skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there a single proof of concept of this out there?

At one point malicious USB charging cables that owned your machine were just the fever dreams of paranoid people thinking the NSA was out to get them. Now you can buy them for less than $200.

Will nation states launch this type of attack? They probably are.

Do you have to worry about this happening in your meeting rooms? Probably in 3-4 years.
I think they're just hedging for the fact that there could theoretically be multiple local maxima, but in practice the current-voltage curves of PV panels are boringly well-behaved and so there's just one maximum.

(In electronics if you find complex numbers they're usually being used as shorthand for complex exponentials via a Laplace transform — in this case, an imaginary or complex solution would mean that the PV panel has some kind of weird resonant behavior — again, unlikely to be the case for any panel you actually have.)
Yup, tried to book through them recently and there were technical glitches which prevented me from doing so. Eventually AirBnB support told me to tell the host to perform various actions to "reset" their availability status, etc. After a lot of fruitless back and forth, I messaged the host via AirBnB and told him that I was going to book his place through Booking.com. As a final insult, AirBnB wouldn't let me send the message because it contained "booking.com", so I ended up saying "the other platform".
I read that too, I think a quick reading of this gives the wrong idea though. In any other time period Russia had all of it's regular oil sales and it's actual private sector with no disruptions. I'm not sure they can survive as this quickly transformed military/energy economy where Putin holds all the cards, but I don't think Putin would have survived in any alternative.
I meant it more as in "it's kind of incredible how bad AWS/Azure/GCP is" in terms of reliability and cost ;)
That's not necessarily true. You can make sure your decoding system understands both the new wordlist and the old wordlist but only gives you new encodings based on the new wordlist.
IME the popular compilers (clang, gcc, msvc) are really aggressive about generating a jump table though, e.g. if you have continuous ranges with gaps between them, it will create a jump table for each range, not simply fall back to a dumb sequence of tests.
It does not help that we are colloquially using the "overweight" label as an euphemism for morbid obesity, because we do not want to offend anyone including ourselves. I have never met a person who claimed to be merely "overweight" and wasn't actually massively obese.

In doctor's parlance, overweight means BMI between 25 and 30. This tends to correlate with the lowest all cause mortality in older people [0], so it might not be a big deal.

But outright obesity (BMI > 30) and morbid obesity (BMI > 40) are definitely a health problem.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/99/4/875/4637868
Idea-wise, this seems similar to Tim Berners-Lee's Solid (https://solidproject.org/).

The problem with these approaches is that no significant company is going to do this voluntarily. And this is not going to make a dent until Meta, Apple and friends do it. They are not going to do it because it doesn't give them an advantage, it only makes their lifes harder. It makes it harder even if they don't use the data for anything, because of increased technical complexity etc.

So, this is not a technology problem, but a legal/political problem. Just as the EU is forcing big messaging apps to ensure interoperability now, the only thing that will make a difference here is a law that disallows companies from saving customer data in their own databases. A GDPR 2.0. If you want to make a difference in this space, you need to spend your time pushing new legislation.

I'm sure that in time the EU will get there. And then we will need good tech like Schluss or Solid. But before then, it's not going to do anything.
One of the first solid foods I remember eating is my grandpa's fried potatoes. Fried potatoes in general were a staple in our household, always server with a glass of milk. I don't consume potatoes that much now (and am lactose intolerant), but those fried potatoes will always be my favourite food. I can never make them taste the same.
The D Blog: DIP1000: Memory Safety in a Modern System Programming Language Pt. 1
I ate only potatoes (+oil/butter and spices) for years and was happy (I really love potatoes) but then got too tired of washing potatoes many times a day (you have to wash them because even a clean-looking potato has a serious chance to have a particle of sand stick to it and that's very unpleasant to bite). My mass (rather humble) never changed during those years, mo matter how much I ate, slept or moved.
> complex carbs are harder to burn, so they are fattening, so I have gained some weight.

That isn't how it works. A calorie of complex carbs is the same energy as a calorie worth of glucose.
Britain is a great place to start a company, but a bad one to scale it up
Looking at the documentation, straight.el took a lot of dedicated work, thanks a lot! Will definitely give it a spin later, which should be rather easy thanks to use-package integration.
Public electric rates are about half as much as far as I can tell looking for these rates online.

https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o...

https://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/faces/wcnav_externalId/a-fr-elec...
A jump table made of function pointers has more runtime overhead than a switch-case jump table because the latter directly jumps into machine code snippets within the same function, and those snippets don't have the function prologues/epilogues. And function pointers are also often an "optimization barrier" where the compiler can't inline to get rid of the epilogue and prologue.
Dairy products are usually high in fat and cholesterol, and are generally considered to be unhealthy. They are high in calcium, but the absorption rate (how much calcium you actually get from consuming it) is very low, and according to some research it's even negative (as in, it costs your body more calcium to consume dairy than what you get from it).

