skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No problem withbsalinity in the most extreme varuants of this - you effectively let the whole Mediterranean Sea evapirate and only let in enough water to keep it this way, effectively making the whole scheme solar driven. That way you can also build multiple dams between island chains and get even more power, before the water eventually evaporates on the bottom most salt pan.

Also takes care of shipping. ;-) Although I guess you could build a near shore shipping channel, possibly filled with fresh water from rivers.
> You can't walk into someone's home and touch all their stuff just because they left their front door open.

There's a few big differences here: (1) the "someone" is a company with $7B/yr in revenue and dedicated security resources, also (2) with millions of users relying on their doing an Ok job securing the "home", and (3) which is connected to a network immediately accessible to anyone from bored teenagers all over the world to organized criminals and nation states looking to harm their users' interests. If a random script kiddie can find this hole by accident, how many determined teams with even minor budgets were accessing their network? Spooking KPN's security team into action was a mitzvah all around, even if he did not with whole heart and mind intend it as such [1].

More generally, the story this reminded me of most is that of Aaron Schwartz -- it's a true sadness that our societies deal so poorly with analytically developed folks' efforts being even slightly mis-applied by some fiendish letter-of-the-law measure and otherwise "good" people entrusted to exhibit moral judgement seem to go into a frothing-at-the-mouth attack against those who literally did no harm to groups that are supposedly being protected (scientific publishing / ISP users). I'm not sure if there is a theory of law by which a more-global net-good can completely outweigh more-local crimes, but it seems a society that were to allow for that would be both more successful and just.

1. https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/28579/do-you-get...
It seems that they didn't need that mistake if they were checking connections to the VPN from KPN users.

They could do a cross reference by checking his connections to the outside and then times when the hacker was "attacking". They could also drop his internet connection for a bit to see if the hacker gets disconnected.

And looking at how it was portrayed, it's doubtful his PC was "clean", especially if they catch him in the act.
Even further, any ! on DDG is using the site's search so even if we go to a search engine (e.g. `foo !w`), it's possible that we are using the website's search anyway.
Austria issued 100 year bonds.
Cost of living tends to be lower in most of the US relative to Western Europe. Not to mention VAT.

There is some truth in what you are saying. Possibly contracting in the EU is more similar to employment in the US (compared to employment in the EU where you don’t need need to constantly produce value).

But even taking all that into account, the US is just wealthier than even the „rich” EU countries.
The rights to L0phtCrack were purchased about a year ago by a company that made password cracking rigs for large companies to audit their employees passwords. They filed bankruptcy due to the GPU shortage changing their COGS overnight. When payments stopped being made the license reverted back to the author and he open sourced it.
Sadly, for enough money, yes
earlyoom is your friend, if you don't care that the process with highest memory usage by default gets killed when shit hits the fan.
You can protect processes of your choice if you configure it beyond a apt install.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/earlyoom.1.h...
These always remind me of that oil company-sponsored intentionally unappealing electric car from Simpsons.
If you have triple-digit clients then you need automation anyway. What's so hard about rolling out a config change?

And it's not like you don't have this with IPSec. It's just a different config change, maybe enabling PFS, or changing the allowed crypto list, etc.
Why do you need distributed consensus to do that, though? What's wrong with a database on a server?
Let's hope that at least this does stir some kind of Sputnik moment in the US. That would be a silver lining of sorts. Currently there does not seem to be the necessary political will or social readiness.
What do you think happens when a plane crashes onto a residential area? It's happened several time.
Hi all,

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I think Hybiscus can be great for people like data scientists / analysts who need to automate building PDF reports but also need a way for making them look impressive. The current tools out for making PDFs are quite bulky e.g. LaTeX and even still require some good design skills to make something impressive. With Hybiscus, you get a selection of pre-designed components, themes and fonts to choose from, and within minutes have a professional looking PDF to impress people with.

I'm keen to hear everyone's feedback on how they may want to use it in their workflow for various purposes, as the next goal is to increase the number of components available to suit various needs! Hope you all like it!
XManager: A framework for managing machine learning experiments
It would still have to show up as debt on the government's balance sheet.
Great success story. For me personally, I've always found that plain text emails get a much higher engagement rate than the best designed newsletter.
I believe Zig takes a more nuanced and balanced approach to memory safety as a spectrum, rather than the extremes you present of either GC or borrow checker.

For example, Zig offers spatial memory safety, and provides test allocators to catch temporal memory safety issues. That's already an order of magnitude improvement over C.

