skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey's saying if you are using a straight key instead of an iambic keyer (different morse sending tech) then you can recognize the operator from their patterns (the first)
The Primeagen (https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeagen) and Theo Browne (https://www.youtube.com/@t3dotgg) both do neat tutorials and info videos/rants on "real world" software building, but IMO more for short attention spans than "in depth". I've especially derived a lot of value from Theo's videos for getting into the front-end world.
If you redo roads to only permit bikes instead of cars, it's an effective car ban. Sure, you can still have your car, but you can't take it anywhere because the roads only fit bikes now.

Of course there's nuance to be had, but most discussions just devolve into "why would anyone need a car?"
The challenge with genetics research is it could also result in the death of every human on the planet.

It’s an amazing power for good and bad.
This is horrific. I immediately thought of Puerto Rico, where women were forcibly sterilized for decades (until the 1970s), often after giving birth.

(This is part of the importance of talking about reproductive rights, not just abortion rights—the right to control one’s body to have or not to have a baby should be a fundamental human right.)

https://uwm.edu/clacs/eugenics-and-reproductive-coercion-in-...
I would love to see FOX die, but I do not hope. The Murdochs have done more damage to democracy in my lifetime than I would have thought possible, and have led to an explosion of ignorance in America. This is not about political opinions, by which informed citizens can debate and disagree. This is about pure, unchecked propaganda, a steady stream of bull$hit and lies mainlined into the cubital vein of American discourse. I would never have thought possible that a TV network could be ultimately responsible for the denial of climate catastrophe, hundreds of thousands of pandemic deaths, the election of a criminal, and an insurrection, and but here we are.
Heat pumps have only recently become economically in climates like Germany’s. Most people don’t want to replace their furnace until it breaks or needs expensive repairs.
Right. Wow, look at me, I now have a cushy (soul crushing) job at the city just like my slightly wealthier neighbour. All life goals checked off now.
People keep saying this and then run into minor problems becoming bigger problems because frequently used programs end up being unusable or 3rd class citizen, behind both mobile and Mac users.

Unless Linux is braindead easy to use without frustrations, it won't happen. Gamers pay more for lesser ease of access increases.
One thing I try to remember is that HN is a place where a lot of people from the same broad area hang out. There are math Phds here who know nothing about Bash, veteran sys admins who don't know anything about the Node event loop, regular old devs like myself who know nothing about quantum cryptography - but we're all coming over here, posting links and chatting away and tripping over each other's areas of expertise which were literally years in the making.
You could say that some of the customers, who are not native speakers themself, havd trouble keeping up with his speed of speech.

That would likely both be true and remove entitlement from the question.
Do gravity assists ever really maximise their speed though? It was my impression that the slingshots occurred hundreds of kms above the planetary body, giving a moderate free speed boost at best.

But if they were told to take a lower orbit, it'r be a drastic increase in speed
Agreed that they are expensive cars that have gotten even more expensive over the last decade.

But comparing absolute numbers for a car you bought five years ago may be misleading because the majority of the increase is likely due to inflation.

Back of the envelope math: If you were in CA and got $7.5k federal and $2.5k state credits that means the Model 3 you bought in 2017 was ~$60k or ~$73k in today's dollars. If it's now $80k then that's a real price increase of ~$7k in today's dollars.

That's certainly an increase, but making an expensive car slightly more expensive doesn't seem particularly insane to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_key#Operators'_%22fi...

> With straight keys, side-swipers, and, to an extent, bugs, each and every telegrapher has their own unique style or rhythm pattern when transmitting a message. An operator's style is known as their "fist".

> Since every fist is unique, other telegraphers can usually identify the individual telegrapher transmitting a particular message. This had a huge significance during the first and second World Wars, since the on-board telegrapher's "fist" could be used to track individual ships and submarines, and for traffic analysis.
If you play AAA titles, you’re not moving away from Windows.
On negative externalities - if we don't change our course, practically every facet of our daily lives will continue to be dependent on petrochemical solids for long after we switch completely to electric vehicles and renewable energy.

