skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue isn't the printing of the physical chart itself it's the compilation of data to create a readable chart that complies with the international cartographic standard.

Most UKHO charts are currently printed at a distributor location on giant inkjet printers. Incidentally the charts are only water resistant not waterproof
Good article is good, it shows brute force works with brute force.
Slight misunderstanding in the blog post there.

> Archlinux is 78% reproducible on amd64 packages

> Debian is 95.7% reproducible on amd64 packages

This references the "fuzzing" infrastructure hosted by the Reproducible Builds project, and doesn't show "true" reproduction of binaries. It's designed to help us figure out where impurites occur in builds.

Proper package reproduction is much better in Arch because we don't have to care about all differences that can occur since our build systems are mostly static.

The true number hover around 86%-90%, which is better than the CI system.

https://reproducible.archlinux.org/

The main issues here is regressions in compilers, build tooling and leaky abstractions that needs to be found and patched. An example is how i spent a month tracking down a gcc bug that caused cgo builds to be unreproducible.

https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/413974
If you have source on free charts I’m all ears. Except for the US, most charts are paid. There are a few non-legal sources like CM93.

As a cruiser who tried to make do as cheap as possible I gave up and bought a subscription for Navionics. There was very little choice in truly free charts.
Where is Twitter going?
That extra key is something I love about 1Password's security. It ensures that even people who pick poor master passwords are well protected. And even though I have a strong master password, the key is a good extra comfort for me.
While the city may be resilient ( and I'm a bit dubious about that) I think the economy outside of London is increasingly fragile as the past decade of under investment in infrastructure is really starting to bite. The levels of political instability also make the UK less attractive than it has been in the past and I can't see us getting through 2023 without at least one self inflicted constitutional crisis around either Northern Ireland or Scotland.
This is something you want to check not assume or you can end up wasting a lot of time just to annoy the maintainers:

> Reviewing changes to src/* and nuklear.h:

> Ensure C89 compatibility
I'm happy with my AMD based laptop. But I haven't seen any that support ECC.

But I did see a Lenovo model, IIRC, that had some kind of Xeon and ECC. Not sure what the noise and battery life situations on that thing were, though.
If you do wish to take on this project and investment, I would highly recommend building a relationship with an importer/exporter. They can support you and help build the program, provide feedback, etc. I don't personally know of any in relation to Madagascar, but I would reach out to Coffee Quest, Royal, Caravela, Red Fox, Long Miles, or CCS. They all work in specific regions and might be able to steer you in the right direction.

As for the production process, it is very labor intensive. You'll most likely want to grow other plants for the sake of building an ecosystem and help diversify your farm crops. The other fruit trees can help provide shade to your coffee trees as well as offer other benefits.

It'd also be good to know what the variety and cultivar of plant you have and have a soil test done in multiple areas of your farm. It'd be most profitable to grow specialty coffee and the price is set based on quality. The higher the cup score, the higher the price (in most cases).

Good luck!
Thanks for the update. I'm shocked they raised that.
Not necessarily. There are options to make their life short in that circumstance. Horrible and unfortunate options, but options nonetheless.
You’re right. But that’s a non-start for the majority of potential users. Recommending it to family and friends feels like I’m recommending Ubuntu.

I really want it to succeed but the current landscape isn’t going to cut it.
Sorry, you're right I was thinking of just the fuel consumption, but with radiative forcing planes end up about the same as single passenger cars
1/100 was at a firm with many thousands if employees. There is a good amount of cost efficiency that happens when companies get big.
Funny how the article is exactly about this happening: the inability to tell what is true when reading.

