skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, misunderstood:

Yes, a dehumidifier does work on a similar principal as an air conditioner: there's a cold (metal) surface that causes condensation to remove moisture from air as it passes over.

An AC system would then take the heat that is also removed from the air and send it via a refrigerant loop to some place else (usually an outside device). A dehumidifier simply takes the extracted heat to another coil inside itself and reheats the air to (roughly) the same temperature.

The purpose of a furnace is to put heat into air, of AC to take heat out† (which just so happens to also change the RH), and that of a dehumidifier is to remove moistures while not altering temperature.

If your thermostat already reads (say) 25C, but your RH is 70% (e.g., due to a lot of cooking), then it's going to feel much higher than 25C. So do you crank the AC? You drop the temperature down to 20C, but the RH may still be 60%, and still feels too warm/muggy for you. Do you crank it to 18C? Running the AC, even though the thermostat says things are "fine", can use a lot of energy just so you can feel comfortable. There's a reason why the "humidex" / 'feels like' concept is often mentioned in weather reports: it has both psychological and physiological effects (wet-bulb 35C is a real thing).

Also note that, in winter, even if the temperature and humidity are okay, it may still feel too cold because of mean radiant temperature:

* https://www.energysolutionsnc.com/designing-spaces

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_radiant_temperature

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_comfort

MRT is why people feel a "draft" near windows. There is 'extra stuff' going on the walls and windows and thermal bridging. Do a search for ASHRAE 55 for various factors that go into making a comfortable (indoor) environment:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASHRAE_55

† AC was actually originally created for humidity control by Willis Carrier specifically for printing, to keep the ink and paper consistent and not runny. Cooling humans was only "discovered" as a use case later.
Yes, Overleaf. I'd always had LaTeX envy but when faced with installation and configuration, I gave up again and again. Overleaf solved all that.
Totally with you on this. I’ve added some stuff for coding in Python, but really minimal changes. 10+ years later I’m still happy and use it daily.
It's probably necessary for Earth life, but we don't know for sure that there can't be non-carbon-based life elsewhere in the universe.
You easily can be part of their envisioned audience. You just have to be interested in video content that is unapologetically centered in Black culture, and that isn't burning any of its narrative fuel trying to make that cultural background feel familiar or especially palatable to other cultures. I think that sounds pretty neat, if they can pull it off with good content.
The two I had in mind are meteorological websites. One I use for rain radar images, the other for hour-by-hour wind speeds.

But here's two more easy examples, InterNIC and NetBSD.

https://192.0.32.9

https://192.0.32.9/domain/root.zone

https://199.233.217.201/pub/

There are undoubtedly many, many more examples across the internet. FTP servers, along with HTTP mirrors of those FTP servers are some obvious examples where hostnames are often not required.

There seems to a web developer-driven, cargo cult mentality against use of IP addresses, but AFAICT search engines do not try to hide IP addresses; I sometimes get them in SERPS.

Historically IP addresses were supported in smtpd software, too. For example, qmail still supports IP addresses, if enclosed in brackets.
On Apple, Trojan Horses, and Truth
Indeed, the post’s title and source are very misleading, pretty close to pure clickbait. The fully integrated smart home has been completely realized and functioning ever since Bill Gates built his ‘Xanadu’ home back in the late 90’s/early 2000’s.

The fact that at least 95% of that setup has filtered down to be affordable to the average multi millionaire showcases the incredible progress made in the last 2 decades. And this dynamic was evident at least a decade ago for anyone who bothered looking (e.g. me circa 2011 on a slow evening).
“That major update where we redid the whole API turned out to be so unexpected painful, we’re never doing that again” once for every business
Yeah it's not as if Texas was frozen over helpless and without power not too long ago
I read it the same way you did.
Show HN: Agora: Sell Files on the Web
Of course it does matter! Webmail is quite restricted and optimized for viewing and replying to emails. IMAP is great for that, while also facilitating exporting (exfiltrating) the entire mailbox.
Can you explain how it's better in the US? Seems to me like it's pretty hard to get worse than sleeping on the pavement and eating out of the trash.
While making notes about config & tips for various linux software, the bar in my book is actually wether you can live with the defaults and how little tweaking something needs.

It's the exact opposite of sinking costs, and rather focus on "good enough" because you often end up switching or changing stuff soon enough anyways.

So more like how fast can you just go from default install and choose the sanest defaults and not spend time on tweaks / unix pr0n. Install what you need just in time etc.

It makes even more sense when using defaults on several remote systems, kind of like just using vi.
Details of the Infant Fish Oil Story
I particularly love your followup: https://twitter.com/lorenc_dan/status/1209290259386769408
I think that for some people they feel like they are being attacked if someone suggests a change in behavior. It’s not my intention to attack anyone though, just to give words of encouragement. I’m just like everyone else, making it up as I go along.
This is a fairly significant issue for mysql, but does the same issue exist when using postgres with a UUID pk type?

