skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's amazing if true, because that means your sweat is hostile to the kind of bacteria that produces the smell we associate with old sweat. It's impossible to sweat distilled water, but maybe it's possible to sweat salt water with low content of fats and proteins, I really don't know. Sloths, for example, are known for having no body odor, so it might be possible for some people.

I'd love to know the mechanism for inhibiting bacteria breeding in skin grease. PH level?
Apple is bricking perfectly good computers? As far as I know, they keep running with the last supported version of macOS.

And heck, Windows 11 doesn't really support pre-Coffee Lake CPUs without hacks similar to OpenCore's.
It is possible. I chalk the booster up to giving me a very, very mild (borderline asymptomatic) case but the timing perhaps not giving me the zero symptoms.
I kind of wonder if deduping posts would be good. I find it really annoying to see reposts and if definitely makes it feel like there really isn't all that much content out there, at least much content that has enough viral potential. I suppose it's possible for a company to fingerprint content easily enough to stop dupes. Maybe it would block the post but allow a repost of the original content? But is that really good for the company? Plenty of people haven't seen that content anyway, so maybe it's working for those people, and sometimes you do want to see the repost if it's been long enough. I personally think it might just seize the entire ecosystem if you prevented it because the volume of content would go down, and the vitality of things would go down too. Not to mention the people reposting are kind of keeping the whole thing alive for their virtual points, and if they can't do it at scale by posting the same video in 20 different places anymore things might just stop. I feel like a lot of social networks are relying on a an orbiting cloud of garbage that just recirculates constantly. I'm surprised no one has started uploading, upscaling and posting America's Funniest Home Videos clips.
Assuming this kind of thing is fraud how does it manage to even happen at a company as large as Facebook? Is it on accident through some reckless merging of databases or is it on purpose and they think they are just too big to care about laws? It seems like Facebook must know what the law is.
Yeah, those are good considerations. I live on Oahu, on the dry side, and when it isn't blaring sunlight, its pretty much 5-15 sustained. Obviously, this a pretty cherry picked example, but its also an important one considering the cost of importing fuel to this island.
Wind power is responsible for something like 5% of generated electricity in the world. If we scale it 1000x, to reach the cat level, we'll have enough electricity to power 50 Earths :)
Another option; <compose-key>xx ⇒ ×
Checking for my own “benchmark”, a gameboy emulator in several different languages[0]; it’s CPU-bound but across ~3k lines of code, so slightly more representative of real-world apps than a single-function tight-loop microbenchmark:

zig: Emulated 600 frames in 0.24s (2521fps)
rs: Emulated 600 frames in 0.37s (1626fps)
cpp: Emulated 600 frames in 0.40s (1508fps)
nim: Emulated 600 frames in 0.44s (1367fps)
go: Emulated 600 frames in 1.75s (342fps)
php: Emulated 600 frames in 23.74s (25fps)
py: Emulated 600 frames in 26.16s (23fps) # PyPy
py: Emulated 600 frames in 33.10s (18fps) # 3.11
py: Emulated 600 frames in 61.43s (9fps) # 3.10

Doubling the speed is pretty nice :D Still the slowest out of all implementations though :P

[0] https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy

EDIT> updated the nim compiler flags to build in release mode like most other languages, thanks @plainOldText!
The article just repeats the companies statement. Of course not an ounce of scepticism or doubt is to be found.
Static site generators + free/cheap static hosting (usually bundling CDN, edge hosting, custom domains, TLS, SSR, functions, auth and more by default) are getting more and more attractive by the day, and IMO they are mature enough now to cover most web hosting use cases.

For building – Next.js, Hugo, Gatsby, Jekyll/Octopress, Gridsome, Hexo, Astro, Eleventy

For hosting – Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, Github Pages, Render, Firebase, S3
The bearded vulture is one of Europe's largest birds, it rarely comes to The Netherlands, living mainly in Spain and France. When it does comes to The Netherlands, about once every 3 years, it'll be a national news item as it's quite a spectacular bird. Last year one came, and not a week later it was found dead under a wind turbine.

