skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I also know the construction industry well. You can glue tile to the floor, or screw cabinets to a wall, and own your own home pretty quickly.

You need land to construct a home on in the first place, and land prices have exploded over the last decades fueled by insane amounts of cheap dumb investment capital.
It’s also a great way to synthetically max out a core. Want to check thermals? Got 8 cores? Spin up 8 yes > /dev/null

And let them rip.
> No, the lowest bidder model is still used around the world because it is the simplest way to assign a contract without (the public manager) being responsible of the decision to award it to company A instead of company B.

You've made it sound as if it's about avoiding responsiblity, while the motivating force behind this model is to avoid creating situations which would incentivise corruption. When you take away any decision-making power from the official awarding the bid and he basically just has to follow a pre-written algorithm, he can't be corrupted.
Ice Mountains of Pluto as Seen from New Horizon Spacecraft
An easy way to turn a dedicated server into a GitHub runner (+native BSDs)
An easy way to turn a dedicated server into a self-hosted GitHub runner (with native support for all modern BSD systems).
> imagine that you get a $1,000 bill from Atlassian and want to know the carbon impact of that purchase. We know that for every $1,000 spent with Atlassian, there’s a 30.2 kg footprint

Actually, you don't "know" that, and the tCO2e for every single step in the supply chain is highly dependent on suppliers and situations. You can find an average for manufacturing a single glass bottle in Stockholm, and its shipping to Germany. But what if you used a small, low-carbon, shipping company instead of the regular transit options ? You would not know the proper tCO2e for that unless you already have specific data about this small shipping supplier.

It's completely recursive and mostly information-incomplete.
The other day, while collecting my childhood belongings from my mother's house, I found my old peg-solitaire set. The following week I was totally obsessed with it, playing it all the time, sharing it with all my friends, and I ended up discovering some really nifty facts about it.

I quickly found that as starting positions go, only certain specific choices for the first open hole would make the game winnable (in the sense that you remove all except one peg). For others there would always be at least two pegs left. I also found that the final relative configuration was to a large degree decided (modulo some relative shift) by your choice of initial configuration.

After gaining intuition I decided to apply some rigor, so I went about things mathematically and found an invariant! That is, I found a way to compute, from any board state, a number between 0 and 15, which would be the same after any legal move. This meant that there were (at least) 16 groups of board states that were inaccessible from each other by legal moves. And of these 16 groups, only 9 were congruent with a board state containing just one peg. In particular, the octagon board (the one I had as a kid, apparently referred to as the French variant) with the center peg missing in the starting position is not solvable!

Once I felt that I was done with investigating the puzzle for myself, I started searching around online and found that my results were (unsurprisingly) far from novel, and were in fact only scratching the surface of what brighter mathematicians had found over the years. But that only made me more happy with my findings, because it confirmed to me that I was right and also that other people were interested in this thing.

I've thought about writing an interactive article presenting the findings I made and intuitions I used. Perhaps I'll post it on here once I'm done with it.
There are sites which provide a temporary phone number for account verification for a small fee. I don't know any off the top of my head but they're easy to google. They often also accept crypto if you want to really retain anonymity. Effectively this means you pay $0.50 or whatever per extra account you want to have.

I really wish sites offered this option directly to customers so you wouldn't have to use these shady services. The primary purpose of phone verification is just to make the cost of creating a spambot greater than it's worth for the spammer, so they should have no probably simply accepting money instead of a phone number. The only service I know of that adopts this approach is Threema.
«Opinion»?!

The author is a compiler and making reference to the specified article:

> Persistent heat extremes can have severe impacts on ecosystems and societies, including excess mortality, wildfires, and harvest failures. Here we identify Europe as a heatwave hotspot, exhibiting upward trends that are three-to-four times faster compared to the rest of the northern midlatitudes over the past 42 years. This accelerated trend is linked to atmospheric dynamical changes via an increase in the frequency and persistence of double jet stream states over Eurasia. We find that double jet occurrences are particularly important for western European heatwaves, explaining up to 35% of temperature variability. The upward trend in the persistence of double jet events explains almost all of the accelerated heatwave trend in western Europe, and about 30% of it over the extended European region. Those findings provide evidence that in addition to thermodynamical drivers, atmospheric dynamical changes have contributed to the increased rate of European heatwaves, with implications for risk management and potential adaptation strategies

Objections can be addressed to Rousi, Kornhuber, Beobide-Arsuaga, Luo and Coumou - but I do not see what could be controversial in the study.

Which seems as a framwork consistent with what coincidentally was reported from glaciologist Peter Wadhams (Uni Cambridge) in the past few hours: this heatwave would be the combination of a Sahara-to-Europe stream (hitting mostly west of the Rhine), and of a vortex on the Atlantic. In statements that also shout drastically "Stop carbon emissions now!", "CO₂ lingers for centuries" (etc.) and noting, as a coincidential reprise to the poster, that "climate model predictions have been overly conservative regarding sea ice decline".

