skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interest rates are irrelevant when you can only borrow 4.5x income but home prices are at 8-9x

Interest rates are irrelevant when you need 20% down and it will take you a decade to save that up while renting, because of said multiple.
Yeah, I think noise pollution is the most egregious aspect. In my neighbourhood, there is one main thoroughfare that you can drive 50kph/35mph on, and all the remaining roads are intentionally narrow and uncontrolled, so traffic is naturally limited to around ~30kph/20mph. If you move into a place on the main road, you are implicitly accepting the noise that comes with faster moving traffic. Otherwise you have a reasonable expectation of quiet, especially because at 30kph road noise is quite low, so quiet vehicles like EVs/hybrids are almost silent. Drones that make noise everywhere will break those expectations.
I love how many different answers there are to this.

I run openSUSE (with KDE) pretty much for one reason - the repos available are completely comprehensive. They have everything I ever need in them, even some pretty obscure stuff, and because it's a rolling distro everything is up to date.

The amazing YaST graphical configuration tool is a nice bonus.
Agreed.

For other HN users, this is the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" issue.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
surely it has a key differentiator?

> It's used by many companies and projects

No one cares, they would care if you have contributions from many parties which indicates longivity, do tell in that case.

I do think your project is interesting, it's just the title doesn't do it justice.
i think there's too much money to be made in such an aggragator to release it to the public.

if you can trace a tip back to 4chan and use that to beat the market...
Yes I mentioned that many password manager setups are at least "something you know by-proxy" if you have a password/pass phrase associated. (Keep in mind not all password managers require that, such as the default ones in most browsers.)
I'd argue the worst thing in Microsoft's password policy engine was "complexity" rules instead of any way for allowing entropy rules.

A combo of "is this high enough entropy" and "is this in a rainbow table already" would let people have personal and memorable pass phrases.

- Microsoft's own experience[1] realized length beats the "one of each kind of symbol" nonsense some time ago: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/msftcam/passw...

- Simple entropy checker: https://www.bee-man.us/computer/password_strength.html

- Keepass tries a few other angles as well:
https://keepass.info/help/kb/pw_quality_est.html

- Overview of Diceware for hand generating pass 'phrases': https://theintercept.com/2015/03/26/passphrases-can-memorize...

---

1. TL;DR quote from TechNet:

- Password lengths are significantly more important than password complexity requirements

- Password complexity only prevents users from creating easy-to-guess passwords

- Password complexity actually reduces the total number of possible passwords in a key-space

- In theory, the most secure password policy would define a longer-length password with no other complexity requirements with a very large dictionary that consists of all easily-guessable passwords
> Let's not fool ourselves: those are no longer passwords. A password in the "things that you know" sense of Two Factor must be memorable for it to meet that definition.

Diceware passwords are actually a great example of passwords that are truly random and unmemorable, yet can be memorized easily
Don't Be the Insecure Interviewer
And if you wanted to power the world with nuclear, you'd need breeder reactors or seawater U extraction. Burner reactors powering the world would go through a megaton of natural uranium each year.
The same excess of energy during peak renewable production exists in California, and parts of Europe. So this problem is more than just Hawaii's geology. There are costs in electrolysis, compressions, decompression, and conversion back to electricity that are just being hand-waved away.

Can you point me to a developer that's actually offering to build hydrogen electric grid storage at $1/KWh? As in, if I give them $1 million they will build 1 GWh of hydrogen electric storage for me. Are there any enterprises actually willing to provide grid storage at this cost? If so, please point them my way. I'll make a massive amount of money. But I doubt I'll have anyone taking this offer.

The storage costs your citing are absolutely incredible. As in, I genuinely do not believe them. You're claiming that the entirety of the US's grid storage (which cost billions of dollars to build, mostly in the form of hydroelectric storage) can be matched by only $20 million in hydrogen storage. This is a cost estimate totally disconnected from reality. Until enterprises are actually building hydrogen electric grid storage for $1/KWh then this figure is meaningless.

