skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a nit: fracking problems aren't from the depth of the drilling. In fracking (hydraulic fracturing) they drill a hole then push high pressure fluid into the hole in such a way as to cause large volumes of rock to break apart. For something like this, you'd want the hole to be stable and not tear apart all the rock around it, like in a traditional well.
> people keep wanting to eat

This is not what the rent seeking publishers are doing. They are hoarding record profits. Agriculture is a single digit percentage of the workforce.

https://ourworldindata.org/employment-in-agriculture
this doesn't quite solve the problem, though. this prevents a user from getting locked out of their own email by an attacker, but doesn't do anything to prevent an attacker from gaining access in the first place -- the root of trust, the password, is just as fragile as it was before (potentially more fragile, because the added friction discourages changing the password on a fixed schedule).

i would, however, be interested if such a service (somehow) used a public/private identity key model, rather than a username/password model. a fully password-less service, with key registration done in-person. implemented correctly, this would be a dramatic improvement on the status quo in terms of email account security.

the fundamental flaws with email as a secure communication channel still remain; these would still make me hesitate. ultimately, i'd reluctantly pay for it because using the web forces me to maintain a secure email account and this would be the easiest reliable way to do so.

(side question: imagine you discover your password was compromised late friday night. do you need to wait until monday to re-secure your account?)
AFAIK they aren't planning to do any fracking, and it's not obvious that it is even possible at these depths. And the drilling is far less disruptive as it is given that it is done at atmospheric pressure (no drilling fluid).

As for your second point, batteries are not cheap. Nowhere near cheap. We need solutions not pipe dreams.
I think it's more like, they respect the power of memetics to carry narratives and they want to control narratives.
There, this explains it, VLC actually is dual licensed under MPLv2 as well according to it’s about page. Thanks for clearing that up
Ask HN: Any solo game developers here?
Hey HN,

I'm a full time game developer nine months into creating my city builder game. It's a lonely journey so I put together a very small group of other solo game developers.

We meet up every week (currently Tuesday nights, EST) to relate to the struggle, hang out, and rotate one person who presents for the night (they can teach or talk about anything game dev related, including their game). It's been a success and motivating for all involved.

I'm looking to add 1-2 people to the group who can commit to (preferably) weekly or bi-weekly meetups. I have a strong preference for other full time developers. Must be serious about finishing/releasing your game.

About the group:

We are late 20s - 30s and serious about releasing our respective games. We are pretty open and honest with each other, and will question each other/provide feedback freely.

Email is in profile
I for one have always used LUKS and then created the ZFS volume onto the decrypted device in /dev/mapper . This has worked flawlessly for all the time, about 10 years I have been doing this.

I guess it is about to proceed onto zfs native encryption.
No one said it’s a magic talisman. But Bayesian probability is far more in line with most peoples intuitive understanding about probability and statistics than frequentist probability.

There will always be no instances where individuals err in the way they apply statistical methods. But that doesn’t mean that there is no value in moving the “default” in statistics to a more intuitive methodology from one that is so obtuse that it’s common for relatively advanced practitioners to stumble over it
Several crypto platforms targeted in multimillion-dollar attacks
If 1 in 4500 people are intersex by some definition, then that's about 1.5 million people alive today. Why should we force them to fit into a male or female box for the rest of society's convenience?
Am noob. I don't know what a shuttle is.

efabless.com makes custom short run chips, right? Does this mean Google covered the cost of 240 chips for other people?

$2.34m.

That's kinda awesome.
The real question is how does this affect publishing and grant funding?
I have been talking + writing about this topic for about 15 years. It's a bigger topic than one could cover in a HN comment, so here are a few resources I'd recommend:

- If you're looking for free info about this, subscribe to Startups for the Rest of Us (podcast) and/or https://www.youtube.com/microconf. Both have hundreds of hours of audio/video content on starting startups, with an emphasis on being a developer.

- If you're willing to spend $10 on a Kindle book, Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Amazon, BN.com, etc) is the book I wrote to answer the exact question you are asking.

This journey is long, but fun. I wish you the best of luck!
You're right because internal combustion engines are so inefficient that more than 50% of energy is wasted before it can even contribute anything. But in terms of useful energy leaving the engine it's a different question.

Once you get to long-haul speeds, the energy cost is almost entirely split between air resistance and rolling resistance, but air resistance has the edge, (about 50%), rolling (30%), drivetrain (5%), and everything else (10%).
The point is they shouldn’t need to test everything and someone self submitting an add on for review to be featured isn’t what triggers an additional device.
I have to use an iPhone in order to test our highest grossing platform.