One thing is heat ("ground" metric), another heatwaves.
Shetland and Orkney are both made up of lots of islands - many of them inhabited.
The California Building Code [1] consists of 12 volumes, the second of which (based on the International Building Codes) is 766 pages long. It is available for purchase for about $1200, or you can pay $237/year for a subscription. Despite having the force of law, it is copyrighted, which means that free copies (which do exist, floating around on the net) are technically illegal.

Houses in California cost more than a Google AI developer's salary because you have to know more than a Google AI developer to build them.

[1] https://www.dgs.ca.gov/BSC/Codes
> When Facebook mandates that to install Instagram you must sideload it from the Facebook store and your entire's family's location is being tracked 24/7 I hope you will thank Zuckerberg for all the freedom hes giving you

How will the Instagram app evade iOS's security measures if it's sideloaded?
Turn spreadsheets into website designs
Hi HN members,

I've been facing this problem recently. As a startup founder, I am managing a lot of Google Sheets. I want to hire a developer to convert it to custom websites but I couldn't find a place I could get it designed.

I decided to solve it myself. I tried this out with one company and they were quite happy with the solution. So I'm opening it up to everyone.

I'd love to see if anyone else has the same problem.
This never happens. It just gets written by different professionals. Best case, they are cheaper.
Tell HN: Today I made my first “bucks” on the web
It was a small subscription, actually quite small, it was 10,72€ :), but they were the first ones I've ever done with a side project (or in the internet at all) so they feel quite special.

Just wanted to share that and thank Hacker News for keeping a guy motivated to try side-projects.

Very short summary: I develop a lot of integration tools for Microsoft 365 through their Graph API and this year Microsoft is going to disable all basic authentication connections to their sign in system (basic authentication are all protocols where you can't force MFA).

This affects a lot of users who configured their accounts on iOS a while back and are still using Exchange ActiveSync (even if you upgrade iPhone it imports the settings). So I made a Web App which will list all of your tenant devices still using legacy protocols and how to move them to modern authentication:

https://betterlicenses.com/audit_log

I also document on a blog post how this can be retrieved for free using existing Azure AD sign in logs, but it's not as easy to understand and my Web App will send you a daily notification whenever a new device is found using basic authentication.

Used Stripe to receive payments and the app has been running for a month and half. It's on a subscription bases only for 20 days because the first 2 weeks it was free and a lot of users were using it and my server costs exploded due to having to analyse a lot of log entries.

Update: I just wanted to say how nice this community is, really upbeat and encouragement comments :), thanks
It's a reference to the story that inspired the movie.

> The prototype of our character is the cyborg dolphin Jones from the story "Johnny Mnemonic" by William Gibson.
I wonder what the quickest way to rack up the highest bill on AWS is.
"\r", "carriage return", is what the return/enter key sends (either that or "\n", it's configurable).

So what's being sent from the terminal to bash here is "ls" (which is echoed back) and then the return/enter key, which bash interprets as "run the command".

So it sends "\r\n" to the terminal (this is "recv" in that notation), which moves the cursor to the beginning of the line and then to a new line to get the cursor off of the prompt line, and then "\x1b[?2004l", which is the sequence to turn off bracketed paste.

Then ls runs and prints "file\r\n", which is the filename "file" on its own line.

Then bash takes over again, reenables bracketed paste and prints the prompt. Notably it does not move the cursor to get the prompt on its own line, so when the command didn't end in a newline the prompt hangs in a weird spot - try `printf '%s' foobar`, it'll show your prompt like "foobarbork@kiwi:/play$". There are tricks to get around this.
wow people sure love giving corporations the power to decide what they can do with their device... selfish thinking? naaa its a walled garden for one reason to make a ton of money...
Windows Password Mining
Sound decreases by 6dB for every doubling of distance: https://www.airbornedrones.co/drone-noise-levels/

So a typical 80db commercial drone flying at 300m (CAA minimum) would be 50db at ground level (closest point), or about a loud conversation (but less than quiet road traffic).
I think we're just disagreeing on different interpretations of the word effective.

If something works, but has so many negatives that you only use it when other negatives outweigh those, then it's effective in some sense of the word, but I'd maybe not phrase it as "the most effective treatment".

