skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on the car brand. Mercedes' don't require engine rebuilds because the engines outlast the body they are in. Most cheaper brands don't require engine rebuilds because it isn't economical to do so, by the time the car clocks over 250K its book value is way higher than an engine rebuild.

But for classic sports cars they're fairly normal, those engines were not made to last forever, tend to be fairly high power for their displacement and the book value of the cars is high enough that rebuilding an engine can make sense.
Show HN: Copyza.com - AI based Content Generation for Marketing
Copyza helps you create marketing content at scale with AI. It's built using GPT-3 & uses 100+ marketing best practices as prompts. Currently there are modules for SEO & Content. Modules for email & ads is in the pipeline.
Rather than subconscious fear I have conscious hope. I really hope that such models can be used for improving human life, something, much more really, than what appears to be the trivial uses of Chat-GPT. How about we feed it information on carbon sinks and helps slow down climate change? How do we get people to limit population voluntarily? How do we improve education? Better forest management techniques? I know I'm asking a lot here but this is all its infancy so maybe I'm not being overly optimistic.
A bit related, just stumbled upon Flix, a functional JVM language with Datalog contraints and (somewhat?) Go-like concurrency:

https://flix.dev

HN Thread from 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31448889
As someone who has lived rather isolated for long stretches, I think the one thing that helps fight feeling isolated is to find your joy and practice it. My joy is in creative outlets. When I'm alone, I sing, woodwork, cook new recipes, garden [indoors or out], sew. If I had a large indoor space I'd probably practice slacklining, aerial arts, tumbling, parkour, climbing. And then there's the computer, where I can create music and endless programs, websites. I haven't even touched on painting, drawing, playing music. And all that can be supplemented by podcasts, music, movies/TV, reading, chores, working out. There's really so much to do indoors if you can cultivate a creative mindset.
I think they mean like 7879.
One of my litmus tests for whether a technical team knows what the hell they're doing is what happens when you sign up for a service with one 3rd party auth (e.g. Facebook) then try to sign in with another one, e.g. Google, with the same email. Top tier is having the accounts seamlessly merged, ideally with a notification along those lines. My favorite was getting an error because I was using a different service, but not telling me what that service was, and it somehow broke the login such that I had to restart the browser to be able to sign in.
Facebook is my e-commerce business' main avenue of customer acquisition. It wouldn't make any sense to avoid using something that is clearly a profoundly valuable asset because something could go wrong at some point. Even if they shut off my access tomorrow, I've still gained the thousands of customers who I acquired - they've already generated a profit for me, and I can keep reaching out to them via marketing emails to make more sales.

Same thing with Amazon - it's been one of the easiest ways to sell. I listed my stuff, spent a little on ads, and things have just been slowly and steadily up and to the right since then. Even if they kicked me off tomorrow, I've still made good money in a very time-efficient manner.

It's one thing to say you should get Fastmail instead of Gmail, but to just say you should avoid using services that are valuable for your business because you might lose access later is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Linode, Slicehost, MediaTemple and a few others I'm forgetting belong to a declining generation of hosting businesses that used to be popular in their hey days.
When interest rates are 0%, any amount of growth compounded over years is attractive.

When you can get a 5% risk-free return from treasuries, even 7% rate of return is unattractive when compared to the safest asset on earth returning 5%.

My point is, layoffs will continue until companies are much more efficient, or interest rates go down.
Very sorry to hear that, though you seem to have a fairly good outlook about it.

Excuse me if it's callous to ask this at this time, but as I've been observing layoffs and been hearing that people are immediately shut down from their systems, I'm wondering: how do they communicate it to you if you can't access your email? Do they reach out to your personal email, call you, send you a letter?

I might understand revoking access but if the only immediate means of communication of termination are not being to access your systems, and thus having to deduce that you've been laid off, that would be fucking abhorrent.
Should not be allowed, apologies. I always spot these errors only after the edit window has closed.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Linode for running simple VPSes?
What are good alternatives to Linode for running virtual private servers in 2023?

I know Digital Ocean is a good one. Are there more?

How do these alternatives look for long term viability? Linode had a good run for 20 years! Which other alternative is likely to last and provide robust service for another 20 years (think 2043!)?

Do justify your recommendations and explain why your recommended alternative is better than the others for running virtual private servers? What do they do better than others? How good is their customer support in comparison to others? Why do you think they will last for another 20 years?
> Also add an indicator or separate rating for requirements that make the passwords too easy to guess

This, naively[0], is all requirements except minimum length. Every requirement reduces the problem space for would-be attackers and increases the cognitive burden for users.

