skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grew up in a Bortle 4 (spent a lot of time in a 3) and live in a Bortle 6 now. I miss the stars.

My wife grew up in an 8/9. We drove out west onetime and she had never seen the stars so visible. I can’t imagine growing up not seeing stars, but my children are about to do just that.
I have both enabled since forever but I still get password’ed every once in a while even when installing free apps. The App Store password prompt is also stuck in distant past with no keychain integration, so I always have to cancel the purchase, copy password from password manager, then purchase again. Super annoying.
“That's unnecessarily hostile.”

Ha! It’s hostile if it’s coming out of your pocket. It’s okay if it’s someone else’s. Got it.
The technical ones may, but they're also less likely to fall victim to the phishing schemes.

It's those non-technical folks in admin roles that you tend to have to worry about most. Those folks aren't so good at picking out the tests.

I actually found KnowBe4 to work fairly well on a large scale.
> This article is insane fear mongering over nothing.

It's not. How Outlook 2010 was cut out from downloading outlook.com mail is concerning. I want to know what their next shot will be. Excel is where I draw the line: if Windows 11 stop letting me use Excel 2010, I will resume my Linux migration attempt.

Microsoft excuses about "security" don't pass my sniff tests and create risks for outlook.com: downloading mail with IMAP or POP over SSL isn't a security risk - or you're doing something seriously wrong.
That's interesting, because https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests... says that another copy of this image was deleted for being an "obvious copyright violation".
Funny this has been known for a long time!

"Descriptions of dream enactment by people with Parkinson’s are as old as recognition of the disease itself. In James Parkinson’s original description, “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy,” published in 1817, he wrote: “Tremulous motions of the limbs occur during sleep, and augment until they awaken the patient, and frequently with much agitation and alarm.” But despite similar reports over the next two centuries, the connection between dreams and disease remained obscure—so much so that Alda had to convince his neurologist to do a brain scan for Parkinson’s after he read about the link in a 2015 news article."
Ask HN: Why can't I buy a phone charger with a 2-prong wall plug?
Ideally, I would like a multi-charging cable (such as this one: https://www.amazon.com/Charging-USAMS-Multiple-Connectors-Compatible/dp/B07QXVCFD1) but which doesn't have a USB connector at the other end, but rather just has an integrated 2-prong plug.

Why don't phone charging cables that plug directly into an electrical outlet exist?
Service jobs tips are part of base pay. Especially wait staff that make below minimum wage.
The title is confusing. In reading the article, Microsoft is pushing out an executable see if people are running older versions of Office.
So pick a sport that isn't injury prone to better suit the person? I do it because it's fun and challenging, and brings me back to my own military days. Switch CrossFit for swimming/cycling and rugby for soccer, tennis. or basketball.

I'm replying to a recent college grad, and recommending things that worked for me. God forbid I try to help someone, with some simply suggestions of things that worked for me when I was in their situation just over a year ago.

Your comment reads as very bitter to be frank.
I would worry less about the money, things usually work out. You also need to identify all of your options. Does your partner now qualify for SSI, disability and/or Medicaid? If they do get Medicaid. Otherwise the Affordable Care Act will limit your/their financial exposure as well.

Next, you need to build a support system of friends and possibly family (if they can come over for a time to help).

https://www.usa.gov/disability-caregiver

Some states have better options than others, especially for caregiving. You want to look into personal care assistants. It can be very difficult to find people but
Good detection and response is a must, but creating a security culture helps greatly. Training, test campaigns, and further training for those that fail, does help. Nothing is a silver bullet, that is why we emphasize "Defense in Depth."
Ask HN: How do “private cloud” SaaS solutions work?
It seems like companies that traditionally offered multi-tenant cloud and on-premises versions of their software are now switching to offering “private cloud” or “managed service” versions that are a hybrid of the previous approaches.

From what I can tell, this approach involves the vendor creating and managing a customer’s software instance, but doing so in a single-tenant model on the customer’s preferred cloud provider.

I’m curious to know how this works. Does the vendor get access the customer’s AWS/Azure/GC account and then create the resources to run the software there? Or does the vendor deploy the software in their own cloud accounts in the region/provider preferred by the customer, and then somehow keep the instance confined to being accessed within the customer’s network?

Example: https://document360.com/private-hosting/
I wonder how big the market is for this. Despite being an actually nice language, Swift is not that popular outside Apple's ecosystem, so I guess most developers would use XCode for it's integration (with Apple Developer, SwiftUI/preview etc).
it isn't only itemizing for general deduction. there are a LOT of people who claim other tax incentives outside of that. I have claimed something almost every year in the past 15 years. and almost every friend I have does the same. if you are self employed or have a home, it is super common to claim items on taxes that the IRS doesn't know about currently.

but yes, they should just eliminate all deductions and shift how much you are taxed to compensate
why woykd you say they are on "red alert"? Sounds like lazy investors pumping or dumping to me.

