skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternate history is the Soviets do a ground invasion from the unfortified north. They had broken off their pact with Japan months early and invaded Manchuria just days after the first atomic bomb was dropped, ultimately gaining (and keeping after the Japanese surrender) control of the northern part of the Korean peninsula. Hirohito would have been captured by the Soviets and suffered a fate similar to Puyi's, while Japan itself would have been split up like Germany. This would have been anathema to the Japanese, which is one reason they were scrambling to find a channel to offer unconditional surrender to the US as soon as the Soviets invaded, after having more or less ignored the Hiroshima bombing, their previous channel via Stalin having been cut off.

The US was aware that the Soviets would not renew the nonaggression pact, having negotiated it with Stalin in Yalta in February 1945, and with the Soviet Union denouncing the pact in April. It's possible that the bombs allowed the US to mostly ignore Soviet interests in setting the terms of the surrender, which would have a positive effect, but otherwise, I'm not as sure as most Americans that the atomic bombings were necessary.
This is weird, I legitimately have none of these problems. I use Firefox, and the extension story has gotten a bit more odd in the last couple years*, but I don’t feel it’s any less reliable. The way 1p handles 2FA is really slick in my opinion, auto-filling the code after a login screen and even hitting return for me most of the time. Honestly the only rough edge I hit is when browsers try to force their own password management, and end up fighting with 1p for password generation, saving login details, etc.

* to expand on this, the model used to be a desktop app where the magic happened, plus a thin browser extension that hooked into the app. Now, there seems to be a lot more happening in the browser extension, which seems to talk to the cloud service and not directly to the desktop app. (Totally possible this is completely wrong, just my WAG)
Look into SSH certificates if you control the server, it's much better than littering public keys everywhere: https://smallstep.com/blog/use-ssh-certificates/ Hashicorp's Vault provides a CA for SSH keys along with all kinds of other secrets and such, it's very commonly used in the industry.
> Nuclear power [...] indirect carbon footprint is enormous

Do you have sources for this? I completely concur that nuclear energy is too expensive, problematic and by now much too late to help with the climate crisis, but from what I found it is quite competitive with wind and solar in total CO2 emissions per kwh of energy (the numbers I found were all between 5 and 25 gram Co2/kwh for these three, compared to >500 for any fossil alternative).

This makes sense to me since turbines and panels also need to be manufactured, transported and installed, after all...
Google is an advertising company. It's not interested in any real privacy because that would negatively affect its revenue.

I'm a very anti-advertising kind of guy. I block ads on all my devices. I wish all forms of cross-app tracking identifiers were simply abolished, and any API that could be used to pass data between apps like this would require explicit user consent. Anything lesser is a pathetic half-measure.
Avoiding getting your assets stripped?
The piano keyboard is quite intuitive to many, since it physically reflects the complete diatonic scale. Isomorphic keyboards may be intuitive as well, but they might pair better with a hexachord-based way of thinking with its unique half-step mi-fa, and hexachord mutation to cope with both "full" diatonicism and transposition/chromatic notes!
Over the years I've seen many similar tools, however, this one is probably the nicest, simple and straightforward. Really great work!
Like it or not, the civillian bombings of Japan were absolutely necessary.

Japan was a very sick and diseased nation and culture at the time. They had made a national, media broadcasted sport of beheading children. They had turned deadly human experimentation into science. They had waged wars of aggression on all of their neighbors, no matter how distant.

They brought their cultural disease to American shores and attacked my family. All of their civillian science and industry and culture brought about the war machine that came to American shores to murder us in a time of peace, on a continent far away from their own.

The bombings of Japan should stand as a warning to all nations and cultures for all generations. If your culture gets sick with that totalitarian ideology, it is a lot better if you fix it at home on your own terms than if you bring it to our shores and make us fix it for you.

You can all enjoy the peaceful world that resulted from American sacrifice, and posturing after WW2. Criticize us however you like, you have that right and luxury regardless of where you live.

