skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This triggered two thoughts for me.

First, how much of a killer the cold is. We've moved on from "global warming" to "climate change" language but there are a lot of places in the world that would be grateful for a few degree temperature rise (such as Latvia where I am from). Today, cold kills hundreds of thousands of people a year, while "heat deaths" are limited to geriatrics in the "first world."

Second, preparedness. Most urbanites and suburbanites don't think about the weather beyond high energy bills. But it's good to pay attention to the fact that if it's 20 degrees or less out (as it is today in NY) and power or gas goes out, your dwelling is going to get real cold real fast. What's your plan? In our case we have a fireplace which is mainly decorative (it doesn't actually warm the house up beyond the immediate radiant heat) but if shit hits the fan, we got firewood enough to huddle up by this fireplace for a few days. Hopefully will never have to rely on it but you kinda have to plan for some infrastructure failings at inconvenient times.

To connect the thoughts together - here, it's not totally uncommon to lose power. When it happens in the summer, it's inconvenient - you are sweaty and hot. If it happens in the winter, there's real risk of death.
Well, having as the point of your mystery that the main antagonist being dumb is putting the dunk ahead of the audience, but as a metaphorical response: if you’re throwing a drug fueled rager and your mom shows up with a cop, it’s definitely not the time to snort another line.
It has 2 NICs and an optional router case. So another router board without encryption hardware extensions eh. Why people keep doing this?
> same energy density as wood by weight

which means they'll provide a few minutes of heat at best. You'd be better off using them as blankets or letting some water freeze them into scoop shapes and turning them into makeshift shovels.

They also aren't going to burn nearly as cleanly as wood, meaning the burn will be far less efficient.

Depending on the size of area that you're heating, getting from -15 to 30F will take at least a solid hour of burning cleanly.
The fuel is cheaper. The fueling station is in your house or at your office, and there's never a line. The acceleration is better. The heat pump puts out heat within seconds of turning on the car.
I've been at the "have one AP in every air space where we make significant use of WiFi" for ~5 years. My 1700sqft home has 4 Google mesh nodes, and I've moved towards hard wiring them. Has really improved the wifi quality.
The self-documenting nature of these tools and the ability to get many people running quickly are both extremely valuable and I don't think OP has to deal with this issue- perhaps a smaller team or just an independent approach.

In a company where you have some 5+ languages with even more frameworks, various package managers, multiple data stores, etc. you're really going to be spending a lot of time just running individual commands to set up, e.g.:

PHP 8.0, php-fpm NodeJS, pnpm, redis, memcached, Nginx, Elasticsearch.

In total you would have probably run or configured some hundred or more commands/LOCs yourself.

You run an update and all of a sudden you're PHP service is inaccessible. What now? This happens. But automated setups typically cover this scenario already so it's just working post-update, or provide means of debugging and resolving the issue.

Having some projects in the team where automation is not that great and even some where it's only halfway there, I've seen developers literally lose a full day or more just because of a system.

The same thing can happen with Docker Desktop - where something like Nix which declaratively documents and defines native system resources is a significant improvement over the current Docker status quo.
My point is you can’t make that argument. It’s obviously false. You would need millions of the facility in the press release to even make a dent in global liquid fuel supply. You would cover the earth with windmills before you finished the job.
Henry Red Cloud helps change this situation through solar installation, forest planting and foamcrete housing. Truly amazing efforts.

https://www.redcloudrenewable.org/
even if you set a dfs channel manually (editing hostapd config or cli) if you are using qualcomm/atheros or broadcomm chipsets, they will automatically move you out once it detects radar. At least with QCA/Atheros chipsets they used to have both compiletime and runtime flags to enable/disable most features (including dfs). Also, FCC fines are huge when it comes to dfs violation - as dfs spectrum is for emergency communication (military, natural disasters etc). There are radar simulators with which you can test this.
For me, what makes these tools useful is the time I spend in review. Which often feels like the opposite of productivity.
I was shocked at how many people still used LastPass when Bitwarden is out there, being better in pretty much every way.
Because it’s a superset, and there’s specific characteristics to keep in mind that people have linked multiple times above
“Native” in this case refers to the fact that the interface is rendered using the system UI libraries. So you get a native feel for things like scrolling, navigation, gestures, etc. This isn’t possible (or really difficult) using web technologies (HTML and JS)
I feel bad for Rian Johnson, since before the whole Twitter fiasco, it was more plausible for idiot tech billionaire to not be a Musk wearing a mask. But with how badly the Twitter purchase went down after the Glass Onion was written, it's hard to watch it without thinking of Musk.
> You shouldn’t have a compiler on your webserver at all, and building a kernel should happen on a different machine than installing it.