At my last job, this was managed by using two ID's on each row - a serial one that was basically only used for database optimization purposes, and the "real" UUIDv4 ID. It felt gross then, and it feels gross now, but it seemed to do the trick for our needs.
The freeze would've been pleasant if it weren't for the power failure
cf also Twitter's Snowflake[1] which is [timestamp, worker number, sequence number] to give the same "roughly sortable by time" property.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing...
That’s an age-old question that keeps the powerful up at night. Here’s the best answer I can come up with:

It helps that throughout history, the best Army guys tend to have rigid personal moral codes and decades of experience conforming to strict honor systems. If the original owner’s claim to the enclave is seen as legitimate and he has the wherewithal to continue allocating resources to those he favors (and again, their families), this tends to add up to the potential for a great deal of personal loyalty to that person to form among any elite Army guys that happen to be on the scene.
Why would switching machines prove to be a hindrance to customisation? The configuration files are still nothing but source code text, which could be version controlled and deployed anywhere with little automation, it's really no different from deploying software that you are writing.

Customising everything 100% to my liking is not only possible, but also takes very minimal effort. Detect if it's home desktop, or work laptop, or something completely new, and do something accordingly, what is complicated about a conditional block? Elisp is a normal language with all normal logical abstractions available.

I concede about remote box, I mostly work over ssh in terminal too. Except Tramp is also like really easy. To the point that if I need to use git, I almost always use local Magit over Tramp. This way I am not compromising, Magit is best in its class kind of tool, and I don't even need to install Emacs in remote box to use that.
> you can't do that with the coronavirus.

Wealth sure managed to make it easier to reduce your risk of getting covid, as well as substantially reducing the quality-of-life sacrifice from lockdowns.

Look at how many wealthy people somehow managed to achieve entry/residency/citizenship to countries where Covid was well-contained.

The wealthier you were during the quarantine, the more likely you were to be able to access services that were denied to others. Gym is closed? No problem, I have a home gym anyway. Many elite athletes brought their trainers, cooks and physical therapists into their households (IIRC Russell Wilson said he had a staff of ~11 in his family's bubble, meaning he was paying those people to isolate with his family instead of being with theirs.

At a lower level of wealth, access to WFH-able jobs, more living space (including being able to avoid living with multi-generational and potentially vulnerable family members), delivery everything, tech and tutoring for your kids' educations, and private transportation options certainly made it easier to mitigate the lifestyle sacrifices of avoiding contagion.
I've registered multiple 5 letter brand name .com domains in the last five years. They are out there, it just takes time and creativity to find them. 6 letters and more are even more abundant.
A time when cities had trucks drive around dousing entire neighborhoods in pesticide is well within living memory.
The mysterious invention was going to change the world, and I helped kill it
So now anyone can frame you by sending unsolicited child porn to your iPhone.
In Southern California there was brand new restaurant with a very expensive neon sign called “Thai Porn”

A week later a new equally expensive sign was being installed with the less provocative “Thai Food”
It's reassuring that you're close personal friends with NVIDIA's current senior management team and can therefore report on their motivations, but have you considered that their plans may change in the future, or they may be replaced, due to mergers or stockholder lawsuits? Think about the Unisys LZW extortion campaign, for example, which happened after the legitimate business of Unisys had collapsed.

If they really aren't going to sue you for writing similar code, they could formalize that in a way that's binding on future management by attaching a free-software license to the example code. That's what they did with the previous book in the series.

Instead, they specifically changed the license for the code examples in this book to ensure that they can sue you for writing similar code in the future.
If the recordings are distributed outside the app, there's no real reason to join Clubhouse, because all the 'good' content is no longer exclusive to Clubhouse. You wouldn't need to sign up with them if there's a good chance that the highlights of some important conversation will end up on Twitter in a day or two.
Agora is a simple web file server that charges for downloads. It uses the Lightning Network for payments. The Lightning Network is a layer on top of Bitcoin that enables fast payments with very low fees. It settles to the Bitcoin network, so there's no separate token or currency.

Agora is released under a maximally permissive license and written in Rust. Currently it integrates with LND for Lightning Payments, so you'll need to also have an LND instance running if you want to charge for downloads.

And if you're interested in using Agora to sell some files, please try it out and let us know what you think! We have lots of ideas for features that we'd like to add, but are much more interested in what users need.
An employee who redirects company emails to get around a security rule becomes an ex-employee very quickly.
There's a reason Pharma pays the corporate media spokesholes billions a year to sling its sludge. Do you think that reason is altruism?

