skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It’s because we are super sedentary.

I think about that too. Sitting in front of screens for most of the day, people don't need as much energy as they used to when the tradition of 2 to 3 meals a day was established. I chose to eat just once a day, and still think some more fasting wouldn't hurt.
Not sure if you are joking, but that's by far the most probable option. Just look at civilizations living for millenia near equator, be it Africa, isolated islands in Indian ocean (ie Nicobar) or native Australians.

Planet was colder, and around equator you actually have quite habitable places even now, deserts are further from equator. But you get tons of light whole year in very stable pattern.
Schemaless means there’s no assurance that the stored data matches any consistent schema. You may try to apply a schema on read, but you don’t know if the data being read will match it.
I totally feel your pain and would feel exactly the same way in your shoes. This also ties into the broader problem of contractors treating their clients horribly because their services are so in-demand. Basically, contractors can show up, do a horrible job, and they will completely disappear on you as soon as they get their money.

There's so much demand in their industry that all the best people are working on high paying corporate job sites (like building hospitals and new FAANG campuses), that the average homeowner is left dealing with garbage companies who treat their clients like shit.

Hopefully rising mortgage rates and falling house prices can cool demand a little and we can get some decently competent contractors again.

WRT solar, I was super impressed with jerryrigeverything's solar installation that he did himself. Basically you can get a kit that you install yourself and it's much cheaper than having a garbage contractor rip you off and ruin your roof in the process.

His video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSa1tvrrFZg
all immigration is legal if you claim to be an asylum seeker. It’s not intended to be a deportation-delayer for economic migrants.
That is not accurate. The countries are El Salvador, Peru, Mexico, Chile and Colombia.

Policía Nacional Civil de El Salvador (4 TB, @pnc.gob.sv)

Comando General de las Fuerzas Militares de Colombia (275 GB, @cgfm.mil.co)

Fuerza Armada de El Salvador (50 GB, @faes.gob.sv)

Comando Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas de Peru (35 GB, @ccffaa.mil.pe)

Ejercito del Peru (70 GB, @ejercito.mil.pe)

Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional de México (6 TB)
> These are the things many of us know, but aren't supposed to say out loud in some polite circles.

You're spending the majority of your comment saying "great numbers" of these folks are claiming asylum in bad-faith. You imply "great numbers" of them are here to game/play the system. You call a "great number" of them liars. You imply that they're criminals (not acting lawfully).

> I applaud their efforts

No you don't. You're painting "great numbers" of these people out to be untrustworthy to the point of preemptively calling them criminals.

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> and the idea that all these people are 'acting lawfully' is not only factually incorrect I assert you KNOW it is factually incorrect and use it here as propaganda

Instead of asserting what I know, maybe provide sources for your argument. I take it as an outright aggression toward me that you posit I am spreading propaganda.

Regardless. I rebut:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014704117

> We find that undocumented immigrants have substantially lower crime rates than native-born citizens and legal immigrants across a range of felony offenses. Relative to undocumented immigrants, US-born citizens are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes.

It's common sense that if you're looking to immigrate somewhere that you're not out there looking to break the law. Every study I have come across in regards to this seems to have similar outcomes. They know if they break the law they will likely be deported; and they typically act accordingly because they want to live, work, and raise their families in America.

I take great issue with you claiming I'm spreading propaganda. In good-faith I assure you, I am not.
Google wielded its substantial power and reputation to trigger government action incorrectly, causing someone to have significant difficulty.

IMO, that's at least a bit dystopian. (The blurring of lines between goverment and corporation is another dystopian scifi trope, even.)
>Long story short, don't fear shooters that are having fun at your local gun range, they wouldn't do anything that stupid and they know damn well the dangers.

