skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's a yes or no, right or wrong kind of thing. For an independent / small developer I think there's value in self hosting your tools, but I think it would be crazy to self host a customer facing app. There's scaling and redundancy that you can take advantage that you could never come close to hosting on your own. However, for tooling like VCS and CI, I think maintaining control is extra important when you don't have any negotiating power.

For mid-sized companies where you're paying someone to maintain things, whether that's an employee or a 3rd party, I think you need to assess your tools in terms of your negotiating power and how important it is to maintain control of everything. What if GitHub bans you? I don't think I'd try to self host a customer facing app at this scale either.

I think you can be short-term successful by throwing caution to the wind and using every shortcut available, but will the first to market advantage be enough to offset the price competition of people that aren't locked in to some proprietary API gateway or WAF? For example, what if I take extra time to build on OpenFaaS and you build on AWS everything. Who wins long term? You're faster, but I have better negotiating power (ie: less costs) by threatening to switch vendors.

Or is the idea of switching hosting vendors detached from reality at this point? Is hosting cost so negligible it doesn't matter? All I know is that everything looks crazy expensive from where I am.
Adobe Animate/Flash is still an excellent tool for creating and outputting animated sprites as a sprite sheet with a JSON for HTML5 games.

There's a number of JavaScript game engines that can be used to read and display the data. Even Unity can be used with it. Not sure what they're using here though. I've personally used Phaser with Adobe Animate atlases.

Other tools I see in the YT video are Toon Boom Harmony for the hand drawn 2D animated cut scenes, and After Effects for compositing the videos.

Nice making of. Thanks for the link!
Big corporations fight communism because it is antithetical to their existence. Communism is the abolition of private productive property. Corporations are large private properties.

Politics are the superstructure on top of base economic relationships. They do not exist in a vacuum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_and_superstructure
Exactly.

In the example that I gave, the design described will handle complex edge cases such as a part time employee working for multiple companies. And will do so without programmers having to think through the whole system at all points.

Independence of modules has no importance in a codebase that ships as a whole. But modularity does.
Article today on hn about cannabis causing schizophrenia...
It's not only the Born's rule. All the equations have a similar symmetry. (You may have ∂Ψ=VΨ, or Ψ∂Ψ*+∂ΨΨ*+ΨΨ*. See the real examples in the link in Wikipedia. But you never have something like ΨΨ+Ψ*Ψ* that mix the number of times that the linear and the conjugate version appears.)

Also, it's not so immediate, because you must be stubborn enough to think that a global obvious symmetry "must" be extended to a local symmetry. And in any case, it took like 40 years a few brilliant persons to discover it.
A lot of people mix it with tobacco in joints/spliffs. It's especially common in Europe, where a joint will typically be 2/3 tobacco and 1/3 cannabis or 50/50 depending on the user.

Virtually nobody in the UK smokes it without tobacco in joints.

There's also the possibility of people in the early stages of addiction trying to satisfy urges throughout the day by substituting with cigarettes (yes it can be addictive...)
They are a bit like modern day prisons, are they not?

Expensive modern day prisons.
Well, technically all of the water used goes back into the water cycle somehow. That's why it is a cycle.

However it doesn't help if California is using millions of gallons of freshwater to irrigate some crops and it is evaporating and ending up on the other side of the Rockies, or in the Pacific.
In theory, just publishing the invention means it'll become prior art and prevent its patenting. Supposedly the US patent examiners will review places like https://www.priorartarchive.org/ before issuing a new patent.
yeah, the article isn't that detailed really. on many points.
Might be true for American cities with their car based suburban structure but it is a complete different situation for European cities.
Yeah I was born in 89 and growing up middle class in a more rural American small town we didn't get internet until the late 90s and didn't use it with any regularity until the early 00s. I got my first laptop when I was going to college in 2008.
https://www.apple.com/ca/business-docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pd...

> The “Erase all content and settings” option in Settings obliterates all the keys in Effaceable Storage, rendering all user data on the device cryptographically inaccessible.

Semantics debate around whether leaving data practically inaccessible is the same as removing it, but considering where we are, I'd say it isn't.

Granted, this is from 2018, but I doubt the defaults and concept have changed.
Chapel vs. Go: Performance Benchmarks
People who participate in HN are not a monolithic bloc, not everyone reads the words the same way or thinks about them the same way.

I think “climate change” is a bit indirect as a topic myself, would love to hear something about how these encounters would be directly caused by a change in temperatures, humidity, rainfall and the like. Non-human primates don’t share our politics. Food pressure or loss of habitat might cause more of these encounters, and those could attribute to climate change, that’s indirect.

