skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hawaii is in an excellent position to try out the full range of storage technologies and discover which work best for them.

They have underground cavities that used to be full of lava, for compressed air, hydrogen storage, or pumped hydro. They have mountains pumped-hydro reservoirs would be easy to build on. They have deep ocean trenches just offshore for undersea compressed air and buoyancy.

Choices for renewable generation include not just solar and wind, but also undersea currents and wave air pumping.
Another compromise between self hosting and using "big tech" email providers is to use smaller email providers. I have been using https://kolabnow.com/ for a five years or so and am a happy customer. Of course it's more expensive, has less bells and whistles, etc, but I'm glad I don't have to participate in the surveillance capitalism machine of big email providers.
I've driven in Seattle in the rain, and some streets (especially near Pike Place Market) are so steep that once my wheels lost their grip and slipped and rolled downhill a little at an intersection. I'm not sure why it's even safe to design an intersection on a very steep road that's difficult to stop at.

Water and slopes are not a good combination for road safety even for four-wheelers.
>What else can we do?

Unironically, learn about the theory of politics and organize with others. The current political system will always act in the interest of business, it's basically an evolutionary system.

There is never going to be a financial insensitive to change how copyright law works because it makes companies a lot of money, and if one representative attempts to change the law, these companies can use that wealth to sponsor a challenger to that individual (most likely in the primaries for their next race).

It's dangerous to actively put any policy in place which goes against the interest of industry. But it isn't impossible, remember the government broke up Standard Oil, ultimately they do have the power to change laws if the political will is there.
It's at his work...

Cfr. Title of this thread.
I use a simplified point system to keep track. I rarely drink, but used to escalate when I do.

I usually calculate a beer, a shot or a glass of wine as a 1. Big or strong beer 1.5. My favorite cocktail is a 2.5.
Reduct one point per hour and 1.5 per hour with heavy movement.

Sober is strict 0 points.
Non drinking is 1 point.
Work related drinking, I never go above 2-3 points. Exception is the Christmas party, 6-8 points.
Out alone, usually never above 5 points.
Family gatherings 1 point per family member for small gatherings, with a variety of bonus points for certain people.

I consider more than 8 points to be problematic to keep track of the point system.
I find ProtonMail odd too, especially in context of better decentralization, for them (AFAIK) not supporting regular client-to-server protocols (without the bridge software) and doing that reinvented encryption which only works between its clients, but as for account cancellation, it does seem to happen with others too: there are regularly appearing stories about Gmail/Google accounts being blocked with no way to contact the support, occasional services (like Opera mail) just shutting down, some seem to take your mailbox hostage demanding more of PI.
most businesses don't care and don't understand the technicalities of deep nerdy work.

they are fine with throwing their money around until a problem is solved. and would much rather hire someone with 1.5x your pay than to give a 10% raise. its just a political / power thing...

internal politics and preserving imbalances in distribution of power is much more valuable than adding a little inefficiency to worker output
Quiet quitting, real quitting, unionizing: what else are American workers up to?
There are companies that claim to offer decentralization by hosting them on their own servers. I think we've already lost.
It's more of like doing system designing (pre-planning), the system design stage is way of looking at the bigger picture by connecting the dots, and yh, it could be a mind thing but I mostly use my pen and paper or if it's something that's really difficult to nail, I use the C4 modeling (you can use whiteboard, paper or any C4 modeling tool).

C4 modeling would give you the abstract design or system architecture graph, you don't have to do all 4 levels diagram, just do the one that makes sense to you.

If you are doing something simple, you might not need to do any of that but as soon as you are building something of scale with optimal security not doing system designing is like building a skyscraper with no design, well, you know what might go wrong :)
What might drive up the prices on the newest iPhones
I use Burp for same purposes. Very convenient and solves the problem of MITM certificates.
I recently bought my mom a dishwasher, so I can tell you that at least in my mom’s town, dishwasher salt is more expensive than regular salt. Perhaps because dishwashers are still a luxury product, so everything related is still more expensive because those who need them can buy them at these prices.

Just verified, dishwasher salt is almost 5usd/kg. Coarse salt is .75usd/kg
I WFH exclusively for 6+ years.

1. If you work from home obviously you will have lack of (work) social connections, yes WFH ain't that much fun as office.

2. I don't really need to know coworkers, it's useless information unrelated to my work. I work with some people 6+ years and have absolutely zero clue about their background or anything, actually I am almost longest working person there, I see people in emails changing while I am staying there, I dunno what happens to those people who stop writing me emails, whether they had kid, died or left for other company.

3. I don't even know what is "fit into company", I deliver results, nobody cares about some unmeasurable "fit", must be an American thing.

