skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have anyone attempted to connect a serial terminal over bluetooth? At some point I thought that could be a neat idea because it would be "internet secure". I don't remember the circumstances exactly, but I never got it to work fully, there were some echoing of characters that I never figured out how to configure away.
> on the contrary, property tax is actually a good way for people to pay for what they voted for.

It's also a great way for poor neighborhoods to not be able to afford what they need.
Not to imply you are, but it's certainly possible to over-analyze things. There are plenty of qualitative aspects to a workplace that will compound into financial gain. If you join a worthwhile project with a long term outlook and dedicated and supportive coworkers, then the expected value of any equity you earn will likely be higher than otherwise. My current company's leaders want everyone "doing their life's best work" and would genuinely feel bad if they were wasting everyone's time. That includes themselves, and with every year the company grows and gains more momentum.

To an extent I've been very blessed in my career, and I've always been able to accept new jobs based on my fit with the project and the team. I've also had success negotiating compensation to serve my interests. I've never seriously factored in vacation days into any sort of comparisons. I've never found myself in an environment where my manager had any expectation of proscribing when I should take time off. On the contrary, every manager I've ever had has been wholely supportive whenever I've taken time off. I think a large part of that comes down to my attitude and work ethic. I've certainly become spoiled, though. Unless my situation changes drastically, I wouldn't consider working somewhere with less flexibility than I currently enjoy. I would work for less compensation if it was the right project, though.
And we just rolled out the ability to purchase carbon removal credits, powered by Patch, to offset some or all of your remaining emissions (optionally opt-in to automatic monthly purchasing).

Presumably you can also measure the carbon footprint of buying carbon removal credits using Bend, and pay to remove that carbon, and measure the carbon footprint of buying those carbon removal credits, and so on forever...
A “zero-trust society” seems like a dangerous phrase to advocate. Society exists because of trust in institutions.
The talking points of people who deny reality are wild. Is CNN a bastion of conservatism?

>More than two-thirds of the country's 40 most populous cities saw more homicides last year than in 2020, according to a CNN analysis of police department data.

>Ten of those cities recorded more homicides in 2021 than any other year on record. Those are Philadelphia; Austin, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis; Portland, Oregon; Memphis, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky; Milwaukee; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Tucson, Arizona. Minneapolis tied its previous record number of homicides, with 97 in the years 1997 and 2021.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/us/homicide-rate-us-statistic...
Minecraft developer Mojang won't allow NFTs and blockchain tech
Modeling neuron material traffic jams in the brain using PDEs
> Is there a cheap way to create fertilizers without hydrocarbons?

There is cow poo if you don't count circulating carbon.
Surely being suprised by the lack of comments on the ethics of DALL-E on HN is the same as the lack of comments on the ethics of co-pilot on some artists forum. I highly doubt you're going to find r/artists or whatever up in arms about co-pilot, even if they are about DALL-E.
I remember sitting at work in 2004 laughing at the original Onion gag:

https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...

Laughed again a few years later when 5 blades became real. These days I use a good quality twin blade, no need for 5 blades.
>Battery storage and conversion losses are far less than the conversion losses from generating electricity from an ICE.

No, they are not. Here's some research for large-scale battery storage systems:

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1409737
Rround-trip energy storage efficiency is reported as 70% - 80%. Any crappy genset will match that.

I really don't understand this idea for a "hybrid" ship. What size battery would you need, to power the electricals of a ship for a sea voyage? What is the payback period to the shipping company?
I'm pretty sure I know more about my area than you do and we do NOT use property taxes to pay for roads here. Property Taxes are used for things like:

* The general fund.

* Grants.

* Costs associated with assessing and collecting taxes.

* Justice Courts.

* Education.

Not maintaining local roads.
While I have definitely seen discussions of safety from what I can gather the main point of contention is with copyright.
The "prototypical" NP-complete problem - the travelling salesman problem - is "solved" every time you punch in navigation directions in Google Maps.
Half of my high school class dropped out and I got a good view of the average of society in the military, I have seen a ton of people struggle from all walks of life.

Also it is so strange that people here don't think that poor wages has any effect on the quality of workers in construction, even though they believe that to be true basically everywhere else. I strongly believe the reason we see so many problems with construction is simply that the wages today are so skewed and that greatly impacts the availability of talent, since people who can choose to go elsewhere mostly do so today.

