skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If ISPs tried than the public would pressure the government to drop the law.

I calculate with 50% reduction from compression (After the required back-ups to comply with the law the number will be much worse for the ISP). That somone on VM 500Mbits using less than 10% of their connection for this could increase their log size by 200GB per day or 73TB over the 12 months.
See What Others Are Missing with the Wide Lens
The article is dated 2007, and much more has been learned about the WMAP cold spot in the past almost fifteen years.

Tracing out how the very earliest structures in the CMB compare with much more recent galaxy filaments (and the voids between the dense filaments) is an interesting area of research, and there will be open questions for many years to come as galaxy surveys at different redshifts produce observational data.

(All the galaxies will be at a lower redshift than the CMB cold spot, and it is a good guess that the CMB cold spot reflects an arrangement of matter much closer to the hot big bang or cosmic inflation than that. Perhaps one day our descendants will be able to examine the cosmic neutrino background to see if it too has a comparable cold spot, and the same with primordial gravitational radiation; alternatively perhaps they will discover that later-time physics distorted the CMB very slightly. The latter hypotheses are in practice much easier to test with observational data, and of course one can exploit the many unknowns in the dark matter and dark energy sectors without colliding with constraints from known physics.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMB_cold_spot
New Parts? Depending on your meaning it might be worth pointing out that the raw engineering IBM put into these things is pretty mega, i.e. (not sure about z15) but power10 is a 7nm monster of a chip.

Shame IBM won't sell 'em to us...
I’ve used lulu.com in the past
My daughter has a lot of energy and without some exercise, my wife thought she was demonstrating signs of ADHD; thanks FB Moms, you ignoramuses.

Signed her up for gymnastics and ballet and she calmed down a whole lot and did better in the classroom as well.
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, and 12 are also solved by plugging your laptop into all of these external devices. ;) And many monitors now have a USB C dock built in to make charging and peripherals much easier.

IMO, the allure of the desktop is mostly its power (4 and 10). Laptops can be used with all the same peripherals, including the large, high-res monitors, and can be portable when you want.
This is good but without the extra words "extremely rare, potential harm.." this feels like it was a dangerous miss. I would worry about future such occurrences rather than just archiving it. Also I would definitely read more details. So perhaps this message works better in educating users
I'm wondering if a race-condition, or data or instruction bit-flip caused this.
Sending a new password though snail mail might be the dumbest thing I’ve heard all week!
IOC members worry about banning overseas fans from Olympics
Ask HN: Is bait and switch jobs common in IT
Hi,

I started an application process for a Senior Software Engineering Manager position in SV. Its an approx 150 employee company lead by elite univ alumnus.

Everything went very well, phone screens, tech screens, behaviorals .... I actually enjoyed the interviewing process and like the company.

Then the job offer came and they made an offer for Engineering Manager Position (no Senior). That has left me completely confused.

Has this happened to other folks? Would this be an honest mistake on their part or are they just crooks? If it was non-senior position I would never have applied. It was very anti-climactic for me :-(

What do you think?
I remap capslock as escape, using autohotkey, and I game a lot, the dyson sphere program was the first game that actually had a problem, so you can either turn the script off while playing, or make the script smarter to not be active during the game. Having said that, it is worth getting used to Ctrl-[ which is the same thing, and is a standard binding which is useful when you are not on your own machine.
Nickel does not generate Terraform. It is simply a language. The idea is that projects like Terraform could use it rather than create their own language out of a mess of JSON files.

In that sentence, I believe their meaning is that Terraform's language is already capable of generating configuration, and in fact this is a feature which is quite essential to Terraform's use. They acknowledge that all these projects (Nix, Terraform, Bazel, etc) already utilize relatively sophisticated programming languages for configuration. Nickel merely aims to be a better designed language for the purpose.
Amazon Employees. Not me or my co-workers.
It's not a super-common conference spot but it's where O'Reilly's OSCON mostly happened for many years pre-pandemic (when O'Reilly shut down their events business) for example. And there's a lot of other relatively low-level open source-adjacent activities there. Puppet Labs is located there for example. Certainly a bigger conference location than Portland, ME in general which I don't think even has a convention center and doesn't have more than regional flights into the airport.
It's been a week and Mein Kampf is still available on Ebay.
(hint: it's a joke)
A common sentiment: This makes no sense to me.