If not then what's your explanation as to why people are missing out on the opportunity to become billionaires or trillionaires by construction hydrogen electric storage? Bill Gates alone could build enough storage for 24 hours of the USA's electricity consumption with only 10% of his net worth. This would be a rounding error on the national budget.
Reminds me of this classic:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201224212934/https://www.peere...
It isn't the 'existing industry' that is collapsing, it is low-rate entrants to the UK energy market who are just middlemen between the actual producers and consumers. The major players are going to do just fine and the poor are going to get screwed with higher rates as their low-cost contracts collapse and they are forced to sign to a higher rate with a major energy firm. It is a tough job to pull off being both ignorant and cruel, but you manage it with aplomb.
My point exactly, the focus on education is likely misplaced.

Sure, personal responsibility is not without importance.

But we don't solve obesity or poverty through education. We all know to eat healthy and exercise.

Making the right choices easier often has a bigger effect.
Probably so!

Here's a list of electronic text resources for the Christian Bible

https://hackathon.bible/data/

of which (surprisingly to me) many are also APIs rather than downloads. But there are lots of downloads like XML and text files. One that I found of the King James Version translation has lines like

Gen|4|26| And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.~

i.e. book of Genesis, chapter 4, verse 26, followed by an ASCII string of that verse.

The Quran download mentioned in the grandparent comment at

https://tanzil.net/download/

includes text files with lines like

2|150|ﻮَﻤِﻧْ ﺢَﻴْﺛُ ﺥَﺮَﺠْﺗَ ﻑَﻮَﻟِّ ﻮَﺠْﻬَﻛَ ﺶَﻃْﺭَ ﺎﻠْﻤَﺴْﺟِﺩِ ﺎﻠْﺣَﺭَﺎﻣِ ۚ ﻮَﺤَﻴْﺛُ ﻡَﺍ ﻚُﻨﺘُﻣْ ﻑَﻮَﻟُّﻭﺍ ﻮُﺟُﻮﻬَﻜُﻣْ ﺶَﻃْﺮَﻫُ ﻞِﺌَﻟَّﺍ ﻲَﻛُﻮﻧَ ﻞِﻠﻧَّﺎﺳِ ﻊَﻠَﻴْﻜُﻣْ ﺢُﺟَّﺓٌ ﺈِﻟَّﺍ ﺎﻟَّﺬِﻴﻧَ ﻆَﻠَﻣُﻭﺍ ﻢِﻨْﻬُﻣْ ﻒَﻟَﺍ ﺖَﺨْﺷَﻮْﻬُﻣْ ﻭَﺎﺨْﺷَﻮْﻨِﻳ ﻮَﻟِﺄُﺘِﻣَّ ﻦِﻌْﻤَﺘِﻳ ﻊَﻠَﻴْﻜُﻣْ ﻮَﻠَﻌَﻠَّﻜُﻣْ ﺖَﻬْﺗَﺩُﻮﻧَ

i.e. surah 2, ayah 150, followed by a Unicode string of the text of that ayah. (There's no "book" field because of the sufficiency of the surah numbers.) This file is about 1.3 megabytes uncompressed, although of course it doesn't include additional data that a user might want to have presented (the transliterations or translations mentioned elsewhere in this thread, for example).

There are probably lots of mobile apps that have graphics files alone that are larger than this 1.3 megabyte Quran text file. (Not that mobile apps are the only application for the APIs or anything.)

Another online text at

https://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/htq/index.htm

gives each surah in a separate file (less convenient for downloading, although you could still do it in a few minutes!), so that ayah is

150 ‏وَمِنْ حَيْثُ خَرَجْتَ فَوَلِّ وَجْهَكَ شَطْرَ ٱلْمَسْجِدِ ٱلْحَرَامِ ۚ وَحَيْثُ مَا كُنتُمْ فَوَلُّوا۟ وُجُوهَكُمْ شَطْرَهُۥ لِئَلَّا يَكُونَ لِلنَّاسِ عَلَيْكُمْ حُجَّةٌ إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ مِنْهُمْ فَلَا تَخْشَوْهُمْ وَٱخْشَوْنِى وَلِأُتِمَّ نِعْمَتِى عَلَيْكُمْ وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ ‎

There's some kind of Unicode issue where the letters in the second version seem to be connecting better (e.g. مَا rather than ﻡَﺍ), but my knowledge of Arabic isn't enough to make it obvious to me whether the second one is a more correct encoding or the first one is just making more assumptions about the rendering or something.
In my mental model, I’ve always considered upper middle class to be people who still do their own grocery shopping, but don’t really look too closely at the prices.