More likely than not, if they've got execution permission on your webserver, they can send down a compiler to run. Plus or minus a c compiler doesn't open up much (anything?) they couldn't have compiled elsewhere or done in the scripting language or shell code or ... Unless you're running a static website or something. Plus, it's presumptious that all my servers are webservers. :p Do my other servers (other than build servers) get to have compilers because they're less naughty?

> And why isn’t the official kernel good enough?

Too many drivers, not enough local patches that are worth having but not worth pushing upstream. (Going upstream is a good metaphor, it often takes a lot of effort)

> Beyond the security surface that’s just asking to brick the machine; if you never make any mistakes it’s because you never tried anything very interesting with it in the first place.

That's what the console is for. Serial and IPMI consoles are way more convenient than vga consoles, but I've certainly screwed up bunches of times and had to use a console to sort things out.

> So basically /etc and UNIX are bad ‘cause they’re not declarative.

So you declare. ;) If it helps, I ran the script from Make, which is declarative (although not really the way we used it), and we mostly ran Erlang, which is claimed to be declaritive in Erlang: The Movie, but seems to be useful, so I'm not sure. I've never quite understood how the goal of declaritive system management matches with reality; it feels like a very leaky abstraction to me; the part that changes the system is necessary complexity, and hiding it away adds additional complexity. Maybe if you build a read-only root filesystem declaritively and run that? Which you can if you want? While you're saying I shouldn't do something the way I did it, my team managed a bunch of machines and a complex system with very few people, so I think the method works.

But I think about things differently than a lot of other people; I'm comfortable hot loading code to change uninterupted services, wheras others like to move traffic to new servers (and hope it all moves). You could transfer existing connections to your new servers, and that would be a lot of fun (and probably require a custom kernel), but nobody does that. Instead you either serve old connections with old code, or forceably terminate old connections. If I'm going to hot load code, it makes an immutable system directly opposed to operability. Why would I be interested in making my system less operable?

Adding on: farmera don't kill their livestock at the first sign of injury or illness; they won't do heroic interventions like you might do with a pet, but they'll certainly do simple fixes on the live cattle in the hopes of returning to health and retaining the value.
Our experience was quite different in terms of how it progressed (we were acquired by a public company). I remember after meeting with the Chairman/CEO they more or less went straight into heavy due-diligence; Deloitte audited our financials (I believe this was paid for by the acquiring company). The process in our case was much quicker than six months to get to the definitive agreement - only a few months. It was tremendously stressful, however I recall that day of initialing what seemed like hundreds of pages of agreement for the sale - such relief.
This is not a popular answer, but it's the primary reason I, and many others I know, have gotten into shape and stayed that way for well over a decade:

Hate yourself. Be fatphobic. Hold yourself to nearly unattainable standards and consider yourself a failure for not meeting them. Be disgusted by what you see in the mirror.

IMPORTANT CAVEAT: Note that I absolutely do not recommend this course of action for anyone prone to depression, but for anyone with normal seratonin chemistry and solid self-esteem elsewhere in their life, this is a mentality that absolutely works for attaining, and maintaining, fitness.
> They’re remarkably flexible, and adaptable.

I wouldn't say that for cars. BAtteries are great for smaller vehicles and mobility like e-bikes , but an ICE car can go away from civilization, be recharged instantly, carry extra fuel with itself, does not degrade in cold . It's more flexible.

Would be interesting to see if the army will use battery EVs
How does this differ from XUL?
So is The Martian. The physics in the movie and book are absolutely magical: windstorms powerful enough to impale people but not enough air pressure to require a top to the spacecraft. Toxic, perchlorate soil growing potatoes… Both the book and movie are wonderful, but have huge gaps of implausibility.
You're not doing the world any favors by giving the time of day to bullshitters. In the absence of evidence, apply Occam's razor: is it more likely that Toyota is bravely taking a stand for the poor and downtrodden automakers, or is it more likely they're trying to do the same thing they've done for years and spread FUD about EVs merely as a way to save face and justify their boneheaded investments in hydrogen cars?
No, there’s at least one scene in the movie where the DNA scanner does identify Vincent, so he is registered in the system.
I've never understood the infrastructure argument for Hydrogen vs Battery. Electricity is ubiquitous in many places in the world and can be made in situ. One can argue that there will need to be a lot of infrastructure upgrades for the power demand, but that is needed for the slightly less efficient hydrogen electrolysis as well.
I see developing countries continue to do what they have already been doing; using smaller, more efficient vehicles including bikes (both motorized and non), and shared transport methods.
Using solar and wind for fertilizer production seems like an obvious win. The prices are plummeting much more quickly than any other energy source, and the main objection — intermittency - can be worked around in this one application. Estimates say “green” pilot plants are still 3-4x as expensive as using fossil fuels, but presumably falling energy input prices and improvements (plus scale) will get us closer.
Your argument is that because initial EV designs haven’t immediately solved all the problems necessary for global replacement of ICEs overnight, it can’t happen?

