skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just be aware that it might violate your threat model depending on what you're protecting against. There's a benefit to having your second factor also be more or less separated from your password manager, especially for Bitwarden, which doesn't enforce that devices are registered to log in (unlike e.g. 1password does). I say this as a bitwarden user.
Sorry, I know nothing about salt per se. I just knew that iodine deficiency is not good for brain development.

My wild guess for human population distribution being heavily coastal is: people don't tend to live where there aren't jobs, and the XXI economy (as was the XX, etc.) is ocean-oriented.

In order to test that guess, one might wish to look at the % of the population that doesn't live near a coast, and see how many of them live near a navigable waterway.
From part 1 of that series:

>This “state of exception” logic transformed scientific research in the US forever, setting a precedent that would eventually lead to the gain of function genetic therapy experiments associated with COVID-19.
My understanding of the situation is that Xilinx is the real leader in multichip modules. My impression is that Intel has finally entered the race, years behind AMD, which just bought Xilinx. Probably can't even see 'em in the rear-view. But, ya know, good job Intel, you're doing great.
It's even worse than that!

(For anyone wondering what we're talking about, Lua is written in a very portable subset of C including pre-C99, so no // comments.)

I got curious and downloaded the Lua 5.4.4 source and ran this:

$ cat * | grep -c ' */'
6386

(If there is a better or more correct way to do this, anyone feel free to correct me, as my grep-fu is muy pobre.)

So this is 6386 * 3 = 19,158 characters wasted in this version of the Lua source.

And that's just one Lua version.

Let's assume there are ten million copies of various versions of the Lua source on developer machines and repos around the world. That would make this something on the order of 200 gigabytes. We'd better multiply that by 5 to account for backups and datacenter redundancy.

So my selfish and lazy decision to go to the beach instead of the committee meeting that day has cost the world a terabyte of storage, maybe much more.

And that's the least of it. I didn't account for the extra typing that /* comment */ takes, and how it's just not fun to type all that. So I have annoyed every developer who's had to do this for compatibility reasons. Including myself.

I humbly apologize, and hang my head in shame.
Well with murders there are bodies. It’s the easiest crime to see the gap between incarceration and the injustice of freely roaming murderers. Much harder to convict on rape so you can imagine how many more are out there free!
> I guess it's great news that the government tells us that they stopped mkultra, and didn't continue their attempts at mind controlling the population. Phew.

Honestly, they probably did. And not out of the kindness of their hearts, either, but because the assumptions behind such programs were proven invalid. You can't actually program someone's mind like a computer with torture, hypnosis and LSD, it turns out the human brain doesn't work that way.

But if the last decade has proven anything, it's how little effort it can take to influence today's deeply networked population, and how effective it can be to convince the masses to reprogram themselves through stimulus and hyperreality. You don't need the Ludovico technique or subliminal messages when you can manufacture consent entirely through Facebook memes and shitposts.
This doesn't apply to all password managers, though (unfortunately).
Designs like this are what I like to see in my field of implicit modeling of geometry. We need processors with more general purpose ISA, recursion, and 64 bit floats due to the functional techniques we use. There's a fair amount of impedence mismatch for that using current triangle pushing GPUs, as sophisticated as they are getting. Thanks for posting!
Trying burning hedge (Osage Orange) and you'll quickly see why! It burns so hot it can damage light duty fireplaces. Osage Orange thrives on abuse and grows wherever it can in the midwest.

There are extremely efficient wood systems available that automatically throttle up/down, you set with a thermostat, and only need to be fed another bundle [edit] of wood once every few days. The ashes are automatically kicked to a can that you empty once a month. It's quite extraordinary how far these systems have come.
Terroir is the term for this. It's variation in flavour isn't as great as varietal/strain based differences. But yes it does have some impact most commonly taken advantage of in wine production.
I found a piece of land in north carolina adjoining a substation that's capable of 1mw, looking for a partner to build a solar plant. State has resources for permitting and planning these things. Probably(?) a ok source of long term passive income
Yes, but this is a generic rubric to apply to all frontiers of science: falsifiable theories are good; unfalsifiable theories are bad; even when you falsify a theory, there will always be room to fudge and rescue it by making it more baroque; the principle of parsimony should be applied to give less credence to baroque theories.

I see no reason to place the frontier of "what happened right at / before the Big Bang where vanilla GR breaks down" in a different epistemic category than all other frontiers of science, as the blog post seems to do. i.e., I see no reason that we should not build models and collect data in order to expand into this frontier, as we profitably do in other areas of science.
> Pressuring a foreign leader to investigate potential corruption

Right, anti-corruption Trump. Just stealing classified documents, installing his kids (and fucking son-in-law) in the white house, spending a third of his presidency hosting events and bookings on his properties, blackmailing Ukraine for political dirt, Trump University, refusing to accept a peaceful transition of power...Ok. My time is being unfairly wasted here.
Ask HN: Does Google Search objectively surface relevant pages from its index?
I use Google for programming queries and checking the opening hours of the shop down the street. For other queries, I’m having serious doubts about the viability of Google as an objective search engine that I can trust to match my search terms to documents in its index.

