skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been under constant scrutiny for efficient freezer/fridge door usage as a kid... this struck home!

> How long does food in a freezer stay frozen when the power goes out
https://woodgears.ca/heating/freezer.html

I especially love this post and video showing a data-driven approach to understanding just how much it costs to stand there w/ the door open while you scan (again) for food that hopefully magically appeared since the last time you checked.
Seems like Wet Bulb is a more precise version of what some weather reporters call "Heat Index". Meant to measure how hot it actually feels on the skin. Is there any sort of formula mapping heat + humidity to wet bulb?
This is a somewhat naïve view.

Investing in high quality short term commercial paper or treasuries is essentially the same or less risk vs. letting $XX billion sit in some bank account.

In accounting, these instruments are actually regarded the same as cash and called “cash equivalents”.
This is like saying most people who snort cocaine also buy coffee and so why not just do both?
Gotcha. I agree any default setting needs to expect attackers. I’d set the default to whitelist content from Insta (so they manually approve it) and verified real people “friends” can white list additional content for you.

If you want to open it up more you can and layer in content moderators for hire, AI models to try, dashboards to optimize what you want, etc.
It is unintuitive, but equatorial locations are usually stable and relatively moderate. They will tend to be uncomfortably warm year round, but never experience the temperature swings of locations much further north or south.

https://images.app.goo.gl/P4YtYRLvT5XVcn168

Look at this map of max temperatures and note that the equator runs through a band of relatively low max temperatures: Indonesia, northern South America, and the more southern part of Africa show bands of conspicuous coolness. The hottest max temperatures are in places like southern North America, India, Northern Africa, and Australia; locations that are in fact very far away from the equator.

The max temperatures of a place is caused by many things, such as proximity to water and local wind currents, but one driving reason is relatively simple: because of the tilt of the earth, every day on the equator is 12 hours. North or south of the equator, on the summer solstice, you can get 15 hour days, depending on latitude. The summer is a period of continuously intense solar heating. Again, there are other factors, but the sun is the driving force.
SeaweedFS: A simple and highly scalable distributed file system
The warning label on "Almost Blue" mentioned in the article: https://img.discogs.com/UxLyf_K9PVFDQ2IXFSCcYd4dNZ8=/fit-in/...
Is it though? Being a skeptic is fairly easy and not that valuable when it comes to doing stuff.
> "Decades of bull markets, house price increases, a decline in public education, torpedoed communication infrastructure and complicit "independent" media has resulted in a wealthy, ignorant and complacent society who allow their representatives full control over their lives. It is not that they don't care about these issues, they are not even aware they are issues at all."

This bit - as well as the overall comment in general - describes nearly every Western democracy at this point. Yes, there are variations but the arc is similar overall.

The issues and narratives come down from higher up and are distributed via tightly owned (read: powerful) media conglomerates. It's simply one distraction after another. The collective memory of the masses resembles - pardon the editorial - a gold fish.

The idea that the internet would open hearts and minds has yet to materialize as promised. Perhaps it's time to prepare for the realization that it never will? Or at least stop being so naive as to think that it wouldn't be used against us? Because as it is, it is.
According to the article these wind catchers are called bâdgîr in persian. Interesting that the arabic word for this transmorphed into bârgîl.
That's the one thing that is missing from the article. Just keeping on the same page as others is also important.
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I think the problems of miscommunication could be fully avoided if you:
1. retaliate when cheated (since you cannot know if it was intentional or not)
2. expect but ignore the retaliation after you cheat by mistake.

As a bonus, you can punish the opponent for not retaliating by cheating until they do retaliate.

Anyway this is all academic and theoretical, since IRL there is rarely the option to retaliate without being treated as the original wrongdoer at best and as mentally unstable at worst.
Billionaire-backed mining firm to seek electric vehicle metals in Greenland
It's probably the same sort of dumb bag-of-words classifier that made Google's toxic speech identifier classify sentences like "I am gay" as "extremely toxic".