Dairy is also a relatively new addition to our diet, and was exclusively for babies for most of our history. A lot of people hate on vegans for being "unnatural", but at least when it comes to eating dairy that's just silly.
> valid argument is "I don't watch the BBC", so they need to detect BBC channels being displayed on the TV and not detect other channels

You need a TV license to watch any broadcast TV, or streaming TV at the same time as it is being broadcast, not just the BBC.
That call overhead is there in then code using "if-else" logic to determine which functions to call, also, though.

So I still don't see your claim as being accurate.
> For some bizarre reason, macos doesn't ship with `wget` by default. Don't ask me why :/

Because curl is better?
Apparently, this (or the intent of this) requires an explanation. This is a comment on the factuality of statements like, "Except that Samuel wants to keep his place," and a reminder that game theory is an interesting thought experiment, but not an accurate description of human social behavior. There's nothing in the rules or the setup of a "game" that would determine moves as actually observed and about anything may happen. Including even worse outcomes than pictured here. At best, it describes an inherent tendency.
Ask HN: A “GitHub Copilot” for Writing?
Does something like that exist? Basically, a tool that watches everything you type. And then offers auto completion based on your most used patterns. An auto generating, auto updating snippet library, so to speak.

Perhaps working like auto complete in Gmail, but based not on phrases that are common across a wide user base, but only on your own, personal writing. And, of course, running not in the cloud, but on your own computer, so it can be used for sensitive content.

Is there some thing that exists? If it doesn’t exist, would you want it to?
The correlation exists. If you see that the AC is running a lot then you can predict that the outside temperature is warmer.

What machine learning algorithms even try to determine causation?
I once read an article describing this basically as "farming" vs "trapping" tactics. For a farmer, there is basically always more work to do (weeding, sowing, harvesting, maintaining tools and buildings, looking after animals etc etc etc) and often more work directly results in more profit. Trapping on the other hand is not like that. Once you have set your traps, you must now sit still and wait. Checking every 5 minutes if an animal has walked into the trap yet is actually counterproductive.

The premise of the article was that investing is more like trapping than like farming. Since most of us come from societies with a long history of farming and the resulting cultural norms have permeated through said societies, many people feel like they "must do something" to tend to their investment crops properly.

I'll add my own speculation that in many western societies the industrialization and class warfare rhetoric has created a meme that "only work deserves compensation", implying that supplying capital is an unworthy state of existence. (See for example the many posts on HN decrying every single landlord as a parasite on society) If you want to invest but also want to hold on to your identity as a wholesome "middle class" American (definitely not one of those nefarious "elites" you keep reading about in the news!), just sticking your money in an index fund and doing nothing else may feel dangerously capitalist. Fiddling with it gives you some emotional satisfaction back by "working" on the investments.
> Oh, the same rhetoric used in depth about GNU AGPL licenses as well

Well, no, not really. When the literal author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" denounces NC as a "dangerous trap" (direct quote) and explains that the Open Source Initiative forbids any such restriction in any open-source licenses, that's meaningful.

I think the AGPL does a reasonable job of promoting its goals. It's a patch over the GPL to clarify the technical vagueness of "derivative work" that the GPL almost doesn't address, except by convention and common understanding that developed before web services were as common as they are. Where the GPL was vague and exploited, the AGPL clarifies and closes the loophole. The OSI arguably agrees with this, as the AGPL is advertised as OSI-approved.

NC, by comparison, blows a big, huge, gaping loophole that is entirely separate from ideology. It turns the code socially and especially legally radioactive to anyone who might want to work on something similar.

To me, that pushes it far to the other end of ethical. Whereas the AGPL stands for principles, NC is not just significantly less ethical, it is actually /unethical/, even more so than proprietary software, in that as far as some legal departments are concerned, it bans interested people who develop expertise from working on it or related projects.

In other words, NC actively selects for people or corporations for whom either ethics or enforcement are a distant concern.

I have a friend who develops software to help people communicate through STT and TTS and several more who active make use of it, and they would do anything to have an alternative that didn't involve paying copious amounts of money to megacorporations. Unfortunately, this means that they have to structure their software as a service model, despite wanting it to be as freely available as is viable.

So I can't express in words how excited I was to find an open-source STT when this was posted, and how immediately crushed I felt that the author actually just threw up two huge middle fingers to open-source. I know how stupid or ingenuine it might sound to claim, but it truly brings me close to tears at the cruelty. Like, WHY??? They put all this time and effort into making a viable alternative to the for-pay bullshit, and they make sure that nobody can use it except corporations without morals? What the fuck?

