skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The HN title doesn't do this justice:

Because of the chip shortage, Canon is selling cartridges without chips that identify them as genuine, so Canon is telling customers how to override the warnings that indicate they are counterfeit cartridges.
Is smokescreen an alternative to Squid? Seems like they cover similar ground, but I’ve never heard of smokescreen before.

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid
But now the ID has a random concatenation of data in it, like the MAC address of the node that inserted it into the database and a timestamp.

It'd be much more orderly for each node to have a sequential ID, the ID of the node that created it, a timestamp when it was created and a real UUID v4 for if someone wants to prevent collisions. Same data, but the primary key on an individual node is a lot smaller (half the size) and the metadata is available for use if someone wants it. There is natural room to build up namespaces and such. It is better to keep these observations separate instead of munging them all into the record ID.
Question:

How much fossil fuel is used to ship those fossil fuels?

Boats burn it, don’t they?
> This is true, wallets suck so much it’s funny. I was sent a £2k NFT the other day which I can’t sell because Opensea has glitched and my wallet won’t show me the NFT, which means I can’t send it or sell it!

This is not true. An NFT that follows the ERC721 contract standard has a `safeTransferFrom()` function that a token holder can call to initiate a transfer. You do not have to depend on OpenSea: https://etherscan.io/address/0x5754f44bC96F9F0Fe1a568253452a...

You can also use an alternative NFT swapping protocol, such as the ZeroX-backed Trader.xyz: https://trader.xyz/ (fully open source) to initiate a swap.
Not to mention the string serialization is also ugly...
Hey,

Are you guys hiring outside the UK in the EMEA region? I was looking through your website but couldn't figure it out.
Should have also mentioned tuning the number of H1Bs to control the supply of labor. More relevant to the audience here!
But the goal of most people isn't to use Facebook; it's to keep in contact with their friends. Scraping just the things they care about is fairly easy; scraping what Facebook chooses to put in front of their eyeballs when they're using an account (in practice, what they'd see if they were using Facebook) is really quite easy.

Then you can just reply to Facebook messages on something other than Facebook. That'll annoy your friends a bit, but that's the cost of them still using Facebook.

The problem with Facebook is not that it's hard to get your data off. It's not, really. The problem is that you have to be a programmer to do so; and blockchain stuff doesn't fix that problem.
2 years ago exactly, yes but in the spirit of HN you should take the best possible reading. If you compare to March 2020 instead the restrictions are still less than they were then.
What's the fail-condition for non-US cards? Do they accept any Zip code you enter, reject everything, or expect you to enter something like the postal code digits plus zeroes?
What’s Study Hall?
Predictions Scorecard, 2022 January 01
"A calorie is a calorie is a calorie" is true once the calories are in the bloodstream of your body, and that's clearly what "the hackers diet" means.

Every pound of extra fat on your body comes from a calorie surplus that at one time or another existed in your bloodstream. If that surplus came from bacon or carrots doesn't matter for the pound of fat (it might matter for your heart and health in other ways of course).

It's also true that in order to lose that pound of fat, you need to create a deficit of calories in your bloodstream.

The problem is that you can't know how many calories from various foods actually end up in your bloodstream in advance. Just like any given number of "calories per hour of running" is obviously just a rough estimate (varies by how heavy you are, how cold it is, if it's uphill, how good a runner you are and so on), the number of "calories per serving" on the box of food is also an estimate.

Your body could be particularly good at absorbing calories from rice, or particularly bad at absorbing calories from beans. This could also be temporary, or affected by what other things you eat, or when you eat during the day.

The hackers diet solves this complex thing by having you keep a record of what you eat and do over time, and /measuring the results/. Then you know what is true /for you/, personally, and you can adjust your habits and predict the results.

The best tip I got from it however was the idea that hunger is a signal telling your body to start burning fat. That made me able to endure the periods of hunger during the first few days without giving up.
Once the body started to burn fat, all the discomforts of hunger went away permanently for the duration of the diet. I think a lot of dieters fail just because they think the discomfort is unbearable and will last forever.
From the description it seems like a good problem to solve is "how do we get students the support they needed in 2020 while not creating a dangerous situation?"

they should treat homerooms as the place students stay all day to attend classes semi-remotely. This allows teachers to work while quarantining and students to keep learning if at home temporarily. An issue with covid is it spreads so fast but symptoms may be nothing so I bet most students and teachers could continue at home while isolated and prevent as much disruption (its obviously still not ideal).

at the same time it gives students a place to go. it gives them technical and other support a school provides students.
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I have used mbsync and seems to be a great tool. In order to view those emails I used neomutt and works pretty ok, is there a way to access those email archives with a GUI-based email client (e.g. Thunderbird) without converting them to MBOX? My dad is not going to use a MUA for reading old backups of mails, I thought about setting up a local IMAP server (dovecot) and try to access that via Thunderbird but could not make it work at all...someone with a similar experience or some insights?
This is the TL;DR for me. Perhaps a lot of this will evolve and we’ll end up with some fantastic technologies that are truly revolutionary.