That bird is not just a statistic, it was the single bird of one particular species in our country, and it flew into one of the few wind turbines we have.

I'm 100% for wind turbines, I think it's a magnificent sight every time I cross the afsluitdijk seeing them rise from the mists providing us with clean future proof energy. But the sort of stupidity that drives an engineer to say only 1 in 10000 bird deaths is due to wind turbines, without asking why or how or what bird is going to be the end of us all one day.
Do you have a source for this?

There are several sites (upplysning.se for example) that show full length of the personal ID. How does that work if it is not public information?
Asymmetric Cryptography
This post is a quick summary of public-private key pairs and the importance of preserving online privacy and ownership.
Great question! With Seafowl, the idea is different from what the modern data stack addresses. It's trying to simplify public-facing Web-based visualizations: apps that need to run analytical queries on large datasets and can be accessed by users all around the world. This is why we made the query API easily cacheable by CDNs and Seafowl itself easy to deploy at the edge, e.g. with Fly.io.

It's a fairly different use case from DuckDB (query execution for Web applications vs fast embedded analytical database for notebooks) and the rest of the modern data stack (which mostly is about analytics internal to a company). Just to clarify, we're not related to IOx directly (only via us both using Apache DataFusion).

If we had to place Seafowl _inside_ of the modern data stack, it'd be mostly a warehouse, but one that is optimized for being queried from the Internet, rather than by a limited set of internal users. Or, a potential use case could be extracting internal data from your warehouse to Seafowl in order to build public applications that use it.

We don't currently ship a Web front-end and so can't serve as a replacement to Superset: it's exposed to the developer as an HTTP API that can be queried directly from the end user's Web browser. But we have some ideas around a frontend component: some kind of a middleware, where the Web app can pre-declare the queries it will need to run at build time and we can compute some pre-aggregations to speed those up at runtime. Currently we recommend querying it with Observable [0] for an end-to-end query + visualization experience (or use a different viz library like d3/Vega).

Re: the second question about Splitgraph for a data lake, the intention behind Splitgraph is to orchestrate all those tools and there the use case is indeed the modern data stack in a box. It's kind of similar to dbt Labs's Sinter [1] which was supposed to be the end-to-end data platform before they focused on dbt and dbt Cloud instead: being able to run Airbyte ingestion, dbt transformations, be a data warehouse (using PostgreSQL and a columnar store extension), let users organize and discover data at the same time. There's a lot of baggage in Splitgraph though, as we moved through a few iterations of the product (first Git/Docker for data, then a platform for the modern data stack). Currently we're thinking about how to best integrate Splitgraph and Seafowl in order to build a managed pay-as-you-go Seafowl, kind of like Fauna [2] for analytics.

Hope this helps!

[0] https://observablehq.com/@seafowl/interactive-visualization-...

[1] https://www.getdbt.com/blog/whats-in-a-name/

[2] https://fauna.com/
Here's the real kick in the nuts that IME does compared to BMC or other 'Management ports'.

(1) It is not something that you can (easily) disable

(2) It uses the same Network port that your LAN NIC uses instead of a separate "I won't plug that in if I don't want it" NIC.

(3) Security/Patches? This is outside the control of the BIOS manufacturer, so how do you make sure it's patched and upto date?
and

(4) It wasn't an option.
This is my experience exactly. I use an alternate layout for comfort as I had hand pains from many years of touch typing. The funny thing I realized when learning a new keyboard layout was that I don't do enough typing at my 8 hours a day job to learn a new layout. I had to use prose practice sites to get up to speed.

I think touch-typing is important, but not more important than being interested in what you're trying to do. If trying to learn to type properly detracts from that, it should be learned later.
A Deep Dive into Immersion Lithography Technology
Original Twitter Thread: https://twitter.com/stuntpants/status/1585150636781637632
Which is to say, it's hiding in plain sight. The secure enclave and T2 modules can do things to the processor. Who's to say "things" doesn't include ME-like capabilities?
It is my understanding that AI is being used in insurance not to supplant the risk models, but to automate human-driven tasks, such as reviewing claims or documents, or to augment risk models with new data.
To play devil’s advocate, we really should ban 30 year fixed mortgages, not 5/1 ARMs. I know it sounds contradictory, but hear me out.