I’m not here to debate why apple has the most popular platform, I’m just stating what feels to me like a fairly unequivocal observation - apple’s software is pretty bad compared to Amazon’s. For whatever reason the company that takes millions in App Store revenue from my company, certainly doesn’t use it to make their software better!
Always fascinated by all of these approaches. Though I still am fascinated, that all energy available to us is derived from gravity in one way or another.
"It is a democracy" doesn't mean that it isn't also a frequently irrational cesspit. That doesn't necessarily mean it's any worse than at least two other superpowers, but it does mean it's not good. It's not due to the NYTimes coverage that the country seems the way it does, it's the exported culture (i.e. it is the face of IT-related international crime) and the types of incidents that can be found there (closing off an entire province full of normal people just because some of them do things you don't like is strictly barbaric, for example).
While your sarcasm is noted, it's important to also note that engineering problems would never be solved until someone is allocating the necessary resources to solve them. I'm not a huge fan of gross theoretical speculation as being a savior for humanity, but I very much appreciate an innovator's optimism that redirecting known technologies to a novel application will result in benefits to humanity.

Optimism is difficult to generate and easy to snuff out. We should be less inclined, as a society, to default to apathy.
Solar is much more limited by resources and manufacturing ability, likely would cost a lot more than this just in finished product, will take up a ton of land (very expensive), works much better in certain areas than others, plus the still unsolved problem of grid-scale storage for at night. You also need to still build the equipment to hook it up to power lines; if you can retrofit existing power plants into something that works 24/7, then that is a much better alternative.

I think the reality is we need a “yes and” approach, not a “no but”.
I had a similar experience through the Bogleheads, for which I'm still grateful. Haven't entirely succeeded on FIRE, but I'm much better off than I could have been.
Almost any "what are you working on" style thread brings me people interested in my side project, and I tend to use their feedback to make it even better, some even stick around and become paying customers.

(It's an automated status page that integrates uptime monitoring, https://onlineornot.com)
Not everything is political. I can tell you this because I work with many of indian government departments very closely. The reservations JPC highlighted will be studied and after consultation with stakeholders it will tabled again.

FYI - The committee chairman and the IT Minister are from the same political party yet they disagreed and bill got pulled.

Here is a good premier on the JPC Recommendation [1]

https://vidhilegalpolicy.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/JPC-P...
While I think your view of what will happen is exaggerated, I think the overall situation shows the reality of how much division there is between states and parties.
A very long time ago, we were doing automated network scans. In the early 2000's nobody seemed to care.
Given they were invented around the same time a combustion engine and electric motor take a similar level of technology to create. They require a certain level of machining and material sciences. The biggest changes that have occurred is in the "fuel" massive leaps have been made in oil refining and battery tech.
The problem is deeper than people just struggling with frequentist statistics. It's difficult IMHO to actually reason properly about frequentist results without also having a grounding in Bayesian statistics. For example, in the Gigerenzer et al. paper cited above, to properly understand why statement #6 is false, a person has to understand that they've confused p(D|H0) with 1 – p(D). That's why it's not surprising IMHO that cookbook approaches to frequentist statistics without a nontrivial Bayesian component, as are often found in social science-focused stats courses, inevitably end up with limited or skewed comprehension.
It being inexplicable is the explanation.
That is completely off base and I think Mr. Sachs has a serious delusion and obsession with Trump.

If artificially created we should look at Moderna, since they allegedly had a patent on the sequence that was found in the Coronavirus.
"its easier to just punish everybody than single out the person actually deserving of punishment" is actually a common defense of collective punishment

the equal and opposite response would be, "Sounds like you never had to actually deal with such a usability problem yourself", but I'm not interested in trying to devolve this discussion into one about you and me, instead of the topic
Ideally you'd keep track of repeat offenders and decide the length based on that.
The few times our hardware had reached the front page have basically made our startup viable. It was only two days ago, but https://pibox.io

We figure HN is one of the toughest crowds. If we can make a hardware product y’all don’t completely dislike - we’re on to something!
How very numbers station of them.

I've seen it suggested that botnets use comment fields for command and control, maybe something like that?
It sounds like that's what they're doing, in order to find other spam accounts:
> We'll manually review all accounts that use (more than one of) those ip addresses.
Though not specifically targeted for developers, I recommend Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sense_of_Style
Before I officially had an MVP, I posted about something I was working on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29815771

Made my first sale from it, but I'm still looking for PMF and will need to pivot a bit. There's obviously value here, but I think the specific problem it solves is too infrequent to create a sustainable business from, and developers are a rightfully picky bunch.
People have been doing this forever. It is nothing new. Don't act like it is.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. There are better processes and worse processes. But there is absolutely a tradeoff between convenience and resistance to social engineering and other forms of attacks. Your Google account would absolutely be more secure if you could only make changes by showing up in Mountain View with 5 forms of ID between 2pm and 3pm on Thursday. And it would be less secure if you could just call someone up if you got locked out and asked them to pretty please reinstate your access.