But lets add something: NFT's make sense for low-value consumer purchase. Buy a Lady Gaga album, and it's noted down on the blockchain that you own it. Google Music goes down? Ownership is yours still. Other stores (could be legally required to) still honor it. Possible to sell your album second hand.
> Sure, but humans are a relatively known entity.

We don’t know how brain works, why sleep exist, most of humans cultures and languages are not documented, hundreds if not thousands of psychological and medical things are unknown, etc. Machines and their applications are a few more magnitudes more understood than any human matter, by the sheer fact we created them. Their complexity is ridiculously low in comparison to human, their biology, psychology, etc.
The comments on that threads are so... imaginative.
Don't have time for a proper response, just a short note:

Yep people are looking into that, but it ain't trivial. Apparently one needs a fairly specific slope for it to be econom at the moment (competitive with chemical batteries). If you look on YouTube for the (clickbaity, unfortunately) title "the truth about pumped storage" (iirc), you should find a video from some engineering channel where some of this is mentioned. Another keyword might be Ireland. There's gotta be more information-dense / less time-consuming sources than that video though, it's just the one I got this from. My point being, if it were this simple, yeah. Looks like we'll (recurring theme) need a bit of everything to get there on the timescale we're looking at to avoid worse issues.
American Express credit cards have the interesting property that 3 out of the last 4 digits are almost always ‘100’.

Because many UIs only show the last 4 digits, and because of the birthday paradox, it only takes 4 American Express cards saved to a website before you have a 50% chance of 2 of them being indistinguishable from one another.

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/last-four-digits-american-exp...
> they just see you supporting the people who relocated their entire group of people from their native homeland.

I'll take "Things that you'll never have to worry about IRL for 1000$ Alex" This reads like satire. What cross-circles of people who happen to recognize the .io and know its associated with a TLD for a country or nation and also happen to not know it's other innate purpose of representing input/output? This is as ridiculous as worrying about having a brand with a .tv domain and a negative perception of those from the Tuvalu island.
Wurst luck: half-eaten sausage helps German police solve cold case
interesting post. i think if you earn more, you can travel the world in private jets. if you dont want to do that then you can learn martial arts.
Ahh, but it’s actually very clever: young terrorists use phone calls to communicate figuring all the normal means are being spied upon whereas nobody uses the phone anyway so it won’t be spied on.

Diabolical!
I like both Taibbi and Greenwald on occasion, but what they do hardly qualifies as journalism.

Let's be honest, substack is just another editorial page. These guys don't have fact checkers and seldom do more than cursory research themselves. The ultimate goal is to generate clickbait. All of which places them... well, just about exactly at the same level of rigor as the editorial pages of the NYT or WSJ.

Editorials are a dime a dozen. They can be fun when they tell you what you want to hear, or introduce you to an interesting new concept, but they're purposefully held to a lesser standard than the news departments.
SoftBank-backed Grab in talks to go public in nearly US$40b SPAC deal: sources
I think you misunderstood. That’s exactly the point they are making.
I think what you mean by "actual" left is probably more accurately described as libertarian left as apposed to authoritarian left. Both are real.
San Jose, California has a nice technology museum, and a short commute to many silicon valley companies, but not much else going for it!
also, hot tip for HNers, though I'm pretty sure this is what a lot of us do anyways, just read the comments first, you tend to get a summary in a few lines on nearly everything that is posted on HN, then you can choose whether you actually want to read the the original post.
What do you do with that snippet when you realize some elements arbitrarily need more or less spacing than others because the designer decided it looks better?

