skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what do I do when there’s a hurricane and no power for weeks

If I ever (can afford to) buy an electric car, this is actually the strongest selling point for me. It's enough of a reservoir to keep my most important electronics powered up for weeks.
It's helpful to have a look at the graph in the article and to remind yourself that the numbers are reported year-on-year. Inflation spiked up in the first half of 2021 and the comparison is between the current month and the same month last year so prices could stay the same and you would still report high inflation for a while (until the back end of the comparison window catches up to the moment in time when inflation went up).

I think it's important to clear this up because people say things like "high inflation of over 5-6% for months now" which is kind of misleading. Prices can go up 6% just once and then stay the same and you'll still report 6% inflation every month throughout the following year.

This isn't to say that things are great and high inflation isn't happening. The month-to-month increase is 0.9% which is very high (see the graph).
> There's nothing wrong with internal combustion per se.

The majority of energy in the combusted fuel goes right out the tailpipe: vehicle engines are generally only about 25-30% efficient. Combined cycle power plants that capture energy from the exhaust of the initial combustion cycle get over 60%, but it's ridiculously impractical to put one in a car.
Booking.com is the poster child of 'dark UX patterns' like that.
I live in Taiwan and while there's much to be lauded about the way the government here has handled the pandemic, the current situation is not sustainable.

Taiwan's case numbers are low because the borders are effectively sealed shut. With few exceptions, only citizens and residents can enter the country. Upon return, everyone is required to do 14 days of quarantine in a centralized quarantine facility or in a quarantine hotel at their own expense. When I did it, I paid close to $2,000 USD for the 14 days.

Chinese New Year is coming up and there isn't enough quarantine hotel capacity, so the government is preparing to announce some loosening of the restrictions, like 7 days of quarantine in a centralized facility plus 7 at home for the fully vaccinated.

Economically, many local businesses have been hurt by almost 2 years of closed borders. Some have gone out of business. Save for the quarantine hotels, which are making a killing, tourism has been devastated at a time when it would be really helpful for Taiwan to be not isolated from the rest of the world.

The big problem is that, looking at highly-vaccinated countries like Singapore and Israel, it's clear that once the borders open, the virus will get in. Fully vaccinated people will get and spread the virus and some percentage of individuals in high-risk groups are likely to get very sick and die even if they've been vaccinated. Taiwan had a very high CFR when it had its mini outbreak in May, which reflects the fact that there are a lot of old, not so healthy people here for the virus to run through.

I wouldn't suggest that Taiwan should have just thrown caution to the wind and opened the borders before vaccination rates were higher, but at some point, continuing with a 0 COVID strategy is just delaying the inevitable at a higher and higher cost.
> may as well be comparing a tar file to a tar.zstd file in the same case.

It's not exactly hard to get a new compressor on a *nix system. It's either in the repos, or not so hard to compile. On non-nixes, there's usually a binary. Tarballs have not been limited to only tar.gz for a very long time, though a lot of people do choose to be conservative in how their distributed files are compressed.

> When a 'hacker' (programmer) says 'zip file' they refer to the widely compatible implementation which is likely to work in any common implementation of archive handling software.

You don't speak for every hacker, certainly not for me. If you're implementing ZIP these days and it's not, at the very least, capable of reading ZIP64 archives (forget about newer compression methods), then you're just creating obsolete software.
I think he was suggesting emigration out of US to a more developed country where education is free.

It's pefectly reasonable to imagine you have money to emigrate out of US but not enough money to buy education in the US because it's so expensive.
Depends on whether they see it as competition. Given their market share, I don't believe they do. They're aimed at a western market.
Inflation is complete bullshit because it’s careful to measure a subset of prices and exclude a large range of other prices.

Meaningless crap, designed to support government narrative that everything is great, nothing to see here.

To have any credibility at all, inflation MUST include rent/mortgage payments and house prices.
Same as Macron's: spending time and effort on reliable generation (i.e. nuclear) instead of wasting it on feel-good drop-in-a-bucket non-solutions. Every single one of those houses can be cooled or heated up if you have energy available on request, no need for massive piles of rocks here and there

It also means more thermal losses and huge thermal masses required to make any difference.
Also being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29184198
Tamil is not an Indo-Aryan language though? It's a Dravidian language
More to the point, I don't understand how is this even an excuse? This sounds like invoking ignorance of the law as defense.

"But your honor, Joe McLawyer told me it's perfectly legal for me to shoot my neighbor. I can't be held responsible!"
Capitalist democracies (no such thing they are all republics) still maintain the power structures that have always existed. The ruling class simply stops calling themselves the aristocracy and start calling themselves representatives and senators and capitalists and land lord's. There isn't as strong of an ideological push for people to destroy them. Anarchist societies are about completely destroying that hierarchy and there is a strong reason for all non anarchists to want to destroy them and see them fail.
Inflation is boiled frog style taxation.

