skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sparse block storage is achievable with s3backer and similar tools which treat bucket/object storage as arbitrarily large volumes.

Practically, sizing thin-provisioned filesystems too large wastes a lot of space on filesystem metadata.

All operating systems and clouds that I've worked with support online volume and filesystem resizing which is as close to the semantics of thin-provisioning as I've ever needed. I wasn't actually aware that StatefulSets don't resize volumes as smoothly as desired but I haven't had a problem manually deleting pods to get the filesystem on a PVC to grow (the way it works for Deployments).
Flouride is good for teeth, but bad for the rest of the body.

The problem is: While brushing, you absorb it through the thin "skin" inside the mouth.
Living in a Building Site: The Over-Development of London's Housing Estates
Plants are down for maintenance (this is the 'corrosion' bit in the NYT articles).

They were already announcing planned reductions (for maintenance) back in winter 2022 (https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/power-group-edf-cuts...)

I believe additional issues have popped up since then causing EDF to plan additional maintenance shutdowns.
Yeah, I’ve been surprised to see so many people prosecuted after using Bitcoin for serious things long after the privacy concerns were well-publicized. I guess it shows how many people fall for marketing.
Ask HN: How about a modern phone that actually lasts?
You probably remember there was a time when we weren't buying new phones every two years. And when we did, the improvements weren't as trivial as a fourth camera or falsely promised extended battery life, partially because we could actually replace the battery.

It would be so nice if there was an old school Nokia approach, something that lasts a long time and is actually durable because it's not a glass child's flip flop that needs to be covered in after market rubber at all costs.

A modern phone REALLY doesn't need that much, Android seems to be a lot more lenient than iOS with requirements. All these curved, bendable screens do nothing but adorn our 2007 darling rectangle.

Business is business, but I think there's a market for people concerned with all the waste these things produce and a well made one could tap into that, even if it was 30% more.
> Using data from government censors primarily used for national security as part of our missile defense system

If it got past the government censors it has to be super pure and clean. So not an alloy; it must be previously unimagined material!
The free to read version here: https://archive.ph/LLPEF
I've heard this as well, but it seems unnecessary with a fluoridated water supply.
> I don't see anything in the original research that suggests it is "tech". I think the article completely made this up.

It's because it's coming from Avi Loeb, the guy who suggested Oumuamua might be a Rama-style spacecraft. I don't think he's dead set on alien hypotheses, but he wants them to at least be taken seriously as possibilities.
Thanks for the reminder on the Hunt brothers. Remember watching a documentary on that crash.
fuck a promotion. your money goes up by switching jobs. the employer doesn't owe you shit, n that goes the other way too.

fuck the office, well besides showing your face for office socials - once in a bluemoon is sufficient.
Full Unicode Input Utility
This is completely unfair comparison. Deriving is not comparable to reciting/applying something... Dijkstra's is pretty intuitive once you know it and about 10 or 12 line of python code? Quantum mechanics took years and multiple geniuses to figure out yet somehow undergrads and graduate students are able to learn it in one or two semesters.
My most horrible abuse of make was a distributed CI where I put a wrapper in the MAKE env var so that recursive make executions would invoke my wrapper which would enqueue jobs for remote workers to pick up
Representative "democracy" with so much hierarchy that you don't have any say over anything after the vote has been cast.
> I did eventually get one of their PMs on LinkedIn to apparently take it seriously, but I note it's still very broken on their site putting in a Vancouver to Bangkok flight (10hr in J YVR-NRT, 7hr in Y NRT-BKK)

How long did his LinkedIn say he was still at Google afterwards? I have to imagine that sometimes being reasonable in the face of infallible bureaucracy would either drive you crazy enough to leave or drive your coworkers crazy enough to get someone to make you leave.
Events such as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising showed some Jews really were willing to defend themselves with arms. The Jews were not cowards and the characterization as people who won't "mount resistance" is woefully wrong. It may be true they may have not been able to successfully overthrow the Nazis, but it is possible some of the oppressed may have survived another 10 or 15 minutes (in the Warsaw Ghetto, days) after initiating self defense and even if them being armed would have made things worse for them, that should have been their choice to make and not yours.