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
2012... 9 years passed a lot has changed. PHP still quite popular. Either this site needs to be updated or not posted.
Have you considered cuelang? My new hobby is pointing people towards it.
Someone like Larry Page is extraordinarily wealthy, but it is almost entirely financial instruments (thus, not "real"). In a hypothesized "complete societal breakdown", no one is going to be willing to die for Larry Page or any other tech billionaire.
New York Times quashed Covid origins inquiry
The problem with Clubhouse is the product sucks.

The idea of listening to party-line style conversations isn't totally insane. Hypothetically good content could be created this way, and it seems that happened at least a few times. But the product was and is just awful.

The discovery function sucks, it's just a crappy stream of mostly low-value hustle culture nonsense that feels like mid-2000's junk mail subject lines. There's no way (that actually works) to change that to something that guides you to decent content.

There's an alternate version of this story where they had a really great technical founding team that reacted to the influx of users and hype by really rapidly iterating on the product and making everyone have a great experience.

Instead everyone signed up via exclusive invite and spent a few rounds trying to figure out why they fuck they should care and eventually gave up because they shouldn't.
I doubt you’ll be able to comfortably watch the rest of the world burn from there.
My napkin plan:

* Ditch Apple products. I was going to upgrade my iPad and MacBook, that's not going to happen.

* Switch to an Android phone, install only minimal apps and minimal cloud services. I need MFA for work, banking, and a few apps for travel. Photos, of course, but I can manage manually offloading those. As few apps as possible.

* Ditch my Apple Watch, get a cheap dedicated running watch for maps/GPS. I had one before, it was quite enough. The Apple Watch is lovely, but not essential.

* Ditch Google Mail except for my one online purchasing account.

* Switch to another mail providef, maybe Fastmail, to segregate and distribute my email paths. I'm a heavy calendar user..

* Switch to NAS and a backup NAS for file storage.

* Keep my Windows machine for photo and video editing, but stop using OneDrive and Google Drive. Migrate back to Linux (need to figure out a desktop machine that has some decent hardware power management support) for my personal ecosystem. Do more on the desktop, and do less on mobile.

* I'll keep my FireTV for TV watching, and if I can't watch shows on a Linux laptop, so be it.

* Minimize the use of integrated platforms (Apple iCloud, Google, cloud services). I've been out of the FB world for years, it'll take a bit more work to de-Apple and mini-G my life.

I need some tech in my life to create and to make a living. But the whole "online life" thing will be getting scaled back. Tech for consumption and delight will be very much less so.

I don't know how else to resist (yet). I've been in the Linux, privacy and encryption thing for decades, and it feels like an anachronism in the current political and social climate. I'm at an age where I can upscale my analog life and not think too hard about how that complicates my future. My son, who'll enter college next year, has already sworn off a phone and social media. Not sure how long he can live without a phone, but for however long he wants to live without one and wrestle with the discomforts out society will create because of it, he can adapt without have to un-wind the tech that has already encroached in his life.
Huh.

Whenever I've questioned the risk of having one company in charge of the the entire world's private secrets, essentially, I've been downvoted and told something like this wouldn't happen at Google because of their extensive protocols with dealing user data.

This post seems to have been flagged away from the front page...
The upper class doesn't need to work for their money. Of course the line draws different in every location, but the difference between the upper-middle class lawyer and the upper-class lawyer is that the upper-class lawyer could quit and still pass this privelege onto their children.
Technically real-time bidding doesn't sell your information... it gives your information away for free.
that twitter clone is down
OT: Nicely written and formated ascii document. I wonder what tools they used to create the headars / page numbers / refs.
Your interpretation might be right, but Apple's vagueness might be strategically hiding things they know would be even more unpopular, if revealed.

Still, there's the question of what additional assurance this "manual review" is going to provide, if the Apple personnel only have exactly the same metadata/scrambled-representations as the software has, and not the raw images.

They couldn't detect a false positive with that info.

Perhaps it's just an option for Apple executives to exercise an extra level of courtesy (or leverage) over the famous & powerful, after seeing the alarm plus the account identity? "We've got a Senator here, we better consult Tim before reporting this through normal channels."
Architecture-Astronaut stuff basically horsefucked most projects i've done with companies. producitivty murderer in short
heres what i do and it works great: use the regular google build of android BUT on a fresh install, disable all google apps sans chrome, use it to install fdroid, then uninstall that, from there use TrackerControl to prevent google and others from phoning home, use the aurora store for apps, use organicmaps for maps, signal for sms florisboard for keyboard, etc. you'll have a google-free experience which you can exit for 10 minute periods using the button on the trackercontrol dialog, and things like google pay and notifications will still perform quite well. I've been using this for a year and loving it
What the fuck is wrong with you people?

