skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I originally heard about it from this page written by a group who silvered a 28-inch mirror this way: https://sites.google.com/site/spraysilveringtelescopemirrors...

It's still ultimately a silver nitrate reduction reaction, but it's extremely consistent. I tried reproducing the classic silver nitrate/glucose/sodium hydroxide/ammonia silvering baths astronomers used before the modern switch to aluminum vacuum coatings, and my success rate was only about one in five attempts. It's much more difficult to execute than the typical silver nitrate demonstrations where someone silvers the inside of a glass flask because you need the silver to produce a perfectly even layer on the outside surface of the glass for a telescope. The spray reaction has worked for me every time.
Huh - a random post on a different blog seems to have no mention of robots - https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-co... . Maybe it's a per blog setting?
>>To most people the answer can be found by looking at the transaction in a broader context, you don't seem to even care.

Except that the same argument needs to be applied to housing. Look at it in the broader context. Everything will make sense.
I explained why I think it does provide a benefit even in a datacenter:

"Even if you just stick the key in the server's TPM without any sealing, an encrypted disk makes it much easier to deal with e.g. drive returns (for warranty or fault analysis) or disposal."

Would you resell usable drives that you no longer want to use (e.g. because they're too small or your needs changed more towards SSDs) if unencrypted data was written to them at some point?

How much effort would you put into making sure that no broken drive that can't be wiped leaves the datacenter without shredding?

Any process you put in place will have gaps - e.g. through human error or malicious acts - and this provides pretty solid protection against that.
Have you seen the tear down of the AirPod? The batteries make up the bulk of it.
HN is the most 'alive' part of the internet that I'm aware of. I'm grateful for HN.
Southern Europeans who live by the Mediterranean sea. Italians, Spanish, Greeks
If the majority (vast majority) of users of the internet rarely break out of social media and you posit that social media is largely 'dead', then isn't the internet effectively dead for the vast majority of users?
If it’s any consolation, Rebase.co, a service that advises folks on moving to Portugal to take advantage of the NHR program, has been discouraging non-EEU citizens from doing this for a couple of months, citing https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tiago-cassiano-neves_pta-inte...
Tesla, yes. SpaceX, no…Musk founded that one himself.
>You just need to get off social media and google to find it

Isn't that the point? The general populace isn't getting off of social media and Google, thus, dead internet theory continues to compound itself..
ProtonDrive isnt useful outside web.

- protonVPN is great! But its linux app is not.
- Proton Mail contact sync doesn't Integrate with the OS itself.
- Proton Calendar doesn't integrate with the system, and isn't included with bridge.
- Proton is generally very stable and very professional, but their rate of development isn't the fastest.
- the proton bridge is great, no problems so far.
Hard real time GC is hard.

The RTGC applications in military tech that I had heard of were on the soft end of hard real time. It was mission critical, not safety critical. Maybe there’s something newer that I hadn’t heard about though.

Some of the really bad problems are:

- How to make GC operations like allocation have the level of determinism that hard RT programmers want.

- How to prove that your GC can keep up with allocation rate while at the same time also only taking a deterministic amount of your time.

Not saying it can’t be done. It’s just hard.
There is a book called “Finding Out About” that I read a long time ago. It describes all aspects of what you would need to do to build a search engine from scratch. It provides details on storage and retrieval algorithms and so on. It’s dated and would need to be revised but the fundamentals are there.
“Spontaneous encounters” in a work context are just rebranded interruptions.
Can't do that on mobile.
This doesn’t pass the sniff test for me. A language interpreter with downloading remote code abilities is basically a new web browser. Maybe doesn’t use HTTP/HTML/JS, but has similar dynamic abilities. That’s what apple doesn’t want on their platform.

Why do you say it has to do with JIT languages?
Enjoy your zero privacy mate!
1) Your link only mentions the magnets, nothing else in relation to rare earth elements.