[0] I recognise that with many modern techniques, password-cracking utilises common patterns rather than a brute-force approach.
I think generally the talk about "there are not enough registers" ignore pipelining and register renaming way too much. The loss of performance of the frame pointer register even on x86 is not that problematic, and on x86_64 it's completely negligible unless you're in a tight switch heavy interpreter loop.
> But if we have issues with digital governments

I'm going to stop you right there. PayPal is not a digital government: they are subject to the same laws as Facebook or Google or Apple. If you use this hyperbole to make your argument, I'm not sure many people will take you seriously.

We fix this with regulation and consumer protections. When a company repeats a behavior that is customer-adverse, we have the regulatory authority to fix it.

Problem is, people keep signing up for stupid EULAs that include "we can delete all your data" clauses.

> But we need better solutions for this.

Stop taking free services for granted?
Really? With semi-trailer-trucks everywhere, it's EVs that we're talking about? This sounds like somebody with an agenda.
He's not exactly being coy about it[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1625368108461613057?s=20
I switched to Samsung from SanDisk about 7-8 years ago (when I first discovered this cheating on one of my SanDisk USB sticks) and haven't had any issues.

BTW, there is no need to buy anything fancy for RPi, I just buy the cheap stuff, but I buy much higher capacity than what I need. Overprovisioning this way is cheaper and more reliable in my opinion vs. buying something more exotic.

For example for the most basic RPi install, I'll buy a 64GB microSD card. The card may only ever see less than 10 GB worth of data, but I know it'll last for years with plenty of chatty logs written to it daily.

Source: I've been running RPis from the very first version, and have never had a single card fail on me, ever.
> Looks like there's been a flip in the definitions of liberal and conservative, at least wrt free-speech

I mean, yeah? There is definitely a side more concerned with suppressing speech they consider reprehensible than the other and those roles have definitely switched in the last like 30 years.
Physical reality is often easier to change than psychological reality, but culture programs us to do the latter.

Riffed on it here:
https://www.leadingsapiens.com/changing-your-mindset/
The very next sentence after the above quote: "Obviously I can do this in person, but who wants to GO to the DMV? Not I, that’s for sure."
Disabling paste anywhere is a cardinal sin.

“We want to make sure the user gets this right. So instead of letting them just hit Ctrl+V let’s make them type the whole thing, introducing all sorts of possibilities for errors!”
Android doesn't run apps in a Java VM. At build time, the Java bytecode is translated to DEX bytecode, which is designed specifically for Android. Today, at install time, the Android runtime compiles DEX bytecode to native code. You're probably right about this being true in the early days, but not so much anymore.

I think the power usage difference between Android and plain Linux on the same hardware is mainly due to the way Android aggressively puts the CPU into sleep states and uses timers (etc) to wake it up as needed.
I had the same problem, I wanted to explore careers and it kept asking me to define areas of interest and give it specifics. I just wanted to see careers I didn't know existed. Not careers that match my salary range and technical specifications.
As someone who is certainly on-board with the greater fight against the Devil's iconography, I can't foresee this kind of legislation as having an overall good impact, especially with how popular commercial VPNs have become and how frequently you see them advertised. Children aren't stupid. And as other commenters here have pointed out, kids that aren't smart enough to use VPNs will probably just look for non-compliant sites or other means of access.

States simply aren't equipped to deal with the issue of access. And not only that, but the issue of access is a false framing of the problem, when there should be as much (if not more) concern about the very existence of pornography, the means by which it is made (prostitution, voyeurism, and exploitation), and the motivations for making it (injured intellect and corrupt will). Until people are having the more important conversation about sexual ethics, the very meaning of our sex, and not this phony "sex education" you get in public schools, I don't think we will see meaningful improvement.
Charging - Expensive and epic waste of time. Ionity leading the way with 0.79EUR/kWh and still you are there for 40 minutes and that's charger which can give me 150kW on start of charging. Slower chargers, like stupid 50kW? Yeah, 2 hours charging and they are wide and far. 20kW and weaker chargers? You are playing lottery with compatibility buddy. Yes it is there, yes it is on, but it does not like your car. What's the point of CCS when there are different incompatible software stacks in power delivery protocol?

Car almost left me stranded in middle of France north of Troyes, when it lead me to charge to Freshmile, which was not compatible at all (car navigation was thinking otherwise). I needed to charge at local Citroen dealership to get 30km so I can get to Ionity in Troyes.

Applications - Frustrating chapter for itself. New charger, new app to be installed, account created in etc.... And new problems to be solved, like their pay gate does not like your Visa card. Huh? Or they will happily take your money as a credit for charging and then you will figure out that your car is not compatible with the charger. Money back? F You!

This could have been resolved by installing normal debit card terminals, like are in stores. Just let me use my NFC card / phone to pay what I have charged. Like on an automated gas pump or when I am buying groceries. IT COULD BE THAT SIMPLE.