Memory safety is also just one aspect of safety, whereas sometimes programmers conflate the two. It's important, but things like checked arithmetic should also be right up there, and should be enabled by default in safe build modes. I think Zig's approach here is also spot on, having worked a little in security, where an integer overflow can be almost as dangerous as a buffer overflow. Yet I don't see many other languages taking checked arithmetic as seriously as Zig does.
Using a sidecar is also an option for debugging stuff involving shared storage, yes. The distroless project also ships aptly named "debug" containers that have BusyBox if you want a minimal shell for debugging something in the container filesystem itself. I've also made use of self-made "debug" containers with go-delve or the JVM in their respecting over-the-network debugging modes and a kubectl port forward, for anything written by me.
Coal mining waste is also radioactive. It also damages thousands of times larger areas.
The problem with shorting in bubbles is you don’t know when they will pop. As Maynard Keynes famously said, markets can remain irrational much longer than you can remain solvent.

And given enough time for irrational price levitation, something else can fill the bubble void and the price justifiable at some level. Maybe you short BTC at $30k. It then goes to $300k. You’re licking your wounds but anticipating the drop back down to 0. Except somehow price snaps back to $45k and you’re still a loser.
Cardinality is only expensive if the metric dimensions/tags/labels are a part of the builtin metric data model (like for example in InfluxDB).

It's not expensive when dimensions are just columns in the custom table schema, like for example in TimescaleDB or kdb+/q.

Also in the latter case a single database "row" can contain multiple metrics (each modeled as a separate column in a table).
IMO Enter the gungeon did the metaprogression without making your character stronger part really really well, would hugely recommend trying it out if you haven't and don't mind it being real time.
I'm not sure "higher" is the right word here - perhaps more specialized.
You start with a model. Depending on how good you want to match real-world data, that may involve answering questions such as

- if somebody sneezes, how many virus particles get out? (may depend on person’s age, mask-wearing, etc)

- how far (may depend on person’s height, lung volume, etc)

- how long do they survive? (may depend on temperature, humidity, etc)

- how likely are they to get to uninfected people? (may depend on what people are there. Kids in a kindergarten, for example, tend to get closer together than workers in an office)

As you can see, that can get complex fairly fast.

If you want it simpler, you can start with such things as

- If you’re in a room with P persons who are spreading virus for an hour (or a minute, a second, etc), how many virus particles will you receive?

- What’s the probability you’ll become ill if you receive P virus particles in a given time period?

- if you become ill, how serious will it be?

- if you receive P particles in a time period and don’t get ill, and repeat that immediately, is the probability of getting ill in that second period the same as in the first, higher, or lower?

You can make each as simple or complex as you want.

Once you have a model, calculations can be easy or very complex.

That’s what the spreadsheet given in that link does for one model.

If you’ve done the calculations you’re not done. You have to validate your model to know whether the numbers it spits out actually make sense.
Not sure who needs to know this but scribe.rip is a relatively new alternative reader for Medium. The original article is at: https://medium.com/startup-grind/what-every-software-enginee...

HN's special treatment of medium.com links doesn't apply to scribe ones.
GameStop, AMC Short Sellers Recover Losses at $20M/Day
Reminds me of the first rule of Arch Linux.

Always tell other people you use Arch Linux.
Older handhelds had also their quirks! The original gameboy boot bios would load the Nintendo logo from the cartridge ROM and would run a "checksum" of the logo data, to compare it with a constant value stored in the Bios itself - it the logo in the cartridge is the copyrighted Nintendo logo, it would start the game.
With that Nintendo wanted to be sure that any cartridge would require a copyrighted logo so a License would be technically required.
Given that you're on an XPS you likely know this: is the touch screen support & UX as good as on Windows?
8 o’clock in the morning is great.
This always felt obvious, it's nice somebody is approaching this scientifically. Most of the time we are supposedly awake, look awake (because walking around or doing something) and believe we are awake, we actually are sort of asleep and perform automatically. I am not going to insist everyone should train themselves to maintain mindfulness for as long and often as they possibly can this time (because now we are discussing a scientific paper and the idea of mindfulness being good for you is a separate subject), yet the example with the car accident clearly suggests being aware of this phenomenon is important. For my whole life since I can remember my mind had always been wandering ~90% time. Now I train myself to keep it here and now, attentive to whatever I am doing and what's happening around me and consider this the most important thing to pursue.
Ugh, not another of those low-effort websites that rip people's pictures off instagram/reddit and then repost them with their own advertisements.

"A World Class Portal Dedicated for Arts & Photography"
No Address, No DMCA Agent, Nothing in the "About Us". So effectively no way for an artist to contact them... No, you're just shady people pretending to be a world-class portal.
Sometimes, search is broken design. The assumption in the article is that the search function is trying to return what you are looking for, however, Spotify and Netflix have their own ideas about what content they want you to consume.
I'm sure it boils down to money ultimately, but it can't be the way you suggest here.

The thing is that Spotify does not pay per play! The royalties lobby love to give the impression that they do, because it makes it look like Spotify is fleecing them.