2) Plastic is not recyclable in a lot of jurisdictions. Seattle stopped collecting it all together.

3) Most people will not ecycle things. Most people will just throw them in the trash instead of driving to a big box store to drop of headphones for ecycling.

3a) Sure, this behavior is common across electronics (being lazy, throwing away) but when you design an electrical device to never be repaired you are just making things worse.
I for one would stop using Cloudflare if they caved to the pressure and starting dropping clients based on some people being offended by their content.

If you don't like a website, don't use it. Don't try to prevent others from using it.
I've watched all of these over and over with my wife.
Having companies call people consumers has bugged me more and more over the years. I guess having to call them customers might make them think once about throwing them under the bus, and nobody wants to think.

I've seen ads from a company named Consumer Cellular. That name alone makes me not want their products or services.
Why stop at Cloudflare? We need to tell PG&E to cut off their electricity and McDonalds to stop providing the calories that's enabling their harassment campaigns. /s
What does it even mean for it to be dead for the majority of users if it was never alive for that same majority?
Ive always found automatics difficult to drive in the city, where they are suppose to make things easier. They just don't have the level of control i can get from a manual for quick acceleration to get out of side roads into traffic. Even in the "sport" mode i've found them sluggish, and it was a fairly new rental a few years ago.

Maybe the high end models get the really responsive automatic gearboxes, but i suspect not everyone can afford that, compared to any old cheap manual that can do the same thing.

Now, electric wont have that problem as i understand, so happy to drive without gears then.
I understand it. I was annoyed by the removal of the headphone jack at first. I have a pair of Sennheiser headphones with 3.5mm and I previously used the adapter with them. I didn’t notice any lower fidelity audio with them and leaving the tiny adapter on the 3.5mm jack didn’t really feel like I was carrying anything more around. I’ve replaced the headphone cable on my senns twice and it was never through use of the adapter(usually because I’d get up and pull my computer to the floor and it fell on the jack), plus the Sennheiser cables are like $30 vs $9 so I’d rather have the adapter fail. I did a sound test with my wife’s Bose QCs and they sounded the same or better than my wired Senns. Now I have my own pair and I don’t miss fucking around with wires at all.
I personally feel the same way, but I would guess we're probably in the minority.

People who share information about themselves are generally more valuable customers for social media, and most people don't seem to have much issue with it, at least so far. I think there will always still be some percentage of old internet, but the amount of information the average person is willing to share online has been steadily creeping up.
wouldn't the default mtu of 1500 bytes in most routers negate that? Maybe things have changes since hte last time i thought about mtu but at one time it was 1500 bytes.
I'm curious about the salutation. Is there a cultural difference where 'hello' or 'how are you' is less common amongst anglophone South Asians?
My first car was a Beetle with the autostick. It was great. I started it more times than I could count by pushing/rolling it.
Brave is inferior to Firefox with uBlock Origin. In my experience advertisers get around Brave's blocker more often.
Getting compiler errors with clang, any experience with building on Mac?
Tim Bray wrote a blog post series on building a full text search engine [0]

[0] https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/30/OnSearchT...
The fact that Reddit hasn't enacting controls to limit bot activity should be illegal.

These central social media sites are being actively used for political influence operations.
By using something you're already using.
It's nice that we have a thing called the Uniform Resource Locator, which brings us, in the blink of an eye, to the islands of value in the oceans of goo.
I can’t imagine having to use a cord for a headset in 2022. My AirPods switch seamlessly between my Mac, iPad, Watch and MacBook. Cords her tangled, caught in things are horrible for running etc.

Not to mention that would I run and go to the gym with just my watch.
Exactly. If false color images aren't labeled/described as so, then they're just as bad as the sonification situation. Stop telling people falsities about space, when using a couple extra sentences will describe it in plenty of detail. If people choose not to read it, that's on them for being lazy or ignorant. Not on you for lying.
Most Americans want it to be that way, and that’s why it is that way.