Lol wut? My entire family is "responsible gun owners" who repeatedly engage in harmful gun culture stuff, keeping guns around young kids, mixing alcohol and drugs with firearms, and NOT STOPPING EACH OTHER FROM DOING THAT

I have no trust in people who say "no no no the responsible gun owners are fine" because they always claim that the people who did dangerous things were "no responsible gun owners" when stuff inevitably happens. It's a tautology to try and pretend like the people doing all the stupid things aren't very similar to the people who say we should trust them.
Not a Nate Silver fan, here, but I don't think the "right once" sentiment about him captures his record accurately. What really happened is that millions of people who have an underdeveloped understanding of what it means for a lower-probability event to happen in a single trial are telling on themselves whenever they refer to him as having been "wrong". I mean, if you play only one round of russian roulette — but you lose — it's not really a surprise, is it. There are only six chambers.
> I'm sometimes not sure if philosophers understand Goedel's incompleteness theorem

I'm usually not sure if I understand it (reverse: Im usually sure that I don't understand it). Also: I'm not a philosopher - I'm an old man that did a philosophy BA 40 years ago. I can't unpack this stuff.

I see a consonance between Gödel's theorems, Heisenberg's principle, Turing's work on computability, and some of the stuff in Frege and Wittgenstein. Maybe even Cantor. I wish I could to say this clearly-enough for someone to knock down. But I can't do the maths; I'm entirely dependent on the explanations of others.
PayPal locked my account after receiving 800 €, asked for my ID, got it, unlocked my account (gave me about 3 hours to withdraw) and then banned me permanently for having created the account before 18.

At this point, I consider most American companies as an active threat to me, especially if I used them before 18.
Montreal is what North America could be
Thanks for posting this, because it would not even have been on my list of questions to ask. I am considering a solar conversion, but an IoT connection is a complete deal-breaker for me. Now I know that, not only do I have to ask about it, I have to ask a lot of follow-up questions.
I've seen some gatekeeping in the OSM community as well. In this specific case, this is also (in my opinion) due to bad tooling. Basically the easiest way to keep an eye on an area is to use a tool that shows changesets whose bounding box includes a certain area. So you could make a single tiny edit in both NY and LA, the bbox would ping a huge swath of the US. This happens all the time, actually. It's annoying, but the way I see it that means we need a better way to see changesets that actually affect a specific area.
From my experience, non-tech people just leave browser defaults. I'd argue this is better than letting them to use public wifi without VPN. If you really care about security you won't use it, of course
The big European porn companies in the 70s and 80s were involved in trafficking children to countries where CP was not illegal. There's really no comparison, porn companies are run by the scum of the earth.
Anatomy of a debunked China coup rumour
I think that's probably far too broad. E.g. I don't have a problem with the IRS using computers to calculate how much people owe in taxes based on the info they collect. The number of people it would take to do that manually might be unreasonable. W-2 info has to be to the IRS by Jan 31st, taxes are due April 15th, that's 51 days to generate a couple hundred million tax return numbers.

Federal payroll is something else that would probably take an unreasonable number of people to manage manually.
> People who don't like the idea of phone numbers maybe should propose alternatives, because things are not fine the way they are

"There is no alternative" is not an excuse to implement a bad decision, short of a need to physically save lives. Bad actors can get phone numbers for verification stupidly easily, meanwhile privacy continues to be eroded for the sake of stopping them.
I could have predicted half of those tired examples. They’re all third party anecdotes and the same ones that get passed around and regurgitated. There’s also third-party anecdotes of Elon having no idea what he’s talking about, and several first-party arguments he’s made that shows he’s a bit of a charlatan.

None of those examples you gave are concrete.
>That is for the state, and local municipalities to decide - not congress.

Congress can attach strings, just like they do to tons of other things.

>Policing is best done at the local level. The police force needs to be local, and beholden to locals. It would be a very perverse system to have a "federalized" police force in every town and city...

I don't think you can just take that as a given. Most countries in the world have a federalized/unified police force, the Anglosphere are the weird ones here. But of course there is the RCMP as a counterexample.
In the specific scenario where they're running multiple kinds of malware on the same site, they won't know which one got detected.

