skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That link says that there's an average of 702 heat related deaths per year. In 2020 there were 38,824 car accident deaths.[1] Yet everyone keeps driving, without question. Is it so much to ask to see if it's possible to tolerate living without AC for a while, just like humans did for several thousand years? Or is a tiny fraction of the number of auto-related deaths enough to make us throw up our hands and say "it's impossible, AC and climate change for everyone!"

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/2020-traffic-crash-data...
You guys probably know about it, but here goes anyway ...

Anyone interested in Creepypastas might also enjoy SCP (no, not "secure copy", bu "Secure. Contain. Protect). They write up fictional anomolies. Two favourites of mine: a creature that will break your neck if you close your eyes in his presence, and a train system with rather peculiar properties.
https://the-scp.foundation/

There was also another set of stories, something like "Keepers of Objects". I can't find any link, though, so I've forgotten what its proper name is.
The International Space Station will deorbit in glory
Left your cloud2butt extension on by any chance?
Agree on the cash flow from energy exports. Hard disagree on industry leaving over this, the time frame to actually do so is way to short for now.
I'm a month into taking rapa and already I feel like it's having a noticeable effect. I'm curious what others on this threads dosage looks like. If you prefer to keep it private, you can email me directly (my email is on my profile).

I'm currently taking 2mg once a week on my rest day; I started with 1mg and after 1 month added another MG. I'll continue each month until I reach 8MG once a week, which is the dosage the doc I worked with in Texas to get my prescription recommended and most people seem to take.

Also - I would say that NMN + Rapa is a completely life altering combination for anyone 50+. I feel like I can lift harder and longer now than when I was in my 40's and things seem to be getting easier the farther into my rapa routine I get.

Also also - you can find rapamycin online / overseas under its other name - Sirolimus - and the cost is a little lower than getting a proper US prescription.
It's not your fault, it's your house's. Modern houses are designed to be mechanically ventilated. Older houses were designed to have better thermal mass and better airflow. I have a friend who lives in an 1800s-era "summer home" (designed specifically for the wealthy to live in during the summer). It is quite comfortable during the summer without the AC on.
> Snowden did enormous damage to US and allies with his indiscriminate distribution of classified information

Sure, in the same way that the police do to organised white-collar criminals when they arrest them and put them in prison.
I didnt say he was spreading misinformation, I said he was saying what his audience wanted to hear. Like his audience from 2005-15 wanted to hear that China was going to collapse in the next 5 years.

Did that happen? No. Does that make it misinformation? No. Why was he so confident though? Why did his audience believe it?

Because theres a whole lot of misinformation around. I think his basic pitch is that fossil fuels are amazing, America has lots so it will win and the rest of the world but especially China will collapse when it runs out.

Can you think of any hot topics of misinformation that might affect your reception of such an argument when China is the world leader in wind, solar, battery, EV, Rail, electrolizer, green hydrogen, HVDC, Hydro, Nuclear etc.
It's definitely not a one-time thing... There's a fascinating Radiolab episode on the the history of Rapomycin, including discussions of the mechanism of action:
https://radiolab.org/episodes/dirty-drug-and-ice-cream-tub

The basic hypothesis is that cells operate in two modes, one storing up stuff in times of plenty, and a second mode which uses up the stores and cleans up, active during lean times. mTor is supposed to be the chemical signal which indicates which mode to act in; it's inhibited by both fasting and rapomycin.
Owl: Meta's New Hot-Content Distribution System
Interesting. I typed up a comment that mentioned the name of the person co-ordonating the DDoS campaign, and I got instantly flagged. Test.
I agree. Not only “we can afford” it but in many cases have no other choice, because other forms of heating a home have been regulated out of existence.
While this can help, it needs to be done alongside network traffic analysis. If you type your name/phone number/address into (for example) a resume template, and you see that information stored in the local client, you don't know whether that information is also stored on the server.
Snapchat had their own TV shows!?
I imagine a public retraction was part of a settlement with Ubiquiti.
I see it there
BGP absolutely does allow you to tell your peers to filter traffic before passing it to you. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7999.html
The wave was small compared to what's yet to come. And we can already perceive a rise in authoritarian governments and decline of left institutions. Putin is accelerating a declining process well underway and though we still will be here afterwards, we might not recognize ourselves in the mirror. War is to force your enemy to change his behavior by force. Putin might actually on the verge of victory here.
Except it's absolutely up to the whims of private businesses, if you want to be consistent with how businesses are understood in the US.

In the US corporations are people and money is speech. Cloudflare can try to become a public utility if they want but right now they're a corporation and they're making a political decision to continue to take money from customers that use their services to operate harmful social spaces that are used to coordinate targeted harassment campaigns and drive vulnerable people into suicide.