Gangs of adult male chimpanzees can be right assholes. Pinning down another chimp and tearing its rectum, among other violent indignities, suggests that they’re capable of lots of other violence.
Concerning Windows, the help page about the factory reset states "You'll be asked to choose whether you want to erase data quickly or thoroughly. If you choose to erase data quickly, some data might be recoverable using special software. If you choose to erase data thoroughly, this will take longer but it makes recovering data less likely." [1]

Of course deleting data on an SSD is tricky due to wear-leveling, anything short of telling the drive to erase the entire disk with the secure erase command isn't guaranteed to work.

1: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-refresh-r...
Once again proof that men are more successful.
This makes a lot of sense--it seems that the real problem is rent "stickiness."

And there's a lot of factors making rent sticky: the financing structure you mentioned, maybe the bimodal distribution of tenants I'd hypothesized.

In residential there's also the "unintended consequence" of quite a few tenant's rights laws that makes rent extra sticky (why do you think NYC landlords require proof of 40x monthly rent as income?!)

But what doesn't seem to bek
the case is simply chalking it up to "tax breaks" which is a common boogyman.
I agree. There's always some nebulousness as to whether getting them to actually admit out loud what they're doing reveals anything new anyway. You can just look at what they've been doing and guess most of it.
Kind of a silly reply. The headline could've just avoided the implication. Imagine the headline: "women started eating more beans, and birth defects skyrocketed". What will people assume, regardless of the content of the article? It's clickbaity, that's the problem.
An explosive spyware report shows limits of iOS, Android security
there is certainly a tension between the bank and the developer/owner over potential default, but the mechanism isn't simply the developer/owner presenting financial projections and bankers being relegated to only accepting their word and being stuck with a bankruptcy ultimatum if the deal goes sour. commercial appraisers must validate the assumptions and calculations based on prevailing conditions and comps.

the question is really who should take the risk of getting the projections wrong, and the answer is straightforwardly the bank, although the developer/owner has to act in good faith in both the financing and the operations. a new development is basically a finite business, and projecting the cash flows, and therefore the ultimate valuation, is risky. loan officers' principal job is to assess (and accept/reject) that risk.

all that said, we need to stop propping up banks and loans gone bad. without real downside consequences, we get misallocation, as we plainly see in many commercial real estate markets.
This is why FDE is mostly the default on all of the devices you mention. The secret keys are stored in the TPM or equivalent. Most SSDs for Mac/PC also have an OEM software option to trigger a secure wipe using special software from the vendor.

The problem here is that the Echo is closed so those options aren’t available to you. However, this is also a problem on other custom devices like printers.
Let's be honest. IMO the assumption of Australia being an island was right (as evidenced by the states that made sure their states were islands most notably WA). At this stage WA is clearly the "gold standard" of COVID management, not NSW. NSW, given the numbers it was taking through its "hotels" which never should of been permanent quarantine facilities in any case was not "an island" at all. They arguably were just lucky most of this time, and through hubris of the local people there this was considered good "gold standard" management.

The low tech easy solution for a country like Australia is really better quarantine facilities (i.e. not hotels in the middle of population centers) IMO coupled with a vaccine rollout geared to workers at the quarantine facility (and potentially freight facilities). Its easier to rollout the vaccine and subsequent updates to it for future variants to a smaller number quicker. States in Australia that limited their international intake seem to be doing better than particularly Sydney who were taking the most arrivals. It really isn't an island when your taking the brunt of international arrivals. The fact that it was even working (hotels) for as long as it did shows the effectiveness of a good quarantine strategy. Low tech, simple solutions usually trump high tech solutions that require everyone to participate (problem of the commons).
It seems to me that real estate is the locus of a colossal regulatory failure that has already created one trainwreck (2008) and will just continue to spawn more until people start taking a look at the system and honestly evaluating how much of it is rational.

Making everybody who wants to live in a stable home get involved in the real estate market is sort of like making everybody who wants a computer buy tech stocks. It's insane, and leads to a completely insane market. I own a house despite the fact I know nothing about houses and don't want to own a house, because the alternatives are far worse.

When you get a situation where the incentives are all set up to make people act in a way that's not only destructive, but also blatantly unsustainable for everybody involved, it means the government is sleeping at the wheel.
When that episode started I was so confused.

"Mom, I thought this was Reading Rainbow."

"It is."

"But it's ST:TNG openings credits!"

"... huh. It is."

"And it's 330pm - ST:TNG isn't on until 7pm!"

And then Mr Burton comes on all Reading Rainbow about ST:TNG. Glitter in a glass of water, the whole deal.