The article might be AI generated, your comment might be, both, or none of them. How will we know who is right? And if we can't, will we stop caring?
My 2022 [0] were (Christmas 2022 comment in parenthesis):

- Bitcoin will go down to $12,000 (almost nobody saw this coming - back then it was a bit below $50,000)

- One EU country will default (not Italy), the EU will bail it out (not exactly)

- China will enter a recession (got this one)

- 2022 will be the year of the hottest and coldest temperatures on record (quite accurate)

- and also highest CO2 produced on record, caused by huge fires in the Russian Taiga. (almost accurate)

I am actually sad that I was almost right on all of these.

2023: things will get worse (economy, climate). Quite easy to predict. Bitcoin will fall below 8,000.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746497
One of the developers of the game “STALKER died in the battles for Bakhmut
Yes they do; the phrase was coined by Richard Spencer. They even had a website: AlternativeRight.com
I meant the human life cycle wasn’t broken, because I was only thinking of this in terms of preventing death. Framing it as a reduction in suffering helped me understand, thanks!

I still have concerns that it would be used in such a way that people would live long despite intense suffering, thus increasing suffering overall. But hopefully that isn’t the case.
> by default, impurities like environment variables can still be used

In a `nix develop` shell? Ah, sure. -- I don't think the new nix commands have the same functionality that `nix-shell --pure` had.

But, in nix expressions used, in order to use environment variables (or to fetch from URLs without using a known sha256), the `--impure` flag needs to be passed.
Impressive detective work. How did you find these?
1Password does encrypt URLs. It also requires an extra Secret Key [0] in addition to your password. This makes it much, much harder to use the data even if encrypted vaults were stolen.

They also have a development team that's very active. Lastpass had been coasting for years.

[0] https://support.1password.com/secret-key-security/
WSL seems to be doing fine.
Ask HN: Building a Hard Product
I'm a huge fan of YC and other popular ecosystem content. But most of it skews towards simple products.

Does anyone have advice for people working on challenging tasks (which you couldn't get an MVP done with a $500k seed)?

Specifically: I've used my first company to fund progress on a hard problem. So it's pre launch but significant Dev resources put in, I don't think there's any obvious fundraising path for this situation
> Twitter was compensated for assisting with investigations (e.g. collecting information), which is entirely normal, and has nothing to do with censorship.

Collecting information about random people _is not_ entirely normal.

Now, if you live in a totalitarian state, it might be.
What expression? What was the original context?
My thinking (some of these may take a year or two more)

- we start understanding more about how powerful neural networks can be in storing abstractions of information. More and more breakthroughs come here. A company will come that will do magical things - this company will not be Open AI or one of the big FAANG

- Maybe not this year, but soon: new advances started in robotics based on generative AI. Robots start moving in far more realistic ways

- we enter an extended stock market downturn and it does not recover till end of year. Companies trade at low multiples of revenue

- German car companies aggressively catch up with Tesla in terms of design

- Europe closes up more to migrants

- There is a Russia/Ukraine settlement, with Ukraine getting a fast track entry to the EU.

- African countries start de-facto redrawing their boarders. Ethiopia, Cameroun, maybe Nigeria

- China invades Taiwan with the largest invasion force ever seen

- The drone becomes the primary weapon of war. Every other weapon becomes secondary. New wars start based on drone

- The value of Tesla drops down to 30% of where it currently is

- The USD weakens significantly.

- More mRNA treatments start being used. Sickle cell and other genetic diseases are first target
This confusion will get worse, not better, because non-mastodon activitypub things are about to become more of a thing. Tumblr is going to add activitypub support, apparently, and Flickr is muttering about it. I’m fascinated to see how they frame this to users.
There are plugins - a search will find them - you can use with Calibre to remove DRM.

https://calibre-ebook.com/
Benchmarking Ruby 3.2 with YJIT
Here you go:

Zhu, Q., & Luo, J. (2022). Generative Pre-Trained Transformer for Design Concept Generation: An Exploration. Proceedings of the Design Society, 2, 1825-1834. doi:10.1017/pds.2022.185

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-d...

