skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen this pattern before. It works, especially when it works.

Leech off someone, have a small degree of success. Future victims of ones leeching are then drawn in because this person is a winner. Repeat and rinse.
We have an Emmaus in Bolton UK, as well as the above they also have a woodworking shop and garden centre and sell custom woodworking pieces.

Our stop gap sofa came from there when we moved house, and we often go for a browse.

It's lovely, and a great philosophy.
It seems like using solar and wind power to extract moisture from the air would be overwhelmingly cheaper than pumping it from far away. The atmosphere brings you the water for free, you just need to extract it.

It amounts to running a big dehumidifier. You would of course only need to run the system when the panels and turbines are producing, so opex is close to zero.
groundhog () { s/rust/carbon/g ; }
> Picasso was not very nice to women in his life.

"Not very nice".

No, Picasso was wildly sadistic and cruel to women in his life and talked about it endlessly as he did it and even painted it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weeping_Woman#Relationship...

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/09/how-picasso-b...

> Marie-Thérèse Walter, Picasso’s young lover between his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, and his next mistress, Dora Maar, later hanged herself; even Roque [his second wife] eventually fatally shot herself. “Women are machines for suffering,” Picasso told Françoise Gilot, his mistress after Maar.
Thank you, I knew I've seen this before but couldn't remember where.
This kind of technology is intended for sensor networks- think water meters, pipeline monitoring, EV chargers and the like.

The problem I see with helium is much more of a commercial one; the big customers will need much better established network operators who can commit to operating such systems for decades.

The money is there, but equally for customers investing in the wrong platform is risky too- eg this happened with the UK’s first generation smart meters, where many became ‘dumb’ again due to lack of interoperability between operators. It’s still being having at a cost of several tens of million of pounds. The solution which is also relevant to Helium by way of contrast was to set up a ‘Smart Data Communications Company’ as a regulated utility, and have that operate and develop the relevant networks. It generated around £430M in 2021 revenue as a non-profit.

I can only guess Helium’s strategy is to subsidise it’s infrastructure until someone (really multiple someone’s) like ConEd can be convinced to use it but there are an awful lot of steps along the way I don’t understand their plan for.
I think even without growing part. You can milk 24k+ subs channel way beyond $100 per month. Especially in tech space. I know youtubers with 60-70k and its become profitable fulltime job for them.
Seeing crypto as an investment is a problem.

It relies entirely on someone else coming along later and paying more. It’s not a productive asset in any meaningful way.
> Klaus

Oops, corrected. Thanks!
How do self-driving cars change this equation?

I imagine they'll drastically reduce parking needs, opening space for traffic lanes (reduce congestion) and commercial/services areas (make things closer to home).
And that's why the road to a better software ecosystem is not some hackers smart trick to defeat the system for the moment but very clear rules of what is allowed to be done in the name of security and what isn't

A legislative piece of paper (or many pieces of paper) have the power to reign in corporations far far beyond any technical solution or workaround.

And yes, that requires limiting (intellectual) property rights and regulating what certain contracts can enforce. Sometimes it's needed if you ask me

In my experience this sentiment is rejected primarily by many technical people because it feels like adding the human factor to a pristine world of logic. In reality it's humans all the way down and there is no reason to believe that Microsoft/Apple is a better steward than an elected body of representatives acting according to the rule of law
The spouse of Kali Linux? After all they seem to be on the same page politically despite their seeming differences.
Example showing how to use this library to ssh to a remote machine with a password and send a command:

https://github.com/rwmjones/miniexpect/blob/master/example-s...

I think the library is quite elegant because it essentially does very little itself. It's implemented almost entirely using the "partial match" feature of PCRE: https://pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2partial.html This means it can use the super-powerful regexps in PCRE, while itself being only a few hundred lines of code.

