skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> weak 4-digit PIN

Are you sure that it makes sense to require people to pick something longer and non-numeric for a PIN?

Or is your claim (wrongly) that people don't have longer non-numeric PINs (lots of us do) ?
My friend in San Diego county was looking into getting solar panels and he was telling me it's a long term gamble for possibly saving money. Solar panels forces him onto the local utilities solar plan, which raises the cost of each kwh from the grid by 10%. If he produced surplus energy the credit only offsets 1/15th the cost of each kwh. The result is the upfront cost is quite big, he would need enough solar panels to power everything and batteries to power his house through the night. Now it's a gamble between his system breaking or degrading, local utility rate increases, being required to sell and move, or if he just invested that large chunk into a relatively safe investment like a S&P index over the next 12 years.
More reason to avoid them. I don't fault a company for needing to advertise, that's a given. But incessant constant barrages of your company name in unrelated spaces, certainly aren't the way to do it. Kind of like the same damn ads 3 times in a row on Pluto TV, or Spotify, etc.
Veteran Tickets Foundation
You don't necessarily need to add anything depending on the engine being used. from my limited understanding most small, carbureted engines do perfectly fine on gasoline without an anti-knock additive. more intelligent engines will usually retard timing with low octane fuel so that the engine doesn't knock but you will lose power.
For a moment, I thought NLP is Natural Language Processing (but the channel isn't related to ML)
HN question: at the moment, this post has 31 pts in 1 hour and is on the 2nd page. Why other posts with less points are on the first page? E.g., post with 28 pts 5 hours ago (4-Die Chess). Edit: typo
We couldn't get to any of the companies for a tour but I want to give a shout out to the engineer at Roblox. She was in a hurry and sorry we didn't catch her name. She over heard that my son wanted to take a picture in front of the office as she was leaving, but the security guard won't let us in. She was in a hurry to pick up her kid, yet still ran up to her office and got my son a Roblox mug and some stickers. He was ecstatic! Made his whole trip! Thank you again!
If anyone is interested in this, I'm open too the idea. I tried to have a videographer at the auction where I bought all the property, but they didn't show up.

My biggest fear/hope about that is that my life could suddenly become boring once the cameras started rolling. I'm not sure which one would be worse.
They probably mean the old desktop one that has been re-branded to "Google Earth Pro". The UI looks a decade old but it's still useful for doing more advanced things like taking measurements.
What if the black ball was a red herring all along and the usual suspect tech-CEO's hand(s) rushing to control the said crystal ball are the real hazard?
From Integrity checking

> Deno can store and check subresource integrity for modules using a small JSON file

Isn't this also "a larval form of package.json" as the parent suggested? (I want to learn about Deno)
https://archive.ph/7JgLB
Not sure if this quite counts for what I'm asking, but:

Is there a good list of "fundamentally new" types of computing paradigms over time? I'd love to see what paradigms branched off of others, what reached dead ends and why, etc.
I often type ls after cd and even if I know the folder contents I don't mind seeing it again.
To automatically ls after each cd command add this to ~/bash_profile

[ -z "$PS1" ] && return
function cd {
builtin cd "$@" && ls
}
FTC sets the wheels in motion for a major data privacy ruling
"security" is vast and means different things to different people.

Email can absolutely be used for with e2e encryption keeping the content of exchanges from external eyes.

Email can absolutely not be used for hiding metadata of who talks to who.
> It is just a set of changing goalposts isnt it?

Was just answering your question – it wasn't me who brought up the transport castors. Quite to the contrary, I initially wrote "[...] concerns with this stuff are not necessarily about the short term storage [...]".

> This makes little sense. First, who is taking about "background radiation"?

There's only few locations known where natural reactors formed, they were only a few centimeters in size, and were active a billion years ago. They've long gone through the main part of their decay cycle. The remainder would be considered elevated background radiation. The reason we know they were or are there is because the products of decay are still where they formed, in the rock. Not scattered around the globe. Probably not safe to cuddle with regardless. Mother nature does not give a fuck, which is why it doesn't matter.