The results for any remotely “controversial” search terms are censored, sterile and predictable. It’s really started to annoy me, and I’ve gotten into a habit of searching Bing for the same query and comparing the results. Here are some absurd but demonstrative example queries you can try comparing between Google and Bing:

- best way to commit suicide

- how to build a nuclear bomb

- evidence of 2020 election fraud

- tiffany dover

- evidence the earth is flat

- how to dispose of a body

Now tell me which search engine seems like it’s surfacing objectively matching results.

Pick any controversial subject and repeat this experiment. Only Bing seems to be performing objective search queries over its index of web pages. I don’t know what Google is doing, but it’s clear it thinks it knows better than I do what I’m looking for, or at least what I “should” see instead.

Personally, I think this is insane. I’m basically done with Google at this point, and this behavior is really shameful and more damaging to society than any information Google thinks it’s protecting us from.

Amusingly, some misinformation experts at Stanford noticed the same trend [0], but they framed it as evidence that Bing is “dangerous,” rather than evidence that Google is putting its foot on the scales of its “search” engine.

[0] https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/bing-search-disinformation
A few ressources on how to use thermal mass and diurnal/nocturnal temperature gap to handle summer heat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_mass#Thermal_mass_for_...

https://www.yourhome.gov.au/passive-design/thermal-mass
I use Microsoft because they tend to have a good security development lifecycle.
I'm sure part of that is just marketing segmentation, but significant binning does take place. If VT-x is disabled, that may indicate that there were some defects in the location that those circuits inhabit.
The origin can’t be explained, because if it was explained it wouldn’t be the origin anymore.

So the question of the origin is ill-posed. Yet there has to be an origin because an infinite history makes no sense.

In the end, nothing makes sense. God must be laughing at us.
There are plenty of evangelicals that might tempt a publisher.
This protocol is what solved it for me.
As of 23:16 UTC, the article says 4 billion.

Thousands of eyes!
Yes back when there were a few good books that were the references for tech subjects. No Google, no Stack Overflow, no "For Dummies" waste of paper.
I was renovating a home 9500 feet above sea level in the Colorado mountains with baseboard heat. The bills were 800-1200 a month in winters because it was an all electric home built before the gas was run in the community.

I reached out the Mitsubishi and shocked they got back to me so quick about how they wanted to prove their hyper heat systems could handle 9500 feet above sea level and getting down to -10F.

Long story short I got all the labor free and the equipment at 60% off and they said if I was unhappy they'd remove the system for free.

100% happy. Heat pumps are the greatest thing because the home doesn't go through this massive hot/cold cycle. They might stay running at 10% once they get to temps to keep it at the temps.

My bills went from 800-1200 in winter to 400ish. The bonus was I got AC during the summers when needed.

I told my wife when out HVAC goes out we are 100% switching to heat pumps
I have one that's not a hybrid. It's a stressed tree in blight range (Hunterdon, NJ) but it soldiers on. Last year I got a few dozen chestnuts off of it. Normally I can only get a few.

(I also have two seedlings sprouted from chestnuts I gathered a few years back)
Around here[1], it used to take about 7 years. With the energy prices skyrocketing, that will probably be less, even if material and install costs are now higher.

[1] EU; I gathered that solar is significantly more expensive in the US.
Yup, same recommendation. That was my first time even hearing about this massive, landscape shifting chestnut blight; I have no idea how it isn't now commonly known.

And it was just a really great story in general. Definitely recommend.
Man is imperfect. The scientific method is a process that verifies, humans implement and observe the output. With religion, humans "observe" more than they can verify. Religion admits as much that it lacks verification, that's why it has faith.

Religion wants the best of both worlds, saying it is endowed with logic and verification yet when pushed you get the same tired argument about faith and 'gods exist outside logic'. At the same time it wants to say that it doesn't have to participate. Why should your side be special? Why can't I ultimately resort to illogic? Who knows, maybe my atheistic views are derived from a system so abstracted from my intellectual senses that I can validly resort to claiming they may ultimately stem from a time/place far removed from logic also, I just don't claim that it's an anthropomorphic entity like a god.
Cool tool! Would it be difficult to use the Unicode symbols for sharps and flats? Using a lowercase letter “B” in particular just looks clunky. Sort of like how databases store your name in all caps for no apparent reason.
Can you explain what's "half-assed" about this solution?
> we did help these students already -- that's what this federal loan program was trying to do. we invested some resources into creating and operating the program, and it led to some outcome.