You give each word a score and sum them together, completely ignoring context and meaning.
The anomaly called psi: Recent research and criticism (1987)
Founded by a Swede and a Dane who were at the time living in Amsterdam
Facebook processes literally hundreds of millions of posts per day. The idea that it can be human-moderated is laughable.
I have to disagree and risk getting labeled a member of the Rust Evangelism Strike Force. The service at NPM and that interview with that developer at Qovery paint a different picture.

(Edit) Bleacher Report replacing 150 Ruby on Rails instances by 8 Phoenix on Elixir instances would be another example.
Not so much. It was glaringly obvious who these people were from day 1.

The idea here is not obvious to a person living in the free world: it is to prevent your "scary, and mighty" standing army shown as weak, and losing in case it got stomped.

Seeing the "tzar's army" being weak will inevitably invite a challenge to his power.
If it’s the same risk then why does it pay more than T bills? Regardless, the issue is the misrepresentation, not the actual assets (which most people don’t believe add up to the total anyway, right?)
Forget staying employed. I'm surprised I haven't retired yet and hope to soon. Too easy in this industry.
Heh I may have exaggerated a bit to make a point ;) realistically its more like every 2 years or so, and partially because I started from a junior role in an enterprise environment and worked my way up to independent consulting.
Both, the tower doesn't have one opening on the bottom - it has two or four and they are separated by walls in the center. Wind is coming in from one direction and pushes cool air down into the building, hot air comes out the other side of the tower.

This article has a good visualization: https://surfiran.com/windcatcher-an-ancient-engineering-feat...
A single google search[1] turned this up. As I hypothizied Oregon's forest, like most western states are majority owned by the Federal Government. Which makes them susceptible to the issues I brought up. As for eco-terrorists. This is from 2002[2] but it highlights that eco-terrorism in Oregon has been a long standing issue.

[1] https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/em9228/html

[2] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-107hhrg77615/html/C...
I feel a need to comment but I can't find a form of words that isn't condescending to the point of rudeness. So this will probably come off as rude...

Transpiling, to more or less any language, is the easy bit. By a very, very long way. The hard bit is everything else. I mean, do they really think they're the first people to think about using a transpiler over the last 30/40/50 years?

If they had said that they'd used their transpiler on a real production codebase and their transpiled code was now running in production in any volume, I'd be quite impressed. But they didn't say that because it's blatantly obvious from the tone of the article that that will never occur.

Now, I don't have any issue with people being ignorant of a subject that they don't understand. That's the norm for most people for most things. But I have to say that this level of naivety doesn't reflect well on their company. They clearly made no effort to understand the problem that they are purporting to solve. Is that really how they function as a company?
It’s new and relatively untested.

We don’t say that because new spacecraft have a high risk of failure vs a 747 that there is a “major problem” with space exploration.
Certain trading operations require it. I think there's even a regulatory under Mifid2, bit I'm not in the know about the legals.
There is something deeply wrong that I even need to hunt down and disable some setting some marketing halfwit thought would be a nice idea to shove in my face.
> Decentralized governance

Do you mean voting? Has been around since ancient Greece.
"Even immigrant workers could leave"

This is true however return for foreigners was never guaranteed. It has opened up only very recently. I've been stuck in Singapore for 2 years as of last weekend.
The Daily Ape by Darren Lau (t.me/thedailyape)
The Bankless podcast/newsletter

These are some solid news sources, if you don't have time to follow everyone on twitter
"Personal brand" isn't some kind of con. It is defining and letting people know who you are as a professional, both good and bad. There's no falsity in that (unless you're deliberately trying to hide a trait that others won't like); if anything, it helps others fit in with you and your managers find a place where you'll function best.
What a lovely website. Fun article about how old Thinkpads are indeed low tech nowadays as well.

Just found out one my favourite articles I discovered about Chinese wheelbarrows was also from this site!

