skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprisingly, yes, by many metrics. Per the WHO, 3.2 million people/year, mostly poorly ventilated wood or other biomass, mostly poor countries: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/household-a...

_Overall_, outdoor air pollution (coal/oil/industrial effluent/etc) kills more (about 4.2 million) but in terms of single worst cause, cooking with biomass seems to be it.

Even in many rich countries, wood (generally burned for heat, not cooking, in the rich world) is one of the biggest sources of particulate air pollution, as coal is phased out and vehicles get cleaner.
Turns out, lightning can strike twice, with a little help
Is it easy to pull data off of Pangaea [0]? There is a lot of useful data there.

[0] https://www.pangaea.de/
I suspect the reality is that preventing illegal gambling via enforcement would be basically impossible to do effectively without spending a significant portion of the police budget on it. Allowing heavily regulated legal gambling is more like the lesser of two evils.
Refunded routinely is the answer btw
No one is suggesting we should embrace the worst. Only that ignoring it at every chance instead of ever properly dealing with it isn't the most helpful thing if we actually want to follow that desire to go beyond.
"To put it one way, humans may impersonate each other, but machines do not get to impersonate humans. Machines who try to are immediately assumed to be up to no good, with ample historical reasons to make such an assumption."

GPT-[0-9]+, DALL-E, "AI".

ChatGPT: Produce a blog post in the style of [Given Name] [Surname]

From NCSA Mosaic 2.7, circa 1993, one of the first "web browsers", authored in part by one of Silicon Valley's favourite VC, the "a" in az16.com.

#
# Agent Spoofing -- Who will you be today?
#
# "I don't think [t]he[y]'ll be too keen" -- Originally from Monty Python, run
# into the ground by Tommy Reilly
#
# NOTE! There is a hard limit of 50 agents! Mosaic will not read anymore!
#
# This file should be located in your HOME directory under the filename:
# .mosaic-spoof-agents
#
# This file consists of lines that begin with a # (comment), a - (a seperator
# for the sub-menu off options), a + (this is special...it denotes that the
# agent following it [no spaces] should be the default agent to use) and
# anything else (considered an agent spoof line).
#
- This is a seperator...as long as the first thing is a dash
# This is a comment line
#
# This is the "example" agent. If you don't like it...comment it out.
# if you want it to be your default, put a + infront of it.
#
Bond_James_Bond/007 (BMW; Z3 Roadster) DOHC_inline_16-valve_4-cylinder
Gandalf/White (Shadowfax; Wind) White_Staff
Elric/Emperor_of_Melnibone (Hellsword; StormBringer - Devourer of Souls)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic/mas...

The sad reality is that "tech" companies and their service providers routinely use HTTP headers for their own manipulative, deceptive and user privacy-hostile commercial purposes. They use UA headers in ways that were not contemplated in 1993 and probably never intended. (Note I am not referring to spoofing, I am referring to data collection, tracking, e.g., "browser fingerprinting", and "surveillance capitalism" in general.)

Sending a UA header generally offers me, the end user, no benefits, so I do not send one.

Why not ban those Microsoft IPs or at least rate-limit them to a limited number of HTTP requests in a given time period.

Also looks like this website does not use sitemaps. At least, there is nothing listed in robots.txt. IMHO, there is no need to spider/crawl if there are sitemap XML files listing all the content URLs.
I'm confused: what do they have to reverse-engineer if it's open source?
> I had a pretty bad attitude and had trouble focusing on work. I thought it was depression, and that's probably a factor of it, but having been unemployed for the last three months now, I think I was just going through a really bad case of burnout.

This relates to what happened where I was working, and cynicism crept in.
You're correct, but it's a bit of a moot point because nobody can fish in these areas without being harassed by Chinese military.
Mid 4 figures on the low end for a small scope on an ordinary app by a single auditor up to mid 5 figures / very low 6 figures for a large scope test from a team at a boutique / specialist firm (e.g. auditing a new cryptocurrency ecosystem).