Driving - 2 hours going 130km/h on highway, then you need to charge for cca 1 hour. So your average traveling speed can't exceed 90km/h. That's an epic waste of time.

Charging at home - I moved to another country, where I can't charge at a driveway, because now I am living in the apartment. So I am forced to charge 2km away on a 20kW charger. Completely uncomfortable.

And then seeing ban on ICE cars 12 years away and there is 50% of people in EU living in apartments... yeah after my experience, I am confident that this will get postponed.
Violet didn't like the responses $reboot or $next.
My rule for using SSO is that it's ok for apps and accounts you don't really care about but not ok for anything you rely on. Like for example I have a weather.com account through Apple Private Relay. If apple were to ban me and I lost access to my weather.com account, I wouldn't loose any sleep.
> My point is, layoffs will continue until companies are much more efficient, or interest rates go down.

Exactly what the FED wanted.
At 2-3 trips per year that means spending 4-6 months at sea per trip. That’s a lot of time away from family.

I would definitely rather work for Amazon and see my family every night.
I actually didn't know that about Bcrypt. Good to know! Thank you. Though, 72 (18 if using 4 byte) would still be better than 10.

Edit: Also as OWASP suggestions (I thought of it but wanted to verify if it was OK before I posted)... if you're using Bcrypt you could hash it with something like sha256 before running it through Bcrypt to get around the length limit.

Edit: mistyped "bit" instead of "byte" :(
Apart from the human safety factor, I'm also curious what it does to other stuff typically found in houses? Even if you were to run the disinfection cycle only while the room is unoccupied, it still affects everything else in the room.

So is the combination of 222 nm + exposure times required for disinfection still enough to cause noticeable bleaching of paints, aging of plastics, etc. etc. over time?
> That’s not necessarily bad though.

Indeed: https://www.shuchow.com/so-i-took-a-huge-corporation-to-arbi...
Interesting idea, but feels incomplete. It more or less just asks you repeatedly what job you'd like, or suggests you to try exploring the job you're already in.
It sure looks like it. I thought that the moment they got bought.

Same thing happened with Slicehost. They got absorbed by the Rackspace borg, which ruined everything we found appealing at SH -- so we found Linode.

I guess now I'm looking for the new Linode/Slicehost style provider. Sucks.
> Do they reach out to your personal email, call you, send you a letter?

Personal email, phone and letter.
> should offer mandatory human support

"All of our agents are currently busy. Please hold and we will answer your call as soon as possible."
Exploring maven incremental builds with maven-build-cache-extension
It was an email from the CEO to my personal email. By the time I received that email, all my IT access was already cut off: no Slack, no laptop login, no VPN, etc.
How to Size a Market in 30 minutes
Old C++ code -- even very old C++ code -- still compiles fine with the latest C++ compilers. Old Python code does not. That's a huge, and critically important, difference.
I was worried about this when I started using TreasuryDirect, but fortunately Kee[0], a KeePass-compatible browser extension, fills it in automatically so you don't have to bother with the virtual keyboard.

[0] https://www.kee.pm/
The famous scene[0] from this film is a masterpiece. It never fails to sink me to my nadir, so I avoid watching it even if I love it so much.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnTU_hJoByA
I cant find a Form 990 for your organization since 2019 on the IRS website. Can you provide a link?

If you are going to use your status as a non-profit to virtue signal, I have to scrutinize your form 990 first.

https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/812908499_201912_990_...
Show HN: Thwarting the Theft of Credentials Using Container
Recent high-profile cases such as the source code leaks of Slack's GitHub repositories in January 2023, CircleCI in January 2023, and before that GitHub accounts in April 2022, and Okta in December 2022 are evidence of this trend. In this short blog, we briefly review the attack and explain how the use of online and secured Containerized Development Environments (CDEs) is a great way to protect your DevOps process and implement a robust code development infrastructure to support DevSecOps practices.
That's nonsense, there are lots of people in the UK who rate Thatcher as one of the best PMs ever. The UK finished the 80s in a drastically better position than at the start in terms of poverty and employment, the latter of which only skyrocketed at the start of her first term because the previous government was socialist, and had been manipulating the economy to prioritize people putting in jobs even if those jobs were useless. The USSR also had low unemployment, but that doesn't mean they had a good economy.
He's NOT the illustrator of the book. THAT'S interesting.
If I were dang, I would disable your account so you can no longer log in and post. But the moment you’ve made an intentional public post on a public forum hosted in a foreign country, from my perspective you have lost any and all moral right to demand anything whatsoever in regards to your previous posts, no matter the absurd overreaching of your domestic regulators.
The shower page was interesting, you get 4 minutes of shower time a week

https://brr.fyi/posts/showering-at-the-south-pole

I'm surprised they can't just melt snow water to run things like showers.

