skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now, PGE will pay you unreasonably low prices when you sell power back to them. So much so that installing solar may not make sense. You will still buy from them at $0.30/kw, or even more during peak.

Additionally you will pay to PG&E $8 per kW of solar you've installed (and personally financed) PER MONTH, and get nothing in return. That's just a transfer of money from you to PG&E, to punish you for getting solar. ("But no, PG&E has to maintain transmission lines!" Yes, that's why they buy energy at wholesale rates are are allowed by law to sell them at retail at a huge spread. That's where they make the money to maintain lines.)
In related news, society blames Facebook for COVID misinformation.
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> 2A was never an individual right

Right, except for all the reasons it was outlined to be exactly that for 240 years before you came along to say it wasn’t. Perhaps try the Federalist Papers, Jefferson, and Adam’s writings on the topic.

You are free to disagree all you like, you are within all rights to call a majority decision wrong and the opinion of weasel words… your feelings change nothing.

The militia argument is completely dead. 2A is an individual right. End of story until that decision is overturned. You are 13 years late to be upset over it.
Gold has also stood the test of time in a way unique to our human culture
It really depends on the code. Proprietary custom code of course is less reviewed, but can also be much simpler and have a much smaller attack surface compared to a sprawling code-base like log4j.

For me the trade-off is when understanding the complete architecture and important subtleties (often ill-documented) of a third-party library takes more time than writing reasonably straightforward custom code restricted to the current needs of the application.
Homo Sapiens have been killing each other on this planet for at least 10,000 years, and only used nuclear weapons for roughly the last 75 years.... If his wife had been armed with an M-28 Davy Crockett firing an M-388 round using a W54 Mod 2 with a yield of 84GJ, she could easily have deterred him, but she would not be legally allowed to carry military weapons.

Maintain the purity of your bodily fluids, friend!
Yeah, I can't change the icon for Finder to be the NeXT logo without disabling SIP. Kinda lame. Should be able to make an alias to it and change the icon on that at least.
Then join us. Help us get it the last mile. Don't just say "it looks like it's dead".. be part of the solution. :) You are more than welcome to join!

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CA is a single-party state. Everything is owned/appointed by the same party/group of people. In effect, middle-class is supporting all of that. The question is why?
Not many relative or absolute? I think it is a fairly small percentage of people and also a very large number of people who can (and desire to) live this lifestyle.
~6% to 7%

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TM/toyota/profit-m...
So, I work in this profession. I teach in academia for a living. And I don't think it's particularly controversial to say you can find lots of examples where yes, the whole state-of-the-profession is wrong for long periods of time.

There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, in a way it's kind of the point -- come up with ideas, beat them up a bit, see what's left, sometimes very little.
Relevant: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

It is a feed generator for sites that don't have it.
Closing more deals with DocSend, sales webinar
See also: Wabi Sabi.
Vulnerability researcher here.

It's really hard for vulnerabilities as simple as this one to stay under wraps. When the patch went out 9 days ago [1], many vulnerability researchers were able to look at it and identify the root cause within minutes. Exploits started going out over a week ago before the CVE was released. Good security orgs that can hire skilled vulnerability researchers started patching on December 6th/7th/8th. All the chaos started on December 9th when people started leaking the poc on twitter.

The same thing happens to google chrome when they release a patch for a security vulnerability. Very skilled researchers can produce a POC and exploit given the patch alone [2]

The same thing happens even with embargoes like the one you describe in place.

[1] https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/commit/d82b47c
[2] https://blog.exodusintel.com/2019/09/09/patch-gapping-chrome...
There are multiple worse human traits, and I can't be associated with anyone who would think this is our worst and ugliest.
If I spread business lies on Facebook then Facebook becomes part of the problem. But if I spread lies which result in people dying, then Facebook is suddenly not the problem and we frame it as the fundamentals of democracy.
Yeah this is the kind of layout I prefer.
Never?

ls |less
Advertising is an aspect of marketing, just like engineering.
I disagree. Yes, it's trivial to avoid saying Atashi and ending sentence in wa, but feminine language differences are a lot more pervasive than that. There's a ton of subtle stuff, and you end up sounding strange if you aren't really careful. To just give one example, there are a ton of places you can choose to throw in an o- or not, just like in English, you can choose to say "the" or not. As in English, it's about pattern matching and getting used to the subtle frequencies for this stuff. Just like French people sound silly when they use "the" in the wrong places, a man sounds silly when using o- in the wrong places.
Would you kindly share a photograph of something you have made with this technique?
Peter Molyneux's Next Game, Legacy, Is a “Blockchain Business Sim”
Setting up brew on macOS under local account (no sudo)
IF you are starting with mac+react-native don't follow all the tutorials that say to use sudo/root/global install. Use local.
Here is a quick rundown that took to long to figured out. If only I had this when I started.
Enjoy.
It doesn't. They're different types of tools. GNUstep commonly runs under and uses Window Maker.