Unfortunately, it's taxation that makes the weakest suffer the most.

Oh, and the govt would like you to believe they have a way to control it.

Yeah sure, I'm going to turn that knob that is one input of a perfectly chaotic system, and I know what is going to happen.

Let's see how that empty promise actually turns out.
Yes, that is not going to be pretty
Would be surprised if anyone could come up with legitimate benefits. To me this is just a fun coding challenge
Japan was an imperialist state, they abused China horribly for example. But yeah not all rich countries were imperialist. And arguably Japan didn't got rich from being imperialist, they got rich after they got bombed to hell and rebuilt without any extra territories.
Maybe it's similar to how an artificial neural network can converge to different local optimums for a particular problem, depending on its initial parameters and training method. Our brains might just find different ways of representing thoughts, be it through words, images, sounds or even just abstract concepts. If none of them are strictly better than all the others, then there's no selective pressure for the brain to prioritize development in one specific direction over others.
Yep & there are now more sites like news (seznam zpravy) and video streaming (stream.cz, mall.tv). :)
It would have turned into one of the hundreds of articles about Russian, Chinese, Iranian, Ukrainian, North Korean, etc. hackers meant to solidify people's world view that we have a "good side" and a "bad side" of the world. The reality is that we have a "bad side" and a "worse side" but that's a hard pill to swallow for the regular person. Hence the deluge of articles meant to "straighten up" the view.
They weren't, they are just broke now. Not sure if it's a preferred alternative https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/us/texas-storm-electric-b...
>Even if you despise the person, their death has caused real human suffering and pain among those around and associated to them.

Generally the victims of a serial abuser are usually experienced the suffering and the pain while the abuser was alive and their death is a relief. (firsthand experience)

I really don't understand of this speak ill if the dead thing, where is the limit, am I allowed to speak ill of Stalin or Hitler or the other mass murderer assholes. If you were an abuser and you die, we should not mention that you were making life miserable people around you or what?
Nothing is happening? There is a dropdown to select a video source and font, and a white blank page? (Safari 15.1, macOS Monterey)
Right now, track and trace is ineffective because cases are high. In the Netherlands, we can only trace the source of a quarter of infections. [1] If cases are brought down, track and trace has an easier workload and thus can be more effective.

We don't need draconian restrictions, just sensible ones. Wear a mask, get vaccinated, test yourself regularly. Many small measures combined have a big effect in aggregate. The only reason we have to resort to the draconian measures is because people are unwilling to do the basic measures.

[1] https://www.rivm.nl/coronavirus-covid-19/actueel/wekelijkse-... (In Dutch, the linked PDF has a table of track and trace for this past week on page 27)
Is it different this time?
Unfortunately not captured.
Again this depending of how to he nuclear plant has been engineered.

Based on the ref below (in French)
Up to 2000 kg can be released each year.

https://www-boursorama-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bourso...
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Taxation is deliberate and easily measured. Inflation is much more difficult to measure and it results from many parts of a complex system interacting with each other. The only thing in common is that people end up with less money.
I will, though I must say it also sounds a lot like the ideas in Common Sense by Thomas Payne.

I am also interested in the ideas by Nicholas Taleb on fractalistic societies. You familiar with his work?
I don't see how all of this explains the need for the settlements.
> Remember how the original Mac used to plop down icons of all your system extensions one-by-one along the bottom of the screen, in the order that it loaded them, which helped you know how long it would take to boot, and figure out which one crashed your system?

Iirc Haiku does that in its splash screen. KDE sort of did at some point in KDE 4.x.
Gonna need a source on this one.
I don't think entertainers are always nice people.

In the film "The Tall Guy" Rowan Atkinson plays Ron Anderson, a successful comedian but an appalling person. The character was supposed to have been based on Atkinson himself. Hats off for him playing the role!

[edit] perhaps Cleese should play Victor Meldrew.
BooKing.com is one of the biggest Perl shops in the world.

They're desperate to hire lots of willing Perl programmers, so they have to set the bar low.

And inexperienced programmers cause lots of security problems.

Edit: My point is about the moral flexibility of BooKing.com, which is well established and widely known, not good Perl programmers, who are rare, hard to hire, and extremely expensive (especially by Netherlands programmer salary rates).

And to jacquesm's point about plants: All any intelligence service has to do to place a plant at BooKing.com is fake them up a good looking resume full of Perl experience, and Bob's your U.N.C.L.E.!

