skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but the vast majority of the population of New York State lives in places where air source heat pumps work just fine. Air source heat pumps can be built to work down to at least -20 Fahrenheit[1]. That's equal to the coldest temperature on record in places like Buffalo and Albany.

For those relatively few people living in places which get even colder than that, there's the option of either ground loop heat pumps, or more pragmatically propane burners for the very few nights of the year that are super-cold.

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rheem-heat-pump-sur...
Yes, that is the point. The options we have are changing these fundamentals, or continuing down the path of ever more aggressive stochastic methods for filtering out most of the bots.

At some point balance will tip where an internet with only authenticated traffic will be seen as more usable and preferred by the masses, then anonymity is over. New AI systems generating unfathomable amounts of human-like garbage to flood all UGC platforms might actually become the tipping point fairly soon.
I don't think this is a user error, nor was it ever in the first place. Cloudflare shouldn't of glitched in such a way. The service should accommodate however the browser is configured.

Call me skeptical but does feels more of an "okay this feature we wanted is breaking stuff and people are noticing. Lets turn it off for now".

Something new will break in probably a month.
Sure but I want to imagine that some people are only playing Game A and others are only playing Game B, unaware of the relation between them that creates positive outcomes by sometimes losing in one game or the other.
To all of you I'd ask, what do you think constitutes general systems research in this age?

What are potentially transcendental pieces of computing, that can value all applications? What would making computing at large better? What paradigms, what information architectures, what systems architectures, what connectivities wouldn't specifically "ground down" enable, but what would rise up & be broadly different? What are the widely applicable techniques of computing?

General systems research- aka making computers (not applications) better- only has teunous guesses right now. No one knows, or we'd already be winning greatly. We have to guess here, about what on the ground experiences of computing would be most portably useful across problems & concerns. What operating systems would better help us compute?
https://archive.ph/PxJxP
If you don't need the "UPS" capability, you should be able to run them without a battery.
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I’m referring to exactly that misprediction when the branch triggers. It’s only predictable if the input arrays always has the same length log2, and it’s called in a loop so the history is there.
I hobbled together a software implementation of a half-QWERTY keyboard after a serious bike accident which left me unable to type with my left hand for over a month. The hardware solutions were (probably still are?) patented and we’re expensive to my then-very-broke self, so I learned enough ObjC and enough about the underlying keyboard mapping design to ~replicate the functionality in software on my Mac (right hand only until I could start actually using it), and then enough more ObjC to relaunch the thing whenever it crashed (fairly frequently, presumably from memory management issues I wasn’t trying to to deep dive at the time). I really wanted to open source it but it was just a life hack to keep working and I definitely didn’t want to also do a deep dive into the patent litigation risks.
https://archive.ph/f5CrV
http://whenisgoldenhour.com .. tech isn't particularly interesting, but it gets a decent bit of usage. Does a geoip lookup to tell you the golden hour time range for today. Inspired by my photography habit.
Small aside, I hate the concepts of neighborhoods. If someone tells me they’re from Highland, or Bakerson, or Rockwell, that means absolutely nothing to me. The boundaries are so arbitrary, and when I’m driving I don’t have any indication when I cross one or which one I’m in. I’d rather people just tell me they’re close to the intersection of Major St A and Big Road B. Or that they’re near the IKEA.

It’s especially frustrating on dating apps like Hinge which only show neighborhoods. Half the time I don’t even know if they live in the same city as me.
> Is there any tech company (or any other than Apple) that hasn't whacked a slug of people right now?

I don’t think Adobe has had general layoffs yet
I made a python script / notebook to scrape a reddit thread on music, send all the comments to ChatGPT with a prompt like 'extract all the songs to CSV' and then upload to a Spotify playlist. probably high school level these days but it was amusing. https://github.com/druce/reddit_prettiest_songs
https://archive.ph/dYgfc
> baggage getting lost

One way to make the airlines care more about your luggage and make it highly unlikely for them to lose it is to check a firearm as described in Deviant Ollam's famous talk on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfqtYfaILHw
> ... I don't think people are using cloudflare to protect something willy nilly.