Window Maker is a window manager.

GNUstep is a large set of libraries and foundation classes, and almost as a byproduct, they happen to implemented most of a desktop environment: a file manager and actual desktop, a dock, plain and rich text editors, a pretty good email client, a chat client, a terminal emulator, image viewer, etc. etc.

But like any other xNix desktop, it needs a window manager. KDE uses kwm, GNOME uses mutter, Xfce uses xfwm, LXDE uses OpenBox, etc. GNUstep can use whatever you want, but Window Maker is the recommended choice because it matches the look-and-feel nicely.
Wait what how do u know I'm young and a man lol
Ask HN: Other than Bootstrap and Bulma, what other CSS UI toolkits out there?
I see a lot of React/Svelte/Vue starter kits and component toolkits and all of that, but I've been looking for something more simplistic, that I can tie to my normal workflow and just sprinkle some Stimulus/Turbo.

Is Bootstrap still king here? Any other one that offers more extensive "component" libraries?
Yes, it can and yes it does.

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The Hazards of Industrial Research
Confirmed. Its the "log4j2.formatMsgNoLookups" property. Source: https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/security.html
FYI, remote start is a pretty easy aftermarket add on, especially for Toyotas.
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Sounds like a cool hobby. But solving basic desktop tools, sounds like bikeshedding to me :) Not to disrespect the project, I find Objective-C and the Cocoa model nice, but realistically looking at it almost nobody uses GNUStep, so why write apps for it ?
Is NGE worth watching for someone who never was really into anime? The only animated thing I've watched in ages was Arcane, but that's completly different style that NGE.
I liked the first season of SAC, but it did kind of annoy me how they basically decided to put Major Kusanagi in lingerie throughout most of it. She was nude in a good percentage of the 1995 movie, but it wasn't really "sexualized." In SAC it kind of felt like, instead of being a conflicted character unsure of her place in the world, a large percentage of her character was just there as fan service/eye candy, and I thought it cheapened her as a result.
So maybe change your headline?
Yeah well Wayland doesn't provoke trust either..
Why people remotely start their car is beyond my comprehension most of the time. Unless you're in an extreme climate and absolutely have to bring the car's interior temperature to something survivable, what's the point? We don't have to warm up the engine anymore past a few seconds either.

All I can think of is the waste of fuel and unnecessary GHG.
Surveillance capitalism? What does it even mean?
was that after 2000 with student loans? My first few jobs after college where under $40, I think my first year in software I made 42K USD but my rent was $300 and i had no kids. 1996
Doesn't provide complete mitigation unless it's completely airgapped. You can for example exfiltrate information using DNS-lookups.
Many are not lawyers at all, as is the case here.

What gets me is that amazing innovation was taking place, and privately financed. CA households were themselves paying out of their own pockets to build the huge additional capacity needed for EVs, for instance. All that rooftop solar really adds up. It also makes PGE's job much easier. They barely have to lift a finger these days when it's sunny and not too hot.

But PG&E and its uniparty allies like the NRDC just couldn't have it. They want control. They can't support distributed, renewable energy, because it cuts their (very badly maintained and undeserving of support) monopoly on distribution.

Classic CA decision that only serves PG&E and insiders, not the people.

Needs to be reversed by the State Legislature.
VW diesel cars can be equipped with Webasto (auxiliary heater which burns diesel). One gets a remote (in my experience reaching up to 500 meters) which can be used to start this heater along with car's climate control. The advantage is that it consumes 1/3-1/5 of what an idling engine does, while heating interior and engine coolant much faster. The disadvantage is that it consumes battery charge, but to counteract that the car is equiped with 30-50% bigger battery. Though this was never a problem for me, from my experience on 94Ah battery it can run for hours without any effect on engine starting, while heating the car in some 10-15 minutes when it is below freezing outside.
Ok, how do we start to immediately fight this?
When talking about relatives the fraction refers to the amount of variation in the population.

To simplify, say every 100 bases are random and all humans share the 99% that are the same.

A brother and sister have 50% in common out of the 1% that varies, so they are 99.5% identical relative to whole genome or 50% relative to the variation.

It depends on what population you use as a reference too. Relative to white people, two average white people are unrelated. Relative to the 'average human' they are as related as uncle/nephew. Relative to Bushmen/Pygmy/Andaman islanders, closer still. Relative to a banana, much closer than siblings (in the usual measure) though not quite identical twins
This is really cool! You should highlight the fact that it works with Vue.js and a bunch of other frameworks.

