skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When one buys a house, they should take a hard loo at whether the default approach of paying for utilities makes sense, versus generating their own power.

Yes, people do. They install solar panels and use them to generate at least some of their own power. Near future battery tech might allow them to generate all of it if they get enough sunlight, in which case this will become a genuine question to answer: how much to install and maintain the panels and batteries over their lifetime, vs expected cost of purchasing power from utilities.

In a similar manner, cloud vs self hosting is a valid consideration that changes over time. We now have docker and similar tools which make managing your own infrastructure much easier than it was ten years ago. I fully expect even better tools will come out in the future so this consideration does change over time. Maybe in another ten years there'll be almost no benefit to using the cloud (except maybe as a CDN).
Suppose this is accurate; how difficult/expensive is it to get tested for this, and if you have it, is there a cure?

Regardless of the effects it may or may not have on the brain, the paper mentions that "the differences might be side-effects of long-term mild inflammatory reaction", and for general health reasons I'd certainly prefer not to have permanent long-term mild inflammation.
I wonder if exist a byte-sized implementation of this algorithms.? As far I know all is part of big system...
I used to play that online via emulators. I loved it! Being a child of the 2000s, I never noticed how much more graphically intense it was compared to other 8-bit offerings
Everyone with a precursor phone[1] should probably reply to this consultation. And then watch the law to see if you will automatically become a criminal.

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor
I'm a longtime Figma user and selfishly I hope they don't get sold to Adobe.

That said...The sale was rumored to be about $20b. Does anyone really think that Figma has any chance of producing a return to shareholders even close to that sale price even if they charge customers aggressively?
Microsoft Defender app now force-installed for Microsoft 365 users
The British State treats people born on this island as subjects, and will go to great lengths to have a full spectrum advantage over other countries, including infecting primary school age kids with things like Anthrax (me for one), and will do other things like intercepting telecoms data as detailed here.

https://cryptome.org/eyeball/capen/capen-eyeball.htm

The state will attempt and do kill innocent British civilians in this country and its all covered up. This model of governance is employed in other country's but most people want to believe the state is there as a purpose for good.
The difference is that it didn't stop you from interacting with them though. This kind of discrimination is akin to not even owning a cellphone if you are excluded. An iPod isn't a social life.
Water savings are useful in CA. However the article makes it clear they were setting up all over - including in areas with plenty of water.
As cache-friendly as advancing two pointers and a bounds check.
If you pay $500 for Photoshop, and then never upgrade it, then that's $500. Even if you're using Photoshop 5 from 1998. If it's subscription, and you pay $20/month, you always get the latest version, but you'll hit break even in just over two years. The problem comes when life throws a couple lemons your way, and money gets tight. Something like upgrading Photoshop can be put off until there's money for it, because other things, like food or gas, comes first. If times are tough and the $20 that month means going hungry some nights, that's a rough fucking situation.
Sounds like another president I've heard of.
I suspect the terms of service for the Kindle lets Amazon do this.

It's been clear for a long time now that if you use a Kindle you don't "own" the content you read on it. Very, very clear. Ironically I think it all started when an Orwell book was taken down. It's hard to feel sorry for Kindle buyers when this stuff has been known for a long time.
Used minidisc player from the reuse center. I let something else go by and felt I really had to act when I saw this one.
I disagree with 2 policies:

1. Saying "BUSTED!" whenever the police arrest someone for shoplifting.

2. Winning 10 points for running into my ankles with a shopping cart.
She doesn't have to (not that she ever would). The article states that it's already being done automatically in many cases, from Amazon-provided files.
Hyundai to deliver 700 fuel cell buses to Incheon
> It's interesting to hear from someone who apparently had a similar experience, but considers it eerie and unsettling.

If I could summarize it, it's that I lost my ability to buffer the various seeds of what the subconscious mind generates in order to spur the conscious mind into action. That strange boundary where thoughts "come from"; normally I'm able to observe that and contemplate it (usually too much and for too long, to my own detriment). With meds, it's like that boundary widens substantially and blurs as well... My ability to interpret what's coming across weakens, I become less critical of what I'm thinking about or doing, why I'm doing it, and so on.

I feel like I lose a part of what makes me who I am. Though people often say that because they feel less creative or something, I think I have the sense that I live a less conscious life on meds. I do get more done, but I'm not truly aware of what I'm doing. That's what's so unsettling to me.

It isn't like I become a robot or I forget hours of my day (in fact I might even remember more of my day). It's more like I act on unexamined thoughts far more often. It's probably just my personal philosophy getting in the way, but something seems deeply wrong with that. Akin to the unexamined thought not being worth thinking, I worry that actions based on unexamined impulses may not be worth acting upon. To some degree. Doing my taxes is always worthwhile and I can't delay that, so meds are great in that regard. On a day to day basis though, I get the sense that I lose a piece of myself to the noisy, urgent, relentless impulses to just do, do, do.