Zoning laws didn’t push people into a car lifestyle. Americans created those zoning laws because they like the car lifestyle and want to perpetuate it. The same is true for suburban zoning in general. People have not been tricked into this: this is what they want.
Replicating Fault Injection Attacks
You are comparing a two door sports car to a four door sedan. Yes some cars have become larger, but they are also incredibly more safe. The doors are thicker and reinforced to protect you in an accident. The roof is taller and stronger, and the pillars are reinforced steel so you don't get crushed in a rollover.

They still make the Mazda Miata, BMW 1 series, Toyota BRZ, etc. These are all small cars, although I'm not going to research all of their dimensions. The truth is there is a very small minority of people who want cars smaller than that, and it's not profitable to produce them.
Your post adds no value to the discussion, this is NOT reddit.
I'd love a programable RFID in my hand. No more work pass, no more travel pass, maybe even get my debit card put on it...
NBER is not a federal agency. It's a non-profit, whose funding is partially from the US gov via grants.
Using Your Phone as a Hotel Key Is Great Until It Isn’t
Am I weird for finding housing companies like Alfred and Flow extremely creepy and intrusive?

Maybe I'm just becoming a boomer, but the last thing I'd want when I come back home is to open up some app and "connect" with neighbors.
https://archive.ph/HbQXT
Angband itself also has dozens of forks[0], mostly bolting on additional mechanics like SAngband (skills Angband), or new content like ZAngband (Zelazny Angband), adding multiplayer like MAngband, all the way to an almost total rewrite to be more faithful to the Tolkien canon like Sil [1].

[0] http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php/List_of_Angband_variants

[1] https://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/sil/
Orca memes
I wish there was an easier way to establish different email addresses per website.
I always feel like the fighting to stay awake feeling is a consequence of the road, like a long boring highway. In this case, how is a manual any different than a automatic, being that you are in the highest gear and driving without needing to shift?
privacy isn't the only one criterion to choose search engine. If search quality is very poor for a language, it's not suitable even if it's privacy oriented.
This is democracy at its worst. The tiny fraction of folks who understand what this bill does will be dwarfed by the huge swath of voters who will see “protects children; holds tech accountable” and color in the dot for “yes”.

There is no more effective argument against democracy than those little summaries of bills you see in the voting booth. Two sentences to describe 200 pages of law. Performative is a kind way to describe this. Intentionally deleterious is a better one.

The biggest issue is that describing a bill the way I just did or the author does immediately causes eyes to glaze over. Upset about a bill to harm tech? Probably in tech. Upset about something happening in CA? Probably a republican. Upset about anything at all? Probably a jerk. California has a malaise that makes politics somehow wildly divisive.
After reading this fine tip, I did the same thing. Thank-you for the suggestion.

For others wondering how:

about:config

gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled (set to to FALSE)
My biggest problem with dealing with call centers is actually the technology. For some reason every time I talk with Amazon or Google call centers, every 10th second or so drops out from the call which is often a crucial piece of info which i'll have to ask to be repeated. It's quite frustrating that in 2022 this is still such a consistent problem.

I've always wondered what's going on from a technical side. Is it some sort of "signal delay adjustment protocol" that instead of speeding up and distorting the speech of the speaker like happens on video calls, these call center tech companies have chosen to just drop an entire second from the conversation? Or is it some other glitch?
> when content is tied to a real person moderation is a lot more straightforward

Not really? That lets you defeat sockpuppets without having to use proxy information like IP, but there are plenty of people who will post appalling stuff or extravagant misinformation under their real names. See the ongoing Alex Jones libel trial.
I use Fastmail's aliases. It's not secure if you're trying to hide from state actors (your identities will be tied together in Fastmail's servers), but it's good enough for "I don't trust this forum not to get hacked and leak my email".
It is a broader consideration. It is easy to decide to stop servicing murderers, nazis, and other widely derided groups, especially on a one-off basis whenever objections are raised. It is another thing to actively investigate your customer base and police them. There are industries where this absolutely should happen. And there are others where we probably are better off with a laissez-faire approach (my local grocery is not a regulated utility, but I think they should still roughly operate that way - serve anyone who comes in the door). Cloudflare needs to have a clear TOS, and remove this site for violating it.