I also couldn't find a way to export the code. I'd prefer to use this tool without the API integration.
53 TB of UMB :)
No problem, I know where you are coming from. I regularly get spammed with "we are not PH" and "we are on HN" posts from people I don't even know, and the hard truth is that for lot of these "marketers" it actually works in the end.

Thank you!
Not a ton of benefit here, because drawing attention without having the patch fully ready means more eyeballs looking. More eyeballs means someone inevitably finds and exploits/publishes before it can be mitigated.
I bet you more money is exchanged on Lunar New Year Day than Christmas. It is significant beyond cultures to have a day of gift giving.
Neuromorphic hardware has been usable for 10 years now. Since then, algorithms for neuromorphic hardware (i.e. spiking networks) always performed 'almost as good' as ANN solutions on GPUs (meaning: inferior). But each year a new generation of GPUs comes out, using modern processes, with excellent toolchains. In a direct comparison of power efficiency, GPUs win over NMHW most of the time.

I would love to see Spiking Networks and NMHW take over machine learning but it has such a long way to go. And I seriously doubt the strategy, followed by most players, to try to beat good old ANNs at their own game.

Unless we identify a problem set where event-based computing with spikes is the inherently natural solution, I find it hard to imagine that spiking networks will ever outcompete ANN solutions.
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/12986802/33520300-...

Yeah, I know, right? ;) </sarcasm> It is fully capable of looking like macosx using any number of themes.

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Is there some device that can/could do this. I did a cursory look through Amazon and there's a lot of "signal testers", is that sufficient?
India plans a ₹76,000-cr red carpet for semiconductor companies
Neat. I've been quite fond of Monitor Control: https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl
I tried to answer this above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29544763
I built https://forwardemail.net as the costs went up and I needed a cheaper alternative for my domains. Any questions feel free to email me, nick@forwardemail.net
I mitigated our SOLR install over the weekend. Best I could tell it wasn't logging queries by default so I couldn't get it to trigger. Adding an extra JVM arg to the opt list is a pretty standard SOLR thing to do, so I already have automated ways to update and push out configuration changes.
Mars will have full level 5 self-driving by next year!
It is now. It's been fixed.
I would say that telling someone who emailed you in an unsolicited fashion that you have an expected protocol for interaction isn't in the wrong and putting that line first in an unambiguous way is practically required for how people read emails. They did ask for context after that line, which was fine. I will say that the 'low-effort' part of their phrasing could have been constructed better but the first reply was more in the scope of stern and terse than outright insulting and hostile. I feel like I have to answer dozens of emails like this in a similar fashion because then I get the form letter or PDF that they want to show me over a meeting or they actually give an agenda and I can make the appropriate decision for myself. Since there's an existing relationship here any ambiguity wastes everyone's time, if it was an unrelated entity then you can assume sales email but in this case you can't. Any moderate sized company or larger is a multi-headed hydra so it's never obvious what part of the beast you are talking to and why they are seeking you out.
I'd say that the probable scenario here is that you're targeting some specific LTS Linux distros, and you want to be able to run on the specific version of glibc on those distros. Normally, binary compatibility goes forwards but not backwards. What this tool lets you to is target an old glibc without needing to install that specific glibc.
> it's missing the greater picture. it's giving _everyone_ a megaphone

I think this can be argued against, because Facebook does recommendation and algorithmic curation.

Even if Facebook didn't purposely tweak things to propagate disinformation, you could say it is easy to manipulate their algorithms to disproportionately push the information.

So for me it's a case of Facebook not doing enough to fight potential abuse on their platform.

There's an element of responsibility here, because we are prone to some material more than other. There are primitive instincts in us, and content designed to take advantage of that is parasitic, and it is manipulative and addictive in that sense.

Crazy theories, appeal to emotions, controversy, nudity, clan affiliation, and all that are ways to take advantage of our psyche.

Even a smart person is as smart as the data more readily available to them. If the only thing about gender psychology I ever heard about was Jordan Peterson because he's been recommended to me, even if I'm the smartest most reasonable person, this is now the starting point of my understanding and thoughts around gender psychology.

So I think a platform that is optimized to show information that is most designed to make people susceptible to it, and that also targets information to the most susceptible people to present it to is by design going to result in the outcomes we're seeing.
> Ideally, log4j should not have the ability to make "outgoing calls" right?

If it's in the application execution context, it will have the same abilities.

If your middleware needs to make calls to third-parties, and it uses log4j, the log4j code has the same rights as the middleware app.

If you're using a registry like Nexus, and it uses log4j, then it also has the ability to make calls to Maven repos, pypi repos, and anything else that Nexus can reach.

And so on and so forth.