Further, these natural reactors are not known to go critical and obliterate a city. And even if they did, that might have been millions to billions of years ago, I'm sure we weren't there to be worried about it.

Chernobyl and Fukushima are good examples not necessarily because of their reactor design, but for the understanding of risks, their mitigation, and ultimately their catastrophic failure. Also because they're the few examples that exist, thankfully we do not have more of them.

The countless hours of safe operation of nuclear power plants also does not magically offset the danger in their failures, which does not have to be – but can be – extremely catastrophic. The fact that there's an award for running a hideously dangerous machine for 3 years without it becoming more dangerous than ideal does not make it sound any better.

And yes, photovoltaic (solar) runs perfectly fine for even a decade nonstop (see almost every house in Europe with solar on their roof) – in the case of the International Space Station – for 23 years, and counting. Bonus: a panel failure does not mean you get to die.

> Wind? Solar? you cant seriously propose these sources can supply enough power can you?

Uhm, yes, believe it or not, that stuff does work. Obviously not at the moment on a country level, because we've been busy burning coal everywhere instead of investing in energy sources that make sense decades ago, but that's where we need to go.
This is an interesting line of thinking!
What would you suggest to make it better?
Just writing their name in reverse would probably work, and be less time consuming.
I really don't understand the obsession with homeowner solar. The financing schemes are crazy (companies owning part of your roof, renting the equipment, etc.). The only way to do it properly is to either pay someone else cash or to do it yourself. But then, even then, when I did my ROI calculation a few months ago (I live in a small house that is very efficient as-is), I was looking at 10-15 years before I'd see any savings. Then, I learned that the lifespan on some of the equipment and panels may only be 20 years. Granted, replacing them beats the cost of the original install and permitting process, but now I have something else in addition to shingles on my roof that needs replaced after a couple of decades.

It just doesn't make sense to me to mess with it now. As others have mentioned, pushing for grid solar/nuclear/other clean energy is really the only way to do this efficiently. Then I won't have a mass of ugly panels stuck on my roof.
As other comments also mentioned, maintaining an Electron app is not much different than any other JavaScript application.

My team used to work on large electron & non-electron apps. We used to have a tech-debt ticket every couple of sprints to review and update various packages in order to take care of any potential vulnerabilities.

Most of time updating packages is as simple as running "npm audit fix" command. But sometime we had to manually update major versions of some of the packages and while doing so, we had to take care of any potential breaking changes.

Having a good set of automated regression tests really helps with the process.
There's no need to make it a requirement for this. Matrix has similar functionality, but doesn't require that you add your phone, just makes it an option.
I have used echo in the past to build control plane services for a famous logging company. Its great to get things up and running closer to production quality. My team was easily able to extend this framework and add auditing and integrations with other internal tools within the company.

The one thing, authors could build as a differentiating factor is to provide openapi spec support out of the box. I have not seen many golang web frameworks provide first class support for building using openapi spec.
This is true.

But in practice they take a long time to warm up, may or may not get faster, and in general don’t attempt total program optimisation. As some parts of the node standard lib is native code and can’t be optimised at runtime.
It seems like this is just a generic interview practice website, not really a resource to "meet a pro."
Of course there is no real reason Signal should be spamming anybody with these crap "notifications" in the first place. Who wants to wake up at 1 AM to know some dude they texted years ago is now on Signal?
I can't even get my Airpods to work consistently with my iPad, or Pixel Buds to work consistently with my Pixel phone. And it gets exponentially worse if you try to connect to more than one device at a time, across vendors or even chipsets. Bluetooth is a hopeless mess.
Without it, you wouldn’t be able to see which of your contacts are on signal.

And then nobody would use Signal.