“Not that many” alternative metals? Alloys are everywhere.
> GP is not defending illegal domestic surveillance of protest movements by the CIA.

Right. GP is defending CIA participation in a domestic influence/disinformation campaign, operated by the FBI. You will not convince me that this type of thing was intended to be permissible when the agency was created. See the quote from the ACLU above.

If you read the recent Twitter files, you will see that Elvis Chan included the CIA directly in a meeting with Twitter executives.
If you read what I linked above, this is specifically what the CDC is failing at (the CDC is responsible for reviewing adverse events).
Self-hosted vaultwarden is my choice.

I did a write up on it for anyone interested.

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/vaultwarden-on-an-rpi
Self-Hosted Gaming with Friends
As per my comment on your other thread:

> Here you go, my first page of hits on mobile: https://imgur.com/a/zSL5fVX

> Only when I got to my laptop now did the set of links differ: https://imgur.com/a/EuUt7U5

> Clearly not the same set of results for the same search.

Re: this site's guidelines, I find your comment here a little disingenuous and far too generous towards HN's "guidelines". The mere fact that such content as this exists suggests that HN's guidelines are quite opaque: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
I’m gonna disagree just a bit here, because it loops back around to the possible end of the “tech” hype.

Cars have been tech in this finance and investment bubble. Tesla, obviously, but then lots and lots of electric vehicle and autonomous driving startups came in with the whole song and dance of “disrupting the incumbents” and “move fast and break things” and “let’s milk customers forever and ever with subscriptions for self-driving taxis as a service”.

Which is in the process of going poof. (Remember Nikola? No. Good.). Lots and lots of hype about startups and subscriptions, and we’ve ended up with GM having arguably the best autonomous driving tech, and Ford having arguably the most hyped recent EV with the F-150.
> and that felt like purple.

Is this a commonly known idiom? I've never heard it, and I Googled to no avail.
Note that There's more than natural selection at play here. I wouldn't be surprised if the offspring have been groomed from a very early age to take over the company. Is it such a surprise that they would seem best fit?
India to see 10% growth in smartphone shipments in 2023
Our son is in his early 30s. When he was young, I did enjoy being home with him. Vacations tended to be family visits. Were we tired a lot? Yes.

Sick days were what I found troublesome, for there was generally wash to do, him to be picked up early from day care or later pre-k or school, and it all seemed more like quarantine than recuperation. Still, there were seldom more than three such days a year.
Curious how much both you and sibling pay per kWh
Not until they fill the FCC position that’s been open since Trump left office. FCC is pretty deadlocked as long as congress won’t vote for the nominated replacement.
It has learnt to deflect, just like a real person!
> I think you're both right. Introducing H2 as a fuel only helps matters if the energy used to produce the H2 is not from fossil fuels, and probably hurts otherwise.

That's "green hydrogen" by definition - ie. what this article & discussion is all about. The gp is simply mistaken, and the coal analogy is ridiculous. Whether green hydro turns out to be economic/scalable is a separate matter.
This has been documented many times, you can Google it or just ask ChatGPT again.
> "heat deaths" are limited to geriatrics in the "first world."

There are multiple parts of the world approaching the point of "so hot post-climate-change that you can't survive without air conditioning" at this point, it's not a first world problem.

See the map in https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/3151/too-hot-to-ha... to get a sense of how it's an increasingly global problem.

As a result eventually power loss will be able to kill you in the summer, too, depending on where you live.
[spoilers] I like the interpretation, but I wish this were highlighted a bit more, imo the movie seems to suggest that the twin will pay no consequences for her act but only the bad guy.
I’m astounded by the family who didn’t feed their infant for 4 days because they couldn’t get formula. Isn’t breast feeding preferable to your child starving to death?
In my opinion, there is a big difference between a closed source solution from a company that stores the passwords on their own systems, and open source software that stores the passwords in a local file.

For this kind of thing, I specifically want something that stores the data locally, that is not part of the browser, and that is open source. Those things together make me more confident that the software is probably ok and can be trusted.
This comment above is a good example of someone having stereotypes about RF administrations without actually knowing their field of expertise... It's not the matter of "unlicensed application don't pay license fees so administrations don't want them" (even though whenever you want to move an application out of a band, someone has to pay for the new equipment. But that's another topic and various countries have various process for that), but a matter of the laws of physics : various frequency bands have various physical properties and this applies not only to radio propagation but also (maybe more importantly) to measurements related to the molecules you want to observe. There are reasons why some bands and not others are dedicated to radars (and even more : some bands are fully passive because they are required for calibration and scientific measurements). So yes there are weather radars in other bands than 5 Ghz... so what ? Different radars measure different things and they are complementary (just like having different low/high bands for mobile operators are complementary for them). Before saying that the use of spectrum is "absurdly wasteful", you should show your thorough knowledge of the topic...