Google already has very large LLMs online for search and other applications.

A similar take on similar spin: https://twitter.com/westurner/status/1614002846394892288

From April 2022, "Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrough Performance" https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-pa... :

> In recent years, large neural networks trained for language understanding and generation have achieved impressive results across a wide range of tasks. GPT-3 first showed that large language models (LLMs) can be used for few-shot learning and can achieve impressive results without large-scale task-specific data collection or model parameter updating. More recent LLMs, such as GLaM, LaMDA, Gopher, and Megatron-Turing NLG, achieved state-of-the-art few-shot results on many tasks by scaling model size, using sparsely activated modules, and training on larger datasets from more diverse sources. Yet much work remains in understanding the capabilities that emerge with few-shot learning as we push the limits of model scale.

> […] More recent LLMs, such as GLaM, LaMDA, Gopher, and Megatron-Turing NLG, achieved [SOTA] few-shot results on many tasks by scaling model size, using sparsely activated modules, and training on larger datasets from more diverse sources. Yet much work remains [for few-shot LLMs] /2

DeepMind Dreamerv3 is more advanced than all the LLMs.
A Switchblade-300 is $6k. Phoenix Ghost is a few hundred dollars. Both easily within range of Ukraine.
Yall keep telling on yourselves in the silliest ways. Actively amusing.
The "job" of a soldier is to die for its "country", whoever its "country" is.
Runs smoothly on Galaxy S8
Hah, you beat me to it! I drew this very same board by hand, after noticing that many positions were dead ends, and that the options for moving around the top-left were quite limited.

Based on the graph, I also found an optimal route through the whole board: https://gist.github.com/unflxw/b4d21c55c137a9a42fba75bd0cf98...
> This is one of those things I personally have trouble wrapping my head around, but I know it happens. Kudos for getting it done.

I think a lot of it boils down to these factors:

- SUNK COST FALLACY. A lot of people work at one place for many, many years. When you're happy, your natural inclination is to not look around. So when the ball drops and things change, you long for the good old days and stay hoping for the things that kept you around to come back. Concurrently, your resume stale and you begin to forget what interviewing was like. As a result, when you finally realize "Oh my! I hate this fucking place!" you feel stuck.

- FEAR/LACKING SELF-WORTH. Maybe you have kids, a mortgage, a fancy remodel you're paying for, whatever. You are scared that your skills aren't attractive to employers. You're also scared you'll get found out and fired for treason or something. So you make do. (I was scared of this for a bit. The truth is, everyone knows when everyone is looking. "I'm feeling unwell" is the oldest lie in the book, most of the time.)

- FEAR OF CHANGE. "What if the new place sucks as much as this place?" This one's actually valid, but to that I say "What have you got to lose, except leaving a place you ALREADY KNOW is awful? Worst case, you leave and try again, which you can do now because you rock at interviewing!"
Because the person who required those features happens to be the owner of the company, and that person never takes the blame for anything.
Why can't you buy the one you linked and then just plug it into a regular charging brick?
> Was Microsoft supposed to cancel the event at the last minute but still pay Sting his full fee that had already been contracted?

No, Microsoft was supposed to time their announcement of large lay off so as it not be days after a private concert for executives because it looks bad and gives a bad impression on the company and not doing that is part of what executives are paid for.

I don’t understand why this site seems so full of apologists every time an article is published rightfully criticising a large American company.

Are you all that loyal to your masters? They are not going to pet you you know.
A motorhome on ars technica is how bad the housing situation has become.
eBPF is mentioned in the README, but I think you could trivially implement eBPF on top of this (and quite possibly have it be at least as performant).
FTX’s Venture Capital Backers Face ‘Serious Questions,’ CFTC Official Says
People can choose to avoid JS if they want, but a lot of users get a HUGE amount of value from JS.

The web is an app delivery platform now, not just an information delivery platform.

Plus, we have a lot of processing power on the client side, which should be utilised.

JS, when used well is not a bad thing. If a site uses it badly, just don't go to that site.
Why some people don’t do Open Source
>>How Outlook 2010 was cut out from downloading outlook.com mail is concerning.

Why is that concerning? Outlook 2010 does not support the modern authentication and encryption that Exchange Online, and Outlook.com require. It only supports Basic Auth, which was turned off after a long and extended delay.
I deeply disagree.

The idea that the OS vendor can push telemetry that scans my computer, not even analyzing activity, but rummaging through my old files, is crazy.

They've taken what was originally a sort of okay idea, automated updates for security, and turned it into something absolutely nuts. I have a windows PC for the occasional game, and these days I feel like I have to treat it as defacto malware.
Both:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-patients-hurt-by-theranos-1...