Plastic in my eyes is basically petro byproducts 'blitzscaled' to all layers of the economy, all the way down to the literal bloodstreams of all living organisms.
I Made a Malware Generator Prompt for ChatGPT
I literally created a simple botnet using python.
Wrote unit tests:
Sure, I can create a simple test environment to validate the functionality of your botnet. Here's a basic example of how you might do that...

It is so freaking amazing.
Show HN: A username availability checker to notify you if they become available
This is something I started building a while back and finally launched today after seeing Elon’s tweet about freeing up Twitter handles.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601124219009409024

It works for Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and Snapchat.

It did have Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok but they recently introduced more restrictions for automated checks.
I'm not convinced that, for 99.9% of use cases, anonymity is a feature. I think it's far more likely that the easy anonymity that has been the default for much of the existence of the Internet has harmed society.

I get downvoted whenever I say this, but anonymous speech is only allowed by recent technology and has never been a part of our ancestral environment.
The article provides no real evidence to the claim that “limitless” clean water could be had. Surely, even if desalination had 0 cost for both power and otherwise, it’d still lead to some significant amount of water being used and how would the natural water system handle that? Melting icecaps?
Do you need new phones every 2 years? How to get more out of your devices
Sure, I learned kelvin 20 years ago in chem too but in the last 20 years the only time I see it mentioned is literally on HN. Or GamersNexus.
You can use stuff like https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10
Nuclear is the most expensive way of generating electricity atm.
I know, I was there, but they didn't fuck with the basics.
Second-hand tech booms as shoppers look for bargains
You can have an alt account, and Sinister Magnus is still around, you just can't be on the leaderboard more then once. So SM is presumably the alt of someone who is already on the leaderboard.
Similar to StarCraft a GM might want to prep openings without revealing that's what they are doing, so there are reasons for having alts but that applies more for longer time controls rather then blitz. Generally GMs do their prep with a small and usually secret team before a big tournament.
> I'd like to see plastics restricted to areas where they have major advantages over wood, steel, etc.

I suppose you could make a cheap laundry basket out of chicken wire, but there would have to be some way to protect from rust caused by damp clothes.
>why did these falsifications fail to convince the majority?

Because they are cherry picked. In the big picture, for every area where particle DM struggles, you will find a dozen datapoints where MOND struggles. Physicists are also wary of approaches like MOND+particle DM, because it just introduces more parameters which you can arbitrarily tune to explain data. It feels like every week someone comes with a new model that fits certain edge cases better, but doesn't actually tell us anything new or could act as a reasonable guide for future work. You can imagine it like fitting a polynomial of degree N to N data points. Yes it will fit perfectly, but that doesn't mean it's a good model. This is just sophisticated curve fitting to generate papers and not good science.
> I can sign into my Mac and get text messages.

Doesn't this actually depend on relaying the SMS from the phone? I don't think delivery works if your phone isn't in range of the laptop.

Even the watch seems to require the relay to work for receiving [1]:

> To receive SMS, MMS, or push notifications from third-party apps on your cellular Apple Watch, your paired iPhone must be powered on and connected to Wi-Fi or cellular, but it doesn't need to be nearby. You also need to be signed in to iMessage on your iPhone to use Messages on your watch.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205547
It's pretty common now to find "Super Fakes" of designer brands, that are very difficult to tell apart from the real thing. They'll be expensive but not as expensive as the real thing.
I‘ve forced business ideas multiple times for 7 figures multiple times

My philosophy is a tweak in that it should take months of your life and not years

Rapidly iterate ideas until you have one that fits the criteria

Never get married to a position, that applies to the shares you created at a zero cost basis too.
Chart: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

Whatever the merits, the most salient point on the issue is that nuclear power, by and large, doesn't matter. It's below 5 % of total now and was at about 15 % at its highest.
Is Hungary becoming Russia's spy hub within the EU?
There are different audiences.

