skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This exists because otherwise someone could just create a bunch of alts and share folders with a main account to get infinite storage. If someone just wants to share content, they can share it as a downloadable folder. As in, users can download files or a Zip of the whole folder to their device. That does not count against quota.
Looked good until I saw the 300 nits for display brightness. Not enough for a machine at this price...
There are solutions to such problems, for example by using custom CAs + cert pinning or pinning cross-signed intermediates; if the Baltimore CA signed an intermediate together with the DigiCert CA then that intermediate can be pinned and used for as long as the Baltimore CA is considered valid by the device. Implementing DANE might also be an option, negating the need for CAs entirely at the cost of extra network traffic (and angering some very dedicated internet people who detest DANE for some reason despite its usefulness in such scenarios).

The RNG problem can be solved relatively inexpensively by dedicated hardware for good enough RNGs (all you really need is enough floating voltage to seed a PRNG and it should probably work well _enough_ in practice). Because of the limited data throughput of many IoT solutions, it's quite difficult to capture enough traffic to reverse the state of the RNG compared to desktop applications where you can capture many gigabytes of data per second.

Symmetric keys also work well if you can figure out secrets management. Managing many secrets can quickly become a pain, though, so it really depends on what kind of devices you use and how many.

But yes, I think most IoT data is pretty worthless for attackers, so it can probably be sent without encryption. If you hack into my network to monitor the temperature of my room then I don't know what to tell you, there are probably better targets out there.
Looks like the hourly temperature plot graphs tend to get darker / "denser" as you look from left to right. Is that more data being available, more fluctuation, less fluctuation? What is that?

I can also see some trends like the variation increasing.

What's different when using another temperature data source? It would be nicer if the R source was just public without having to ask for it.

The author is clearly a knowledgeable person, they still might benefit from asking themselves what they don't know before drawing any strong conclusions.
I like your confidence. I happen to agree with the second part while I don’t want to explain the first part. See my other comments for nuance.
When you say the founder of Monero do you mean the guy that was arrested recently for embezzlement?
1 week of severance pay for 10 years?? Jesus...
> Sugar is absolutely addictive

Maybe in some sense of the word [0], but definitely not like nicotine [1]. [1] also addresses nicotine replacement therapies, finding that nicotine on its own is still addictive.

> Nicotine is naturally present in at least as many foods as sugar is...

Definitely untrue, it's like eggplant, potatoes, tomatoes, cauliflower, and a couple others.

> ...albeit in very low concentrations.

The amounts are comically low:

> ...you need to eat 5 kilograms of eggplant, 12 kilograms of fresh potatoes or drink 9.5 liters of tomato juice to get [a cigarette's worth of nicotine, or 3mg]. [2]

I don't really think there's an equivalency between 30kg of eggplant and 20mg of nicotine in a vape pack.

> Nicotine on it's own has a nootropic effect in normal doses, and a sedative effect in larger doses and is a very useful compound.

We have other things for this. Is there a need for nicotine as a sedative? Do we need to satisfy that need with bubblegum Juul?

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5174153/

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7724697/

[2]: https://thisnutrition.com/food-products-containing-nicotine
The US has defamation laws that you might be able to leverage.

This seems to only be very tangentially related to google, what about other search engines or the websites that host the content?
Yes there are some exceptions. Maybe I should have said "most of" instead of "almost all", but the thing is that it's common and frequent enough that I want to bypass that style of "review".
For those who don't get it, you need to listen to the audio. The idea is that this is "Little Red Riding Hood", but written in other English words which have the same rhythm/intonation but not the same phonetic sound otherwise ('ladle' is not a homonym of 'little', it just has the same stress on the first sound); after a while, it will start to make sense.
I'd be surprised if there isn't some beginner-friendly guide to audio programming, albeit not in the same author's style. Anyone have a favorite?
Love this. Always keep it simple, because future me is dumb. I will say though that frontend dev gets a bad rap, and the tooling is complex because the problem is. UI's are incredibly stateful by nature, and you're not going to get anywhere unless you use a mature framework that lets you reason about it effectively. No, I'm not talking about using React to make a static site, but anything with a modicum of complexity gets out of hand pretty quick.
Thank you for the kind words! Your experience is exactly why we built Astro!

We do a few things 1) Astro provides a standard set of benefits and perks, this tends to attract companies with great culture, 2) Because Astro isn't a project-for-hire platform, this also attracts companies that need long-term teammates, and 3) the Astro team isn't scared to provide insight to companies on how to best retain their international teammates; salary reviews, career paths, meaningful local perks, and time off. We know that professionals in LATAM have lots of options.

