skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't, really. You can (usually) change the DNS resolver your provided router uses to an internal IP, then statically assign that IP to your pi-hole.

This is totally right, and that is how I have my network configured. I have a firewall behind a dumb cable modem, and I set the DNS server for the network on that device. When machines configure w/ DHCP, they get assigned the router's address for dns resolution, which then delegates to the pi-hole. That's all specific to my hardware though.
Is this contabo reliable? Their prices are extremely low (way more than Hetzner).
I'm not sure why you are taking so churlish a tone. Does you no favors. I don't think anyone here is trying to deny that climate change is an aggravating factor in the increasing frequency of large very destructive fires. But if the reaction to this is to stop including fire in our land management practices--as it well could--then that is bad.

Of course the frequency of forest fires is a function of drought conditions. Fuel aridity is the number 1 driver of wildland fire activity, particularly in the fire season. Fuel aridity in turn is a function of drought conditions, but also temperature. Increasing temperature (due to climate change, for example) increases the aridity, yes, but increasing temperature does not itself lead to drought. Warmer air can carry more moisture. Expected rainfall on the East Coast is expected to increase with climate change, and that would in turn decrease fuel aridity and the chance of fire. The western US had gone through centuries long periods of drought before, and it will again, with or without gw climate change (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0911197107). It's not even clear that you can say we'd not be having so severe a drought were anthropogenic gw were not happening.

And yes, the frequency, and more importantly, the extent and heat of wildfires, is a function of fuel availability. You are correct that controlled burns have been part of forest management practice for decades, but controlled burns are much too infrequent, and are frequently opposed for a variety of reasons (limited time of year, becoming more dangerous due to drought, local opposition, air quality concerns, budget issues, etc.). Can you show, with data, that there has been a decrease in fuel availability? I doubt it. Though increased fuel density is in turn a function of other things besides fire suppression.

Droughts happen with and without the accumulation of carbon in the atmosphere. The western US has gone through very prolonged droughts before, and it will again, with or without increases in temperature.
So The Wire is a subtle endorsement of the 'game B' idea?
You were probably raised by a kind of Catholic I call "Catholic Light". They pray, go to church, think of god from time to time, and that's about it. Hardcore Catholicism is scary like any extremist religion, it will instill in children the fear of being watched and judged all the time, with no place to hide, not even your thoughts. It will make you fear eternal torture in hell because you're impure since birth, and every tiny sin makes you impure again. You become totally dependent on Catholic authority because only they can clean and save your soul, only for it to become dirty again almost immediately.

Subjecting a child to the fear of thought crime is the actual lunacy.
if you're building desktop software for windows then yeah, you should use windows. but these days, most development isn't for windows.
I agree that many do. But I also think that if many of them won $50 million (or whatever) in the lottery tomorrow, they would, at a minimum, immediately renegotiate the terms of their job.
Funny enough, they say in a few different ways that while it isn't a very practical exercise, you're just sitting there anyway. So it is not aimed at most athletes.

Athletes already have strong metabolic responses, except when they plateau, but that's surely not going to happen to a couch potato or desk jockey.
This is very interesting. Do you know how are these licensed?
Ireland is the easiest one and one I’m seriously considering. You can move and work visa free as a UK citizen, and after you’ve lived there for 5 years you can claim Irish citizenship. EU passport back and can go wherever you want. I quite like the Irish craic so I might end up making it home for good.

Handy if you’ve got roots in the UK as well because you’re not far away, especially if you live near Dublin which has flights to most major cities in the UK for £20 to £30. Only problem is they’ve got an even worse housing crisis and cost of living crisis than we do. Significantly more expensive than even Scandinavia.
Why I’m celebrating banned books week
My friend did this before jungle warfare training and said "I can't check my weapon out SSgt I'm drunk!". The SSgt checked it out for him and he spend the drive to jungle warfare course puking out of the back of a humvee.