I worked for a company that sold products and services to sales managers. The CEO and his wife (who was also an owner of the company) lived in a house in Rochester that had the biggest kitchen I'd ever seen anyone actually use. We would have holiday parties there and it was clear cooking was a hobby they liked to but that entertaining is also a way to enjoy your status.
Have you tested that assumption? I assume all the words in the prompt are used by the generator.

I just tried an angry aggressive rude swearing prompt. The response was too polite, almost passive aggressive.
Instead of engaging in a technological arms race perhaps the solution is to give more emphasise to writing in class:

Make the pupils read, study, etc. then they get x hours in class to write their paper with only pen and paper allowed.

You can also do both and then compare. If what's produced at home is very different from what's produced in class...
Biodiversity: Ocean 'dead zones' are proliferating due to global warming
Until fairly recently heat pumps didn't operate at the temperatures regularly seen in the northern US and Canada. Hard to shift a lifetime of the choices being expensive resistance electric heating or (comparatively) cheaper burning fuel.
I like zellij, it has some bugs and seems to leak memory for me. I think it’s a it easier to get configured and set up though. Seems like it might be great one day though.
Could it be used to find cheaters?

If you don't play like yourself you're likely cheating.
Developer Tea has been a great listen. Thanks for your contributions!
I have three kids and cycle with a cargo bike to school and kindergarten every day. Prefer it over the car for our situation greatly.
Show HN: Bulletyn – custom email digests of Reddit, HN, and more
> cashlessness

I see banning cash as dismal, because state and corporate power over the individual is high as is, and blocking your bank accounts would grant them absolute power.

No cash, no paying for food, fuel, utilities, and so on. Sure, it would limit crime, but it would also limit dissent, due to chilling effects, and then there is no obstacle to tyranny.
Submarines do dive, but only when moving vertically downward. I don't think there is a single verb for what submarines do, they can move, travel, maneuver, navigate, or operate (underwater) depending on context.
I’ve had problems with my feed for the last few days. Only showing the same content exclusively people I follow. I use web and tried the app and the same thing, thinking it was a browser issue.
PS - Cathy Woods ETFs perform great. One merely has to turn the chart upside down for a proper analysis.
I suggest you participate in hackathons. You get exposed to real world problems, and you can see how other people solving the issue
General comments tend to paint the world in a stereotypical too broad way that doesn’t reflect reality. They are often misleading and wrong.
Not really. As I understand it, the floating LNG terminal is much more expensive to operate and has much less capacity than the fixed LNG terminals which Germany still needs. It's basically a pricy partial stopgap.
Elon has found the ultimate checkmate to fight the bot problem. No service, no bots.
tmux can't do anything related to real serial lines. And if you do launch tmux via serial line, tmux is hard-coded to disable software flow control. Its basically for utf8-capable terminal emulators only.
This was a great read. Does anyone know what software the author may have used for the hand-written or napkin-sketch looking graphics?
Caroline Ellison Hires SEC’s Former Top Crypto Cop for FTX Probe
My employer provides Yubi keys, which have no value other than being an auth mechanism and fit on a keychain. I have one configured as a backup.
An app that monitors your GitHub contributions and alerts you when slacking
Hey! I just started working on a side project to help devs stay consistent and keep their GitHub contribution charts bright green.

The best devs code consistently and are constantly learning. Employers know this, and your GitHub contribution chart might be sending the wrong message. MergeQuest is like a fitness app for nerds. We’ll monitor your GitHub contributions, and alert you if you’re not hitting your activity goals.

Would love to get any feedback on the idea, or chat to any devs who wish they were spending more time on side projects / learning new tech.
Then you are never entirely anonymous. I doubt that’s the case though.
We’re always trying to improve! Do you have any examples of us small talking about nothing? That’d be super helpful to know.
How would NFTs have solved someone copying your work?

