skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can have high octane gasoline without lead. Suggesting that ethanol replaced lead is facetious.

I'm no expert on fuel mixtures but currently it does even if there better/worse alternatives.

> Suggesting that a wasteful farming practice is saving us from lead is like shooting one foot off and the exclaiming that you "saved" your other foot.

You are making an nonsensical generalization from a single study. This isn't black on white. Not all ethanol are corn ethanol and this is an industry that sees operational improvement year by year.
My experience:

I have an older processor that lacks something the Oculus wants. Even though Oculus runs fine on my system I get a nice big floating unremovable notification that Oculus can’t run on my system any time I use the device. The only solution I found online was a registry hack that convinces the Oculus I’m running a different processor.
The Oxford dictionary defines "innocuous" as "not harmful" or "offensive".

In what way was his tweet harmful or offensive? Please be specific in your rebuttal. Here it is for posterity:

"it may be that today's large neural networks are slightly conscious".
They are still bits, not octdigits or whatever. When 4 bits are used, nobody calls these 'hex machines'. We can definitely spend a lot of time pedanti-digging into the details but at the end of the day, it's just an early example of 'viral title'.
And the route itself has 192.168.88 in it which smells mighty like MikroTik to me.
> The bank not questioning the source of the money they deposit is the problem here

How do you know that the bank isn’t questioning the source of money?

In my experience these fancier banks tend to ask a whole lot of questions.

> Vladmir Putin is free to open an personal account in any bank. However if he is depositing millions and billions and the bank is not questioning the source it has failed its responsibilities .

Vladimir Putin could also have come up with paperwork showing that he got this money legally. If there are no obvious issues with the documentation provided, it’s simply not the banks problem.
I continued sugar for a while after that but eventually cut it out.
What eInk patents? You think patents are what dominates pricing?
There's an unfortunate truth that proponents of equality are going to have to deal with at some point: we are biologically different, to greater or lesser degrees.

That's a fact. And it's only going to be more of a fact the deeper we dig into our genetic code.

But it's how we respond to and deal with that that determines whether we commit good or evil.
If you are walking, yes, but cycling or running - for sure No! - especially at night. If driver takes right turn. I've seen cases (in Venice (Los Angeles)) where cars would slam into cyclists on the wrong side of the path.
Ask HN: Where did you find your technical (or non-technical) co-founder?
Let's build a list of places where on can search for one.
" Today, the electricity utilized by data centers accounts for 0.3 percent of overall carbon emissions, and if we extend our accounting to include networked devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets, the total shifts to 2 percent of global carbon emissions."
Great to see this! Thanks for working on it.

Could you compare it to functools.partial?

In the example on the Readme:

import better_partial as bp

@bp.partial
def some_operation(x, p1, p2):
return (x + p1) * p2

It claims that the bp approach is superior because:

func = some_operation(bp._, 10, 20)

...is better than:

func = lambda x: some_operation(x, 10, 20)

But is it better than just:

partial(some_operation, p1=10, p2=20)

?
Both of those propositions are true. I don't see the connection to consciousness though.
Having lived in such places, the winters are often colder, but in my opinion way better than the more temperate coastal winters.

I can remember walking to school in -25C weather, but there was no wind and not a cloud in the sky. Contrast this with the cloudy, icy winters further East and I'd take the Western winters any day.
I agree with most of what you wrote, but disagree with the part about programming not being a craft, or that algorithms are not useful to understand. There is definitely a great deal of skill involved and certain parts of it can be mastered. as an art/science/profession there’s so much we don’t yet understand about software. there hasn’t been enough time to establish comprehensive standards and best practices. But that doesn’t mean anything goes.

I know that’s not exactly what you were getting at, but just wanted to add my 2c ;)
there's a couple problems with this, though;

* our national zoning issues with housing also extend to schools. it is really hard to find appropriate sites for new schools and even harder to set one up with the approval of the neighbors. Schools do generate traffic and such, although usually at different times than work commutes, but this doesn't really matter to your retired NIMBY arguing about neighborhood character.

* given school siting issues, transportation costs are a huge stumbling block for lower income children to be going to different schools. School busing is not cheap and sometimes not paid from general funding, but required to be paid by parents. If school busing is not available, not all parents have the time to drive their kids to school before work, not all schools are safe or reasonably close enough to walk or bike to, and cabs are out of the question due to expense.

* it incentivizes good schools from taking in children that would tank their KPIs. one controversy with new charter schools when I was growing up is that they would generally take less Special Ed or ELL (English Language Learner) students than the population at large to try and goose their statistics.
How are you going to log in to anything using Google SSO? It's not the email address that logs you in, it's the authentication handshake from your google account. Anything using 2FA, or one time passcodes to your email address for new devices?