4. I know for sure social connections and open space office in work decreased my productivity/performance and time spent working. I was among the chattiest people in work, so I would enjoy that, but certainly it would take toll on my results.

5. My kid was born 7 years ago, so I wouldn't have time for social interactions outside work anyway other than on playgrounds/trips.
- Next.js web app for the boring stuff (CRUD) + Postgres

- Remix web app for a distributed and fast status page frontend hosted on Cloudflare Pages

(https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/ is an example)
Did more for web security than anybody else. Can’t even think of a second place.
I feel way more pride in a Betty Crocker cake than I do about all the Ikea furniture I've built. My Ikea furniture is just cheap but functional furniture. I feel no attachment whatsoever. Anymore than I do taking a toilet paper roll out of the bag and "assembling it into the TP holder"

I feel a sense of accomplishment for few hours after having completed assembly but it's not really much more if any more than the sense of accomplishment I feel when I've finished vacuuming and dusting my apartment.
>And I'm sure one of the improvements is to use 5nm or 3nm process.

Implementing a process shrink is not just scaling the masks by the appropriate percentage. It often is a completely different optical train, at a different wavelength, different pellicle, changing the refractive index of the immersion fluid, different multiple patterning. It takes months (years?) of work.

For many applications it's worth it, but it's not at all a slam dunk. The vast majority of ASICs are designed for a particular node and never upgraded. It's the kind of crazy long-term speculative capital investment TSLA might have indulged in when the stock was at $414 a share, but it's nowhere remotely near that today.

They're already engaging in layoffs, today. Why spend the money?
Unfortunately as long as there are people who are easily triggered by this sort of thing (seems like they got a bit of a rise out of you) they'll continue in this fashion.
The world is not only the USA.
There are other nations, some have a very big worker shortage.
(not comparable to the USA worker shortage - there are situations that are different from the situation in the USA)
> I also feel it is rather emergent and should (must!) emerge pretty fast, even, in order to __survive__.

That is in fact correct. Apparently dopamine circuits activate with exploration and novelty. An example given in the book I mentioned above [1] asks you to imagine walking to work, and seeing a new burger joint, your brain goes

> aha! Prediction error! I must explore

Which is why we crave things and want to try new stuff. So effectively we have a world model that is constantly evaluated and some circuits that promote search for novelty, not only making it cheaper to execute certain behaviour, but compelling us even to do so, making it harder not to do things.

> See, this is where I respectfully disagree. The benefit can be emerging from a longer-term simulation rather than immediately. You might say: sure but what are the chances of this happening? Well how many intelligent species like ours have we encountered so far? On this planet, in this universe?

The benefits here are seen when we consider just how long it takes to have a properly functional human. I mentioned above that changes across generations are small, genetic and epigenetic. What I failed to mention however is that that is not the only way information is passed between generations. This is where pro-social behaviour shines the most I think. In the capacity to accumulate and pass information across generations.

Using your levels of intelligence, we could argue that all of them serve a self-replicating purpose the core - level 0 if you will. On top of that chemistry exists, providing a basic self-replication mechanism. Evolution itself - the capacity to mutate - is a search mechanism for better self-replication ontop of the chemistry, so level 1 if you will. Then due to limitations in speed of evolution - societies evolve, not individuals - we have a level 2, epigenetics. Then we reach group dynamics (e.g. monkeys with electroshock that learn not to do a certain behaviour even though none of the original monkeys of the experiment are present), so information is passed through immediate interactions. This could very well be level 3. And finally passing and disseminating information across generations through written work as a level 4.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/38728977-the-molecule...
Mailinabox is much simpler https://mailinabox.email/
May I know if you are speaking from experience/knowledge?

Thinking to have root domain for a holding company, wondering the cost.
Did you ever get the situation sorted? If so, any tips?
There is also iredmail: https://www.iredmail.org/
Yes. Also a bit nihilistic at that.
Huawei? Yeah, while this didn't happen to me or anyone I know, I can definitely believe that it happened.
> I think a much better question would be "how are information security and privacy controls implemented"

I don't work for Google, but if I was asked that question, I'd be afraid of giving an answer that would violate my NDA. You'd probably get a vague answer like, "Those policies and processes do exist, but I'm not at liberty to go into them right now. Why do you ask - is there something specific I can address?"
Not a joke. The politician are not their national heros. And if a vice-major of Bejing is able to blow up the Chinese dominance in their most favorite sport caused by incompetence and for his pure selfish political advances, major disruptions could have been expected.
This sounds like a great idea. Email is not something you can drop from one day to another, there's no real alternative as most services require it.