Regardless, you would be wise to learn this one lesson from history: Don't start nothing, won't be nothing.

Germany and Japan learned that lesson the hard way and they deserved every thing they got in response.
For sure, but the best way to program say, a game, now definitely is not to go to the same lengths as people went to on the original Nintendo.

There is a happy medium between using Unity and hand tuning every line of assembly.
TBH that's a very baffling definition of conservatism to me. Makes me wonder what the root of your defined values are.
I use Firefox because the unlock support on Chrome is patchy. I still use Chrome for desktop mostly, but never on other platforms
It's a bit more nuanced than that. Nuclear plants can alter their output by more aggressively cooling the reactor. This wastes heat, but can be used to curb electrical output in a pinch. But it doesn't reduce operating costs like running a gas plant for reduced hours. The overwhelming majority of nuclear power's cost lies in construction, and reducing output doesn't result in any savings.
KeePass2 + KeeAgent plugin.
Or, KeePassXC which has an SSH plugin bundled.
India was a number of different states and empires in near constant war with each other before modern times.

Great uniformity, indeed.

I'm trying and failing to see who is it that is imposing uniformity on Europeans in the form of language or culture.
It would mean removing any and all anonymous user identity, right?
What wasn't there to know? Locking back down after vaccine availability was moving the goalposts. Hospitals weren't even overwhelmed at the time.

The EUA was approved because vaccine efficacy had been clearly demonstrated.
You can log and send metrics from your app over a network (which you should probably be doing instead of writing on disk), monitor a VM, IDS makes no sense when you don't have logins and such. And the tools are rarely installed on "cattle" anyway.
Aave's documentation [1] is pretty good if you're interested in doing a deeper dive. But yeah, it's a collateralized loan where the borrower stakes some ETH.

So the idea is that I can take $100 worth of ETH and put that up as collateral for a $75 loan. And if the value of my collateral drops due to the ETH<>USD exchange rate I have to stake more collateral. If I don't (or if the exchange rate moves below a certain point) then my collateral is automatically liquidated at a discount. So in this case, if the value of my collateral falls to $80 the contract will put it up for sale at $75 -- this creates an arbitrage opportunity, so the liquidation will likely happen very quickly.

There are other lending protocols where you can stake other assets (NFTs, other tokens, etc.), but this is my understanding of how Aave works.

[1] https://docs.aave.com/faq/
Maybe its Russia doing a warmup -- getting ready to take down essential services in Ukraine?
WWII and the First Ethical Hacker
Oh wow, thank you so much!
nice, though I'm very disappointed the answer wasn't hunter2
With a capacity factor of about 70% [1]. Compared to for example the US at 93.7%. That difference of 23% has to be taken out over the top of the already high cost of nuclear, which as we can see here still lose money at the higher level.

[1]: https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...
I’ve been a subscriber to the print edition of Wired for about 4 or 5 years now. Lately the ads and articles targeted at the absurdly-affluent have got on my nerves, and I don’t think I’ll renew again. I can’t say whether this is because the ads are now more pervasive, or because I’ve become more class-conscious over time.

As a side note, does anyone find it ridiculous that a combined household income of $100k is supposedly “affluent?” When my partner and I broke that barrier, we were living in a shitty apartment with a roommate. Didn’t feel affluent
Amen. Another documentary comes to mind: The Alpinist (on Amazon). It follows a Canadian climber who ‘solved’ his ADHD by becoming one of the world’s best mountain climbers. Funnily enough, his climbing style was smooth, controlled and relaxed. At a desk, he couldn’t sit still.
I believe it does if you disable the tracking protection. The disgusting mess that is Microsoft auth relies on dozens of separate domains and I guess ITP blocks cross-domain cookie access. I don't know of a way to disable it per-site though so you either have to use a separate browser or severely compromise your privacy by disabling it globally.
>Firefox has a soft spot for red pandas thanks to our logo

I'm confused. Isn't the animal on the logo a... (fire) fox? Not a red panda?
AI startups reeling in hundreds of millions to help computers understand humans
> Talk about killing homeless people as a solution to homelessness in SF? No problem.