One example is when I lost access to an email account tied to a Digital Ocean account. It had been hosting a project VM and I never had a need to log in to it until the project shut down. I try and log in and although the credentials are right, it needs me to verify a one time code from my email address to prove I am not a bot. Couldn't do that. I never gained access back, DO required me to give them a full suite of proof of ID before I could even get them to disconnect my credit card, and even to this day it periodically restarts charges against my card and I have to contact them. Each time they escalate to engineering and engineering says they "Fixed the issue". Now times that experience by potentially dozens of accounts.
There are people named Saddam Hussein in the US. Possibly with slight spelling differences.

As Michael Bolton said "Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."
In other words, the original author was not even wrong.
This might not be exactly what you’re after, but it’s close.

https://observablehq.com/
> It's just a matter of moving the confusing quirks and complexity around

unless you can exclusively program in 1 language only, these confusions would be the cause of various bugs, or at least, increase the cognitive load. Programming is already hard enough, without artificially increasing the cognitive load!
Agreed. I wouldn't expect a 50% difference. Cloud services offer powerful GPUs, and other capabilities that can consume a lot more than a typical Intel xeon level cpu.

It would be interesting to see a breakdown of power consumption in current data centers.
Why the article doesn’t mention: the movie will have a star studded cast, including Zendaya
whats wrong with functools.partial? I don't see that anywhere in the arguments.. all you say is "I find functools.partial unintuitive".. why? its a simple wrapper.
The website UI/UX is truly amazing, and as a web dev, I wish I knew how to write websites like this.
Ok I’m on the last camp there - which other VR product should I get?
I watch Groundhog Day every Feb 2nd. Not sure I need another film to watch regularly.
Thanks for sharing. Stay safe!
rapid responsive change to changing requirements implicitly requires a tight feedback loop.
HN adjusts submissions to use the canonical URL if present in the HTML. Check the source of the page and its canonical URL (on mobile and apparently you can't do view source in iPadOS' Safari).
Will this eventually get merged into the main Linux branch?

Are there any downsides to using the real time kernel for more mainstream tasks?
I've not done used the feature in ages, but I'm pretty sure Calibre can do something similar.
Anything that can be reliably identified across multiple websites can be blocked.

So here we'd just block "tag manager web container" no?
It’s hard not to be cynical about business like this.

I don’t think the exec team believes it to be a sustainable long term situation. The business model is avoid regulation using the latest ubiquitous tech and don’t pay for externalities.

The only way to have groceries delivered in 10 minutes is to co-locate distribution points with residential areas + have access to labour willing to make an easy buck.

There’s a huge supply of poorly educated, unemployed immigrants in Amsterdam and in NL. I don’t blame them for jumping on this.
Keycloak 17.0.0 with TLS in Docker Compose behind Envoy proxy
Oof. Some incredibly problematic stuff in this article:

> Such controls might be expected to prevent a bank from opening accounts for clients such as Rodoljub Radulović, a Serbian securities fraudster indicted in 2001 by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Guardian seems to be proposing that people with (certain?) criminal convictions should not be allowed to have bank accounts.

Is there any other way to interpret this?
If you've got a capable Windows machine, maybe check out Virtual Desktop
Have any of these been tangibly productive towards solving problems in the projects you were working on at the time?
LGR retrospective on the Cybiko including a real world test of its wireless communications, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38VEBOseAzM
Meta: The HackerNews submission correctly titles this as "authentication", but the blog post itself is incorrectly titled as "Simple Passwordless User Authorization"
Short of a dot-com burst I don't see a glut of software engineers. However, as the career prospects are better known there are more people thinking they want to be a software developer, will this increase the talent pool and decrease demand?
I'm working with some other contributors on ustaxes, an open source project aimed at helping tackle free tax filing https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes
energy is not wasted by proof of work, it is valuably expended to achieve the immutability of the ledger
Is this RTLinux [1] or Real-Time Linux [2] ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation#Real-Time_Lin...
"it may be that today my fingers are slightly conscious"

Please refute.
I don't understand, the parent said nothing about Jews at all. Nonetheless, given the incidence among them, they also happen to be pioneers in prescreening for this very genetic defect.
What specifically bothers you about functools partial? I think the decorator is nice in certain ways. However, then you have to decorate your code and guess where you’re going toy need the partials or create wrappers just to add the decorator which seems undesirable for a number of cases. I agree that partial has warts when it comes to inspection but at least they’re easy to make anywhere you want without having to apply any changes to the callee. Nice to have another option for partials though so that when you need these features there’s a way to get them.
I can't remewthe last time my job bottleneck was writing code to implement requirements.