See my email in my profile so I can tell you more about how to join the platform!
> Can you make a tshirt out of hemp? Of course. Is it better than cotton

Hemp yields 2-3x more usable material per hectare of land than cotton does, in cotton only a tiny portion of the plant can be used.
Ok so I’m going to start making up theories by assuming the second law of thermodynamics is false and we can have infinite free energy.
It was common to represent barcodes as fonts back in the day.
> I've tried many others like SyncThing (just terrible, people who tolerate this I give them my pity because it is not good software).

Maybe my use cases are too simple, but why did you find SyncThing a bad software? In my experience, understanding the setup was the difficult part, but that's to be expected when you're used to cloud providers managing that on their end. Apart from that, it doesn't work on iPhone or iPad, the syncs can take a couple of minutes, and that's all the cons I can think of.

The big pro for me is being able to sync files that an overzealous cloud provider might autosanitize without asking.

Regarding Google Drive on Linux, I've tried InSync and it worked so well with a combination of Dropbox+Google Drive+Google Workspaces that I bought the lifetime license. From time to time they do 50% offs, so it's even more attractive. Much better experience than the official Dropbox client.
DOJ's Already Monitoring Modems (2001)
The difference is mostly a result of perspective, that could be fixed. The PM has the use cases and product gestalt, if this was shared and made the environment in which the devs work, their prioritizing shifts to product, and engineering concerns would be limited to more obvious ones that make sense.

But it’s human nature to protect one’s job and decision making autonomy. PMs being no exception, often underweight their roles in communication transfer and overweight them in decision taking.
The reason I stay with Dropbox is because I share my login with my partner. The benefit here is that we see exactly the same contents in the Dropbox folder, this is something that is simply not possible with iCloud (even the family account), Google Drive, OneDrive or Amazon.

We have Dropbox on our phone so photos are automatically uploaded to it, this is great because we love sharing out pictures. If we were to do this with one of the other services we would have to mess around with photo permissions and 'share' them with the other person constantly. I got iCloud family thinking it would behave like a single folder the family could access but found out it's really just a bunch of individual iCloud accounts with a shared quota.

She can scan a document at home on the Brother scanner that automatically places the file onto Dropbox. I can immediately fill it out or sign it from my iPad remotely, and she will have the modified document waiting for her. This came in very handy when moving houses and having a bunch of paperwork to complete. I can't even imagine how this process would be on another cloud storage provider.

There have been many times where I just want to cancel my Dropbox subscription because the pricing and storage tiers don't suit me but I can't find a suitable replacement.
what software are you using?
> simply having the ability to pull up a replica of almost any *nix environment on my laptop

Umm, I struggle with that. I have Ubuntu machines that run in production. They are VMs that run systemd for some stuff and Docker containers for others. The only way to (easily) replicate such machines on my laptop is via VMs (e.g., Vagrant + VMware), not via Docker only.

I do use Docker a lot... Inside VMs.
To be fair either in the cloud or on premise, firewall is a must. It’s just one of the layers of security.
You don't need to liquidate and realize capital gains.
i think it's pretty easy to see the simplest motivation for this project: all the twitter users who post screenshots of the iOS notes app. they literally gave it the same name.

is this better than a screenshot of the notes app? IMHO the answer is a pretty obvious yes. how it compares to various other blogging platforms isn't super relevant. it's not a blog, it's a feature for people who are already on twitter and already using twitter to publish longer-form content in suboptimal ways.
The Confused Mac
Nice article but a bit tedious to read improper English. It is fun for paragraph or two but wears out rather quickly. If you got something important to say why not just say it as clearly as possible?
Apple doesn't do that, really.

Apple's modus operandi is to kill entire apps, and (if you're lucky) replace them with all-new apps — see Final Cut Pro X, Apple Photos, etc.
Very cheeky.
> Lenders only lend because there’s faith that $1 loaned today becomes more than $1 paid back tomorrow.

This is false, especially for low risk lending. An at least equally important reason for lending, is to delay consumption. Lending teleoports wealth forward in time. Supply and demand of credit will depend if the wealth gets bigger or smaller as a consequence.

Keep in mind that even a bank depost it "lending", and if the deposit is big, you don't have a government guarantee. Also, even with low inflation, the interest rate may very well still be lower than inflation.

If you're a fan of gold, you may want to buy gold. That brings two problems:

1) Where do you store it? If you store it at home, you are inviting burglars. If you store it in a vault, the owner is likely to charge you from 0.5% to 1.0% per year as a storage fee.

2) If you buy the gold when credit is cheap, and interest rates are lower than inflation, the price is high. But if, by the time you want to sell it, the economic downturn is over, and everyone want to borrow money to invest in a business or a new house, the gold price has probably come down already.

So, unless you buy the gold BEFORE the downturn, you may very well lose quite a bit from gold, compared to other assets.

> Growth is not a bad word. It’s absolutely required for positive outcomes.