Is that really something to worry about so strongly that we screw over legitimate websites?

A malicious actor can already know exactly what's detected if they run one malware at a time per site.
Just the other day on here someone was discussing their fan speed modulation software they ran on their laptop, based on CPU usage on remote VMs or something similar.
Yes but being able to use all of Chrome's extensions in Brave is a huge win to me. And most Chrome documentation, Q and A, tutorials are mostly relevant to Brave as well. I see Google and other behemoths contributing to an open source project as a good thing. The product may not be where it is today without their help, including paying people to work on a free product. Still, yeah don't trust them.
I have a friend that was banned when he was a teenager too. Might be common.
Are you trolling? How are you on hn if you're Amish? I mean you at least need a PC or smartphone.
Can someone explain, please?
It requires a complex scanner with a stack to track nested data structures.

Not good for security nor speed in the use-case of a auth token!
AdNauseam does this, it clicks all or most of the ads that it blocks. It's based on uBlock too. https://adnauseam.io
> I don't believe TF2 has any sort of phone number system that I'm aware of. If there is one, it doesn't seem to function very well given the bot invasion over the last few years.

If I remember correctly, in TF2 competitive mode and Mann vs Machine (pve) gets locked if you don't have steam guard enabled. But you still have access to casual and community servers, which are what you will usually want to play.
I'm not sure what you're understanding from my comments at this point, but I said it early on that I see no problem with a bad faith question when it comes to questioning a Meta enginner's employment choice. I kept repeating the same thought over an over. You can be content with something in a specific case, and at the same time not engage in it. This also doesn't mean that someone will usually support a bad faith argument, or engage in it, as you seem to want to conclude.
Public Wi-Fi in the world of HTTPS is not exactly terrifying.
Biden administration scales back student loan forgiveness plan as states sue
Because the former mechanism, for lamarkism, wasn't given, and Some kind of "genetic intelligence" is just a vacuous proposition, so why raise it. Your mention of epigenetics was a sensible suggestion in that at least it's known to happen (although whether it can control skin colouring is another matter)
Simple - they get clicks.

Pop culture knows the movie 'Big Short', but they probably have never heard of a Nobel prized economist.
My understanding is that your phone number is linked to your ID somehow.
You're saying that we've reached peak automation?
It doesn't take any special power or reputation to report someone for having CSAM with evidence, erroneously or not. You or I could do it.
They'd be required to correct the age, but they wouldn't be required to delete the "this person defrauded us by giving a false age" flag/note on your internal profile.
I have seen it in a VB6 codebase, but never used it.
I can imagine that it is going to make refactoring interesting. Better keep everything up to date, or it can become misleading.
Tooling might help with this, but this is probably the same tooling that can help you work without Hungarian notation. (vim user here, so wouldn't know).

I am working on a C codebase which exclusively uses do-while loops with manual initialization and incrementing of the loop counter. Pick your battles. Lead by example if you think you know better.
Are you making the claim that since you didn't make a mistake at 16 that no other 16 yo can make mistakes? As well as the claim that any mistakes made at 16 means that the person will forever repeat those same mistakes for life?
All this time and they never solved the latency problem. Which of course is a fundamental physics issue.
SQLite and DuckDB are excellent demonstrations that the computers we have on our desks (and even in our pockets) are ridiculously fast and capable for almost everything but the largest workloads. They're a stark contrast to framework bloat that has stolen our CPU cycles and given us perceptible lag when typing and scrolling.
Define reasonable. In practice, the government defines it based on salary and budget feasiblity, rather than difficulty.

I'm not concerned about facial ID getting my face wrong, as in a human couldn't be hired to do the same, I'm concerned about it costing fractions of a penny and the government doing it everywhere all the time.