"Oh, ok. I get it."
For every doing there arises plenty of myth busting and (often rightful!) finger pointing how it could be done better. But it's all worthless unless anyone actually tries to do better (in turn exposing themselves to above). The article does everything to mud this distinction. It's why giving Sagan as example is so grating and hints me at disdain for doing. I'd expect someone like Tomáš Baťa instead.
Why is A_\mu a vector field on spacetime? In the standard treatment A is the (pullback to the base of the) connection 1-form of a connection on a principal U(1)-bundle on spacetime. Technically it's valued in the Lie algebra of U(1), but as that can be identified with i times the real numbers, we can ignore that here. Does the product A_\mu A_\nu happen to transform tensorially? Because as the parent pointed out, the transformation rule for A involves an extra term, so it's not obvious.
The Spanish Flu never went away, it just became "The Flu™".
“We’ve completed the science, what’s left to do is scale up from lab-scale prototypes to grid-scale power plants."

I can't even count the number of lab-stage announcements that I have seen in HN. This will be of interest only when they can get it to scale
Hmm... very similar to what I'm building at https://qvault.io - inspires me to improve my UI though
Friendly reminder that if law enforcement asks you for data, you can fight it in court, but they can require you to preserve the data while you fight. Deleting data under such protection could end with you facing an obstruction of justice charge.
I go back and forth between hosting everything myself for a year or two, then deciding its not worth the time and effort and just signing up for what ever services I need. Then I go back to self hosting again a year later...

I am not sure why I self host. I think it's the engineer in me that just needs to understand how things work, and I need to tinker. It's a hobby more than anything.
For an ideology based in Marxism, it's amazing how much it undermines the ability to organize unions

is it based on marxism? i thought marx was interested in class relations not race?

(sorry, im a little rusty on this subject)
Those forces are nothing compared to the acceleration of gravity. Flying means that gravity has been overcome.
Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke the mobile browser market
Why still the fear and paranoia over drones? Especially small quadcopters?

If you want to be scared of military tech, be scared of cruise missiles and ICBMs. Killing from huge distances away at the press of a button isn't new.
https://github.com/features/copilot/signup
While it ain't wrong, I'm not sure I want to trade one cartel for another, Cloudflare.
Then the problem is not Instagram.

When IG first arrived it was basically Flickr for mobiles. It didn't have a horrible algorithm or any real novelty other than being a slick mobile interface for sharing the same stuff that was being shared on the web.

Also, as a working adult, I didn't get my first iPhone until my boss handed it to me in 2010. I doubt a critical mass of 10-14 year old girls were bullying each other on IG from 2010.
Small inventors absolutely can afford to patent. A provisional patent for a small entity is $150. A full pro se application is something like $1500 IIRC.

The point is that with a patent, the small inventor can go on to raise further funds to exploit and defend the patent if necessary.

I’m not defending the patent system, but saying it’s too expensive doesn’t make much sense.
Get a loan, patent and sell your idea, pay a loan. If you can't sell your idea, may be it should not be patented.
The number of reported suicide attempts decreased during school closures. That might mean actual attempts decreased too, but it could also be another piece of fallout from people deferring treatment because they or their families didn't want exposure to COVID. Or mental health services were over burdened by increased issues from other areas of the population.

Or it really was going back to a school environment that is often socially toxic. Or some combination of these and other factors.
A Tour of the Fuchsia Operating System [video]
Agreed. Conversely I had my own computer when I was 6 in 1981 and my first experiences on what would become the Internet happened in the late 1980s. It all depended on your parents and where you grew up.
In general no, because sadly current AI transfers very badly to unseen new environments.
> There is literally no government in the world that isn't somewhat accountable to citizens.

Actually, there might only be a few government that are accountable to citizens. Maybe most governments care for their citizens, but accountable? I don't think so.
If it's bad by one metric for one person but not-good for all other people in all other metrics, then overall I think it's fair to call it bad. You don't need to rigorously define bad to establish bad; a brief survey of common metrics and how something ranks is acceptable.
Wiley said that a 300MW “pilot” project for Minnesota-based Great River Energy will be commissioned in 2023.

That project, announced in May last year, was originally due to be a 1MW/150MWh demonstration plant capable of outputting 1MW for 150 hours straight.

If the energy had gone up 300x from the originally announced pilot project the same way the power did, this would be a huge storage project boasting 45,000 MWh of storage capacity. It would surpass big pumped storage projects like the Bath County station (capacity: 24,000 MWh):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...

But this news article doesn't highlight any superlatives like that.

Reading between the lines, here's what I think has changed:

- The original announcement of a 1MW/150MWh project was an implicit admission that their battery could not charge or discharge quickly. It took nearly a week to fully charge/discharge. At the time they put a positive spin on it by emphasizing "long duration." That's not really an advantage, though. You can just discharge a high-rate-capable battery slower for long duration applications.