One of the Fed’s primary methods to control inflation is adjusting economic demand by making loans cheaper or more expensive.

In our current regime of fixed mortgages, new home buyers disproportionately bear the cost of the Fed’s effort to reduce inflation, since only they need to pay the higher costs. But if everyone had ARMs, the cost of reducing inflation would be spread out over everyone with a mortgage, so the pool of people affected would be significantly wider and the needed interest rate increases to fix inflation would be significantly lower.
I think the laundering is a bit overstated. Yes, there were "risky" loans being made but those risks were being mitigated by bundling those loans with "safe" loans into a new securities product. No one was really surprised by the risky loans going under. It was the presumably "safe" loans going under that caught everybody off-guard and created the financial storm. The entire mortgage risk model turned out to be wrong.

Your second question is interesting, I really don't know whether the securitization of mortgages is still happening today at the same level it was then. I would presume so? With a different risk model being employed to assess those mortgages, maybe?
yes

$ pip install numpy
<snip building wheel>
$ python --version && python -c "import numpy; print(numpy.identity(5))"
Python 3.9.12 (05fbe3aa5b0845e6c37239768aa455451aa5faba, Mar 29 2022, 09:54:47)
[PyPy 7.3.9 with GCC Apple LLVM 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.30)]
[[1. 0. 0. 0. 0.]
[0. 1. 0. 0. 0.]
[0. 0. 1. 0. 0.]
[0. 0. 0. 1. 0.]
[0. 0. 0. 0. 1.]]
About a third of the way down the page is an explanation that this was a myth.

But frankly that was obvious from the story, and I have a hard time believing it was anything but a joke to begin with. I hypothesize that the Darwin Award folks got tired of people asking about the story and decided to let their readers down easy by claiming to have been fooled by the hoax as well.
In the Dutch e-commerce context, that’s less like breaking Amazon inertia and more like breaking Bol.com inertia.

Either way, we never had credit cards in the Netherlands (they exist, but aren’t popular). The predecessor to iDEAL was the paper ‘acceptgiro’ [1]. The big difference there is that that was a postpaid scheme (you’d receive the acceptgiro along with your goods, fill and sign it, and send it to your bank to be processed).

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptgiro
disclaimer (co-founder) but we do this as a service AND use Google's new tools and others to both request removals at the source + in the search indices. it's complex, imperfect, and evolving dynamically... but can be done.
https://joindeleteme.com/
I have a feeling that Meta has some kind of internal system for slurping up everyone's contact info, and that some kind of bugs/criteria occasionally cross some streams.

Meta recruiting somehow got a hold of my name@amazon.com employer email -- which I have never posted publicly -- and started sending me recruitment emails to my work email. This struck me as incredibly unprofessional, though I understand it's almost certainly an automated system doing it.

I still don't know how they got the email address (though I guess it's just lastname+first initial, so they could have guessed?). I may have DM'd it to someone in a FB messenger chat? Maybe I used it in an "work email" field during sign up for some industry conference whose data later got hacked? A colleague accidentally merged their work/personal contact list and uploaded it somewhere? Who knows.
But not when having any form of parity? Doesn't seem particularly useful if so.
Some studies have found a negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust [1], but it is difficult to have discussions about this since it is such a sensitive topic. And of course it is not the only factor.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
Some things are limited by unchanging physics, like what shapes work aerodynamically, limitations imposed by the speed of sound, the maximum amount of thrust that can be generated by a kilogram of fuel, and so forth. Once humans figure out what basically works, we keep making incremental improvements towards optimality given the physical constraints. In such scenarios the first steps always look the biggest.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner doesn't look very different from the 737 and its predecessors. But under the hood are some revolutionary technologies: fly-by-wire all-electronic controls, and construction primarily from carbon fiber composite materials rather than the traditional steel, aluminum, and titanium. It's actually pretty revolutionary, but it still looks and feels like a fairly normal plane, because it's the physics of air flow that dictates basic things like shape.
Thank you for the tips! I'll look into libredirect.