That to me is what pushes me over the edge to jail for her: defrauding investors arguably should not involve jail time but I think knowingly playing games with medical procedures, food safety, etc. should be one of the electrified third rails that everyone knows is not worth any profit.
As purely an outsider and not OP: it seems their contractors and support people have direct access to critical customer data simply by typing password and/or totp into a form. Seems it’s not always the correct one.

* Limiting access (maybe to email subject instead of all content?) might prevent some fallout as it might be more difficult to extract password reset emails sent by customers.

* Limiting access from certain IP sources might make it more difficult to use captured login credentials.

* Hardware key based authentication might prevent the type of phishing that seems to have happened here.
I think three.js is pure JavaScript, it may be some physics engine that uses WASM (like Rapier)
> I do know you have to hold an asset for at least 1 yr to count it as capital gains.

That is not true. Perhaps what you mean is that capital gains on assets held less than a year are taxed at a different rate than capital gains on assets held longer than a year?

Don't mean to get pedantic but I didn't want someone to read your comment and think that they owe no taxes on short-term capital gains. (What a crazy tax incentive that would be!)
This is 2 years old, does anyone know of any newer progress in this area?
You do not have to get divorced to not pay a deceased spouse's bills or be responsible for them unless you signed that you would agree to be responsible and you don't have to sign that.
Oh! That's unexpected. I got them up to EP09 via other channels. (Ahem)

It feels to me like (mandarin) chinese is like acoustic assembly scrolling by my ears very fast, while the english higher level subtitles have not much time to stay, in comparison.
Solar energy is getting cheaper and cheaper. But at some point those who want to build a new solar plant will start noticing this phenomenon: when the sun shines, the price of electricity will be very low, because of all the other solar generation. Might even be negative. Negative prices can't help you recoup your capital investment.

Lots of people are giddy for the moment we'll have widespread negative electricity prices because of all the cheap solar being built. You know who's not giddy about that? Those who are supposed to install the new solar.
I don't think the government should even allow your employer to automate the payroll deductions. If every family in the country got hundreds of dollars more in their take-home pay and had to write a check to the government like they write a check for their mortgage, it would allow (force?) citizens to really consider the value they get for their money.
Years ago Dell had a laptop with an e-ink display. Lenovo has a laptop with an e-ink display on the cover so you use it like a tablet, but the "normal" screen is LCD. I think a company called Modus is working on making a laptop with an e-ink for the regular screen.
Renewables do, in fact, generate power.

We have combined-cycle gas turbines already, that will not be torn down. They will just be fired up only at need. Eventually they will burn synthetic fuel. At need.
I've written code like this in C to create library functions that will be linked in to other projects, but where there is no 'main' function in the C file. Do people use C++ the same way, or is it best practice to include 'main?'
Is it an optional or mandatory "update"?
What the US and leading tier military countries are investing in: penetrating stealth system of systems.

Lasers require targeting.

Absent or confusing that, precision weapons start to quickly degrade air defenses.
> In general, wealthy people make up a small proportion of the population and tend (though not always) towards greater intelligence, or at least education, than the average

What makes you think this?
Wiki.js might be an alternative

https://js.wiki/
It looks like the world's first "Prompt Engineer" was a tenured data scientist. So... not as simple or straightforward as it seems. Honestly, it just sounds like they're relabeling Data Science as something more recession-friendly.
OneLook Dictionary and Thesaurus Search
I live in Perth – you don't have to go that far (maybe a hundred km) to get a good sky, but I rarely do. I was out at New Norcia recently, and it happened to be a very clear night. I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing – the Milky Way so apparent, not just as stars but as a sort of texture to the sky. We lose a lot of perspective when we drown that out.
Great write up! After 13 years I find myself reflect on exactly the same points.
General Motors Killed the First Modern Electric Car [video]
I will drop $750 in a heartbeat if there is enough reviewed proof that eink can limit vision damage longterm. Its one of my main health concerns.
Can't be the whole explanation for why you cannot find them with Google anymore: search.marginalia.nu manages to find the
A handful of hours storage, 60% curtailment (with most of the surplus used to create hydrogen and such for chemical feedstock) and a small amount of HVDC leaves a remainder small enough that meeting it with biogas and existing hydro is possible, meeting it with hudrogen is not costly, or meeting it with LNG is not a huge problem.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z

The world produces about 3TW of electricity, 2022's battery production was 760GWh and it's growing 30-50% yoy.