Growth is good and it makes many things easier. But it IS possible for societies to function well with minimal or even negative growth, at least for a time. In fact, throughout most of history, the average growth per year was pretty low, and might very well be below zero over the lifetime of a given person.

Part of the problem we have no, is that we come to EXPECT such growth, instead of being grateful when we have it.
I think one of the issues here is that the plots just arent setup right for this kind of thing. The main take away plot of the least squares fit goes from -6 to +6, when a -1/+1 change is HUGE. The change only looks small because the plots vertical axis isn't formatted correctly.

There are many additional areas of analysis you could do with this dataset, for example, although the temps may be in the same range, how have those temps changed seasonally? A warmer January and a cooler September can average out to what looks like no change annually, but a couple degrees warmer in January can have huge environmental affects.
I live across the street from a college dorm. People go outside to smoke, and sometimes the pressure in my building pulls in air from outside. It's absolutely miserable to have your house smell like weed.

I'm all for legalization and everything, just ... do that somewhere that doesn't affect me. It's funny because they're obviously forced to smoke outside to increase the indoor air quality for their dorm-mates, but then it ruins mine in exchange. Oh externalities.
For me, that's 50% of it. The other 50% would be:

> type systems other most value when grug make wrong, but no user see because big red arrow point to first.
Maybe they should be focused on large problems--like the fact that deletes don't currently work properly in Dropbox (you can soft delete things at the moment, but things are not being permanently removed--go into your Trash and try to empty it right now and see what happens) rather than adding unnecessary side features.
The World’s Smartest Artificial Intelligence Just Made Its First Magazine Cover
Also, 1920 is a very arbitrary starting year. Why then?

In 1920 the Industrial Revolution has been going on for over 100 years, the US petroleum industry was already big enough to have been affected by antitrust action, and Henry Ford's assembly line has been enabling mass motorization for the better part of a decade.
100% A bad code base is a mental health hazard, and that shit hurts. Of course time crunch isn't the only thing that makes a bad code base. Devs bike shedding to much, or just not being good at maintaining a code base can have the same effect, but not having the time to protect your own future mental health really starts to weigh on a workplace.
Not everywhere has the same beaches. Do a GIS for, say, Mont-Saint-Michel in France at low tide, and you'll see the water receeds miles. It'll be more apparent in these locations; a 10cm difference might mean hundreds of feet less beach at low tide.
Farm vehicles now weigh almost as much as heaviest dinosaurs
Gore absolutely deserves to be dinged for speaking ambiguously in a way that leans towards greatly inflating his contribution to the field.

But at the same time, anyone who's ever read or written a résumé will readily recognize "took the initiative in creating" as CV-speak for "I assisted in some capacity, however minor." I expect the actual number of people misled by Gore's self-puffery to have been small to nonexistent.
That is correct, according to the article.

Not sure if that is an actual concern, or even an actual warning, but that is what the article states.
I have a little pen called a dosist that stops atomizing the thc once you receive a "dose". It also vibrates to make it more obvious. I love it. I'm able to regulate the amount I use and know the effects I feel from x amount of doses.

edit: https://dosist.com/faq
Or is it a technical problem that creates a social problem, thereby making the technology the problem?
...but also some of Bill Joy's influence as well.

It is compatible with, but distinct from what preceded it.
I'd guess not, given the expense of producing cartridges at relatively low volume and that it was very rare for someone to write their own raw PostScript code, as would be required to take advantage of such things. But I don't know.
There’s also https://git-secret.io/ which doesn’t rely on 1Password.
I refresh HN new stories at least once every 30 minutes
How do you think about partner versus build? Usage based billing on its own is a pretty complex topic as an example with multiple startups that have tried to do it right. It is pretty data intensive as usage frequency increases, as well. It seems like you may be trying to do too much here. Just one opinion but something to think through (build versus partner.)
cher·ry-pick
/ˈCHerēˌpik/
verb
choose and take only (the most beneficial or profitable items, opportunities, etc.) from what is available.
"the company should buy the whole airline and not just cherry-pick its best assets"

the author did not cherry pick. in order to cherry pick, the author needs to have had a predetermined thesis such that cherry picking only certain data points would bolster said thesis. instead, the author was looking to see what the deal was with long-term observed weather in specific places relevant to the author, then later expanded to include a few other locations as well. therefore, unless you are accusing the author of being dishonest, the author did not cherry pick.
> They have a downside for privacy and security.

What if you could host it on your laptop or a server you pay for?

When I suggested something a company could host I imagined it replacing Office 365 or Google Docs (a concern governments may have about having American companies host their data). Being able to self host and allow collaboration without relying on a third party application is important.
Presumably the fluorine part gets scrubbed first?

