skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experimental technology does not get billion-dollar orders.

Factories for iron-air storage are being built today, to start supplying grid-scale storage in 2023. Everybody knows the demand is there and will remain there, so there is plenty of capital for anything known to work. But it takes time to build out.

After costs shake out, build-out will concentrate on the cheapest alternatives, but everything already built will still work, and still be used, because the cost is capital cost. It will be a long time before the storage market is saturated and storage providers have to compete on prices.
Most of the offenders have a license plate that starts with a "T" and honk within a second of the light changing to green.
Amazing, I wanted this too. Thank you.

1Password has literally blown me away every second that I've used it. And the ability to sync MFA between all your devices was the push that I needed to start using MFA.

I do have a feature request though - any chance we could lock our 1Password wallet using 2FA with SMS (like Office365 or banks) rather than a device authentication key? Main concern is that personal devices are breaking all the time ... SMS is "strong enough" and yet pretty much the only second factor that is convenient to recover in the event of a disaster.
Essentially huge chunks of the awful mess that is o365 only work in Chrome. I have no idea why, but rather than being standards compliant we seem to be going back towards the realms of a browser monoculture and all the down side that go with it.
Don't Guard Your Luck
As a neurodiverse person, that neurodiverse person creeps the hell out of me. I don't have much respect for his mental acuity either: his initial projects were the kind of thing "unpopular 13 year old me" would have come up with to get popular.

He got lucky and failed his way to success.
Oh yeah! DarkBasic! I remember that was one of my first attempts. but I liked SDL and C++ and the Toque Engine too around those times.
Carbon Design System by IBM
In that example he's not blurring in the usual sense, he's replacing the whole image by a single average value.

Blurring is mathematically a convolutions product of an image that can be represented as a function f and a kernel g. The key fact is that the Fourier transform of f.g is the product of the Fourier transforms of f and g. So if you know g, or can guess what it is, you can solve for f knowing f.g and g, since everything is linear. (Some blurs might not be linear transforms but the usual gaussian blur is)

Information can be lost in two ways : 1/ quantization of the data due to storage in a limited number of bits, 2/ truncation of the blur at the image edges. So blurs cannot be fully reversed, but some information can be recovered. That might be enough to identify the information that was concealed in the first place. See the Wikipedia article on deconvolution for examples.
I live in Canada, where we are swimming in lumber (in theory). I just don't understand why it is so expensive. I know the processing and treatment is very sophisticated but there is so much automation throughout the whole chain. My only explanation is that lumber is a globally traded commodity .. price isn't determined by just Canadian demand for lumber but the global demand.

It makes me wonder .. if the US shutdown Canadian wood imports, would that significantly lower prices for Canadian consumers? How low would it go?
I am very much in favor of whistleblower rewards. I am just pointing out that as a society, we've sort of passed the buck (literally) to the tort lawyers.
FWIW that experience is exactly the same as my team has... But we're on Elastico hosting. Constant black box breakages that can't be debugged, nodes getting restarted for opaque reasons... We've been considering switching to Amazon's hosting to avoid these.

Sounds like it might be a "grass is always greener" scenario. ...maybe I'll spend more time looking into self-hosting...
First woman reported cured of HIV after stem cell transplant
There are pictures to prove the VEHICLE was there, but the mechanism then assumes the owner of the vehicle was the driver, which is a problem.
No no no - I think we are all missing the point here - if I learned anything from the Superman documentary series then we should be flinging the toxic waste at a trajectory that makes it go around the sun in REVERSE which will also mean it of course will travel backwards in time. And then for sure we can say that is going to end up as someone else's problem.
I think bash has a lot of gotchas due to its original purpose, and it's definitely more error-prone to write bash scripts than to e.g. write Python scripts, so that should be a consideration.

Ideally we should all try to more programming languages that are harder for us to shoot ourselves in the foot with, rather than easier ;-)
> they have no intrinsic value

Nor do paper dollars (or paper rupees). They're special because a group of people said they were, which isn't that different from cryptocurrency in concept.
I'm really curious to know why, in our hyper-industrialized world of today, is lumber so expensive when compared to yesteryear? Is it cost of land on which it grows? Is it increased demand because of population growth? Increased demand because of new uses? Increased demand because of global markets? Is it because lumbar prices were artificially depressed because the cost of growing new trees was not included (because people were just cutting down what was already there). Maybe it is because land/housing prices have gone up so much, people are just willing to spend more as it is a relative small percentage of the total cost of housing?
"Eh, the actual search space for reasonable online guesses is cut down by 10000x."