There is some sort of fundamental honor as well to allow to allow someone the tools to at least maybe shoot a Nazi on their way out, as one last act of resistance before certain death. Arms are a right even when desperate circumstance make it almost only symbolic.

Edit: also some may enjoy this amusing bumper sticker, created by a Jewish organization in America who themselves criticize Nazi gun control (https://store.jpfo.org/40-large_default/-all-in-favor-of-gun...).
A long-running Wikipedia hoax and the problem of circular reporting
It is per target, that's how it works when I've used it. For example:

# Makefile
SHELL := bash
.ONESHELL:
.RECIPEPREFIX = >

thing1:
> FOO=bar
> echo "$${FOO:?}"
.PHONY: thing1

thing2:
> echo "$${FOO:?}"
.PHONY: thing2

Results in:

$ make thing1 thing2
FOO=bar
echo "${FOO:?}"
bar
echo "${FOO:?}"
bash: line 1: FOO: parameter null or not set

Note how the bash error for unset FOO is line 1 for the second target.

Edit: Maybe I misinterpreted, do you mean you'd want to choose whether a given target is ONESHELL or not?
Which “UTF” Do I use?
You can trivially jump the fare gates. BART fares are enforced by inspectors checking proof-of-payment; if your group was stopped they’d be caught out by only having one card with an active trip.
"I am CLEARLY being CENSORED because my ideas are SO RADICAL!"

Here we see the signaling call of the Physics Crank, which has been passed down from crank to crank over the centuries.
Just a friendly tip that it’s _piqued_ :)
This is the only right answer
Many countries have strong privacy protections. Why should the same not apply to transactions?
Can You Pass the 10-Second Balance Test?
A technological countermeasure would be to make it like an airlock - you have to get through the first set of gates (which won't let you return), and then have to tap your card to pass the second gate to finally exit.

Obviously, this is not a realistic solution - building new exit gates is simply not worth it.

Practically, such behavior if done repeatedly can be detected as an anomaly in card usage patterns, and a human reviewer can surely figure out what you're doing.
https://archive.ph/Wd0LO
There ain't no such thing as 'Standard English.'
Writing is used by criminals. Should writing be made illegal?
NSA: "it doesn't count as a 4th Amendment search if we don't find anything!"

It's dumb, it's gross, but sadly it has been normalized -- if the Snowden leaks couldn't get the ball moving to rein them in, what can?
I'm still using a Pixel 3 with LineageOS on it. I just wish that I never upgraded to Android 12... Android 11 was a bit better. The main thing is the drop down icons were not so huge (Wi-Fi, Location, etc).
I saw similar lights in the sky off the eastern coast of Sri Lanka back in 2017. I assumed it was military aircraft since that area is a hotbed of military activity.

But then it abruptly turned almost 60 degrees at a sharp angle - like a cue ball bouncing off the walls of a billiards table.

I don’t know of anything that can move like that.
If I was a father of an infant I would just buy corn starch and cut out the middle man
Not rooting your phone, but hacking the baseband. And since we're talking about disassembling devices and performing low voltage attacks to reveal secrets, I would draw the analog to baseband hacking.

https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/topic/how-to-hack-mob...

...found a vulnerability (CVE-2022-20210) that can be abused to disrupt the device’s radio communication via a malformed packet causing a DoS condition. This vulnerability allows attackers can neutralize communications in a specific location.
Lede, not lead.
Holographic dynamics simulations with a trapped-ion quantum computer
filtering drop-down 10k list limit is the most obvious one. There is also the hard traditional 1,048,576 limit which many hobbyist Covid tracking folks ran into.
Ask HN: How long did your startup's first engineers stay?
As a founding engineer, I'm curious to get a sense of how long other founding engineers (there from nearly day one) stay at startups.

