skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had one of these things in our office once. It didnt get a lot of use, so everyone was afraid of it and whatever it might be harboring.

The next office we shared with a larger company that connected a water line to a tankless device. I was also a little skeptical of these funky plastic lines, but it got enough use to probably not be a problem.

Of course there was the water tap, which serves perfect water, so all this nonsense was for carbonation and cooling.
I'm not sure there's a general replacement for Twitter. _For the stuff I use Twitter for_, Mastodon is increasingly looking like it'll do; a large portion of the people whose stuff I like have moved.

And it appears that soon Twitter won't be Twitter, it will be a poorly thought out advertising platform (well, you could argue that it's already that, but moreso); see https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721 . I have no interest in seeing loads of stuff posted by people gullible enough to pay Twitter $8 a month; I can't see many of the people whose stuff I like doing that.
>In the same way, forcing any website to list Gab would not be free speech...

I think you're being a bit disingenuous talking about "forcing" sites to list Gab. If individual instances wanted to de-link from it that was their perogative. But I was talking abuot sites which claim to provide indexes of what Mastodon servers are out there --ignoring the biggest one by a considerable margin, because they didn't like the politics of the people who used it.

I think if ypu're claiming to provide an index, it kind of behoves you to index everything you're supposed to be indexing. Not leave huge sections out because you don't like them. Imagine publishing a business directory where you didn't list the Jewish or black owned businesses... or printing a dictionary but leaving out all the words that began with a letter you didn't like.

Yes. No-one who believes in free speech should be "forcing" you to make good those omissions. But they're prefectly entitled to question the value of your 'publication' if you don't.
No criticism intended. But genuinely: What makes FTL a roguelike game?
Building great products is a marathon, not a sprint. Burn out is a real thing. Mature leaders know this. The glorifying of working 50+ hours per week is childish and a sign that the culture at that organization is toxic.
When you're outside, it's really horrific, so you'd normally use the SDK.
In spite of that, it's actually not all that bad compared to FAANG's internal tools. I think it's at least vaguely consistent
> chances are that the water coming from your faucet is perfectly fine to drink (though there are, of course, some exceptions)

The article lists only two areas with unsafe water that have had a lot of media attention, but there are so many places under water boil orders that I can't even keep track of them all. Every single state I've checked shows they've had some problem with their water in the last year or two (caused by things like contamination, infrastructure failures, storm damage, power outages etc) that caused them to issue warnings not to drink the water without boiling it first. I found one boil order just two towns over from me that had already been lifted by the time I heard about it!

Because these types of issues are constant and everywhere it makes drinking the water while traveling very risky and since I don't obsessively monitor the sites and social media profiles for my own town/city/county I can't be sure I'd always know about one issued for the water in my own home!

Nobody seems to have much confidence in their local water quality and after seeing how in flint MI they worked to hide the danger from the public and faced no meaningful consequences for their actions it's not hard to imagine why.

What can we do but get a good filter for our homes and watch for notices like a hawk? Seems like when outside of the home, water bottles are the only way to be sure the water won't poison you.

When it comes to bottled water I strongly prefer spring water over the salted tap water soda companies push on us, but I wonder what the PFAS content of spring water is. Now that even rain water is contaminated and unfit for humans and animals is natural filtration good enough to keep spring water non-toxic?
I was also very confused by this. I kept thinking "that looks like 2020 extrusions, why does he keep harping on about 8020?".

Googled the company and found they've named themselves not after the dimensions of their products but the "80/20 rule".

Just weird.
too poor to afford editors, I suppose.
I'm obsessed with generative audio models, particularly RAVE[0].

Music is set to have its GPT-3 / Stable Diffusion moment within a couple years.

I believe in 10 years the venn diagram of music made with computers and music made with neural nets will be a circle, and that now is a great time to jump in.

Would LOVE to swap notes with anyone else here into this. Email in bio.

[0] https://github.com/acids-ircam/RAVE
> In any case 40% of Japanese workers are part-time -

It's actually 45% of Japanese women workers. The percentage of men being part time is much lower around 12%. A big reason why your friend struggles finding anything else is that she's a woman and that Japan is an intensely sexist society.
Peter Brabeck later tried to mitigate this statement by essentially saying that water for other uses than human consumption should not be considered a basic human right, see https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nestle-ceo-water-not-human...

That said, I find that a somewhat weak argument made under public pressure, and I carefully try to avoid buying Nestlé products for many reasons, one of which is the statement made in the video above.
I'm not able to tell if this comment is satire and it worries me.
Can only hope
As someone who has to use a water filter: The quality from a health-PoV is great, the taste-quality depends far more on location. The water where I live is very hard, and I can’t stand the taste, so I have to filter it before drinking.
And it's all made by humans (other than creepy cartoons and listicles). I had to take apart my vacuum cleaner to debug it (turns out the power cord got frayed inside the bobbin) and the websites were full of autogenerated crap.