Edit2: yes xxs, downvoting's probably from royalists offended at the thought of one of the Netherland's biggest tech companies has been mocking their King. Good Perl programmers can take a joke. ;)
couple of points:

a) zip spec does not require file index to be at the end. Only the pointer to file index

b) You can do streaming decompression of zip as each zip entry has a header + filename inline with data.

c) I came up with this optimization(placing index at front of making file io sequential to make use of OS readahead) for omni.ja files in firefox. It's still a standard zip file, but index lives at the front. Most zip tools can open that file unmodified(tho they sometimes complain).
> when you clear your history and it triggers the expected behavior of closing them

As the tweeter mentions, no other browser has that behaviour, nor does Safari on MacOS, nor did older versions. A sibling comment also reported not being able to reproduce it, so it sounds like a bug - in any case, definitely not expected behaviour.
Not really no, the lack of generics has hampered this as you can't easily return slices of arbitrary objects from an ORM so existing ORMs are pretty ugly. One way round this at present is code generation.

From your comment I think you're talking about a query builder/executor though, which is a specific part of an ORM, they're pretty simple to build if that is your thing or there are a few examples of that out there. You're really just building up an sql string, storing params, adding a few helpers for things like joins and then executing.

I personally use a query generator to generate consistent queries, and generated code per resource to create models from results.
Doesn't the CPI include housing?

(food and beverages, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care, recreation, education and communication, and other goods and services)

Question 10.
https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm
It’s absolutely unrealistic dream removing all petrol and diesel cars from the roads. And politicians know that very well. The charging infrastructure must be built at first. I moved to a nice village this year in wealthy region in Germany. And guess what, the cables between substations and houses are often 50-60 years old. There are mostly 2-3 cars for each house. Normally a house with 2 cars needs additional 50 kWh every day (no statistics, just a guess). Assuming that these cars will be charged 10 hours during night and ignoring losses every house needs thicker cables for additional 5 kW power. I here not willing to start with energy generation issues. I am not so sure about large scale electric vehicle adoption in Germany in close future. My neighbors just laugh when I mention interest in Dacia Spring or electric Twingo.
Email is much easier because of forwarding (or polling, in case an old service doesn’t have forwarding). I’m changing my main email every ten years or so and have few degenerate addresses like apple or yandex accounts which are dead but still attached to few orgs.

Messengers usually don’t have forwarding or a sensible polling interface. It would be nice to have all-in-one app even with limited functionality, since I’m mostly using text and images. Or use one of real full-featured messengers with gateways to others.
Calendar support is actually a desirable feature for me. I'm sad to find that there's nothing fully outlook-compatible in the open source world. Evolution gets very very close, but it still lacks support for viewing/changing some of the meeting data, and I believe background colour for meetings (which I miss a lot).
Progress on SuedLink is glacial and projected completion has been pushed back from 2022 to 2025 in 2016. Current estimates are between 2026 and 2028.

Meanwhile the shutting down of the last nuclear power plants in Germany, the original reason for SuedLink, is on track to happen by the end of 2022.

I am not impressed by the level of foresight on display here.
To be fair, comments _must_ be moderated or they turn into a cesspool in short order. A like-dislike count does not have that problem, though. And YouTube isn't removing the comments (yet).
Isn’t being useful the same thing as having at least one application?

Music is entertaining and enjoyable to listen to. Poems can communicate mental states and feelings succinctly.
Sounds like Noam Chomsky argued that anarchy meant ideal democracy. In that case we are working towards an anarchy everywhere in the west, some corrupt elements hinders those efforts but still we try to get there and there is no reason to try to change course other than fight corruption.
Post-quantum crypto proposal using Transcendentals
Transcendental numbers expand as a series of random, non-repeating digits (think Pi).

Assume Alice could find a new transcendental number between 0 and 1. (There are an infinite number of them).

Assume Alice and Bob know that number. This is their shared, private key. PRIVATE

To communicate, Alice creates a new transcendental number using the private key (for example by exponentiation, or some other offset method). This "offset" OFFSET is the public key.

To encode, Alice starts with the private key, creates a new transcendental number using some random offset. Call the new transcendental number PAD = f(PRIVATE, OFFSET). Alice uses PAD as a one-time pad to encrypt the message SECRET = (MESSAGE xor PAD)

Alice sends the pair (OFFSET,SECRET) to Bob.

Bob uses OFFSET to compute the PAD from PRIVATE. Then uses (SECRET xor PAD) to recover MESSAGE.

Transcendental numbers plus offset can generate an infinite set of one-time PADs.

Knowing (MESSAGE xor SECRET) recovers the PAD so this in insecure against a known plaintext attack. Knowing PAD then PRIVATE can be recovered. However, if Alice and Bob share a secret method of choosing a new PRIVATE after each communication then they can continue the scheme.