Oddly no suggestions on the page about doubling up your shower with someone else to have longer or more frequent showers.
Yep. The opposite feedback loop is “big Altima energy”. The $1000 cheaper new cars become the preferred cars of those who don’t care or can’t really afford it, which end up being the cheapest and most abused used cars. Which end up on buy-here-pay-here lots. And repeat.
While nobody in hiphop was ever so committed to the truth that somebody rapping about dealing drugs could be convicted on the basis of their lyrics, there's a long history of rappers policing each other's authenticity in terms of things like claiming to be a gang member when they weren't; and authenticity to the art form, in terms of not moderating lyrics in search of radio airplay and commercial appeal.

Of course, these matters are complicated because there are other dynamics at work too. There are some fairly nuanced distinctions - a lot of gangster rappers didn't see Will Smith's family-friendly rap as selling out because he'd never claimed to be a gangster. Among rappers a less well known performer can gain a lot of publicity from starting a feud with someone well known, so some of the criticism has mixed motives (accusing the successful of selling out is a classic choice). And if you believe all financial success is inherently inauthentic, hiphop's bragging and bling celebrating financial success might seem like an embrace of inauthenticity - but I think most such performers would say they were poor and they're now rich and that's the reality they're authentically representing.

However, it's certainly not true to say that hiphop has wholeheartedly embraces selling out, or did so from the start.
> Is there a solution to prevent all of these digital system lockouts?

No full solution, but one reasonable thing to do is to never ever use the "log in here with X" SSO like logins. Always have separate logins for each service. At least that way if one jams up, all the rest should not simultaneously jam up because of that one.

> But we need better solutions for this.

Correct. But sadly, until it either happens to enough people, who then complain to their law makers, for the law makers to notice, or happens to a lawmaker themselves and they go on a warpath, little will change.
Being accessible from the EU doesn't make your business subject to EU law. The EU doesn't claim universal jurisdiction.

Those US newspaper sites you can't access: well, you can access them via archive.org.
My workstation is a Zen 3 Threadripper Pro that mostly serves as a virtualized Spark cluster, an entire virtualized infrastructure stack, and video editing (plus occasional games). Wife lives in CAD tools on similar hardware with a bit less CPU and less memory. We already have real power.

- - - - -

However, we mostly prefer to have those off when we’re not doing work that requires them (I’m mostly on an iPad), plus there’s stuff that the entire family benefits from with the lab. Considering their performance the workstations are actually very power efficient setups for their capability, but they can noticeably change the temperature of a room in an hour when they’re under load, and both of them combined add about $35-40/mo to our electric bill (we pay ~$0.50/kWh in the Boston area) just for light loads, sometimes quite a bit more.

- - - - -

I will never suggest building something new JUST to reduce power consumption of existing stuff. ROI never makes sense. But when you DO build something new, I DO suggest looking hard at power consumption. There the savings can be quite material. Plus never having to hear any of the equipment EVER (barring the workstations going flat out) is a great thing. Silence is golden. You’ll also learn a lot more about your hardware.
how does interest rate affects company layoffs and why is being more efficient affects that? and why would FED want this? - serious question
How do businesses do open source
What happens if someone has a true medical emergency? Like heart attack or burst appendix? Are they stranded?

I feel like this fear would be lingering over me the entire time.
The layoffs will continue until productivity improves /s
However the whole EU market can't return to ICEs because of fleet emission limits, which are now 95g CO2/km and from 2025 will be 15% lower, with other changes too. So my guess is, people who can afford it (including charging infra) will have EVs which will get better and more expensive and the rest will not buy new cars. Maybe the market will shift to smaller forms of mobility, we'll see.
https://archive.ph/Peo1W
No doubt! As it came past in a blur, it was difficult to see what was left of the original car beyond the external shell..
12 characters oughta be enough for everyone
Socializing at work is a fairy tale, and the pandemic made people realize it. The nature of employer/employee relation has always been lopsided and exploitative. Employees are not going back to having their salary/job geographically limited and wasting time commuting, and it’s making people like you who lost bargaining power mad.
Valuing the Deep State Part VII: Out-of-Control Bureaucracies. Francis Fukuyama
That's McMurdo, not the South Pole, a orbit a lot easier to achieve.

I thought that Starlink satellites wouldn't orbit that far on the poles, but looking on trackers [1] it does look like there a few stragglers up there (or down there in this case, he). Maybe there are some special talks with the military and other countries on getting some good internet. I don't believe polar orbits would be commercially viable otherwise

[1]: https://satellitemap.space/?norad=48119
This sounds really interesting (and also eerily similar to haskell's Coercible and roles), is there any material on the matter somewhere? I'd love to see what solution they're thinking of working towards, seeing as this is a pain point that I encounter somewhat frequently.
Singapore has SingPass Login:

https://api.singpass.gov.sg/library/login/developers/overvie...