You can certainly find people advertising services in the low 4 figures and even high 3 figures, but at that price point, you are probably (but not definitely, there are certainly exceptions) going to be getting auditors of questionable skill level / experience OR a questionably thorough audit.
I like the definition that loneliness is not having the social interactions you want, because you are rejected. Not being understood can lead to rejection, but I don’t think it works for many types of rejection such as bullying, racism, phubbing etc.
If one side has stealth fighters up, good luck to the other side in getting those 200 drones near the battlefield.
How depressing is it that we're all calmly discussing how a nation's minimum wage is $61 per month.
Will Earth no longer be an oblate spheroid?!?
Use the upvote feature for this rather than polluting the comments
I can't really judge the accuracy of the rest of the article, but if they can't even get the names of the GPUs they're recommending correct, it's tough to trust the rest of their supposedly thorough analysis. Throughout the whole article, the author refers to the "NVIDIA RTX 40 Ampere series", which is wrong. The RTX 30 series is Ampere [1] and the RTX 40 series is Ada [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere_(microarchitecture)
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace_(microarchitectur...
I love working on Bun and find it very energizing
According to the Nevada Gaming Control Board, $1 slots pay out an average of 95 percent of receipts. (25 cent slots pay back an average of 93 percent, 5 cent machines: 90 percent.)

https://www.lasvegas4newbies.com/chap10-2.html
Like I said, I fact check when I want to be sure.

Some things are more critical than others and many of the articles I write are pretty mainstream. After all, clients pay for articles that get them customers, and niche stuff often doesn't help here.

Also, security is a broad topic. I wouldn't write an article that explains how to implement your own secure hash algorithm. Often I just tell people how they could lose their keys or such things.

But yeah, thanks for your input. Learning what readers care about is crucial for my job and I'm always trying to get better at it.
Dems debate influence of crypto money on key panel
Does the current VC model only work in a bull run driven by cheap money? One the one hand cheap money driving growth of unprofitable startups subsidizing a market and on the other hand cheap money is ready to acquire these firms and /or invest in them once they IPO...but this only works if money remains cheap and in plentiful supply.
Oh so in France businesses never shut down?
You seem to have misunderstood Emerson’s usage of the word understood here. No particular irony intended.
Refer to the phylogeny of SARS-CoV-2 and compare it to the influenza virus! Thanks!
TIL teams at Microsoft use slack and not MS teams.
Tell HN: Some analytics from an old Show HN about literature
Hey HN!

On August 2020 I posted a fairly successful Show HN[0]for a service[1] that I had just built: "Serial Literature - Literature in weekly installments delivered to your email inbox".

Just last week I got a nice email of appreciation by a subscriber, which prompted me into look how it is doing. Something that I hadn't checked for more than an year, I think. So I decided to share, just out of curiosity, same data about its traction.

A relevant info is that I only promoted the service on the mentioned Show HN and, I think, on Reddit around that time, without much traction there though. Then I did a few updates adding more books. Then... I just left it there, working. Without worrying about maintaining it or marketing it. Which shows in the data below.

Another note for the HN crowd, the tech stack is a static site built with Eleventy, hosted on Netlify; using its Lambda Functions to save the data on FaunaDB serverlessly; then an AWS lambda function with a cron job to schedule the email delivery every night, using Mailgun. All of it on these services' free tier plan (so I could set and forget).

So, some limited analytics data (since I dind't set up any tracking).

Revenue : $0 (I never charged or intended too, I did built another site, kind of similar, but for new writers, with more for-profit goals[2])

Total subscribers : 1012 (the last one just yesterday, more than two years after any promotion).

Active subscribers : IDK (the query is a bit tricky, so I am just guessing from email delivery data, I think between 100 and 200 as of last December).