It’s just one I picked randomly, I didn’t feel like doing a literature review.
It’s typical of certain areas in tech (like here) to not document, to not care about up to date information, and only as a last resort. You need people who can manage that and create a culture of documenting.
The economy is resilient, but steel toe cap boots can only help so much when you keep shooting yourself in the foot.
By the late 90s capitalism was already there, even Microsoft was already dominating.
Why are you bringing up CSAM or revenge porn when the material and accounts referenced by the Twitter Files were ones that post content that was misaligned with the geopolitical goals of various US government organisations?

See: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701436104245248?s=46&... and earlier parts that show that their own influence campaigns had free reign: https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1605294195975114765?s=46&t...
Born and raised in the Bay Area. I've lived in some nice places in SF, LA, and Seattle. I also spent two years in the Netherlands which was by far the highest quality of life experience I've had precisely because it was more progressive.
Which means no one will end up using mastodon bc largely people do whatever the media tells them.
I'm old enough to remember having an absolute blast playing Number Munchers off a floppy disk on a DOS computer.
It seems to me that very wealthy people hoard money like dragons. Congresspeople generally aren’t very wealthy. Instead it seems like prostitution is a better analogy. Congresspeople quite often have their votes swayed for relatively small amounts of money.

I’m being pedantic on the analogy because I think it’s important for people to have the right framing on a major problem with American politics. Namely, too much money going to campaigns and PACs influencing politicians. Congresspeople generally aren’t super rich.

Your point about what goes on in your head still stands.
As a journalist who often writes about tech and has found the transition to Mastodon pretty fulfilling, let me just say that I didn't realize how much of a problem this was until a fellow writer reached out to me about how to get set up over there, I offered to help, they posted twice, didn't appear to read any of my advice on where to start or who to follow, then ... completely dunked on the network.

I am convinced that some journalists are using the wrong signals to decide whether a social network is good. It's not the onboarding, it's how the experience goes a month, or even a year, in. But tech companies are focused on building the userbase which means they're figuring out the infrastructure after the fact. Because the fediverse is open and has figured out this part, onboarding isn't as much a priority, when in reality it's the final coat of paint, the thing house flippers use to distract from the poor foundation.

That has me convinced that there needs to be folks actually writing about this space in earnest as a phenomenon, because they're not getting it from their usual sources. I'm working on this now. If anyone here has thoughts on what that should look like, I'd love to hear.
Show HN: LumoTray – A 3in1 Windows Tray App
Perhaps using a pepper should be a key principle for such use cases?

- https://dropbox.tech/security/how-dropbox-securely-stores-yo...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(cryptography)

Their payouts for reported bugs under bug bounty program have been very low, for a service used at the scale of Lastpass I believe this is just not ideal.

> Points – $5,000 per vulnerability

- https://bugcrowd.com/lastpass
> Back in the day, all the tech folks hung out online at a place called slashdot (/. – CLI folks will get it)

It's not a CLI reference. Slashdot was named for how it sounds read aloud: https://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml

> "Slashdot" is an intentionally obnoxious URL. When Rob registered the domain http://slashdot.org, he wanted a URL that was confusing when read aloud. (Try it!)
Hello HN,

This was my on-and-off side project for a good part of this year. It's a small 3 in 1 Windows utility that I've released on the Microsoft Store. The app is a fullscreen modes manager, wallpaper manager, and a custom menu builder.

This started as a personal use thing and was initially just a tray icon that I could click to set my secondary monitor fully black for when not in use/darkness/savings, or fully white for when I needed some immediate illumination (lumo means light in Esperanto).
Eventually it expanded in scope a bit as I kept building to learn some more about Windows development and C# and added a few other features that I wanted up to the point I believe it may actually be useful for more people.

And although I know that closed source Windows apps don't usually get much love or traction here, I still value any eventual feedback or criticism from any potential users.