This library has been used for years (since 2014) to do physical to virtual machine conversions, specifically for connecting from the physical machine to the remote hypervisor and automating virt-v2v: https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-p2v/blob/master/virt-p2v.... https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-p2v/blob/master/ssh.c
Delivering Ideas
This is the exact same proposition that Second Life had, 15 years ago. Cross-continental teams can 'meet' in a shared virtual space and it'll be just like you're there! And after all the hype ... it just wasn't something that people did.

I know there are headsets now, maybe it will go differently. Maybe not.
Just to let everyone else in on it, using the text “This kind of smart, walkable…” together with some uninviting locale is a bit of a meme. It was a cheap joke and I do not regret it :D
They’re not self inflicted losses because it’s a constitutionally guaranteed service.

Making a profit is not the point. Ensuring that every citizen has access to the communication network as a right is why the USPS does this
What is the most amazong thing you have seen on the internet?
Yet Netflix and the movie industry itself hasn't been able to reduce torrenting by much, since the limited choice and fragmentation of movie licenses across a dozen services means that Torrent is still the best way to watch everything you want. Their greed, their loss.

If Spotify and Steam have reduced music and game torrenting by 99%, Netflix & co. reduced it by much less than that.

Most of my non-technical friends pay for one service or maybe two, everything else is on Popcorn Time.

"Piracy is a service problem." — Gabe Newell
Many of my friends are still there, 15 years later!
A deeper dive on the same topic, https://info.baysupply.com/essential-guide-to-threaded-rivet...

> rivets are rather cumbersome/manual to set

Astro ADN14 drill-adapter tool has polarized reviews, perhaps it works better with experience, https://www.amazon.com/Astro-Pneumatic-Tool-ADN14-Adapter/dp...
Wow that's some massive numbers. I was trying to calculate transactions per second on 1 Aurora instance using the post and came up with this:

(288×10^9)/(5326×24×60×60) = 625

which seems far too low? What am I doing wrong?
Validating was really easy. I am really active on Twitter and saw loads of people complain about terrible APIs offered by some tools and the ridiculous pricing of others.

+ I also had this problem myself so I knew it was a big point of frustration.

I had pretty much validated the idea before creating the MVP!
Here's a simple reason for why client-side cheat detection is necessary:

Suppose we have a competitive game where the goal is to click on a target quickly. Most online shooters have this property.

A cheat can always do this at least as fast as the best players in the world can.

Without client-side cheat detection, you will not be able to detect, on the server side, whether or not the commands sent from the client are coming from a cheat, of a world champion player.

Yes, client-side detection isn't perfect. But in security, perfect is unattainable.
Nukes are extremely expensive, and take many years to build.

If you are desalinating, you have absolutely no need to run it when the sun is not out. So, use cheap solar. You don't even need photovoltaics; greenhouses suffice. You just need to move the water vapor to someplace cooler to condense out.

Pumping sea water to spread out in a coastal desert to evaporate, so the water vapor is blown up to the mountains and fills reservoirs, would be much cheaper than pumping fresh water up, and would provide hydro power besides.

You might need to bulldoze up the salt once a year.
The fact that you don't need to set up and manage your own SMTP server is a big advantage I believe.
People should generally be most afraid of their own government - it's the one that is allowed to use violence where they live.
Script-kiddies can grow up to do all sorts of jobs! :)
> It is easy to build a city where you can reach everything you need within 15 minutes by car.

Not when you account for congestion. Let's pretend that the average driver can accept sitting in traffic for one hour daily, or 30 minutes one way. What happens then is that more and more people will take the car until it's just congested enough to take 30 minutes to go somewhere -- even if the distance at full speed is just 15 minutes.

If you increase capacity more people will take the car until the trip takes 30 minutes again.

This just doesn't happen with less massive modes of transport because accommodating practically infinite amounts of foot traffic requires, comparatively speaking, very little area. Distances have to be shorter, yes, but scaling at a lower rate.
I like meta-bashing as much an any other facebook hater, but their point is that leap seconds are by definition used to keep UTC in almost sync with earth rotation and their argument is that it is not something useful to do.
I believe email clients send back a rejection if it landed in spam. It is one of the metrics AWS SES can track for you.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/monitor-sending-ac...
If your clock is perfectly synchronised to UTC, then this is not true. Two calls to time.now() one second apart will sometimes return the same value - the same count of seconds elapsed.