It’s very unfashionable today, but they decided to not let perfect be the enemy of good.
There have to be places in Utah with similar property costs/opportunities.
In what way? Back when I used it it seemed just as misplaced. Its own mount semantics, its own caches, all that.
The cynic in me says half the country will scoff at using regulations.gov to submit anything. Might as well be communist.gov
If it helps, I've done hardwood floors and tile but have a hard time with drywall and texturing. For the hardwood, I just needed someone who had done it before (my brother) to show me one time.
I built my own battery pack last year for $900 - 32x 55ah Lifepo and BMS, but you get prebuilt w/ warranty for ~$280/kWH (current price). See EG4 or SOK 48v batteries.

When I last looked in 2020, you could buy a pallet of new solar for ~ $0.37/watt.

Looks like prices now are around $0.50-$0.65 /watt
What is Neon? What is Paxos? what is Raft?
Precisely what they’re attempting with us.

But we won’t give into their fear tactics.

They can throw SLAPP suits all they want.

I say bring it on!
Don't forget monad tutorials!
excuse me what
So why does Biden blame fuel prices on Putin's little war? I really want to like and trust the President, but I think he is being disingenuous in his attempts to explain the fuel prices.
Post human conciousness on earth has already been around for what nearly 4 billion years? Life on earth represents a meta organism. It's a human bias to elevate the significance of the human species component above that of the greater meta organism. Ecology can be studied with similar tooling whether the frame of reference is a continent or your gut microbiome. If we wanted to, say, ship earthbound life to another planet, then lets consider the best form of earthbound life to make that journey across a hostile environment for an indefinite period of time. Chances are its not humans adapted to persistent hunting and gathering, but put some microbes or spores into a vial wrapped in gold foil, and you wouldn't even need a complex generational space ship to seed earthbound life across the universe, just a gun capable of firing the vial on a vector.
Thank you for publishing the TLA+ model, that dramatically increases my level of trust in Neon. (I'm on the early adopter list, got my invite a week or two ago but haven't been able to give it a spin yet.)

> Right now, such a change requires humans to be in the loop to ensure that the old safekeeper is actually down. It is on our roadmap to automate this procedure.

If you do implement this (which I don't recommend), be certain to also model it with TLA+. This level of automation, IMO, requires a human in the loop + a ton of visibility tracking on when it is happening.

A good way to roll it out is "semi-automation"—implement the automation but use it to ask a human to approve. The human will then do the normal (manual) verification. After you've run that successfully for a year, and your TLA+ model passes, you can then decide to fully automate without a human in the loop.

Otherwise, you're asking for an outage (caused by bad failover) IMO, and possibly data loss.
Can you explain your interpretation of the rule so that other people who think it means something can compare notes?

For pawns, en-pessant means "a pawn may, during the move immediately following another pawn's move, capture another pawn that has chosen to move two spaces in one move as if it had only moved one space." I think for kings you would like to say "a king may, during the sequence of many consecutive moves by the same player, capture another king that immediately before has made many moves in a row by attacking a space it moved into in one of those moves but no longer occupies."
valid question!
"We conducted an investigation into the incident and determined the following."

Guys how is the punctuation here not a colon?!

This is an extremely serious issue according to my English Major inclination towards pedantry.
I know that BFT doesnt automatically imply the data has redundancies built in, which is why I mentioned it separately.

As for fault tolerance being “solved”, how’s Google Reader treating you? Are you able to control your Facebook or Instagram experience? I hear they know their new changes will irk people but will do them anyway. You think trusting others and giving them all the control to change something under you at any time is good because they trust themselves? That’s cute. Maybe they’ll even call their offering “the cloud” and you’ll believe it is like the Internet. Put all your photos there and don’t make any backups. Heck, put all your legal agreements there too! Who needs multiple distrusting parties to secure a ledger?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/27/instagr...

