skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard on the news here in Texas that reporters indicated it takes a few days to switch, so while Griddy sent the email, their customers were not able to really act on the advice amidst the crisis.

That said, I think it was bad advice from Griddy for a second reason.

I think they should have told their customers to just go to their house fuse box and shut off their power to avoid the inevitable huge bill.

I'm not sure why others haven't mentioned this but the customers did ultimately have that recourse. This is the unfortunate but logical thing to do when your 6c/kWh bill grows to $9/kWh. And at least you can intermittently turn it back on when needed to heat your house for a short bit, etc which is still better than being totally out for 3 days as many people here were.
As an example, the Netherlands has a population of 17 million people (a fraction of which will be children that may not qualify for vaccination), and has so far only only used the Pfizer vaccine, they have vacinated a whooping total 154,445 healthcare workers and essential services staff.

Everybody is massively overlooking the logistics of the -60 Celsius freezing and the short hours of vaccine viability after thawing the pfizer vaccine from deep freeze.

Your scenario is not a valid discussion point in the real world.

The most important aspect is to get as many people vaccinated as fast as possible with anything safe that can protect us at a rate higher than our own immune system. For anyone not immunosuppresed, decelerating community spread is far more important than whatever individual benefit you are atributing to the efficacy statistics.
I don't know about the US but Barclays in the UK has had multi-factor authentication for years now. Is that not the case in the US?
Stop using this term for people who were not victims of anyone other than themselves, it hurts actual victims.
> The value of the word tax is not limited to government obligations. Not colloquially anyway; a tax is a burden.

This is true. Such a colloquial definition does exist.

However using that definition in a discussion about government and economic policy is a form of dissembling.

> From a mathematical perspective alone, these companies have soaked up immense wealth.

This makes no sense. The concept of ‘soaking up wealth’ is a completely subjective political characterization. It cannot be a mathematical perspective.

> There’s little to go around for infrastructure projects while it’s locked up in private vaults.

What are you talking about when you talk about infrastructure? Is this point about taxing corporations so you can build schools?

If so, that’s nothing to do with what the article (written by Republican politicans) support.

A generalized attack on neoliberalism has nothing to do with the points being made here.

For example, I support the idea of forcing something like bootcamp to be made available for all general purpose computers.
I disagree. You're shifting your "organization" to the frontend which becomes an utter cesspool of chaos. If anything changes in the backend, you will need to change the frontend as well.

The whole point of an API is to decouple. GraphQL does the exact opposite.
How are oral doses tailored for regional pollen allergies? For example, the US Northwest flora is different from the Tennessee Valley flora.
How effective is this against eczema? Without proper insurance, this is a better deal than medications like Dupixent, right?
> Are there fully-functional farms that can operate on 1,400 covered acres?

"Benefit from partial shade" means exactly that. Any 2800-acre farm that welcomes 50% shade, or any four such 700-acre farms, can. But there has thus far been no demand for the technique, because there is in fact no shortage yet of land for 100% coverage. I have personally seen a large number of fully shaded parking lots; I daresay you have, too.

Solar farms do not need 1400 connected acres. Fourteen 100-acre solar farms are more useful, producing a peak 71 MW each. In my immediate area, just recently, a decommissioned 20-acre landfill ("It’s not exactly a tourist area") was turned into a solar farm, producing useful power the very same year as it began construction.
<https://highlandscurrent.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Sunl...>

Canals in India are being roofed over with solar panels, reducing evaporation loss. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Solar_Power_Project> Panels are being floated on hydroelectric dam reservoirs, all over the world, for the same benefit, with easy access to the power grid. Los Angeles could float 175 acres of panels over its municipal reservoir, replacing the black plastic balls it floats today to absorb sunlight that would produce bromates. <https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-s-really-going-on-w...>

Railroad rights-of-way are similarly available.

A large fraction of carbon-neutral power comes from wind turbines, which also have encountered no difficulty locating space to operate, already often shared with existing farms and ranches.

Air compression is familiar tech.

So, the only remaining question is which of the others will turn out to be cheaper than air. Hydrogen is essential feedstock in many industries, where storage and handling have long since been worked out, so synergy may push H2 over the line, particularly once it becomes the dominant aviation fuel. There is of course no difficulty with storing or using ammonia, and similar synergies apply. Modern catalytic methods are much more efficient than traditional Haber-Bosch, Sabatier, or electrolysis processes, so costs are plummeting, and the ultimate winner, if there is only one, is unpredictable. In other words, they are all viable, and getting better.

In all cases the costs are still in free fall, so nukes, as already mature tech, fall progressively farther behind.
Biden Shuts Down Operation Talon That Tracks Down Child Sex Offenders
cause he himself is a pedo, sick fuck needs dick chopped off
It could be that our alphabet was the key to scale.