YouTube? There's a channel by a vacuum cleaner repairman that has a video about my model. Turns out I didn't miss any screws or latches, I just had to give the housing a stronger yank to open it.
>Chlorine in tap water will kill your gut microflora with long term use. Some more sensitive bacteria (reuteri) are most important for immune system!

That doesn't appear to be the case[0], but I'm no expert on these things.

What I do know is that water chlorination can provide safe drinking water for millions who don't (or didn't, until their water was chlorinated) have safe drinking water.

>At least leave tap water stand still for couple of hours, so the chlorine gets out!

That was my first thought and it's a good one, if such things concern you.

[0] https://engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2022/04/examining-the-...
Sure, but that's really strictly hobby. Anything remotely for commercial usage or even open source isn't an option, there the prices are 10x. Also for people just having finished studies even those prices can be a lot. IMHO the Home/Hobby licenses seem to be in a very tiny niche
Having it start with B I was pretty much a given, since that's how it's always been.

https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/microsoft-word
On the production side, renewable production is fully influenced by weather and this influences also the other means of production as renewables have "priority" on the grid.

On the demand side, it depends on how people heat (or cool) their home. In France, there is a lot of electrical heating and the partial dependency between temperature and demand is very well understood (and visible in the data). In countries where they rely more on gas story is different.

A good way to study these dependencies is to do load forecasting with white box models such as General Additive Models [1][2], you get the full picture of partial dependencies between your input variables and target variable.

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/cornec/adaptive-gam-12058258
[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260448958_Short-Ter...
Not remotely. Every aspect of request signing has a purpose, and I appreciate that security is actually a concern at AWS. Plus, signing is implemented as a library almost everywhere you can think of.
Moon Disaster
> The 25 U.S. Cities with the Worst Drinking Water

I don’t know for sure, but I think parent was making a quip about the U.S. not being a developed country.
Family and partners are just one of the numerous, totally valid reasons. Just taking time for private life is more then enough reason, no need to specify or differentiate. You should go home at 5pm and have a cool private life even without family or being married!

At least for men, I feel we need to distance ourselfes from the paradigm of being valued only as disposable providers.
If you know the file hash beforehand, you can encode that into the signed URL.

But if you’re saying clients will upload the wrong file, then that’s not really AWS’s fault is it?

If you’re saying the file itself is corrupted, I’m not sure how? The upload should fail if the content length is incorrect, and s3 doesn’t make the contents visible unless the upload completes.
Yes, elsewhere. Anyone in the hobby CNC or 3d printer community knows this as 8020 or 2020 extrusion. the numbers actually are supposed to reference the dimensions of the beam... not a damn company name or the 80/20 principle. That seems like an attempt at hijacking an existing search term.
Ask HN: Is anyone else seeing a steep increase in CAPTCHA and SMS verification prompts on PayPal lately? Yesterday alone I was sent two SMSes and had to solve at least one CAPTCHA. All from the same machine that I always use. It's really getting to a point where I rather use an alternative payment service when it's possible to do so.

Edit: Oh and everytime that happens I get a mail that there is a login with a new device from "dusseldorf nw de". No, I don't live in Düsseldorf, not even close. The fact that they misspell the name and that their GeoIP is reliably off doesn't inspire any more confidence.
A Japanese worker living in Italy and writing about life there can be only an exception in any sense.
> After thinking about energy for so long, I began to wonder—as others have – whether applying physics concepts to social systems could help them run better.

This is the point where I say "uh oh".
Another take from wikipedia: "In 1999, the Nobel prize winning physicist Philip Warren Anderson said he is "sure that it's a fraud",[12] and in the same year another Nobel prize winning physicist, Steven Chu, called it "extremely unlikely".[23] The following year, a 2000 patent based on its hydrino-related technology[24][25] was later withdrawn by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) due to contradictions with known physics laws and other concerns about the viability of the described processes, citing Park and others.[26]"
Thank you for this post. It’s nice to see that it wasn’t buried. From the times of IRC, I do miss the feelings of the early times of the internet.

I’ve the privilege to invest a lot of time thinking about what I should be doing my life professionally. In the end, the best I could think of was to be an enabler for others - which for me meant ‘to give them time’. I realised that I also needed to use my expertise to try and give this purpose a better chance of success.
I have a PhD in static analysis and programming languages and got experience with writing code analysers.

So I’m on this quest to combine these two core ‘ideas’ - use static analysis to help developers save time and hope that they can improve their life with that time.