And again, it isn't an intense sensation and I can sit still and relax. I make it seem like the meds are getting me super wound up when it's not like that. The difference is quite subtle, but I suppose it changes aspects of my mind which I'm hyper-sensitive to.

Hopefully that makes sense!
The lazy answer is I go to the Bandcamp homepage and look at the daily articles, the new and notable songs, and if nothing catches my eye I watch the stream of what people are buying for a bit and click on things that look interesting. The last part is hard to replicate but enough people buy enough music that it updates too fast almost.

I also stream from the 2 week show archives of KEXP. Recently I've been enjoying https://www.kexp.org/shows/overnight-afrobeats/
> Clearly the market size, investment possibilities, the labor and tax laws and maybe also immigration laws are favorable to US startups.

Sure. Of course, many of these things are the responsibility of german legislators, and their longing for a german tech success story might be at least in part explained by a desire to avoid thinking about them.
Off topic, but I was weighing up trying Zig last night for a project.

No doubt Zig has changed alot and is better than it was only a year or two ago.

Is anyone here willing to say if they have experienced success and satisfaction using Zig? I'm wanting to do some C library interfacing.
if anyone is interested in a PaaS like experience with the surface area of AWS or GCP we're building https://docs.withcoherence.com/ for full stack web apps
I believe the parent of your response was asking if you had been diagnosed with toxoplasmosis, rather than support.
Sure, but its not that hard or expensive to hop a ferry/train/plane trip to France or Ireland and buy an unlocked phone, as one example. Any laws the UK passes have to account for the geographical realities of its location.

Just because the UK is no longer in the EU doesn't mean its not affected by many of its decisions, given the enormous volume of trade that will continue to occur between them.
Maybe one thing worth adding here is the nostalgia factor. I'm not yet 30, but I often gravitate towards the music I relate with easier, carefree times. I find it true especially with OSTs of older games I played. The nostalgic value is giving the music another dimension, which is impossible to replicate when listening to new music, even if it's great. That being said I'm happy that I got into EDM genre as it's pretty easy to follow a few selected artists throughout the years, which naturally exposes me to new material.
who said that? it's not coming up in my Google results.
Fox News media analyst says network won’t let him cover Dominion lawsuit
<< No one is out to get you.

Funny. Dilbert's creator may feel otherwise.

<< And you don't need to know what my specific viewpoint on your favorite subject is

True, but you decided to enter this conversation. I did not drag you into it and make you an unwilling participant. Your viewpoint helps the conversation along. You are right that is not a requirement. It just helps.

<< It isn't, really. In fact, Adams's column here [1] makes my point better than I could!

Does it though? At best, it is hiding your own views behind those of the author. Worse, I can't seem to tell if I am Bob in this case or not. The selected strip may not be relevant here.

<< I disagree with his view point on certain matters, and that's just it.

You did mention that; you didn't mention one thing you disagree with so far though.

<< That doesn't mean I'm afraid, or ignorant, or that I otherwise want to mark everyone who shares his viewpoints as evil.

It is hard for me categorize your view without knowing what it is. Clever.

You may not be explicitly saying his views are evil, but clearly you don't consider them as neutral given your willingness to distance yourself without stating the reason to distance yourself. I suppose we don't have to label it as anything, but actions tend to speak louder than words.
No, I mean toxoplasmosis. Your original comment seemed to imply you had a personal experience that lent credence to the study's result.
Interesting not to also link Operation Scorched Sword.

But saved whom from what? The US still invaded Iraq to the loss of 100's of thousands of lives. Israel has been subject to low-level war with its neighbor states for a half century.

I'm failing to see how any of this violence led to good outcomes.
As an aside, you can some browse supporting information at https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/

For example, Wisconsin - https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Wisconsin/Publ...

> The number of farms in the United States for 2021 is estimated at 2,012,050, down 6,950 farms from 2020. The number of farms increased in all sales classes except $1,000-$9,999, $100,000-$249,999, and $1,000,000 or more. In 2021, 51.0 percent of all farms had less than $10,000 in sales and 81.5 percent of all farms had less than $100,000 in sales. In 2021, 7.4 percent of all farms had sales of $500,000 or more.

That 51% with less than $10k sales suggests a lot of hobby farms.
So their reaction to pirated books is to... remove books from their most-competitive-with-piracy service? Does nothing to help prevent piracy and only hurts authors and paying users.

