skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made one from spare parts I had laying around in 2012 after a derecho knocked out power to my house for eight days.

I used it to connect a generator to the circuit that my refrigerator, my daughter's CPAP, a fan, and some lights were connected to.

They were selling generators off a back of a truck as fast as they could be brought into the state. I managed to snag a generator but extension cords and power strips were sold out in a 500 mile radius.

I flipped the main breaker and turned off everything else except the outdoor circuit and the one in the kitchen the refrigerator was on. That way I could run the generator outside, on my deck, connected to the outdoor circuit and power the kitchen circuit. The kitchen circuit has two outlets so my only long extension cord went from the second outlet to my daughter's bedroom to power her CPAP and phones, two table lamps, and a reciprocating fan were powered off the other plug of that outlet.

"But you'll backfeed the grid" No, I won't.

"But you'll wire it wrong" No, I won't.

"But you'll shock yourself" No, I won't.

If you think that's dangerous wait until you see the Tesla coil I built 20 years ago, or the 1kW amateur radio amplifier I built when I was 17 based off of plans I found in a magazine from the 60s.
They exist and just have cleverly designed housings that shield both pins and sockets. But it would be a bad idea for household power as it wouldn’t prevent you from doing things such as short two outlets together.
I remember one summer camp I went to as a kid where the showers were "spicy". Much in the same way a 9 volt battery feels on your tongue. In hindsight... what the hell???
My dad always used the ball bearing explosion scene to demonstrate his surround sound system to guests :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiHZWeeoEUg
Anywhere you can run Python code basically. Sadly, with the decline of Heroku, I don't know of any places you can run Python code 24/7 for free.

Myself, I run Slack bots on AWS inside a Docker container on ECS (for $day_job) and inside a Docker container on my Synology for personal use.
The reactions arent necessarily fake, its much more that they hunt out and push those (very small number) for the sake of publicity; and to offset and undermine the credibility of critics.

No one really hears any attacks against GB 2016's critics now, but before release, they were all tantamount to racists and sexists.
Interesting. I’ve only ever used Reddit for like diy, maker type subreddits and those are pretty hard to fake. Between Reddit and twitter, it sounds like we are being manipulated to the moon and back.
This https://thegrayzone.com/2022/09/15/zelensky-bodyguards-hitle... ?

Yeahhh, the bodyguard for the Jewish guy is a Nazi! (Note grayzone is HEAVILY russian biased.)

Fuck it, I'm jewish and I'd rather be interrogated by the Ukranians than the Russians any day: https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1570779528196399104
We spent hours calculating the impedance and current and resistance and whatever in dozens of complicated circuits in undergrad, and I can't tell you how a basic home electrical installation works. File that under "things that everybody should know but school doesn't want to teach".
Just install uBlock Origin. It blocks ads everywhere, not just YT.
>Any even neutral story about Russia

People tend to approach a country differently depending on whether it's a genocidal regime invading another country, or the defending nation. When thinking about WW2 we think of Nazis in a fundamentally different way than we think of their victims.

Another thing is, it's been six months and we can tell how close to reality Ukrainian and Russian propaganda turns out to be afterwards. And from that we can tell that while the Ukrainian one is pretty close - you can compare their estimates of Russian losses with eg Oryx - the Russian propaganda is... far out. The joke about Russian Air Force completely destroying Ukrainian Air Force three times over is not a joke - that's official Russian stats.
I like the motto “safety is our number three priority” but I also think that people sharing info about their danger-spraying project should take a moment to say a line or two about how they think about the issues. Instead of just ignoring them.
the suicide cord is one of those things that you make when you need it. The thing is supposed to look sketchy because it is sketchy. Like big ugly ball of duct tape sketchy.

when you correct the error that required the cord in the first place, you disassemble the suicide cord as penance for having created such a thing, and to ensure that it doesn't find its way into use somewhere else.
The slides are interesting, though I wonder whether the 5% power consumption increase could go away:

https://lpc.events/event/16/contributions/1198/attachments/9...
Battery backups and generators definitely include an automatic cutoff switch (by law).
O˜(N and Poly(k))-Time Algorithm for Bounded Tree Edit Distance
"...Computing the edit distance of two strings is one of the most basic problems in computer science and combinatorial optimization. Tree edit distance is a natural generalization of edit distance in which the task is to compute a measure of dissimilarity between two (unweighted) rooted trees with node labels...

...Perhaps the most notable recent application of tree edit distance is in NoSQL big databases, such as MongoDB, where each row of the database is a JSON document represented as a labeled rooted tree, and finding dissimilarity between two rows is a basic operation...

...Until recently, the fastest algorithm for tree edit distance ran in cubic time... The existence of an O~(n+poly(k))-time algorithm for tree edit distance has been posed as an open question...In this paper, we answer this question positively..." -
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.07524.pdf
This is a custom UI I built to showcase the collection we started on the Internet Archive as part of that collaboration. The collection has grown considerably since that time, but it’s the same set of files.