I've often heard they stay at least four years (bc equity vesting) but Im curious to hear from others about this.
> To be fair, the regex crate can’t match canonically equivalent Unicode strings, which I also think is pretty meh

Yeah not "meh" at all. :-) I don't think any regex engine can do it? Does icu's regex engine even do it? Certainly no fsm regex engine does.

UTS#18 doesn't even ask regex engines to do it. If you need it, it just suggests canonicalizing both the regex and the haystack first.

And yes, derivatives build full DFAs. Those are a no-go in a general purpose regex engine.

There's also the issue of complement and intersection being somewhat difficult to reason about.

I'll also note that I have never given any serious effort to actually trying to implement complement or intersection. I just don't see any viable implememtation path to it in the first place. I don't know where I would start. Everything I cam think of involves extreme compile-time costs that would just be totally unacceptable in a general purpose regex engine.

But, I am not really an "ideas" person. I see myself more as an engineer. So my inability should not really be taken for gospel. Be skeptical of expertise. That's the foundation of science. :)
....Someone wrote that software/firmware. I hope there is a special place in hell for them. That is just not cool.
yep: https://www.passwordstore.org
Assuming anyone is there, sure. I've changed my mind about BART late at night (next train was delay 30m, going to take an Uber instead) and had no one there to talk to.
I actually wonder if the charred food contains just as toxic of chemicals? Heating edible oils above 200C and/or for prolonged periods produces transfats, for instance, and there is extremely complex chemistry going on in the burnt portion of foods (or really any substance containing a kind of organic molecule).
Err, there is still copyright. Google only posts snippets as fair use.
I repeat:

> faith is orthogonal to the mind

Conflating the two is intellectually dishonest, in addition to commonplace.
If that's the case, why is the electricity company (per the article) saying they'll have the shortfalls down to a quarter (I take that to mean 75% of normal generation capacity, not 25%) by December? And why is the market not even buying that, what is the logic there (be it correct or not)?

---

Edit: a sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32443994 has answered the below question. It's not the water input that is the problem, but the water output temperature for ecological reasons. Original text:

As a less-important aside, I'm also surprised a change in water temperature of like 20°K/C/F makes a noticeable difference on a reactor running afaik at some thousands of degrees. If anyone has a pointer or tldr for that, I'd be curious to learn why.
Short: Using an undocumented API on OSX >10.14 resulted in higher performance and lower battery usage.

Maybe Apple should consider making that API official?
I don't think there are many launch options at all.

Even Elon competitors had to book SpaceX launches.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-europe-eyes-s...
What toxic chemicals are produced by heating oils at high heat for seasoning?
Diamond is pretty well regarded even in among academic historians. I strongly suspect believe that /r/anthropology is responsible for this perspective that Diamond is poorly regarded among historians. Almost any serious historian agrees with his thesis: larger arable land coupled with crops and animals more suitable for domestication led to greater population levels and social development in Eurasia than in the Americas, which is the main reason why the Columbian exchange was so one-sided. Diamonds ideas laid the foundations of many serious and well regarded historians, like Ian Morris.

I'm also seriously baffled by people who try to portray his views as racist of eurocentric. His preface explicitly spells out that Europe was a backwater until the early modern period. In fact, a large part of the motivation behind Guns, Germs, and steel was to debunk the idea of wester cultural or racial superiority, and provide a compelling counter narrative to those explanations of Eurasian-American divergence.
>If the state can arrest people and cause activity to stop

We shall see if that's the case here. My guess is the state can't stop it
Alan Kay has often lamented that Smalltalk was effectively frozen after it was released to world, effectively freezing some of the implementation choices due to the tiny (in current day terms) hardware that was available to them. My question is what are the next great ideas now that hardware is so cheap it's almost disposable (and I'm not talking about the mechanistic progression of today's languages, where no language/system is written in itself and has a model of itself and any substantial program needs an army of people to implement it). Where is the Sagrada Familia or Empire State Building version of programming of today? I feel DynamicLand is a hint of this kind of ubiquitous idiosyncratic computing, similar to the democratization of literacy. Are there any other hints out there?
poor professor
I don't think there was a lot of immediate action because GIF was already entrenched but I'm guessing a lot of people learned from the situation. It sure made an impression on me.
"Aren't you finished, yet?"