Physical presence isn't a panacea but it offers a lot of protections vs. online or over the phone. There are certain financial transactions that I pretty much need to transact physically at least in part.
Because there will be people for whom any changes would massively affect their ability to do their work/business who would not simply accept something as comprehensive as GDPR.

As the OP article says, even if not perfect, why not start here and make amendments later to tighten things up i.e. something is better than nothing. The real problem is that legislation is glacially slow and expensive to put into law which is good (to stop kneejerk laws) but also bad since it doesn't allow you to pass the 90% that is probably agreed and worry about the sticky bits later.
Yes pump water down, extract supercritical steam coming out and then just use a regular turbine.
I have absolutely zero knowledge which would qualify me to talk about this topic. But based on what I know about our world and its ecosystems, I just can't imagine that drilling holes into earth and extracting it's heat can be a good idea when done in large scales.

I could imagine that this seems reasonably safe right now, only for us to find out that it's actually a horrible thing to do. As has happened lots of times before. This is just a gut feeling and I'm not anti or whatever, it just feels...weird to me.

No idea what the bad effects could be. Loss of internal heat, destabilization, sinkholes, loss of pressure, volcano eruptions back-firing through these holes. Admittedly, these examples sound like apocalypse movie scenarios. Which just validates my initial statement about me actually not knowing very much.
Go buy grammarly pro as a starting point :)
> So if that's true, why the focus on geothermal? I mean I support research into renewables but it's a whole lot easier if, say, you can get the oil and gas industry to pay for your R&D, effectively.

I believe that is what they are doing, with initial projects being related to gas exploration, and using that to refine the technology.
Perhaps biologists understand everything has implied caveats, but those definitions get propagated to wider society and encoded in law without them, and now you have a problem. A lot of people will earnestly argue that only people with XX chromosomes should be able to use the women's bathroom, unaware of what that actually implies, because they were never taught a definition of sex with nuance in school.
It's been studied quite a few times and links have been identified. Here is one from 2004.

https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar_url?url=http://web.hks....
Amusingly, I get creative new ideas when I glue things together and ignore what I thought I understood about their relationships.
We lose energy from
gravitational waves being emitted from the earth spinning around the sun. Causing earth to move toward the sun.

The amount lost is sufficient to power a small toaster oven.
Some import tools exist, like this:

https://sr.ht/~emersion/gh2srht/

Unlike SourceHut, much of GitHub and GitLab does not utilize standard, interoperable formats, so import and export can be a headache.

Payment is available only through credit cards currently, but we're working on expanding it to support SEPA transfers, iDEAL, etc, now. No timeline on when it will be available. There's no trial period, but if you are unsatisfied you can request a refund.

Transferring all of your data to/from a second sourcehut instance is very easy.

2FA is optional.

You cannot pay for other projects. We considered it but decided not to add this.
Right? So off the mark, I don't think they were near it to begin with.
Not in that direction though.
I held out for more than a year and then gave in. Having to research, find, and learn a new git GUI was going to cost me more than $70.

So I've punted the problem for another year. But I strongly agree that it's absolutely the wrong fit for this kind of app. They will start adding all kinds of bloat just to justify the monthly fee.
StubHub was just doing the same thing to me: Firefox and only Firefox was blocked entirely.

Figure it was a mistake from some automated security framework type of deal.
Even with all that, the IP address itself still doesn't represent a person in the hands of that dating site.

An ISP can identify which IP address has been assigned to your phone, at what time, on what tower and exactly what points in time that IP addressed changed. It can also associate the device itself with the IP address.

An IP address on a cable modem can be associated with a particular account for a house or a business office, but even it can't positively identify the person in the house or at the business who was using it to connect to a particular website.

And yes, as you said, anybody can create a fake profile. A coworker could create a fake profile on a dating site of you if they wanted to and that IP address still doesn't positively identify you.

The name, address, photo...all of that is absolutely PII and covered by GDPR.

The IP address isn't and is also used for legitimate security purposes. People trying to get them scrubbed under GDPR are overreaching on a piece of data they have no right to have scrubbed.
By the way, for anyone watching, PLEASE do have the "option to pay" and various amounts, too! Many free resources I've found have helped greatly at work, and work is quite willing to pay for them as long as I can generate a reasonable looking receipt for it (e.g., $50-100 for a book is fine, $50-100 for "PATREON - BIG JOE" is a harder sell).
I think you should solve your own problem first
Tyndale got in trouble for false translation, not for translation.
> "If the OP doesn't want to be associated with them then I think it's reasonable to state he isn't one."

