skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Restaurants largely operate on razor thin margins because the surplus value is taken by the landlord.

Similarly for McDonalds corporate often takes the surplus value & is increasingly the landlord too.

So McDonalds franchisees cant easily afford a payrise from profit margins but McDonalds as a whole most certainly can.

This is also why the restaurant industry minimum wage hikes havent meant any fewer restaurants anywhere.
Lol I remember that little yellow triangle. The source of so much pain.
Like the overall concept --- but the name is questionable.

Jinx (n) - One that brings bad luck
In my experience Japan's working hours haven't been 12hr or 6-7 days a week for more than a decade due to government regulation and cultural consensus (although commutes are still very long). China's 996 work culture was still close to this, but it has died in the last couple of years and has been replaced in pop culture with "laying flat" = tang ping 007... or even "bai lan".
A Rolls Royce (SMR) for every community!

[1] https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactor...
Sunlight and wind distribution is quite uneven.
I don't. I didn't read the article
Does anyone know when the forced redirect from IE to Edge actually lands, particularly in Windows 10? In particular, does anyone know when it will affect users that open IE by entering "iexplore URL" in the Run dialog? Is anyone seeing this behavior yet? I'm not.
There's an obvious market for charging facilities at parking spots so I imagine that'll become widespread at some point.
I really hope the move to FIDO happens soon in all browsers (aka passkeys).

When you reboot a Mac you have to type in the password to login still.

The easiest way to authenticate to a Mac is actually your Apple Watch.
This world is immensely entitled.

Humans are owed /nothing/ not a single solitary thing. We /strive/ for things, such as equality, and freedom of speech.

Placing blame on X for Y's suffering is a straw-man argument, with straw-man solutions that fail spectacularly when trials are performed.

Basic income? Yup 3 countries tried it, and ditched it immediately.

Basic housing? Yup countries, counties, and states have tried this, and it failed miserably.

------

Morality, which is what the 'everyone deserves a house' mentality is, cannot be legislated; ever.

Change comes by doing, not by forcing others to do for you. This world needs a giant enema.
Ask HN: Any insight on oddly tenacious and repetitive hacking attempts?
Hello HN! I am the owner of a long-lived WordPress site. I've seen a new and confusing attack pattern from would-be exploiters, and I seek opinions regarding the attackers' motives.

For as long as my site has been online (since 2005), it has been targeted by apparent "script kiddies," whose automated tools crawl the web hitting up WordPress sites like mine with prepared lists of known vulnerabilities in WordPress core, plugins, and themes. Apart from a breach ca. 2008 (my fault, I fell behind on my WordPress updates), none have gotten through, each attacker would just test all the vulnerabilities on their list, and move on.

In mid-2021, my tools alerted me that a new and much more relentless person/organization had started probing for vulnerabilities. What struck me as odd is that they were hitting the server a few times a day, from various IPs, trying the same list of 5-6 vulnerabilities over and over. That struck me as a waste of resources, they'd need to be extremely lucky for me to happen to install one of those vulnerable plugins after their attacks began. After this went on for a few months I did some whois queries on their IPs and found that all came from Digital Ocean. So I sent all of my evidence to their abuse department, and they shortly terminated the client's account. That halted the attacks...but only briefly.

Within days the attacks resumed, but this time originating from a vast array of international IPs that were not from any single organization--proxy servers and Tor exit nodes and such. And the attack frequency increased significantly; rather than a few times per day, it has increased to several times per hour. But they are still using the same short list of vulnerabilities that has failed them so many times before.

I've captured the PHP files they are trying to deposit on the server, it is a typical H@x0r dashboard that allow the attacker to upload more files, execute arbitrary code, etc. Basic stuff.

Any ideas why an attacker would use this pattern of retrying a short list of failed exploits over and over? Why go to such lengths and expend such resources? Am I that juicy of a target, or are they just a bit thick-headed? Is there some underlying ingenuity that I am failing to appreciate? Has some sprawling automated hacking apparatus merely run amok? I welcome any insight. It's not really a problem, my defenses are holding, I just find the behavior a bit baffling.
spot on! no wonder you get downvoted! nobody likes to hear the truth over here
I support an enterprise Java app that uses SWT, and some clients may still be using IE for the embedded i-frames, depending on their OS. But I think we have a way of overriding the registry and forcing the IE version, if it comes to that.
Can an AI Debate?: Training AI to Argue with Humans
When the remedy for a violation of a "human right" is "file a complaint with the UN", it is outright theater. UN has no authority or even rapport to instrument or enforce such a wishful goal, noble as it is.

No one gives you rights; certainly they're not granted by a piece of paper. Rights are what you can guarantee and defend yourself and with fellow citizens, through political will or brute force. Everything else is meaningless virtue signaling.
It's actually at the top of Reddit's r/AskHistorians recommended reading list

That settles the matter then

> was more deeply based in academia.