"Yes."

"Is that yes, you aren't finished, or yes, you are finished?"

"No."

"Is that no, you aren't finished, or no, you are finished?"

"Why did you ask me a yes or no question if neither yes nor no answers your question?"
Heating edible oils to very high heats does tend to produce harmful chemicals as well.

EDIT: For example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4029104/
The thing you should appreciate is how wildly diverse "general business" is.

Will you seriously tell me that office workers can be as productive and happy using a Linux desktop as with MacOs (to not get into unix vs windows bs)?

Just the UI consistency alone is a killer on mac.

You mentioned puppet and all that but that requires being able to hire people to manage that. Objectively speaking the personell cost alone is significant. 4-5 years ago Linux server admins cost 20% or more more. With desktop I would imagine a lot higher? Not to mention you would need to reimplement ad dependent stuff like dns, and pki in most orgs. And any new IT vendor/product you try to evaluate to help with some business need will also need to be compatible with a Linux enviroment which is pretty specific to you (unlike AD/Windows or Jamf/Mac).
Microsoft was never “punished” in the US for bundling IE. They were given a slap on the wrist for forcing OEMs to pay for Windows licenses even when they shipped PCs without Windows.

Do you notice that at no time before or after the DOJ case there was never a time that MS stopped bundling IE with Windows?
You can't ctrl+f on images because they're images. https://archive.ph/LoiNQ/902d6a73d02ba7a74370c060fb24e99c7f0...
Would it not be better to switch to glass? Isn't tetrapak lined with plastic too?
I'd rather send the bone headed executive that decided that drm should be a thing on a movie I bought a copy of.
That's always something I found unsatisfying about factorio, actually. I always use mods like construction nanobots so that I can start copy pasting from the start. The manual precise placement of early buildings is so tedious otherwise.

I also thought that the belt laying automation added in factorio 1.0 (that made it stay in a straight line as you dragged and added undergrounds as needed) was a massive improvement to the game feel.
I also saw what you described once in southern Oregon right along the California border, but it was in 1996 and I was a kid. None of the adults around believed I saw an object moving like that and were convinced I had noticed a satellite.

Satellites don’t turn at acute angles without losing momentum. They didn’t believe me.
with the advent of a stable thorium breeder reactor, a less problematic method of utilizing the nuclear reaction to not produce weaponizable elements, india is managing to kick everyones butts.

now ask yourself why nowhere else seems to be bothering with this cleaner, cheaper, faster to implement solution that takes up less space to produce the power, and has a significantly shorter half-life for waste (sub 50y).

it's win-win, and yet it's essentially persona non-grata in the energy world.
Maybe because nothing ever happened with the “MS Stuff”.
Why are you staying there? If you are capable of being a high performer, go somewhere and do that. It's much more rewarding personally and professionally, even if the money is less.
Seems like it's too out of date to build as-is. Would need to be updated by someone who knows go.
Finalized No. 36
You wind up with the same satellite average satellite density across the middle latitudes anyways because the orbits are very low for satellites. Any particular satellite will eventually service every cell (except for those above the inclination of the main constellation iirc those will eventually (tm) be covered by separate satellites in more polar orbits) between 53N and 53S, which is the orbital inclination of the majority of the constellation. Because of this you don't really have any distinction in function between land and sea servicing satellites because any given satellite will be both.
Fairphone's repairability is the current lead: https://www.fairphone.com/fr/2021/02/04/french-repairability...

That said, my main phone is a Nokia 105 that I haven't had to replace yet. For 'smart' capability, I own an iPhone 8 that I don't bring out in public. I use it as a mini-tablet and do online banking etc. This is the trade-off I make. It sucks not being able to take a good photo when I'm out and about. As for online banking, I do that at home and always make sure I know my balance prior to going out so I don't need to check it when I'm out.
> rather water that is too warm to cool the reactor.