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbar...
Money Lesson You Forgot to Teach Your Children
The truth comes out when you have nowhere else to turn.
I'd love a pen-driven APL -- it's an astute observation that this goes back to Iverson's original vision.
> going into cellar. The air will get cooler but the humidity will rise. You are going to die, unless you can cool the air DRY BULB temperature below 35C.

Don't you mean wet bulb temperature? Why would you need a dry bulb temperature below 35C?

> It will be shitty, wet, 100% humid, hot place, to sit half a day in with your family, kids and neighbors that don't have an expansive cellar like you, but at least you will survive

If we do start seeing this kind of temperature around the world, I expect people will start building underground refugees or repurposing existing structures.
Yes. Twitter is honestly much better for most topics, as long as you do a good job of curating who you follow.

Practially any deep topic on HN is 90% just people with no expertise making pronouncements or asking for it to be explained to them. It's still worth reading for the occasional insight from the minority, though.
You can improve your hotel guest stays with an AI receptionist
At that point you're not copy-protecting software, you're releasing a hardware product. Every sale of your software product requires production of a hardware component.

But to answer why this wouldn't work, I'm not particularly involved in cracking / reverse engineering, so maybe someone will chime in with better answers, but. If your code requires portions of it to run on my main CPU, can't I just black-box reverse engineer your external CPU?

And like you say, ARM CPUs are very cheap, so with an iFixit kit and some soldering skills, couldn't I just move your ROM over to a raspberry pi or etc?

Lastly, as a customer this heavily limits how I can use your software. So unless there are absolutely zero alternatives, I would just avoid purchasing this at all.

It reminds me of what iLok has been trying / tried to do in the music production space. Originally it was a DRM scheme that required a USB dongle to run any iLok protected audio plugins. It wasn't too long until iLok server cracks existed. And while I don't have any insights into iLok or companies that chose their dongle based protection, almost every single plugin maker that used the iLok dongle has now moved away from it and iLok now offer a dongle-less DRM scheme comparable to other activate-via-internet methods.

Edit: Another popular example in music production is Universal Audio plugins. These don't just offload parts of the application to a similar processor for DRM purposes, but actually have dedicated SHARC DSP processors which they offload the processing onto. These plugins have stuck around without angering the general community because it's not purely a copy-protection method. They actually remove significant amounts of processing from your main CPU onto their DSP processors. This has become less significant as CPUs have gotten better and better and requires a minimum $900 hardware investment up front. But it is still a more legitimate reason for a "dongle" than being just DRM.
Zurich is in fact a tech hub, Google is there, and many interesting startups come from their outstanding technical school.

Other tech hubs like Paris, Tokyo, Austin, or Boston have not seen the circumstances you describe as far as I know.
Fog computing is real. It occurs during the period between waking up and the first instance of caffeination.
Regulated logging is.

Establish regulations to allow logging if a healthy forest is left behind, and the free market will fix everything else.
Prevent the tax dodgers from going back and forth to Bali
If you want to know more and talk about cryptocurrencies, then bitcointalk is for you as it composes many threads that range from Bitcoin to Altcoins. It also has some topics that are only available in some native languages.
>The government doesn't benefit from them
It gains more control over people's lives and consolidates economic power into megacorporations. Shrinks the pie, but you have more direct control over it, and megacorp one will have better bribes bribes you than 1000 mom and pop stores. Seems like an okay deal to me.
I'd love to see the Starliner fly into space. I hope they get the problem with the thrusters on the spacecraft fixed soon! Space shouldn't be just an Elon Musk production, or brought to you by billionaires.
Not hard as a rule, but it has one fairly difficult (for many) yet deciding factor: getting that high earning job when you are young, in a FAANG (or comparable company). Working for these type companies is a luxury limited to a very low percentage of people indeed (I have interviewed for them).
It's similar in California. In the years leading up to the big Santa Cruz mountain fire in 2020, the scientists and forest rangers were aware of the increasing amount of fuel building up in the forest there. They simply weren't able to do the controlled burns they wanted because of a lack of weather windows for controlled burns. That area is also close to silicon valley so there are extra air quality requirements for the burns.
Coinbase is already on NYSE, Circle to follow. Agreed, much more legitimate than bitfinex.
Just as an aside. Is it really "added sugar" in candy where the entire point is that it's mainly made out of sugar?
Phoenix uptime monitor: Authorization and authentication
The idea is simple. We are building a simple monitoring tool where you put a URL and learn about a website's/web app's response time and uptime. We build the monitor with the Phoenix framework.