That's of course not true at all. If you're talking about a specific post, can we please see the link?

Btw, moderation here is not set up to "stop people from shitting on YC companies", but exactly the opposite. That is literally the first rule of HN moderation: we moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC co is the story. It was the first thing PG explained to me when he was teaching me how to moderate (he was blurting it at me before I'd even had a chance to grab a chair), and it's the first thing I've taught to others.

Lots of past explanation if anyone wants more: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Even better is defense-in-depth. Do development in VMs AND don’t store your private SSH in plain text on your laptop.
>"Imagine, for a second, that you are trying to keep up with a 100Gb/s network adapter. As networking developer Jesper Brouer described back in 2015, if one is using the longstanding maximum packet size of 1,538 bytes, running the interface at full speed means coping with over eight-million packets per second."

Should this not be "frame size" instead of "packet size"? Unless I am reading this incorrectly the maximum TCP packet size is 1500(20 bytes for IP header, 20 bytes for TCP header and 1460 bytes for the actual payload.) I'm not trying to be pedantic but the other 38 bytes would all be considered part of the Ethernet and not TCP no?
Leveraging Social Tokens for Digital Reputation
People Are Worried About Block Trades
The problem isn't even shifting daytime generation to night; that is somewhat doable with energy storage. In Europe at least (and I assume much of the rest of the world) the problem is shifting summer production to winter.

UK demand in winter is nearly 2x higher than summer (and will grow even more with switching gas heating to heat pumps), at the same time solar output is ~10% of that at summer. Wind energy is higher but is unpredictable and in very cold snaps (when demand is greatest) tends to result in very low wind output.

This problem is the biggest one to solve (and not sure how solvable it is). In essence it's possible to smooth out daily output with renewables, but annual output is very difficult. You are talking TWhs of storage requirement.
If you worked on the frontend through the framework wars from 2005-2015, you'd understand why having just 3-4 frameworks that have been around 5-7 years is an amazing state of affairs.

Maybe it's not good overall, but it's the best that the frontend has ever achieved.
And Aol, and Skype, and YouTube and Facebook and Yahoo and Microsoft[0]. The domestic surveillance nightmare never ends! We on HN laugh about this stuff and love to make noise about E2EE and whatnot, but the battle was lost decades ago. There's nothing left, privacy is a myth from a different era of the internet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#/...
Leatherman's ultimate recourse would be take me to small claims court, argue I lied to the credit card processor to win the chargeback case, get a judgement, and if I don't pay go after me for collections. I doubt they'd have a good time given they sent me an email refusing to do a warranty repair and I based my chargeback on that.

Of course they'd have to come to my home jurisdiction and all that. While in theory if they prevailed I think they'd get triple damages, they also run the risk of losing and throwing away even more money and also angering Visa who considers my bank's ruling in my favor to be final. There were a few companies that had the genius idea to go to small claims and Visa got upset enough that those companies can no longer take credit cards.

In most cases it is better for the merchant just to eat it and write it off as a loss.
All my colleagues who have had children took months (3, I think?) of paternity leave. As they should. There are a lot of decent companies with good policies around this.
>To be clear, an EV or OV cert would not magically prevent scams. But they would provide cryptographic guarantees that an advocate or law enforcement could trace back to an entity, to prosecute or make you whole. Just like in a real life store.

i don't see how it follows from this that the UI browsers provide for EV certs is bad. you claim that the value is not in inspecting the cert before a transaction, but in the logging of that data. the UI that browsers provide for EV certs allows you to inspect a cert if you really want to, but goes out of its way to avoid any implication that an EV cert is doing anything to prevent you from being scammed. that's a good thing. the browsers are honestly representing the effectiveness of EV certs.
You are right about the (mostly Xenon-induced) neutron poisoning being a important design factor, but there's still quite a lot of margin you can use to modulate power (reducing boric acid concentration in water is the key factor here, so it will works better when the fuel has been renewed recently than just before you need to refuel).
The benefits to vaccinating children are less clear relative to the obvious benefits to vaccinating adults, but if the protection rate is on-par with adults, there will be more benefit to vaccinating children than not.