I wish they could feel the pain they inflicted, but I get the feeling that they don't take the licensing even half as seriously as they should.
IRC doesn't have accounts, you just connect, specify a nickname and it's yours unless it is used by another connected user. So not really possible to track users.
Inflation has risen to 9.1%.... from 9% in April.
>I think this is the take-away of the modern world economy.

That is how it worked for the last two thousand years.
I think you are constructing a straw man argument. The jump-table approach is just as likely to be a candidate for the optimization you claim will get in the way, as the code using if/switch statements. In fact, the compiler can see that simple call through the jump table and optimize it even better - maybe even by inlining.

The question is, how are you sure this isn't happening? The answer is, you're not - unless you examine the code your compiler is emitting, such claims are specious.
In the UK we had a very successful chain called Spud-U-Like. Oddly it
was super trendy mid to late 80s as I was a teenager, and I can recall
it being an acceptably cool thing to go with some mates there.

One of the options "plain potato", for about 2 quid IIRC, was
literally just the spud with a sachet of butter and pepper to add if
you wanted.

I found that quite addictive TBH.

Don't recall there ever being much or any TV, radio or billboard
marketing. They just sprung up in the high street in premium spots and
out-competed McDonald's, KFC, Subway, PizzaHut and whatnot, which are
all total junk-food in my reckoning.

Sadly they couldn't weather the property hike and probably
over-reached on prime location real estate [2] (but that does how
location is everything).

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

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/04/spudulike-c...
...not quite: the if-else (or switch-case) can usually inline the called function, which gets rid of the epilogue/prologue and opens up more optimization opportunities.
Can keto meals really be described as "delicious"?

I mean, I love the taste of butter, cream, marbled steaks and pork fat, but when you have to consume whipping cream as a beverage it sounds absolutely nauseating.
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from blowing chunder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g-Yk9F2mM8
They have a large problem of "hosts" being businesses, and not individual people.

I booked an apartment in Dublin with "Johnny", but upon paying for the booking, discovered it was a company called "City Break Apartments Limited" who required a large deposit upon check-in.

Nowhere in the advert was any indication the host was a company.
It's the other way around: the phone systems actively block background connections.
Great, you are the best, super cool! Go eat an apple
Yes they can and many do. It’s just not likely if you’re actively trading.
Hi, Tabnine's DevRel here.
I'm glad to say that we have addressed this issue: You can now easily opt-in to encrypted cloud mode through the Tabnine hub (find it under Public Model section). This option takes off most of the computing resources used to run Tabnine. That's just one out of many other improvements we've been working on lately, that are now generally available. I hope you'll give it another go! :)
Ask HN: What is your current setup/infrastructure to connect in case of outage?
Hi!

I've started wondering how others people have had created their setup at home or office to connect in case of outage when the infrastructure is alarmed.

I have some ideas in mind, but also should keeps cheap and reliable (cost efficient). So..

What is your current setup/infrastructure to connect in case of outage?
I don't know if that's conscious or not, but how DALL-E output is formatted, for a given prompt, it looks like Andy Warhol pop art juxtapositions, only instead of color palette changes, it's the various results for the same prompt.

Anyway.

You still need someone to generate the prompt. To pick up and refine something. And you need someone to appreciate the result.

So... in this light, I am mixed (speaking from my musician/composer point of view - where this will have an impact too already).

On one hand, it's pretty exciting.

It looks a bit like a big synthesizer/arranger, for pictures, where you have like, very specifiable presets you can choose from, and where you can filter/distort the result at will, with words rather than knobs. Only, you don't _know_ how the output reacts to the input exactly.

Ok, you can get ideas from this. Or quick rough works where you can crossover concepts and ideas to see how it could go.

On the other hand, it's meh.

If you consider an artwork as a thing/product/content only, it's a bit worrying. Because there will be a massive shift of "producers" and consumers moving toward these generated/optimized pieces content. Just look at how people adjust/abide to the rules of social networks to market their content (because it's become content at this point, it's not art anymore).

Remember that the whole mess where we are today comes down from the fact that we, as a species, try to quantify, then over-optimize every aspect of our lives, for profit: money wants even more money. And it became even only worse with the internet.

If you consider an artwork as a medium - between people, across generations. Then it's a very exciting additional tool in the palette.
Any electricity demand that can be modulated is good for renewables.

Big plants have been doing this for decades, even before renewables were a thing. The new thing is computers making it cheaply automatable and networked so that e.g. a fleet of cars can organise their charging schedule via the internet.

But rising electricity demand isn't a problem for renewables and climate change, it is in fact a required and desirable part of a virtuous cycle.

So build the Green Ammonia plant and build the renewables to power it 100% of the time but have the option to turn your electrolysers down and sell a small percentage of that to the grid when market prices let you profit from that. It's a win-win-win, less gas peakers, more green electricity and green hydrogen.
Tim Berners-Lee's startup Inrupt [0] is essentially trying to partner with companies to sell an enterprise version of the Solid Project software. Their website suggests they've partnered with some large-ish companies already[1]. I could see a webpage prompting you for a release of your certain parts of your 'pod' rather than use cookies perhaps.