There should be quantitative restrictions on minor rights violations that become major rights violations, even if they're sufficiently minor to be reasonable when done once by a human being in a way that costs the government 10,000 times more than having it done by a computer.
They do know, they have oversight hearings regularly in a SCIF. As much as the CIA is romanticized, they can get in big trouble if they go rogue. They also have inspector generals for stuff like this and brief the president daily. The president can fire anyone in the CIA technically. Whil conspiracy theories sound cool and spooky let's stick to evidence unless you simply don't want blame for wars and chaos your voting causes. And that boys and girls is one more reason why I don't vote.
That’s fine you think that, but do you have anything that isn’t the same third party anecdotes that get repeated as nauseam? At least one of those is by an extremely unreliable narrator and an Elon sycophant and one of the others by another who thinks he’s knows everything as well.
Indeed. Personally I think that this kind of “helpful service bloat” is part of how companies are getting away with slowing phones down over time.

Apple for example barely mentions the fact that these services are running, and certainly does not give you any way to turn them off.
It's a "me too" situation. One company releases appliance X with IoT features and all the competitors panic because it's something they don't have that consumers will see as missing, so they rush to throw something together. This kind of herd mentality drives a hell of a lot of feature bloat.

Problem is that consumers really do see "internet/mobile connected" as a desirable feature even if they're just going to use it once for the novelty and then forget about it.
> I said it early on that I see no problem with a bad faith question

Awesome! Got you to admit to it them! Now don't start crying when people accuse you of supporting asking questions in bad faith.

Just say "Yep, that is a totally valid thing to accuse me of supporting. I agree that you are correct in saying that I have no problem with asking questions in bad faith!".

You could have avoided all of this, if you just said that from the beginning.
Children technically can enter into contracts. But they're voidable contracts, so it's essentially no upside and only downside for those that would contract with them.
There is a 0% chance that a site could be spreading malware and there's not a single thing MS could point to to help out the owners find it that wouldn't leak Super Secret Advanced Mega-Genius Malware Detection Methods.

They just don't want to because that costs more money than being a huge piece of shit does.
> the manufacturer states that not having it connected to the internet voids their warranty

I dunno about much of the rest of the world, but in Australian Consumer Law such a declaration would certainly be unlawful.
I still test and validate my websites with Netscape 2.x and up.

Any Browser can be a reality.
It was paused but California was proposing Net Metering 3.0 rules in which you would have to pay $10/mo for each kw/hr of grid-tied solar panels. So for a small 5kw/hr panel setup (15 panels at 370w each), they proposed that new solar homeowners would pay $50/month to PG&E simply for having 15 panels. Most people I know have double or triple that.

Will Prowse on Youtube has great videos on off grid solar including equipment that is all UL certified. Getting over the hurdle of roof mounting panels or ground mounting up to code (seems to mainly be around using conduit for the wiring), I could buy a pallet of 10 solar panels, a converter/invetor all in one from EG4, and an EG4 5kw lithium iron phosphate battery for around $6000.

Battery: https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-lifepower4-lithium-battery-48...
Offgrid Converter: https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-6-5k-off-grid-inverter-6500ex...
I don't fully agree with the slider the author is sugegsting.

If my price range is 21 - 45, I don't want to fiddle with a double tick slider dragging it pixelwise to get to the exact numbers I want. Not everyone has perfect hand and mouse dexterity to move it a couple of pixels. Not some senior citizens.
It's easier and faster for me to enter two numbers or just one number for the max. I don't need to enter a min number. Plus Amazon is already showing some popular ranges. I think
If you can find a contractor you can trust, even if they're not versed in the installation of solar, you can work with them. I'd much rather have an electrician and roofer that I trust work on a kit like that than depend on some random contractor I don't know.
As you say, these are social networks, and your ability to connect with other people playing the game opens all kinds of avenues for attacks and harassment as social networks. No one wants to put up with misanthropes just to play their favorite video game.