Spotify pays percentages of what it itself collects in subscription fees. If a record company owned 10% of everything that was listened to on Spotify this month, they would make _the same_, regardless of how many absolute seconds their stuff was listened to.

So, more listening to podcasts does not mean Spotify has to pay out less. How much they have to pay out in total is fixed as a share of their subscription (and ad) revenue anyway, in multi-year, industry wide contracts with copyright owners.

There are ways Spotify could circumvent this, such as promoting content they covertly owned themselves, or content whose owners gave them kickbacks of some sort. There's some indication they do such shady things. But podcasts don't change this equation much.

I think Spotify's promotion of podcasts is simply good old fashioned loss-leading monopoly building. They're hoping that Spotify will become where listeners go for podcasts since that's where all the podcasts are, and also the place podcasters go because that's where all the listeners are.
The Anatomy of Outrage
I _think_ thats for a single drawing? From the document my friend linked, I think for multiple drawings you use the binomial thing ?
> Passive activities become the only ones you feel like doing.

Very true. But changing your lifestyle to a high degree is about turning the activities that you like into these “passive activities” like going for a morning run doesn’t feel like something you need to mentally or even physically exert yourself to do for someone who does it regularly 4 times a week.
It's very hard to compete with the momentum Python has on each of these points.
A bit of a sidenote:

PopOS came installed on my system76 laptop. But that's not important here.

What intrigues me more is that the laptop had terrible battery life. And I mean terrible by even 2010 standards. And I bought it in 2018. It would last less than an hour on average, and less than 40 minutes if I was doing something demanding.

I use past term "had" as although I am still using this laptop today, somehow after 3 years, it's battery life has just increased dramatically and completely out of the blue.

Somehow I can now use it for over three hours while running off battery life. I've been pretty confused as to how this has happened, and am now wondering if anyone with a system76 might have experienced something similar.

I'm really hoping it will go up to nine hours by 2024. It's a great laptop.
Everyone knows Brazil is the best christmas movie
Twitter, if they build their verification correctly, should determine NFT's sovereignty via the smart contracts, not the chains. Thus, CryptoPunks will only exist on one chain & one smart contract.
Could be personal preference. I worked with OP at Intel during the early days of Vulkan and he was the go-to person for anything Vulkan related, so he's certainly familiar with the API.
That's what IPFS Desktop and IPFS companion are for
Can't wait till I'm able to buy a Framework laptop from Europe. I even checked on eBay US (which offers customs services for international shipping) but prices are too high at the moment
We do it at https://dlang.org

It's not the greatest, as it seems to prefer to return references in D forums in preference to the manual pages, but it works well enough.
> the public prosecutor was scathing in his condemnation. Edwin’s actions, he charged, had been “malicious and deliberate” and caused “imminent danger to life”

The kid got into a network using a known vulnerability and all he did was send an IRC message from it and install a backdoor that probably had better security than the network itself. Deliberate yes, but not malicious and certainly not any kind of danger to anyone.

> He could control 514 computer servers. He could even access the core router, the backbone of KPN’s entire network. He could see the data of 2.1 million KPN customers. He could block hundreds of thousands of people from connecting to the national emergency telephone line. He could redirect internet traffic so that people who wanted to visit, say, a news site, would wind up somewhere completely different. Edwin could do whatever he wanted and KPN wouldn’t know a thing.

See how the word COULD keeps popping up, but not a single example of something bad he DID. I am currently sitting on a bus and there's a pocket knife in my jacket. I could stab the guy next to me. I have the capability and access. Are they going to send me to prison too? At worst what he did was equivalent to trespassing. He didn't steal or break anything. It's digital urbex - illegal only in principle, not because of any harm done.
At this point it might be easier to relocate the entirety of humanity to a ring world just so we don't have to deal with this.
Wouldn't it help with the "publisher doesn't want to maintain a server for that old game anymore" situation?
Yeah and I'm not talking down at it. I just wonder, like meaning of life sort of thing which is subjective. I still play videogames and I think VR Chat for example is pretty cool. Probably watching too much scifi (WestWorld) I think of this virtual world/marble that's buried under dirt and the Earth itself is destroyed/far into future, humanity is digitized (concept of "real"), what's wrong with that.
I don’t want users to leave the site and use google. That’s bad UX and DX at the same time as it only increases friction and uncertainty.

I want them to believe that if it is there, they’ll find it with search. But that depends on how good it is and how helpful the feedback is.
At a guess, perhaps PopOS updated something to do with power management.
Shouldn't Wikipedia be on that list?
The other AANG companies are equally terrible, I would agree. That doesn't make helping them make the world worse any more ethical.

Many maintain cognitive dissonance here I think because giving up Facebook products is easier than giving up AANG products.