The sample of users of amiunique is probably biased towards users that disable js.
Progress is limited by security clearance.

The US has incredible aircraft but no incentive to 'share'.
Sounds like the inverse of those "bladeless" dyson fans where the blades are hidden inside the body/base. Might still be a net safety improvement?
So meta engineers saw all those headlines about Twitter misusing 2FA phone numbers and instead of making sure it didn’t happen to them, kept them available to employees to “accidentally” use as well.

Oopsie daisy! Tee hee, it was an honest mistake because ${team} didn’t know they weren’t supposed to!
> but you never really win with any mortgage

Maybe not at 7%. Maybe not at 3,5% either. But at 1-2% fixed for 10-20 years and you don't have to refinance, you win. So your statement is a bit broad.

I think it's a good exercise to compute the total interest over the time of the credit and relate that to the cost of renting.
I see a strong convergence of typed / fast / expressive languages between python/php/ruby and cpp/ada. Rust is one trendy instance but I believe it's gonna create a spot around it.
Looks cool!

Bug report: clicking "See owners" or either of the products on Slice Gensis NFT result in an error page for me: "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)."
"Hormone specialists" are endocrinologists are are qualified, trained, registered, doctors working within their expertise, and when they prescribe meds to a small number of people they're prescribing meds that are licenced to prevent puberty in children (albeit not in trans children) -- this is considerably better licensing that most paediatric meds.
It seems that they updated their docs just one hour ago to a 100 KB object instead of 1 GB.
Show HN: We just enabled Vercel's preview comments on our docs page
We've been having a hard time getting feedback on our docs. Some people post GitHub issues or send us pull requests, but we've heard that the friction is too great for little things like typos, etc.

We thought Vercel's preview might be a decent solution to lower the friction for people with Vercel accounts.

Vercel injects a code bundle into the site, similar to a browser extension, automatically setting up a commenting system and UI for us.

If you want to see how it looks, check it out here:
https://docs.plasmo.com/
It's a pretty small market then. For case (2) there should be some super-capacitors in the power supply. For case (1) the answer is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software

as attempting a "clean shutdown" is a mug's game. Something that is a 30 second recovery after an uncontrolled shutdown often ends up taking 70 seconds when you attempt an uncontrolled shutdown. Systems are going to hard crash anyway, you might as well make that case robust rather than introduce more complex failure paths.
Although they have recently admitted that the vaccine does not, in fact, reduce the risk of transmission - which might call their testing into question, no?
Not surprised, Java vm is literally everywhere. From your credit card to sim, if it is a ic card then there is Java vm. It is almost universal language for mini embedded system for some reason I don't understand.
A shed with a compost toilet is immune to pretty much all of this and low risk if you are wrong on something. The problem is of course the Nimbys in houses that exhibit all the problems you described.
The Java runtime contains ~8MLOC; of them, about 1.5M are C++ (and Assembly generated by a C++ DSL), and more and more of the runtime is being written in Java (e.g. the virtual thread scheduler is written in Java). The two main pieces that aren't are the bytecode interpreter, the JITs, and the GCs (although the Graal JIT is written in Java). Interestingly, the more latency-critical stuff is written in Java (the JITs and GCs work mostly in the background nowadays, and the interpreter is used only at startup and on deoptimisation slow-paths).

Some of the reason is historical, and some has to do with warmup. Project Leyden and Graal's Native Image will help compile more Java AOT, allowing even more of the runtime to gradually be written in Java. It will take some time as it's not a top priority: it won't immediately deliver user-facing functionality, and most of the work on the JDK is already done in Java code anyway.
Your anecdote isn't really evidence of anything and I'm skeptical that this is the case.
I'm even more impressed with Nicholas Alkemade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade

He was the tail gunner on a WW2 Avro Lancaster that was on fire and going to crash. So he simply opened the door and jumped.