Kind of like pre-emeptive mastectomy for breast cancer, it's effective and it's the recommended treatment for people likely to have problems due to specific genetic factors, but saying "pre-emptive mastectomy is the most effective treatment for breast cancer" is missing a lot of important nuance and can sound extreme, even though it could be defended as a true statement.
College Prep Software Is Selling Advertising Access to Your Kids
Shoot, thanks.
you mean all those diplomats and journalists where not using compromised iphones?.... hahaha come on now...
Show HN: Frozenfork Terminal
I really enjoyed Factfulness and in general enjoy his work and talks. But I would recommend also reading some of the criticism it received. Some really interesting discussions came from the publishing of that book
It's perfectly possible for funds to return the capital to investors and just say "Hey, we couldn't find anything to invest in at a good price, so we didn't", and that'll look better for them because their ROI will still be good.

This is also likely to happen because big investors generally have their investments split between lots of asset classes by some ratio, so let's say for the sake of argument that Harvard's endowment is 30% equities, 30% private equity, 10% fixed income, and a mix of other stuff. If the value of their equities in the stock market fall through the floor that means their ratio is suddenly off, so they're going to need to rotate out of private equity and into equities.
Does cable have an ad free tier? This for me is the advantage Netflix has. Tempt people in with a cheap (or even free) ad supported tier and then offer the chance to upgrade to an ad free experience. Similar to YouTube Premium.
> lighter than fiberglass and ten times tougher than steel

Yeah, sure. If a material like that existed, no amount of anti-marijuana moral outrage would stop the industry from using it.
I tried to understand nix a few times but a they seem to be in a transition period.(Albeit one that has taken years already) They want to move to flakes which people here are recommending but it requires setting an experimental state.

The documentation you can find is out of date with what people are recommending right now. Even the command to install a package in the official docs is now apparently the wrong thing to do. (This is not related to flakes)

In the end I didn't have time to separate what's current and what's not in the documentation.

People seem to have carved out bits of nix that sort of works for what they need and called it a day. Which is of course fine as long as it works. I will give it another look in 2 years.
26 millions Soviets were not killed in WW2, as Soviet Union (and Russia today) adding to the WW2 kills victims of Soviet Gulag system (about 2 millions) and 6-10 millions Ukrainians starved to death during Holodomor genocide.

BTW: WW2 losses are still exorbitant, even if we subtract those 10 millions, but no longer that "impressive" (Poland lost 6 millions people, which was almost 20% of the population, killed by Germans and Russians - till 1941 Hitler and Stalin were best pals).
tiktok sending your data to the CCP...
You mean without clearing any edges, right? As in you only left-click edges, not right-click them? I used to do that too. I haven't played in over a decade, but IIRC it was relatively easy to do that on the honeycomb and octagonal types (because most edges need to be left-clicked) and on the triangular type (because it has the fewest edges per tile).
Instead of our engineer talent pool working on things that matter, such as managing climate change, thanks to (in part) a16z they now work on overheating the planet with lame monkey jpegs. We are in proto-idiocracy.
Oh shit is that still occurring? Weird I thought that ended a while ago but obviously if you’re this angry the government must have a line item for making sure no one works currently.

No possible way that ended ages ago but is still being used as a talking point for why shitty companies can’t respond to systematic changes in the market
I'm not sure I understand. The way it works is that you look at the market where you're hiring someone, and seeing how people pay in that market (using different apps you can pay for). Then you decide which percentile you want to be part of (average payer, top payer, etc.)

Of course I imagine that you can make up a number and say "I'll pay my employees X because I have money right now and this is what they deserve" but it doesn't sound like a good financial decision for a business.
> remote terminals are very old technology

TTYs or teletypewriters have been in use since the 19th century. I'd love to see a blog post that talks more about the early history.
please let's not go and overprescribe this one when it's available and create a whole new load of resistant bacteria though
umm what? go watch those scam calls on youtube they target iphone users all the time
It's a valuable exercise to write a web shell service with Go standard library (rather than goterm). It shouldn't take more than 100-200 LOC and you will learn a lot about how SSH protocol, streaming IO, websockets work.
Similar towing a payload? A quick search shows a 2017 Ridgeline as having a rated 5,000 pound towing capacity compared to 6,800 for a Toyota Tacoma and 7,700 for a Chevy Colorado. I wouldn’t call that similar. Plus, unless you get the AWD version, it’s front wheel drive! I certainly wouldn’t want to pull a heavy trailer up a hill in the snow with a front wheel drive vehicle.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with a unibody - but it is absolutely different. People who buy trucks in the US typical don’t want a unibody vehicle. As a result, the Ridgeline and Santa Fe are seen more as “big cars with an open cargo area” than as trucks.
This is what I gathered too. Though I found people on Discord more helpful than the blog posts since things tend not to work as written in those posts anyway.
Not sure I understand. But remote companies are doing exactly that, they're hiring not based on location to get talent from the whole world, and then they pay accordingly to the market of the candidate.
The virus vector doesn't implant in the bone marrow. Hemophilia is caused by deficiency of Factor VIII (Hemophilia A) or Factor IX (Hemophilia B). The factor is produced in the liver and they use a virus that specifically targets the liver to get the gene in there. I agree though that transformational is a superlative and there have been other gene therapies that showed in initial promise for Hemophilia but the effects fade out over a few years.
as the other comment says, you can't have a build system that doesn't care about dependencies, otherwise different environments will use different dependencies to build.
Even simple things like how to install a package.
so on android they have to install adobe app store? and Facebook store?
Swallowing the elephant into Blender
Your colleague is dealing with a problem of disaligned incentives. If growth was the top priority for the engineering team, then (assuming her suggestions are good) they would get actioned. I would guess that either the team are busy with features they think management care more about, or with support/bugfix.