This would require certain rules to avoid SPAM, but the outcome is totally worth for me.
It shows potential but still remains a toy for now, reminding me of the looping app on iPad where you can add or remove loops to compose music. You will never fail, but that's the problem: improvisation often comes with risk and that makes us exciting. Can learn different things from other interesting web-based interfaces:

https://glicol.org

https://gibber.cc

https://roland50.studio
Ask HN: Break a Signed MOU
Hi all,

A friend of mine joined an incubator program, signed their MOU basically restricted them to leave if the incubator decide to select their team.

Their team was selected to get investment, no further documentations was signed.

But they realized the deal wasn't that good and wanted to leave. People in the incubator didn't agree, said they either quit without touching the project in 6 months, otherwise would be sued

What's your advise in this case?

Thank you!
How do alcohol and obesity cause cancer? Is it a correlation or patients not being strong enough to fight cancer as a result of these?
Why is the focus on managers? This just feels like needless bashing on managers. IC can just as easily fall in love with their own bad ideas, and I have seen many ICs defend bad ideas in meetings because they don't want to admit that their original idea was a bad one. This happens to everybody.
Even if you are bandwidth-limited you can rephrase this as "3% slower for half the CPU usage" which is still a good bargain in a lot of cases.
Batteries and lots of copper and aluminum. Steel is cheap. You also have better economy of scale in IC vehicles for now.

I feel like we're dismissing other hydrocarbons too early. When I was a kid, people had propane or methane cars which were basically converted gasoline cars. Sure, not anywhere near as efficient but combined with hybrid tech for regenerative braking you likely have a more efficient car overall(nat gas is less refining energy than gasoline IIRC and we have a lot of it). You can also build them a lot cheaper since they use smaller electric motors, less coppper, less aluminum, and less lithium.

Yes I know BEV zealots hate hybrids but until we have better Li supply chains we need to conserve it and get more vehicles off of pure IC drivetrains.
I am also facing the same.
>Google has the leverage to fix this if they wanted to.

How?

>Samsung is also leaving a competitive advantage on the table by not doing this with Exynos.

How is Samsung different than the rest? They also make their money from selling as much hardware as possible as often as possible. They don't have a way to monetize users post-sale through subscriptions, services and AppStore cuts. All that infrastructure is owned by Google and that's where the money goes to.
> Rust users outside of game dev praise the "if it compiles, it's usually correct",

Why do people keep echoing this sentiment? I don't find this to be particularly true, in my sense of "correct". Yes, it does what the code says it'll do, but rarely the problem I actually get stuck at are language/syntax/semantic errors, it's usually domain/logic errors.

Same can be said for PHP, JavaScript and a bunch of languages, as every program that is possible to run without error, is correct, at least in the eyes of the interpreter. But again, the difficult errors are not syntax/language errors.
Isn't the purpose of the bridge to avoid storing unencrypted emails on Protonmail's servers?
30 years ago, quit using Jiffy Lube after the tech (1) took out a plug to check manual trans fluid, (2) discovered it was not the right one, and (3) jammed it back in the best he could.

At least I got a free transmission rebuild out of it, but walking (or bus :\ ) to work for 2 weeks was not exciting.
New kext-less macOS fuse implementation
There's new project that aims to deliver libfuse for mac without using kernel extensions. check it out.
> Even conscientious cyclists who call “on your left” or whatever routinely underestimate the necessary reaction time and overestimate how far their voice will carry.

You are absolutely right. As a cyclist there isn’t really any good way to reliably avoid startling a pedestrian in a mixed environment. Even if you do the even more conscientious thing and you slow all the way down to match speed with them, and then “walk” with their speed for seconds and softly anounce your presence with an “excuse me” there are still some who get startled. I have had people act after all of that as if I tried to murder them. And I totally understand them! From their perspective they were all alone and “all of a sudden” a cyclist poped into existence behind them. And in their subjective reality they have just avoided a collision by jumping out of the way of some “crazy speeding biker”, but that biker only exists in their imagination. An outside observer would see a bike slowly catching up and matching speed with them, with zero chance of collision no matter what they might do, but that is not what they seem to experience.
> was told by them as well that the record is 100% gone, yet I still can't make any headway in loans or credit cards. The _only_ thing that makes sense is that I'm being flagged due to my physical address in the US -- high-crime, low-income inner city neighborhood

Hmm, you may want to check if there are other public records with respect to this. That seems much more likely than redlining. (Also, credit card companies have been criticised both ways on this—for denying credit to such neighbourhoods as well as for flooding them with offers.)
Usually browser based adblockers such as Ublock Origin apply extra logic on top of domains to determine if it's an ad or not and if it should be blocked, and they're usually quite successful.
This. Qmail was lightweight.

Postfix was considered robust but reliable without security holes.