On a side note is it a coincidence Golang has exactly 27 first class functions?
For the sake of completeness:

"Prisoners released early by software bug (2015)"
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35167191
Bad developers will cost you more.
Perhaps that's just projections of your own insecurities and those words are just simply what come to mind for them or find the most descriptive.

No, it's because I have a degree is Communication, and understand the importance of language in the workplace.

Any "insecurity" is just defensiveness on your part.

Or, to put it in language you might understand: "Troll harder, n00b."
PAKE still require storing verifier on the server, which is basically a password hash. There's no significant difference in security between PAKE and a home-grown implementation that Bitwarden uses with respect to password hash leaks from the server database. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25522361

As for Bitwarden's implementation: it doesn't send the password to the server, it sends, basically, a PBKDF2 hash, which is different from the one used for encryption. The leaked hash can't be used to decrypt the database unless it's bruteforced. However, the protocol is not ideal, there's a weakness that I wrote about here: https://dchest.com/2020/05/25/improving-storage-of-password-...

AFAIK, 1Password uses SRP with PBKDF2 for verifier.
> RSA is half a century old and it's still up to date by modern standards. In fact nobody has came up with anything better.

RSA is currently a minefield of gotchas and few security companies even get it right. Just generating a good key is actually a very difficult task. It is also very computationally slow and has many practical issues for the level of security it provides.

There are many superior replacements in both pqc and elliptic spaces. I would take EdDSA over rsa-pss any day of the week.
that's an interesting point! And the graphql basically obscures a mental model over a broad abstraction, so it's impossible to know exactly what's going on without going through and actually reading the BE code itself. Thanks for the perspective.
This is cool from a Dev who needs help. It feels more like a micro-consultancy or more like a call center model. It is really bad from the Dev who takes the call. If I put myself in the position of the Dev who takes the call, It is pretty crap. Let say average call duration is 3 minutes, that means I have to take 20 calls/hr. Thats 20 context-switches per hour. I have worked at call centers, after first few calls in a day, people are just not motivated enough to help. There is going to be mental fatigue for the developer who is helping.
As long as one believes that chronic covid does not exist or alter one's life expectancy and the comfort of the elderly is our top priority then yes. Once the olds are safe the virus shall run wild through the young.
Recent non-capitalist political systems aren't any better at stewarding the environment, so maybe it's something else about humans.
Are you serious? Even something that would be considered "bad" argon2 set-up is far better than anything that is based on SHA256.

Modern GPUs and ASICs can perform millions of SHA operations per second, even with a poorly configured Argon2, you reduce that massively.
I believe the data is uplinked through orbiters than relayed back from there.
I like the idea of promoting better ideas (love instead of hate), but looking around I feel like that has failed recently with Parler, QAnon, etc all being proof.

Maybe the problem is the media (and social media) which is the vast vast majority of where ideas are promoted, and neither is where positive ideas get promoted. I’m not quite sure why that is - must have something to do with human nature.
> Actually, we are referred to as "offenders" because the terms "inmate" and "convict" are considered offensive.

Odd. I would think "offender" would be much more offensive than either "convict" or "inmate". The "convict" label may be in dispute in some cases, e.g. pre-trial or with a case undergoing appeal, but it's hard to argue with the fact that someone is (rightly or wrongly) an inmate of a prison. To me, of the three, "offender" sounds the most like a pejorative personal judgement rather than a neutral summation of undisputed facts.
HiRise captured the whole shebang: An image with the lander, heat shield, descent stage, and parachute. The descender is always a big black smear after these things, which is quite sad.

I'm looking for the link, but the NASA TV feed had it.
Hi HN!

I am glad to share Recursive with you. It is a minimalistic puzzle game where you create short programs to instruct robots to collect all gems.

I think many people here may enjoy it. So I am available if you have any questions and will appreciate your feedback.
Look at gas prices: 286 gwei for a fast (2m or less) transaction is pretty costly. It's not an effective smart contract platform when transaction fees are high AND there are viable alternatives.

https://ethgasstation.info/

So looking at eth market cap vs btc market cap is apples vs oranges. You should look at smart contract market cap as a sector which includes BNB, DOT, ADA, and others.

Why is BTC > ETH? BTC is like digital gold and investors are buying BTC instead of bonds and other typical safeguards against inflation.
Wow, I just checked out this discussion! The links and references are wonderful!

I am definitely going to become a developer for KaTeX now! :-)

You also gave me a lot more solid information to step up my game as an electrical engineering student who uses braille.

You are a real MVP! :)
> I wonder if the Go team has determined any way to mitigate these long-running GC pauses for apps that don't allocate often since this article was published.