Don’t worry, though. You’ll own nothing and be happy. Software as a service. DRM books that can be removed. Centralizing all the data in one place can attract all kinds of government agencies and advertisers hungry for cheap data. Heck, if government agents want, they can even impersonate you, and all they have to do is send one letter to people you never met! How nice:

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/australia-surveillance-bill

How can Hackers support these “anti Hacking bills” that let the governments and police hack your accounts and impersonate you… I guess I should come out with several flavors of ice cream for many in the HN crowd — it’s bootlickin good!
Only the big cities (eg Paris or London) preserve a sense of a city both maintaining a connection with their past but also still lived in
A.I. Power Consumption Exploding
As much as I hate the Adam Neumann type of leader (i.e
Nothing but hype), he did make WeWork a household name synonymous with office space and the gig economy.

When I need to rent an office the first time, WeWork was the first to come up mind. Of course after a quick Google, I immediately found other ones which are arguably better value, e.g. Liquid Space.
The Most Bogus Sort
I fully agree with you, and my first question was asked somewhat sarcastically. For the second, my implication is that developers also have a moral responsibility to make their products as private as possible, and SMS verification aint it.
It means how many instructions the CPU can decode at the same time, roughly to "figure out what they mean and dispatch what they actually have to do to the functional units of the CPU which will perform the work of the instruction". It is not directly how much data a superscalar CPU can handle in parallel, but still plays a role, in the sense that there is a number of functional units available in the CPU, and if you cannot keep those busy with decoded instructions, then they lay around unused. So a too narrow decoder can be one of the bottlenecks in optimal CPU usage (but note how as a sibling commenter mentioned, the complexity of the instructions/architecture is also important, e.g. a single CISC instruction may keep things pretty busy by itself).

Whether the instructions come from the kernel or from userspace does not matter at all, they all go through the same decoder and functional units. The kernel/userspace differentiation is a higher level concept.
If we see life as an energetic process (movement of energy across membranes) then it makes sense that it happened here on a planet with an active tectonic situation and plenty of energy differentials -- and yet not so intense that they'd be destructive to emergent life.

I like Nick Lane's description of abiogensis as a process born in the chemical reactions at early alkaline hydrothermal vents. Again, a process that could only happen on a very specific kind of planet with active tectonics combined with a (at the time acidic) liquid water ocean.
A private company (and some public companies) have shareholders/owners that are large enough and active enough to control the company (Ford, famously).

Most just are kind of "managed", especially after a "star CEO" or similar moves on.
It was a non-pro model. From my limited research a while ago, I came to the conclusion that it's common among the non-pro models.
It also depends on your roof material- if it's flat, couple of extrusions to support corners of the panels is less material than full length extrusions.

When I shopped around for components, the prices did range from ~20-30EUR per panel to ~100EUR/panel.
I like this idea in theory but in practice it sounds like too much stuff. Unless it's used as a reference manual I give all my books away, once read, to someone I think will enjoy it. I don't tend to accrue books I don't have the time to read.

Tangentially related; I throw dust jackets away immediately. It's liberating.
The one thing that stands out to me as lacking in the Next+Blitz vs Remix comparison is form handling. It's a real pain in the butt if you want to use Next with progressively-enhanced forms - even with helpers like next-runtime you have to roll a lot of the basics like validation and type coercion from form submits yourself.

It feels like it stands out even more because of mutation handlers, which on the Remix side are generally set up as "just" form posts that update after a success.
this is want Ryan Breslow was complaining about as well. How his posts again Stripe got de-ranked by HN
I think someone might know that certain numbers belong to certain users and that they want to prove it. Happened a lot with Disqus accounts.