Piracy will never end and the only way for businesses to meaningfully reduce it (to an extent) is to provide a compelling option that competes with it.
Your own links talks about how perceptual hashing hasn't been proven to be robust enough for this use case, and also introduces a new problem: Hash collisions, such that you can generate images that hash to the same perceptual hash as an illicit image.
The decoy.
Yes, I did some more research on this as well. Apparently perceptual hashing is also susceptible to some pretty simple attacks:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.06628.pdf
This might be mostly true now but wasn't always.
Thank you for do your small part in improving biodiversity.
Leave it to Ford to find even more and novel ways to make their customers walk.
The biggest factor is technology. The same capital can produce more food. I think that’s what you’re talking about but not really sure. It’s a good thing for everyone but the farmers. The cost of food is one of the few things that has significantly gone down relative to minimum wage in the US.

Supply has gone up more than demand. Profit margins have gone down.
Like all meme influencers, Andrew Tate is popular with a subset of the subset of people who spend way too much time on the internet. If you think that's 60% of men/boys, then perhaps you're part of the subset that spends too much time on the internet. I've never heard anyone even mention his name IRL.
FYI check your local laws, this is almost certainly criminal in at least some places (e.g. in Germany it's illegal to "wear things which may prevent or interfere with identification of protestors" and to "carry items meant to interfere with identification", this clearly meets those criteria).
I guess that's another idea.

I think in the next ten years any manned facilities farther than the moon are less likely.
Apparently, if you forget to tell Airbnb that you are changing your phone number (but before you actually change it), they will be unable to update it later on.

But no worries, you can "contact your phone provider and ask them to get a temporary access to your old phone number".

That would be a fun conversation to have.
Actually, I changed my mind. Age uses the file key for at least three things:

1. HKDF with a random 128-bit nonce to derive the actual payload key.

2. HKDF with no nonce to derive the HMAC key for header authentication.

3. As input to every “recipient”.

I’m willing to believe that #1 is not subject to a multi-target attack and that this might even be provable.

I’m less willing to believe, without evidence, that #2 is safe. There isn’t an obvious (to me, on brief consideration) to, for example, tell whether two age files have the same HKDF output for the header key, but that’s only because the headers themselves are likely to differ for age files because the recipient stanzas are (presumably!) unlikely-to-collide functions of the file key.

I don’t like #3 at all. One could easily break multi-target security by having a DH recipient type that is just the identity to the power of file key. And I bet one could design a recipient type that looks reasonable on its own (and even has a security proof!) but breaks the system completely if two instances of the same recipient type are used in the same file.

If I were designing a v2, I would make two changes:

a) Either the file key is never used without a random nonce or the file key is >=256 bits, or both.

b) The recipient stanzas are not functions of the file key. Instead there is a per-stanza wrapping key that wraps the file key separately for each recipient.

The goal would be to enable a security proof that only needs to assume that each recipient stanza is independently secure.
The energy transition delusion: inescapable mineral realities
They had lots of global outages in past years, but in recent years they have become increasingly rare, presumably because of a move away from global points of failure
Shared this in another thread last week, but here's a good overview of comment systems for static sites (not mine): https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/
I disagree with this specifically for the W3C on everything _except_ the illustration on the front, which I have dubbed "big pants people." That's an unnecessarily homogenous design trend, but everything else is homogenous for the purposes of readability and accessibility, which is very inline with the W3C.
Ask HN: What techs are limited only by amount of energy humanity produces?
I guess this is the most appropriate place on the internet to ask this kind of question.

What technologies that are impossible right now that would be possible if humanity doubles the amount of electric energy produced? How about 10x, 100x?

Suppose we 100x it, what's the next biggest bottleneck?
Tri-wing aircraft startup claims to reduce fuel consumption by 70%; CO2 by 80%
Are the physics behind this sound?
I’m a pro-car, pro-liberty kind of American, and I just arrived back from a few minutes ago from a trip to Amsterdam.

God. Damn.

They’re doing something right there. Didn’t use a car a single time, and was better off for it.

I love my car and the open road, but I think I might prefer walkable cities…

It feels like a more natural way to live. America feels very rigid and disconnected by comparison.
You can try Nix first(the package manager) without bothering with the OS initially. I have nix with home-manager in my OSX laptop. Becoming comfortable with the package manager makes understanding NixOS much easier.