I have flown every single month since your non-stop fear mongering started over a year and a half ago. I even have flown to other countries during this time period.

I am totally un-vaxxed.

Grow the fuck up, stop watching CNN (side note: when did 20years old watch tv news and where are you getting your propaganda from?) and leave the rest of us alone.

oh yeh,

YOU ARE A FUCKING FASCIST!
I think the difference between minors that include non-stop breaking features and patches actually is important. If you run a mission-critical system you want to minimize risk as much as possible but also get your needed fixes, especially if they are for CVEs. If it was a fair assumption that we only ever break things on purpose the PLaneT versions would be totally sufficient though.
"African-Americans are only ~1/7th of the US population - not enough to make changes themselves"

- wolverine876

I'm saying it is enough. It's always enough.
I can see this being useful for virtual sys design interviews. Having to rely on Lucicharts, Miro or Google Drawing for virtual system design interviews is usually a challenge. People have to search for icons, name them, draw associations and on and on. An interface that does much of that busywork for you would be nice.
Russia is supposed to be nicer. Some people believe it’ll become the bread basket of the world if climate change continues unabated.
K8S is fine until u want to scale a service which uses local storage. Is there any cheapest cloud service to provide such kind of plan ?
I think it's OK to say "hey we need to really think about our usage of pesticides" and less ok to say "anyone with eyeballs can tell".

I don't recall there being more/ less insects at any given point in my life, I haven't noticed anything at all in that regard. I'm completely willing to believe that insecticide use is bad and that there are less insects, fwiw.
> World Economic Forum: Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better

https://twitter.com/wef/status/815090618078732288
> No. First, there are security measures that wreck privacy, e.g. sending all your data to some company's servers for virus scanning. Routing all your traffic through some filtering VPN provider. That kind of stuff. There are privacy measures that wreck security, e.g. not using personalized user accounts for certain things.

Aren't those examples more examples of bad security by introducing single points of failure?
It is because these vaccines are very weak or leaky vaccines. They don't stop spread. This enhances the selective pressure.

A related short discussion on the matter

https://odysee.com/@DarkHorsePodcastClips:b/Natural-Vs-Vacci...
What are you using for CN?
It’s not about building more housing. There is enough housing to house everyone in the US and then some.

Homelessness is not just about finding/funding a home. You need food and transportation for a job. If the solution were as simple as throwing money at the homeless, California would have long ago solved their homelessness issue.
> except that I go further and claim that the stats are not sufficient, so making about the stats can’t solve the problem.

Statistics are a reflection of reality. When you say that the stats don't matter, you are saying that the reality doesn't matter. Just that people are scared.

You need to go another step further than you are currently going, and realize that any technological "solution" will only be affecting the reality, and by extension will only be affecting the stats. And we both agree that the stats can't solve the problem.

It's not that making this about the stats will solve the problem. It won't. But neither will any technological change. You can not solve an irrational fear by making reality safer.

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Let's say we abandon this fight and roll over and accept Apple moving forward with scanning. Do you honestly believe that even one parent is going to look at that and say, "okay, that's enough, I'm not scared of child predators anymore."? Can you truthfully tell me that you think the political landscape and the hostility towards encryption would change at all?

And if not, how can you float compromise as a political solution? What does a "solution" to an irrational fear even look like? How will we tell that the solution is working?

You say the stats don't matter; then we might as well give concerned parents fake "magic" bracelets and tell them that they make kids impossible to kidnap. Placebo bracelets won't reduce actual child abuse of course, but as you keep reiterating, actual child abuse numbers are not why these people are afraid. Heck, placebo bracelets might help reduce parent's fear more than Apple's system, since placebo bracelets would be a constantly visible reminder to the parents that they don't need to be afraid, and all of Apple's scanning happens invisibly behind the scenes where it's easy to forget.

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> I want solutions to problems like the child abuse use cases, such that when calls to weaken encryption or insert back doors are made as they always will be, we don’t have to.

Out of curiosity, how will you prove to these people that your solutions are sufficient and that they work as substitutes for weakening encryption? How will you prove to these people that your solutions are enough?

Will you use stats? Appeal to logic?

You almost completely understand the entire situation right now, you just haven't connected the dots that all of your technological "solutions" are subject to the same problems as the current debate.
Well, an American VC has millions of dollars tied up in this, so they have to keep promoting it as the "future of conversation" or some other vomit-worthy overly grandiose descriptor
For what it's worth, Emacs Lisp clicked for me properly when I learned Common Lisp and then threw out what I knew and treated it as a cousin language (which it is) with some different design elements and read the documentation.

However, learning two languages to learn one is a big ask, I just had no choice on CL thanks to a college course (and have no regrets, easily my favorite language to program in even if I never get to use it professionally; most of my classmates would vigorously disagree).