Repeating yourself isn't the end of the world, and on occasion DRY is worse (look up incidental duplication).
Fossil fuels vs solar, it’s a sustainability question. Plus, dismantling a sun isn’t much help to the planets orbiting it, and then you need to find a way to efficiently get that energy to another system to be used.
Building a Product Recommendation Engine with Collaborative Filtering
The Weight of the Air
An Insomniac's journey to normal sleep
Fair enough. Thanks for the tactful and insightful comment.
What I want to know is: what happened? I always think of this event 70 years ago [0]:

> "police obtained the fingerprints of every male aged 16 and over who had been in the vicinity of Blackburn on the night of 14-15 May to compare their fingerprints to those left at the crime scene by the perpetrator. ... a milestone in the history of forensic science; this being the first time a mass fingerprinting exercise had been implemented to solve a murder in the United Kingdom."

> Just weeks prior to the execution of Peter Griffiths, all the fingerprint records obtained from individuals who had been in the vicinity of Blackburn between 14 and 15 May were publicly destroyed [emphasis my own] in a mass pulping exercise at a local papermill. Several local journalists were present to record the destruction of the records.

Why was society so vigilant about giving data that might be abused to authorities, and now, when the data is so much more vast and powerful, no one seems to care?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_June_Anne_Devaney
I believe interconnections between power grids are DC as are undersea cables.
Can a Covid-19 Vaccine Be a Trojan Horse?
A bit much on my plate. Care to join in?
Justifying genocide, war, and atrocity because you cannot imagine a better alternative?
As someone who grew up on a farm, i can assure you government has done nothing to help, they have only ever saddled us with burden, and enforced monopolies of larger factory farms, even going so far as to create special migrant visas so these companies can capitalize on slave labor, "legally".
All hierarchical government is cancerous.
Unblock Replit at Schools
I don't know the laws here in Canada but I was always under the impression if you do something on your own time with your own equipment, you own the IP. It's been that way at several of my employers in the creative fields.

I only spent two hours building the initial Picture Perfect prototype, so at least it got something done when my former boss couldn't deliver something after two years of people begging for an easier way.
Someone did this for torrents, they built a website that scrapes the DHT data and creates a record of every torrent downloaded by each IP address, publicly searchable. This data is technically public and anyone could have got it including governments, making a site to access it just helps awareness.
Intelligent Data Labeling and the Future of AI
Since at least 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8587379
CBD reduces plaque, improves cognition in mouse model of Alzheimer’s
Ah so I was thinking about getting an ASN maybe. It seems I can say that I need IP space to use 2000 IPv6 addresses in the next year. That’s probably not far off from what I already do.

Do you happen to know any guides on how to set up and use your own IP space, either with my ISP or with a cloud provider.
You're bringing in the moms... Does yours read HN?

A certain audience does enjoy technical hints and explanations. Heck, ImageMagick / convert are part of quite some workflows on servers...
Given the complexity of the setting, there is far more possible causations than the implied by the finders of this correlation.

For example, perhaps better funded hospitals have more females on staff, and that drives the clinical outcomes.

Or maybe this relationship was one of thousands of possible relationships, as it is clear they have examined as much, and it's just appeared statistically significant by chance.
The Pentagon Is Ready to Give Soldiers Jetpacks
You forgot to mention they're also a YC company...
He actively tried to cripple my career because of my sexuality, going as far to start putting me on non-broadcasting shifts because I "sounded too gay" (which I don't, I just don't have an AM voice that sounds like I've been smoking cigars for two decades).

In his words, it "affected the trust listeners had in the station."

So, he wasn't pleased I built a tool in two hours that he couldn't deliver in at least a year.

I didn't even hide the tool. I gave it to two senior staffers and sent it his way right away.
No, he's _just_ a fellow YC alum.
Here's the thing, though. I don't use Vim as an IDE. I use it on live servers to change configs / scripts / app code (don't tell anyone) quickly and efficiently. I don't think "extra doodads" would help with that, and I'm not sure I'd want to manage those dependencies on my platform anyway.