An absolute handful of children have been (possibly; causality unclear) sickened by the COVID-19 vaccine.

About 1,000 children have died of COVID-19 in the US (https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-...).

The exact details of why the virus hits children less hard are unclear; one theory is that the primary cause of lung-failure death in adults is a cytokine storm (i.e. the immune system reacting to the virus by attacking too many healthy cells at a rate the body can't repair), and a younger, more naive immune system is less likely to have picked up whatever environmentally-primed triggers COVID-19 aggravates to kick off a cytokine storm.

... but sadly, "less likely" isn't "didn't happen," and if that causality is correct, some thousand unlucky kids have gotten snake-eyes on the immune dice and died of a disease that we can now vaccinate for. That's an order of magnitude more children than the number we even suspect of being sickened by the vaccine.

We should vaccinate those who haven't been vaccinated because the risk balance is pretty clear at this point from the gross numbers we have on under-18 vaccination already.
It's mentioned in the source but it's based on this:

https://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=44722
I'm of the impression that molten salt reactors address this by storing thermal energy in the molten salt for later use?
>"I am not the only one who believes that in the long term the atomic bombs saved millions of Japanese lives."

Oh please. Don't bring that saving lives bullshit here. The last thing the US cared about at that time was saving Japanese lives. War is an ugly business. So if you want to look warm and fuzzy stay out of it as much as possible.
As a sister language of Perl, Raku can do the same trick.

constant &s = (now.DateTime.day-of-week == 7) ?? sub () {} !! sub (|) {};
constant c = s(42);

Constants are evaluated at compile time. Here we define a sub that takes no argument or any number of arguments depending on the day of the week (In Raku we start at 1 for monday to avoid ending the universe by deviding by 0). While binding the return value of s(42) to a constant we force execution of that sub at compile time. Thusly, we create a program that can not be executed when compiled on sundays. This is reasonalbe, because by heavenly mandate we are bound to rest on that day.

Modules are precompiled, programs are not (yet). So to make this really depend on the day of compilation we have to put it into a module (for now).
As a user, you can decide to never enable GPS.

This scheme forces you to enable it for reasons completely unrelated to your usage.
Yeah, bad wording. 338*2 is in the range, but is nowhere near the 12 tones we use when A=440 (and wont be with integral doubling or halving). The property "within the range A4=440 A5=880" doesn't have any particular special musical meaning.

The idea I wanted to convey is that 440-880 is just a convention, starting from 440 as concept pitch, but concept pitch can be totally different (and outside the range). 432 is a famous standard which has and is been used today, but also tons of others, even widely outside the range...

(also: "but it's a perfectly fine not" --> "note").
I agree they must be taken into account, but the obvious counter is to take the cost of energy storage into account for solar/wind, which currently weakens its position significantly.

Long term that cost will go down, but it's always going to make the calculation much less simple than it seems at first glance, solar might be the cheapest form of power at the moment, but it's not the cheapest single source to run an electricity grid by a wide margin.
I've gotten instruction from very prodigious practitioners and their opinion on the rules they are following is what I stated. You can get through introductory jazz or classical piano and also basic orchestral composition and the patterns or rules you'll know are about are going to be super basic and even very sophisticated niche and "intellectual" music is not being created by people with more theoretic knowledge than that.
Sorry, I lost even my reply button for your reply to my reply. I can reply here.

>"Sterilizing vaccine" is as good a term as any, IMO.
>Maybe the takeaway is that the government and media has it's toxic influence in literally every piece of information we see, and to not trust a single thing anyone on the internet says. It's the misinformed vs. the disinformed at this point.

