skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I visited Steam.com and was met with “Steam.com is reserved for our Future Product” but with a copyright of 1994 to today. That’s a long product development cycle. Are they building the new Duke Nukem Forever?
Unless you're a avid Jew living in Kazakhstan of course.
Just because they've not got an active website doesn't mean they're not using it.
Spoonful is approximately 20ml, but the recipe author is saying the exact measurement is not important and that this is a particular lever to adjust for taste. (A spoonful of sugar means that some people will prefer this sweeter and some more savory, and that you should use judgement based on you or your audience.)
But there’s an upper limit, right? And you’ll probably hit it somewhere before you pass 100bn USD ARR?
The polyform project – creative commons for software
I'm currently living in Aomori prefecture, and I agree with you, Japanese housing is horrible.

> Most houses have dark gray or dark brown exteriors but one in a thousand will be bright yellow. What's with that?

This is so really depressing. Here in the north most days are cloudy, even in summer, so in addition to the lack of light and the sky being gray, the land is also gray. I have even seen black houses, what's wrong with them.
> The hyperloop, despite all the flaws, is overall a good idea.

No. Its flaws make the vacuum tunnel version entirely unfeasible. Therefore not a good idea. The non-vacuum version is just a tunnel – Musk doesn't get to call that a "Hyperloop" just because he put Teslas in it.

> the flaws are actually solvables

No. But we don't have to have that debate. We can just sit back, and relax, and our lord and savior Elon Musk will solve the solvables. Then I promise to be the first in line to sing his praises and ride the Hyperloop when the problems are solved. (Hint: they won't be).

Can we please stop praising Musk for things he says he will do? Why does this man get to promise all kinds of shit, and harvest the praise immediately?
Some extensions require presence in the EU, eg .eu & .it [0]

IOW not available to citizens or companies in Europe, but not member of the EU eg. Bosnia and Herzegovina

[0] Who can register a .it domain? https://www.nic.it/en/find-your-it/faq

The registration of a domain name in the ccTLD .it is permitted only to persons who have citizenship, residence or a registered office in the countries of the European Economic Area (EEA), the Vatican, the Republic of San Marino, and Switzerland.
Mozilla is a political organisation now. Has been for a few years.

Install kiwi on Android for extension enabled Chromium.
I use two browsers: Plain Firefox with minimal extensions (Bitwarden, Firefox Containers) and then a Firefox Developer edition for all the rest.

The primary is for anything company or client related stuff. It is where I debug client websites (at least if I need to log in), check mail etc.

The other one is for research.

Last time I know I was hit by malware was on a locked down company laptop >10 so years ago, a drive by exploit from a banner ad on a blog.

Conclusion might surprise some of you: I'm still scared! (Which might be the reason why this actually works for me.)
> Cars will charge from the grid.

Hell, let's not forget that the current plan is for people to charge their cars at night. That's when my car is plugged in; during the day I'm either parked at a public garage, or, you know, driving it around. Sure, there's probably still wind, somewhere, at night, but you're still charging your cars when your renewable energy sources are at their minimum.
Is this one of those rare instances when honesty isn't the best policy?
ie: Liability

If your investor cannot see this as effectively "debt" they are unqualified.
Here's hoping that the point Troy Hunt makes about the misconception that."Oh, it is an internal-only device, there is no need for a decent password on it" resonates with people.

Granted, there are a fair number of people whose home setups are properly segmented and have layered protection, but that number is likely small compared to the thoughtlessly or unintentionally insecurely exposed IoT devices and entire home networks, and so the advice seems quite pertinent.

The implementation at HomeAssistant level does seem a bit brute, but also in process of being fixed.