The bottleneck is almost always migrating a legacy system, getting buy-in, interviewing users to design the system, or waiting on requirements to be finalized.
I think it's more about getting root than adding a route. I assume the author is aware that he can purchase a separate router. DOCSIS hacking is highly frowned upon by cable companies, and the FBI. It's probably better to have a practical reason to do it, instead of "I wanted to see if I could."
So it’s finally come down to “turn off JavaScript, or be infinitely tracked”?
We had to wear those, too. Our son is deaf, so he would just scream as loud as he possibly could. I knew that I would end up with hearing loss also if I didn’t protect myself.
> The Thule Chapel provides a wide range of Catholic and Protestant programs for the
base community through resident Air Force chaplains. Representatives from other faith
groups are provided on an ―as needed‖ basis. Worship services and a variety of Bible
studies and adult education forums are offered weekly. Laity-led advisory councils help
design, develop, and carry out the many activities provided. Ecumenical and interfaith
services emphasize our unity at Thule.

Yet another example of what a bang-up job our government does at keeping church and state separate.
So long as we're on the topic of fighting ad targeting... if you've never heard of uBlock Origin, you should get it. It's probably the reason YouTube still thinks I'm Hispanic.

I love my poorly targeted ads. Easier to ignore.
The article explains that the info can be transmitted by any JavaScript library.
95%-ile isn't that good (2020)
Tokomak control has some RL experiments but it is definitely not the only way.

AlphaZero is… not quite a practical application.

I am a big believer in using AI to improve the world, but RL is just a direction that isn’t yet sufficiently mature. I think they still need their convnet/transformer moment.
I am not sure OP has the proper background to discuss blocking ad+tracking techniques. Such utilities do a lot more than blocking domains. Blocking domains is just first step as it's the simplest and cheapest win. Signatures/Content inspection being sent can go a long way and can accurately identify patterns.
The article claims ublock origin won’t work on sites that implement this.
I do not really need an explanation. I just do it this way and have no intention of changing it.
If you like this, you should

apt install blockout2
Ralph Merkle – DOAs, Democracy and Governance (Draft, Pdf)
Having to be right “every time” is why it’s insane we still rely on things like SSNs and phone numbers that are difficult to replace but highly valuable and damaging if leaked.

We need to be exchanging personal data only in forms that become worthless and unidentifying in a short period of time, requiring secure refreshes to maintain.
One thing I forgot to mention: the 6502 microprocessor also uses groups of 3 bits in its instructions. However, they group them in the "wrong" way, aaabbbcc, so looking at the instructions in octal doesn't help you at all.

Also, after using the Xerox Alto, which uses 16-bit words, I realized that octal is terrible. The problem is that if you're looking at two bytes in a word, the values make no sense in octal. For example, the characters "AB" form the hex word 0x4142, while "BA" forms 0x4241; the two letters are clear. But in octal, "AB" is 0o40502 and "BA" is 0o41101; the two letters turn into unrecognizable numbers.
A bank is not legally required to refuse your money until you can prove you haven’t stolen it. A bank maintains very specific set of government mandated processes where if think something is suspicions they report it to the authorities.

Note the difference (1) if you deposit $50 the bank by default assumes you didn’t just murder someone and take their money, this is true even if you served a sentence for that crime and (2) the bank defers to the government on what to do, they’re not expected to run a parallel justice system figuring out who’s worthy for a bank account
I used to do a lot of 3D CAD professionally,and I remember being able to mentally rotate around IKEA instructions no problem. Haven't done that in several years. Now IKEA furniture is much difficult. I question whether this gender difference is nature or nuture.
Citing adblock feels like clickbait. Google Tag Manager can't run ads so I don't follow the comparison. Marketing analytics could always side-step anti-adblocking tools through server-side tracking.
Hack LocalCDN to inject modified scripts?
In 2021 Tescos employs 367,321 people [1] with a revenue of $75.022B (~£55B) [2]. Assuming employees are paid £8.91 an hour [3] for about 30 hours a week, for 52 weeks, is ~£5.1 in wages alone. ~10% of their revenue (at least) is spent on wages alone. A significant proportion of the remaining ~90% revenue will be spent on produce, transport, stores and other operational costs.

In 2020, Tesco chief executive Davis Lewis was paid £6.42m [4], which the article points out "is 355 times that of the lowest-paid average employee". If we take £3m away from him and 'share the wealth', the other 367,320 employees get a bonus of £8.17 per year, or an extra half-penny per hour.

So, you have £3m to spend to increase company turnover - do you give each of the low invested interest employees a half-penny for their efforts, or do you give the chief executive manager £3m and motivate him to increase profits?

It sucks, but it really seems obvious where the money has to be spent. I imagine the situation with Apple to not be much more different.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSCDY/tesco/number...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSCDY/tesco/revenu...

[3] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/minimum-wage-rate...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/13/tesco-chief...
Serious question:

Tax laws change constantly as do the amounts you need to pay.

Accountants tend to use automated tools to calculate accurate taxes which they routinely pay yearly updates for.

