skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the tech support person had the gall to tell me they have different ink for different regions because the climates are different. I nearly swallowed my teeth at the stupidity of such a claim.

Can you explain why it is a stupid claim?

High humidity is known to affect things such as ink drying time which can affect print quality, so it isn't immediately obvious to me that it would be stupid to have different ink formulations for different climates.

Edit: note that I'm not saying that HP was telling the truth. I just wanted to know how the very idea that of different inks for different climates is apparently stupid.

Yes, in most places the humidity varies a good amount. But there are regions where it tends to be high most of the time, and regions where it tends to be low most of the time. It doesn't seem inherently absurd that an ink company might have say low, high, and regular humidity ink formulations designed for areas that are persistently low, persistently high, or neither.

You might expect this to be pointless because humidity often swings a fair amount each day, but that the way humidity affects printing is by changing the moisture of the paper. A place where humidity swings from low to high and back on something like a daily cycle is likely to have much smaller swings in paper moisture content. The paper will remain closer to the some sort of weighted average of past humidity.
Can you elaborate on the claim about SHA? If I'm not mistaken, all these cryptographic hashes have a 50% chance of flipping any one output bit upon changing a single input bit -- is there some hidden gotcha I'm unaware of?
Quite right, and there is definitely going to be a cottage industry of ICE to BEV conversions but I don’t see it as something that manufactures will want to get involved with due to the compromises needed.
I agree about the vaccines. I misstated. I should have said "vaccines don't stop (or apparently slow) the spread of the omicron strain".

Vaccines do help reduce the severity of symptoms, though.

I guess my issue is that a lot of public policy was created when we thought we could eliminate the virus. Then it switched to "everyone is going to get it (once?) We just need to slow the spread."

Barring some technological breakthrough, we're going to get it. Then get it again, and again. It is a new influenza. That's our reality. Let's base our public policy on that.
2:30 for horses https://youtu.be/dvjwRBZ3Hnw
>I think there was wide agreement that collecting the data was unethical.

AFAIK the unethical bit was that they were collecting unencrypted wifi traffic, which at the time could contain sensitive information (many popular sites were unencrypted back then). I don't think there's "wide agreement" that collecting wifi beacons was "unethical".
Indeed, I’ve never met VC comfortable with being labeled anti-drm around other VC.
The one major issue I have with webhooks is how badly some places implement them.

One of the systems I deal with just throws a single http request over fence. No retry, no handling of errors, no guarantee their system actually sent it or not. And they rolled their own “basic auth” header. At least they allow ssl. I’m afraid to check the ciphers they support. Just going with the tried and true method of as long as I don’t look, there isn’t a problem.

I end up having to fall back to polling thousands of items one at a time every couple of hours. The only reason I use their webhooks at all is so I have a chance to get “real-time” updates on state changes.

At least it’s a step above sending csv over ftp.
Regarding C#, anyone can just download VS Code [0] without any login/signup. But you don’t even need that…

The .NET SDK is readily available as a standalone download for almost all platforms now [1] which you can use to just compile on the command line and use any editor you like.

JetBrains Rider EAP is free to use I believe if you want a full IDE without needing to login (edit: it seems the EAP program is opened and closed at specific times [3])

I can’t remember if Visual Studio Community edition requires a login or not, but frankly even as a full time .NET developer I barely go near Visual Studio these days.

Overall the ecosystem is a little more open and dare I say “friendly” than Apple’s!

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/download

[1] https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download

[3] https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/nextversion/
> Last time I had to buy ECC RAM over here in Japan, I had to go to a niche webshop to get a decent price on the capacity I was interested in.

I've been quite satisfied with the three orders that I've placed with Nemix. I see no indication that they _don't_ ship to Japan, and indications that they _do_ ship internationally... so consider purchasing from them next time you have a need for such memory.

Or, hell, I'd be _shocked_ if there wasn't a company in JP or or KR or CN that also does what Nemix does (that is, yank RAM from decommissioned servers, test it, and sell the stuff that's solid).

And, with Ryzen (and Ryzen Threadripper) becoming ever-more popular, I would expect ECC RAM to continue to drop in price when compared to non-ECC RAM. (But, let's be real here, when you spread the price out over five or ten years, it's _totally_ worth it to have RAM you can rely on.)
That's right. In the context of pushed events, you have very little margin for error. It's definitely "solvable," but a bit part of the problem is that for most tech teams, it's not their bread and butter. Handling webhooks reliably is just overhead and work they aren't putting into their actual product. So you end up with a lot of not-so-reliable implementations.
Ask HN: Is anyone working on “downloading” knowledge to the brain?
In honor of the new Matrix movie, I was curious if anyone is working on or aware of research or methods people are working on to provide "instant knowledge", like learning kung fu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vMO3XmNXe4
I used to love syncthing but then 2 things happened:

1. My usage got to terabytes range and the scans are unbearably slow compared to dropbox.

2. Due to slow scan, I went on to syncthing's support forum to read some posts. One of the developers was very bitter or emotionally charged against suggestions or bug reports.