Go 1.12 might have addressed this particular issue [0, 1], but it's possible that that came out too late for Discord to try before deciding to rewrite the service.

[0]: From Go 1.12 patchnotes: "Go 1.12 significantly improves the performance of sweeping when a large fraction of the heap remains live."

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/eywx4q/why_discord_...
> and slow down inflation

What inflation? CPI has been absurdly flat for years, despite all the QE and pandemic relief funds. Inflation is only showing up in property and securities.
Evidently there is no problem then.
Its not a bug
I used to provide services like this, but at a much higher rate. $60/hr is not competitive at all, especially if you're charging by the minute without a minimum of at least one hour.
Here's a recording of the martian wind from one of the rover microphones https://soundcloud.com/nasa/first-sounds-from-mars-filters-o...
I recently found this video of Billy Gibbons performing in the street in Helsinki without anyone noticing. I like that he becomes less recognizable when not wearing sunglasses.

https://youtu.be/YHUQNxggT_k
No perfect solutions there. If there was perfect quarantine, we would still lose additional lives from suicide, domestic violence, etc. from the increased stress. There is definitely a balance to be struck, and making sure we have capacity to treat all of the sick seems to be as good as any.
Banks might not support u2f but they pretty universally support some form of 2FA (I think certain things like PCI require it but not sure on exact regs)

It might not be quite as good but email 2FA behind U2F protected email gets you pretty close
> Send ISO date/time in utc

what's an ISO date/time?
Much older than that. The blackly humorous 1965 short story "Computers Don't Argue" by Gordon R. Dickson is pretty much the definitive "software as a bureaucracy" story. No spoilers - it's short and well worth it:

https://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=133
In case the other thread doesn't make the front page, they also added a microphone to this lander and managed to capture the sound of Mar's wind, which to me is almost more amazing:

https://soundcloud.com/nasa/first-sounds-from-mars-filters-o...
Folding Drone Can Drop into Inaccessible Mines
It's sinking and raising of the continents that's the problem. There's little point in hiding in a underground bunker if that bunker ends up in the middle of the Atlantic ocean.
Small percentages of people suffer complications from many different types of illnesses. At a certain point, human beings simply have to live with a small chance of a bad outcome from ailments that are normally mild.
Is there a similar site where you can put a dollar bounty on a solution for faster service? There have been SO questions where I would have paid for faster attention.
>Try climbing a 10%+ incline clipped in vs flats. You might be more tired at the top of the hill clipped in, but with flats you'll likely spin out and be forced to hike your bike.

Doesn't "spinning out" mean your power output is bottlenecked because you can't move your legs fast enough? It only happens when your gear is too low. I don't see how that's possible while climbing, regardless of what pedals you use. I ride with flats, and there's a 10% incline hill not far from where I live. I've climbed it several times (at about walking pace) and never had any problem.
A question here, it seems like the flow is:

1. I post a question.

2. Someone elects themselves as a candidate to answer that question.

3. I receive notification of the candidate and approve them

4. A call happens

Do you have any idea around what sort of time lag would be inherent in each step? Do you expect steps 1-4 to happen within a half-hour window and thus be mostly instantaneous as far as phone interactions go or could it go longer?

If you expect a quick response then I don't know if your rates are high enough to keep people actively watching the question board instead of checking in a few times a day - if not then I think the usability of the product may suffer since scheduling the call could become problematic. If I have a meeting in an hour should I bother trying to set up this call or do I need to wait until I have several free consecutive hours?
I was hoping for the same, but at 9.5km away, and with a decelerating speed of 150m/s we wouldn't see but only a pixel.

I wonder if they have the time/it's in their plan to send the bot over to record where it landed, the state that it's in, etc. If they want to simulate assess the damage, it would be cheaper to make heat shield 50 of them on Earth and drop them from 10-15km. I assume that every minute is gold and they already got a X-days meter-by-meter plan on what to do with little room for free exploration.
> the JIT needs warmup just like java

You can use ReadyToRun[0] to pre-JIT portions of the code for faster startup. Full AOT compilation is in the works too[1] albeit it's still experimental.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/ready...

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/tree/feature/NativeAOT
I spent days, a few years ago, trying to figure out how to do that. When I asked on the IRC channel, they just made fun of me.

Perhaps that's changed, but it put me off the language entirely.
Good, this is precisely the objective.
> the idea of consumers responding to energy prices is nice, but has some pretty glaring issues

I am a high-income New Yorker. If this were available to me, and if I could (a) set a cap past which I lose power or, preferably, (b) hedge by buying power call options, I’d take it. (Depending on the cost of (b).)

