terms and how they work. The stuff there is versioned iterations of something. They also bought the trademark for the term. They clearly want to lock it in as a set of standards.
Are you insane, talking like that to this kind of person? Of course he would. He was killing people since his work in KGB, where he most likely worked with Red Army Faction, he was facilitating cocaine trade through Saint Petersburg port in 1990s and worked with most bloody and violent crime families of the city.

Russians dying in this war might have been one of his direct goals, as this cements Ukrainians as enemies and bolsters how legitimacy.
Going by https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/decisions-overru...

Cumulative years of precedent overturned by year:

2009-2010 38

2011-2012 0

2013-2014 11

2015-2016 83

2017-2018 166

2019-2020 278

2021-2022 81

This does not include the latest ones. There are other upticks going back further, but the point is that you cannot say that all courts are the same.
> switch (i) case 1: puts("i = 1");

I've seen this in the wild, particularly with macros.

#define assert(c) if (!c) ...

if (foo) assert(...);
else bar(); // oops!
> In a country of 350 million, the only two selections are Trump and Biden?

Trump is a baffling choice of candidate for how bad and utterly unsuited it was.

Trump is a candidate who won an election thanks to a massive wave of foreign interference and, even though he was handed a nearly ideal set of circumstances, fumbled his term so hard that lost an election as the incumbent against a lackluster challenger.

On top of that historical show of incompetence, who already earned him a the top spot in the ranking of most incompetent US presidents in US history, there's hi coup attempt to force the US into a fascist dictatorship which included plans to assassinate his own vice president along with other political rivals.

If that is not enough, there is his criminal history and spiral into dementia.

This is the best that the Republican Party managed to pick among it's ranks as their best and brightest.

I'm convinced that the Democratic party only entertained the idea of pushing Biden due to a) being a sitting president and incumbent, who historically tends to ensure second terms, b) his outstanding tenure as president even though circumstances were far from ideal, c) and the high-stakes risk of allowing the US to succumb to the push for a fascist regime.
Reading this article I’m left wondering why it’s considered socially acceptable for a security researcher to frequently open reports against open source software projects without accompanying those reports with a diff fixing the vulnerability?

Maybe we should start expecting accompanying patches as a “proof of work” scheme for CVEs?

I understand that finding vulnerabilities is a different skillset than fixing them, but as Offensive Security says: “Try Harder”
The "Wrens" was a division of women Navy sailors who played WW2 war games to identify how German UBoats were so successful. Played many scenarios, and replayed events after attacks to understand German tactics. Would get called in to game out live events as they were happening to decide upon the next day's strategy. Arguably led to enormous increases in British naval effectiveness.

One little writeup I could find on it: https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/real-li... . Little blurb from the page:

The Game, as it was to become known, took over the top floor of the building, which came to look like a cross between a school gym and a child’s nursery. The floor was covered in linoleum and divided into painted sectors. On this make-believe ocean, the Wrens moved miniature convoys – model merchant ships and their battleship chaperones – according to directions given by the officers taking part in the exercise. But while the Wrens were permitted a bird’s eye view of the play area, the naval captains were allowed only occasional peeks through holes in canvas booths, arranged at the side of the playing field, positioned to recreate the limitations of visibility at sea.
...During the post-mortem that followed each game, all of the players would be treated to a bird’s eye view of the battle. The officers could at last see the tracks of the U-boats drawn on the floor in green chalk, set against the movements of their own ships drawn in white, and learn from the umpires whether or not they had managed to sink any submarines. Often, the officers would realise that they had made numerous dreadful mistakes during the Game, which might have resulted in the loss of their ships in earnest combat.
There is nobody more entitled than the American driver. Anything anyone does pisses them off. They won't be happy until the Pave The Earth movement is finally complete.
That seems a bit cowardly. People bet against their interests all the time and that’s called hedging.

Eg I bet on the President that would be worse for me a decade ago. Winning some money took off all the sting
I'm glad I could help. Thank you for your kindness.
No, there is no safe amount of cigar consumption.

“Consistent data from all identified cohort and case-control studies indicate a significantly elevated risk for oral and pharyngeal cancer associated with cigar use, with evidence of a dose-dependent relation. Coupled with biologic mechanisms that likely are very similar to those involved in cigarette-related carcinogenesis, the available evidence strongly supports the conclusion that cigar use is a cause of cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx.”

This is one of many negative health effects from cigar consumption, including overall mortality, cardiovascular disease, lung, bladder, and head/neck cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and periodontal disease risk. You can evaluate your own risk, but tobacco consumption seems like there is no “safe” amount of consumption according to broad literature reviews.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK586217/