His name was Conklin and he was from Cali. Wonder where he is now.
Compare Yosemite valley from 1913 to 2021.[0] The valley meadows are mostly gone and types of trees have become a monoculture because of fire suppression. The NPS estimates 16,000 acres/year would burn in Yosemite before the fire suppression policy stopped the natural process.[1]

[0]https://i.redd.it/czk2mupwpaa81.png
[1]https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/firehistory.htm
As a starlink subscriber, I'm really not sure it matters. SL is leagues ahead of any of the other connectivity options available to me in rural Southern England (although I do have a nylon rope strung between the telegraph poles outside - suggesting FTTP may arrive one day), and I am totally in awe of the technology involved to deliver the SL service. Add in the relatively recent reductions in monthly subscription costs, and it simply represents phenomenal value for money. Isn't it incredible to think one can travel with a chair-sized device and get great internet connectivity pretty much anywhere on the globe? It opens up the possibility of medium remote work in isolated spots; I'm looking at skipping the miserable winter we have here in the UK, safe in the knowledge that I can roam with Dishy to (a qualified version of) anywhere warm at sensible cost.
Well depending on the size of your codebase, npm dependencies and Angular APIs used, it might or might not be a big deal.
You can have a rough estimate of the complexity by running 'ng update'.
Yes major releases come at a rapid pace and it is hard to always be on the latest version. We update regularly once we are 2-3 major versions behind and usually it's not so awful.
Games As A Service Is Incompatible With Art
David Byrne, Philip Glass, Allen Ginsberg on the outsider art of Arthur Russell
The term you're looking for is "dual-sim phone". That'll give you a jumping off point to look for a phone that suits your needs with regards to pricing and specs.

But yes, works like you're describing.
If all iPhones do this it will matter. Charging when energy is plentiful also means that electricity is more likely to come from renewables.
It seems I never got around to watching this particular video, thanks for linking it!

I absolutely agree with Tom Scott's conclusion, Windows will absolutely enable you to do whatever it is you want, regardless how stupid, and most likely without too much low-level jank that most people can't/won't deal with.
Both the UK and Israel have had record heatwaves this past summer, but the deaths are caused "by the vaccine"; But other countries, without heatwaves and heavy vaccine penetration, like the US, Australia, or Japan are just lying and don't have accurate data?

Is it that high heat causes the nano-particles in the vaccine to turn on the host?
The problem is a bunch of overpaid devs conflate anything that isn't absolute bleeding edge as a "bug", and we get into and endless cycle of UI refreshes and updates that exist solely to exist.
I guess it’s this https://9to5mac.com/2022/09/12/ios-16-clean-energy-charging-...
Great question! I'd love a peek at their source code to figure out these answers too!

I swear that comment is sarcasm free.
What are the learning projects that have best helped you grow?
Race to rein in strong dollar is on after Japan intervenes
The first uses I've seen from governments have see fast response task forces during disasters.
Ask HN: How to find a part-time remote job?
Factorio's official requirement for x86 is a dual core 3.0Ghz processor & yet it's able to run on Switch which has a very weak 1Ghz quad core cortex-A57 ARM CPU.

How is this possible? I would imagine CPU requirements to be more or less same across any resolution / operating system.

This is what makes Nintendo Switch interesting to me. It's CPU is even less powerful than an Raspberry Pi 4. Even midrange android smartphones today are much more efficient and powerful than Switch and yet Switch can run Doom / Skyrim just fine.
Yes, it's true.
> I took a long break (maybe 5 years or so) but I have recently started using both FB and Instagram and have been surprised at how positive my time has been on these platforms. On FB I have been finding interesting local groups and events (just moved to a new city) and on Instagram, I have been enjoying seeing updates from real friends.

Agreed.

I enjoy my time on Facebook. I think most of the complaints about Facebook (aside from privacy issues) are self-inflicted.