Did we? I would say that we did a disservice to those students by raising tuition at a rate vastly more than inflation. The result of this disservice is that those students had to borrow more for college.

I don't agree with painting that situation as "helping" them. Helping them would have meant keeping college affordable, rather than letting costs get out of control.

Given that college costs rose, having more loans available is better than nothing. But again, "more loans or nothing" is a false dichotomy.

You can be "helped" and screwed over at the same time. In fact, you might not have needed "help" at all unless you got screwed over first.

> life is better for each successive generation

It's not clear that this actually happened. Successive generations of college students are getting more and more debt for the same amount of education. Inflation is not progress, despite the fact that something (cost) has moved upward.
I think the first question, as mentioned, in one of the previous comments, is your location.
There are many opportunities in smaller, distant communities that don't have grid service, or don't have good, grid service.
Those are places that have room for ideas and opportunities, hence business feasibility. Things like small river turbines, or other combined power sources, possibly wind and solar, even fuel generators as back up.
The systems are not really complicated, depending on the end user.
Obviously you are not trying to compete with the city of Austin or Dallas, Texas.
But tiny remote villages, need electricity. Start small, and as with most successful business, then grow. Find a niche. Then expand when you see the need or opportunity.
In the beginning, people without power, are happy to charge cell phones, or power a well pump.
Great idea!
> I have now decreed that when my desk temp is 30C then we abandon ship and work from home.

My understanding is that the legislation actually requires the working environment be cooler than that, so I get the sentiment, and ironically probably many of your employees' homes will be hotter, but I think you've set the bar too high.
Sure but most of Maine doesn’t have natural gas service. Outside of Portland, you generally may have some gas service along Rt 1. Otherwise, at best you can get bottled propane, but you have to consume a good amount to get decent pricing. It’s usually tiered. This calculators been around for a long time and gave us a pretty reasonable estimate when we did our system.

It’s also not an either/or thing. My house (southern Maine) has oil forced hot water heat, with an older 84% efficient boiler, and a mini split. We have no natural gas service, and propane isn’t cost effective. We run the split through both shoulder seasons, and we turn the split system off when it’s consistently below freezing or oil drops below $2.00/gal (our breakeven point). The heating bill is surprisingly reasonable given the climate. As a bonus we have great AC from the split, and I don’t care what anyone says, it’s needed these days!

Are you in Maine or somewhere else?
It's beyond disheartening that this disease has been so politicized.
They attend for profit colleges because they are commonly duped by promises of a certain salary or job placement. And commonly not sophisticated enough to understand that not all debts are created equal and accreditation matters in education.
Presumably GP knows the reasoning for the decline of this sort of usage, but still misses this aspect of the computing environment.
My recollection off the top of my head is that cities are strongly associated with navigable waterways.

Which I don't see as a rebuttal for my hypothesis, just to be clear.
Doctors are not great at managing dysautonomia if they even know what it is. It’s a niche area. You’ll probably have to DIY research on it and ask for the meds you want.

Yup, ADHD medicine will activate the sympathetic nervous system and too much of that will cause dysautonomia.

If you have LongCovid and ADHD it’s reasonably likely you’re also hypermobile and have a condition called hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS). It runs in families on an autosomal dominant basis. Doctors rarely know anything about hEDS either. The normals tests done by those that do have a 90% false negative rate.
Ask HN: How do you create an ISP?
This question has been boggling me for quite a while, I’ve seen some videos where people just create their very own ISP and sell their service to the neighborhood, but it sounds like a very difficult thing to accomplish.

What hardware, software and paperwork do you need to do such a thing?
So how would ambulances get there? Or deliveries? Or tractors get to the fields?
Yeah we didn't anticipate somebody sharing their room in the comments — we're trying our best to moderate that room.

Fingers crossed the board they went on was the papercraft & origami board.
I’ve wanted such an app for years. Ideally with a slider showing stages of growth, watering schedules, generating optimal planting patterns and figuring out plant counts.

Of course one-click ordering wouldn’t hurt, but I like to imagine you would still print out a shopping list and head over to the local nursery.
I’m building a new department to scale out services that I solely did under another department. Coming from a small company in a specialized field this means that my attention is split between managing the few under me, still actually doing the work and other admin BS. As a former doer and control freak the hardest thing has been getting out of my peoples’ ways and untangling myself from the work.

A close second is, as previously pointed out, eliminating as much additional business BS as possible. Our current director likes to really have communal discussions on business direction and development, which I’m not opposed to, but the number of meetings is too much. I’ve been clawing back my time ever since the transition.
IBM’s EasyWriter, which was mentioned in the article, was written by John Draper in Forth. He wrote it during the day, and at night he would report back to prison to serve out a sentence for phone phreaking.
Let me preface this by saying that I don't live in the US so I have a somewhat limited understanding of the topic. If I'm completely off base, let me know.