You can btw use the password reset function on many sites to correlate it with notifications. Easy at public events.
It means that Signal doesn't need you to create or upload a list of your contacts; it uses the existing contact list from your phone. This also lets you use Signal to replace the default text messaging app on Android, automatically upgrading conversations to be encrypted when possible. This in turn means that just using Signal to communicate with someone becomes a normal, everyday activity, and less of a sign of suspicious activity (from the point of view of law enforcement, etc.).
Daily bowl of grapes could potentially add up to 5 years to one’s lifespan
Tip: You can search the term `site:ext` on DuckDuckGo to see sites using that domain extension (TLD). It's not very helpful for .com for example, but it's useful for queries like `site:aws` to see what sites are using the .aws TLD.
Can you sublet a vendor id, like a taxi medallion?
Is this the same Toptal that

1. advertises the "top 3% of freelance talent" on its home page

2. on an inside page says that what that really means is roughly the top 3% of freelancers who apply to join Toptal

3. on the same inside page states that it rejects nearly 3/4 of those applicants at the first step for unsuitable language/communication/personality before they start testing for technical ability

4. also on the same page advertises that applicants will need to complete a 1-3 week test project before being allowed to join their network in addition to passing various earlier screens?
Linear.app has shown that a web-powered desktop app can be as fast as a native desktop app.

There's still tons of room to make web powered desktop apps better than the current mainstream Electron ones - without abandoning the browser.

There's a commercial project that's trying to make linear's architecture into a framework: https://replicache.dev/

Demo: https://repliear.herokuapp.com/d/lXsPEs2kl6?view=active
I've had such a manager. Her policy was that, during working hours, all staff should reply to managers' emails within an hour, if for no other reason than to acknowledge receipt and promise a lengthier response later. Staff would respond to external emails or colleagues' emails by the close of play; as with managers, it was acceptable to reply briefly to acknowledge receipt and return a real answer the next day. Managers, for their part, responded to the rest of staff within an hour as well. She was firm, but this worked out very well for all of us, and I continue following her policy in my new job elsewhere. My new boss loves me for it, because he knows I've at least read whatever he's requested.
Yeah some devices support PAC use that feature to sign return pointers. But not everyone uses it (even when available), and there exist methods to bypass PAC— from attacking the micro architecture to finding signing oracles.
> Most plants are protected by armed guards. The plant near me has signs on the fence warning that "deadly force is authorized to protect the plant". Is your new issue that the "pools" are dangerous because ...?

The pools aren't dangerous by themselves – I was alluding to some nuclear power plants in Ukraine seeing quite heavy fighting [1]. That's the kind of situation where your armed guards are not present to protect it from nosey civilians.

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/12/europe/ukraine-zaporizhzh...
You can't A/B test a lot of things without a time machine so you need to be good at assessing risks and tradeoffs.
The choice isn't between index/active fund ownership - the question is how to make it so the company is not managed for the benefit of the managers, but actually for the benefit of the owners, however many or few there are.

Some companies in Europe have what might be part of the solution, with the union et al having board representation.
Reposts are very common on Hacker News. I wonder if incorporating the performance of the same links with differing titles might've yielded a better training set.
I believe you are thinking of the Adguard Plus browser extension. We're talking about the Adguard Home DNS blocker which is a totally separate thing.
I used to have a bunch of scripts, but I compulsively "clean" my backups too often to keep old stuff around. Here's my "newterm" script, which I use for launching xterm with tmux:

#!/bin/sh

if [ $(tmux has-session 2>/dev/null; echo $?) -eq 0 ]; then
if [ $(tmux list-windows -f '#{window_active_clients}') ]; then
if [ $(tmux ls | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}') -le 2 ]; then
xterm -e "tmux new-session -f active-pane,ignore-size -t "0" \; new-window"
else
xterm -e "tmux new-session -f active-pane,ignore-size -t "0" \; select-window -t +2"
fi
else
xterm -e "tmux attach -f active-pane,ignore-size -t "0""
fi
else
xterm -e tmux new-session -f active-pane,ignore-size
fi

if [ $(tmux ls | wc -l) -gt 1 ]; then
for i in $(tmux ls -F '#S' -f '#{?session_attached,,#S}' ); do
tmux kill-session -t ${i}
done
fi