Now I use it but not loving it.
Happy to help! I will say that I would in no way present it as an example of a clean codebase. 6 years of weekend and night development, while having significant code understanding/learning during that time, has lead to somewhat of a mix of ideas and approaches. Constantly trying to re-align things though!
Show HN: Sigma – Hacker News client app for iOS
Random estimate or cherry picked stat.

Questions that come up.

- How do they define wealth 5/10 million or 100 million
- How do they define lost it? Bill Gates is giving away most of his fortune if his daughter doesn't generate similiar wealth has she lost it or can she safely live on her 500 million and be considered rich
- If you had 10 million and split between 4 kids does that make the next generation lose it because they are only worth 2.5 million or do they combine everyone's value
- Do death taxes play a large part?
The reason why you need to look at what households pay is because the electricity companies are the ones who need to deal with the volatility and what they charge to customers is the price of reliable energy. Wholesale prices are very volatile, but residential prices are much more stable, reflecting an average of wholesale prices. So it is better to sample them than to sample the random noise of wholesale prices.

I also disagree thoroughly with the idea that you can take 3 samples from statistical noise and deduce an average, as you have done.

I also think it's laughable that natural gas prices are controlled by Putin. That's a deep rabbit hole you've fallen into, as it's a global market, and natural gas prices respond to general supply and demand, not the dictates of Putin "squeezing" anyone. In particular, when there is less wind or Europe takes a coal plant offline, for example, then demand for natural gas goes up. Now what do you think happens to the price when demand goes up? The idea that high natural gas prices are dictated by some shadowy enemy, rather than lack of substitutes such as wind, oil, and coal, is not a good analysis of the problem. Frankly it sounds a lot like those who says inflation is caused by "corporate greed" rather than an expansion of the money supply.

In general, please avoid blaming changes to prices on political enemies, as that's pure misinformation. It does not elucidate or explain any actual cause of price changes. It literally makes people less informed, less able to understand the world around them. It's the opposite of what we should be trying to do.
Most if not all inkjet printers with cartridge "chips" do exactly this -- it's why there is a large market of cartridge chip "resetters"; just search around.
That's a bit of an oversimplification that leaves out important qualifiers. "Non-significant" usually means it's indistinguishable from a null hypothesis when a certain level of randomness is allowed in a single, isolated trial.

Who picks the null hypothesis? How is it picked, i.e. why does that specific hypothesis get favourable treatment? What level of randomness should one allow? What does it even mean for an experiment to be a single, isolated trial? How can anything be?

Those are critical questions to understand the concept, and your explanation just pretends they don't exist.
If by "centralized crypto" we mean "everyone using OpenSea" (or similar custodian services) then the point is that OpenSea doesn't have full control over the data.

I can build a competitor to OpenSea that has access to everyone's NFT ownership data because it's in a public blockchain. If Twitter decides to shut down their service, it's gone.
We actually moved from Confluence to Bookstack last year, mainly because the EOL for the Atlassian server-licenses. Sure, it has less features, but the main function, maintaining content by non-tech people works great!

Thanks for creating this app.
Accounts can be canceled. Payments can be missed.
That may depend on what you mean by "best". GNU Fortran has always been portable and generally decently competitive with proprietary ones speed-wise over the years and architectures. Also often more reliable. I wish it got properly funded.
Oh I was tired just wasn't able to sleep... Once I left high school and started university, I did pretty well on a schedule of sleeping at 1/2 am and waking up around 9:30 before going to class (unfortunately skipping any classes that were scheduled from 8 to 10).
For a second I thought this was a sequel to the 90s Titanic game
I taught high school remotely in the spring of 2020 and I thought it was wonderful. Medical professionals reported a large uptick in mental health issues for teens and consequently our district will probably never close like that again (but think of the children!). From my perspective, however, I noted that many of my students who were miserable in school due to social issues flourished during the shutdown. Personally, I never felt better (sleep!) and the experience has prompted me to plan towards early retirement.

I always wondered if the medical professionals in our area fully understood the impact on ALL our students and not just the ones who normally flourish with in-person schooling.
so if my old tape player turns slower than 4.76cm/s, it's better for my heart..
well i may take it out of under the sofa then, and start using again..
Looks nice. I have an old docuwiki install I need to do something with. Might be time to try something new.
Not sure if this fully fits your needs but you might want to look at Wiki.js. You can self host it, has WYSIWYG editor available (as well as HTML and markdown). I'm not associated, just use it for some time.

https://js.wiki/
The only issue I have with many Confluence alternatives is that they don't support multiple people editing the same document, at the same time, à la google docs. Does this? I can't tell from the landing page.
1. Nuclear fusion has a much more solid theoretical base.