What is stopping an accountant who is also a programmer to release a tool which they feed in the accurate / up to date info from whatever tools they are paying for to produce an accurate tax return?

It could be open source and donation based or priced at something that makes it a no brainer to use for everyone who isn't eligible to do free tax returns. I have to think they would make many orders of magnitude more money from this than charging their usual accounting fees to a small local group of folks but this is such a basic idea that there has to be something stopping them from doing it.

Is this because of liability concerns around providing inaccurate numbers or is there a lot of manual work being done to calculate taxes that a tool can't accurately calculate on its own without a huge amount of domain knowledge?
I have a copy of sivagamiyin sapatham. I’m going to use it to learn to read Tamil. :)
Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30407172
Don't know where to find it, but I read another such mystery involving the same real life detective, that involved a girl who when into a motel, and never came out. I'm sure someone will know what I'm referring to.

OK, found it. And Ken Brennan is the stuff legends are made of.
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/12/vanishing-blonde-...

Also, I read "In Cold Blood" in its original serial format in the New Yorker, and it was quite good (and long -- for a magazine).
The problem is that the physical world crumbling around us is something that we can all see with our present eyes. That now those of us who live outside of East Asia are in the middle of a plunge into the abyss is plain as day. Simple things like visiting a grocery store or driving down the streets of ones childhood home are extremely alienating things that generate nothing but loathing and regret. Nobody is selling any solution better than escapism than this, and indeed, most people who say we should restore society to the standards of the times where we were building material prosperity and social fabric are called all called all sorts of pejoratives, banned from the workplace and financial services, and even subject to violence by mobs and militias that the state seems to either ignore completely or sometimes nod and winkingly support. All of society screams to you to shoot dope and put on the headset, and no other alternatives are given.
Not nearly on the level as what is being suggested but my company has had several anonymous surveys and I started thinking about writing style when taking them. If you're prone to certain phrases, words, use of contractions or lack thereof, especially when the pool of people is small and you're providing critical (but needed) criticisms, you could potentially be identified by your immediate supervisor. Introducing typos and avoiding phrases you commonly say, adjusting your "tone" is a lot of effort when you can just disengage entirely and/or behave like everything is public (which it may as well be at this point).
As someone who has spent a lot of time on both sides of this, I think this is a great outcome, personally.

The most annoying part of ad-tech for me, as a user, was the fact that I was running all sorts of random javascript, any bit of which could blow up performance on my browser.

As someone who used to lead an e-commerce operation, I hated running all of this crap in my users' browsers because I knew it would get blocked randomly or cause hard-to-diagnose errors.

I eventually moved us to basically this approach using a home-grown solution and everyone was happier. It was even more robust because it just used session/cookie data and didn't require running any javascript execution to work.
Epic Solar flare or some capitalist downfall is more likely than those lame-from-the-same-pre-2000 book of predictions that servers wouldn’t need IT staff as they get easier to manage (that didn’t age well!).
> Unless, of course, you're managing petabytes of data ;)

Are...are you saying that you've purchased petabyte(s) of RAM, and that that multi-million dollar investment is somehow cheaper than...well really anything else?

> But before that your 10gbit/s node-to-node link will saturate. Oops.

Only if you're returning dense results, which it sounds like you aren't (and there are ways to address this anyhow), which is why I said the issue of saturating network before disk probably wasn't an issue for you ;)
And all cookies, else pixel trackers and serverside analytics can still identify your device. Don't need JS to set a cookie.
CodeCrafters: Deep dive projects for curious hackers
To add a static route to the modem's routing table.
> any good public way to search usenet archives

no, you just hope google groups is nice to you (it wasn't the last time you and i had this discussion on hn).

but this time it is:

the posted copy is of the message https://groups.google.com/g/alt.lang.asm/c/bl21J0NYzBY/m/BjP... from "Jan 31, 1995, 7:17:40 AM".

it references an earlier, much shorter post https://groups.google.com/g/alt.lang.asm/c/ZNZp2K-SqhY/m/plK... from "Jul 5, 1992, 8:13:26 PM"

so the (1992) is not wrong, but most precisely it's (1995).

also, a mention on hn that came up whilst looking into this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12596371
Been there, until you're instructed to inject ads in your website, and then you're back to GTM again.
I don't buy that. The post quoted from _Clean Code_ by Uncle Bob:

> The ideal number of arguments for a function is zero (niladic).

Uncle Bob is an idiot for making this statement. Taken at face value, just where is the data for the function to operate on come from? With no parameters, it must come from data at an outer scope, usually a global, which is a bad idea. Within the context of the language Uncle Bob is blathering about, Java, each "function" has an implicit argument, which is the object itself. So even if Uncle Bob wanted a zero-argument function in Java, he's not getting one. The arguments are still coming from an outer scope.

Just this one statement makes me less inclined to take anything he says seriously.