But, a lot of us are pretty jaded by “blockchain is a game changer” with no tangible evidence beyond BTC as a highly unstable store of value and claims of some great future state.
Ultra-reliable nuclear power, like in France where a couple of reactors had to be shut down due to safety issues detected?

Yes, wind and solar are limited in their available capacity by the weather. The trick to get reliable power generation nonetheless are wide range networks (mitigates weather influences), storage solutions and storable renewables like bio-gas.

For the gap, gas powered plans are the key. Even in the worst case, they are way more environment friendly than coal, only emit a fraction of the CO2 at the same output. But beyond that, they can be quickly switched in output, they are the ideal counterpart to wind and solar. That is the weakness of coal and especially nuclear power plants.

Also, one can afford a lot of overproduction capacity for the cost of a new nuclear power plant.
… and canceled after 2 seasons…
Public schools main function is subsidized day care since the vast majority of parents both work.

Kids hate remote learning. Its awful looking at a screen, bored, for hours day after day. They dont perform well.

Kids need other kids interactions.

Many substitute teachers are not being allowed to work because they dont want the never ending vaccine regime. I know 3 who did it full time and no longer because of it.

Omnicron being so weak is the perfect time to end the lockdowns and security theater. Get everyone exposed so we can develop nation wide natural immunity, which actually works, and move on with life. Its been close to two years of this madness. Teen suicide is at an all time high, enough is enough.

If teachers don't want to teach, quit, there are many people who would love their position waiting in the sidelines.
What was stargate.com in 1985?
the good news is that it's not the first shared database that we have to manage. Take DNS as example. We know the answer: Start a new blockchain using Ethereum technology, and let institutes around the world, host the "servers". Even better if every central bank in the world could run a node.
Very little. Modern transport ships are astonishingly efficient.
I would hesitate at using that book. Riddled with errors or non-factual stuff. Been discussed previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850
It is a shame they spent do little time on the actual creation of the nail.

In particular how the head is formed. I rewatched the sliw motiin a few times but still do not understand where the grid (or smooth surface) of the head comes from.
What country? Are we taking Iran or Canada?
There's always an ideal solution that would be best in an ideal world. Unfortunately, this is the world where two nuked cities and a handful of nuclear accidents was enough to turn people against nuclear power. It doesn't matter that this position is based on ignorance. Turning people back in favor is a generational project. We don't have a generation left to do that. We need solutions that can be implemented at scale now.
> The remaining of the UUID value comes from the MD5 of a random value and the current time at a precision of 1us.

I might be misunderstanding something here but if your random seed is based on time, under high-concurrency, doesn't this risk collisions? I can't see any thread-safety guarantees in the documentation.[1]

[1] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mathematical-functio...
The U.S. government allocated $190 billion dollars to schools for pandemic response[0][1]. Some school districts updated their athletic facilities.

There is no single solution to the current problem. Remote learning is a heavy burden on families with two working parents or single parent families that are not afforded the ability to work remotely (and even remote work is challenging -- my teammate can really only work from 8pm-2am without distraction because his two young kids are home and his wife has to go to the office). Yet, because of the current surge, many, many teachers are sick. Administrators are put into awful positions because nothing is going to work at the moment.

[0] https://theweek.com/us/1008705/how-america-could-have-kept-s...

[1] NB: I don't agree whole cloth with the opinions in the article, but it does a nice job outlining that the Federal government handed out large sums of money to local school districts with almost no oversight for how that money was spent.
It doesn't support H.264 or AAC. Just changing the container.
Coming from .NET/LINQ/SQL, I would have assumed the latter. But then again, if I'd ever write ruby, I should have consulted the docs.

But this kind of behavior change at best should have introduced different API.

Crazy to think that someone remotely can alter your query ANDs to ORs. That may very well destroy your database data and a whole lot of pain to rollback.
bat is actually more pager than cat, it automatically switches to pager mode when its input exceeds a certain size.
The NY Governor for a variety of reasons has call remote learning a "failed experiment." NYS probably more observations to work with on this matter than anywhere else. CA is not urban enough.
The Wall: Geostationary satellites near-real-time animations
Made by the father of a friend with decades experience in satellite imagery. It works recombinining public data feeds from several satellites to create close to real time RGB views of the planet.

Most free data being from old satellites watching earth only a wavelength, the magic behind those breathtaking views is to recombine the data to create RGB impressions and correcting for the different spacial movements and orientation of satellites.