You surely can't read the above article and believe that?
> when you say community support is lacking, what do you mean?

I look up how to do X, find very few resources, more than half mention D1. Compare that with looking up X in Rust or Python, how many mention Python 2 or Rust before the editions.
Humans have a fatal crash about once per million miles. Self Driving is complicated by the fact that humans can intervene. Human drivers have no such backup.

So comparison may require compensating for the fact that automated drivers have that human backup preventing them from otherwise killing more people.
You make huge order of magnitude errors in your thinking

Nuclear provides the so called base load (the minimum level of electricity demand required). To replace base load with renewables + energy storage requires so much CAPEX and battery manufacturing that you don't have money to fill gaps between caseload needs and renewable energy production.
Now we have Safari...
Each of the three treaties listed in that document have been widely ratified.

If "made up" is disqualifying, I've got bad news for you about all rights.
That doesn’t explain why languages like Go, Kotlin or Rust became mainstream, and why languages like OCaml or F# didn’t. This is the real question. Is it because most programmers prefer languages that are mainly imperative instead of functional? Is it because of where those languages originated? Is it because of the runtime, the tools, the documentation and/or the standard library, and not the language itself?
I just go straight to the magazine rack and grab a copy of 2600 or browse the manga section
Please can the nuclear industry stop paying PR consultants.

We have one use for the nuclear industry - building scientists who can then build nuclear bombs. IMO this is a reasonable use of public funds - the strategic needs of nuclear weapons are not going away.

But please please just accept that and move on. Stop getting in a vital public debate.

Nuclear fission is a terrible civilian technology - vastly expensive, the effects of a catastrophic failure are massive and the costs to avoid it (yes you can build safe nuclear plants) are huge - basically nuclear projects need to be on the A game - all the time, year after year, constantly upgrading and improving for decades to come.

I might believe that for five or six plants run to just build weapons. But i refuse to believe we can build 1,000s of the fuckers in every country on earth and think that they will be all
maintained to standards better than Fukijyma
This is more about interest. Two opposite sex unattached adults hanging out alone with each other will probably progress to dating if it goes on long enough unless there is something explicitly wrong with a sexual relationship (aka one person doesn't have a normal sexual drive/whatever).

AKA, there may be sexual interest simply due to the lack of immediate alternatives but neither party knows how to express it outright, so the flirting and hanging out together becomes more overt until its clear to both parties.

(PS: This is sorta why you don't see a lot of married opposite sex people "hanging out" alone in private. There is an understanding that your putting both people in a position of temptation, or if nothing else the situation definitely fires up the rumor mill because frankly there is a high incidence of cheating, and this is one of the clearer ways this happens. ).
Wind and solar are fighting very hard to replace existing supply at a comparable cost. It's a luxury substitute. We need more supply for cheaper.
Research hypergamy. It's a pretty well-established phenomenon across generations.
None of their proposals include a tax on renters, only on landlords. You're assuming that landlords would be allowed to pass on this cost. And under the current system, they would. But as long as we're proposing hard-to-implement solutions, we might as well include some kind of rent control.
Sounds good to me. Service fees would be a better alternative
It's hard to walk through a library, book store, or airport without seeing a James Patterson novel on display (his name is the largest text usually)
Let’s take a step back and reminisce about the late 1980s and 90s, a time period when the U.S. was consumed with panic about Japan’s claim on the future via their technological might and wise long-term business sense. Steve Jobs looked up to Sony. Gibson set Neuromancer’s opening scene in Chiba. The anxiety is incredibly overt in movies like Gung Ho and books like Crichton’s Rising Sun.

Now they will have headaches for months because Internet Explorer is sunsetting.

I don’t intend to be mean, but I find the perspective interesting. Especially as new anxieties grow about China’s perceived claim on the future for somewhat similar reasons.
So I can just write a linux kernel module to assert I'm a Real Person™ and all will be fine?
On deadlock bugs: a journey through the circular waits of torment
Free Software vs. Open Source
But there is unfairness in this. The raises are the carrot on the stick, and the managers are sitting on the back of the donkey holding the stick.
No, I don't. If you are serious about limiting the effect of second homeownership, you don't restrict it to new homes but to the whole park.

Look at the Swiss Federal Act on Second Homes at https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2015/886/en to see a proper legislation to that effect. It prevent alteration of usage of existing homes in communes with second homes in excess of 20%.

The measure as described will:

- lower the demand and price for buildable terrain

- increase demand and price for existing homes

Both are financially favourable to existing homeowner residents but not to first time buyer who will still have to compete with investors on the older homes market.
> ... I'm pretty sure this cost comparison comes down firmly on the side of wind/solar/storage. Storage is the main cost barrier for 100% renewable-powered grids, but this is also an area where technological development is possible.