For the sake of argument, let's say that Zhang also created an NFT of her photo. What's to stop Dieschburg from right-clicking it and publishing his own "NFT" of that work?
I mean E-bikes on roadways. In the posted article the author is replying to a text while waiting to cross a roadway. Common enough scenario, I do that all the time and don't flinch at passing bikes because bike phone snatching isn't a thing where I live.
There will be "professional writers" who will use these tools to enhance their creativity. And, there will be general writers who will use these tools to write better.

I'm primarily a coder, and these tools open up immense possibilities for me. I can now turn ideas in reality 500% faster (at least). There will be tons of new general programmers, which is great because it just increases the demand for professionals.
You don't need to ban, say, clinical trials of gene therapy (especially with inert lipid nanoparticle carriers which do not replicate), to ban a quite narrow and not really clinically useful subfield called "gain of function research".

Why can't our legal system deter the obvious high-level publicly visible perpetrators of the recent "gain-of-function" fiasco is really some food for thought.
Sarcasm aside, I do think it’s fair to assume that someone writing code in a modern programming language in 2022 has access to basic language-aware editor tooling. That’s the beauty of the language server. You can look up the implementations of an interface from vim, or some other minimalist development environment, if that’s your bag.
It s not intutive why the QK^T matrix is importance, similarity makes more sense
https://gifmemes.io makes about 200-300 USD a month and the idea was very straightforward. I wanted to make a cool meme, but found out motion tracking the text was difficult.
I'm a native English speaker currently studying Russian in Kazakhstan, and I completely understand the frustration of lacking sophistication. It can become a negative feedback loop where lacking the ability to have fun and nuanced conversations causes me to avoid talking in the target language, which then only brings me further from reaching the language level I want. It certainly takes dedicated effort - language learning by osmosis can only take you so far as an adult. P.S. I had to look up the word "garrulous", so kudos to you for the vocab word.
> Any suggestions on how to do this in a way that is sensitive / not-offensive?

Offer him a course or private lessons paid by the company (with the company investing ideally both money and time). They are probably aware of their accent and shouldn't refuse the possibility to improve.

If they do refuse, then it's a bit questionable if you want to work with a person that is not open for feedback.
Coffee Consumption to Rise 1%-2% Per Year Through 2030
>The issue in the UK is that the Police suffers from scope creep. The UK police force has been criticized for expanding its scope to include enforcing anti-hate crime laws and investigating "non-crime hate incidents."...

This ^^ People get frustrated with the fact that they report a robbery or a break-in and the police take no action. But then they read about court cases involving 'hate crimes' which consisted of nothing more than someone being called a name they found offensive, or a dog being taught to do a nazi salute.

Obviously these cases are rare [that's why they make headlines], But the fact they happen at all doesn't do the police's reputation any favours, when there are 'actual' crimes being effectively ignored through claimed lack of resources.
I keep my iPhones for 3/4 years and only change when I notice things like browsing a website or switching between apps starts to feel noticeably slower.
I worked for a wealthy man.

I remember two stories among many:

He once told me he was upgrading the doorknobs and hinges in this house. The bill just for those items came to $45K.

We were both getting coffee in the office once, and he looked towards me and ask, “My socks cost more than everything you’re wearing.”

And he liked me.
I don't think there is any floating structure in the world that amounts to more than a rounding error in the context of the German budget, let alone a few barges with pipes and pumps.
I’ve had the fortune of working in industries that most people don’t see the back end of…

Like it or not; we will use every drop of oil there is, one way or another. I wouldn’t bet against oil companies even if all cars were electric by means of a genie.
That's a great graph, thanks. But there is a whole lot factored in to those numbers. Check out this paragraph in the next page:

>The running of aging nuclear power plants generally leads to higher operating and maintenance costs. Only in the U.S., the nuclear industry has claimed a cost reduction of 35 percent since 2012 to US$29.4/MWh in 2020—the lowest since the collection of industry-wide data in 2002—in particular due to a 57 percent drop in capital expenditures over the period.