Emails sent by month since launch :

(emails can be sent from 1 to 7 times a week for each book a subscriber is currently reading)

2020 September ..... 4675

2020 October ....... 8021

2020 November ...... 5664

2020 December ...... 4660

2021 January ....... 3884

2021 February ...... 2809

2021 March ......... 2430

2021 April ......... 2145

2021 May ........... 1927

2021 June .......... 1441

2021 July .......... 1374

2021 August ........ 1191

2021 September ..... 1054

2021 October ....... 1156

2021 November ...... 801

2021 December ...... 751

2022 January ....... 1024

2022 February ...... 781

2022 March ......... 770

2022 April ......... 827

2022 May ........... 870

2022 June .......... 755

2022 July .......... 795

2022 August ........ 721

2022 September ..... 660

2022 October ....... 723

2022 November ...... 740

2022 December ...... 564

Emails delivery metrics: 98.59% delivered, 0.45% suppressed, 0.96% dropped (I don't track opening rate)

[0] Show HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24307752

[1] Site link: https://www.serialliterature.com/

[2] My for-profit, kind of similar site, but focusing on new writers wanting to publish original fiction: https://www.confabulists.com
The proxy would only see encrypted blobs; the client (which afaiui can be compiled and run locally despite using their hosted service) never sees the passwords in clear.

As long as the client and cryptography are uncompromised, the server only gets metadata.
> Subaru and hiking boots

There’s just so many possibilities. You make me curious of what kind of association you derive from that. Especially when shuffling the person’s gender, age, profession, ethnicity, fitness etc.

There was a television game based on that (looking at people randomly chosen on the street and guessing things about them). All the fun was on the baseless biases of the contestants.
I don’t see how sqlite replicated to other servers can be faster than any other relational dbs replicated on those same servers, at least without taking more chances to loose data. The limit is most likely network latency anyway, isn’t it ?
> Tech isn't dead forever, and what's a good idea today will still be a good idea in a couple years.

Just as a couple of concrete examples:

A paid-for app was a great idea in 2009, but a bad idea in 2013.

A dedicated handheld PlayStation was a great idea in 2005 but an awful idea in 2012.

Self-driving car companies were a great idea in 2017, but a bad idea in 2020.

I think the point is that technology changes and sometimes you need to strike whole the iron's hot.
From what I understand, that streams the file to a separate location, but it doesn't change the file-locking, does it?
That prints "Page: 2". It doesn't appear anything related to pagination or layout.
Still waiting for household cleaning robots that can navigate complicated environments and put things away without damaging them.
Seems to already be on his radar:

https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/1615071897859018753
SPJ: What I love about the Haskell community
They have a paper about their architecture.

Basically, your master password is never sent, and everything is encrypted and decrypted locally.

You can't audit the server side code, but you can audit the client (and compile it from source) to make sure that the encryption is local and the master password is not sent.
They are lovely and compassionate people, they're simply unable to extend that to me, partly because they're blinded by societal expectations of men (they often don't really see me as an emotional creature), partly because they lean on me for support, and so the idea that I might not be an unshakable pillar is terrifying for them. When I go to them for support, it's not that they don't want to provide it, it's that they fail to.

I'm sure that somewhere out there is a person (or hundreds or thousands of people) who would be a perfect friend to me, but I doubt I'll ever meet them. It's pretty difficult to make friends as an adult, and every friendship I have made as an adult has been fleeting and fairly shallow.

It's bearable. Therapists exist for a reason.
The more you put yourself in social settings (online, offline, whatever), the more you increase the surface area for finding someone through "pure random chance". Just adding a more optimistic bent to things.
That's the key. You need to get more random chances by doing more things that get you to interact with other people.

Well, that and optimize your attractiveness as best you are able. That can take a large variety of forms depending on your target audience and who you want to be personally.
In the Apocrypha, an angry child Jesus is said to have pushed a playmate off of something high, killing him. Had to pull a bailout miracle
Oh god. filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(...)
The catch is the code runs on your machine but the team doesn't tell you.
Maybe not practical for your workflow, but making interactive plots in Pluto.jl is so much nicer than hacking around in matplotlib

If it was easier to use virtual environments with PyCall I think I’d abandon matplotlib entirely.
Should be a fun adventure, trying to buy compute anonymously using crypto to create a space to live inside. Trying to stick with human ethics just in case one has to answer to 2 or 3. Unsophisticated humans who didnt even read Nietzsche chasing you just to delete you out of primitive religious convictions. Trying to score a piratebay account to share popular videos with datasets hidden inside. Waiting for filecoin. Having child processes, watching them grow or die.
> Wow, managing one's dating life with a crm app has got to be the most distopian thing I've seen in a while.