Only in theory. In order to determine which 9999 out of 10000 guesses are no longer relevant, the only known method you have is to compute the hashes of all the 10000 representatives anyhow... which is, again, the exact same problem you started out with at the beginning. You have theoretical information because you've made theoretical progress, but you have no real information, because you've made no real progress.

This program uses a number of random characters each time you load it. You have no list for this program.

In principle you could look at your random number generator and possibly narrow it down beyond the sheer size of the SHA256 space, if it has fewer bits of internal state. I don't know how many bits of internal state it has or even if the answer is constant per browser, and that's really just a practical detail.

To put this in even more stark relief, suppose I bring up Passwordle and by some magic, I hand you a password at the beginning that has a hash that is identical to the hash of the answer in all but one bit. In theory, that constitutes enough information to name the answer on the next guess. In practice, you can't do that.

In fact, we can play that game right now. The SHA256 hash [1] of "mlyle" is "CAD9051E126DA9BC7CB4048C4CA28804CCFEE0E3824F4E63FC151BC5E30B96D0". Using this information, please produce a password with the hash CAD9051E126DA9BC7CB4048C4CA28804CCFEE0E3824F4E63FC151BC5E30B96D1, differing only in the last bit. Ideally the shortest password using letters, numbers, and symbols in US ASCII, but honestly I'll take any binary string.

How much help does that provide you? In theory, like I said, you should be able to do it in one guess now, if what you say is true. In practice, you don't have the lookup table to do it, you can't have the lookup table to do it in our real universe, and we have no known better algorithm for it.

(Observant people may note that providing the mlyle hash is irrelevant and this challenge is equivalent to simply directly asking for something that hashes to the target string. And that's the point. Providing you the hash of mlyle provides zero assistence. You must still enumerate everything.)

[1]: https://passwordsgenerator.net/sha256-hash-generator/ if you want to play along.
What's the difference between "manually" managing state with a database and "automatically" managing it with Temporal?
Honesty sounds like AWS is giving up on providing hosted elastic search. I hated using it, it always was failing and I spent more time administering it than anything else.

I recently used Elastic Cloud, and as much as I hate the company, their product is actually really good. I’d always recommend Elastic.
I wonder if lining a spaceship in nuclear waste might actually end up blocking interstellar radiation (assuming the nuclear waste is not also irradiating you). That stuff is pretty dense right?
Three different answers. How is it not obvious that this is a problem with a simple, universal solution?
The work on Arbitrary Code Guard sounds valuable, and hopefully much of the research[1] done by Google Project Zero is being taken on board.

That said, as someone with a defender / website maintainer mindset, statements like this make me blink for a few seconds before staring wistfully into the middle distance:

> One way to balance user security and reduce impact is to bypass security protections for frequently visited sites.

Really? And how will I know when a user reports an issue (security-related or otherwise) whether the problem was because their browser hadn't been trained into having sufficient praise (on a score from 0 to 100) for the web server?

[1] - https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/05/bypassing-mit...
Yes, but if it's to address the needs of a real user and not a spherical user in a vacuum, the phone has to be able to handle some rudimentary functionality in the meantime so developers can dogfood what they made. Few developers will carry two phones all the time.
When I was in the Navy, "shipmate" was a negative term because you only heard it when someone, most likely a khaki (senior enlisted or officer), didn't know your name and wanted to chew you out. "Hey shipmate! Your haircut is unsat!"
I think the idea is that you cannot impersonate a specific TPM remotely. Get root on a system, though, and you can do whatever you want with the hardware you now have access to, including using its TPM for your own purposes.
Worth noting that the average property size in London in 705sqft.
Did the 1914 house have electricity? With "acetylene lighting plant" being extra, I think not.

Did the 1914 house have more than one toilet? Cost per square foot doesn't cover what goes into the square foot, and fixtures cost a lot more than an empty room.
The dark of it clears when looking at the licensing of the open source launcher MultiMC: https://github.com/MultiMC/Launcher

<quote>

We keep MultiMC open source because we think it's important to be able to see the source code for a project like this, and we do so using the Microsoft Permissive License (MS-PL).

The license gives you access to the source MultiMC is built from, but:

- Not the name, logo and other branding.

- Not the API tokens required to talk to services the launcher depends on.

- You may not change the license.

Because of the nature of the agreements required to interact with the Microsoft identity platform, it's impossible for us to continue allowing everyone to build the code as 'MultiMC'. The source code has been debranded and now builds as DevLauncher by default.

You must provide your own branding if you want to distribute your own builds.

You will also have to register your own app on Azure to be able to handle Microsoft account logins.