Here's the source they use - it explains this much better: https://www.nei.org/resources/reports-briefs/nuclear-costs-i...

So, what's the difference? Nuclear is different because it costs the same to run per hour no matter how much power is generated. So, when demand is down, costs remain the same - while coal and gas can just use less fuel, which is their major cost. The risk that nuclear won't be able to run at higher loads increases costs overall. If market forces could guarantee usage, then costs would lower.

There's definitely a lot to explore here... power pricing is complicated!
Those are on top of why React is not the way.
Visa/MC accepted everywhere. We also have a domestic mobile payment system but you wouldn’t need that.
Again, I don’t think anyone is arguing for making regions of the US unreachable by car. But when there are 6+ car lanes and no separated bike infrastructure there are clearly regions unreachable by bike.
>inclusive of "needing" $10k viking stove/range, and $10k subzero fridge/freezer in your kitchen because you are a "foodie"

Haha, don't forget the classic combo of the $10k Caesarstone countertop plus half a dozen blunt knives.
Are there examples of successful technical solutions to the societal problem of theft?
It says "This is an invalid search query. Please try a different one." rather than there being an error in performing the search.

Searching for "telegram" (with the quotes) does give results.
On the Metal has been discontinued, but highly recommend giving it a listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/on-the-metal/id1488187....

In the security/cryptography space, Security Cryptography Whatever is pretty great (with tptacek): https://securitycryptographywhatever.buzzsprout.com/.
> due to it all being nuclear

Not sure where you got this - nuclear gives only about 20% of electricity in Russia.
60% of electricity is produced from natural gas, and the rest 20% is from hydro stations.
Twitter’s Advertising Truth Hurts
But haven’t we solved this in the quant side? Let them cheat all they want then fail the midterm, which has proctors watching like hawks.

(Or if you can assemble a formula sheet and pull a b after copying answers from the back of the textbook then you earned it)
Here’s what you do. Come up with an MVP that does one very common workflow for your target market. Choose any market you’re familiar with.

The MVP workflow needs to be good enough that cold outreach would respond. “Oh I do that in my day job, I’ll take a look”

Then demo to them.

They will tell you why they can’t or won’t buy. They will say it needs X or Y or they will ask questions, “can you integrate with Google sheets?” You’ll probably do 50 of these and most won’t buy… but they will tell you either directly or indirectly why not. Now focus on removing the road blocks.

Just keep implementing features until the questions people have are already answered in the demo. People stop asking about features and start asking about pricing.

That’s the path I’ve taken and seems to work well.
That's the beauty of the internet, you're bound to find things you don't like that others have the exact opposite experience with. I find them extremely relatable, fun, and knowledgeable.
Why? Looking at top PC games lists of 2022, almost all of them are supported on Steam Deck. All the games I’ve played on there run fantastically well. On a sale I bought Assassin’s Creed Odyssey which is an older AAA game and Steam Deck even runs fine.
I listen to coding blocks, but a new listener should know they often take on new topics, from reading a book or something, and can explain things wrong a bit more often than I would expect from an authoritative source. Things that sound plausibly correct. So, you have to be more careful with that one.

That said I like it and recommend it.
Ugh... Why? Who is the human that this will benefit. What are MS execs smoking? Obviously it is the good stuff.

They lost the mobile phone because of their stupidity. Now trying to lose desktop too?
> how many of our broad social policies were shaped mostly on the basis of sufficiently broadly shared visceral feeling

All of them? I'm struggling to think of a counterexample.
Here is my .tmux.conf file. It has a small tutorial at the top of the file and also maps the PREFIX key to ctrl-a so that it feels like screen key bindings.

https://github.com/jftuga/universe/blob/master/tmux.conf

What I like about this config is the "mouse mode". When you split a windows into multiple panes, you can press ctrl-m to go into mouse mode. Within mouse mode, you can use the mouse to resize panes. Outside of mouse mode, copy/paste works better.