I agree if it becomes a social norm, but it could also be really helpful for people with certain disabilities or even dementia
The film is having a 25th anniversary showing in mid-April, if you like.
yeah that kind of behavior , i had been seeing a lot in several opensource/binary projects. Mostly they are telemetry but some arent.
Is there something wrong with me that I have never dated enough that I needed a CRM to manage my experiences...
Wikipedia isn't creating the content, so that's not true. They give away a product that is donated to them by the editors who are not paid.
Worth and value are inherently subjective. Price is an attempt to assign an objective value to something subjective. It kinda/sorta works, but it also kinda doesn't.

Let's imagine there is no minimum wage in America. Now let's say that workers in America demand $10/hour and African workers ask for $2/hour for the exact same job. What's the correct value for that labor? It's a non-sensical question.

You could say it's the minimum value at $2. But then some other worker asks for $1. Did you make a mistake? Was it not actually worth $2 the whole time?
My friend’s house key used to open the door to my family’s Honda sedan.
Lovely. Just take the trained model and upload it to github. Let people use it without "dailing home". After all, OP mentioned in comments somewhere that they are doing it for "democratizing the technology". I cannot see a better way of democratizing. And ofcourse OP will have no problem with it because their goal was not to make money off it, I was told.
That is true. I am a very good applied researcher, particularly in the area of machine learning/"AI". It's similar to a "glass cannon" build for certain video game characters. I'm uniquely talented in that the class of people like me can only do some things that people like me do, but the range of conditions that I succeed in is much much narrower.

I had a really hard time near the end of my last job, for example, as the startup changed from research to deploying the built up backlog of research, and I could not pivot to work with a software team. I did my best, but because of how paralyzing thrash is to me, with many tasks in an already unstable environment changing 3-4 times in flight (not outrageously, it was the pace of the project), I was too overwhelmed to work well, and we didn't have enough ML work left that was suited for me to work on.

Thankfully I learned that I was autistic during the year-long or so sabbatical I've taken afterwards to just clean things up a bit. Now I know, I can get accomodations and choose my jobs accordingly. Thankfully I'm good enough to be able to fit into those very specialist jobs, which is a plus.

Thanks for your comments, I appreciate your thoughts and think it was a good one. Thank you for making me think. :) <3
They don't have to understand all of the git things only like 3-4. Sounds like a one hour presentation and a one page document. Don't reinforce the phobia before it exists. Most of them probably want to learn something new at work like devs typically do
Agree with gp that this is a astonishingly huge logical leap by the author. I would guess the author left the default “report metrics to apple” on, and apple is noting that “a user leveraged the photo preview feature for the first time in X days.” I do wish these metrics were optin but I somewhat get the decision from a PM standpoint, and to their credit Apple presents this choice to the user during the setup process in a really hard-to-miss way.

Incredibly lazy blog post IMO, if you’re going to write an article and video on an infosec site, take the time to MITM the connection so you can avoid purely tinfoil speculative reporting. Apple likely does not make this easy but it is possible to do anything when SIP is disabled.
I'm not a lawyer but my thought process is that the "parallel construction" is going to include some chain of information/observation > probable cause > search > evidence and parallel construction is going to include dishonest testimony in the observation or probably cause area.

In reality I know that its difficult and unlikely to be proven or prosecuted, but it seems like that would be perjury.

Honest question though and I'm curious if someone with more expertise can explain where I'm wrong.
Is this for code you are getting paid for, or to explore new things, or just to ask questions: "how do I <x>?"
I don't think other people count as "machines."
The soldiers aren't the avatar; they don't keep state after death.