They frame selling DDoS protection as a neutral and good thing because it prevents cybercrime. But would you accept the same argument for selling ballistic vests? Plate carriers? APCs? Clearly selling defensive equipment to both sides of a conflict is still involving yourself in a conflict. If you want to be neutral, you don't involve yourself, you don't sell.

And to make matters worse, the general consensus is that the party they're selling DDoS protection to are "the bad guys" in this conflict. The guy operating it literally had to create his own hosting company because he ran out of hosting providers willing to do business with him. He had to resort to crypto wallets because payment providers have long banned his site.

Even if there wouldn't be any evidence that he encourages and participates in the harassment campaigns his site is known for (a site, by the way, that was literally created to harass one specific individual), the person maintaining that site still took a principled stand to allow this behavior to continue despite what it cost him. And now Cloudflare's CEO took the same stand to continue doing business with this person.
It's relatively straightforward. You open the console, type window.localStorage, and poke around. On the article I see:

> window.localStorage
Storage {dark-mode-toggle: 'light', cid: '2722...', length: 2}

Ignore the "length" (implementation detail) and you can see it's storing whether I've turned on dark mode and some id that's likely per-user. If I switch the page to dark mode I see instead:

> window.localStorage
Storage {dark-mode-toggle: 'dark', cid: '2722...', length: 2}
You can't give a free copy to the local library to drive sales and be upset when people borrow the book and read it from the local library.
How is it remotely fair to compare a highly developed first world country with third world energy usage?
It's crazy to me that they pretty much doubled their headcount over the pandemic, I know there are economic reasons for some of the recent layoffs but the hiring sprees some companies went out seem crazy to me
My hope is to make this problem mostly redundant among my machines through use of tailscale. Tailscale SSH means that I don't have to worry about SSH keys at all - it just uses the same auth as the rest of tailscale.

Only downside is that at the moment it doesn't play with SELinux which is a bit unhelpful for me given I mostly use Fedora.
Binance freezes the account of Russia gun manufacturer
Startup wants to build a space station that refuels satellites by 2025
>Certainly online harassment leading to someone committing suicide is.

Documenting people's lives is not harassment.
I tried going without air conditioning this summer, after moving to a new state and town in the spring.

I'm relatively far north in the USA, but even where I am, I found the 85F+ heat waves unbearable for WFH and sleep. I grew up without AC and grew to hate summers as a result. This summer I discovered that I just do not function intellectually above 80F indoors.

It's a bit different if you're outside with a breeze, enjoying nature, hiking, walking, biking, etc. I seem perfectly capable of reading a book or having a stimulating chat in those situations. But even with a fan going, there's a pretty low temperature ceiling for me where I can't work productively. And if it doesn't get below 70F at night, I can't sleep well, which has even more impact on my happiness and productivity.

So I can survive without AC. But I broke and got an AC unit a couple of weeks ago. This heat wave for the past week or so in the northeast convinced me that I was right to do so. I'm just not happy without it.
Just a fun fact, no need to get uppity.
I've worked at multiple startups before starting my own, some were more useful than others. In my experience only in lead or above positions do you actually get exposure to these things - a random IC doesn't really get much insight into the company's finances, raising, negotiations, hiring, etc.

From those I was a lead at I got some valuable experience (including what not to do) & also contacts (some former director/C-level people I'm still in touch with). I still learned the vast majority from actually having to handle it myself in my own startup but I think I would have learned even less (in that particular area) if I was working at amazon or google before instead.
> ...we worked with our Proudflare employee resource group to identify an organization that supported LGBTQ+ rights and donate 100 percent of the fees for our services to them.

I'm sure their LGBTQ+ employees will appreciate that when they get doxxed, swatted, and harassed every hour of the day and night because they're providing critical resources to the groups doing so.

Their position probably really does come from genuine belief in principles of anti-censorship and free speech, but the version that LGBTQ+ people are gonna hear from them is that every death threat, every picture of them taken without their knowledge, every coordinated campaign of harassment, every SWAT officer pointing a gun at their face when they wake up, every suicide after years of abuse, has the full backing and support of a multi-billion dollar corporation, and there's nothing they can do about it. And they're kinda right.
China-linked APT40 gang targets wind farms, Australian government
> They're attacking infrastructure due to political motives.

They're attacking KiwiFarms for their agenda of trying to drive people to commit suicide.
Ok then: they have decided, and they decided not to take KF down.

Their TOS gives them the lateral autonomy to decide what breaks the TOS, whether or not something violates their TOS, and how harsh of a punishment to enact.
I feel like you are presuming some argument exists when it is a straightforward statement of fact. It's an interesting comparison, and I'm not sure how it could be described as "unfair."
> no, this is very much not like Hawaii and Florida. We are talking about countries with history, that were forcibly annexed

So how is this not like Hawaii?