Here's what POSIX has to say [1]:

> 4.16 Seconds Since the Epoch

> A value that approximates the number of seconds that have elapsed since the Epoch. A Coordinated Universal Time name (specified in terms of seconds (tm_sec), minutes (tm_min), hours (tm_hour), days since January 1 of the year (tm_yday), and calendar year minus 1900 (tm_year)) is related to a time represented as seconds since the Epoch, according to the expression below.

> If the year is <1970 or the value is negative, the relationship is undefined. If the year is >=1970 and the value is non-negative, the value is related to a Coordinated Universal Time name according to the C-language expression, where tm_sec, tm_min, tm_hour, tm_yday, and tm_year are all integer types:

> tm_sec + tm_min*60 + tm_hour*3600 + tm_yday*86400 + (tm_year-70)*31536000 + ((tm_year-69)/4)*86400 - ((tm_year-1)/100)*86400 + ((tm_year+299)/400)*86400

> The relationship between the actual time of day and the current value for seconds since the Epoch is unspecified.

> How any changes to the value of seconds since the Epoch are made to align to a desired relationship with the current actual time is implementation-defined. As represented in seconds since the Epoch, each and every day shall be accounted for by exactly 86400 seconds.

> Note:
> The last three terms of the expression add in a day for each year that follows a leap year starting with the first leap year since the Epoch. The first term adds a day every 4 years starting in 1973, the second subtracts a day back out every 100 years starting in 2001, and the third adds a day back in every 400 years starting in 2001. The divisions in the formula are integer divisions; that is, the remainder is discarded leaving only the integer quotient.

The key point to hang on to is that in POSIX "seconds since the epoch", a day is always 86400 seconds long, and midnight in GMT is always an exact multiple of 86400 - and so the value of "seconds since the epoch" must necessarily be bodged to account for leap seconds. It is not a monotonic, linear measurement of the passage of time.

Another angle on this is to look at any date and time library you fancy. To convert from linear seconds-since-the-epoch time to a human-readable timestamp, they would have to obtain a leap second correction from somewhere, and apply it before doing formatting. There is no date and time library which does this. Because they all expect a nonlinear, UTC-aligned seconds-since-the-epoch.

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...
Reserves are misleading. Because people only declare resources to be reserves that have had enough investment in them to be proven to some level.

See https://www.adamsmith.org/research/the-no-breakfast-fallacy for more background.
Kinda, yeah. Thats actually the reason why I originally started reverse engineering the game.
> They actually could easily enforce laws on banned content too

Exactly this. As soon as governments (or lobbyists) discover that this level of control is available to them, they will introduce whatever remaining laws they need, banning E2E encrypted chat apps, or Tor, or bittorrent clients.

I suspect that, like civil asset forfeiture, or running commands on botnet-infected devices[0], these actions will have only the thinnest veneer of "due process" applied to them. After all, if your computer is running "illegal" software, why should the government wait for your permission before deleting that software, or even tell you that it had done it after the fact?

[0] https://uk.pcmag.com/security/139675/us-disrupts-cyclops-bli...
Fantastic! That includes penguin + penguin = penguin in tux

https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%90%A7+%F0%9F%90%A7=8kr
No jealousy or loneliness
i'm not sure that bitcoin is viable as fiat money, and it's failed as a store of value and inflation hedge. it behaves like any other bubble (risk on) asset.

regardless of what VC backed contrivances the future may bring, digital assets will NEVER have intrinsic value. that's the biggest scam ever invented, even more than the "cloud" and "saas".

but banks could just fork the chain, or copy-paste another chain, no shortage of options. that's what everyone else does.
Yes it does. I don't journal every day, I keep each year to about 40-50 A4 pages and I won't write down all the banal stuff. The value lies in the fact that I will usually look at what life was like a year ago, 3 years ago, 5 years, 10 years ago and past-self is there telling me without the rose-tinted glasses. It makes me grateful for what I have today. If I need motivation today, the struggles that were written down serve as a reminder of what needed to be done to get to the present and that effort is required now to get to a higher plane tomorrow, next year, 5 years from now.
It was built for in-product actions but you can use it for whatever suits your needs. It may need some extra code on your side to make that work though.