Keep in mind that whenever a new application appears, detailed technical analysis and simulations have to be done with regards to the other applications in co-channel and adjacent channel/bands, both with regards to direct interference, aggregated interference taking into account the projected density of the new spectrum use, clutter/terrain, propagation models, geometries of antennas, filter characteristics, etc. And even then, administrations do their best to find the right balance and enable as many applications as possible (including unlicensed and SRD), but those are tradeoffs and sometimes administration take risks to foster innovation (and sometimes it proves it was too permissive for the new user, such as what is happening now with regards to wifi vs weather radars).

(N.B. I am not in the US, but I guess FCC works similarly to EU administrations - which I know very well).
Somebody implements that infra, and in many cases you need to use them to build it, and it's important to understand them.

I'm not asking you implement one from memory, but at least have some knowledge of its properties and the reasoning behind their design.

For example Bloom filters are a probabilistic data structure, even if you don't use one as is, it's a representative algorithm of whole class of techniques that can be used when exact answers are not required. For example, at scale, if you have something that can cheaply shed 90% of the load without falling back to a more expensive precise algorithm is a big win.

Or Splay trees, binary trees, etc. the notion of self balancing structures and the concept of "divide and conquer" as a problem solving strategy.

All these add something to your toolbox and in many cases can make a huge difference on the type of solutions that you can come up with other than "throw more money at it".

Many people miss the point on these, it's like learning math, it's the way you learn to think that matters, not the particular piece of math you learn.
I use a KeePass database stored on iCloud, with the KeePassium client on IOS, and the KeePass client on Windows. Works like a charm.
@frogilus: This sounds correct, it's been too long for me to remember specifics, but time gating and microtransactions sound like some of the biggest issues I had with it at the time.
I believe that a fine-tuned autoregressive language model such as GPT, enhanced with your personal notes, has the potential to serve as a highly effective cognitive aid, potentially even fulfilling the role of a "second brain" that many of us are looking for.
If AI can produce same buggy code as you, you are easy to replace.
First, I was just explaining what I thought the author meant. I guess you are making a parallel point.

Second, I haven't met many people who are "happy long term" who don't have children front and center in their lives. Have you? What is the thing that is giving your life meaning that during your days and on your death bed you will feel great about?
I'm sure it will be quite easy for you to find data points indicating vaccines are bad. The reason i will nonetheless simply disregard your conclusions and stick to what to me seems to be the scientific consensus is, that it is very hard to actually overcome biases (like motivated reasoning) and the scientific process is the best we have to overcome those.

In other words, please link a study. Or something else i can trust actually wants to get at the bottom of this, not win some argument.
There is some truth on the damages sides, but it also bites the defendant very hard and tends to change behaviors.
Pathogens are pretty species specific.

It's quite unlikely a bee could get infected by whatever a mammal is carrying.

And it would be easier to evolve "needle cleaning" (flushing acid over it for example).
Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2022?
What were your favorite podcast episodes of 2022?

Mine were:

Hardcore History Blitz 68 - Human Resources (https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-68-blitz-human-resources/)
- discusses the history of the Atlantic slave trade

Fall of Civilizations 16: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/
- discusses the rise and fall of the Bagan Empire of Myanmar

Lex Fridman #309 - John Carmack (https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/)

The Missing Cryptoqueen 11: Operation Satellite (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84/episodes/downloads)
- this is the latest episode in an ongoing BBC series that investigates the whereabouts of Ruja Ignatova, founder of the OneCoin cryptocurrency scam. I recommend starting from episode 1 if you're not familiar with the story.
skimmed because lots of claims without any supporting evidence
Might be because Edgerouters are no longer obtainable by reasonable means.
I have many children. I consider my employment my relative vacation time and my home responsibilities my life's real work.

It's the most rewarding work you can do, and runs about 20 years.
But with fruits much much longer. Man up and do it right, and the rewards will be plentiful.

Travel is typically additionally stressful as we don't have our home's amenities to assist and so it's much more intensive than our relatively safe home environment.

Shower them with love and time. Child care will not, so this part is up to you.
While I agree in spirit that the relative cost of the Mac isn’t a bad value proposition, I’d definitely mention that wages vary dramatically by locale.

While 100/hr is reasonable for many devs in Silicon Valley, it is fairly high for others.
> Are all cultures stuck in wintery conditions facing the same issues and if not, why?

The person you're replying to explained why: We did it to them on purpose to wipe them out.