I managed to start a company around this mission and build a product focused on reducing the time on pull requests. it’s been a very hard journey so far and feels like I’m just getting started still.
It makes me sad and sometimes lonely to see that we are ever more connected but that many times it feels that no one really cares.
In my early days of using the internet it was much easier to make meaningful connections.
I have two sons – 5 and 1 – and this is exactly the kind of relationship I want to build with them. Do you have any advice?

Thanks, and I'm terribly sorry for your loss.
EU Voice
you can always panic/recover to get the throw/catch behavior
Yeah, at least getting used to signings might come useful in the future.
New research suggests nose picking could increase risk for Alzheimer’s in mice
It baffles me that a modern developed country has people even needing to question if tap water is safe.

In the UK (and I dare say much of Europe) its not at all uncommon to ask for a tap water at a restaurant. I drink around 2 litres of tap water a day, have done all my life.

Having been to a fair few places in the US I can see why people dont want to drink it, it stinks and tastes pretty awful. How you manage to take pure natural water and make it taste like feet is beyond me.
I made something similar for my personal site, except it didn't track cursor, no JS, & blinked too. Made with pure CSS

https://codepen.io/mnsh/pen/BaYxvxo
Frauds are very often hidden or disguised as "bad investments" (yeah banks do mistakes as any other human beings) and covered with money from "slush funds". When they are on vacations, rogue traders cannot cover their intentional bad investments, losses, close warning notifications and so on. More kn this topic here https://www.fdic.gov/news/financial-institution-letters/1995...
It's not clear from your post what the restaurant norms are in any of those countries.

Having lived in Italy, my experience is that Italians are pretty obsessed with bottled water. Well really bottled spring water to be exact. At restaurants especially. The exception would be in areas where you can get spring water from the source like a mountain resort. Spain is quite similar although I've only spent months at a time there so I'm less experienced in their views on water.

In the US it varies, but it's still fairly easy to find restaurants that bring a glass of tap water without even asking you. Big city restaurants and upscale restaurants will try to sell you bottled water but asking for tap water is not frowned upon like it would be in Italy.

I haven't spent enough time in Switzerland to comment on that, so maybe you could give more details on your experience there.
Obviously! Just like devops as a whole. Why do we have this current mess instead of just pushing stuff to heroku?
But only wif ze crunchy fried bugz!
I wish there was more info about Finger on the web.

You can learn more about the protocol by reading RFC 1288, obviously that's not interactive at all though.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1288
An option not available to black historians in the 19th century.
Ask HN: Open-Source GitHub Copilot?
Just wondering if for some reason copilot shuts down, I was wondering if it's possible to home brew it.

Some hurdles I see:

- Github rate limits the GET requests so it doesn't seem possible to scrape all the source code on there. But maybe it can be crowdsourced like seti@home so 1000 people can install a program to get around this.

- Training the model. I would imagine this would be hardest as it would need millions of dollars for this? Is there a way to get around it or using free tools like colab?

- Running the api. Once the model is trained, would it be possible to run it on a lenovo type laptop? I guess you need lots of VRAM to run it?

Final question is will a home brewed version be just as good? What factors determine that?

Just curious on how we can do it as I imagine there a lot of ML experts here.
> clean up used laptops and give them away

This will be life changing for me! @bensonn do you know how can I get a free laptop? Thank you!

I'm currently really struggling in life (I barely eat once a day at the moment) but I'm really passionate about Linux/free software. So, a free laptop could really help me get local jobs (sysadmin or web developer for SMEs), put food on the table, & pay rent!
> It's still too little too late.

Thats what the activist blockading my commuter train was hysterically screaming too.

When you are packed 3 deep and 3 high on an electic train being screamed at that you are personally destroying the planet (by taking this train to work?) it brings the climate wars home.
The view from outside tech:

I'm an hourly laborer who thinks computers are fun and free software unixen are most fun, which is how I ended up finding HN. I've worked a number of manufacturing and agricultural jobs. Right now I make car parts.

I don't have a choice. I check the calendar on the wall and work the hours it says or I'm fired. I work 60-70 hours a week. This is normal. The workforce is stretched thin as you can make similar money fucking around with your phone on the clock at Walmart, and bargaining power of unskilled (nee essential) labor is at an all time low.

You tech types have the best bargaining power of anyone, crazy pay, nice working conditions out of the elements in hazard free offices, and you will lose it all if you don't stand in solidarity.

At manufacturings peak in America people like me had good middle class lives but as it waned and unions were busted and we suffered title deflation (opposite of entry level coder being an engineer, machinists became operators, foremen became team leaders) quality of life and ability to dictate terms of employment faded.

Someday tech will have it's 80s, vc will stop chasing the next apple or MS, engineers will become coders, sysadmins will become IT techs, wages will stagnate, and if you're all working till 8 it will go from extra to expected.