My writeup of the Winamp Skin Museum can be found here if anyone wants to learn more: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/winamp-skin-musuem/
Non removable sim? Who wants that?
I thought it was a pun on the chemical and the database properties (hydrofluoric acid vs Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability)
Facebook has an explicit policy regarding Holocaust denial content: https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/removing-holocaust-denial-...
Given their human-reviewed decision to "permanently restrict" the advertising of "Beautiful Blue Eyes", this policy appears to be a disingenuous public relations stance. As director Joshua Newton contends, Facebook's tunnel vision adherence to their keyword flagging algorithm acts as a significant agent for the Holocaust denial movement.
Lot's of people fantasizing about what they'll do at the border with weaponizing the data on a burner phone. Let me present a "simpler" and actually realistic option (only for US citizens) on how to handle this:

1. Have a reasonable amount of emergency savings (6-8 months of expenses stored).

2. Have someone in-country who isn't traveling with you who can make sure your bills get paid (financial power of attorney).

3. Apply for Global Entry, which pre-clears you for border crossing.

4. Turn your phone /off/ when you land (usually a 15-20 minute walk to passport control in most airports). Powering off is important.

5. Refuse to provide the password, refuse to unlock. Provide all relevant travel documents and customs declarations, and allow free inspection of your baggage.

6. Wait... depends on the agent. Longest I've been detained was 2 days, most of the time they hem and haw for an hour or so and let you go.

7. Go on with your life.

Step #1 and #2 is in case you get arrested, which will almost guarantee losing your job, at least for right then. Since you can clearly establish no priors and that you aren't a flight risk, getting bail and then finding another job should be relatively easy to do within 6-8 months for most of the HN crowd. Also, invest in pre-paid legal.

Obviously, this is assuming things go mostly okay and you don't get murdered at the airport, however the realistic probability of this occurring is fantastically low (these types of crimes are almost always committed in the US by local law enforcement, not federal law enforcement, as feds undergo much more stringent requirements and aren't just your high school bully drunk on power with a gun).

Steps #1 and #2 you should be doing anyway, just out of good financial sense. Step #3 you should do anyway if you're traveling internationally regularly just to make your life easier when black swan events don't happen. And Step #4 you should do EVERY time you are about to let your phone out of your possession, whether involving the government or not, because it prevents most forms of attacks against an encrypted device and disables biometric unlock (which can be coerced/forced/done when you are dead).

The hardest step is honestly #7, because after what I've experienced in my travels (and let me tell you, the US CBP is MUCH MUCH more professional, courteous, and reasonable than many many other countries), nobody really believes you and there are way too many people that are apologists for the powerful. Governments, pretty much universally, suck. The only difference between whether you personally experience the suck or not is whether or not you happen to get randomly selected or fall outside the bounds of what the government expects of you. There is no requirement that you do anything "wrong" in either the moral or legal sense, to end up stuck in the suck. Embrace the suck early if you plan to exercise your rights, because doing so will bring the suck on to you full force, but if you're the self-righteous type at least you'll get some sense of satisfaction out of it.
I think my adblocker causes videos with ads to break on YouTube. They'll just have a loading spinner that never finishes. If I open them in a new tab or window it'll continue to happen. If I open in an incognito window (which has extensions disabled) it'll load fine.
This will inevitably be filled with people talking about adblock. Changes like this are more targeted at people who watch videos on mobile which is most people. I would venture a guess and say most people use Chrome or the Youtube app to watch videos.

And no, the large majority of people don't know Firefox on Android + uBlock Origin even exist.
I don't know what percentage of electrical work is inspected, but I would certainly not characterize it as "reliably". There are aisles full of electrical equipment sold at Home Depot and Lowes. The (vast?) majority of that is getting installed with no inspections.
I probably would not use the internet if it were not for uBO
Our Ancestors Thought We'd Build an Economic Paradise. What Happened?
And hyper, for their native HTTP extension (for http2).

https://github.com/denoland/deno/blob/main/ext/http/lib.rs#L...
CBP will happily dismantle your car and give it back to you in pieces.
They just live in Western information bubble on Twitter.

In 2014 the West did some mild condemnations and so did Russian twitter crowd. In 2022 the West decided it's time to boot Russia and so they promptly left.

Many of them are returning now since they did not have means to stay there anymore (no job, no residency permit, no ways to draw sufficient money from Russia)
We tripled max concurrent jobs to boost performance of GitHub Actions
I don't think that is a good example, nothing is stopping you from using a different browser or operating system to keep using your preferred application after development is shutdown. If you are self-hosting these avenues are still open to you; a discontinued online service is just gone.
Replacing stock compensation with cash salary and bonus would be a terrible idea.