For the more technically curious, this is a C# WPF app using the latest .NET (7). I opted against MS latest UI tech (winui3) since unfortunately it's still not supported by visual studio's own visual editor for some reason. It's also pretty new and documentation/libraries are much harder to find than for winforms or wpf. Hopefully things will get better and I'll migrate eventually.

Note that this has only recently been published to the public and was mostly tested internally by some friends and me using my own dual monitor system and virtualbox (best multi-monitor emulation afaik) so there will probably be bugs. I've been using it daily for some time now though and it's been running just fine with only minor issues that I have been fixing as I find them.

I'm currently working on getting some better copy and demos for the website, as it is now essentially just some screenshots and feature description. Still any feedback is welcome.

Cheers everybody, merry christmas.
>If Russia "loses" Crimea

I think Crimea is gone to Russia for good. It is out of play. I am talking about the Northern regions of Ukraine. In fact, I think the whole invasion of the northern regions was to eventually play that into a DMZ. Which it might still end up becoming.

>It sounds like a weird scenario where Russia threatens to use nukes and then leaves satisfied with no NATO membership. (worth reminding that this war wasn't about NATO at all)

I mean, Putin claims is was. So from his perspective, he can call that a win, right? If you take him at his word (I know!) then all he wanted was to not have NATO military bases on Russian borders. From that perspective, everything he has done so far can make a sort of sense, including nuclear threats. So, again, from that perspective, if he gets what he is publicly asking for, why would he not tout it as a win?
You certainly should always acknowledge prior work, whatever the format even if it's just some scribbles on a napkin. If it doesn't qualify for a citation there are also acknowledgments sections.
While it has taken some obvious licence, The Heroes of Telemark [1], is perfect for a lazy Boxing Day afternoon.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heroes_of_Telemark
This commenter was spot on with all his predictions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746942

I would like to know what he is predicting for 2023.
I find my aws billing statements to be so confusing that I lean towards other cloud platforms for my personal projects. Whenever I can at least. It is easier to create a set of load balanced servers involving a dozen aws services than to understand a bill on there
ActivityPub is sort of the protocol though. Mastodon is just the platform incorporating it that is becoming the twitter replacement. Maybe not for everything, but programming andtechwise my mastodon feed sure is more interesting than any of my other social media feeds in the wake of Elon.

I think it's hard to say where things are heading though. We had RSS before, and that didn't stand up to American tech giants. I have my doubts this iteration of ActivityPub and the "fediverse" will, but I do think we need a decentral protocol like it if we want an interesting internet going forward. I mean, which of your centralized social media feeds are interesting in 2022? Even HN is becoming a page I visit on a weekly basis rather than on a daily basis, and this is the SoMe I use the most aside from mastodon and LinkedIn. Maybe I'm just the oddball, but at least in my circle of influence things like Facebook are now solely used to arrange things like Blood Bowl tournaments.
In drag force, yes, but in this case, you are taking the 3% penalty and aren't getting the partially offsetting 1.7% increase in distance per unit time that 60 gives you over 59.

Note that it's 3% per 10°C delta so, for a 40°C swing (say 30°C/86°F summer to -10°C/14°F winter), that's a 12% difference in aero drag force.
Isn't that the situation you want -- someone who already is successfully farming in the area, and is ready/able to expand?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Super%20Easy...
We don't have a fix for this problem now, we barely paper these social cracks by requiring people to work extended hours in jobs they don't value at all. Most people don't even have the time to think about how unfulfilled they are.
What is so interesting to me is how much bias we have that my "understanding" of what you wrote is something additional to a Chinese room.

IMO it is because no matter what people say outwardly, most people will not give up their "souls". They will even defer to some as yet undiscovered and unnamed property/process.