Draw lines, stand in solidarity, set expectations, have a talk with coworkers who are pussies doing extra for nothing that they're fucking up the solidarity thing.
> The only recourse in the meantime is to close your PayPal account.

Except PayPal does not monitor the only email address it lists on its own website, the one designated for the purpose of sending them data deletion or access requests:

https://twitter.com/ConsciousDigit/status/158782474176688947...

(Source: my nonprofit runs YourDigitalRights.org where we make it easy to send the likes of PayPal data deletion request under the GDPR / CCPA etc)
Is it better than waifu2x?

Nothing I've tried is. I might try this one out to see, but if anyone who has can comment on how it compares, I'd appreciate it.
I'm very glad for my parents for getting me an actually good home chemistry set and then letting me experiment with it.
That's cool for you. For the rest of us, however, it would be terribly simple for Github to provide a profile/account setting that allows people to opt out -- perhaps on a per-repo level as well as per-account. Yet they don't. I wonder why not.
I think it was from urban slang in the 90s.
So as I understand it, Mastodon is a Ruby on Rails web server that speaks to other instances using the ActivityPub protocol in a technical sense.

You register with a given Mastodon instance which speaks ActivityPub to other servers which may or may not be Mastodon instances as well.

Now your home Mastodon instance also serves a React frontend which is technically acting as an OAuth2 client that speaks to the backend via REST APIs, compared to say: Server-side rendered HTML

Similarly, mobile apps connecting to your preferred instance are also OAuth2 clients.

In that sense, you can use a different frontend to speak directly to the REST APIs offered by your Mastodon instance of choice.

This all being one level above ActivityPub itself of course.
I love the book project, it makes me think of Ann Morgan who has done something similar (https://ayearofreadingtheworld.com/thelist/).

It is also something I'd like to do, but I haven't yet started with it.

I'm curious how you select which books to read ?
There are market elements to the US housing market, but there are also huge central planning elements. It is hard to make predictions in this environment. Further interventions may become politically palatable at any time.

Who's to say what may happen? Interventions become more probable as public perceptions of a decline increase. It isn't enough to look at the stats. Second order effects such as intervention and public sentiment have to be considered. The political economy may be more relevant than underlying market fundamentals.
No. I do not envy them.

Nothing in life has given me as much joy as being with my daughter and spending time with her. The first 18-24 months was challenging as we had to balance work with looking after her. But after that, being a parent is a gift that keeps on giving.
My in-laws’ delicious tap water is from the Harz Mountains, and yet, they insist on serving a rather sulfuric, somewhat-carbonated bottled water. They have trouble believing that no, I honestly prefer their tap water.
I found this reference in the 1988 SIGGRAPH Art Show Review[1] - a possible candidate for the inspiration?

"Alan Rath had two works, Word Processor and Bird Cage (see Figure 21) in the show. Bird Cage is a kinetic work created from a microcomputer, digital frame store, and a speech synthesizer. A solenoid system moves the one-inch video monitor inside the cage. The amount of movement is controlled by the intensity of ambient light. The video bird displays a human eye, which looks about and blinks."

[1] - https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/SIGG... (page 23)
Wow, I like green-on-black so much that I config my terminal and username for it haha. Great post!
> are commonly treated with antibiotics
If there's no specific restriction in the license agreement, AI can use your code to study. If you don't like it, close your repo. End of story.

Examples of "copied code" provided are pathetic. It's like acquisition of stealing `i` variable from `for` cycle.
If that's what they want to spend their money on, whose to ridicule them? In the end, people always spend money on stupid things for irrational reasons.

Regardless, my family avoided our w well water back up in NY since is reeked of sulfur and no fix ever worked.
I mean it's not like Ukraine is serious about negotiations themselves (and why should they be), and neither is Russia. Serious negotiations imply that there is even a remote possibility of the sides working out the deal. One look at the starting positions of what Ukraine would want to settle and what Russia would want to settle tells you all you need to know.

Asking Zelensky to negotiate for Ukrainian statehood is more ridiculous than asking Putin to negotiate the existence of the current Russian state as it is, but both propositions in themselves are completely disconnected from reality.
Isn't he the guy who said "Use MIT, the GPL is too long" at a keynote?

I doubt he can offer rational and impartial arguments.
I wouldn't trust the water in any industrialized country unless I could see the reports. Especially city tap water. Mountain resort or any rural area without industrial farming is probably a safe bet. Germany possibly gets it right.
The only saving grace is that the lock isn't easily recognizable from a distance.

This might be far-fetched, but I wonder if more enterprising thieves could wardrive around wealthier neighborhoods and scan for these locks to find easy targets.
> don't look up the annual world CO2 emissions.

They look bad, but certainly the rate of badness is nowhere close to what it once was - if post pandemic emissions are not horrific, then you can make the case that the upward trend is broken.