> His fall was broken by pine trees and a soft snow cover on the ground. He was able to move his arms and legs and suffered only a sprained leg.

> Alkemade was subsequently captured and interviewed by the Gestapo, who were initially suspicious of his claim to have fallen without a parachute. This was until the wreckage of the aircraft was examined and his parachute was found as Alkemade had described it. The Germans gave Alkemade a certificate testifying to the fact. He was a celebrated prisoner of war, before being repatriated in May 1945.

He fell 5 km and basically walked it off. Even the Germans were duly impressed.
There is a turbine at the bottom. It just redirects the wind down.

Calling it "motionless" is truly bizarre.
ZFS or any other filesystems.

Package manager that controls the entire system, not just add ons.

Choice of desktop environments, no silly $3 apps to enable simple things like edge snapping. Options for tile based window manager, etc.

Decent cut/paste (no control-v and control-c instead of sweep and click to paste).

SystemTap for performance analysis.

Seamless use of containers with the same environment as the host OS.

Ability to create binaries that don't require the approval of some Apple run web service to run.
But not in the actual Cass Review interim report. The reporting was so bad she's had to issue a clarification letter.
Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you so much for your comment. Yes, the UI needs an overhaul and that is one thing we hope to improve.
but can be refinanced if lower rates become available
I don't think people are karma farming here. They're just too new and/or don't recall when certain posts have been on HN before.

Dang has a pretty good list of links that keep showing up every 90-180 days on a continual basis (e.g. "The Story of Mel")
>It would be trivial to implement a law to punish (say) Eric Adams or someone else in or formerly in nyc government for what they did.

Sure, but what, you're going to send the mayor to Jail (violence) over a political decision he made?

That would not be trivial.
No, thats fair enough. Will keep it mind going forward.
That's all anyone has against IME, also. And BridgeOS isn't any more secure. There are tons of known flaws in it.
There is another solution to this: inflation. As inflation eats away at income, assets and savings, true merit & productivity will be the only thing that matters. Look at big tech earnings today and the reaction in the stock market. Big tech can increase their EPS any time they want by shedding 50% of their workforce.

We're no where near such draconian decisions. But if we get there, the decisions will be based entirely on the financial contribution of an employee/team/project/department to the company's bottom line. I don't believe tribal/race/group affiliation will matter.
Vote for candidates that support stronger consumer protection and data privacy laws. Do not give your personal information to companies that do not directly need it for the service you're engaging in. Delete your facebook accounts yesterday.

Services that require a phone number like twitter, discord, blizzard, signal, twitch, etc are giving you a heads up that they're abusive and will work against your interests. Stay far away.
Pillars of Ashoka
We should know by now that this is not primarily a technology problem - anyone who has ever had a dispute online will know that the provision of verifiable proofs is insufficient in persuading the other party.

Our collective challenge is that social communications has democratised the production, distribution and amplification of information - information which, if packaged into a plausible enough narrative - might gain popularity and even consensus, irrespective of the truthfulness of those claims.

We now participate in an the information universe which is a grand battlefield of narratives, each one competing for consensus, with trolling, brigading, cancelling being the teeth and claws of this deadly battle.

Default skepticism of all narratives might be our only protection, skant though that surely is
I went into my uncle’s unlocked house and found myself staring down the barrel of his roommate’s gun. People don’t tend to go into occupied houses in the US as there is a very real risk of getting shot.
That's London in Canada.
You would be surprised at the number of kids who have tutoring... and still can't test their way out of a paper bag
This does not and cannot "fully disable" the ME subsystem on modern CPUs.

A small remnant is left operational - without it, a PC shuts down after 30 minutes (this is well-known).

The Core 2 Duo/Quad architecture was the last iteration where the ME subsystem could be entirely removed.

I posted two BIOS images on this link for old HP machines. They can easily be flashed from within the booted bios without much hassle. Looking for the link...

Found it on Bing of all places!

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/issues/233