The dev's "my kid is sick, I have higher priorities than fixing a warning" is reminiscent of many a conversation both here and elsewhere about OpenSource software and the interaction the devs have with the users.
Feedback sought on choice and competition in internet search and web browsers
Another piece of writing advice: Never use adverbs.
Anecdotally, I agree. When you look at the history of major breakthroughs in physics, mainstream understanding narrows down on some complex analytical theories (rotating shells above the earth controlling the movement of the heavenly bodies, crazy complex math) when in reality there was a fork in the road decades prior where mainstream physics took a wrong turn (heliocentric! orbits!).

Things like this are obvious in retrospect, but radical for their time.. most of the physics I learned was elegant and well-understood, then particle physics just... didn’t really feel the same way. Tons of gotchas and edge cases, difficulty generalizing problems, and the obvious disconnect between the physics of the small and that of the large...

In time we’ll look back at current iterations of the standard model and our understanding of the physics of the small and wonder how those Neanderthals didn’t just realize that xyz was the key to make everything much simpler and work in harmony... that’ll be a fun day!
Such a weird take. When the likeness of Bourdain and Ramsay are criticized for appropriation, you come up with a completely opposite reality - that some food enthusiasts are simply politically woke. I've lived in both deeply homogenous rural farmlands of the Midwestern US and major liberal centers in Europe for long periods of time, the former has a far larger affinity towards spicy food - even moreso towards foreign options like Chinese, Thai, Mexican. I can absolutely guarantee it has nothing to do with wokeness/inclusiveness and simply the fact that it tastes good. I can still enjoy a wide variety of cuisines and still appreciate their flavors, whether or not it's spice heavy - my palette is not ruined. You're very much a snob.
>or like the top Google links, you're guaranteed to get zero info.

I don't necessarily find that to be true. Allrecipes is often a highly ranked link and it's pretty basic. And I have a few sites I tend to like that have a fair bit of writing in addition to the recipe such as SpruceEats that pop up fairly often.
You got nothing on my firstname@lastname.technology email.

Can't register at half the sites, and if you can register sometimes you can't log in. Banana Republic, in particular, lets me log in through one login flow, but not the one that's integrated into the checkout process.
GP said "developing or poorer", not "literal poorest". You're creating a strawman to shoot it down.

I can only speak for myself, but if prices doubled overnight, owning a domain would not be feasible for me because I don't conduct business or earn income on the domain I own, and the only reason I went for this fairly obscure TLD is because it was the cheapest decent one I could afford. Some of us aren't "businesses", and unless you think we don't deserve a corner of the internet, you'll find there's tons of us.
Learn How to build scalable apps with No code
After over 6 months of studying a whole lot of no code tools and using YouTube as my tutor. I have seen some blatant B.s and some extremely helpful content.

Just to reduce the friction needed to get into the no code community i have built MicroCode ( built with no code).

MicroCode gathers the best tutorials from Video to article to Audio and put's it on it's platform.

All resources are free, We are also always ready to help if you have any issue with any tutorial or want a request.

Examples of contents on the site:

Amazon clone with no code

Facebook clone with no code

Workout app with no code

Product hunt clone with no code

Instagram Clone with no code and lot's more
Fascinating! Could you tell me more about who these optimal users are? Are they optimal because they are the most valued users in their firms? (Make the best trades or some such?) are they optimal as their opinion on the software matters a lot? Or something else entirely that I am failing to imagine
Not really. There’s a major capital investment in owning a residential property, plus ongoing maintenance, otherwise no one would need to rent. A domain can be had for less than one fancy coffee per year.
Paypal too
Why exactly has it gotten more expensive?
And yet another of this scheduled propaganda articles
All cars are produced in limited numbers, and luxury or classic cars can be extremely rare.

Even mass produced cars are rarely identical. From new, there are a huge number of ways cars can be optioned, and on the resale market there are myriad variables that can make a car more or less desirable to different buyers.
Guessing at obtuse instructions with no prior knowledge when there are many variables in play is not experimenting and learning from it is nearly impossible. You have to have some baseline knowledge to draw on, whether you’re a total beginner or just new to the dish.