- Since this updated pilot project announcement touts more power and leaves any energy increase unspecified, I think that they found a way to increase the charge/discharge rate for their chemistry. That would be good because it would mean that the chemistry is suited for grid tied storage in general, more like lithium ion. If it can charge and discharge at high C-rates and it has lower lifetime cycle cost per megawatt hour than lithium ion batteries, it could be very successful.

EDIT: new user "tiddelypom" below says that he works at Form Energy and that this article is incorrect about the project size:

Not sure where that article got the 300MW number, the GRE project is on track for the original size.

If that is the case, my remarks about the limitations of batteries with low C-rates still apply. But my speculation that the company has drastically improved the C-rate of its chemistry would be incorrect.
Circular imports in JS are fine and not a code smell, for instance in typescript you may have two classes that reference each other's types - obviously this is not a real import from JS's perspective but the point is that you should not have to care whether it is real or not. That's a world we don't want to live in.

Circular imports are only ever a problem when you have code running when the module loads. Then you run into module load ordering issues. So avoid any side effects on module load and make all
setup explicit.
Is this also why apartment complexes seemingly refuse to lower the rent when demand slumps, but rely on one-time incentives?

I'm talking about the "move in special!" "one month free rent", etc. It would seem more rational to reduce the rent by 1/12th...
I suppose my comment was a bit snarky because (in my view) social ostracism amongst teenagers is very definitely and obviously a thing for _almost every reason under the sun_ for some groups of kids - it's the nature of being a teenager. Emotional intelligence is not highly developed at that age, so social bubbles/cliques can be (but definitely not always) a bit fickle/fragile. Hence the topic of this article.

Being prevented from using a social media platform at that age, that one's peers are all on would definitely lead to possible social issues in some groups.

I'm assuming the commenter I was responding to is not a teenager (given mention of Facebook being their peer group's primary social media platform), so their experience of their peers being able to use social media in a more healthy manner is unlikely to map to the teenage experience.

Some assumptions on my part. Not the most constructive "best possible interpretation" response, I'll admit. I'm also not expressing a strong opinion that kids should be "allowed" or "blocked" from usage of social media. It's a very tricky issue but absolutely not one to be dismissive of.
Heck, are we forgetting Anne Sacoolas' case? She committed a hit and run, which is a crime in both the US and the UK, yet she hasn't been extradited.

UK's sovereignty is a joke.
The entire california water drama boils down to just two things: the delta smelt and the resnick family (Paramount farms, FIJI water, POM/Wonderful). 1/3 of californias freshwater is diverted back to the ocean to "protect" the delta smelt, the resnicks control and use an additional 1/3 including the kern water bank. Everything else is window dressing and about moving money into and out of various pockets. There is no actual shortage of freshwater in any meaningful way in california.

Should one very political and well connected family control 1/3 of the massive states entire irrigation water? How could they abuse that to enrich themselves and california's elite? Who are the largest donors to newsom in the recall?
Yea, same - and since it costs me $5/mo I view it as a paid solution.

Do you have good deliverabikity to Google and MS hosted mailboxen?
We were the original fanboys (A1200 here).

Joking aside, they were amazing machines that people, somehow, became emotionally involved with.
To me it seems school environment always is extremely toxic. Probably the most toxic thing I can imagine. Perhaps prisons are worse but I'm not sure.
The congregation of public housing into one place is an example of what I’m referring to as “building poor neighborhoods”. In contrast, you can build rich neighborhoods depending on the structure and how the land-use is controlled.
No they are not. I am all for skepticism but bad faith is something else, and many of the included examples clearly demonstrate that.

I'm frankly tired of people on HN making excuses for liars.
Policy and Attestations. Best Practices for Supply Chain Security
I don't see how you can say with a straight face that getting technical just creates confusion and muddled waters when side-loading is already something that mainly technical users do. It just seems like a lazy way to dismiss valid criticism. The vast majority of users don't side-load on their phones or have any interest in learning to do so. Side-loading is already technical.
Apple Watch?
Consumer electronics are becoming more durable. Where once I might have replaced a cell phone every year and my home router every two, I now have had the same phone for four years and my router for six. Second hand sellers and repair shops need the factory reset feature, but we all benefited when our firmware allowed the devices to become safely transferable and repairable.

From the cited paper, most of the acquired devices were not even reset:

> Not reset devices: A surprising number of devices (61% ) were not
reset by the previous owners. Due to the setup of our experiment,
we had no possibility of asking the previous owners any questions.

I'm doubtful this exists, but I'd like it if it were possible to perform a factory reset or account transfer completely online, and other features around improving the security in the resale market.

For those curious like me how the wifi password was actually leaked:

> WPA-supplicant is responsible for connecting to configured
access points after provisioning. We found that it creates its con-
figuration files on the user data partition in the folder “misc/wifi/”.
Here the file “wpa_supplicant.conf ” contains the Wi-Fi credentials,
such as the SSID and PSK.