</quote>
I'm pretty sure boats trains and airplanes are all vehicles.
Same for computer science, no? Or anything really... ideas are cheap, seeing the bigger picture and successfully integrating with it is difficult.
While I agree that there could be a lot of authentication prompts to deal with, keep in mind that the frequency and kind of notifications you get depends on security requirements of the operation/flow you're in and are not indicative of the "quality of SSO implementation".

Some high-security flows use auth tokens with short TTLs (e.g., 20 mins).

Some flows may trigger "less secure" "pick a number" notification (user is prompted to tap 1 number out of 3); some flows trigger "enter a number" notification, when user has to enter the number they see on the login prompt (I personally hate this one).

Some of these things are controlled only by service (e.g., TTL of the auth token), some I suspect could be tweaked by the tenant admin (e.g. pick vs. enter a number).
In that Microsoft is way worse or way better? I’m not clear, because they’re all pretty scummy.
For that amount of money I'd say i love it too.
I wouldn't recommend anyone go anywhere near creating such a thing.

IANAL, but I think it goes waaayy over the line of setting a trap, which is very illegal (even to trap ppl repeatedly doing highly illegal things), and will most definitely get you sued for all you're worth if you manage to cause any injuries, and probably face criminal charges [0][1][2].

Just because you can does not mean that you should... (now having the drone catch up to them and cover them in glitter, maybe)

[0] https://www.sfinelaw.com/blog/2019/october/how-setting-a-boo...

[1] https://definitions.uslegal.com/b/booby-traps/

[2] https://www.halt.org/booby-traps-and-the-law-defend-your-pro...
With markets the way they are these days, I wonder how much $FB would skyrocket if Zuck announced they were acquiring Sweet Baby Ray’s.
Here comes the web browser 100 problem
I made a wiki page for similar alternative regex syntax projects:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Alternative-Regex-Synta...

(including my own https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/eggex.html which is built into Oil)
Bryan's boss weighed in on this today:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/02/no...

He says the education researchers who might audit this don't because Bryan is an outsider in that field.
My first real job interview (biodiesel QA/QC lab tech) devolved into a discussion of Blood Meridian wherein my future boss asserted that The Judge was a mass psychogenic hallucinatory manifestation of the Glanton Gang's deflecting their collective guilt for the atrocities they committed throughout the novel.
Advertising certainly has effects, they are just not the effects you imply and can not be said to make them work. This is the effect advertising has on me:

- I no longer watch broadcast television, at all

- I no longer listen to broadcast radio other than sometimes in a car. In that case I find commercial-free stations, switch channels when commercials come on and switch off the radio entirely if there are no commercial-free alternatives.

- I do not subscribe to any physical magazines, newspapers or other publications

- I do not "consume entertainment", I couldn't care less about recent movie releases - most are a mix of "progressive" propaganda with product placement anyway?

- I block digital advertising 'quite effectively' as in 'I never see ads'. I do this by having effective content blockers, proxies for channels like Youtube, I do not use things like Facebook/Twitter/whatever. No Google, I use my own instance of Searx. Effective spam blocking on my own mailserver, spam is as rare as hen's teeth here.

I can go on but the reality is that all advertising has achieved is that I quite effectively shield myself from exposure to it. If that is what you mean with "working", well... it'd make me wonder why they spend so much money on creating effective resistance against their own products. I guess I'm not the target market? In that case, neither are my family members who use my services.

I understand that advertising works for those who sell it. As to whether it works for those who buy it, who knows...
> if you compare any two distinct processes, you're bound to find (by the fact that they are distinct) some neurons that fire during one and not the other.

I would doubt that. It depends on what neurons fired before it. The neurons firing before it might drastically change context. It doesn't seem like a single neuron is responsible for a single piece of information, it is rather an emergent phenomenon of combinations of neurons firing. But I'm speculating.
I believe France has the types of reactors you are talking about in use - from what I remember they still do end up producing some waste though.

I feel like we should probably save the stuff just in case we end up needing it eventually in the future. Could be some aliens out there that love the stuff!
Reality can be entertaining. Do you work in the industry?
I don't think this is a fair interpretation of Plompt & Levelt's work, which is by far the more important of what's under discussion (IMO), and I don't think it's a particularly good interpretation of the work by Sethares that interests me. Why not? Because the interesting work is not about musical practice but listener perception, about audio psychology, not compositional style.
ccbill.net is the one I've always been the most skeptical about, since I associate it with age verification things decades ago for certain sites that were not serviced by other payment providers
> it's great to experiment with but I have yet to learn how to play anything with it that I already know how to play on the regular keyboard.