The key question is how to find transcendental numbers.
Chrome: Record, replay and measure user flows
Async Cancellation I
I worked on a project called Bikenet at Dartmouth College that used bicycles for sensing carbon dioxide:

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sensorlab/pubs/BikeNet-SenSys0...

http://sensorlab.cs.dartmouth.edu/pubs/a6-eisenman.pdf

We tried measuring carbon monoxide also but CO is lighter than air so we got no measurements. Methane is also lighter than air and would probably not be measurable on the ground unless you were very close to the source. However, the biker could carry a drone with a methane sensor and launch it periodically:

https://www.ravanair.com/drone-uav-methane-gas-detection/

Maybe a laser could be mounted on the bike firing straight up and be used to detect methane?:

https://www.crowcon.com/products/portables/lmm-gen-2/

I wanted to add radiation sensors to the bikes but the prof vetoed that idea, afraid it might affect property values in the town if we actually found differences in radiation levels.
An effective Ministry of Truth will always "work", but not in a way that leaves people better informed.
Which technological advances would need to be achieved for you to say that ICEs are morally acceptable?
If I had asked them what they wanted, they would've said faster filesystems.
Poor people and the middle class who deal in cash day to day to pay bills, seem to end up with less money.

The rich seem to be asset heavy so are buffeted against inflation.
What is Durov and why is it relevant?
The CIA has at least tried this in the modern times with 99.9% probability. They try everything, and this is a low-risk high-gain setup.
We did a pentest for our open source IAM and published the results
Hi,

Indentation level is a solved problem and start and end of words is also a customable behavior. Speech engines as a whole are open to customizations. There are some problems though that are just not easy to solve at all. It is like with the regular expressions and html. Hooking the SR to the language server might be an avenue of possible improvements, but the problem definition on my side is currently too vague to formulate correctly.
Game Maker Studio???
yes, there's a curve here. My early online days were in the time of GeoCities, and later CollegeClub (anyone remember that?); I had pretty significant online presences then, but they're all gone. The Archive doesn't have them, and that was before everything was scraped. I'm fairly certain this is all gone. Then comes the intermediate period when everything was starting to be scraped, but nobody realized or cared; that's where today's younger millenials find themselves. And then the present, where we all know what's happening, and some people just don't care, and others go to great lengths to obscure...
e2e encryption does nothing about ensuring deletion. Whatsapp can simply re-deliver the same encrypted blob.
And also in a way the opposite.

If there was a scale of value in terms of being between the borrower (people in debt) and people lending (people with cash). It swings heavily in favour of people in debt.
>After reading this article I wonder if there are MacGyver-esque influences on younger generations?

Just type "Lifehack" into youtube and search. Extremely low signal to noise ratio in videos made with monetization above all else. It's quite tragic.

A counterexample would be colinfurze[0] who makes very entertaining and inspiring videos. Apart from being a two legged OSHA violation his content is top notch.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/user/colinfurze
People like the lockpicking lawyer come to mind - https://youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer

It's as tho there's nothing he can't figure out a hack for, and sometimes it's a matter of simply getting a nail gun to do the work.
It's George, Man, and Superman, but I don't put esoterica past you.

It was just a silly joke.
Funny reading your comment I can totally understand why. the world would be a better place if people like you could realize why you should keep your mouth shut.
They are quite active in Asia including China.
Agreed. This is when you believe that your program should at the very least compile (or pass tests) at any point in the history. In this case a commit must be a consistent and related set of changes.

In other words, a commit to us is sort of like an "atomic" change, something that cannot be split or else more or less bad things happen.

I have trouble conceiving a better way to use Git when you really care about the readability of your history.
in some cases I don't care about readability though. On hobby projects I sometimes use Git more like a file transfer and synchronization tool. In this case I don't give a huck about how the history looks like.

Just like with code, the more readable this history is (in terms of what features/fixes are in there at some point in time), the better.
True. But as those are very dependent on where you live, does it even make sense to report inflation for the whole country?
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tiff is also just a container it can contain lz compressed data or with some lossy compression
His ex-wife posted on the forum. Basically she pursued 3,500/mo alimony and about 90,000 cash, and won a judgement in court. Lowtax apparently had a weak moment and decided the best way out of that was suicide. Can't say I blame him. Dude was broke, deep in addiction, lost everything, became public pariah, and now was financially fucked forever.

Courts are wildly imbalanced against men.
I tried signal among my close-y circle and we had no issue with nobody else there. But it didn’t stick because of how it looks and works. When I read reports like yours it feels like you don’t use all of the features, but what repelled us was not that inertia thing.
> In short, our experiment data showed a reduction in dislike attacking behavior

"attacking behavior"? This tone is giving me some weird feelings.

Here is a constructive opinion: Add it as an optional feature. Let the publisher select "Display both like and dislike counts", "Display only like counts" and "Don't display both count". YouTube has already implemented the "Display both" and "Hide both" option in their "Studio"/video manage page, they just need to add a new one.
How the wellness industry turned its back on Covid science
Are Perl programmers generally more morally flexible than others?