This paper says they normally use KOH:

https://www.s-k.com/technical-references/wet_scrubbers.pdf

End result would be a solution of KF in water, which is benign.
Bait and switch, we see it every day. Acquire users with a good product, then squeeze the shit outta that without remorse.
Openbsd.amsterdam
Previously, 361 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027

Brendan Eich has also replied to comments on this forum:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=BrendanEich
Safari here, don't see that?
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar hell. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

There's a substantive discussion to be had about a tradeoff between individual control, institutional biases, and echo chambers, but setting the thread on fire is not the way to have it.

We've had to ask you this kind of thing more than once before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30436536 (Feb 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30432761 (Feb 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28948081 (Oct 2021)

Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit here more to heart? We want curious conversation across differences, not name-calling and enemy-bashing.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31838508.
Try jewel mint
If you "oppose vaccine mandates" you don't understand how vaccines work and are antivax, full stop. Their individual effects are far less potent without the herd effects.
I would generally agree, _except_ with the fact then this just defeats the entire point of Twitter - it might as well become the next Medium then. Which, let's be realistic, can be a strategy too - become a content publisher rather than an aggregator of links and short opinions. But then again, that's not why I am personally on Twitter. YMMV.
I think a loop is ok if it only modifies variables whose scope is the loop.

And that's what map() basically does.
sometime grugbrain sometime complexitybrain
Obviously I'm talking about the transport of the water from where it naturally occurs to where people want to use it, not somehow creating it out of atoms.
Please don't respond to a flamewar comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh I'm super on the train that sugar needs to be regulated. But the sugar industry has strongly corrupted US legislation, so good luck.

While I agree obesity etc. are problems, I would argue that this is due to sugar's ubiquity rather than its addictive qualities.
Sure, emailed.
It goes back to the '60s and '70s.

Back then, a "byte" was not necessarily "8 bits", but whatever the smallest unit of addressable memory was. This was the same as or an even fraction of the word length of the computer. Common word lengths back then included 12, 18, 24, and even 30 bits. 8-bit bytes would only fit evenly into one of those.

Storage devices like hard drives are not addressed like memory, and the logical segmentation of bits into bytes/words/clusters was a function of the software, not the hardware. One storage device could be built for use in an 8-bit or 12-bit computer, resulting in very different numbers if you tried counting its size in bytes on these different machines.
Ah, the group layoff. Happened to me once, and even our manager didn't rate an individual firing. Tipped off beforehand, I arrived in a white T-shirt marked up with "People Before Profits."

Absolutely ridiculous that they offered him one week severance after ten years service. Worker protection in America is abysmal.
We don't yet understand the endocannabinoid system in great detail, but all signs point to it having critical roles in a number of physiological processes including memory, mood, fertility, immune response, appetite etc.

Cannabinoid receptors 'don't do much' without the help of of some 19% THC sativa in the same way the dopaminergic system doesn't do much without the help of methamphetamine. However, that 'not much' is actually necessary for us to function.
Any trouble with the Rust implementation? I wanted to give the book a go using Rust, but have been sitting on it because I don't want to get halfway through it only to find that Rust's intentional design and limitations might make it difficult to build an interpreter via the assumptions in the book.
Buy the land that has the rights attached? Everyone has their price but maybe the buyers just feel too entitled to have to pay.
Nikola Tesla is not surprised.
This hit me years ago. I had 5 or 6 clients who were all raving about how great and free dropbox was. Each shared files with me, but it put me over my own limit. Each of them were only sharing a few hundred meg, but it put me well over the 1 (or 2?) gig limit, and I had to pay to continue using it to get their files (which was free for them). Left a bad taste in my mouth.
I knew I felt something.
Let's not rely on your imagination.

Hydrogen is stored. The amount that leaks can be as small as you like. Actual loss as a percentage of what you put in is always negligible. The point often made about leaks is just that H2 must not be allowed to accumulate, so needs positive airflow to prevent detonations.

Mirai is just an electric car with an H2 tank, a fuel cell, and a small battery. The fuel cell has no moving parts: H2 and air go in, power, H2O, and N2 come out. Mirai is very light, so takes much less energy to muscle around than a battery car. Its small battery is to use while the fuel cell heats up, and maybe to absorb some kinetic energy braking.

A battery electric car is much more complex. It needs to manage charge and temperature on all its cells, use braking to recover and store kinetic and downhill energy to try to extend range. The battery is expensive.

But energy is fungible. After there is plenty of renewable generation capacity, hydrogen made from renewables has not cost anybody anything tangible. Until there is plenty of renewables, making hydrogen costs NG, so will not happen much.

Cars will have batteries. Trucks will probably run on ammonia. Aircraft will run on LH2. The kWh that goes into a unit of H2 will not matter much, because it is just sunshine and wind. We need to get there by spending on renewable generating capacity, first.
Every time I have encountered one of these people, they try a single dab and suddenly it's myth-busted.
My cat loves the end of a carrot, like the greenish part you cut off and discard.