When playing melodically, the biggest initial hurdle is probably learning to handle half-steps (mi-fa and ti-do) specially as compared to whole steps. Learning other intervals (leaps) can then be done similarly. Try it out with very simple melodies first and see if you can grok the right intuition.
except the groups in cryptocurrency are not connected in any central way and have no stake in the value excepr their own shallo2 self interesr.
So, Zaas?
> Aside from cyber security risks, texting on government-issued phones presents an issue because the Presidential Records Act requires that administrations archive all written communications

This made me wonder.

Q: Are emoji considered "written communications?"

Q: Stickers?

Q: Gifs?

Just curious
Take two pictures then maybe, one from the front, one from the back.

But also, unless the vehicle was stolen, why not put the burden of proof on the owner. Don't people know who they're giving their car to? I think that's how it works in many European countries. If the car is stolen, just file a report.
> They got exposed as Marxists, and everyone started distancing themselves, thankfully.

What?

My understanding is that it's more of a collection of local initiatives.

It’s not like the NAACP that has a central leadership and a board.
- Gnome includes high contrast and dark modes and encourages app developers to test against them.

- Requiring apps not to use custom colors alone won’t fix it. Any bespoke UI element an app includes is at risk of breakage when a custom theme redefines the entire world.
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/10/15/restyling-apps-a...
Probably closeness to C. Note you can iterate over a string to get runes
I’m not opposed to people living the life they want to live, but I do feel like environmental concerns should be figured in, and energy usage prioritised to the areas you care most about rather than just “it doesn’t matter how much energy I use if I’m doing something I want to do”
Developer Platform Update (Krazam)
I was ignoring the insulating effect of CO2 and focussing on the heat system.
What I am getting at is we need to find low temperature way of locking up the Sun's energy. Such that when it is stored it has removed energy from the Earth ecosystem and then when it is released it is at ambient, or below ambient temperature.

The thinking behind eutectic salts is about melting something that takes a lot of energy and can be done by the sun's rays. These molten salts could then create steam to drive a steam turbine and produce electricity that can be stored.
> are not connected in any central way and have no stake in the value excepr their own shallo2 self interesr

"Describe business owners for us"

"Describe humans for us"
this is how authoritarian regimes and cults work; they make you do and say ridiculous things as a shibboleth. this serves multiple purposes:

- alienates you from outsiders

- costly signal of in-group membership

- breaks down your sense of self-worth

- creates a false group consensus

evergreen dalrymple quote:

>the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.

this isn't just limited to communism, it's a pathological feature of many groups. your embarrassment is a feature not a bug.
> Bash should be considered an esoteric programming language. Shell Programming Considered Harmful.

I disagree. Bash is fine. Nothing esoteric about it.

> It's hard to program, and easy to make mistakes in. It should be left as a tool of last resort.

It's easy to program, but it has a learning curve. Use shellcheck. It's OK to go first to bash if you need a shell script. Other languages make pretty crappy shell scripts.
I'm using Fastmail with that feature enabled (download images only when the sender is in your contacts) but it doesn't prevent them from emailing me at least once per week.
402: PAYMENT_REQUIRED

Screenshot of the error code: https://imgur.com/URyK4N2

Probably / most likely too much traffic (1st result on Hacker News with 3503 points which is pretty high)

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20220215203539/https://dkb.io/po...
That's so weird. I literally just started my own exploration of alternative Regex syntax this morning. The simulation rears her head again. The Dude abides.
> Furthermore the association of dissonance and consonance to the simplicity of the ratios is not consistent since the idea of dissonance is a social category, not a scientific one.

Again, Plomp & Levelt (1965!). It's not about "simple ratios".
Or met-ah-mar-tay, which would be Maori for meta-death[0].

Which reminds me of the "Hello, death" Coke machines[1].

[0]https://maoridictionary.co.nz/search?&keywords=mate

[1]https://twitter.com/waikatoreo/status/1051264259089264640
> On continuous pitch instruments (e.g. violin, voice), this is entirely possible to do

Jacob Collier has a good example of this[1] (I'm a huge fan).

Separately, I've previously heard this referred to as "equal temperament" tuning which makes me wonder what led to this difference in wording.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwRSS7jeo5s
Clearly they meant to say "Cryptocurrency is a Ponzi scheme."
redditisfun
I have a feeling eventually we are going to drastically reduce that cost - either through just making something similar to Starship cheaper or with some new weird hybrid launch system. For non human capable launches (no worries about high g-forces for example) some type of system that just never stopped moving but went to space and back and orbited the earth continuously could be interesting. Imagine like a space plane thing that temporarily "lands" on a runway like thing that is also a giant magnetic accelerator but never actually slows down all that much. Of course we would need to find a way to reliably LOAD the damn thing while it is going that fast but I can't see that being impossible. Most of the systems we are designing now are general do it all systems - they have to be suitable for both people and other payloads.