And then at some point postfix took over qmail as the default.
That reply makes no sense to me. The post you are replying to suggested replacing meat with veggies (instead of fake meat). Why do you think eating veggies will "kill the planet"?
People do change their behavior slowly.

That is why filming on factory farms and slaughterhouses is a jailable offense in Australia and why the meat industry spends billions on handouts worldwide.

Very simple changes like reducing meat in media, mandating a listed vegetarian option at restaraunts, forced transparency on the harms involved, and lowering the massive subsidies would reduce meat consumption considerably.

Or you could do the same thing that was done to almost completely stop the influx of new smokers. Lock the meat behind a cabinet out of sight and include a picture of the animal at the place and time of its death on the packaging.
I self-hosted my email during some years. My IP was banned in certain providers a few times, I guess due to neighbors. I also found quite complex to manage the service using dovecot at that time, but I guess today we have simpler servers.

However, I ended up moving away. Sadly, dealing with deny-lists and the management overhead was not worth for me. Fortunately, there are alternatives that doesn't require you to go to big providers :)
> Sure. We'll just believe that ProtonMail locks accounts randomly, for no reason.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/ic19q4/locked_o...

A quick Google search returns tons of results from ProtonMail's subreddit of people complaining that ProtonMail locked them out of their account for unknown random reasons.

This is a curated subreddit.
Agreed. The benefits of their idea working out are huge, but so is the personal negative impact of it failing -- even if the outcome for the company is better.

A lot of people also find it really difficult to admit they were wrong, even to themselves. This means as an idea starts emerging as suboptimal, the people that came up with and championed it are going to be the last to see that, and will be pushing for it despite what look like clear flaws. This is probably better explained by the gambler's fallacy than Ikea effect, though.
This is true, but to OP’s point, biking infrastructure is way more pedestrian friendly than car infrastructure.
Maps originated in Australia, originally developed by an Australian company Where 2 Technologies employing two Danish brothers in Sydney.

> Google Maps first started as a C++ program designed by two Danish brothers, Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, and Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, at the Sydney-based company Where 2 Technologies. It was first designed to be separately downloaded by users, but the company later pitched the idea for a purely Web-based product to Google management, changing the method of distribution.[9] In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google Inc.[10] where it transformed into the web application Google Maps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Acquisitions
> has some Lispy goodness

Some "lispy goodness" like what? Is it s-expressions? Or do you mean like it has things lisp invented: things like conditionals ("if/else" statements), garbage collection, recursion and first-class functions?

If the first, that'd be super interesting! If it's the latter, tons of programming language have implemented features like that before :)
After reading through the original study[0], I am rather unconvinced of the significance of this effect.

The experimental setup was basically:

1. Divide participants into builders or non-builders

2. Get the builders to assemble an IKEA box, and have the non-builders inspect an assembled box

3. Get the builders to bid on the box they assembled, and the non-builders to bid on the box they inspected

The results sound very impressive, with the builder group bidding 63% more than the non-builder group.

Looking closer, however, the absolute magnitude of the change is tiny, with the builders bidding $0.78 for their masterpiece, while the non-builders bid $0.48.

It's clear that reporting a 63% bid increase makes for a more marketable study than one that reports a 30 cent difference, but it's unclear if this effect scales with larger purchases.

I'm not familiar with the broader literature, but from my uninformed vantage, it seems possible that the effect declines into insignificance with larger purchases.

The paper also reports a second experiment with origami, and the difference is $0.05 vs $0.23, which at least is consistent with the hypothesis that the effect size will decline as prices increase.

[0]: https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/11-091.pdf
Not OP, but I’m constantly reading and researching things. I have many decades of notes about a multitude of topics I’d hate to lose.
Don't ignore the janitor
> But how much time do you spend dealing with that? Is it worth it?

Not much, maybe on hour per month at most. I've been running Postfix on a dedicated server for 20+ years and don't need much time dealing with it.

But I've made sure to keep the same ip address when upgrading servers (possible with Hetzner) and besides configuring postfix to reject various connection attempts I do run spamassassin. Resulting in about one or two spam mails per week (moved into their own box by procmail in the filter chain) which I handle once a week by training spamassassin (takes just a minute).
Post-pandemic I think people are pretty tired of behavior change campaigns like these. What would you do about backlash or counter-movements?
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Wow! You're really going to just discredit the long and wide harassment campaign against near?
I haven't heard great things about it, but there is a Marketplace product that should let you do what you are after. Alternatively, you could just write the code you want in some BPFL file, and expose them as static functions.

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/magic...
So they way to do this - and what I did - is to not apply for anything other than a store card, e.g. Target, they gave me $300 credit - and use it regularly. After a year you’ll be able to get a regular credit card from your bank. Make sure to use it regularly, never make a late payment, and your credit rating will increase.
That comment section.