The second part of our series discusses authorization and authentication. In a Phoenix project, you can either build your own solution from scratch, use some existing tools or engage a native Phoenix fix called mix phx.gen.auth.

Let's give the latter some extra attention.
> Yep, nothing gets me salivating as much as the idea

You should try sex one day.
That's the point. KaiserPro probably won't do it, but a lot of people certainly will. Online, however, it doesn't matter how strong you are. Anyone can be a bully or be on the receiving end.
Everything is a bandaid when you're policing what people say. Manual moderation is unlikely to solve the issue to people's liking either, it doesn't on here or anywhere else I see it done.

Moderation on social media isn't something that can be solved satisfactorily, everyone is always unhappy with it. Take the lab leak theory with COVID, originally Facebook came under fire for allowing misinformation to spread so was blocking content which contained this claim because it was considered harmful but they reversed course once traditional media such as Vanity Fair began reporting it. Regardless of where you stand on this, you're unhappy with what they did.

Even hate speech is pretty ambiguous. The issue is one of subjective interpretation. Some comments are unambiguously hateful, others are hateful to some and not to others due to their cultural context which is important when you consider that these are global platforms. I've found it much easier to not use them than worry about what's on them.
not crass at all! People who want to get paid for teaching valuable knowledge should get paid.

We have a presale feature available for select authors that we think are promising. We're going to formalize the process for getting selected soon but in the mean time a good way to gauge interest is to try and promote the idea of your course to any type of audience you might have. An email list is a decent idea for gauging interest
For those who haven't yet experienced ageism, it often starts for you when the hiring manager/director is younger than you are. Beware of the age of the bosses when surveilling a potential new gig.
In what way? Language? Content? World view?
I don't think space is the issue. Most people live 200 miles from the coast. If that gets as hot as the inland, people will fan out to find whatever shelter they can. While I hope there are cool materials science breakthroughs that can withstand high temperatures, I imagine a lot of people will make homes in caves and underground, like a nuclear bunker.

That would definitely change cultures and economies, but if you can't get out of those places, it might be your only option.
What a great precedent! Now we can just keep the (declaration of) pandemic going for the next 10 years, and we have license to shut down anything we like!
People from Spanish speaking countries have had their FB accounts limited for asking about black ink cartridges for HP printers or black HP printers in computer supply pages.

https://larepublica.pe/tecnologia/2020/06/14/facebook-volvio...

https://www.fayerwayer.com/2020/09/facebook-imagen-maldita-b...
Technical Analysis of the Poly Network Hack
You wrote "Remember, when Telegram came around WhatsApp was un-encrypted. Not point-to-point encrypted, just encoded." Given that Telegram was first released in 2013, your own quote contradicts that.
BUSD is the most backed by USD you can get at this point.
Yes, this is a subtle point that is often forgotten.

May think that "more energy use" = "bad", but's an oversimplification. It depends where your energy is coming from.

The traditional thinking was that baseload power came from coal and peaking power came from natural gas. This is true for many geographies but not all. There are other mixes. Texas, despite its reputation for fossil fuels, also produces a surprising amount of renewable energy and that has been mix has been growing over the past little while.
"College lecturer charged with starting blaze near Dixie Fire"

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dixie-Fire-Gary-Mayna...
Kaseya's universal REvil decryption key leaked on a hacking forum
I understand you are probably American and therefore not used to Celsius but just so you know the body of a human is around 37.7 °C. 40 °C is already life-threatening.
>Western countries come much better for their record of wars over last decades than some others

Are you forgetting about jetting across the world to Iraq and Afghanistan on dubious pretences?