That said, it’s a complicated financial product. We don’t sell derivatives, structured products and alternative assets to the poor. (Robinhood et al aside.) Power shouldn’t be an exception.
It's tragic that the wrong noun is offensive and staff is taught to use the "right" terms, but being not being released on time... Well, sorry, the software says you stay, you stay, even if everyone realised it's a software "bug" (or outdated software).
This link is content-poor blogspam about something not particularly noteworthy from a year ago. Please flag it.

Here is the (January 2020) UC Davis press release: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/anti-solar-cells-photovoltaic-c...

And here is the paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00679
Why aviation?

Why design first (solution looking for problem)?
Offer the user the choice for other solutions with a performance penalty?

Choice is always better. for people who care\worry, they can change to something more resistant to cracking.
> The U.S. keeps consolidating, the "spin" is that it's all about lower costs to the consumer by allowing "scale", when it reality it's just about monopoly power and the ultra rich getting richer and more powerful.

This is happen all over the world, it's not an American thing.

> A two party government.

Doesn't matter if the number of parties is 2 or 20. The problem is: the government doesn't have limits.

Two things we urgently need, IMO:
- An improved and very aggressive antitrust law.
- Dramatically reduce what a government can or can't do.

Without those two things, I don't hold too much hope of living in a free world.
Boston Dynamics not happy about killer-robot image
This headlining issue is a specification change and it is an administrative rather than an engineering failure to knowingly rely on outdated software. The article also refers to other software problems but in scenarios like this the people who write the code (as well as the people who operate it, such as corrections department IT staff) tend to have no decision making power whatsoever:

>“It was Thanksgiving weekend,” one source recalled. “We were killing ourselves working on it, but every person associated with the software rollout begged (Deputy Director) Profiri not to go live.”
http://www.thinkecoinc.com/

These guys used to do this in NYC.... would let ConEd turn off your AC in the middle of the summer

(Under the hood it's an IOT zigbee hub)
The issue is that if an attacker can eavesdrop on a compromised authentication server, then it can record user's master-key and thus he will be able to impersonate user without issues until the password gets changed (i.e. the derived master-password is actually plays role of a password now). With PAKE this issue simply does not exist.
I'm not sure we can really say "smart consumers aware of the risk." Isn't it more like "Opportunistic customers who hoped the risks were immaterial beat a path . . . "

Out of morbid curiosity, during a long drive this weekend, I listened to 20 minutes of an AM radio guy's pitch for some retirement annuity system that sounded quite sweet at first. As he kept talking, though, I realized that he was being very evasive about what happens if you die early. Connecting the dots - he keeps all your assets. No survivor benefits at all.

I used to do financial investigative reporting. I was looking for the catch. And it nearly glided past me. Ditto for disclosing the full details about the maximum caps on your electricity charges.

These promoters are masters at smooth, low-candor discussions of risk. They're what make the pendulum keep swinging back and forth between deregulation and re-regulation.
Surely you're the enlightened one and everyone you know is willfully blind.

Or maybe they're pragmatic and begrudgingly accept that to maintain any semblance of modern life, they have to participate in however society functions *now*.

I'm in no position, financial or otherwise, to go off-grid, ride my bike everywhere, delete my car, home cook every meal with locally grown ingredients. Or to decrease my energy consumption through buying less VPS time, buying and using test equipment, parts, protypes made overseas with no pollution regulations. I can do better than I'm doing now, but not by much unless there truly is some massive, global-level, snap-of-the-fingers change. Reason being, if I do, it's essentially self-harm, like a social suicide. I suffer, I lose jobs, contracts, my livelihood, relationships, etc while the rest of the world happily moves on without me. Which yeah, it fits the idea of your of complaint.

The majority of your acquaintances who you've written off as stuck in the dark ages don't have the ability to make the extraordinary changes that you demand for removing that label. Your statement was more philosophical than demanding specific action, but ignoring the reality of humans and human society so you can shit on us from your tower is not helpful.
Because in addition to receiving their at cost payment, they'd also receive a fixed monthly fee. The power supplier would essentially sell call options to the electricity retailer.
Raph Koster had a lot to do with both Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies. In some ways he's as influential as Lord British in this space.

https://www.raphkoster.com/games/books/postmortems/

He has a book called Postmortems where he compiled essays (many found on his web page) about his early days writing MUDs and developing fantasy worlds, including UO and SWG.
Austen Allred- $400B Clubhouse, Peloton replacing religion, and more
Thing is that the free market approach just doesn't work in markets where there's only a few players and the cost of entering the market is extremely high. Simply there's no enough competition to make things actually competitive. That's why google provides no support and shuts down peoples accounts without warnings... they can, they just don't give a shit. They know they will not loose any clients over that, and in the end that attitude detriments the quality of services for both viewers and content producers (and especially them).