skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL, "Area 51."

Whether Signal or Telegram, you rely completely on trust in the central third party for security.

The choice of whether to use Signal or Telegram should depend on which of these organizations you trust the most (their leadership, their internal employees, and their security from external infiltration), NOT based on what technology they use in the client & server.

But you simply shouldn't use either because real security is all about not having to trust anyone like that.
One interesting application of tech like this is to produce story mods for games that still sound like they're using the original voice actors.
Yep, I have oil heat and our boiler needs electricity (I think for the ignition - maybe something else). Definitely doesn't work when the power goes out.
To my knowledge only the ten commandments are considered divinely dictated. The rest are written versions of oral histories, letters, and such by human authors.
The premise is great: you should indeed not rely (only) on complex log and metrics solutions for actionable alerting.

The solution is bad: you should not build a monitoring system yourself. Nagios family of monitoring systems have built a number of concepts from years of experience that you will not cover with DIY. Just a few examples not to make this huge:

- host and service dependencies. When a route goes down you do not want to receive hundreds of alerts for everything behind that route.

- health soft and hard state. A temporary (seconds) bad state should not send an alert. Only if the check fails several times in a row.

- state flaping detection. You do not want tens of alerts for something that becomes healthy and unhealthy several times over a short period.

- escalation: display in dashboard, after a time message L1 on chat, after a time notify L2 with SMS, after a time call over phone L3.

- support custom notification methods: for the above example be able to call by phone. Phone services are orders of magnitude more reliable than mail or http api calls.

- 4 service states: ok, warning, critical, unknown. Takes a lot to explain this but 2 states are not enough. For a networking outage you want things behind the failed point to be marked unknown as they might be ok for a customer taking another route to them than your monitoring.

- support SNMP among other things to be able to monitor network appliances.

I could go on but typing on the phone is not fun and I think this is enough for my point. Learn all things Nagios family of monitoring systems have to offer. Then decide if you can really do better with any other solution (you can, it's just not trivial though).
StackExchange has lots of sites (https://stackexchange.com/sites). Could they just create a site under the stackexchange network?
These types of posts rarely measure operational cost. Anybody can buy infrastructure and stick it behind an API. But can you make it fault tolerant with high availability and low latency. Can you do all of that and _still_ beat AWS's costs? For the vast majority of customers the answer is no.

I used to work at a medium sized company, and they saved millions by moving to the cloud, and gained much better availability/performance. It wasn't even close, because that medium-sized company didn't have the expertise to operate the service efficiently. They just bought off the shelf stuff from VMWare etc.. Plus, DR meant paying double.

disclaimer, I now work for AWS.
> Many of the needs seem like wants

This is true of initial 800 sq ft as well.
People are loud. If you don’t like noise, cities might not be for you.
NGL I think I have a pretty efficient setup and I'm in the process of installing a 4th panel (bringing my total to 1220W) because 915W isn't really cutting it for winter power now that I'm not spending time outside much. My quiescent draw/day is about 500Wh just doing nothing (fridge + internet) and on a cloudy day I'll make maybe 800Wh with the current setup. I don't think 800W of panels will let you power anything you want during winter.

I'm also working on a way to bring power in from my alternator but unfortunately I think I'm going to have to invert in the engine bay and rectify feeding into my MPPT controller to avoid running some absurdly thicc wire to carry a few hundred watts at 12 volts.
This didn't quite answer the gp's question.

There's an idea in some software communities that you can't "unsee" code. So if you've seen the code even once, you're "tainted" and you can't be permitted to work on the clean room implementation anymore. This tends to be used most often in projects attempting clean room implementations of proprietary software where they want to maintain clear provenance of the code.

The question is, is this based on actual case law or is it just an extreme form of paranoia?
yes but a hyper heat can modulate down to 1.6k btu/hr, so you still would just put that in every room. (as long as total for condenser is 6k btu/hr, so 4 x 1.5k btu/hr) but again, that wasn't really the point anyway.
these are not mutually exclusive claims
Much smaller population of apartments with loud speaker systems than cars driving in the city and even honking.

Cars are the biggest source of pollution in US cities, noise, particulate and visual. The early days of the pandemic in almost any city showed this so clearly.
To all those suffering from noise pollution: go to the hardware store and buy foam weatherstripping for your doors and windows in your room experiencing the noise pollution. Door sweeps, white noise machines, and earplugs also help significantly. Cheap, easy, and high ROI. Other than that buy IEMs, for noise reduction I recommend the Etymotic ER2SE or the Sony WF-1000XM4 if you want wireless noise cancelling IEMs
This is the exact attitude that should be tested for and taken as "going to be a bad cop".
While it's true that share buybacks are a nice way to return value to shareholders compared to dividends from a tax perspective they also have little to do with a business's growth or improvements in profitability. On some level I'm surprised bonuses are tied to share price and not market cap.
Agreed on the petrol - The risk of starting while in a car is very low (at least a modern one), but the risk if you have a fire from another cause is certainly higher. 50 gallons of gasoline is lot of stored energy (as is a couple of propane tanks). All of this risk is still very low, and I would be most concerned with something that can start a fire. Of course some electric cars like the Bolt have been problematic.
I think part of the reason is that electricity is very expensive here. Apparently it’s the 3rd most expensive state in the country, with a cost over 75% more than the average nationwide cost. [1]

The electricity we receive is sourced from renewables, and I’m sure that’s part of the reason the price is so much higher than elsewhere.