Your feed is what you make it. You have an uncle that's a rabid Trump supporter that posts racist shit? Delete him. Or at least unfollow him so his bullshit doesn't show up in your feed.

I recently discovered the term "hate-follow" and I'm just flabbergasted that anybody would ever follow someone on social media that they despise.

I've also heard that some people are very prone to envy and seeing someone's vacation photos fills them with depression, but eh...not sure what can be done about that.
Thanks. :)

I've been refining this. I'm actually learning FreeCAD to knock out a realistic 3D model.

One obvious change: run the CPU/GPU interconnect across the bottom: existing GPU designs could be used unmodified (or enhanced with only a new heatsink) and the 16x PCI-E lanes for the GPU would be easier to route off the CPU PCB.

There are virtually no significant differences between the motherboard layout IBM promulgated with original IBM PC (model 5150) in 1981 and what we have today. That machine had a 63W power supply and no heatsinks or fans outside the power supply. The solution to all existing problems with full featured, high power desktop machines is replacing the obsolescent motherboard design with something that accommodates what people have been building for at least 20 years now (approximately since the Prescott era and the rise of high power GPUs.)
I have spectrum, but same in principal here. Having familiarity with hardware I like is why I opt to provide my own modem and router. If anyone is considering going that route, I've had really good luck with ubiquiti networks unifi line. Really great quality for what you pay.
Every time I buy a new car, there suddenly are a lot of the same model everywhere I look.
your argument is predicated on the assumption that there’s no difference between you and a large group of people. this is very clearly a false assumption
I highly recommend a recent game called Outer Wilds that in my opinion takes the adventure game genre to the next level by giving it an open world feel. It does this through three ideas.

First, there are no collectible items, the game is about seeking information and it uses that information as the keys to unlock new areas instead of items. This does make the game very spoilerable though, but it removes the "combine item 1 with item 2" type of puzzles that are infamous for feeling constrained.

Second, it gives you an information map showing if there is any information left to find in each area. This gets around the problem of "pixel hunting" that early adventure games had where you missed something subtle so you had to wander through the entire game over again trying to find what you missed.

Third, "late game" areas are accessible at any time but are locked behind multiple pieces of information. This means that you actually can get to late game areas early on, but most people simply won't. This gives the game a sort of "trust the player" feel, where instead of putting the game on rails to make sure no one goes off the track, the developers remove the rails and trust that most players will loosely follow the path they planned, even though some will inevitably jump the track and go through the game in a weird order.
I'm afraid that I don't, and in fact that despite my belief in the concept (decisiveness!) I definitely struggle to adhere to it sometimes as well. Your example (where to go for dinner) puts my in mind of my wife, who does much the same and I get to watch her agonize and stress over tiny decisions that in my mind have no consequence whatsoever one way or another.

In fact, I do think that being married to her forces decisiveness from me, in many cases. But for others, I just don't empathize very much, even with her. I'm quick to point out that it's a tiny difference that won't make any difference in the long run, but it doesn't seem to help her at all (I'm not insensitive as this may sound, I really am trying to help and she knows that).

That's the only thing I can say though - maybe analyze why you think this is an important decision, worth your time of consideration. If you can't think of a good enough reason, then say to yourself, "it doesn't matter", and flip a coin. Maybe literally, if that helps.
Because... people always post non-paywalled links in the comments? Like 100% of the time.
Suppose someone's able to go out and find an arrangement that lets them get in their 20 hours of boredom a week. (Adjust this for however much your recommended dose is.) Should those people be allowed to spend some time listening to a podcast they enjoy?
If you don’t get offended, perhaps you get things out of proportion?
At some point I used a TS->JSONSchema generator and that worked out pretty great. Obviously it would be greater to be built into the language but I think that's always going to be out of scope of what TS aims to do.
> managers, perhaps many execs, are mostly liabilities

Reminds me of adages about parenting and children as well as government and the economy: more can be done to screw it up/make it worse than can be done to control let alone improve it.