Other industries should be moving toward employee ownership, not the other way around. Employee ownership creates shared incentives. Shared incentives create alignment. Alignment helps eliminate an antagonistic relationship between employees and management. Instead of them vs. us, it moves it more towards all us. Instead of the fat cats and the lowly workers, everyone gets to reap the benefits or share the losses. Of course the founders and execs get more, I'm not saying it's equal, but it is a far better system than pure cash.
As others have said, grad school is a very different animal from undergrad. People choose undergraduate schools for all kinds of reasons, but a graduate degree should be 100% focused on what’s best for your career.

I think you’re looking at things from the wrong direction, and flipping it around will help a great deal. It seems like you’re going from the idea that you want to further your education, to thinking about potential degrees, and only then what you might do with them. This is how you wind up in a masters program that turns out to go nowhere or be a bad fit. Instead, turn it around! Set a goal for yourself and plan backwards from there.

What degree do you need? Do you need one at all? What kind of advisors and faculty should you be looking for? All questions that you can only answer sensibly with a goal in mind.
That's funny, because in my social media circles I see a lot of edgy contrarians blaming the West for everything.

Even after Putin compared himself to Peter the Great [1], in that Peter righteously conquered possessions of Sweden to "return" them to the rightful possession of the Russian empire, and Putin was now doing the same with Ukraine - which, according to him, seems to have no right to possess itself.

Putin is the worst thing to happen to the international community since Hitler. He wants to return Russia back to its former imperial glory, and he doesn't care how many millions of lives he must destroy or subjugate to achieve that. I don't understand how it's difficult to see. Or maybe some people don't want to see.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/10/putin-compares...
Other discussion of this elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32865926
It's aes256 using openssl:

https://github.com/mrichtarsky/glacier_deep_archive_backup/b...

Does that leak information you would be concerned about?

It's always a full backup.
It's called USB-C
The Hackers soundtrack is the root node of all my electronic music discoveries…

It all started with Orbital, Underworld, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Leftfield…
> I recommend Jabra Elite 75t.

Discontinued as of this month: "FYI Our current top pick, the Jabra Elite Active 75t, has been discontinued and is no longer available."

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-workout-head...
Calibre for e-books.
We don’t just need human moderation, we need due process. These companies control too much of our digital lives and make so much money from us, but have zero regard for us as soon as it’s inconvenient to investigate a case, because that would cut into their insane margins. I was permabanned for Twitter recently merely for getting the attention of some large influencers who disagreed with me (no actual rule was broken, but I received enough reports that my account was nuked).

I appealed multiple times but Twitter’s appeal process is a sham for us little people. I doubt any humans ever looked at my account.
Seconding reddit being very extremely, explicitly antisemitic. It's really just /pol/ with slightly bigger words much of the time.
What you do is look at the rationale that was given before it happened. You look at their reasoning and figure out if it was actually what happened in reality. Just make sure you are not picking up on their rationalisation after the fact.
All these years later, there is an answer to years of lounging. Thank you for the closure. :)
If you plugged your double cord into the snowblower and never unplugged it, it wouldn't be that unsafe.
I wonder what happens when the grid comes back up at a mismatched phase. If only mythbusters were still around. :-)
The fact it got taught in school is only lightly correlated to what adult will know. It's also indirect, like, math teaches you everything you need to know to calculate load or do your taxes, or home budget, yet people have problems with it coz they never had someone teach them how to apply knowledge to real problems
MTG successfully argued in court that since 1776 is emblazoned over the threshold of the court, that references to the American Revolution are built into our judicial system.
This might be simply because Rashists tend to keep to Telegram and other "non-prohibited" media.
The movement of white people out of neighbourhoods with black people, and the use of redlining to concentrate a marginalized group within those neighbourhoods led to a disinvestment of both private and public capital in those neighbourhoods, creating and later perpetuating the cycle of poverty that leads people to turn to crime to survive. It does make sense for people with the means to leave a neighbourhood (from a personal safety standpoint) when it starts to have an increased crime problem but that is not what is being described here. Instead, the people left due to the racism that was prevalent in the mid-20th century, well before the rise in crime that resulted from their leaving.
It very much does exist. Just look for places trying to change the very basics of how the world works by hacking on new technology. You know, the places that naturally attract cypherpunks, people distrustful of 'the system' and the like.

You can also find people with that ethos in corporate places, but they get swarmed out by suits and people who went to coding school because it pays well.
+1 upvote for Laravel source code
Maybe people are talking about it so other people can know that adblockers for YouTube (even on mobile) exist. I don't see anything wrong with that.
It seems like the model here is just a series of temporary alternatives (if we're lucky, creating value isn't easy). But people need software to be long-term viable to invest in learning and locking into the ecosystem. Seems good for the founders though.
Then fix it. It's much better to take the L and fix your lights than burn your f*ing house down.
Oh my god, it's full of stars!
The video linked from the old thread is golden!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3_gnnz6Bkw
This is cool (ha) but won’t its reflectance be substantially diminished the moment it gets dirty? Feels like that might end up being an issue if you’re aiming to paint a roof with this.