No, it is still cold enough to cool the reactor. They can't use it because the warm water that the plant would release would be too warm w.r.t. ecological regulations.

If for some reason the plant had to work right now, it could still do it, but would damage the downstream ecosystem.
The article is slightly wrong: I can legally play Blu-rays without SGX, and none of the PCs I have have SGX.

If your Blu-ray player requires SGX, it sounds defective.
I will just say that in the astronomy faculty community, although Avi Loeb is the head of the Harvard astro department, his "research" has garnered him questionable and often head-shaking disapproval and a decrease in respect from colleagues. Some, bordering on many, think that he's just out to grab headlines and has become a bad joke at this point (past examples: solar system interlopers as "UFOs", etc).

Maybe Avi says that he worked his way to this position to be able to tackle interesting and off-the-path subjects, but somehow his work doesn't feel like it has the same integrity as expected from the chair of a leading institution. Or maybe that he goes to tv news channels preferentially over arxiv publishing. And maybe it's just something that happens to professors with age (like one's parents) -- they start going down the weird ideas rabbit hole.
Why should you as a web developer be able to bypass settings that keep the client’s phone from running out of battery life?
Aww, noone mentioned that `debian/rules` files are almost always makefiles? (To the point of starting with `#!/usr/bin/make -f` ...)
> Escaping government encroachment is literally the purpose of the technology.

You are assuming that the government is tech-illiterate/tech avoidant. As it stands, several US government agencies are way ahead of civilians on tech, and not for the purposes of escaping the government. Technology is just a tool, it can be used to further any end the wielder chooses
Given how arbitrary the Tornado enforcement seems, fully private ledger cryptocurrencies will probably be declared criminal too. While this won't deter criminals from using them, it will deter normal people, as publicly offering goods or services in that currency would be illegal.

It's not hard to imagine that the end goal is CBDCs having a monopoly on legal privacy. (Privacy from your neighbor, not your government.)
Now count the combined energy of the global wind or total solar irradiation.

Further adding cost to the already most expensive energy source to extract trace amounts of fuel is nonsensical.
I am an Iranian Christian (Catholic) so for me it’s very distressing personally when these things happen as the majority of my family are Muslims. I also get upset when my fellow Christians exhibit similar behaviours in the name of Christ and Lord knows we have seen too many examples of these recently.

I love our Abrahamic brothers despite our differences. I will be praying for Mr Salmon Rushdie as well.
> For those that are weathering the storm in C++, I commend you, but you’re going to need therapy. (joke but the effects of stress are real).

Every new release of C++ tends to reduce, not increase, my stress. Many of these patterns, including this one, just largely stop being things entirely. Rule of zero and all that.
Not -30C, but something similar to this[1] jacket on top of a shirt and warm undershirt have kept me reasonably warm in -20C canadian winters. The best way to stay warm is to have a windproof outer layer, then layer up (light layers!) underneath to trap the warm air close to you.

[1]: https://www.columbia.com/p/mens-centerport-ii-jacket---tall-...
I think electromagnetic radiation is the area where I'm most reckless because of smartphone, laptop, WiFi Router... It's hard to avoid. But on the plus side this is probably one of the most well-researched areas with fewest gaps. The only uncertainty for me concerns what amount of electromagnetic radiation is safe but I guess quite a lot.
"Though I guess people would just tap in, tap out immediately but don't exit the turnstiles, then just get on a train and exit through the emergency exit at whatever station you want for free."

Sure, or just jump the turnstiles and exist through the emergency exit on the other end, which I already see people do frequently.
Yeah to consistently cover land you'll have the same density over the ocean because they're LEO satellites so they're eventually covering the whole surface between the latitudes it flies over due to it's inclination.
100% agreed. Half these comments make no sense and demonstrate a real ignorance of make. Please everyone read the manual and judge make for make, not autotools...
Sure... the thing is by protecting your savings from an imaginary threat you're actually incurring a much higher risk of losing them. I'm just informing you that this is a stupid decision, but whatever do what "feels safer" and see how things turn out.