Essentially you're expecting there to be privilege separation, where there is none.
Frustratingly, they have obviously not open sourced all design files. The only similar file formats present in that repo are: PDF, DXF, and SVG. No source files!
Enough of a qualification, no?
Yes I know. My point is that I think it's unlikely that anything comes out behind eliminating commutes. Even "essentially no access to services" is closer access to services than the common exurban commuting distance.
This is a classic example of price discrimination. Slowly but surely, companies such as Toyota will converge to a state where every consumer individually pays the maximum amount that the consumer is willing to pay for the product.

$8 a month may not seem like much compared to the cost of a car, but that's the point. Toyota will be able to get free extra money from a large population of people (many of whom will later barely even remember that they are incurring this regular cost).
This is very disingenuous quote! Here is a longer one:

> Under NO circumstances is our system disabled or rider’s cut-off if they are mid-flight on a ride, as suggested. We provide a 30-day grace period from the time a payment is missed..

So the title is _almost_ correct -- the airbag vest will stop working if 2 payments are missed.
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I would recommend watching the original, personally. The new movies are sharper and brighter, but lack character.
> but I can see the reasons people might compare it to being turned upside down and shaken for loose change like a piggy bank.

How?

Licensing music requires ongoing payments from Apple to music owners.

iCloud requires Apple to maintain data centers and bandwidth.

TV+ requires ongoing investment into creation of new video productions.

News+ is similar to music, Apple has ongoing costs to pay the owner of the journalism.

Games also gets new games all the time, so presumably there are ongoing expenses there also.

And fitness+ might be one where there is less need for ongoing expenses, but they do seem to be adding content regularly.
Vulnerability researcher here. This vulnerability was patch-gapped before it was disclosed.

When the patch went out 9 days ago [1], many vulnerability researchers were able to look at it and identify the root cause within minutes. Exploits started going out over a week ago before it was publicly disclosed and the CVE was released. Good security orgs that can hire skilled vulnerability researchers started patching on December 6th/7th/8th. All the chaos started on December 9th when people started leaking the poc on twitter.

The same thing happens to google chrome when they release a patch for a security vulnerability. Very skilled researchers can produce a POC and exploit given the patch alone [2]

[1] https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/commit/d82b47c

[2] https://blog.exodusintel.com/2019/09/09/patch-gapping-chrome...
you're advocating diversity against monoculture. Only nature has muse enough for such.
Direct delivery engagement and route planning SaaS
Routeranger.com makes it possible for any business, even solo operators, to add a game-changing service to their workflow in minutes by engaging clients in the delivery process.
India's local 5G standard (5Gi) to be merged with the global 5G standard
Linus Tech Tips used a $expensive dedicated device to test a ton of HDMI cables. Most of them were shit: https://youtu.be/XFbJD6RE4EY

And what was most interesting is that price and quality didn't always correlate at all.
Is Texas an extreme environment? Not particularly, but still, it’s nice to get the air conditioner going a minute or two before getting into a car in August.
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My understanding is these permissions were given originally last summer during the height of the pandemic. I don't think anyone could have anticipated at City government level how long they will be needed or imagined they would become permanent .

It looks obvious in hindsight, but with pandemic a lot of rapid changes at all government levels had to be made and plenty of them had mistakes, sometimes costing lives.

If restaurants went ahead and bought the parklets after the announcement became permanent I can understand the complaints (vast majority were bought last year) at that time there was no intent to make it permanent. To me it sounds like restaurants are just being greedy on the amount of extra space they have for free especially with relaxing /removed capacity restrictions indoors.
As a long-time fan of NGE, I'd say yes.

It's got a fair bit of the classic "teens in mechs" tropes to it, but there's definitely more to it under the hood, and it's universe is rather well put together in my opinion.

I'd try to walk into it without focusing on it being animated though. It's cinematography like anything else, it's just a different medium and a different style that makes use of the flexibility it's medium provides.
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To be fair people who use social media are like people who have had 10 drops of acid: Legally insane.
My wife did something amazing this year that I think is relevant here. She had a baby shower to go to. She didn't know what to get the mother to be.

So she bought an Amazon gift card. And then she created a wishlist of items she thought the mother might need, doing the research to find reputable brands, unique solutions to problems, "best mom gadgets", etc (such as the pacifier that you can put liquids into; it lets you get liquid medicines into the baby, like cough syrup, without stress). She sent the gift card, and the link to the wishlist with an explanation.

It was both a pragmatic and thoughtful approach, without the risk of buying something she already had, or didn't need or want.
On Linux a window manager might be another option in that direction. I use i3 (with a solid #1F4437 background :) and find it's the best way to make your desktop invisible.
To the same list: Angela Merkel is a nuclear physicist.