But we should still be cautious about how broad a TOS it might be, what evidence is required, what due-process and appeals are available. Every other day there is some post on HN saying "Big Service provider shut down my site overnight without warning!" but that is consequence anti-abuse systems policing customer activity and badly implemented systems are going to have negative consequences. The obvious cases make it seems easier than it actually is to build fair systems.
I don't see ads in any of the Apple tools I use every day. To suggest, even obliquely, that "well, they sell ads too" here implies an equivalence between the wholesale exploitation of user activity found at Google and Facebook and whatever modest incursions Apple may or may not be doing.
Yes! Exact same thing in a small subreddit I frequent. You can click into the user's post history and it'll be a bunch of posts to random subreddits with the exact same thing - picture grabbed from I assume an old post that got a lot of upvotes, title copy-pasted with a letter swapped in one of the words. Must be some new wave of bots that reddit's spam detection isn't handling.
Captcha?
It's partially what turned me off of getting into certain industries which heavily involve programming.

My own willingness to learn the skills was a large part, don't get me wrong lol - but I'm happier making little scripts and tools/toys for me and a few others to use to make their day to day lives easier.

I would never want to work for a larger company like a FAANG outlet, nor any other media-based tech company like game developers. Too many politics have been injected into the identity of a typical programmer, when it should just be about the code.
You can do the same in node using patch-package
I wasn't saying that nuclear IS "too cheap to meter" I'm saying it could be. And my statement about fossil fuels propaganda was merely a jab back at your snarky comment. Your absolutely right that most of the new reactors that have been built in the west has been delayed and exceeded budget and all I'm saying is that this wouldn't have been the case of the industry had kept growing and evolving back in the 80s. Japan is way overreacting with Fukushima and that plant was old as fuck and was literally built on a fault line without taking proper precautions. Tell me how many died as result of the Fukushima incident and how much radioactive water has polluted the surroundings ? I'd urge you to go look it up, but you probably won't.

Sorry i meant all those countries are planning to invest billions of euros into building new reactors now that the EU has deemed nuclear power green. You are talking like other power generation like wind, solar etc is not subsidized ? Hope is the unique to nuclear? Nuclear is subsidized and tightly controlled/regulated for obvious reasons and honestly imho all energy infrastructure should be tightly tied to government as is the case in most of Europe.

Even if Russia was too hot the nuclear power plant in Ukraine with a cruise missile the damage and contamination would be fairly local and I'd imagine hitting a coal or gas power plant with a cruise missile would be just as bad. Besides that hitting a nuclear power plant with cruise missile would be considered firing a nuke and don't think Russia is ready to do that yet. Taking about dirty bombs is just plain stupid, why the hell would you through all that trouble when there's much much cheaper and simpler ways to do damage?

Yes it requires some new infrastructure but in many cases you can switch coal, gas and oil plants almost 1:1 with nuclear. What's wrong with having lots of highly educated people working with supplying the world with energy ? And how is it different from solar, wind etc? France has problems because they still have a huge anti nuclear movement making it very hard to invest properly in maintenance and new plants, besides that France's shortage is because Germany suddenly requires allot more electricity because of stupid investments.

It's never too late.. sure we can also build what is the fastest solution but nuclear is the best bet long term.
The 'commercial'ness of Protonmail is why I trust it. The email company makes money by charging for email accounts. Very straightforward.
If there's anyone I'd trust on stats it's the IRS and related agencies. Also, no Americans dying in a country that's been strict on lockdowns for the past year seems plausible, especially if the average when people could freely come and go was < 12 a year.
No, the whole page, i.e. HTML + CSS + photo thumbnails etc. It's dominated 90+% by the photo thumbnails, which is expected.
You are consciously focusing on part of argument which isnt relevant at all, everybody understands we don't talk about real murders.