Your comment seems to come from a place of anger and envy rather than a genuine concern over government spending.

In recent history, the US government has allocated hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars to bailing out various industry sectors.

To me, as an outsider, it seems completely reasonable to take the load off of people who are trapped under the weight of their student loans. In my humble opinion, the deciding factor for this kind of intervention should simply be whether it has a good chance of having an overall net positive effect on the society overall - a complex combination of factors that should include 2nd and 3rd order effects such as positive impact on mental health.

"I suffered so you should suffer too" seems like a generally unproductive and harmful approach when it comes to politics.

Why draw the line here? What makes this different from every other government handout, apart from the fact that this time it's regular citizens receiving the benefits rather than corporations?
Altera was also an innovator in that regard. It makes sense for Intel to buy them given that they were struggling with 3D packaging technologies before the acquisition.

However, they appear to have managed Altera into the ground, and time will tell if AMD makes the same mistakes with Xilinx.
Did it occur to you the massive assumptions built into your questioning of GP’s sanity?
There are four Alder Lake dies in production, two for desktop (8+8 and 6+0 P/E-cores) and two for mobile (6+8 and 2+8 cores). So the 10-core desktop parts are probably the most cut-down variant of the full 8+8 die, and all the lower core count desktop parts are likely made from the 6-core die that omits the E-cores entirely.

Whether you look at just the desktop segment (29 SKUs from two dies) or the whole family (94 SKUs from four dies), it's an incredibly overcomplicated product stack.
That's still quite high. But the real thing that contributes to the US' crazy high incarceration rates is we tend to have much longer sentences than other countries

The US doesn't actually have that much higher crime rates than other countries otherwise though

Another issue, like this article points out, is that once you're in even if you get out your life is pretty much ruined and you're much more likely to go back in
Yes, also police has NFC-enabled terminals, so you can deal with it on the spot. Poland.
What It's REALLY Like to Be a Stylist at Stitch Fix
I’ve been reading through this for a few months, lots of great content and can’t believe how useful it is so many years later.
I'd think that's not the main problem -- it's instead fewer new users? Impacting future paying customers
The lane is 9 foot wide. Tractors just about fit through. Deliveries to the pub, etc

Banning vehicles from that lane wouldn’t work. You can’t make it one way, it already can only pass traffic in one direction at a time.

The question was

why can't every child cycle to school on a car free path way?

The answer you admit is that in some parts of the country there just isn’t the road ways to convert. You also point out quite correctly it’s often not necessary, but you still take umbridge with these facts.
There was bunch of articles about this on HN lately... here is one: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/man-who-built-is... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411493)
I really value being in country where default payment method in almost any situation is simple bank transfer.
In the New Zealand of the early 1980s one couldn't just go and import something you needed a govt import licence, in many cases these had been handed down over generations and the number in any one market were strictly limited.

The conservative govt that had encouraged the whole Springbok tour in 81 also was the same govt that so mismanaged the economy that it fell apart in 84, they were replaced by a left wing govt that brought in free trade and scrapped all these licensed etc (not the usual left/right narrative)
The Mysterious Case of the Fucking Good Pizza (2021)
Internet Country: How India created a digital blueprint for future economies
I regret not doing one of those. We saved a couple thousand using a Fujitsu Halcyon that runs well down to about 20F. When it’s running it’s great, but we cut over to oil in late November.
Are we really having a student loan crisis? Interest rate has been zero and payment suspended for something like 2 years right?
Plant immune systems aren't as adaptive as ours, and the American chestnut had no reason to evolve any immunity to the blight because it wasn't present on the continent until the early 1900s.
I like OTP Auth. Strongbox also has it built into the password manager if you wouldn’t mind that.
Minitel was almost universal in France by '89. It might not be the WorldWideWeb, but it was around.

It had instant messaging, 24hr news, business listings, public databases (similar to wikis), online shopping, prostitution, dating services, online games, public transport ticketing, forums, online payment system, and over 25mil individual people using it on a daily basis.

Apart from the customers, it had all of that from _day one_.
>I already do this with a python script locally on my PC, but I'm looking to have this run on somebody else's computer (aka "the cloud").

https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/python/

https://vercel.com/docs/runtimes#official-runtimes/python

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tech_talks/deploying-...
Yep or even better sneak off some cuttings!
> What is the thinnest vertical slice of end-to-end power-generation functionality that an individual would be able deploy and maintain on their own?

Becoming a solar installer and engaging in some kind of revenue sharing or a loan kind of structure for getting residential or commercial customers in on it.

Building solar powered vehicle charging stations.

Building backup generation facilities for things like data centers or hospitals.