It's a matter of US law that "the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii occurred with the active participation of agents and citizens of the United States and further acknowledges that the Native Hawaiian people never directly relinquished to the United States their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people over their national lands."

(The US didn't comport itself very well in Florida - or anywhere really - but I'll at least grant a difference in kind.)
...and if they post their content to the public, the public can read it. Giving content to journalists is not the same as giving your content to Google to index in their search engine and caches. The later is not private.
My partner and I go without AC for most of the summer unless we have company or if it gets to 100 F. It is difficult at first, but your body does acclimate after a week. I usually have a fan blowing next to me while working from home, since my office room doesn't have any AC anyway. Take away my fan, and I'm screwed. Of course if go to a movie or restaurant I have to bring a long sleeve shirt, because it will feel too cold. :)
LOL, you are right. I should have specified more details and titled it “How do I make 10 million dollars in 10 years, am I on the right path”?
Free speech is a good, but it is not the highest good. We do not need to throw civil society away because it might infringe on free speech.
For what it's worth, my sentiment is that crypto[currencies]/blockchain tech. is essential for the same reasons that I believe Tor and end to end encryption are essential.

I believe that it's also highly likely that like end-to-end encryption, most people will use some form of this technology (or things built on it) very regularly in future.

But it may turn out to be that like Tor, most people don't. That wouldn't make it any less important that it exists.
Actually it is well under 60 bits!

We have A333479(53) exceeding an exponential tower of 256 2s [1].

We also have A333479(114) exceeding Graham's number, which would require a 10-state TM to remain competitive.

[1] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/353514/whats-the-smallest...
Counterpoint, your grandchildren will appreciate pictures of their parents as kids.
Tell HN: Karachi Meet Up
Anyone in Karachi, Pakistan here and up for the meet up?
Amway.
Me too. I have no social media accounts I could use, but if I did, I certainly wouldn't use them to log into anything other than that particular social media service.
A lot of these things you will get the benefit from upgrading. Also see the last section of the post about analyzers. You can enable these and Visual Studio will identify and potentially automatic improve performance by using different APIs.

There are a performance ton knobs you can turn both at develop time and deployment time. There are 4 ways to run Regexes in .NET 7! (Interpreted, compiled, the new non-backtracking interpreter, the new compile time source generator). I do agree with the assessment that it’s hard to keep up with.
Yeah, how's Huawai doing again since those sanctions in 2019?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/271496/global-market-sha...

Also he's clearly speaking in generalities as a rhetorical device. Obviously China can do "some" high-end chip work, and obviously not all cell phone and laptop chips are made in the US. But he is correct that the high end IP and design work is US-centric, with a decent chunk of manufacturing as Intel maintains US fabs.

It's the same as if I said "France doesn't produce oil, all the world's important oil supplies come from the Persian Gulf nations!". That's technically wrong, as France is currently world's 72nd largest oil producer (https://www.worldometers.info/oil/france-oil/) and the US/Russia/North Sea/others are a large chunk of global markets. But it is correct in that the world writ large cannot function without middle eastern oil, whereas it can function without French oil.

The reason the US doesn't build low-end chips at scale is economics. The reason China doesn't build high-end chips at scale is capability.
>careful not humiliating the Russian civilisation

Yeah, we wouldn't want to be humiliating a civilization that's currently killing another one. That would be too tough. /s
I grew up in San Jose without AC. But it didn't regularly hit the 90s in the summer, it was a dry heat, and we had cool nights.

I used a fan. On especially hot days I would have a bowl of water with a wash rag to help cool me down.
Have you thought about the reverse side of your argument? Someone falsely accusing you or your persons of insert-your-favorite-harm and then having your life upended by the social justice mob or corporate actions?

It needs to go through a trial. That's what its for.
Curious
how do you manage in India without whatsapp?
It's not really fun nor useful to the discussion though. It's pandering to the "you should feel bad you live in the developed world and have money".
We have minutenreserveleistung (MRL) using wind in Germany, but this is not the best solution :joy:
Wow... I started at my current job about a year ago and we use Mac Minis as the main workstation for the users. Well as the users started doing more work we got them dual monitors and that is when I started noticing the first problem described. Everyday the same few people would come to me saying that their display settings would swap the main monitor, and sometimes it happened when they went to lunch.

I searched online and couldn't really find a sure-fire resolution. I did however, find that if I logged into the administrator account and swapped the monitors, then went into the Energy Saver settings and prevented the Mac from automatically sleeping when the display is off then it keeps the problem away long enough. I will usually have to repeat that process upon an update but I am just glad I found out why this was actually happening.
So, you have at least one example of this scenario (gay Cloudflare employee gets doxxed and harassed) ready to tell us about, right?
https://archive.ph/hx8c1
Hosting content and distributing it are different things (in the same way that printing letters for someone is very different to operating a mail service carrying everyone's letters).
Not necessarily - reducing the workforce and closing stores may well be a healthy consolidation. Taking on debt may perform the same function on the balance sheet. You should worry if they take on debt to expand stores or the workforce.
Excessive blue light from gadgets “may accelerate aging process”
It's funny that air con is seen as a wasteful luxury, but nobody blinks at a heating bill, even though the average household spends 4x more on heating.