Only reason I can think of is that most here assumes construction work is so easy that you don't need to be that smart to do well there. Otherwise I don't understand these comments.
WhatsApp is avoidable with this same law forcing interoperability with other messaging clients. Facebook's app is avoidable with a browser and Facebook.com . Actually WhatsApp's app is avoidable in the same way.
Sure. But would you refer to that as the "hype train"?
This reminds me of a recently discussed [0,1] new method for tamper evident packing. The item is completely surrounded with multi-colored small objects (like rice, though plastic pellets would probably be better for customs to avoid plant pest inspections) in a clear vacuum sealed bag. The random patterns are too complex to recreate after tampering since accessing the device requires breaking the vacuum seal and disturbing the pattern, then resealing it and somehow manipulating the grains back into place from the other side of the plastic. Sending photos from each side for comparison on an off-channel medium is all that's required to verify tamper safety. The pellets or rice stay in place surprisingly well under a vacuum seal, and nesting of vacuum seal bags can be used to increase security or daisy-chain in multiple packages.

This might be worth looking into for Purism since it takes a lot less effort than painting each screwhead, which I believe has also been defeated without detection (it's mentioned in the linked article). Maybe a combined approach would work best for narrowing down the tampered with areas.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31897530

1: https://dys2p.com/en/2021-12-tamper-evident-protection.html
Well, if you're aiming to optimize for speed, not marking mines in the first place is faster :) The game ends when you uncover all non-mine squares, so only those squares need to be clicked.

And yes, loopy is a great game.
I don’t think this is just violent crime.

I am currently suing a former landlord in NYC — a lecturer at Columbia Law school no less! — for illegally withholding our security deposit in an open and shut case.

We’ve been “awaiting a court date” for over a year now. We don’t need the money and were planning on donating (the significant) damages to non-profits helping people who wouldn’t otherwise have the resources to get justice, but it’s still super depressing that the court system basically gave up during COVID and doesn’t appear to be trending in the right direction to be fixed anytime soon.

No doubt our legally sophisticated landlord knew this and took the bet that we would have no real recourse for over a year toward anything they did.
The actual paper. Unfortunately paywalled.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2119913?query=re...
Minecraft and NFTs
So, he worked for the Russian state until 2020, then? Or until March 2022, when he resigned as head of Skolkovo?

As you can see, he was sticking around until the war actually started. Did he precipitate the war by lending his name and skills to Putin? IMO, definitely yes.

Should he resign from FIDE? Russians do not resign, they cling to positions of power indefinitely.

Should FIDE fire him? Definitely yes, its rules are made for respectable gentlemen.
We're learning to grow food in ways that increases the amount and fertility of topsoil, so it's not a foregone conclusion. E.g. Permaculture, Syntropic and Regenerative agriculture, etc. Check out the transformation of the Loess Plateau in China. It was rendered into a wasteland by bad farming practices and then re-vegetated and revitalized:
http://eempc.org/lessons-of-the-loess-plateau/
Cheech and Chong's fiberweed van was real?!!
But that isn't what you said. You said that people who were complaining that bicyclists don't pay their fair share for the roads are wrong because most bicyclists own a car too. I responded to that argument and not the moved goal post you're presenting here.
OpenBB – Python-based environment for investment research
True, true. I've been trying to play loopy without marking any edges, and it's way way harder. I think there's still an advantage to going fast at the sort of low intermediate tier where you're still using markers.
I have lived for quite some time in a Straßenbahn (tram) street in Berlin. 2nd floor, the tram only a couple of meters from my window.

Is it that bad? No. They lay the tracks on top of rubber now so the vibrations are not that terrible.

Does it make some noise and can you feel the house shake a bit ? Yes.

Do I prefer it from the isolationist culture of cars, the emissions, the traffic and the everything else that comes with it? 100% yes.
Your images are coming over SSL - so won't show up on many browsers (E.g. Firefox)
Very often it's enough to obtain an exact solution. 95% on the way to the optimal solution is usually good enough.

Approximate solutions are much easier to reach. Methods like simulated annealing can even approach them stochastically.
> ...Look at the ascii chart by bit pattern and the characters will suddenly make sense.

Could you elaborate on what does the bit pattern reveal?

For example, I understand that Ctrl-C generates 0x30, which stands for ETX (end of transmission), but what is it there in 011?
How much money did the government give to people to not work and during which time period?
As an example, this is how Apple does it for iCloud:

https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/acknowledgements-mmbb...
It's actually pretty interesting and refreshing how companies are responding to threats at every level from software to hardware "enhancements" may be offered free by "interested parties".

Seeing these small news restore my faith in both Free/Open hardware and software, esp. when the attacks are somewhat increased.
That's exactly my point. If a house is a million dollars with a 3% loan, that house will be significantly cheaper with a 15% loan but the payments will remain relatively static making a 20% down payment significantly easier for those who are trying to get in the market for the first time.

When people bring up the prices of houses for baby boomers they totally overlook the interest rates and monthly payments.

The price of a house doesn't really matter. The payment and the down payment are what matter and the volatility of those isn't based on the piece of land changing value (in the shorter term).

In the last 6 years, my house doubled in value. Also, I recently refinanced for less than half the rate.