Imaging cooking was putting raw food in a box and a meal comes out of the other end. Imagine that box has a series of dials each ranging from 0-100. You don’t know what any of the dials actually do. Depending on your input, any number of settings can make a meal ranging from edible to amazing. But far more settings result in “Dubious Food.” Any individual setting can ruin the entire thing. Sure, you can power through 100 to the X combinations and ultimately, after much frustration and time and ruined food, sort of figure things out. But it’s much easier if someone says “set dial A to 53, dial B to 36,”. This lets you just tweak one dial and figure out what that dial does. Once you’ve done that you can go from dial to dial and then see how multiple dials interact. But if you just start fiddling with knobs you either get lucky or learn nothing; or you’re relying on knowledge you think everyone has even though they don’t.
$50k/year seems like a steep price (thinking from a "small/medium startup" perspective). I'm curious, what's the TAM for that pricing? What sort of customers could you be reaching? I work for a mid-size company, we do very well, but Idk if we'd be able to meet that price.
That part is not clear. From the buyer perspective though, unless I intend to use it, or the seller gives me a pretty steep discount, this is equivalent to buying “cash”... so it’s generally a bad investment?

I think the numbers may work for the seller because the incremental cost of an additional SaaS subscriber is about $0. But a company needing funding doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence to buy a low upside asset from.
That would be cool indeed.

Besides, depending on the reliability of the available internet connection, it might be also useful (and easy) to add an embedded mobile connection as a fail over.

I know a guy who had some issues for that reason. The quality of the customer's LAN was extremely poor, but the customer (out of ignorance, bad faith or both, it wasn't clear) always blamed his software.
> The other reason my writing ends up being simple is the way I do it. I write the first draft fast, then spend days editing it, trying to get everything just right. Much of this editing is cutting, and that makes simple writing even simpler.

ruthless editing seems a pretty big factor in the writing well result.
There is plenty of competition.
It's not just about speed, in this case it's more about lower costs.
Ask HN: WireGuard to Get Out of China?
Does anyone have any experience in using Wireguard to let developers from China to successfully place themselves into HK, SG to allow them to access SaaS services of companies that claim that the US law prevents them from allowing our employees accessing those services as the geoIP places them in China?
Yeah. Try using wildcard email accounts together with a uncommon TLD, and people ask me if I work at their place all the time.

Last time I booked a car at Hertz:

> Me: My email is hertz@capableweb.work

> Agent: Woah, you work here at Hertz? That's so cool

> Me: sure, can you remind me of the employee discount again?

So many email validations fail with a uncommon gTLD that I started switching everything to a .com domain instead. Sometimes I even get rejected when my email address contains the company name... "Sorry, your email seems invalid" is all I get, but changing one letter of the company name makes it pass the validation...
The article hints that the filtration process could happen in washing machines, even further upstream (so to speak)
That's mostly just imported from existing iPhone research, where people have been reverse engineering iBoot (from exploitable phones, since it's encrypted) for a long time now. Combining that with what is known about how the M1 works from observation / the boot config data structures yields a decent picture, without actually seeing the code.

Here's a fun one though: how I found and documented the Apple-proprietary memory compression/uncompression instructions.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1362450439845781505

A lot of the hardware research ends up looking like this; twiddle random bits and see what happens. For more complex drivers (e.g. the GPU), my plan is to run macOS under a thin hypervisor built on m1n1 that can log hardware accesses.
Trappist Beer Needs Trappist Monks to Brew It, but the Vocation Is Dwindling
As you might expect, a lot of the traditional Mongolian cuisine is optimized for nomadic living. For example, they didn't really have beer, vodka, or wine, as they didn't have easy access to grain, potatoes, or grapes and didn't want to ferment liquids for months or years on end. Instead, they made alcoholic drinks from milk.

> Kumis is a dairy product similar to kefir, but is produced from a liquid starter culture, in contrast to the solid kefir "grains". Because mare's milk contains more sugars than cow's or goat's milk, when fermented, kumis has a higher, though still mild, alcohol content compared to kefir.