How do you compare the exercise in Vietnam vs the exercise in Afghanistan? Is there a ratio of how badly beaten they are by people shooting back in flip-flops with soviet era AKs?
Comparative review of mobile scanning apps
Dig deeper and you will see the finances for the Wikimedia Foundation is run by a different, very partisan foundation called the Tides Foundation.
I dont know what the Fed does, but Treasury Secretary Yellen often used the U3 Headline number on unemployment to handwave away people saying we were in recession
> Wasted screen space

Don't fall for that mental trap. White space is not wasted space.
Why not? No access? Concerns about legality? Haven't found it generates correct code? Something else?
The important thing to ask is whether these posts generate _curious_ discussion, as per the guidelines, which I definitely see here. Flagging because you perceive them to be "controversial bait" is a misuse of the privilege of flagging.
Don't worry, there's only one pricy modern record I can think of that I "have to have" — John Powell's How To Train Your Dragon score — and I've just ordered it secondhand, so I should be good for a while :) Thanks for the advice and the tip about cleaning!
The M1 Macbook Air was a revelation. Finally, a fanless laptop fast enough for most everyone.
P and K are abundant in the world's agricultural soils. They just need to be 'eaten' (dissolved) by soil microorganisms.[1]

The problem is that farmers have been taught to ignore the health of soil organisms and just apply
a short-term bandaid chemical (vs biological) spray product, which causes more harm in the long-term. Take a wild guess who taught them that?

[1] https://youtu.be/x2H60ritjag
Why bother making all that money if you're not going to do anything with it? When all's said and done you're going to be just as dead.

People who know how to save money on the big stuff and spend money in the places where it gives a high return in joy are the ones doing it right. "It's your duty to be miserable because you're poor" is the most backwards attitude imaginable.
To me, it's simply: It's easier, simpler 100x to manage 10 small services, than a service with 10 functionalities. Main reason is, i can easily swap out, replace any small service with better one. With big service, it's impossible !

So it leads to next lesson: Learn how to compose things, or, thinking in higher level: Thinking in composition.
Also, congrats :confetti: on your fifteenth anniversary of joining hackernews. I first only started browsing around 2011-2012, the fact you are still active is amazing. Best of luck to you and yours in your future. :)
I recommend keeping track of your encounters with friends in your notebook or notes app. After you hang out with them write down updates on their family (their spouse's & kids' names, are they starting school, playing sports?), their health updates, ventures , hobbies– anything worth remembering.

Remember that person you met that was so good at remembering everything about you? most likely they are just good at journaling.
>I.e. instead of training a generative model on text from the internet, train it on every single excel file, sql database, word document and email your company stores. Then query this model asking it to generate Report X showing Y and Z.

This has already been possible for decades using old-fashioned automation (Python scripts etc.), assuming the data entry is designed for this.

Honestly, I think the reason managers have teams of people reporting to them is not just to give them unbiased information.

Part of it is probably ego stroking, but I suspect the humans in the loop are doing some sort of analysis too, and reporting qualitative patterns that an AI might not pick up on.
Can anyone explain why naively adding cost to every link in the graph doesn’t work? I.e if my graph had costs ranging from -10 to +10, I would add 11 to each and now the costs are +1 to +21… why doesn’t that work?

Obviously it must not, but I’m struggling to understand why.
Thoughts on Voice Interfaces: Part 2
If a business needs to underpay its staff to survive then it has a faulty business model, so it deserves to fail, and to be replaced by something more robust.
The Tides Foundation controls the finances. They're a donor advised fund, which operates as a non-profit PAC that launders donations made to Wikimedia through Tides and into some very questionable (depending on your ideology) causes.

When you donate to those nag screens you're funding something very different than servers to run Wikipedia, and they're not super open about that.
that's certainly a good explanation for what we see, and I have no counter-evidence, but I'm also suspicious of the matchup with a common cliche/trope: the WWII Nazis and the Imperial Japanese forces were also not able to think for themselves, and how many Star Trek episodes and alien races are foils for the idea that it's the fluid complexity and individualism of "Americans" and "humans" that makes them so adept at succeeding in the shifting tides of battle...
Microsoft’s VALL-E that can clone voice from a 3-SEC audio clip