When borrowing money is cheap, there's a lot more competition for things bought with loans. On the other hand, the market rates for rent don't really change because the people don't suddenly have more disposable income.
Another question related to ethics

> Preventing harmful images: We’ve made our content filters more accurate so that they are more effective at blocking images that violate our content policy — which does not allow users to generate violent, adult, or political content

What is defined as political content? Can I prompt DALL-E to draw ”Fat Putin”?
You want to replace qualified with unqualified labor. That's not going to be competitive, or let alone possible due to the code violations that a bunch of untrained guys will inevitably produce.
(Context: I'm a successful serial entrepreneur, but never on the fundraising side)

My experience is that the best investment opportunities are counter-cyclical. During a down economy, talent is cheap. Competition is low. It's easy to build a growth business which explodes when the economy enters a growth stage. It's also cheaper, more focused, and more efficient to have 5 people work for 5 years than 100 people for 1 year. 5-20 people is sort of optimal.

That requires (more) patient capital, and longer times to IPOs, but has higher ROI.

I think I could build any of several successful businesses with a smaller investment -- on the order of $5-10M -- sustained over a longer period (optimally, around $1-2M/year over 5 years). I don't think I'd want or need series B or C funding. That can accelerate things, which is helpful if I'm competing aggressively against five companies, and it's first to grab the market, but it makes companies a lot less lean, focused, and aligned as well. It also dilutes equity a lot, for everyone. Stock options have a reputation for being worthless, and when you run the numbers, that's generally true for anyone beyond the founders.

Do you know if there are investors who can handle this type of structure? Or what constraints there are to having these kinds of investments? I understand the current time windows that a VC fund is open, but it's odd to me that there aren't more diverse types of funding available. Do you know why people haven't set up VC funds with other structures? It seems like a major inefficiency and friction....
> Experts claim that climate change is playing a part in these record-breaking heatwaves.

Should’ve left it at that buddy. Nobody needs your opinion on climate change. Especially not after 50 years of climate science only being wrong about how bad it was going to get.
Well that was a bunch of nonsense, cute I guess.
Is buyer side real estate agent normal in other countries and what do they do except making it even more expensive to buy a house? It is still the buyer who pays even if it is the seller who pay the commission since the commissions are baked into the sell price
While the US was in the "everyone is a Russian agent"-craze I talked to 1 person on the internet that was actually a Russian. There are many Russians that speak English but the language barrier is still quite high, most of them have higher education and are pretty critical of politics and information of course. Much to the contrary to the average redditor.
If early capital thought they would get better risk adjusted returns holding on to companies, they wouldn't exit.

When considering a trade, you have to ask yourself "what do I know about the future prospects of this asset that the other party doesn't?" For IPOs you can see how stacked this transaction is against the public.
Slight correction: There are two modes of RF Capture available : "Read RAW" and "Read".

"Read RAW" does exactly what it says on the label: Captures a raw stream, based on the specified frequency and demodulation.

"Read" captures, decodes and attempts to interpret the signal capture. The FlipperZero has a large built in database of brands + models of RF devices, and a database of KeeLoq master keys.

For rolling remotes that are KeeLoq based, with known keys, the Flipper can most definitely decode / decrypt rolling codes, and generate the next in the sequence.

TL;DR: Handles fixed + Rolling codes, via built in database of keys + models.
But why?

The Trinity test site was open to the public in 1953, less than 10 years after the blast took place. Nowadays, the radioactivity there is only 10 times the average natural radioactivity [1]. That may seem like a lot, but there are places in the world with much, much higher background radiation, and epidemiological studies failed to determine an increase in cancer rates or other health issues [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)#Site_to...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4030667/
It also only works if people stay put. I made less than my CA counterparts for nearly a decade, constantly reminding me just how expensive CA was.

Fast forward 10 years, a quarter of them sold their house and basically retired in my area. Yay.
Through the recent discussions I took part, I understood that many people think Free and Open software licenses as a black and white matter.

Is the code there? If yes, I can copy it. If not, it's verboten. The license attached to the code is not important in their eyes.

As one of my friend told me, his (native English speaking) professor at the university told him: "My English is not good enough to understand what is written there".

OTOH, I left GitHub the day Copilot is released for production.

This is a social problem, and we need to increase awareness IMHO. There's no other choice.
Sounds like something that's very easy to tweak once you get to a scale where it actually matters, until then I'll stick to boring descriptive names.
Unless you know someone that lives forever, nobody does.
If resources are utilized a 100%, the system will run slower than when there's some slack built in.

"The Goal" [1] does a good effort of explaining the theory of constraints.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)
That is a great link!

This whole thread and the links submitted by folks are also great!