Sure, if you handwave the unsolved-at-scale technical problems with grid energy storage and make a series of generous assumptions about future technology, that's probably true. Nuclear technology has been up to the task for the past fifty years.

> Another factor that this article should have mentioned is the reliability of the global uranium ore -> fuel rods supply chain.

Seawater extraction is an option if that's ever a real concern, as is using breeder reactors to reprocess spent fuel. And the exact same issues apply to storage.
There's Helion, a supposed fusion power company, but everything about it screams "fraud".
It’s only a lot harder to sell if you would be selling it for a loss. Most home owners in the area are in this for the long haul. They want people to live here, and invest here. Not just visit from time to time.
When Microsoft decided to cede the browser to Chrome with Edge it was clear they don't believe a browser to be an important part of their current strategy.

If they had wanted to stop IE but keep competing they would have made Edge a Gecko-based browser and worked on it.
When you're writing papers during your PhD you're basically writing chapters of your dissertation.
You need to have a registered address or a friend in Germany in order to take advantage of the incentives. The car must be with German plates for the first year, which presents some other problems.

Some German auto dealers are skirting the law by buying EVs, getting the money from the two incentives while keeping the car sitting for some time, then selling it abroad for a bit less than it costs to buy it there.
I agree with what you're saying here. Except what you're saying is the antithesis of what the article is saying.

> The mistake you're falling into is that you're assuming that this means that _everything_ has to be defined up front. But nobody's actually saying that.

This article is entirely focused on the idea that sketching and wireframes are bad ideas. I fundamentally disagree with that. From the article:

> The temptation is to jump straight into building mode, to write code or build wireframes or sketch drafts of what you want to create. The better idea is to write your idea down as a way to think it through and improve upon it. Then, when you start building, you’ll know exactly what to build, and why, and you’ll have pre-written documentation at launch.
Neon CEO here. Happy to answer any questions about Neon technology
From the bottom of the article:

"A big chunk of the share sales happened the first day of trading, as all four sold stock in Coinbase’s direct listing. In a direct listing, early investors typically sell portions of their total holdings to enable outsiders to buy into the company on the opening day of trading. Such sales are critical for direct listings to go smoothly, as the company typically doesn’t sell any shares, in contrast to an initial public offering."

So this article is just meant for manufacturing outrage?
I don't know why I've never been curious about what CAPTCHA stands for, but now that I know I regret those many years of ignorance.
The Brexit vote didn't carry any legal weight, either. Still got implemented.
I think your perception of the risk from terrorist attack on a Nuclear power plant and the actual risk involved are out of whack. Especially given that human error is a much more likely source a radioactive leak.
I think you can say it's more "western" concept than American because the same concept exists in European countries also.
Firefox rose to power because people like you and me used it. We told people to use it.

This can happen again, we just need to collectively stop feeding these monopoly wannabes.
> Who wants to date, marry, or have kids if you can barely live your life?

Apparently most of humanity for most of recorded history.

20-something males (in Japan and, to an increasing degree in the US) are not foregoing dating and marriage due to ‘working conditions.’ The reasons are, regrettably, more complex. Indeed, in the current state we’re in, giving young men more leisure time and money would undoubtedly result in more hours spent playing with their new phones.
Why would electric bikes be bad in Devon, though? Geography?
I'm reminded of the software world, where 'interim' or 'just ship it now and adjust later' actions lead to...technical debt and often worse. I feel nuclear creates the mother of all technical debt.
You should go on a date, just for kicks. Buck the trend.
What about keeping the passphrase in a safe deposit box in a bank? In the best case, you have a trusted person with whom you can share access to the box. Otherwise your executor or a court could gain access, but at least the info wouldn't disappear.
Just put your money into an index fund? If you think you have an edge, go ahead and trade, but I don't think any "special" knowledge will help.
A couple of weeks back and edge update forced many many many users to Edge earlier than expected, if your tried to launch iexplorer.exe it would go to edge instead

IEMode in Edge also works very well

So if these companies are getting windows updates at all, or edge updates at all is somewhat not optional
Laion-AI/erlich – Generate a logo from text with a latent diffusion model
Roughly the same discrepancy exists in those reporting they have a spouse (13.6% to 19.8%). Since I don't think polygamy is legal in Japan, this is likely an artifact of the fact they're only asking people in their 20s, and women in marriages and "lover" arrangements tend to be younger than the man.
As long as the deployment of nuclear power is large and growing in scale, there's zero waste disposal problem, because all of the long-lived wastes can be reprocessed into fuel using breeder reactors.
> The amount of proposed solar and wind and battery projects in the United States at the end of 2021 was 1000s of time larger than the amount of proposed nuclear power projects

Because the public has been anti nuclear energy for the past 4 decades.