I am currently using it to check up on my users after they have either skipped or completed the onboarding so it is definitely doable!
The Yellow Brick Road of Free Software Contributors
> imagine if the proponents of these systems had their way, they'd add remote attestation to websites too. Imagine your bank's website only loading on a "secure" windows environment, non-rooted android phone or an iphone.

Actually, IIUC this is already the case on Android[0].

Some (many? most?) banks/banking apps are rejecting (and/or complaining about) access from rooted phones right now.

I can't confirm this personally, as I'd rather have my tonsils extracted through my ears than use a surveillance device^W^W smart phone to do anything financially related.

Perhaps someone who uses banking apps on their surveillance device could chime in on that?

[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/241012/safetynet-explained-why-and...
Thank you very much for this, I wasn't aware of that!
> [...] and after talking about Neom in all enthusiasm for a bit the interviewer asked each a simple question: would you live in Neom?

I wonder what the architect of this building [0] would have answered the same question. However, many people live there.

[0] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/07/0c/1f/070c1f5ab8a54d907cca...
Its not about happiness but cutting down on unnecessary travel.
> Why are all the chip manufacturers going along with this stupid plan?

Because the music/movie industry benefits from DRM and made agreements with the software and hardware industry.

Also NSA and the military complex benefit enormously from having control over hardware around the world.
Sounds like Switzerland or Swiss banks have some sort of cultural bias against people who job hop. If companies want people who stick around, they should compensate fairly and reward people who are doing well and delivery quality work in order to retain talent. Many people have families and know that their employer views them solely as a means to an end, so why not treat the employer the same way and get the best possible deal out of them. By rejecting people who move around to gain the best possible opportunity, it creates an unfair bias against people who seek out the best possible compensation for themselves. Having worked in the banking sector myself, banks could benefit from more agile thinking but are instead stifled by bureaucratic processes that do little to promote security or create a quality product. I'm sure many of those people would love to stay and finish the product at conservative companies, but it is very hard to stick around in a suboptimal role that does not grow their skill set when they could be making 50% more money at a new firm. Many of these conservative companies as you put it only succeed because they do not complete in a free market and have unique privileges because of governmental barriers to free enterprise.
Amazon Prime prices increasing in the UK and across Europe in September
A16Z is obviously well known, but are they respected? I naïvely assumed that they would have access to enough expertise and deal flow to avoid the most absurd losers, but a few examples in the last few months have made me question that.

And an important follow up question: do they have enough dry powder to keep sustaining these things?
I think this is fucking AWESOME. I get all of the criticisms, but if they can pull this off, it'll be so fucking cool.
It depends of your library/language.
Thanks for linking us!

Hello everyone, I’m Viet Nguyen, OpenBeta’s founder and project lead.

I got hooked on climbing 11 years ago, and around the same time, I began a new dev job in the enterprise open source industry. Inspired by OpenStreetMap, I created OpenBeta as a platform for climbers to share climbing information under a fair and open license (climbing data: CC0, source code: MIT & GPLv3).

*One clarification:*

As an all-volunteer and nonprofit tech project, OpenBeta mission is about empowering the community with the data about rock climbing routes in human friendly and machine-readable format. It’s never about building digital guides and competing with guidebook authors. Everyone is welcome to incorporate our datasets & tools in their commercial projects.

Besides climbing, many of us are hackers and data nerds. All we wanted is to be able to access and tinker with the community-generated climbing data to make maps of climbing walls, study Python Pandas and recommendation engines, etc. Open access to climbing data doesn’t have to be about the physical aspects of climbing.