The role should be defined by restraint and temperance.
Thanks for this!! Now my email is full of offers to buy historical steam engines, steam engine parts, and engineer hats. Amazon is even advertising a subscription for coal deliveries!
As long as you don’t use debuggers.
My home uses over 2MWh/mo over the summer, I think our peak bill this year was ~3200kWh.

Average highs these last few months has been around 100F or so and very sunny, with at least one month >100F for the high every day. Its finally "cooling off" around here, with our highs being in the upper 90s most days. Cooling >2000sqft of space, even with some decent insulation and keeping the AC to 78F in the day, uses a lot of energy. It uses ~30A @ 240V, so ~7.2kW. If it had to run 12 hours in a day, that's 86.4kWh in just a single day. Doing that for a month straight, that's 2,592kWh.

I was going to write up the math on how much my pool pump uses, but honestly it kind of turned into peanuts compared to the amount our AC usage is. The pump is 3/4HP. Running ~600W on the schedule of 8 hours a day + 12 hour once a week shock it really only worked out to 172.8kWh/mo of usage. Still though, that's 52% of your entire usage for just my pool.

Last year we probably used ~3,000kWh charging the EV. That's on average 250kWh/mo.
It does to me.

During World War II, the Canadian government raised taxes in a bid to reduce demand and curb inflation (along with wage and price controls, mandatory savings, and other measures).

Inversely, reducing taxes holds the potential to leave money in people's pockets, increase demand, and trigger inflation. Whether it does so will depend on a host of other factors, of course.
That's pretty much exactly what they say in this study. The point is if you are a sedentary couch potato or desk jockey, you can do this to activate a metabolic state. Literally the people who won't use your (good) advice.

It's why there is so much benefit to riding a cycle for 20-30 minutes before working out. Soleus Pushups done properly won't cause fatigue like the cycle does, yet triggers a long-lasting metabolic state (hours, versus minutes you can expect from short bursts of exercise) in the same amount of time.
Ok, I see now it says “below the level of”, which it apparently didn’t originally say according to my copy-paste.
Does LXC and LXD support the functional equivalent of Dockerfile or docker-compose.yml? I appreciate how Docker has become widely accepted for defining reproducible environments but have always found it to be rather heavy on resources.
> This is telling every Google employee who actually works on stuff (as opposed to managing people) "you, your comfort, and your professional development are less important to us than a tiny, tiny fraction of our quarterly profit. We at the top need to focus on making our dollar-denominated high scores go up even higher, so you all just have to tighten your belts and accept that you don't matter."

Basically, yes. I would use much more polite phrasing but you basically got it right. I think anyone who is offended by the underlying message here is misunderstanding how valuable an employee is. An employee is only as valuable as their replacement cost. And, that’s often completely detached from a company’s earnings. It’s not a pleasant message, but it’s reality and people would be better off if they realized this. To be clear, this applies to managers and execs as well.
are you the author of one of the pieces of software listed in this article? and if so, how certain are you that the author hasn't contributed to your project, either through direct financial contribution or by paying developers to work on it?

as far as i'm aware, tailscale is a pretty upstanding member of the open-source community.
Worldwide Repls, part 2: Load balancing for fun (although not quite profit)
I really wanted this in my earlier usage of typescript as well.

But the solution really is to assume `: unknown` at API boundaries and run the values through assertion functions: `isSomeType(x: unknown): asserts x is SomeType`.

After using this sort of pattern, I don't think I would want automatic runtime checks anymore, because creating your own explicitly and calling it explicitly works out not so bad.
Use XFCE, put your panels however you want them, done. Haven't ever had any update break my arrangement.
I knew there're will be a paywall as soon as I saw "special offer" on homepage. The numerous paid vim tutorials-like-games have taught me to immediately recognize something like this.
This selection of problems, for those that don't recognize them, is from 99 Prolog Problems
I'm surprised how the asian continent had a pervasive notion of holism. They always look very wide.
As we all know, congenital birth defects are proof that one cannot choose a profession that involves anything even remotely with that defect. For instance, a person with scoliosis simply can not be a physiotherapist. That’s just natural laws, natural consequences at play!