Ideally degrowth happens, but while we negotiate that, the |bhattery industry is at the scale required and is rapidly shedding critical mineral requirements (sodium ion is at GWh scale now, and much larger supply chains with all abundant materials come online in june).
I thought requestAnimationFrame was preferred instead of setTimeout? Or is there no advantage in a simple animation like this one?
On-demand electrical control of spin qubits (2023)
Peter Attia had a recent episode about neurodegenerative disease, they talk about dream enactment quite a bit, great discussion:

https://peterattiamd.com/kellyannniotis/
I am more likely to try Swift, if I can use it in my existing tools. So maybe the play is to make it more popular.
In search of a better Spaced Repetition algorithm
"On-demand electrical control of spin qubits" (2023)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01280-4

> Once called a ‘classically non-describable two-valuedness’ by Pauli, the electron spin forms a qubit that is naturally robust to electric fluctuations. Paradoxically, a common control strategy is the integration of micromagnets to enhance the coupling between spins and electric fields, which, in turn, hampers noise immunity and adds architectural complexity. Here we exploit a switchable interaction between spins and orbital motion of electrons in silicon quantum dots, without a micromagnet. The weak effects of relativistic spin–orbit interaction in silicon are enhanced, leading to a speed up in Rabi frequency by a factor of up to 650 by controlling the energy quantization of electrons in the nanostructure. Fast electrical control is demonstrated in multiple devices and electronic configurations. Using the electrical drive, we achieve a coherence time T2,Hahn ≈ 50 μs, fast single-qubit gates with Tπ/2 = 3 ns and gate fidelities of 99.93%, probed by randomized benchmarking. High-performance all-electrical control improves the prospects for scalable silicon quantum computing. High-performance all-electrical control is a prerequisite for scalable silicon quantum computing. The switchable interaction between spins and orbital motion of electrons in silicon quantum dots now enables the electrical control of a spin qubit with high fidelity and speed, without the need for integrating a micromagnet.
wonder if theres a term for this akin to the "overview effect" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
Doesn’t seem as accurate as chat gpt
> they will only let in those who are either friends with the project creators or “famous” developers in the open source community

I genuinely fail to see how nepotism is a problem unique to Open Source and not the world of employment and programming at-large.
That question isn’t without consequence. If the cost is too high there will be a populist revolt and return to “roll coal!”

You can’t impoverish people today to prevent a future catastrophe like severe climate change that can only be argued for on the basis of science many people don’t understand… not unless you are in a North Korea level dictatorship and can just shoot people who disagree.
What in particular constitutes "an easy stab"? Is it the idea that oral histories face skepticism, or the idea that Western accounts face insufficient skepticism? The former seems to be plainly true, and in many cases justifiably so. The latter, if it were true, would be a more serious accusation. To refute it, I'm trying to think of a Western historical narrative that has faced enough skepticism that it has been replaced with a more accurate narrative... perhaps you can help me?

Or perhaps you would defend the latter idea as a good thing? I want to assume better of an HN interlocutor, but that would fit better with your mention of copying and original sources.

If we must "stab" something as vast and varied as "Western history", ISTM the most common choices of focus and emphasis are more questionable than the accuracy.
Was there first instead of delaying progress for a decade and still not moving beyond MVP 1.0 as baseline.
QuickBasic (1985) apparently did not need line numbers: "Although still supported in QuickBASIC, line numbers became optional."

- https://www.wikiwand.com/en/QuickBASIC

And BASIC itself was developed in 1963, when full screen editors may not have been as feasible.

- https://www.wikiwand.com/en/BASIC
I was trying to get davinci-003 to convert text to SQL, and it worked with a very simple prompt like "convert this text into SQL". With all their other models, I could get it to work too but all required a few examples within the prompt.
Not a review, but an experience regarding language, which I wrote elsewhere:

It feels to me like (mandarin) chinese is like acoustic assembly 'scrolling by' my ears very fast, while the english higher level subtitles have not much time to stay, in comparison.

Besides that, excellent production values, but not that overwhelming. Which isn't a surprise for me, because I thought of the book as mediocre, or not my thing. At least it was interesting enough to read it/them to the end. Thought of it as bad translation, at the time, maybe it's more of a cultural thing, or upbringing. Don't know. Will watch it to the end anyways, because curious!
The one in the linked article doesn't rotate. You may mean https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/5/23541379/lenovo-thinkbook-... which will be available in summer and is pretty pricey.
Let me tell you about an entity called the EU.
I wonder if this is going to change with time. Most people of a certain age remember a time when answering the phone and talking to the other person was a social more. This is the social courtesy that telemarketers and scammers have been using for years now.

But there's another way. Just hang up on them. I know it's considered hostile but it's just an outdated social more at this point.
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A good start is to understand the value of you're earlier experience and find some positives.

You will certainly have learned some skills. You'll have learned what you don't want in a job. Even menial work can be used to demonstrate grit.

Anyway, starting from zero is hard, but least because you'll compare yourself to people who haven't. Much better to salvage what you can from the last decade and realise that you aren't starting from zero at all.

To me, what jumps it if your post is, this person is miserable and not at thier best psychologically. You better believe interviewers can smell that and sadly they don't like it. Suggest that getting some counseling might help you more careerwise than another tech skill.