You can still have that relationship with your publisher, but if you want that in your multiplayer game, you have to go back to a day where people behaved differently on the internet. Those days are gone, and it's not the publisher's fault. It's ours.
$6.7b in quarterly profit and $40b in cash on hand. Plenty of money to burn on selling people the idea of virtual real estate and Nintento Mii quality avatars.

They're trying to juice ad numbers by jamming more Tiktok style reels into people's IG feeds, which will likely cause an even bigger exodus among IG's biggest accounts.
I am not saying that they'd do it but what would prevent Microsoft from 'theoretically' collecting your information themselves and then selling it back to your ISP?
Have to agree with the sibling that smurf != alt.

I have and use alt accounts. I have two Overwatch accounts, but they’re around the same rank. I don’t intentionally go and play against players far below my rank for the sole purpose of being a troll and destroying the game for others.

Smurfs are another thing entirely. Some games like Rocket League have become borderline unplayable since going F2P because smurfs are everywhere in competitive. I once went on a 15 game losing streak with every one of those losses involving an obvious smurf. And I’m not talking about “they were just a better team” kind of matches - these were players that come in and 1v3 the entire other team, and who clearly are playing with game mechanics only found at the highest levels of the game - and I am not one of those pro level players.

And these aren’t just people with an alt account. They’re people on their 20th account (because the others have been rightly banned), and it ruins the game.

Smurfs existed when the game still cost money, but skyrocketed as soon as it didn’t.

Having an alt should should still be fairly easy. Getting a 2nd phone number isn’t hard with various VOIP options.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/aloi5v/pro...
In the sci-fi universe being quoted, they used drug-enhanced humans for all calculation after narrowly averting an AI based catastrophe. Honestly, I'm finding it pretty prescient stuff for 1965 myself.
Ostrich's top speed is ~40mph, easily beats Usain Bolt :)
I agree, this could be a good solution for a lot of situations. People fret about the performance impact, but I'm confident that clever engineers could come up with a way to treat numbers within the typical range(say, signed 64 bit) just as they are today, but if an operation would go out of bounds do the expensive, arbitrary length operation. Emitting some kind of extra warning when those expensive operations are actually done would also be nice.
Hundreds of Authors Ask Publishers to Stop Attacking Libraries
Fight them for the refund (or even do a chargeback on your credit card), otherwise they might not understand what a dumb idea it is.
I think not having to run a sidecar is pretty valuable. The entire "service mesh" industry is predicated on not modifying existing code, which I totally get (ops teams can rarely get the dev team to understand their constraints), but if you are actually "devops" and the developers can handle mTLS, tracing, authn/authz, etc. inside their app in a standard way, the software stack is a lot easier to understand and maintain.

Sidecar proxies also have the fatal flaw that they can't propagate a distributed trace, so if incoming RPC call triggers outgoing calls (common in microservices, for better or for worse), then you lose the link between them. To do that, your application has to remember the trace ID and pass it along from the server to the client. For reasons like that, I'm kind of bearish on premade service meshes. But, they are OK for mTLS.

gRPC has added a lot of code in recent years to support xDS, which lets clients discover endpoints, load assignments, locality, etc. and lets your app do the right thing without an intermediate proxy. It can just connect directly to the control plane and make the same routing decisions a proxy would. That's the ideal situation to me.
How to scrub your phone number and address from Google search
I like "simple" editors: just text, completion when I ask for it (instead of popping up all the time), no distracting UI chrome, simple syntax highlights, etc. "Simple" is a bit of a misleading term, because even "stock Vim" (or Neovim) has a lot of IDE-like features. They just don't get in your way by default.

I tried VSCode, and after several hours I still hadn't turned off all the features that I found undesirable.

For me, personally, that nvchad thing seems horrendous. I don't know about Helix; maybe it's better, but I can't be arsed to check it out as I don't expect any productivity jump to be worth the effort.
Sounds pretty handy for data-scraping!
https://archive.ph/qgWV2