If I may leave 1 link, I’d like call your attention to our First Ascenionists data cleanup project.

https://github.com/OpenBeta/fa-cleanup

I’m looking for a project lead to help us out with the initiative.

Best,

Viet Nguyen
>5-minute walkable neighborhoods. The proximity to services of cities combined with the roominess of suburbs. At least in theory it's the perfect place to live.

The problem with 175 km of continuous "subway" is that you probably don't want to walk more than 2.5 km to the train (if that, it's Arabian hot) so you have 35 stops (5 km apart) along the line at a minimum — with a blistering acceleration of g = 10 m/s^2 you're stuck at an average velocity of 18 km/h, so it's eleven hours of travel end-to-end assuming two minutes at each stop. Those are optimistic assumptions. You can mitigate it slightly by having express trains skip stops, but now it gets complicated, etc. To be anywhere near reasonable you probably want about five actual transit lines on the single "line".

A much less crazy plan would have 8-16 compact neighborhoods at various spacings along the line, where you can get the most out of the directional freedom of walking, and the train can go much faster without having so many stops.
Quality of life in Portugal is amazing if you have internationally sourced income - local wages are low.
Effective tax rate for Freelancers is 15% + social costs.
Private healthcare is superb and remarkably cheap, public healthcare good for emergencies. Infrastructure is amazing, beautiful beaches, superb food & wine, lovely climate, widespread English, Work Visas very easy to get, Large vibrant Friendly Expat community, what more do you want?
I moved to Cascais from UK 5 years ago because of Brexit and I love it here.
Logitech made colorful, more gender-inclusive PC gaming accessories
It depends on who is defining what is pornographic. To some of the swivel-eyed loons deep in the religious right, who are very vocal in these matters, all material depicting non-heterosexual people doing anything other than being deeply unhappy or being subject to a stoning, is pornographic. This means examples in textbooks that attempt to be inclusive can fall foul of their ire.
> The level of investment required to make this work at scale would probably be in the same ballpark as replacing the system with high speed rail wouldn't it?

Maybe in an ideal world the engineering challenges would be comparable. In the real world, you also have political challenges to deal with.

Some countries are really bad at building new high speed rail. Or any new rail in general.
Anyone fancy a hot cup of poop?
https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%92%A9+%E2%98%95=rt
> my salary increased 7x

That's simply not an option in most areas of the world.

I agree that a balance between the extremes is healthy, but I don't think that you're a case in point.
Any receipts?
What do you mean by the 'planet cooks'? (Global warming is a thing, but it won't go to 100C. The actual increase in temperature is much more modest.)

And why only tax corporations?
The Ethereum Name System
Master the simplecov gem minimizing false positives in your test coverage reports.

Do you know any other tips that could be applied here?
In a sane society these features would allow secure voting.

In this one... that's not what they'll be used for.

This is the end game for the corporate internet. Not only can all your activity be logged, but if any of it is unwelcome - on any scale, from family to school to work to country to world - you can be locked out.
I'm not hoping it fails. But I will take some joy in the inevitable implosion of an obvious white elephant project obviously made for political (corruption) reasons.

This project is not based in reality, or has any consideration for reality. It is obviously inefficient in it's basic geometry (circle beats line) let alone after looking at the actual numbers. A 200m tall 170km long wall is not going to work. They claim you will be able to travel end to end in 20mins. Thats 510kph without acceleration or deceleration. That's 50kmph faster than the current fastest train (Shanghai Maglev) all whilst being within 200m of 9 million people.

And all of this will be zero carbon of course, with a passively controlled temperate climate in the desert. Nice of them to throw some trees in the graphics to show that.

This is made to pay consultants and businesses, and keep the man in charge happy. I'm not hoping it fails. If they reach all of these milestones and it even turns out to be vaguely ok, I will literally eat my hat, hold my hand up and say I was wrong. But when it doesn't I will take some joy in the mess of a story that comes out.