In my experience the kind of people this heuristic selects for is around the same monetary threshold you’ve noted in the low 6 figures.
In dense cities public transport often already is faster than a car. For example, average car speed in London is 8 to 12mph. It's not hard to beat that, even with an e-bike. https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2019/19767

Another aspect is that moving people to public transport itself is the way to make it faster. Cars are an incredibly inefficient way of using road space, so fewer cars on the road leave more space for more efficient transport modes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_flow#/media/File:Road_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_flow#/media/File:Passe...
I think UX was precisely the way Dropbox won.
These machines were built solely to send junk mail, and this is what they were used for. So you would be correct in your judgment.
Yea I started to come to a similar conclusion after I got a better understanding of data science in general. Also reminded me about role playing games .
>In that case, it would also be illegal.

It'd only be illegal if they weren't paying taxes on it or otherwise not reporting it for other purposes. Having a giant pile of cash because I don't like my bank auto reporting my money in and of itself isn't evidence of anything.
There are always components you cannot fully trust . Ken Thompson's reflections on trusting trust [1] comes to mind

Trust depends on threat model, if your threat model includes such actors/potential attack vectors then you should worry, ultimately you are depending on someone code for any reasonable abstractions (even ignoring chip level comprises)

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
"The fix really isn't that complicated, it's allow more houses to be built where jobs are demanded."

Or move jobs to areas where housing is cheaper and easier to build. Just allowing more houses to be built doesn't solve it entirely. For example, labor will be more expensive in HCOL areas.

"Why the companies are moving from California to Texas is exactly because Texas' local zoning laws aren't as stringent allowing for cheaper housing."

Not really, although it might be a secondary component. The main part is taxes and regulation.
> Is that how it is done these days?

Well, I don't know the exact specifics, but that's how I would implement security for biometrics input devices. Apart from that, I seem to recall that Apple does something with validating various sensors and rejecting "unknown" sensors (although that might be based on sensor make/model/SN and not necessarily cryptographic)

> Also this will not prevent a physical identical fingerprint model attack

Correct, but no fingerprint reader that is only a fingerprint reader will prevent such an attack: No lock is made to be unopenable by (a copy of) the key to that lock. If your fingerprint is the key, a good enough physical copy of the fingerprint will open the locked device.
It may be an awareness problem too. I know personally I've enjoyed having OpenSSL around and just became a GitHub sponsor (under same HN username).
I was (very) badly remembering this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZINeaDjisY

Still, does being able to bend rebar tell you anything about it's quality as a reinforcement?
And why does that matter? Apple scans images that are uploaded to iCloud. Google scans photos that are uploaded to Google Photos.

Exact same result.
I think a lot more automation/computing should be done in these more approachable “citizen programming” tools.

“Job done”, “I did it myself”, and “I understand how it works” are three qualities that are often undervalued when “real programmers” look at the work of “citizen programmers”. I say this as someone who loves and makes a living at “real programming”.

We need more not less sub-real programming.
Let's hope for can't-connect-to-anything failure modes.

The only thing worse than bricked electronic trash is functional, malicious electronic trash.
I actually ended up writing an HN backend for my comment highlight user script I described earlier, here’s the HN version: https://gist.github.com/justjanne/e61fcc9edb7d3dc60bc1a788d0...
Regardless of the cause, I wish we could have nice trustworthy graphs that start the y axis at 0
Why can we not see what our computers are sending over the internet?

If you say Wireshark then you are the problem.

It would need to be in something as easy as Task Manager.

