skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For some amusing quantitative evidence, check out the Reddit subreddit overlap tool.

It seems that anyone can join the r/Mensa subreddit, so it's not really evidence at all.

You know, I gave this whole article the benefit of the doubt because it got to the front page of HN, but I feel like I've been talking to someone for awhile before realizing that he stinks like piss. How did this happen? Why am I sticking around?
Dicecards – Generate random stuff for games. More than thirty random elements
You can reduce most tech discussion on this forum to a first world problem, so that's not very constructive either.
Sorry I think that joke went over your head.

1990 - A committee formed by Simon Peyton-Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, Ashton Kutcher, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals creates Haskell, a pure, non-strict, functional language. Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
Depends on where you live. Around here (SW Germany) non-induction electric stoves with resistive heating elements under a special glass ("Ceranfeld") are much more common for home-use than gas. So when these fail, swapping to induction is relatively easy; picking gas over electric means a lot of extra effort for many people.

Personally, when buying new pots and pans in the last decade, I picked only those that work with induction (payed something like 20 Euro extra, in total); so when we finally swap the stove, we only have to replace one pan. Several friends make the same complaint, and I never understood why they didn't plan ahead (induction is not that new, especially when some of them only moved out from their parents in the last 5 to 10 years).

The induction kettle of friends definitely is much faster than both their old kettle (1.[2,5] kW) and ours (2.2kW); and I am not sure if they even have a 3.7kW field.

Edit: If course assuming that you eventually get a new stove anyway, at least at some point in the future. If you're settled in your house/flat for live and have a gas stove you're happy with & that will survive you, then the point is of course mood.
a chance to get awareness on the issue Nonetheless
If you're interested in getting "true" results, perhaps you could do something like this:

name1@website.com

name2@website.com

etc.

In a spreadsheet, you have one column with the number, and another with the company name. You might want to change this up, putting the identifier in different parts of the email address, to avoid similar "canary" signals.

Personally, I use BitWarden to generate usernames for each website, to help keep my fingerprint (somewhat) scrambled. LastPass also has a good username generator. [1] I would just avoid using complete non-sense words, since there might be some amount of human review.

[1] https://www.lastpass.com/features/username-generator
https://stability.ai/research-access-form

So far, I haven't got a response but it's a Monday

Here's the license

https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/main/LICENS...
like Excel is more stable than Windows itself, you can open a spreadsheet from the win16 days and it'll just work....
This happens time and time again, enumeration, outright breaches etc - I've used aliases for as long as I can remember (2 decades maybe) and it's always the people you least expect - probably the most annoying one is where an azure specific alias was somehow enumerated and gets nonsense daily, mailgun also had an unacknowledged problem where you could enumerate domains during verification.

These days I'm moving to a completely randomized not human memorable model, because often the obvious aliases are also tried.

Incidentally I don't think I've ever had aliases shared they're typically just harvested as part of breaches or incompetence.
They mention it, use registration lock: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...

Basically if someone tries to register to Signal with your phone number they'll need to enter that PIN Signal consistently reminds you of.
Thank you for the warning. As a member of the community for 10 years it saddens me to see sock puppets profilerate and derail the conversation here.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect us to respond seriously to every throwaway account's "benign questions." It puts too much burden on the rest of us. On the other hand, leaving them as-is inevitably means conversations get derailed. This is their goal, after all.

I'll opt for option B in the future and cross my fingers that I'm still able to enjoy the community in 10 more years.

PS Thanks for your hard work.
Assuming we're thinking of the same person, I believe it went:

"There are three types of consistent distributed systems: paxos, broken protocols, and single points of failures."
Yes! This is needed since I was always worrying about “what if my account get banned”. It doesn’t mean I’ll violate some rules on purpose, just an worry of the ownership of data nowadays.

This tool looks helpful. Will give it a try.
After countless discussions of Signal on HN, I have yet to see an explanation for why Signal can use phone numbers from a client-side contact list, but not email addresses from a client-side contact list. Surely, in either case the identifier can be treated as an opaque string, right?

Or in other words: suppose the definition of "phone number" was expanded to include alphanumeric characters and @. What aspect of Signal's current design would break? By saying "without phone numbers, they can't use clientside contact lists", you seem to be suggesting that something would break, but I can't imagine how, unless it's as trivial as a database constraint that says "this field must contain only digits".
The notion of a battery tied to a GPIO pin in an HVAC thermostat amounts to an extraordinary claim. Unless we're talking about a smoke detector or other safety-critical item that actually has an expiration date (in which case I'd think they would use a real chemical timer), there are no obvious explanations for the battery other than planned obsolescence.