Also do you really want -Facebook- to be in charge of the next generation of the internet? You can choose to use your capability to join others in building something open and decentralized instead, like the current internet.
My 2 cents, the German housing market has way stronger fundamentals and the income-to-price ratio is more reasonable.

Key factors in my opinion are:

- More people live in appartments their whole lives

- A lot of people have low salaries so they choose to live in or buy an appartment instead of a home

- Financially insecure people can't help bid up prices with ridiculous mortgages as happens in the US/Canada.

- I also think there is much less foreign money here.

- A lot of people inherit here as well, so they don't have to buy a new home

- Population dynamics mean less demand, versus massive immigration in North America (which is focused on key cities)

I think the German market has less "upside" if you are an investor but also less risk.

If you are looking for a home for your family, Germany is a large decentralized country. There are tons of nice places to live for a reasonable price near cities where you can get good jobs.

Düsseldorf, Berlin, Köln, Frankfurt, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Hamburg etc.

This diversity takes pressure off of a few economically dominant cities i.e. Toronto, New York, bay area.

Of course, I wouldn't base my decision to live in Germany based on economics, unless you are a German. The housing market, is probably the least important difference I would consider between Anglosphere and Germany.
There are some regulatory advantages. In the US, they are legally motorcycles and so you need to meet only the motorcycle regs, not the (generally) more onerous automobile regs.
One another option is gravity storage- with (exotic idea alarm) a ice piston in isolation material. Basically create a artificial vertical glacier and transport the heat from the cooling into a separate storage "hot well". Then use and abuse accordingly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObvQFX6noDw
I wonder isn't it possible to expand existing .hlp format, like Microsoft always do (like .doc).
There is a lot to unpack there.
I'm not defending Alitalia, it is/was a company I rarely chose given there were more affordable choices that I preferred like Ryanair/Easyjet/Vueling/Wizzair.
I dislike Alitalia as much as I disliked the older airlines with more expensive tickets like KLM, AirFrance,British Airways,Lufthansa,Iberia,...

ALITALIA WAS NOT ALWAYS LATE:

I've tried to search for statistics about airlines and Alitalia seemed not to be particularly bad:

Here it Alitalia it appears in the top 20 on time airlines with values very close to the others:
https://www.oag.com/hubfs/Free_Reports/Punctuality_League/20...

Alitalia does not figure in several articles about the 5 least on time airlines:
https://www.flight-delayed.co.uk/blog/2020/02/18/the-most-de...

My point here is that we must be objective about performance.
Saying Alitalia was this much slow on that year is objective. It's a measureable metric.
Repeating acronynims like

ALITALIA Always Late I Takeoff Always Late In Arrival

FIAT fix it again tony

it's not objective, it's just a joke based on the stereotype of Italians being incapable of technical achievements.

Italians generally are the first to roast Italy but they do so not objectively. We should criticize our own faults in order to discover them and improve them. But we should also check if what we are criticizing is actually that bad because frankly in most instances it's not that bad and in some cases is actually very good. Definitely Alitalia didn't shine and we could and should do better but Alitalia it was statistically NOT always late.
> Dig ditches in rural areas? Well, some of the locals don’t like the noise or mud on the road, tough luck.

The problem here in Germany is that they take an absurd amount of time for ANY road work. I've seen roads blocked for years, just to widen the sidewalk. In other countries I've lived in, these get done ASAP.
Ask HN: GBP 400 budget; please recommend a laptop for AR/VR development
Couldn’t agree more. There are so many unsubstantiated assumptions about intent made in this article.
> I can hear leftists screeching from here over this proposal.

I am a leftist. I see nothing wrong with this proposal (I mean, I proposed it, right?). Illegal immigrants going to CC wishing to pay resident rates will have to prove their residency just like everyone else, as is the current situation. I don't see an issue with that. Do you? It seems to me maybe you have a caricature of leftists in your mind if you think this proposal would have leftists screeching.

> I knew many students who feigned residency to save themselves tens of thousands.

Which is fraud and can be detected and caught easily. If legislatures wanted to fortify the requirements to make them more uniform across counties they could have. They didn't. And it's telling.

> Because it was shot down by Democrats.

Shot down? The bills that were passed were written and supported by Republican legislatures and signed into law by Republican governors. Democrats didn't have a say over anything. Republicans could have passed anything they wanted and Democrats were and are powerless to "shoot" anything down. Not sure how it's cogent to bring up minority opposition here.

> Nonetheless, as far as Texas is concerned, students can get a free voter ID that qualifies, so the student ID point is moot.

You mean free as long as their time is worthless, right? Because they already have an ID that should qualify, but doesn't because of "reasons". Where those reasons are vague and unsupported by fact and evidence. After all, we have no evidence so far to support the idea that students are committing widespread voter fraud. Republicans can't seem prove such a thing is happening despite decades of searching for it (gee, maybe because it's not happening).