I strongly disagree the claim its not unethical - if I don't want to participate, I have no real way of doing so, apart form not buying their products at all. All internal settings re security lie about their behavior. Maximum security settings have only 1 morally defendable meaning - we have no business checking what user do, and respect this all the time. The fact that some search on their store may be sub-optimal is completely irrelevant.

From company focusing its PR heavily on how they value their user's privacy thats highly unethical

If I would be on some other forum I would use the expression "paid shills" a quite a lot here in this discussion, but I believe its mostly folks who put aside their smart and look on technology like this mainly through emotions. Which is always flawed approach long term.
I too would like the car lifestyle ... from 1950.

Sadly, we have created a monster. I suspect many Americans now don't even know what a community without cars would look like, that it could even work at all.
I have a woman and a child so this is not valid reproach.
Living standards improved for some (a minority), worsened for others (the majority). Everyone used to be kinda-poor; now, suddenly some were well-off and others became truly impoverished.

But a big change was that in the 1990s all kinds of desirable consumer goods became available to anyone with money. In the 1980s, money was not enough: goods were simply not available for sale, they were distributed by special people or only in certain places in entirely insufficient quantity, and to get them, you needed special knowledge and personal connections and lots of time wasted. In the 1990s, it was much simpler; as long as you had some legal or not-so-legal way to make money, you could buy whatever you wanted.
You are missing the steps to install, setup, cronjob, for certbot.

What about HTTP->HTTPS redirection, etc?

Same for secure cipher selection.

All of that Caddy gives you in 1 line of config (i.e. domain name)
It's always been about trolling and harassing. Why are you defending them?
For a better comparison, I have a 2018 Camaro. It is 190" long, 6" longer than the '67 Mustang.
Zapp – an online IDE for building Flutter apps in the browser
I don't shoot RAW on my phone, but obviously I do with the Sony.

The iPhone definitely exploits "computational photography" to get great shots. I'm OK with that. For things like landscape shots in cloudy weather, it's really hard to beat with a "real" camera and my level of comfort with postprocessing in Lightroom.
about:config
gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled (set to false)
Ask HN: I can’t be the first programmer with chronic neck and head tension
Throwaway, for obvious reasons.

I’m a late 30’s year old male developer and I haven’t been able to sit in a chair for more than an hour over the past 2.5 years. Average height, less body fat than “normal”.

I can’t be the first programmer with chronic head, neck, and back tension. Does anyone know a doctor that specializes in treating office workers?

My docs hit a diagnostic wall and tapped out. At my last appointment my primary said: “If this is going to be fixed you’re going to need to figure out how to fix it yourself.” I’ve been trying to fix it myself for two and half years. If I could have I would have and I don’t know what I should do next.

My back, left pec, and neck are tense, stubbornly tense, so tense that two different doctors have suspected a spasticity disorder. One, an osteopath in NYC, sent me in for a neurology screening, clear. The second, a sports doc in IL, was so concerned that he ordered a brain MRI, also clear.

This is the best way I can describe the symptoms: Imagine that you have a charlie horse in your leg. Now imagine that charlie horse never goes away. You’re reading, charlie horse. You’re working, charlie horse. You’re trying to sleep, charlie horse. Now imagine that the charlie horse isn’t in your leg, it’s centered somewhere between the base of your skull and your shoulders and the tension radiates up your neck to the top of your head. I’m in a constant state of red alert because if it. The top of my head hurts, my left eye hurts, my teeth feel like they’re being pulled together or apart. After a few days of tension it’ll start affecting my breathing.

None of the exercises or medications I’ve tried have been able to alleviate the tension (anxiety + muscle relaxant meds). It feels like it’s getting worse by the day.

Anyone been through this? Anyone know a doc?