Ideally you could also just set a token string that if it ever gets sent over the internet you'd get a immediate flag. Then just shove it everywhere. And let the worlds power users work it out.

I assume it's a technical issue.
Why is this deception?
Sure, a person can memorize one, maybe a dozen "random garbage" passphrases in their life-time. It doesn't scale from a human perspective to one-per-site, which is why to follow that advice you *have to* use a password manager at which point they aren't memorable/things you know, they are things you have (in a passsword manager).
Have all the insecurities been patched? There's pretty much only downsides to unpatched, known vulnerabilities vs. unknown vulnerabilities with the slight exception that you'd be a little more justified assuming you're safe when you're not. The likelihood of suffering a loss is much higher.
I just installed Amplosion. The fact that I can now get rid of that AMP bullshit completely makes iOS 15 a major upgrade for me already.
K8s can generate coredumps if you configure it to, and they can actually still be useful in debugging certain classes of problems! However, at the multi-thousand person company I work at, there is like one guy concerned with core dumps.
> because most of the time you read your own code

I think this is probably more true for you than it is for us corporate schlubs :)

For those of us with less talent at writing a unique piece of code, the process of diving in and figuring out a mess is actually a learned skill that we get better at over time, possibly the most important one.
Correct me if I'm mistaken but logs of public IRC servers are often available without needing to make an account on IRC, right?
> Apple also has been doing this for photos uploaded to iCloud as they are not currently encrypted.

Nope. Google and Microsoft have been scanning your entire account for the past decade. Apple has not.

>TechCrunch: Most other cloud providers have been scanning for CSAM for some time now. Apple has not. Obviously there are no current regulations that say that you must seek it out on your servers, but there is some roiling regulation in the EU and other countries. Is that the impetus for this? Basically, why now?

Erik Neuenschwander: Why now comes down to the fact that we’ve now got the technology that can balance strong child safety and user privacy. This is an area we’ve been looking at for some time, including current state of the art techniques which mostly involves scanning through entire contents of users’ libraries on cloud services that — as you point out — isn’t something that we’ve ever done

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/interview-apples-head-of-p...
Kind of figures given that residency is funded by Medicare and anything that smells like increasing that money is a political explosion.
> We promise we will return data as per API spec ;)

Unfortunately, I don't think that an assumption about the data that's returned from a web API based on a developer's statement on an online forum is really what's meant by "type safety". :-)
Not OP, but it's useful for if:

- something is done to object when some props is set or validation, such as .withStuffedCrust("cheese"), it'll set the internal props as crust="stuffed" and stuffContent="cheese"

- it's branching. So rather than making user looking for the components or configuration themselves, library author can guide them with builder. Such as:

myVehicleBuilder.withSixTires().withTrailerAttachment().attach(container)

In this case withTrailerAttachment (and possibly withOpenBack or withBox) won't show up if you call withTwoTires(), and attach won't show up if you don't call withTrailerAttachment().
Did they reject the PRs you sent implementing those updates?
PS: hi Carl :-)
Starchy carbohydrates are the biggest calorie source in most people's diets if they aren't bingeing on sugar or junk food.

Most people can't eat 1000 calories of steak or chicken (that's close to a pound of meat). 1000 calories of non-starch vegetables is a vast quantity.

You need to hold about 300 calories per day below your metabolic rate to lose weight at about a pound per week--that's about one potato or one cup of rice or two slices of bread. That's relatively straightforward to remove from your diet.

The easiest way to get rid of calories is to remove anything carbohydrate heavy.
Ok thank you!

I appreciate from your POV this probably is silly but for us it’s very helpful to have explicit clarity since investors are questioning and demand certainty. I once had to rewrite https handshakes because a lawyer thought export compliance laws would be violated, so hopefully you understand my trepidation :-)
Having lived in the UK and in Canada, I am very comfortable saying that: "they're not poor countries". We can discuss where the threshold is, but if you seriously want to class the UK or Canada as "poor" countries, you're quite disconnected from reality.

If you want some more concrete figures, there's a median income table on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income
The US has a significantly higher median income than some countries on my list, but not by the 2-5x I saw you claiming on another comment.