So, yeah, I'd like to see a model number as well.
What type of software do you write? I cant imagine writing a db implementation without unit tests for example.
I mean, we are talking about videogames here.
Yes, we switched to triaging after a while. Still, there are times when we're forced to update, such as when Electron stopped accepting Let's Encrypt SSL certs, breaking a key feature.

I do think I'm going to move on to another technology with lower maintenance costs.
It's not 1:1 pairing between men and women. It's more like 1:0 for the undesired and 1:10 for the highly desired. Those 10 do it for a chance of a 1:1 relationship.
Sure.

Mine are here:

- https://github.com/vermaden/scripts
124 is perfectly pleasant, right?
> I get like two spam SMS a year.

Consider yourself lucky. I get hundreds.
The Punkt also has Signal: https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/

I think these are neat, but have an iPhone 13 Mini because it’s hard to beat Apple’s quality and privacy work.
"industry" wasn't the right word, as VCs don't produce anything. As investment philosophies go, it's very cynical.
Has anyone made a pixel art generator, that can create the animation sprites ?
Area 5150: demo for the original IBM PC (4.77MHz 8088), CGA video 570K+ free RAM
> approvals

Pharma can afford the trials. The molecules are developed by research funding. There isn't anything _special_ about pharma vs public research. They all employ the same folks.
There is also Netbird.io
A fully open source Tailscale alternative.

But honestly, headacale is better and more advanced than it.
Did Proust write the greatest novel of the 20th Century?
Brilliant people are expensive. Bleeding companies need to cut costs. Layoffs are usually a mix of poor performers, high cost talent, and tenure ordering. Sometimes entire departments full of brilliant people go because the department isn't profitable.

Again, you have in your mind a spherical cow of a layoff.
I don't see the difference between some Isabelle showing up as someone to accept or deny, or some Isabelle with a "I'm a hot single in your area, click this link" message so I'm sure it's spam.

On Telegram this is rampant, on average probably one person per day. It shifted from e-gold scams to sex since a few months, but both are still present. People that aren't in big groups (where the spammers scrape user IDs) have zero problems, so the trick is revealing your random identifier only to those you want to contact you. Phone number identifiers are the antithesis to spam protection: we keep our ranges just full enough that we can't shorten it by a digit, but empty enough that we have small growth possibilities. You're very likely to hit a subscriber, by design, by trying random numbers.
this is a type of article and thinking that is appealing to people because its very easy to understand, and appears useful. theres no barrier to entry here because theres no corpus of knowledge required or demonstration of skill. just say something that sounds kind of coherent and simple, that probably reinforces what people already believe.

it might seem overly negative to care about this. maybe it is. but this website describes itself as "Brain Food. A weekly newsletter packed with timeless insights and actionable ideas from a wide range of disciplines." its selling the idea that you can gain something from reading 45 second articles that say hardly anything. this kind of stuff is for people who are too lazy or dont have enough time to learn something for real, and i think its worse than useless
It took Linux desktop some 20 years to reach the point where you could just use it i.e., no tinkering needed, everything works by default, you install the software you need and that's it. It's not perfect even now but it's much better. I rarely have to pop into the terminal to tinker with a system config file now.

We don't have 20 years to wait when it comes to free software phones. The problem is that phones are not meant to be hacked upon. They are meant to be used. Sure, it may feel nice to tinker and stuff but everything should just work before you can even consider it a daily driver.

I haven't personally used Librem or Pinephone so I don't know how far along they are in terms of user experience (not developer experience).
Well written by what metric? How are you evaluating that? And how do those software systems compare in complexity to what is being developed today?
Code Typer
Somewhat surprisingly, McDonough and Schuyler counties in northwestern Illinois, as well as a few others near Burlington, IA, are listed as already experiencing 125 F (52 C) heat-index days. I would not have guessed that a city in Iowa has more oppressive heat waves than nearly all of the South.

I'm still not sure why the (unmeasurable) heat index is preferred over the (measurable) wet-bulb temperature, aside from using bigger numbers that sound more intimidating.
How much subjective time would it take to visit say, 1/10th of those galaxies, if you were traveling at say, 99% of the speed of light?

It seems to me that the odds of encountering other life forms are vanishingly small, simply because of the scale of the universe, combined with the low odds of finding other life forms. Sure, it might happen, but we're alone until we're not. And we're incredibly likely to remain alone for a very long time.
Signal still assumes you manage your contacts no? It happens via iCloud or a google account today.
Correct me if I'm not wrong, but in many countries even simulated child porn is illegal. A model spitting that out could be legally problematic.
I’ve been doing the same thing for 5 years and the only problem I’ve had is people scraping my email from LinkedIn.
Moderna throwing away 30M Covid shots because no one will take them
Android 13 changelog: A deep dive
Hi HN,

Google just announced that they're releasing Android 13's source code to AOSP and they're rolling out the stable update to supported Pixel devices.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/08/android-13...