> And one big difference is the renewables are actually built, while the fission projects never make progress.

Nuclear energy regulations are an absolute nightmare and make building anything virtually impossible.

You're not necessarily wrong with your point, but man the world would've been so much cleaner if we didn't abandon nuclear energy 40 years ago. Now that we've lost all expertise and have neglected research, yes it's very hard for nuclear energy to make a huge resurgence.
Elusive Plane Puzzled European Air Defenses, Then Its Crew Vanished
Was being given opioids for chronic pain (nerve pain from autoimmune). but not consistently, so I'd often run out.

I was constantly pushing doctors to try alternate treatments so I can deal with actual issue rather then take pain meds. They had no interest.
Took me 3 years to finally get a prescription to LDN, which finally worked for me.
Of course. But fixing a bug in production is 100x more expensive than fixing the same bug during development. Ideally, we minimize the number of things we rely on SREs to manage.
While I'm sure there's some truth to that, a lot of the "mundane chore" games are fun because they remove the un-fun parts, like having a boss, being required to do things on a schedule, and not being allow to screw things up.

Even just having the threat of being fired over your head is enough to make those chores not be fun, even without all the other stresses.
...and Chromebooks. And Windows reminds you to use Edge at every opportunity.
This brings up an interesting point. Taxation without representation. If you have a house in the area you will be taxed on it annually via council tax. But if you aren’t resident there you don’t get any say in the local politics.
I think the idea is that you'd have something like 10 100 MW reactors enclosed in a single facility rather than 1 1000 MW reactor in that facility. You'd probably put all the hot fuel rods in a single cooling pond in that scenario. Security for such a facility would be less expensive than having to manage 10 plants scattered acrooss a wide region, as well. Note that provision of cooling water is also a major issue in all these designs.

Whether or not this would be cheaper overall is anyone's guess. There are also questions about the reliability and efficiency of small modular reactors in general; past novel nuclear reactor designs like the pebble-bed reactor were similarly promoted but never went anywhere.
Uranium ore distribution is also quite uneven. Fossil fuel distribution is also quite uneven.
Whole reason they are doing this is because increased energy costs have driven demand for electric cars — which points to the real solution — phase out subsidies for petroleum based energy and systems, then increase taxes on them; UK has some of the largest subsidies for oil & gas in Europe.
Is Nuclear cheaper?
When I clicked on this thread I was thinking when this thread will turn into Google bashing. This is the top comment. I am not disappointed.
To be clear, these links do not not support the specific claims being made by the poster (although being related).
That's exactly what pressures do though. They shrink the business' margin. It's unrealistic for businesses to expect their opex to remain perfectly stable under market pressures.

Cost of labour, Capital, market forces these all will ebb and flow their profit margins.
0.000 > 0.00

Love it.
My father was. He was a corporate attorney in New Jersey in the 80s and the state ran out of public defenders. The state required that all attorneys that were practicing under the NJ Bar serve as a public defender without pay. They got around the slavery aspect by just encoding it as a requirement for maintaining good standing as an attorney.
You mess with it by doing diagrammatic perturbation theory, that is, calculating Feynman diagrams. Zee or Weinberg could be good references. There’s also lattice QFT but you generally want to learn the perturbative methods first
Is the environmentalist lobby ready to allow the amount of mining required to produce the copper, nickel, cobalt, and aluminum needed to support going "100% renewable asap"?
Why? Are you afraid of rejection? Do you have problem making relationships with people you want to date?
If you're like me and you got the order wrong, this will completely break your PAM configuration. To fix it, I had to temporarily enable the actual root user[1].

[1]: https://superuser.com/a/1357253
Ctrl+F is your friend: "For certain versions of Windows currently in-support and used in critical environments, we will continue to support Internet Explorer on those versions until they go out of support. These include all currently in-support Windows 10 LTSC releases (including IoT) and all Windows Server versions, as well as Windows 10 China Government Edition, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 with Extended Security Updates (ESUs). Future versions of these editions will not include Internet Explorer."
With zwave, you can't actually implement the spec yourself, you have to buy little bits of hardware from the only company selling them. That, of course, is pretty good for compatibility. Zigbee is just a spec, but no one actually follows it properly. Now the next version of Zigbee is rebranding as matter and hoping that this time everyone follows the spec. I'm assuming through some sort of certification program, which, as cynical as I am, may actually work.
This was really apparent in Overwatch. Before the "role queue" players would often insist their teammates change characters to emulate the current professional "meta" composition even though at that level (bronze league or whatever the bottom in Overwatch is called) individual skill differences trump team composition by a wide margin. Very silly stuff, and made playing the game unpleasant.
Empty home page, no about or ownership information, no pages on what data is stored, no showcase of features, multiple typos "Sing in with email". If this is meant to be a serious project, you have nothing here which inspires confidence in it.