> Strictly speaking, kumis is in its own category of alcoholic drinks because it is made neither from fruit nor from grain. Technically, it is closer to wine than to beer because the fermentation occurs directly from sugars, as in wine (usually from fruit), as opposed to from starches (usually from grain) converted to sugars by mashing, as in beer. But in terms of experience and traditional manner of consumption, it is much more comparable to beer. It is even milder in alcoholic content than beer.

> Traditionally, this fermentation took place in horse-hide containers, which might be left on the top of a yurt and turned over on occasion, or strapped to a saddle and joggled around over the course of a day's riding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumis
Domain names seem analogous to property. A good .com gives a business the digital prestige comparable to having a store on 5th Avenue, New Bond Street or the Champs-Élysées.

Then there other parts of town (.io, .co, .app and so on) which become gentrified and increase in value as people move into them and start doing fresh things.

I once pondered taking out a business loan to acquire a particular .com domain, thinking of it as a mortgage. The thinking was that once it's been acquired you can run your business from that prime property instantly and pay that asset off each month. Then one day if you ever had to sell it you could probably get the same or more for it, provided you hadn't overpaid initially.
90% of the time the refactored code is objectively worse than the code it replaces. Gmail's UI was refactored into one of those shiny SPA apps, and it's absolutely awful now. Type in the search box before it's loaded and your key strokes get jumbled or keys get ignored because 50mb of JS garbage is thrashing your i9 CPU. Old Gmail was 100x faster and didn't make my laptop sound like a spaceship.

Refactoring is a retention program for engineers that provides almost no customer value.
Some sleuths repaired/decoded a corrupted video file from (the first?) splashdown of a Falcon 9 in the ocean a few years ago [0], so maybe someone is able to tease out some information from the recorded binary data as well? They only searched for obvious string data so far.

It's a different beast of course, as the structure and meaning of the data is basically unknown in contrast to the known format of a video file.

Maybe some meanings can be inferred, let's say that a value in the possible range of rpms of a turbopump is correlated with acceleration or so?

[0] https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/06/recovering-falcon-9-...
I learned C++ at the start of my software career. I am glad I did; but I am also glad I never had to write it commercially.

Learning C++ makes learning other languages easier. It's C++ that made me grok the difference between stack and heap allocations; it taught me about moving semantics, dynamic arrays, reference counting garbage collection, data structure alignments, dynamic/static linking, segmentation faults and many more things.

The above things made me understand better how other programming languages work under the hood.

At times I find C++ code that is of intrinsic interest to me. Bitcoin, for example, was authored in C++. However I dread writing C++ because I find it very complex and it has outdated coding environments. Thus I am very happy I don't have to write it.
The term 'based' is only used by a very tiny group of people. I'll let you figure out why one of their heroes was a guy they called 'based stickman' that ended in prison for assaulting people with a weapon.
From iPhone 6s Plus to iPhone 12 Pro
Sorry for the paywall - I just really enjoy this style of beer and liked the article and thought it may be of interest to others here.
Forget what HN likes. A large proportion of software that people actually use, like the browser they're using, is written in C++. It isn't going away anytime soon
>>> we don't even have a theoretical test to start with

Every quantum computing calculation, is a desktop quantum experiment ;)

Non-Gaussianity as a signature of a quantum theory of gravity

https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01189

Another cool aspect of the optomechanical tabletop device research was that it wasn't entirely fruitless at all. Although the original mission of finding gravity in quantum space may have failed. The behavior exhibited was so extremely non-classical that an explosion of waveguide manipulating metamaterials was born!
oh right I should log into my LambdaMOO account to check what's up, it's been a long time

telnet lambda.moo.mud.org 8888

learned to program on that thing
EU drugs regulator gives green light to J&J's single-shot Covid-19 vaccine
I notice that "bugfix service" isn't checked under the open source column, only the enterprise one.