[0] https://inrupt.com/
[1] https://inrupt.com/solid-enterprise-natwest-bbc
Note that potatoes have a very high GI - for example, eating mashed potato will badly spike your blood sugar, about the same as if you'd literally eaten pure sugar.

This is a bad idea.
All their examples appear to cost less than 50k.
Data engineering trends and tools map 2022
That's exactly why you're supposed to examine the compiler output, and doing this will tell you that function pointer jump tables are often not optimized that way. There's a good reason why emulators / virtual machines use switch-case or computed-goto instead of function pointer jump tables for opcode dispatching.
I'm not _aware_ of having any problem that this solves, so I'm probably a horribly inadequate Emacs user. But this repo and some of the author's other work makes it clear he's extremely smart and tasteful so this is probably worth checking out.
Recycling is a big lie, and I don't understand why we still validate this concept. Most things can be recycled only once (paper and glass being the exception), and eventually they go to trash.

Also, the resources used to recycle are important, and recycling can have damaging effect on nature.
Rebinding is a thing. I saw a machine in a library once. It kind of
sands off the old hardened glue and then dips the spine in some sort
of hot-glue.
That’s just poor software. A poor Rust dev would be one who clones everything.
The first pilot license most people get involves flying VFR almost exclusively.
> I hope we see Godot achieve world domination in gaming, GIMP in graphics, and Libra Office + Collabra in productivity. The people who have given us these tools deserve the highest accolades.

What has hindered GIMP from mainstream adaptation is its clunky UI, and that has not really changed in any significant way, or at least not significantly for the better.

I'm a programmer, sysadmin, devops "ninja" and I can juggle just about any stack. And I can use any painting-program you throw at me, without training. But GIMP I still have to look up basic stuff, like how to draw a rectangle.

GIMP will never be mainstream, because it's made for specifically trained "expert-users" only, without any easy path to glide into for new users.
Did you start sedentary and with a bit of extra weight? It would make sense if you started strength training at the same time and benefited from 'noob gains'

Also the other fellow might be referencing EVOO's low smoke point, it's true there isn't much point using it for high heat cooking.
A code license can stop copying code and using binaries, I understand that CP learns from code but doesn't copy it verbatim nor uses binaries. Including a "no-CP" provision in a proprietary license wouldn't help either because such a project would most likely violate some current (or future) Github TOS.
> avoiding the "cat pipe" pattern

For me, `cat | grep/sort` is easier to remember as it follows some unixy philosophy on how to do things.

I wonder why that article author is so obsessed with putting down cat/pipe. Maybe in scripts where you process large files and sort/grep it is less ineffective. But when writing shell commands, I see this as an empty argument to retrain my "muscle memory" and learn "different syntax".

In fact, when writing powershell I do the same: `gc something | sls something`. But I know it is less effective, but I'm lazy to look up proper syntax: `sls ?? something` - But if I ever will need that in a script to process non trivial amount of files-lines - I'll look it up.
Fairphone all the way

I'm french and I was reassured of my choice to buy a fairphone when I saw its indice de réparabilité is 9.3/10
It has become obvious that AirBNB is now targeting the upper-end market in terms of pricing. Their homepage constantly shows ridiculously expensive properties that I have no interest in staying at. (I've been traveling around Europe for 5 months so far purely staying at AirBNBs).

None of this "OMG Fund" money will be going to improving the core experience the main cohort of users; it is however broadening their marketing to higher-end properties and higher-paying visitors.
Interesting question, thanks for sharing the link.

From article:
"To test this claim, she and her team conducted a study in which they gave participants a word-free logic problem to solve, such as a sudoku puzzle or a bit of algebra. Then, the researchers scanned these folks' brains using an fMRI machine as they worked out the puzzle. The researchers found that the regions of the participants' brains associated with language did not light up as they solved the problems; in other words, they were reasoning without words."
Hot take: Just eat a balanced meal, traditional meals are usually good, anything homemade in moderation, as long as it has veggies, protein, and some fresh veggies rich in vitamins every now and then. Drink water, eat in moderation, and see a doctor if you have issues with it (there are plenty of issues which can cause a misbehaved appetite).

And please, for the love of god, don't do any "only X" diets. Just eat balanced and go outside every now and then, and you'll be okay.
I wasn't arguing that being overweight is healthy. I was just saying that losing weight will lead to bad health if the way you lose weight is by depriving yourself of nutrients needed for your body to function properly.

Potatoes lack a lot of vitamins and nutrients needed in order for them to be the sole food you can eat and stay healthy.