Imagine linking a tweet about a software error message and then making a followup comment "that account posts a lot of baking content. I'm not a baker btw.". Who would think you are a baker just because you linked a tweet posted by a baker? And why would you care if anyone accidentally thinks you're a baker? You wouldn't because there's nothing embarassing for you if people think you're a baker.

So the disclaimer "I'm not a furry" implicitly contains the message "being considered a furry would be embarassing because being a furry is bad". You don't need to disclaim things which society widely accepts as bad ("that account posts a lot of murder content, I'm not a murderer btw"). You may disclaim things which feel risky if misunderstood ("they Tweet medical advice, I'm not a doctor") but mostly the disclaimers are for tribal declarations of things you would feel embarassed to be associated with ("I'm not a flat-earther like they are"). People who think those things are fine push back "Why are you using X as something embarassing to distance yourself from? You think X is bad, do you? Maybe you secretly are X and hiding it and that's why it's at the top of your mind".

It's those people using X as an insult, in the sense that the original person's disclaimer made it an insult and they are mirroring it back.

If they didn't go out of their way to disclaim it probably nobody else would have commented on it; "I checked out the rest of the account you linked and you read a furry themed Twitter account?" "no, I saw it on a programming meme Reddit" and it would be a non-issue.
The problem seems to be that inflation is now moving into categories where it tends to stick around - rent and wages. As the recent rally shows, as long as the markets continue to go up, rental rates aren’t going to come down.

Commodity-led inflation might well be on its way down, but unless you do something about rampant rental inflation, it will mean nothing.

A 20% increase in your monthly gas bill hurts. But a 20% increase in your monthly rental can be life destroying.
I agree that more Bayesian thinking is needed. But I suspect that pushing the technicalities of Bayesian analysis (MCMC etc) would perversely lead to even more cargo-culting, as people would struggle with the technicalities and look desperately for quick fixes.

Bayesian methodology benefits from having relatively much more statistically sophisticated practitioners, which leads to an optimism bias when we imagine how it would scale up.
> somehow lure instructors into using

The publishers offer "free grading" of homework from the textbook, but it is one time use. It really is a bribe to the teachers so they no longer have to grade homework in exchange for the student buying a book at full price that they can't resell.

There really should be a class action lawsuit against publishers and schools for this behavior.
I’d like to understand why this post was flagged ? If it’s not appropriate content for Hacker News , I’m happy to remove it.
Pay-once licence, please. Feel free to charge for major upgrades, but subscription is unacceptable.

Still using Tower 2 sometimes :)
Good catch, maybe getting rid of old business model appendices
Proof of work proves not to work
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/proofwork2.pdf
(as an anti-spam tactic)
> So what if Microsoft is such an activist?

Then Microsoft should very clearly state this so that customers who don't like this ideology know that they are not desired, and can get away from Microsoft products as far as possible for them.
If you troll through NEW you find tens, hundreds of Show HN posts that are low-value and boring; they rarely make it to the front page.
At the one hand you have a point. Semiconductor production can be quite specialized, and an accident at a fab can completely halt the production of certain products for years if not permanently. This is what happened to AKM[1] not long ago.

On the other hand it seems unlikely to me that auto manufactures would allow their portfolio to be so exposed. If this accident had been more like the AKM fire, I'm sure Kia would have found a replacement chip.

And as others have pointed out, it's not like modern ICEs can be made for sale without quite a lot of advanced electronics.

[1]: https://www.audioholics.com/news/fire-destroys-akm-audio-chi... (also see comment from "Matthew J Poes").
> People will say that wasn't really UBI

Which makes sense, because it wasn't. A key point of UBI is its consistency: you know you are getting that money every month, indefinitely, and therefore can plan/budget accordingly.

A one-time payment? Okay, sure, I can use that to cover my rent this month, but then it's not doing me any good. So why pay my rent with it when I can go gamble with it and maybe luck out?

> and with "real" UBI people would have been given even more free money.

tldr: the point isn't the amount of money, it's the consistency.
Last week I finally made the leap from Tower 2 (which was the last non-recurring one) to a modern version.

The transition was smooth but also it's very annoying that when you open a project and press the down key, it moves through the lateral menu instead of through the files (until you hit one file).

This breaks ~6 years of muscle memory. Could this please be amended (in an opt-in manner, of course)?

It would re-gain my trust, which is necessary for paying a subscription.
What questions are there to be had? Oil companies need to be taxed into the ground.
We're not saying "force people" but 1.5 million against 7.5 billion is really small. Like, almost every trait that defines "human" has some people who don't fit that but still are human. This is because it's more about matching most not all traits. Like we still have to define human somehow.
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