I always find it obnoxious and baffling that any company would delegate bug fixes to (current) paid customers. Either you're proud of your work and want to fix mistakes, or not. To blow off bug reports and bugs from anyone is a mistake.
To maintain tech supremacy the US must avoid ‘military-civil fusion’
I'm fine with it. There is some concern about them building plants that can create bomb grade material as a byproduct, but we can verify they don't build that into their plants.
I'm pissed off. At how privacy is handled by most sites.

Should we consider banning, or flagging, websites on Hacker News submissions that offer a particularly painful, evil, approach to privacy?

This is what you get from the evil folks that run Atlas Obscura's website:

> Atlas Obscura and our trusted partners use technology such as cookies on our website to personalise ads, support social media features, and analyse our traffic. Please click below to consent to the use of this technology while browsing our site. To learn more or withdraw consent, please visit our cookie policy.

> Accept

"cookie policy" is a link, and from there, good luck trying to figure out how to NEGATE consent.

Fuck this. Really.
My vague understanding based on "stuff I've heard or read at various points" is that you can stuff up to like 80-85% wind+solar on a grid before you start having real problems with the fluctuations in production.

If my vague recollections are recollecting something that was correct and not BS when I heard it, Scotland might be fine with it's ~17% nuclear, replacing the remaining 30% gas with more wind+solar.
> Now that T-Mobile isn't a scrappy underdog anymore, I think we can expect more American business-as-usual customer exploitation from them.

I feel like T-Mo is a case study in why allowing this degree of market consolidation is terrible for consumers. When they struggled to compete on coverage, they came up with some "innovative" (at the time) strategies to compete, such as unbundling the phone from the plan, selling unlocked devices, prepaid plans with no fixed terms or surprise cancellation fees, and embracing BYOD. They were the only carrier doing this stuff at the time which is why I signed up with them then.

With only three carriers remaining, there aren't any scrappy underdogs trying new things, and there's no room for any new companies to come in and disrupt them as the moat is now so massive in this sector. The only thing that would have an impact is for the US government to break up these megaconglomorates, which of course will never happen.
Yes, they did.

Intel's implementation of checking permissions in parallel with speculative loads was vulnerable because the transient effects could be observed through cache timing information.

All of these attacks, meltdown included, use "timing side channels from speculative execution."

POWER9 had the same problem (and therefore was similarly vulnerable to meltdown) for memory accesses that hit in the L1. i.e. userspace accesses to kernel addresses cached in the L1 could produce observable data-dependent effects because the data was available for further speculative execution before the permission exception was raised. This is why the Linux kernel put in place a mitigation for meltdown on POWER CPUs that involves flushing the L1-D cache on transitions to/from kernel space ("RFI flush").

To be clear, the vulnerability that Intel processors have because they "move memory access verification to instruction retirement" is called "meltdown." When I said that meltdown was present on IBM and some Arm designs, I meant that these designs are vulnerable to the same exploit because they have comparable problems with regard to memory permission checks. I was not referring to the various other spectre-type vulnerabilities, which are even more widespread.

So to summarize:

Ok, but "Intel fail" indicates meltdown was specific to Intel processors, when it was also present of IBM and some Arm designs.
Moore’s Law for ToF Pixels
Great article. Messing around with MUDs in the late 90s was probably one of the factors that got me deeper into computers. Graphical games were super impressive, but there was something really cool about playing in a multiplayer simulated world that, by virtue of the fact it was text based, you could envision the underworkings of a bit more easily.
Win+Period or Win+Semicolon
I would love for someone more well-versed to correct me on this, but I remember reading a decade ago about how the Roman priesthood (the calendar-keepers) would fudge with the dates to conform to their political desires, ranging from 200-500 days at the most extreme.

The fact that we can consolidate this down to only disagreeing on how to set our hours is what I'd call progress![1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calendars