If you're wondering what's new in Android 13, I've put together an exhaustive changelog of everything I could find, many of which are undocumented changes. These include user-facing features and UI changes, app-facing behavioral changes, new APIs, and lots of platform changes.

This article is going to see a LOT of updates in the coming days and weeks as Google has just dropped a bunch of new documentation on us, so keep an eye out for more updates!
I've been learning Japanese for ~3 years and tried a variety of methods. Of course there are better and worse ways to learn, but to me the most important factor is keeping my motivation up.

Without having read this book, congratulations on putting it out. Making anything is hard. It's nice that you're trying something new (at least to me) with the embedded kanji in English.

As part of my learning process, I decided to make a mobile app for learning kanji. It was quite a technical challenge for me to figure out how to let users draw kanji based on SVG in Unity -- I had to write my own SVG parser + renderer. Sourcing quality data for ~2000 kanji was also tough. If you want to check it out, it's free on both iOS [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kanji-book/id1532844605] and Android [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bmalicoat....]
Once you’re out of the mid-1970s, the accuracy has been good - especially for the serious IPCC reports which were based on many studies in different fields, all pointing in the same direction. Unfortunately, the late 70s is when the fossil fuel companies started funding a lot of fake science skepticism and, ultimately, capture of the Republican Party to delay or prevent regulation. For example, many people have heard that “scientists” predicted a global ice age — that narrative has been expensively circulated by the fossil fuel industry and their political allies but they’ll never mention that it was a) never anywhere near a mainstream consensus or even a majority position and b) was rejected by follow up research by the end of the decade. What you especially will not hear is that the predictions made by the papers which rejected that theory have in fact held up well despite the science being far less precise in the 1970s:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/that-70s-myth-did-cl...

By the 1990 and 1992 IPCC reports, predictions were quite well supported and the trajectory was unambiguous:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/how-well-have-climat...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/12/ipccs-climate-projec...
> Proving that person is actually who they say they are can be dealt with in other means.

I can't imagine a situation where you have a means of doing that and you can trust the official agent to perform it, but you can't trust the official agent to sign the image so you need the camera to do it.
Do any password managers support you having your own email domain and automatically creating an email address when you create a new account (ideally not just using the company’s name but something random perhaps to not give this away)? Like in a sign up form it could generate “helloworld99@domain.com” as well as a password.
The War Between Trump and His Generals
You aren't taking the issue seriously. Trash cans getting trashed is a big problem for the city. Ideally they should last decades, but cheap ones end up failing in only a few years. Most other cities also do not have the problem of homeless digging everything out of the bins all the time so building them to discourage that doesn't come up a priority.

Sanitation is a basic government service that is currently under strain in San Francisco so the primary task is to reach a basically acceptable level of service which currently is not the case. In general San Francisco aims for a higher level of service which costs more and that is something citizen voters can decide if they want to. Your idea that productivity is strongly linked to minimization of investment is not broadly held or proven.
The chance of a habitable planet happening could just as easily be 1 in 10^10000000000000000000000000, and it was just a freak occurrence it happened at all. Just because something happened once doesn't tell you much about the odds of it occurring.
I belive that emails can be used in court without any specific setup within most EU jurisdictions or EU overall.
Get on a plane and just go to a real Apple store. Or mail it to me. The scratch sucks but that experience will be what you choose to make of it. I think you will stress and waste money and also lose your lawsuit. But it’s the time you’ll lose that will be the worst of it.
> "I wonder what it is about the folks who are able to "get into" eBooks."

I primarily use e-readers for reading pop fiction. I'm not bothered by their lack of physicality or impermanence for the same reason I don't have a problem with the impermanence of broadcast television; it's mass-market content meant to be enjoyed and forgotten.
Where does static linking come into play? Why can't you ship a zip with binaries and libraries?

It's plenty common for binary distributions of software to come as tgz files. That's usually including a bunch of .so files.
I highly doubt 31 years is enough time to convert the entire United States, let alone the entire world, to nuclear power.
Orthogonal and bickering, but I find it interesting. I can keep two thoughts going at once. Sort of.
Dewalt and Milwaukee both make great tools. You won't go wrong choosing either, so long as they make the tool you need at all. I don't think you will regret Makita either, but their catalog doesn't seem as deep.

Go to one of the cheaper bands (which they probably own) and you may regret it.
I’ve noticed the same, I wonder if they filter out emails that contain the company name when selling lists?

I do often get asked if I work for said company when giving it in person or over the phone, and I just say it’s so I know if it gets sold or leaked I know where it came from.