If I'm actually developing something that's part of a greater whole, then I'm using a fully fledged IDE like PyCharm (but with the VIM emulator plugged in for when I need it, of course ;-D).

Likewise, no shade at Emacs, though. Several of my favorite colleagues use it!
There is no empirical evidence that can "validate" a normative claim, except to the extent that such claims rely on empirical priors. You can't squeeze an "ought" from an "is," literally by definition.

The response "this normative opinion is not falsifiable" is just confused—it's like saying "this empirical observation is not good."
Banks and big businesses? Whenever I read articles about COBOL programmers needed, it’s always in regards to government positions. Which better explains why the pay is low, especially compared to big tech.
I agree! Working 5 days a week is a -250% ROI (invest 5 to get 2).

Hack your rent: Live with family, arbitrage the dollar by moving to developing country with cheap rent, or house hack.

Hack your income: Work for yourself instead of others. Do what you enjoy, do what’s fun, on your own terms, and you won’t be wasting time for a paycheck.
I took a poll with a kid who said they thought an emoji email domain wasn’t smart. Up until that point, I’d been sold on it also.
> Once you measure it, the wave function collapses, and you no longer have the same system.

Comes down to definitions of words: same "system" (by which you mean wave function) vs same particle. See bubble chamber: particle interacts with several atoms along a trajectory. Sure, you can claim "the wave function has collapsed after the first interaction", so it's "not the same system"...but then you're just saying that measurement affects the wave function...well, yeah, it does. Or you can say that the bubble chamber "is just a series of filters"...ok sure, everything that happens is just a series of filters, with sufficiently broad interpretation of that phrase.

> You appear to have completely missed the point. The path-length difference in the experiment I pointed you to is orders of magnitude larger than the standard two-slit experiment. That matters.

Seriously? I explained in detail what will happen in your proposed experiment as a function of path length and why the explanation comes down to the same thing as with the double slit. You completely ignored this, and then say that I completely missed the point...I honestly find your behaviour quite rude.
The Cray Shasta architecture fits your description of a mainframe
This will be the fastest method of getting bank software rewritten in rails.
Imagine it was called lit.cooking. Would you still denigrate the language as if it was other? What would that say about your bigotry?

I'm about 60% sarcastic here btw
The Resolution of the Bitcoin Experiment (2016)
In the late 80s I left a wedding on Hawaii to fly home (change in Oahu). In those days you just walked out and climbed up into the plane. Well I paid no attention to anything, and only realised I’d flown to the wrong island when I couldn’t find my connecting flight. They were very understanding and sent me on my way.

I’d actually forgotten about this but literally earlier this week was talking to the couple’s now adult kid and he mentioned he’d heard this story often as a kid! It was hardly newsworthy but apparently laugh-worthy.
Memory usage has been my main issue with JVM, running an instance of it is very costly compared to languages that compiles to near abstract machines (or at least have minimal runtime code like Go).

Anyway on abstraction, it's just hard, because everyone has different concept of what abstraction is. For some it's just combining couple of function calls into one, for some it is providing defaults, for some it is providing composable functions with controllable continuations.
If you're wearing a close fitting mask properly and maintaining reasonable social distance, what transmission vector would there be such that they're ineffective? Fomites have been repeatedly rejected as a major vector so what's left?
I actually write private extensions to enhance websites that suck.

As an example, I have added folders/category tags to my YouTube subscriptions.

While it's a security issue, I would love the ability to inject content scripts via bookmarks or URLs so I could use these enhancements on my mobile devices. Perhaps making certain websites installable web apps and enhancing their UI to fit better on mobile browsers.
Do you know any game developers? Because that’s just not true. People use the tools required for their job. What do you mean by “scripters”? Do you mean designers building gameplay systems out of the building blocks made by seasoned, experienced engineers so they can make fun games and not worry about the bare-metal stuff?
Strangely Uplifting Lessons I Learned Without Ever Working at a Restaurant
Let's talk about the elephant in the room: Ruby with its gems and poetry.