2. Bud, if we go tell every cryptocurrency enthusiast that they'll be allowed to invest in it now and get a return on investment in 80+ years[1], crypto will be dead within 24 hours.

[1] The first experimental fusion reactor was tested in 1958 and at the rate they're going, 2038 seems like a reasonable date for the first commercial fusion reactor.
"Deployment is expected to end...around 1:30 p.m. [EST]"
Italy here, same.
That doesn’t really change the question, though: the Tomb Raider developers don’t need an NFT to do that, and any other company isn’t going to spend much of their money giving something for free to a handful of someone else’s customers. Why spend time on that instead of, say, charging $10 for the homage DLC which gives them actual revenue and from a much larger number of people?

For example, how many of those NFTs would have been lost or stolen — and do you want to tell potential buyers “sorry, nothing we can do about it - blockchains mean no margin for error!”
I don't play poker because literally nobody wants to play without gambling.
Same here. Simple, focused, and easily usable by non-tech people. We adopted Bookstack several years ago, and we've never looked back.
>The precedent has been set in the U.S. If you can whip up an army of fanatics to assault the Capitol then you may do so with impunity.

No it has not. The people involved are being prosecuted and criminal punishments are being handed down.

Trump is not being prosecuted, because disagreeing with the official election results are not a crime, nor is it illegal to hold campaigns arguing your case. If Trump had actually done something illegal, he would be prosecuted.
As a manager, I strongly agree. There’s a huge difference between teams where people are happy to help each other out and teams where people have a “not my job, not my problem” attitude.

My recent experience (past 5 years) had been with remote teams, where this problem is exaggerated even more. Some people see remote as an excuse to minimize their own workload so they can finish their tickets early and log off as quick as possible.

It takes some mentoring to get employees, remote or otherwise, to understand that the team’s deliverables are what counts rather than just closing the tickets they claimed. As hard as we try, tickets will never account for 100% of the work that needs to be done, especially when it comes to things like sharing knowledge with newer team members and helping with loose ends. Someone who wants to isolate and avoid helping others can’t really be effective in a collaborative team environment.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2021/21A24...
Apple Fitness Plus is adding audio running workouts
Thanks! I've learnt a lot in that six years. I've been quite proud of our constant, yet steady, pace of development while retaining upgrade compatibility (where possible).
I've stopped using desktop Linux at home because it's, unsurprisingly, a rather complex system with lots and lots of moving parts (moreover, some of the parts tend to get replaced often) and it has some annoying UI issues I consider unacceptable. I did some research and concluded that proper fixes for these issues are effectively insurmountable for a very-part-time developer like me, and workarounds will just keep breaking. Sure, I can read the code, I understand how the system works to some extent, but actually changing it requires orders of magnitude more energy.
Institute for Replication, and the Usual Concerns
Yeah, that’s the same conclusion I’ve drawn.
GS has a reputation of being most tech advanced among big banks. This post explains why it is.
Chrome API – Update DOM of popup.html after clicking button
It's just that most of the complaints about switching to Linux, i.e. it's hard to do X, are wrong. My dad won't try it because he can't run MSword. There's nothing you need to do in Word that can't be done as easily with Linux workflows. There are exceptions, but most of the time it's true. It does mean learning new workflows, but that's usually as hard as it feels.

I'm not a graphics person so I can't say if gimp can replace Photoshop, but a lot of little tasks I used to open Photoshop for on Mac are easily handled by GIMP or even imagemagick. The majority of users would be fine learning these tools.
No Longer in Service: BlackBerry Phones Come to Their End
Rebranding "propaganda" into "PR" was, in and of itself, quite an impressive work of propaganda.
I can't say I would use BookStack. The demo doesn't show the same sort of ease of use that Confluence has, nor the features.

I really like Outline https://www.getoutline.com/ as it is open source, self hosted and free if you don't use the Enterprise features. It really does seem to be a Confluence replacement. https://www.getoutline.com/compare/confluence-alternative
Well….. it should be clear by now that this is not just about “resetting a password”. The instructions at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204106 provide quite a lot of options to follow, with the support call being last resort. Bugs happen, so why not tell them and let them help you first?
>Would you feel any differently if people were recording your activities by pointing a camera at your window from the street?

that's what curtains are for. if you were caught doing a shameful activity because your windows were wide open and a onlooker saw, that's on you.

>Or even just pressing random doorbells to see if anyone lives there?

so... jehovah's witnesses?

>I’d posit that recording the location of every IP address, which in many cases can be directly tied to an individual, violates a user’s right to privacy by publishing information about them without their consent.