I understand your point. But I think we come up against a new problem with that terminology.

There is covid misinformation which suggests the shot is sterilizing your fertility. After the shot you can no longer have babies is the allegation. Obviously utterly false.

https://www.kxly.com/could-the-covid-vaccine-make-a-person-s...
How badly do proxies affect performance?
Cleaning my garage. If I do not, my wife is going to kick me out. Instead, I'll type up this comment and think about when I should schedule cleaning my garage...

Seriously, it's probably the small things that need to be done for someone else's happiness that are the most important things to do right now. Doing so, makes those around us happier and less stressed. And removes the mental load from ourselves so we 1. feel good about actuallay accomplishing sh!t we need to; and 2. can focus on these larger ideal projects.

Actually going to go clean the garage now...oh wait another interesting HN post...
We already have json patch(http://jsonpatch.com/) and we can sent diffs as json patch document, so I don't understand what is the purpose of this proposal.
> And there is no direct link between being proud and acting in a certain manner…

I’m pretty sure that’s entirely untrue. Pride and shame are opposite sides of the same very powerful motivating force.
Most nuclear power plants in the US fleet are not variable-output for design reasons. Mostly, both the reactor (see my other comment about neutron poisoning) and turbines are designed for safe operation at a fixed output and cannot operate at "partial" power for extended periods (in the turbines I think the problem is vibration and how it interacts with the bearing designs). A lot of this basically comes from these reactors having been designed without the benefit of computer modeling (everything had to be hand-calculated around a specific target output), newer designs based on computational modeling and optimization techniques achieve much larger safe/sustainable power ranges. Unfortunately we have very few reactors of modern design in the US.
Watch these robotic fish swim to the beat of human heart cells
No sign of Russian de-escalation, NATO chief says
Reminds me of the dystopian retirement community in Florida documented in "The Bubble" just "Let it go" from Frozen will be played on repeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQGAEMPgnDg
Not if there is a rasterization step in the process. That's essentially what printing and scanning achieves, rasterization, and we can do that without the printer and scanner.

Of course, the artifacts introduced by printing and scanning (especially with contrast turned way up) gives it an air of legitimacy, although these can also be simulated.
I have a serious medical condition. I rarely shake hands because of it. I get sick easily and avoiding exposure to germs is an important means for me to stay off drugs and out of the ER.

I work from home. My life is online, so I mostly just avoid the issue. To whatever degree you can handle things by phone or Zoom or whatever, that's one means to make it less of an issue.

When I have had to meet people, I have successfully turned down handshakes at times. Body language can sometimes help sidestep the question. Not sure how to explain that but just don't be "open" to it and some people won't offer their hand. If they offer and I must decline, I'm polite, warm, friendly and assure them "It's not you. It's me."

Practice makes perfect. The first few times may feel awkward but it gets better.
Differently. Actually expending energy produces waste heat, and they don't have mechanisms to speed up shedding it. A big lizard can run only a very short distance before overheating. Galapagos iguanas discovered swimming, and so can be more active than other big lizards.
Password is randomized on each load. Author has conveniently left a debugger statement in the code.
TeXmacs and WebAssembly
> This is an attack that doesn't really have an analogue in meatspace

Here's a potential analogue - sometimes people stand in parking lots and collect fees, claiming to be representatives of the lot's owner, but in reality pocketing the money.

Some lots counter this by posting signs along the lines of "do not pay any attendant; pay only via kiosk/online". But since some lots do in fact collect payment via attendants, a potential way to secure this would be for the attendant to present proof that they are employed by a certain company. While the customer might not be able to verify that "ABC Parking, Inc." is in fact the owner of the lot, at least they would have a trail to follow if they were scammed.

This is an area where cyberspace has an advantage - the closest analogue to an EV certificate in the physical world would be a piece of paper with some official seal on it, which can still be forged in a way not easily detectable by the average person.
Where do the color names come from?