Some highlights in the gallery such as the California and Austrialian fires, as seen from space https://earth2day.com/TheWall/Gallery/gallery.html
If you count "Cartridge can't be detected" as "warning that indicate counterfeit cartrige"...
I miss the old Linus hairdryer running at 1500 watts. It’s gone now we have the gentler, more cuddly Linus.
Schools here were completely remote for 10 months (mid-March 2020 until the end of January 2021), then part time for the next few months, only going back to full time this past fall. Now they seem intent on being full time, even though cases now are much higher than when they had kept the schools closed or part time (hospitalizations are also close to the highest they've been).
Rio was apparently Quantel's last ever product, released seven years ago. These days I don't think there's any reason to use specialist computing hardware, although if you're high-end you'd have a bunch of specialist input devices and calibrated HDR monitors.
Fair analysis. But why is this (truth) so far from the narrative? At some point there needs to be accountablity. I understand that might not be right now. But the list of names and institutions should start sooner rather than later.
What are your thoughts on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo... and similar nuclear waste disposal strategies?
mp4 files usually contain H.264 encoded video which requires the paid version for audio it usually contains AAC encdoded audio which is not supported at all. You can't get away with just copying.
> How mandatory is mandatory though?

doctors exemption offers a way out. otherwise a hefty fine (unable to pay means prison time like it is done in Austria)
Yep, I didn't even get into that. We were looking forward to watching the new season of star trek discovery in the UK, but paramount pulled it from Netflix globally for paramount plus which last I checked was still not available here.

Honestly between piracy and a vpn piracy is a better option. You're still breaking the licensing either way, and with a vpn you run the risk of being banned from the service. Not to mention most 'watch service X in the USA' vpn services are shady as hell and I trust random torrents on the pirate bay more than them.
In Germany, the previous government has done a lot to stall further builtup of renewable energies. The builtup was only a fraction in recent years compared to the top years. If the builtup had continued (or even accellerated), Germany would be an even larger exporter of electricity than it is.
Everyone's addiction is different. A question that may be useful for some:

When you started, why was it enjoyable? Be specific.

Many attempts at addressing addictive behavior focus on stopping the behavior. If there was something specific the behavior initially improved, that has to be addressed or you're unlikely to succeed.

E.g.: if drinking initially improved anxiety issues, those will still be there while the person is trying to quit.
Coins weren't as annoying when you could buy something meaningful for less than a dollar. A walletful of $5 bills is annoying too, if a pack of gum costs $20.
why not just lie about your experience and level if you're not going to get caught?
> you don't have to pay for the negative externalities of carbon.

We aren't yet seeing much indication that there will be a global tax/fee on the externalities of carbon. That means even if local policies are implemented for certain cases (eg. no gas cars in the city, no coal power in one state), there will always be somewhere on earth willing to burn dirty coal to make helicopter fuel for export.
That site is pretty sketchy. No sources and no numbers.

I also have a hard time believing that “Artwork and Sculptures” is #3. Maybe I live in a bubble, but do people really buy physical art more than once a year? Like I’ve commissioned digital art on several occasions, but I can’t imagine art being a significant chunk of anyone’s spending.
The AMD microcode, running on my computer, isn't going to lock me out of my computer. You don't get full freedom with that microcode in the free software sense, but that's besides the point in this situation. At the very least that AMD microcode isn't going to (purposefully) lock you out from logging in to your TTY, because it wasn't designed to do that. At worst, the microcode will be so faulty that your PC won't boot (and that, hopefully, wouldn't be by design).

What's happening on your Mac, however, is by design. Apple designed the software to do that, and they get away with it. That's the difference.

If my AMD microcode started doing that, the whole world would be in uproar. Because, at least in present time, present day, they're not able to get away with that. Same applies to Intel and ARM. But Apple does.
I felt addicted to the internet a year before the pandemic. I read the book “Don’t shoot the dog” and it had so many amazing training tips to kick that addiction. Am I a dog? No. But the training and reinforcement is pretty much universal. Having tools to deal with addiction is important.

Mindfulness sadly isn’t the big aha! moment. I know I was addicted. I know I wanted to change. This is why they say “admitting you have a problem” is the first step.

It’s not a matter of knowing you’re addicted and then suddenly stopping. That can happen, but more likely an incremental approach will happen. B.J. Fogg’s book about tiny habits talks about this epiphany moment being quite rare.

Only a couple times in my life have I had this epiphany moment and went cold turkey overnight. Once when I was larger and struggling to hike with friends like I used to. Another when I was playing video games and felt deja vu that made me feel like I wasted years of my life. Now, I’m in the best shape of my life and work on things I’m passionate about in my free time.
Ah Germany, the country who's outer image is so much better than the reality...