The negative externalities are interesting though: using air con inside makes your outside that much hotter on a hot day, whereas in winter, nobody worries about waste heat leaking out.
I somewhat agree with these two points as well. When you're running a business, you'll often have customers you find disagreeable. That doesn't mean that they're invalid customers, but you may feel gross helping them. For the exceptionally bad cases, why not jack up the prices 10x and donate those proceeds?

> Another automated moderation system that checks for certain keywords? Ask the LGBTQ people banned from Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/Google/etc. if those systems really work all that well.

This is so, so true. Both automated and human review systems often times don't handle or protect minority users well.

(Reasonable Disclosure: I still terminated my services with CloudFlare over this.)
facts are neither fair or unfair, they just is.

Just some of them might be interesting, others not, this one certainly count as interesting to me.
ArrayQL Integration into Code-Generating Database Systems [pdf]
Ah yes, plenty of respecting international law when it has come to assassinations etc in foreign countries.

Putin only care about international law where it is in his own interests.
Tom Crean, unsung hero of Antarctic exploration
I fast a lot, right now I do 36 - 72h every 6 - 8 weeks.

The hardest moment is right when your body is about to switch from using glucose to using ketone bodies for energy. After that the hunger, feeling anxious, etc stops.

The time it takes to get to that point (when feeling "bad" intensifies) and how long the transition takes can be influenced.

Primarily, by what you eat before you fast. In general, avoid eating carbohydrates, especially simple carbohydrates like sugar, fruits, past, bread, etc.
I usually eat more protein and fat before fasting.

Another "trick" during fasting is to cheat your stomach a bit by filling it with liquids - I drink lots of water and tea.

The main thing to remember - it will pass, and you will feel great after your body switches. Your mind will tell you that it will just progressively get worse the deeper you get into the fast - it's not true :)
Cloudfare's stance is pretty clearly amoral.
People like comparisons rather than numbers.

>Air conditioners use about 6% of all the electricity produced in the United States, at an annual cost of about $29 billion to homeowners.
TV's Crypto Hype Man Worries People on TV Are Hyping Crypto Too Much
Past performance does not always guarantee future results.
This post makes a call to action and a lot of claims while providing no evidence. Seems like click farming to me.
The article describes growth from 87% in 2015 to 88% in 2020. If there's an impact from covid it's either tiny or this data was collected too early in 2020 to show it.
Copyright - at least for images - is going to become moot shortly.

Copyright exists to allow an artist time to reap the benefits of his labor. Without this time, they say, no rational person would invest his labor into making art. Dubious… but, whatever. The point is, if you remove the ‘labor’ from the mix, there’s no need for copyright.

If I can produce spectacular images with zero individual labor, there will be little reason for me to copy someone else’s work.
Evan also released a report this morning. Some departments such as Snap Minis & games, snap originals, and a few other things like that pixy will be cut heavily/stopped entirely.

Team members in the U.S. are stated to receive at least 4 months of "compensation replacement". Those relying on work authorizations will receive additional support and flexibility according to the email.

Other notable pieces is that Jerry Hunter is being promoted from SVP of engineering to COO.

As a side note: I've had several recruiters reach out to me since yesterday. Yesterday (08/30, day of verge report release) I had 9 unprompted recruiters reach out. Door dash, 2 from Amazon, and a few from some lesser known companies as well. This is with my LinkedIn profile set to "not looking for a job".

sources:

[1] https://www.axios.com/2022/08/31/snap-restructuring-layoffs

[2] I'm a snap software engineer.
This is about of straightforward as a "I screwed up, I own it, I apologize"

Everyone makes mistakes. Some of the good work Krebs has done seems to be completely overshadowed by a mistake here.

Granted, this is probably in response to some legal action either in progress or already settled, but what more do you want from the guy?
Human bodies are crazy cool.

1. There is some internal clock that we don’t yet understand but clearly exists. Specifically your digestive track proactively activates itself in preparation for food. Then if food doesn’t come, your stomach will “growl”. It takes a 1-3 months for your clock to readjust such that it doesn’t do that. After this you will not “feel hungry”. If you intermittently fast for a year or so, you will likely never again “feel hungry”.

2. Eating meals is a habit. Arguably more addictive than smoking. But like with any habit, it can be broken. This isn’t the feeling of hunger… rather a weird compulsion. If you stop fasting for a few months, this will need to be rebroken every time. I’m currently struggling to re-break it.

3. The social pressure to eat is real! This is the hardest to contend with.

Good luck :)