How is this any different than going around and recording the coordinates of every street address? You can also make the argument that a street address can be correlated to an individual, and by associating a coordinate with it, you are violating "user’s right to privacy by publishing information about them without their consent"
Making things first what they really cost would solve a lot of problems, but no one actually wants that. Certainly not enough people to matter.

Civilization is built on loans from future citizens. I think the only reason most people who clamor about "balancing the budget" don't push for environmental improvements is that they know they will be dead before it really matters.
> mandatory vaccination will get rid of surveillance solutions like the Greenpass while also protecting everyone.

It is unbelievably naive to think that after investing in any surveillance/control infrastructure that governments will relinquish that power willingly.
They seem to be commonly quoted, without sources.

I found this

"Approximately 70% of second-generation family firm successors are likely to close the family firm post succession due to succession process-related issues"

in an abstract of a paper

https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/10669/

But nothing close to confirming the claim
> I remember waking up to go to school every morning at 6:45 and taking the bus every day at 7:05 when I was in high school in France.

I see you too practiced the fine arts of the tight schedule between snoozing the alarm clock and catching the bus :].
And Confluence supports collaborative editing.
Clubhouse finally works on the web – but now it’s too late
>In the digital world, everything can be copied. There is no ownership.

Actually I think you've got it backwards. In the physical world, molecules are fungible. I can take one carbon atom out of the Mona Lisa painting, replace it with some different carbon atom, and most people would call it the exact same Mona Lisa. Maybe one day an atom-level reproduction of the Mona Lisa will be possible. The whole point of the Non Fungible in NFTs is that they are mathematically not interchangeable.

I'm getting philosophical now but I'd argue ownership in the physical world is inherently flawed, to the point that "ownership" is a meaningless ideal. You are extremely limited in your ability to affect various forms of matter in the universe. This includes affecting matter in a way that most people would think represents "ownership", for example transporting some good from one location to another location that we'd say puts it in your "possession". Some individual can come rob you. A government can seize your assets. A meteor can annihilate the planet. And there is next to nothing you can do about it.

But you have supreme power to affect the data that is associated with your wallet on a cryptographic ledger (subject to another person/wallet that you are engaging in transactions with), as long as your private key is truly private, and as long as cryptography is mathematically sound. I think that's kind of cool.
Yeah, wiki.js is in the same space and seems to be pretty great. BookStack and wiki.js have taken quite different design & structure choices though so I usually advise trying out the demos of both to see what best fits.
It's not DRM. It's token-based authentication. Are you against token-based authentication? Are you against Software-as-a-Service? Are you against membership-based organizations as a concept? Are you against board voting by stockholders? If you're not against these analogous concepts, why would you be against NFT-based versions of this?

One difference with NFTs is you retain the right to resale and transfer at all times. Which is totally different than DRM.

As for Proof of Stake, it's already live: https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/beacon-chain/ It was shipped in December of 2020.

The remaining component is the Merge, which merges the Proof-of-Work chain with the Proof-of-Stake chain: https://ethmerge.com/ . That is coming this summer. The Ethereum community is almost 100% behind the merge, so it's highly unlikely that ETH forks over it, and even if one occurred, the forked chain would not succeed.
say that's quite a rhetorical technique you've got going there, you got a name for it?
What you're missing here is that you already have enough intuition to translate it into a more obvious statistical problem, but most people come across this as blank slates, and under very different framing.

Even when relayed the right way and the wording isn't necessarily unclear or misleading per se, it is still framed in a particular way and context that pushes you to believe your choice is inconsequential, less about probability and math, and more for psychological games and dramatic effect in the context of a TV show.

In your example, the fact that the presenter opens all 98 doors and not just one is telling. If they only opened 1, and then told you to stick to your original or open one of the remaining 98 doors, that he picks for you, would you change?

This is what you're missing, I think. Most people don't even get to the point where they reframe the "would you change" question to "what are the chances my original choice was correct vs not". Most people get stuck on "He knows something; he clearly demonstrated very theatrically that he knew the car wouldn't be behind door No.2. And now he's asking me to swap my choice for door No.67. Why 67? Is he trying to trick me? Is this a psychological trick to get me to forfeit my door, which may be the right one? Should I trust him? After all, HOW IS MY DOOR ANY DIFFERENT THAN ALL THE OTHERS?"

(the fallacious thinking, obviously, lying in the last part here)
Zone files are available for most gTLDs, would guess that's the prevalent way. A lot of "IP neighbourhood" type tools use these. A telltale sign is not seeing any ccTLD domains which are generally less easy to get a list of.
What It Takes to Keep Covid Out of Hong Kong
It doesn’t matter. It’s not worth the risk and hassle.
Apple has a large share of the us market, not elsewhere