While I certainly don't condone (nor frankly know much about) Russia's involvement in Ukraine and Crimea, at least they share borders and have a large number of ethnic Russians there to be fighting over.
Windows shutters. There's a reason all those Italian charming villages have them.

http://www.shutterdesign.co.uk/blog/external-window-shutters...
If you can deal with the finance-speak and excessive hustlerism, Bowtied Bull on Substack has some interesting commentary. Their old blog (Wall Street Playboys) was equally as interesting as it was offputting.
While I wouldn't be looking at a game, I would be looking for enthusiasm. Outright technical skill is important, but also how you dig into problems and push a project forward.
> Lots of Russian bots here on specific topics. They are fairly easy to spot by the same talking points they've been rehashing for the past 20+ years. When somebody starts bringing up Bill Clinton and Yugoslavia in 2021, you know who you're talking to. Everyone else has forgotten it.

Yes, I noticed this pattern in most of the discussions about Ukraine. I wouldn't go as far as calling those people "bots" though as they are mostly either misguided westerners who are distrustful of their media and susceptible to influence by RT and similar organizations (I guess the ones who you called "self-whipping over the colonial guilt narrative" in last paragraph of your comment) or just ordinary Russians :)

Besides "Clinton in Yugoslavia", "NATO encircling Russia" you can usually spot them by "CIA and western NGOs destabilized X", "Nazi leader of country X", "russophobia", "russian-speaking people denied X in Y", "Russia was provoked to do X by Y" and similar narratives.
Ah, a cobol browser plugin? Cool. And yeah, environments. It's like porting JS to the mainframe, but not providing the POSIX facade to allow it to make files, schedule batch jobs, kill processes, connect to the network, store data in a database, access rights, auth, etc.
On the other hand being overly optimistic about ideas that are clearly silly/inefficient/worse than every other option is how you waste millions of dollars on things like solar roadways or the Dodger stadium dugout loop.
Just hold BUSD if you're concerned, that really is safe, even in turbulent market conditions.

Not financial advice.
There’s MeWe but to be honest, it’s kinda dead, some kinda cash grab service maybe, they make it a pain to leave too!! Mine is just sat there …. A bit like my Facebook and Instagram…
AFAIK, if the amount of an ingredient is small enough, it does not need to be listed on the packaging. The label is not authoritatively inclusive. Food for thought.
Buffet probably only needs the fence and security because of his success. If he were an average Joe of no notoriety, he could live there without the security.
This is awesome - I’d suggest that notes in the “stack” should be clickable to take you back to them. Right now I just get a text selection cursor.
> Nevada-based Black Rock Petroleum signed an agreement last month with Chinese mining firm Optimum Mining Host to migrate up to 1 million machines to three natural gas-producing locations in Canada.

Crypto: powered by clean, renewable fossil fuels
Thank you!! Looking forward to have you try it out and share your experience. Padka doesn't collect any data from user, our MVP doesn't come with any users management actually. When new version comes with any form of collecting information, we will keep users aware of :D
There is no such things as "the government who enforces laws" its people who enforce laws and they wont if they dont agree and dont have a monopoly on violence. Also "hastily-written or unfair laws" wont be enacted if there is a realistic chance you pay with your life for doing so.

The guns are there for when the legal way to solve stuff no longer works and laws are no longer of any meaning. Saying its against the law to use them or that law enforcement will enforce any law no matter what is pure ignorance. Civil wars happens and if there is one you better hope both sides have guns because else its not a war its a takeover.
Steven Weinberg Transformed Physics and Physicists
I vouched too, the comment seemed like it was attempting to participate in good faith in the conversation. Looks like it's live now :)