1: https://www.chooseenergy.com/electricity-rates-by-state/
You can do a lot to a field that isn't just "give me this field name" like running functions, aliasing it as another name, etc. If you're doing a simple:

SELECT a b c d
FROM table

I can understand the appeal, but when you're doing:

SELECT CAST(a AS VARCHAR(8)) as cast_a b c d
FROM table

There's no obvious syntactical way to separate those out, especially since you can get really complex in how you assemble things like aliases when you get into functions, stored procedures, subselets, etc.

PostgreSQL's cast operator syntax (::DATATYPE) can help a bit but it hasn't been standardized.
Peer reviews dont mean much anymore these days.
I guess the cost to the USA looked like it was practically zero, with the chance that he might luck out and get home with some half-baked intelligence.

Of course, it ended up costing them in diplomatic shenanigans requiring them to give up Soviet prisoners to get the chump back.
Typora is one of my favorite pieces of software, and imo the world’s best wysiwyg editor for markdown. I really wish I could use its editor in vscode and Joplin.
It's definitely going to be interesting to see, considering the replacement cycles of 15-20 for the batteries, and 20-30 for the solar array what the scaling, the costs, and what the net environmental impact is going to be.
My availability on-prem is vastly higher than AWS, especially over the past month.
Selling GPL software is objectively a terrible business model. If the entire proposition behind buying your software is "it'd be a pain to build this myself so I'll pay someone to compile the binary then give it to me", the only thing I can infer is that you have an unnecessarily painful build process.

Supporting GPL software, on the other hand, can be very viable. Another good option is licensing data to be interpreted/rendered/whatever by your GPL software.

End of the day, people don't buy software. They buy solutions to business problems. If the business problem can be solved for free by building the FOSS software yourself, there's no reason to pay the creator. On the other hand, if the creator sells "I will solve X business problem for you, this is an example of some of the FOSS software I will use to do so, but in the event this software is unable to properly solve the problem I will take whatever steps are needed to ensure it is solved to your satisfaction", it makes darn good sense to pay that creator to solve that problem.
> stealing their design and UI and workflow

I don't think they own those things and therefore they cannot be stolen.
Granger causality is about linear inter-temporal dependence. Chatterjee correlation is about non-linear contemporaneous (or time-independent) dependence. They're tools for quite different applications.
A colleague told me about her daughter - she finished college and has a regular job but cannot afford to move out. That's in rustbelt central. Yes, you can live with roommates, but if you are late 20's it becomes awkward, and when at some point the children arrive it becomes a habitability issue.
please, don't!
I rebuilt large (500Wh) lithium ebike batteries professionally and shipped them around North America for a couple years, and have torn down more than my fair share of ebike and tool batteries for analysis.

I've yet to see a "YouTube Trained" pack build that I would be remotely comfortable leaving unattended in my house. Though LFP is an awful lot more forgiving than a mix of random recycled 18650s of unknown chemistry, service life, and internal damage history that makes up the bulk of that stuff.

If you've got some good high res shots of the build process, I'd happily take a look and see what I think of it. My standards of comparison are the professionally built packs I've torn down for analysis and often enough rebuilt for people.

As for who my comment is about, honestly, I apply it generally to that entire class of person on YouTube no matter who they are. I know solar, and off grid solar, fairly well (with a focus on flooded lead acid). I know lithium fairly well, having done quite extensive work on them. In areas I know well, most of the people showing stuff off or trying to teach other people hit the 90/10 split, and as this is a topic of conversation in the quiet off grid backwaters circles I frequent, other people usually agree about which 10% is the problem.

Therefore I'm happy to ignore that entire class of person and go do something useful. It's not that education can't be funny, it's that when "personality" and "laughs" and "BIG O FACE I NEARLY BLEW MYSELF UP" style thumbnails are what matters, the really deep (and often quite important) technical details get lost in all that.
Just from some local classifieds.
I don't think they gave a fuck. I assume they also had plenty of competent intelligence gathering, and as another poster pointed out, this definitely had value in keeping KGB assets busy and distracted, and could be seen as a operation to lull the Soviets into thinking all the American HUMINT was this inept.
A warning, ASN.1 is disliked by many people in software security. It often features in security vulnerabilities involving TLS and LDAP/Active Directory. They would recommend against adopting ASN.1 for new projects.