Natural Science is absolutely fascinating; and yet our educational system does a poor job of inspiring us all to its study :-(
New UK data laws could be incompatible with GDPR in the EU
Been trying to verify my phone number on my personal account for literally years. Every few months I give it a shot and it’s always the same. The fact that I used my phone number on my work account prevents me from verifying my personal account.

If Discord thinks I’m going to purchase a second phone line to verify my Discord account they’re insane.
Have an -ass.
Foundations do not have to go to bedrock but they do need to be poured on tightly compacted dirt or the building can eventually sink and crack as the loose soil gives under the weight of the structure.

If you watch a lot of home builders nowadays, they don't bother compacting, which is why people tend to have settling issues and cracking in their brand new homes after a few years.

Another issue is pouring a foundation on clay because it will move whether it is compacted or not because it is around 40% water by nature.
Even in its massive printing of money, the government gave about $13,000 of stimulus to 150 million households across 2 years (this is counting things like increased unemployment benefits, food assistance, delayed student loan payments, etc). This puts the stimulus at below the second decile for income for a single year. Even for the most frugal of households, the money the government handed them long ago ran out.
Similar experience here.

The change is not in how we work (remote meetings, written communication across multiple timezones including EU and Asia) but in where we sit when we work (home office and not an office building office).

Everyone is happy to be working from home and energized by the absence of 3-4h of unnecessary daily commutes.

Our productivity has at close to doubled.

In-person meetings for the whole team (on 3 continents) have never ever happened and never will.

Local departments do meet from time to time for lunch or happy hour. When optional (not mandated), these are pleasant and fun.

If someone would ask us to go back to work from a specific location, it will be the equivalent of mandating 4 hours of driving in a circle every single day - nonsensical, useless, wasteful, unnecessary, and, possibly sadistic.
But surely a corporation like github should understand licenses well enough to realize that if copilot spits out a 1:1 copy of a piece of code it needs to at least tell the user the license for that code?
Most project just use the Git history along with LICENSE.txt file in the top level directory. The Git history is the most accurate record of who did what on a project. Some project keep a list of authors at the top of the file, but that get outdated pretty quickly if you aren't really pedantic about it. It also fails to record exactly what part of the file they worked on.

If you use external libraries, leave them in their own directory with their own license files, or at the very least leave them in their own files. So it's clear that they aren't part of the project and covered under their own terms.

If you start copy&pasting code snippets, it gets complicated, as now you might be mixing licenses, which might not even be compatible with each other.
The push back on Prop 13 blows my mind. "What will actually make housing cheaper, is to make costs higher, actually."

Ok you've forced a bunch of house painters and restaurant owners to sell and move out. More tech workers buy the houses, more large chains buy the retail space, now what?
> I think readline might actually disable kernel interpretation of some of these control characters when it starts accepting input, and then re-enable them when it stops, but I've never looked into that.

That's the canonical mode bit (ICANON). Canonical mode means the kernel/terminal is line-buffered and line-editing is handled by it; non-canonical mode means user input is pushed to the application immediately.
MIFARE Classic support is quite good : the device will search through its (somewhat exhaustive) list of known keys, to attempt to unlock your badge.

If keys aren't found, you can perform a "Reader Attack" - take the nonces from the log during a sniffed authenticated exchange, place them in a MF32Key tool (there are online versions as well) - and this will calculate the key.

The device doesn't have enough computational power to crack on board (for that you need a Proxmark / iCopy-X) - but the team has roadmapped a tethered mode for performing these cracks.
> If mechanics and slightly skilled manual labors can own homes in California, is there really a problem?

Everyone needs shelter but society needs people who are not mechanics.
It's a tough read, but you may want to look into "The Principles of Product Development Flow" [1].

[1] https://www.academia.edu/8250071/The_Principles_of_Product_d...
Security deposits aren't held in escrow?
> not having function keys

Makes sure I won't buy it never.

Also no ContextMenu key and no way to hold it with one hand (because the keyboard takes all width and doesn't have a border).

Now imagine you are standing, holding it on the palm of one hand and... now you need to press Fn (leftmost part of the keyboard), RCtrl (rightmost part) and touchable F10. All with one hand.
> police investigations nearly always find the bike rider at fault.

Source please. Sounds like a confirmation bias on your part.

> There’s very little that’s more annoying than a group of spandex clad Tour de France wannabes taking up the entire road so they can cosplay.

You sound jealous. Get a hobby yourself, perhaps?
We're talking about whales facing whales, think Elon Musk vs Twitter and believe me contracts mean everything in that world.

There isn't an alternate reality where contracts are meaningless.
we need to ban TikTok, control of media is critical for narrative formation
Related:

How is GNU `yes` so fast?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14542938
No relation. The name was just used because we thought it would be cool to try and revive the spirit of the old company, and the name is long dead.