Tell HN: Happy New Year
Either I'm late or I missed it but just in case, Happy 2023 to all of you and yours.
Picking up skating was also causally responsible for getting me to quit unneccessary drinking (they're incompatible choices), so I endorse the sentiments in this thread. I think they're smart ideas. Work hard at your goals!
Happy New Year!
It is now mine.
At precisely 9:58 PM I have scheduled "The Apartment" to begin playing on my TV. If you do the same you'll enjoy the synchronization when midnight drops. (And what a great film from 1960.)
00:30, air raid sirens went off, and more explosions.
Looks like a country-wide alarm is in place right now.
I wish you didn't have to go through all of this...
Best wishes and Good Hunting from a Brit looking for revenge for the attack on my local town (Salisbury). Good people here are working night and day to support the fight against Russia and I hope we see continued progress in 2023.
Victory can't come soon enough!
Just posted a screenshot on Masto of per-database blocks, rows and i/o info.
https://data-folks.masto.host/@maxganz/109610845679613726
That info is going to be available for databases, nodes, slices, groups, and users, on a per-cluster and per-database basis level (with two exceptions - no blocks/rows info for cluster-level groups or users, because you can't know at the cluster level which users own which table).
"This struggle will define in what world our children and grandchildren will live, and then their children and grandchildren." - Zelensky
Slava Ukraini!
About 10 minutes after midnight, there were broad, flicking flashes of light from the north, which were in the dark lighting the clouds up, and you can see the light from pretty far away. I'm guessing it was related to the incoming volley of drones. This was about 20 minutes before the air raid warnings went off.
I think that the most impactful thing HN:ers outside of Ukraine/Russia can do is to politically push for more and better weapons to be sent to Ukraine, from whatever country you live in. Please do that. I think we often underestimate our political influence.
> Oil and gas industry, Perth, Western Australia.
Oh. Wonder why that is.
Apart from your absolutely incredible take on my character - my business area has really profited from the war:
https://www.ft.com/content/7a70cee3-2891-4012-a22d-36363fadd...
"Woodside said that its revenue increased to $5.9bn in the September quarter, up 70 per cent from the previous quarter and a significant jump from the $1.6bn that the Perth-based company reported in the same quarter last year... ...Oil and gas companies have enjoyed a streak of record profits thanks to soaring energy prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."
I read Orwell's 1984 in high school, and I never believed that we'd go there until now.
You can quote Orwell all day long but if you don't understand that one part of his view was that not standing up to tyranny and playing along with those that will eventually plow you under then you probably should go re-read that book as well.
Apologies, insert 'is a mistake' between 'under then'.
It is a bit hard to be well informed, since there are no "approved" journalists reporting from these territories. The only Western journalists there that I know of (Anne-Laure Bonnel, Anna Lipp and the rather hack-ish Patrick Lancaster) are not given much exposure on the mainstream channels. If you have not heard what they have to say, I suggest you correct that before warmongering any further.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/world/europe/zelensky-jou...
Maybe you should see what they have to say. Even if it contradicts the story that YOU would like to be true.
You're the one engaging in Orwellian doublespeak. Enslavement is negotiation. Tyranny is peace. Sacrificing another country from the comfort of your Australian home is peacemaking.
If Orwell were alive he'd throw his gin and tonic in your face and tell you never to utter his name again.
Also, "ignorance is strength".
Yeah, OK. Bye.
Time to put the ear-plugs in and get some sleep.
Night all!
Spent the last 30 minutes watching searchlights play on the clouds and surface-to-air missiles rising into the night sky. Got a little footage, but have learned I need to set infinite focus at night (the points of light in shot are blurry, as the camera cannot focus).
I saw four shots fired in total, after the third there was a white flash in the sky, where I would think they hit their mark.
I'm always optimistic and I believe humans will do good thing. Looking forward to more advancement in AI, curing cancer, moving to more cleaner energy.
Going to watch some good ol star wars my girlfriend and enjoy my Macallan sherry oak 18
Happy New Year to all - let's hope 2023 proves less eventful than 2022 was (for all the wrong reasons)
Worse for the people up north, though - the town of Kirkenes right next to our border with Russia is actually east of Istanbul. They, too, are in GMT+1.
I get to spend NYE removing everything from a flooded basement in preparation for someone to come in and give an estimate on the damage, not until Monday since the holidays.
Probably caused by the cold snap recently (got to -33 wind chill here), but it wasn't discovered for a few days, so it's already getting moldy down there, I have to wear a bunch of protection, and I have asthma, so I'm sure this is all great for it.
I'm sure it won't be cheap either. I've seen online the average cost for this stuff is $7500.
So 2023 is off to an amazing start for me.
I hope each of you have a very happy New Years’ celebration, and that all of our Ukrainian friends stay safe.
Deadmou5 came to St Louis, so I’ll be getting tipsy tonight to some EDM. :)
Have a good evening!
There’s something satisfying about seeing technology make a tiny miracle happen.
Have a great night Jacques, and thanks for the wonderful conversations over the last decade!
And in case you missed a post from yesterday, here are some seasonal greetings made with EndBASIC: https://repl.endbasic.dev/?run=jmmv/flakes.bas :D
(My issue was binging, not full blown alcoholism, but I tended to do that around stangers and it's bad to be drinking alone if for no other reason than calories -- same reason I don't keep chips in my house, heh, so why not keep the streak going I figure? But maybe should make part of it to move to a state where weed is legal -- PA's medical card system is extremely messed up, rife with corruption, abuse, and mismanagement to the point it's effectively unregulated due to the lack of federal oversight inherent to such as thing paired with bleating to "call the police if you sense a scam" -- police who act out even when under a federal consent decree in my city of birth.)
Edit: I guess the above was not diplomatic. I'll try harder in the new year :-)
I found out he died when the guy who used to beat up the other homeless got back out of prison and showed up outside my PO box once again. I gave up on calling USPIS for that kind of thing long ago, and just handle things on my own, the police are absolutely useless unless there's a body lying on the street, and even then it better be a pretty white girl before anyone puts up a poster...
To swing it back to the drinking: it was more about anxiety to be honest. When I was young I'd eat a bunch of donuts at funeral luncheons or whatever, in a bar it was a bunch of Guiness -- I worry that stuff like AA gives people a license to go hog wild if they slip up a bit, I've met people with eating disorders who similarly freak out if they mess up some metric... it's not good to put people into all or nothing thinking, it makes them chase losses.
Anyways, my resolution was to be more diplomatic, and I'm already breaking that, so sorry -- I'm off to try and finish some writing. (Writing code just gets me into trouble, heh.)
Best wishes to you in 2023.
- Greg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34192647 1 day ago
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2022 saw my net worth decrease by 90 percent as my newly ipo’d company's stock tumbled.
Hoping the new year brings some better results!
+1 for better results.
Let's see if the Boston Harbor fireworks are any good.
Either that or go back to the big bang and solve all those conversion problems in one go.