Of course you can dive straight into the whole thing if you would prefer. I've tried that too (in a former chromebook). NixOS is pretty eye opening.
Yeah it was 1984. Which was almost too much and i don't know nobody internally balked at it simply to refuse being that deeply ironic. Or they thought it was hilarious, which I suppose is a possibility.
The support is priced in, its not like they are giving it away for free. And then you still had purchase the next version which sounds like an informal subscription with a longer period?
Oh nice. I forgot i was using stay for automated window positioning but it was not working as i wanted. Also good app is/was fluor for switching keys between mac functions and normal f keys in terminal. Does not work on m2 in combination with monitorcontrol but the feature is already missed. :)
Actually you want customers to not be able to find things, so they have to wander around, and 'find' other things (in large displays for example) that you want them to buy. If the beer and diapers are always together then they won't discover the new high-margin sausage rolls. So what's better for the customer from a correlated data perspective may not be better for the business from a maximizing profit perspective.
The question isn't Adobe will make back their money, though they will. The question is how much money they don't get because are customers using Figma and no longer have to pay Adobe.
The only compiler that seems to care about implementing modules is MSVC. It'll be "real soon" when GCC stops crashing.
Oh no looks like I will have to commit my crimes on paper, with cash and in person.

More seriously though I’m accepting this as the status quo and keep things I need to keep secret airgapped from the public internet and devices.
There are a lot of farmers and they talk to each other. When something new comes out and they are not sure if this is an ROI a few of the farmers in the area will try it on a few of their fields. They will then have numbers.

Running experiments is easy, all farmers do at least a little: it is easy to plant one bag of seed somewhere and then in fall compare that bag to what they plant elsewhere. It only slightly more difficult to do that in a proper controlled scientific way. The only hard part is there are may months between starting the experiment and seeing results.

When something shows good results farmers tell each other. Not always, but they at least tell friends and things spread.
> What's good for the individual is not always what's good for society.

Should we not prioritize the society as a whole, compared to the individual? This is like saying its ok to ignore global warming, because my immediate benefit is much more important than the collective health of society.
The weight of responsibility: Biomass of livestock dwarfs that of wild mammals
The new report shows that the biomass of wild mammals on land and at sea is dwarfed by the combined weight of cattle, pigs, sheep and other domesticated mammals. A team headed by Prof. Ron Milo found that the biomass of livestock has reached about 630 million tons—30 times the weight of all wild terrestrial mammals (approximately 20 million tons) and 15 times that of wild marine mammals (40 million tons).
I'm still not clear from the article, though.

Is this just a normal bubble popping, where out of 20 companies trying, 18 go out of business but the final 2 succeed and take over the market and will produce a bunch of profit over the next couple of decades? And if so, do we have an idea which companies?

Or is the very premise economically flawed, where it turns out it can't be profitable ever, at least not with current energy and produce prices? And if so, how did these startups get their models so wrong -- what did we learn that couldn't be foreseen?
In saner times this would be grounds to impeach the entire court. It is not their role to determine what is "too secret" but whether laws are constitutional or as the final appeal for the federal courts, including a case about whether the government is operating within the law or not.
+1 to providing SSO to smaller plans, hard requirement for me.

I manage small teams and it would be a requirement for us, and if pricing for a few users is $14/month, normally enterprise is higher than that and an annual commitment, but you wouldn’t be able to get much budget out of me at this moment due to team size, but there is some there.

When choosing tools like this, I pick ones I can grow with so I don’t need to solve it again in the future, so while the team may be small, it can’t adopt it if I cant start from that point.
Flicker-less anime short film created with Diffusion models [video]
The responsiveness of this website is what I thought things were going to be like for all of the internet.
I’m obviously oversimplifying, and I meant regulatory control.
its called having intuitive ux. dont make users think. user settings and notifications go in the top right, logo and home page link in the top left. if you dont do this, you've screwed yourself in a way you may or may not ever quantify.

i agree it can get boring to see bootstrap everywhere, i also agree with "why bother having designers". but at the end of the day, i want my users productive and not thinking.
LA was designed to waste as much time with commuting as possible and is the capital of road rage, so it'll be an improvement.
Why not? Familiarity and association with positive emotions surely has a strong effect on our music tastes. It's why people often gravitate to the music of those around them they identify with.

The movie Titanic single-handedly turned me into a classical music aficionado.
Yup, that is something more realistic.

The GitHub Copilot CLI tool that is in beta, along with other tools, will show you the command and then make you manually choose to run, redo or abort.

In practice I have yet to accidentally perform any destructive operations. This makes intuitive sense because those seem like unlikely completions for a model that has been fine-tuned on “helpful cli recommendations”!
Yeah sure, it just starts to be a problem when you're having dozens of tests failing because of small rendering changes which can be ignored. Someone still has to look at all the test output, compare it to the old state and update the tests with the new state. In our case this happened quite a lot.

This is not an issue at first, but the more you use tests like this and the more people work with your code, false positives start to drag you down.
To me this reads as everybody but the farmer has some skin in the game and is extracting their share out of the process and that farmers are completely locked in on vendors. I already know they are locked in on mech equipment, I assume the intelligence layer is the same thing.

Threes probably an argument that it increases the amount of food per square acre but my cynical take is it adds more profit margin and to the ever increasing cost of food production per unit of throughput.