Still likely better than painting a roof with anything else, I suppose.
It means the stream of capital being injected into companies, startups, incubators is inversely correlated to fed interest rates.

Likewise for real estate sector, the monthly mortgage payments increase as rates rise and that puts a big strain on the mortgage holder to continue.

Now instead of real estate, think startups, stocks, tech. Everybody is beholden to the obligations at the rate dictated by the fed.
Don't let it get you down. I was recently banned from a subreddit after one (neutral) comment for being a white supremacist.

If I'm a white supremacist, I'd hate to find out what actual white supremacists are.

I messaged the mods asking which rule I'd broken (because I hadn't broken one). They responded by muting me for 28 days.

Forget it Jake, it's Reddit-town.
If well used could be the final blow to vaccine skepticism. The advent of these cheap tools is a very subtle - barely noticed, if at all - change that, as sometimes happen, can have a big impact on society. More of these, please.
US moving closer to letting Americans file taxes free online
From Readme to Docusaurus: How an Intern Saved Us $1.2k
Docusaurus is really fun to work with. Nice and fast, super configurable, and excellent documentation! If you're used to React it's a no-brainer, the sky is the limit.
What adblocker do you have? Use uBlock Origin if you don't already, it works for YouTube just fine, and every other site.
The actual chance of your generator backfeeding the grid is nigh nill. The issue is that all your neighbors are still connected. The moment your generator touches the grid it acts as pretty much a dead short.

Not saying it can't happen. The main one where it could is if the break is between your house and everybody else. But in the vast majority of situations you will instantly pop the dinky 15a breaker
From experience, that's not true. A bonus of $N is worth $N. A stock grant of $N has turned out to be worth $2.5*N or even more, by the time it finishes vesting.

Could it have gone the other way? Of course, and it's often likely that at startups stock could be worth zero. But at large companies, even with the recent dips in stock prices, employees who joined 2+ years ago are better off with stock grants than they would have been with equivalent fixed-size cash bonuses -- so much so, that would often have to take a pay cut to work anywhere else.
I know this isn't what you were looking for...but the literal source code for this website: view-source:https://www.lingscars.com/
Thought experiment: Could you make one of these wires that is safe?

I think you'd have to start with human rated GFCI... Current GFCI systems aren't human rated (ie. they might fail, and should only be used as a secondary safety feature, not the primary way to stop the user touching the electricity).
Netflix's value is quite a bit higher than its income, and that value is quite a bit higher than the figures we see for market leaders buying major competitors. Now, if it were worth $20B rather than $100B...
Water analogues kinda assumes you somehow know hydraulics but not electrics tho.
Ripe fromage. If I were writing the sequel, it would be a series, and it would be about how they grew up and now they all work leading security at platform companies and government agencies. While reversing a worm that was unleashed by trolls to sabotage a social-credit/Nosedive-like app, Kate/acidburn finds the encoded string "that place where I put that thing that time," which has to be a reference to their old crew, but she can't let anyone know because the scandal against the social platform company would swing an election. Story unfolds as a mix of tracking down Dade/zerocool, who apparently made money in crypto and disappeared to live on boats and vanlife away from technology, and who may be the one behind the worm. Busting him busts her, so she has to find her old ex and talk him down somehow. He may also be the father of her first kid and she still has unreconciled feelings, and he doesn't know. Homages to the Before Midnight sequels about finding each other again, and the Thurman/Carradine Kill Bill finale.

Working title is, "Defcon 30" Who wants to fund it?
A few years ago in France a think tank tried to count the numbers of “Russian bots” involved in the French political debate on Twitter, and they actually published the list of several thousand Twitter accounts (how is that GDPR compliant, don't ask me), in the end many (the majority maybe) of the flagged accounts were in fact legit Twitter users and for the flagged people it became a meme to put its rank in the list in their twitter profile.

Beware of analysis trying to count the number of bots, bots are hard to detect without false positive especially when all you have access to is public data.
I print backup codes where available, but some providers don't offer it and instead instruct me to have two devices. Do you maintain 2+ devices with your 2FA codes? Do you carry both devices everywhere? Or just when you need to add a new 2FA code to Authenticator?
In my country (NL) it is advised against that (though it used to be common practice), since a bit of water pipe running from your house might have been replaced with a plastic one and the metal bit still sticking out into your house might not have the proper ground resistance to function as a proper earth wire.
Any good ad blocking mechanisms for Safari 15 and/or 16 on macOS?