"I "think", therefor I am not a Chinese room!" is not a strong argument.
What I often find is this “ought to know” treshold. Parent comment user is probably familiar with lingo you are not. Documentation often assumes a certain level and a writer does not imagine a less capable user.
This article has a peculiar feel to it, like those quickly, cheaply written SEO blogs have. Is it AI generated?
Done, in the text.
They're taking pull requests at https://codeberg.org/x11cp/x11cp/pulls
How do you store the secret key? In your head? In a physical device you must carry around?
I watched the full video. It was long but very informative. The humor at times made up for the length and the presenter showed a lot of deep knowledge that most people won't have. My biggest gripe is that they just didn't try replacing the RAM sticks in the first place. I get that they wanted to do a root cause analysis, but geez the time and patience they had to do all those memory tests. No wonder they did a video about it, cause otherwise that lost time would have been painful. I was baffled as well that dd and ddrescue work differently in how they utilize the RAM. Caught me offguard.

Onto the discussion of ECC RAM. In a perfect world, all memory would be ECC... but try finding some high performance 16GB sticks of ECC DDR4 RAM like what you'll see on gaming computers. I don't even think they make anything comparable in terms of speed and definitely not costs. I guess you don't really know that you needed ECC until it's too late.
> Since then I'm very paranoid, always run memtest on any new RAM I buy overnight, and have ECC where it's possible to have it.

Yeah, I do the same, but I've learned that you have to do it regularly.

In one of my desktop machines, the RAM ran fine for like two years. Then, all of sudden, random Firefox segfaults, etc.

Whipped up a memtest ISO, and sure enough, one of the sticks was bad.
Thanks for the details, i'll update the numbers for Arch !
People have been dunking on LastPass for a very long time. I haven't seen the same infosec people do the same with 1Password and Bitwarden. The constant criticism was a bit push to finally get me to move to 1P.

The one good thing about LastPass was basically how easy it was to set up. Everything else was a bit of a mess. 1Password was tricky to set up, and they took a bit longer to launch a cloud service.

One thing that bothers me about 1Password is that they only let you set up one security key, which is very impractical for people like me. OTOH, this is not unusual, and I assume part of it is to keep bad actors from adding more security keys to your account or something like that. Still not great when you can lose access to everything if you lose your key.
I still use KeePass, albeit with a ridiculously high iteration count to protect against brute-forcing. It's completely client-side, so no cloud involved and nobody to blame other than you if your vault gets into the wrong hands ;-)

Although personally, I use OneDrive to sync it across devices
This Carla Rossi seems to have quite the academic position, being the editor in chief of a journal and the director of a research center (https://www.receptio.eu/).

The blatant plagiarism Rossi has committed here not only casts doubt on her own previous publications, but also on the works by the organisation she's representing. The way her secretary defends the plagiarism she committed reads like someone who's been caught, couldn't think of an excuse, and started denying until they could come up with a better excuse ("blogs don't have scientific value") for Prof Carla Rossi's plagiarism. The sheer nerve to call a blog scientifically meaningless when the author has brazenly put her name on someone else's work!

It's possible that Rossi didn't know about the plagiarism as many publications in academia outsource a large amount of work to others (PhD students, for example) and stick the name of the researcher managing the project on the front. Perhaps the person answering the email was (or knew) the person who plagiarised this blog and is trying to prevent her boss from finding out.

Regardless, I wouldn't trust Prof Carla Rossi, nor her journal "Theory and Criticism of Literature and Arts", nor receptio.eu until this problem has been dealt with. As far as I can tell this blog is an excellent source of information, but if these publications have copied online sources verbatim before, who knows what other, lesser websites have also been copied and restated as scientific fact?
A dev shell is designed to allow the outside environment to be accessible (so you've got access to tools you'd want to invoke while working that aren't strictly project dependencies).
In the West is it even debatable that christianity is on a decline?
As for the muslim world its more mixed but I do think the younger genereation is less religious than the older ones. It has a long way to go though till we can say its a secularized society.
Ok, so you think being in a bubble with people that agree with you is worth 16% of your income a year. Meaning if you work 30 years you need to work 4.8 years longer to retire. This doesn't take into account investment returns.