It’s a shame you don’t play by your own rules, because then we wouldn’t have to read your idiotic spew.
This video certainly isn't the most profound take on the future of the internet at that time. By this point people were predicting just about everything we have now. Mainstream coverage of that has always sounded out of touch.
I said "giving clear signals is attractive" - if you're not giving clear signals, that's unattractive. Is that not "the female side of the equation?"

I haven't denied anyone's agency or any reality, you just haven't proven what you think reality is. And trust me, if you know anything about me you wouldn't use "woke" as a descriptor. But imagine using "woke" unironically in 2022.
Tax cuts are an effective way to bolster a weak economy and create jobs—as long as they are targeted at the bottom 90% of income earners. - findings from NBER - https://www.nber.org/papers/w21035
The First On-Chain and Open-Source Blogging Platform – XLog
Thanks for your explanation.

I didn't have in mind the scenario of a keyboard logging user inputs besides the normal functionality of WhatsApp. I find this theory to be very plausible. Not at all happy with Meta's privacy policy, but I agree that it is worth considering other threats.

From using a VPN that logs all incoming and outgoing traffic (NetGuard) on an Android One device, I've noticied that the default Google keyboard gets in touch way too many times with some distant servers. Whereas, an open source keyboard from F-Droid, FlorisBoard, does no snooping and gets updated solely through the app store.
It's from his daughter's book "Small Fry". It wasn't on his deathbed, though he was very sick. She had put on some cologne that didn't smell good.
Someone thinking that the masks were somewhat effective at reducing spread, but still only wearing them because signal, is entirely consistent.
> You can reverse engineer those things and analyze your network traffic.

I frankly don't think people realize how much obfuscation of both app code and network traffic goes on under the hood. "analyzing network traffic" isn't a sustainable option when things are encrypted and behind dozens of layers of protobuf, websockets and other fancy protocols, and get updated and change around all the time. Far from everything is introspectable http, javascript and json these days, and that applies espeically to big apps like these. It's not hard to send privacy-sensitive data along with "legitimate" data like analytics at unexpected times and evade scrutiny.

Yes there's people that dedicate themselves to reverse engineering apps like this, but they're few and far between, and most of them focus on either the easy fish, or security vulns. Considering nobody's building public documentation on the protocols of these apps I'll have to assume it's hard enough and changes often enough to be worth the time of people without special monetary interests.

I agree with the rest of your assessment, there's way less "obviously malicious" ways to exfiltrate data about users than literally uploading users' pictures, since for example whatsapp stored unencrypted backups on google drive until very recently, among other things. I'm just trying to shed a light on the fact that apps like this have a lot of ways to accomplish this without raising too many eyebrows.
Seriously? Facebook knows their internal thoughts well enough to guess what topics they would choose when trying to pick something they "never talk about"?

If FB could do that, then FB would realize that these topics are not actually products they are interested in, so they wouldn't be showing ads.
could have edited it for that particular message with a

sent from a derivative of alan kay prototype
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I'm sorry, how is "greater than 50%" not the same as "most common?"

Either it's two players with 51% and 49%, in which case the 51% is "most common," or it's many players, with 51% and a bunch of other percentages that collectively add up to 49%, in which case the 51% is still the most common, perhaps even more so.

I'm not shilling for Apple here, as Android was clearly most common From 2011-2021, and still is world-wide. If anything, I'm shilling for the English language.
So this reminded me of two possibilities:

I think this is most likely the one you means: https://qntm.org/responsibility

but this one may be a contender if not. https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/2f1jfe/text_unreal/
It's a neat library, but you end up defining your types in an external (outside of TS) syntax, and you lose a lot of language-server features. Also, last I checked it could not handle generics. But it's been a while.