I'll note that there are also some that are very close to the US and do not have an unusual revenue source: Canada, Austria, Australia and Sweden.
A book that I and others have recommended doesn't show up in the database.

Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman
Not sure what the big deal is - we'll just lock down and wear masks.

If that doesn't work, we'll resort to name calling and finger pointing.
He didn't provide a workable solution for how to value land.

I love George as much as anyone, but valuing land independently from what is on it is very tricky. Yes, yes, i know there are a bunch of suggestions for how to do this, but none of them seem to work well easily in practice.
I don't think we're waiting for some new concept that is missing. I've been hoping for someone to maintain some popular js library implementing real functional reactive programming and arrows (like https://hackage.haskell.org/package/auto), but I can live without it.

I'm just waiting for something polished, with a small, simple, codebase (not React with fibers, yes to something like solidjs, preact) with widespread types support (not Typescript and the quest for implementing types for every dependency), ideally not creating huge bundles (I like solidjs / svelte), with a core solution to manage state (I like Elm), ideally supporting CSS encapsulation and semantic css (I like CSS modules, MaintainableCSS), mainstream enough that I can hire people to work with without having to become a teacher.

I think Elm got 90% there, but it failed hard on the community side.
I'm thinking of moving to a Rust framework (eg. seed-rs) next as soon as they get popular enough and after checking whether the wasm bundle size make sense.
Given that OP link is https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis/status/1438888219471491074
and the previously submitted link from yesterday(396 points, 156 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28587458) is https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis/status/1438888219471491074, how did this end up being reposted so soon?
> Tesla has very loud warnings as soon as the first firewall breaks between cells

I searched but wasn't able to find a video of this. Any reference?
Just throwing an idea out there: what if we abolished or heavily penalized long term renting?

No more renting a house for years. No more apartments. If you are in a long term contract, you get equity.
If anyone in the US thinks "housing costs can't keep rising, the market will correct itself", then just look at Canada. The average sale price of a home in the US is roughly $375k. In Canada, it is about $700k, and property values continue to rise.
The act of seizing assets without a trial and conviction is always unjustified. Being easier to stop criminals is a bug, not a feature.
Make an experimental study where you put people with high levels of stress hormones in one group and people with low levels of stress hormones in the other group. Have both calculate TDEE and eat equally fewer calories than their TDEE, and have both conduct the same amount of exercise. After a few months collect data and compare the two groups (this would measure the effect stress has on fat uptake, metabolism, and more).

Second experiment we can do is the exact one above but rather than having two groups with different levels of stress, have one group that are children to parents who experienced starvation during pregnancy (the dutch hunger winter study). A third group could be people that got raised in low calorie environment but that now eat the same diet high calorie diet as the control (an other study done on indigenous island populations that got introduced to a western diet).

We can also make a study that looks on exercise only. Have one group doing an activity which they really enjoy and love. The second group do the exact same amount of exercise and burn the exact same amount of exercise calories, but are forced to do something which they hate every second of. This study will be somewhat similar to the first one that covers stress, but will illustrate the health effect involuntarily exercise vs voluntarily exercise for the same amount of burned calories.

My own Effective weight loss guide is:

- Reduce stress.

- Find an physical activity that you enjoy and don't stop until you find one. Do not force yourself to do a specific type of exercise if you are constantly thinking about when it is going to end.

- Look to reducing calorie uptake, through by doing the two things above this will come somewhat natural.
From the article, I'm under the impression Windows 11 is horribly insecure now.

Which security issues are worse?

A built-in cloud command logger is quite bad if you don't know it's there, and is a security risk even if you know.

Some people occasionally enter things like private URLs, tokens, UUIDs, pathnames and query value onto the command line. Which is fine if they're the sort of thing that's ok in your local, private command history. Not so much if it's sent upstream.
> what is the advantage over OBS

Wcap is better to compare with screen recorders such Wondershare DemoCreator or Camtasia Studio, where last two often used by newbie - there are a lot of videos with watermarks of shareware/trial Wondershare DemoCreator and Camtasia Studio .