I get the impression this partially due to a) most implementations being adhoc, of varying completeness, and written in C or C++ (e.g. OpenSSL); and b) sheer complexity of ASN.1 and other standards from that family/era.

Sources: following software security researchers/practioners on Twitter, a few podcasts, here, etc.
Oh, heck yeah. I was a member of several BBSs but found a true home when I came across one run by a local newspaper reporter (Sredni). Everyone was at minimum an avid reader, and two were writers including the reporter. The BBS was run out of her home and had only one phone line, so people had to wait their turn to dial in, batch upload messages and download replies using software similar to uucp. Even with that software a BBS with a large user base like hers was often busy, so the software had a war dial mode that just retried forever.

One of the members (Skippy) literally had everyone's birthday and there was a celebration or meeting just about every weekend. When my apartment lease ended but I didn't want to move home and had no money for a deposit, Vermithrax Pejorative let me sleep on his couch. One of the guys (Dorothy) came to every event dressed exactly like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. My point is we were a very friendly and non-judgemental crew. Sort of the polar opposite of the modern-day internet.

I was eventually lucky enough to date Sredni I think in part because I actually knew who Sredni Vashtar was. LOL. She called me incredibly excited after I gifted her a Spider Robinson novel and it had a word she'd never seen before on page one. It was an elegant community for a more civilized age.
I mean, sure. At the end of the day all land owners, and I speak as one, exist at the end of a chain that began with theft and likely violence. The surface of the earth is by nature no less a resource that should be common to all man as the atmosphere and the oceans. Neither the landlord with more than he can live on nor the renter with not enough to live on can exist without someone at some point having taken more than their fair share by guile or force of arms.
Perhaps the problem with the availability of housing is the "real estate development" model you describe, which is capital intensive and therefore will be undertaken by large corporations instead of by the people who will actually live in the area and who therefore have a personal stake in how livable it is. Perhaps if more development was done by "young people just moving there", we would have more livable areas and less competition for housing.
If we omit the batteries, there have been electric buses since forever - trolley buses. They come also in hybrid variants too to serve more distant bus stops.
What things described in this article are now illegal?
Eh, I would argue that any advantage cloud has in ease of configuration is because of the brain drain in good server software caused by the cloud: Spend some time in Microsoft Azure and it becomes instantly sad that all this manpower was pulled off of Windows Server (which has stagnated as a product) and been invested in a proprietary service product that runs on top of Windows Server. And the former will outlive the latter more than likely.
That's what I found strange honestly. I don't know why but I always thought the west coast was great weather. But it sucks. Only southern California had ok weather, but even then the beaches weren't great and the water was cold in summer. The farther North it was like borderline miserable weather.

I guess the weather comparison trope is based on New York and places that it snows a lot, but so much of the US has a far better climate than the west coast.
text.fish is still down. :(
Those items aren’t made with as much extractive materials proportionally as EV batteries. If using PHEVs means more miles travelled are electric while less lithium is mined, great.
You can steal ideas to which one doesn’t have a legal right.
Silence is too weird, not all sounds are the same. Like chickens are horrible though and not really a natural part of most environments. I don't want to live on a farm. I didnt think cows were to bad when I stayed next to a small farm.

Some how I can deal with fireworks too though i would be pretty irritated if it happened every night and woke me up or something. Loud music drives me crazy, especially if its not music I enjoy. Bass particularly is bad, i struggle to drown it out with noise. I had a neighbor who I guess wanted to dj, the kick drum would go straight through the wall for hours. Cars that drive by with loud music or idle out side my window i found irritating.

Speaker phone conversations bother me, not sure why, i can usually tune out most regular conversations (except when its not in english?), but they also wake me up. Hearing muffled conversation through a wall is distracting. Loud tvs suck. Children screaming is terrible, babies crying etc.. My downstairs neighbor wakes me up when they start yelling at each other at 7am. Closing doors or cabinets or walking is mostly fine for me.

I guess no unnecessary or sudden, loud, repeated noise would be great. Like a car alarm or a child screaming for no reason. I'm not totally sure what the pattern is or what a tolerable noise is or bad noise is. Crickets are nice, i had no problem when i lived next to a lake with frogs or in pr with coqui frogs. Construction is bad.
I am terrified of being alone. Thankfully I have a bunch of good friends but it's been hard to meet them due to covid.
Is it better to be alone or be in a relationship that you are sort of okay with and not completely happy with it?
you don't need to rely completely on trust in third parties because both produce reproducible open source clients (at least on android, not sure about apple) and if someone hands you at least a client that you can verify doesn't send out non-encrypted data you have some legitimate safety compared to a service that doesn't do that at all.