I seem to remember a few years ago I couldn’t sign up to a service with the company name in the email, but that’s the only time I came across that.
Right. Our design guideline is to get as much serverless behavior as possible while keeping full Postgres compatibility (in terms of features and expected performance). Single node Postgres can give you hundreds of thousands of small RW queries per second, so competing connections should be a few compare-and-swap instructions away from the shared state to provide this performance. So for the primary, it means it should be just a Postgres in the container or VM, and we have to deal with consequences (cache pre-warm, handle cross-node migrations, etc).

However, read-only nodes require less coordination, and we have way more freedom there, so read-only Postgres as a function seems to be a more feasible concept.
"When Hausfather's team set pollution inputs in Hansen's model to correspond to actual historical levels, its projected temperature increases lined up with observed temperatures."
Should we be concerned that the author is "Data Scientist at BuzzFeed"?
It's what the kernel strives for. They're remarkably consistent in their refrain of "we never break userspace."

I think it would be reasonable for glibc and similar to have similar goals, but I also don't run those projects and don't know what the competing interests are.
Ambient Music for Work and Reflection
What is the business model behind Anysphere?
Greece’s Islands Are Zero-Waste Laboratories
Sure; but it's a sliding scale, right? Zero-click network exploits are more severe than interactive exploits are more severe than those which require physical access etc.
MISC is a really good name for these ---- I've been putting them in ~/src/vendor but I might just move em to ~/misc :D
Node ESM support REALLY sucks. Node import maps suck (and are poorly documented). Node doesn't support TypeScript out of the box. Node dependency management has always sucked. I've used three different package managers, and I'm sure more will pop up in the future.

I've always loved Node.js. But the unfortunate reality is it sucks to build new projects in it in 2022.
This pricing is outrageous!
what are you talking about? the waterfall method is the only way to go
I'm not a climatologist or meteorologist or anything of the sort, but how does this metric of 125° for >= 0.5 days reach as far north as Minnesota and central Wisconsin, yet southern counties bordering Mexico escape it? I assume it has something to do with spikes - the average summer temp of those AZ/NM/TX counties is almost certainly dozens of degrees higher than Minnesota and Wisconsin, where perhaps MN/WI have isolated days that are somehow hotter? Something to the effect of an AZ county averaging 120 but staying pretty consistent while a WI county averages 100 but could spike to 130? What causes that type of discrepancy over such a large geographic area, and is it coinciding with the Mississippi River just a coincidence?

Edit: This article - https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/ - posted by a sibling comment makes me think exactly that. The southwest gets very hot and generally just stays that way. That midwest region has very large temperature swings which can surpass the hottest in the southwest. It also tracks with my experience since moving to southern Wisconsin a few years ago. Bitterly cold winters but also surprisingly hot summers with several 100+ days being pretty common.
I think it's, quite literally, a question of the point of view. I know about installations that were (during planning) allowed to be 4m tall. If that happens right next to your home or any other place you visit frequently, I, and many others, find it extremely ugly. If there's a distance, say 100m, it's not half as bad. If the installation doesn't even block the view (e.g., because of elevation), I don't care at all. But given the plans I have seen, I prefer a couple of wind energy plants about 1000m away.
>The truth is women don't need men anymore. Men can be dead tomorrow collectively and women will not even notice

This is an absolutely insane statement. No, most women have men they love such as fathers, sons, brothers, and even husbands. Not to mention many important jobs are still dominated by men as women aren't interested. For example dangerous and disgusting professions like plumbing, underwater welding, physical laborers, loggers, firefighters, soldiers.
Even statically linked, the problems you just described are valid. The issue is x11 isn’t holding up and no one wants to change. Wayland was that promise of change but has taken 15+ years to develop (and still developing).

Linux desktop is a distro concern now. Not an ecosystem concern. It’s long left the realm of an linux concern when MacOS went free (with paid hardware of course) and Windows was giving away free windows 10 licenses to anyone who asked for it.

Deepin desktop and elementary are on the top of my list for elegance and ease of use. Apps and games need a solid ABI and this back and forth between gnome and kde doesn’t help.

With so many different wm’s and desktop environments, x11 is still the only method of getting a window with an opengl context in any kind of standard way. Wayland, X12, whatever it is, we need a universal ABI for window dressing for Linux to be taken seriously on the desktop.
I can’t believe it works at all. Have you seen the spec? It’s thousands of pages. We can barely get small RFC implementations cross compatible on the web, how any of this stuff is actually interoperable is totally amazing to me.
I wrote a blog post[1] about my experiences with custom usernames and how I regret it. It was previously covered on HN here[2].

I came to the same conclusion as you, but additionally decided it has been a major waste of time and I'm slowly trying to undo it

[1] https://www.notcheckmark.com/2022/06/catch-all-domain/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31585463