I would propose a growth bounty – if teams can show growth _on metrics that are preapproved by the growth team_ they get a bonus linked to the growth in user count / revenue / etc. If this is done right then the growth team just have to make sure people don't game the system.

If leadership aren't willing to put their money where their mouth is, this means they're probably paying lip service to growth and engineers are correctly identifying that these tickets aren't what management really care about – in which case your colleague either needs to convince management to reprioritise, or find another role.
Just from the article?

LZ detector. Do you need more?
So you actually wrote a new program. Yes was made for those pesky installers, not for producing large amounts of data. This would be my approach. Keep yes simple and create a new program that does spilling data well.
Value selling isn't an option for most employees. Try it in a typical salary negotiation and you'll get funny looks followed by a repeat of their standard offer.
Can you please expand upon how the American political system isn't free in any way that matters materially?
So the end date of the benefits is Sep 6, 2021. Is the claim here that the additional income was so high that people still no longer have to work in Jul 2022?

And the amount of benefits received is calculated based on people with children earning $60k per year in GA and $80k in MA (a very high cost of living state). Either way, both of these figures are above median incomes, so is the claim here that people with above median incomes quit their jobs in order to collect temporary benefits and then never re entered the workforce?
You can just keep using an old cell phone. See? I can do it too.
Checkboard is a startup currently mostly working in the property industry in the UK, but as we’ll find out later in the talk, with big plans to expand.
plugging in my library for audio (and media) plug-ins: https://github.com/celtera/avendish ; here are the docs: https://celtera.github.io/avendish/

I think that in C++ it's the simplest possible way to write them :)
"innovative" tech companies:
- Amazon exploits their workforce and has a turnover rate of 150%
- Facebook destabilizes democracies and drives extremism while collecting as much data as possible and tracking you over the entire web
- Google also collects as much data as possible and controls the big majority of the browser market
- Microsoft has a monopoly on Desktop OS especially for the office. Entire states are fully reliant on them to continue to function.
- Apple tries to convenience you to pay a hefty extra price for a more and more walled garden

Those companies are bigger than states, have high influence on politics and together could overthrow states. If you have a innovative idea without an entire law department they will just copy it or pressure you into a buy out. If you play by the law you cannot beat them at their game if they don't let you.
> Apple-signed binaries tied to developer profiles prevent the vast majority of abuses.

More unsubstantiated claims

> Third party App Store? No problem.

Nonsense.

Giving people choice does not mean opening the floodgates to malware. You can disable sideloading apps by default, but also enable them upon explicit user request. You can call it a "I'm a responsible adult" button.

You don't need walled gardens for this. A sensible safe default with a pathway to disabling it is sufficient.

You can't restrict choice for everyone just because a couple of tech-illiterate folks might make bad choices. It's silly and soon also illegal.
Thanks for clarifying. Given the livers reputed regenerative powers I'm surprised a change persists but it's super good for haemophilia if this works.
I do not understand. There is a mix of articles saying that inflation devastate middle-class and also that nobody want's to work or that there is great job leaving.

Also that we have climate crisis but prices for energy is so high that nobody cares about climate anymore.

So... Whats the point of those articles?
The Nix developers should really really take a look at Cargo/Go and learn from developer-friendly tools. The fact that nix is hosted on nixos.org which seems to be completely unrelated to nix shows that they do not understand (yet) how to market their tool, and today every project/company is a media company. You need to learn how to sell your product, and how to improve the dev experience.
I understand the tradeoff is all I mean. In fact, probably the biggest win is the BIOS setting that lets you choose whether you want function keys or media keys, since each user chooses their preference.

Your use case is definitely different than mine. I constantly want to adjust volume or mute when someone walks in or adjust brightness if I'm in the dark. The only time I really need function keys are in OpenSCAD and maybe once or twice a day in other programs. If I'm doing a lot of batch edits in vim, I'll nnoremap to the function keys if I have a full keyboard. For closing a window, it's almost always Ctrl+W or Ctrl+Shift+W, for refresh it's Ctrl+R, etc.
Did you ever read Thinking in Systems (D. Meadows)? It's quite a nice read and there are some nice paragraphs about why we need rules to prevent or reduce monopolies.