And that's why technology matters, because security is not binary. Very concrete example, someone uses Facebook Messenger, the police get the hands on their phone, arrest them for some chat content. Signal cannot do that, and you can verify they cannot. That's a real use case that people in particular in countries with oppressive governments run into at this very moment.
yes, i currently work on static type analysis for python, and i love it. i've always been interested in programming languages as a hobby - just trying out random languages, learning about new programming paradigms and ideas, reading up on interpreter and compiler design - and when i had a chance to join a language tooling team i jumped on it. i've enjoyed aspects of other jobs before but i think this is the first one i really love in the "not even thinking of looking elsewhere" sense.
i wonder if this type of niche use case would be best served by an lp gas tank type situation rather than outfitting an entire building with gas piping.

my guess is, most people in most cooking situations would never need restaurant grade stove tops. but like we do now, us nerds with nerdy niche cases will figure out how to do it for ourselves with elaborate projects :p
Yeah, get rid of those computer books.

That's what the internet + ebooks are for.

Unless a book has a special meaning to me personally or is considered life changing, I rarely keep any physical books.
Fun is subjective. People often don't believe when being told something is fun. It's easier to make the description itself fun, though it will backfire if the process of programming itself turns out not to be fun.
Ok. Austria is better than California and EU is greater than USA. You win. Cheers.
Not OP, but:

Ancient oak trees, with canopies the size of houses, gingerly cartwheeling down the street, until a wind shift sends it rolling through the neighbors(empty) house. Watching their entire lives evaporate into projectiles that peppered everything downwind.

Modern garage door being sucked out, thrown over the house, to impale itself into the house behind it, evaporating it a few seconds later.

Large trucks, turning side-over-side, like logs rolling down a hill.

A cast iron bench being launched like a rocket into a neighbors window, turning the contents of that room, window, frame, and window air conditioner into a debris field; something from with-which punched a hole through a stop sign.

The roof of my house being lifted 6-10 inches directly upward, rotated about 30 degrees, and slammed back down. Like a sonic boom went off 10ft over-head.

Front support column being blown through my living room window, glass embedding itself into the walls opposite.

The physics of your everyday environment radically and violently change, you see things that you can't see anywhere else. I was on a few drugs while everything was going on, and there's so much more, but none of that was what really messed me up.

I don't know if other people have ever seen something that their brain couldn't understand at all. Like all context does not exist, this is entirely new to human experience kinda thing:

My house had a big ditch behind it, then a set of train tracks that were about a foot lower than my land grade, then another big ditch, then a state park. A very large state park that was miles and miles of ancient oaks, swamps, etc.

I walked out behind my house when the storm cleared, and I froze because I couldn't understand what I was seeing: Imagine an eldritch-old forest, you see it everyday, and now where an impenetrable wall of wood was, is now white horizon. It had been flattened, or erased. My eyes were seeing the white horizon while my brain was struggling with my memory and anticipation. It's the most disassociated I've ever felt without advanced chemistry.
An environmentalist organisation could do this by buying them and shuttering them.

The problem with this is that eventually the government notices what you're doing and just takes it away from you. This happens regularly with attempts to preserve natural lands and resources.
I don't know why there are so many articles in this vain:

- use the cloud until you're making so much money that you can afford to hire the sufficient talent to replicate cheaper.

fin
Xi Jinping has turned China into a nightmare dictatorship. Ethically, why do any companies want to do business there?

Every business that goes into China gets it's IP stolen, it's new business entities stolen, etc. Why would anyone want to do business there period?

I do no business with anyone or any company in China with my company.
As for your first point about indoor air - Gas for heating doesn't mean gas cooktop and non-gas for heating doesn't mean non-gas cooktop.

I have oil heat and a gas cooktop. The gas is propane which is supplied by a company who fills a tank once in a blue moon.

My parents have gas heat and a fully electric cooktop.

FWIW, One of my burners is definitely unsafe, the fire is too high and there's a distinct smell of gas after using it for a couple minutes. So I don't use that one...
Having enough to eat and free time to think certainly didn't hurt.
You did not watch the video.

Video is specifically the claim that cities CAN be quiet, and it gives examples of quiet, dense cities. The title is "Cities aren't loud, cars are loud."

Watch it. You will learn something.
The biggest issue is not creating humanizes, as it would equally be racist to say they shouldn't exist, the issue is hybridizing sentient organisms with particularly well known sapience boundaries, and then aiming for organ harvesting
when looking at these things, you always need to look over the long term. Sure, December wasn't great, but how was all of 2021 overall?

It's also not just cost/availability, but flexibility and scalability. Most high-growth startups would have not been able to scale quickly enough pre-cloud. Facebook is literally the unicorn.