The Merkel government was just a unprincipled opportunistic one, although I do credit her for having the guts to say "Syrian refugees can stay"; she took the morally correct decision, not the politically expedient one. But her previous steps before that like championing austerity (anyone remember the PIIGS problem?) ensured that her populace got really pissed off, imagine seeing your conservative government stripping away money for social programs for decades (while the elite get richer), and then suddenly saying "we can afford to host refugees"...
It’s pretty interesting to consider the intersection between what counts as “people” and “technical” problems.

For example, concurrent version control systems (like perforce) were horrible. This can be thought of as a technical problem, but it was actually right at the intersection of something technical and a people thing. What git understood is that having a canonical repo was a people issue, and it correctly abandoned a central “source of truth”… basically no amount of technology can fix what is a people problem, so no repos are “special” or “the one” from a technical point of view. It then forced people to sort their shit out. However, because of this insight, git was able to get the technical aspects spot on. It correctly recognized that what was needed was the right data structure. Git is extremely simple software, that basically does two things really well: branch and merge, but it needed the right data structure.

I think talking about centralization (APIs and infrastructure) vs decentralization (protocols) as a people vs tech problem is exactly the same sort of thing, and to get the correct view on it you have to really mail in detail where the people/tech problems begin/end.
How would you measure best?
>I really like the concept and wish it was reality.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Does the project not actually exist? It seems like it is real and has been under development for some years now....
Yes, quite ironic that the author denounces OpenSea while simultaneously ignoring that they could actually sell their NFT elsewhere if they wanted to. This demonstrates the value of marketplace centralisation.
Well, nowadays I know (because I worked for) so many SF companies with people that would create an scandal in HR just because the catered food had too much salt or there wasn't a vegan alternative. I can't even imagine anyone doing this nowadays
I don't have a Canon, does the printer say "Cartridge can't be detected" for all other third party cartridges?
This is the natural result when society is designed in some way to extract everything possible from every individual. Basic survival is monetized, promises are broken, in a race to the bottom.

Modern society itself is the problem.
Monocropping! They keep coming up with new bananas to deal with overproduction making them extinct.

edit: The two people who downvoted probably think this is a joke. It is not.
Hence "major government intervention" instead of "government intervention". Do you have a source that the Russian flu (conjectured to be Sars-Cov-0 by some) had any measures like we see now? Certainly not KN-95 masks.

They did not treat it like tuberculosis.
It's the gist of the errors shown in the Canon documentation linked as "evidence". The "worst" is suggesting that it might be "a non-Canon cartridge".
I've used OfflineIMAP for many years, and recently (less than a year) moved to mbsync. It's much faster, and the end result is largely the same (I did some sanity tests, downloading both and comparing).

I'm not exactly sure if you can migrate to a new provider by providing the mailbox yourself, but you can still use things like notmuch to index and search on the mbox.
> IMHO, reopening schools is more important for the nation than

Uh... schools are open. No one has closed schools in this nation. The debate here is whether or not having open schools this month, during the omicron wave, is helping or hurting.

The evidence in the linked article is that schools in NYC have organizationally broken down and that no meaningful education is happening anyway. Because it's very difficult to run a school when 5-10% of the population is actively sick.

(Though the silver lining here is that we're clearly getting to a true "pan" pandemic with omicron, and still not seeing evidence of significant health care overload or increased death rates. It remains possible that we've dodged a giant bullet with this variant.)
Because being stuck doing a job that's over your head every single day isn't fun, even if you're getting paid for it. When they say interviewing is a two-way street, they're right.
The cooperative model requires people to coordinate on choosing the same human authority figure.

Blockchain only requires people to coordinate on choosing the same programmatic criteria for block validity (and then choosing the longest valid chain).
yepp it's the former minister of interior and he has a strong authoritarian streak.
Yeah, nobody is suggesting going permanent remote, but when there isn’t enough staff to operate as normal, maybe it’s time to sit back for a few weeks, eh?
> breaking lots of people's builds

Why would it break people's builds? I can only see this happening if they upgraded faker.js.

Besides, best practice says to check each package's repo before upgrading because of 1) malware, and 2) potentially breaking changes.

Also, many forks exist, and you can point to GitHub versions of a package.
'Auditing all your code' isn't the same as looking up the changes for a certain version on its github release page or a changelog page (if it has one).

It's not the responsibility of OSS maintainer to ensure your software still functions after an upgrade if you're not even willing to spend a modicum of effort to hold up your own end of that bargain. This isn't a big ask, it's why there are changelogs and release notes in the first place; they make it so you don't have to audit the code every time the version changes.

If you're not willing to do that and want unattended upgrades for all dependencies, then this is where the 'no warranty' aspect of that OSS license comes in.
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