How are you even supposed to know what Nokogiri is about ?
The whole concept of Dyson Spheres, or anything even vaguely like that, is totally absurd. (Even Dyson said so.)

Any space-faring culture will have mastered controlled fusion long ago, and have entirely left behind any material dependence on stars. The best places to live, then, are out in the Kuiper belts and beyond, where unlimited room and cold are available for free, and valuable gases are lying about, frozen. Inner planets are for extreme primitives. If aliens got here, they would find Triton much more interesting than Earth, except maybe as a curiosity.

Expanding menace civilizations will run up against overwhelmingly more advanced stable cultures before long and be contained or destroyed, so odds are none could get here before that happens.
Slick Tom Cruise Deepfakes Signal That Near Flawless Forgeries May Be Here
Years ago, there was a failed gaming device called a Stinky Board, it's a D-PAD controlled with your feet. I got one at a gaming convention and have never put it to good use. Now I have a reason to pull it out of storage.

Link to unavailable product: https://www.amazon.com/Stinky-Gaming-Footboard-Foot-Controll...
Life is movement. If you become too static, you'll feel unhappy, restless and unfulfilled. It's normal.

Things must be moving in your life. New experiences, things to learn, things to unlearn, things to work on, opportunities to sometimes be disappointed in order to cast light on some personal illusions and limiting beliefs.

To be freed from the need of working is quite a blessing. One aspect of work that we often overlook is that it gives structure do the day to day life. Without a job, it is still possible to create a structure. Volunteering could be an example. Teaching, dog walking or learning a new skill and sharing it with others are other example as well.
Mainframe replacement is a non goal I think for reasons others brought up. Mainframe languages can be implemented in a language runtime like .net or jvm. I believe this has already been done with cobol and allows you to interop with new code in popular languages
Really? The offerings I looked at last month (I didn't actually buy one, to put it clearly, because I realised they don't suit my purposes) were zero-setup required. Sonarr/Radarr supposedly allows you to pick media just by typing in names, and all the dashboard offerings boasted one-click setup of all of those.
I have nothing significant to add but a link to this being posted in 2013 that had a funny comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829993

This is perhaps the single most potent piece of evidence that HN's glory days are all in the past. Oh well, it was a good run.
When I switched to a new homeowners insurance provider, the insurance company helpfully mailed me a letter containing all my previous claims (not that there are many), even including claims from renters insurance policies.
I love emacs as a lisp environment to work in and have used it for 20 years but the emacs LSP picture is starting to look seriously sketchy in comparison with what more language-specific IDEs such as VSCode and PyCharm etc offer. Especially now that static typing is becoming standard in languages like Python and Javascript. If you have a lot of spare time you can probably make eglot and lsp-mode work in your favorite language. But if you work in a few languages, you sort of need to be working part time and have no family or social commitments.
I believe this comment betrays a mean ignorance of philology -- a discipline to which I'd expect most hackers would be sympathetic, at least insofar as the art of n-way merges may apply, and a vain commitment to the search for (optimal) objective truth.

Texts from the ancient world are handed down to us not from on high, or a single authoritative source (please consider the problem of duplication prior to computers or mimeographs), so considerable effort and erudition is entailed in comparing sources, filling in lacunae (here's a true warrant for what most consider a sesquipedelian word), all of which is predicated on perusing (in vain) an intuition for "pure et clare latine" and a hard-nosed insistence on _attested sources_ on matters of usage and expression.

I treasure, uncountably, the continuity afforded by training new generations in "antique" languages and dialects. It addresses a much deeper and more valuable problem than shitting out the next side-hustling platform.
It's gone plaid
A product's Vue 3 migration: A real life story
They still sell that flight though there's a stop in LAX now.