I do, it's a buzzword. Cloudflare, you don't have that? Your not cool unless you do.

With young apprentices learning the ropes of SRE/SysAdmin, DDoS protection has been painted as a #101 of the web when realistically you don't need it.
https://archive.ph/UXMaE
Reminds me of passing exponential notation to php scripts to bypass field validation and dump stack traces. Lots of security fun to be had in this space with libraries that everyone assumes have been fuzzed to death.
That is one of the Great Filter thought examples already, right?

A civilization whose technology advances faster than its understanding of the impacts of said technology may blot themselves out early on.
This is lovely! Thank you for making it!!
Where are you getting (true) 256GB microSD for $15?
https://archive.ph/yPLRi
We don't tax the rich?

What percentage of income taxes do you think the bottom 50% of tax payers pay?
What percentage of income taxes do you think the richest 1% pay?

(Answer key: Q1 - 3%, Q2 - 39%)

We tax the rich.
> This particular test would need to check if the working NIC could reach full gigabit speeds in TX, as everything else checked out.

To me, that sounds weird.

My expectation is that every non-dodgy manufacturer of a network device would test the features they're developing.

So, when (say) offloading support of some variety is newly added to a chip set, whoever is adding that support would be testing it at the full speed of the device.

If the developers aren't verifying the things they're adding work (somehow), there's something wrong. :(
It has its benefits, other people's scripts are very readable, and often you can just guess the correct command without having to look anything up.
> is biased towards badly documented technologies

What a nonsensical, unverifiable statement. Stack Overflow is for better or worse a statistically valid sample of programmers from around the world.
Check out the games directory here: https://github.com/extism/game_box/tree/main/games

There aren't yet high quality docs. But if you want to give it a shot I'd try forking one of those and asking questions in the discord: https://discord.gg/tukQnCME
2020 was a setback. 2020 was forced on us, and there is no way that any country would willing decide to apply such a setback on itself, voluntarily for the sake of saving the planet. The tricky part is to find a path that does not impede the economy and yet reduces the CO2 (to zero or even start capturing it).

Most of the CO2 emissions are linked to fossil fuel, and so the economy in general. We are addict to fossil fuel. Fossil fuel is the life blood of all the economies.

There is a say that there are 2 ways to limit your consumption:

1. You are willing to reduce your consumption => Sobriety
2. The consumption reduction because you cannot afford => Poverty

Sobriety is hard, but as time passes, the climate consequences are getting more expensive. If we ignore sobriety, we will eventually fell in poverty as fossil fuel is a limited resource and we will not be able to afford it for ever.

The sooner we get rid of it, the better. To govern is to foresee. Our government should plan accordingly.
It's not really obscure. This is undergrad linear algebra material
> Although taking Google on head-first would be foolishness worthy of Don Quixote, there are ways that we can change things for the better. One is to demand that websites we use and/or maintain follow either the Progressive Enhancement or Graceful Degradation design philosophy. The latter item is something that is integral with HTML and CSS designs, with the absence of, or error in any of the CSS files merely leading to the HTML document being displayed without formatting, yet with the text and images visible and any URLs usable.

Hopefully the strategy laid out in this article is adopted more and more. Frameworks such as SvelteKit [0][1] and NextJS [2] already allow developers that were used to develop bloated SPAs to create progressively-enhanced websites that work without client-side JavaScript. Also, the landscape of frameworks that don't really require client side JavaScript is getting pretty good with HTMX [3], Rails and co adopting HTML Over The Wire [4][5].

Unfortunately, the market incentives simply aren't there, there's not a lot of money in developing websites (or web apps) that work without client-side JavaScript and bloated browser APIs, so we're left to see if simply improving the tooling will be enough for developers to create less bloated websites (whether that's intention or not).

[0]: https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/form-actions

[1]: https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/glossary#hydration

[2]: https://nextjs.org/docs/guides/building-forms#part-5-form-su...

[3]: https://htmx.org/

[4]: https://hotwired.dev/

[5]: https://turbo.hotwired.dev/
Here's a video made 53 years ago about how we need to tackle pollution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA45iKHjoGg

A lot of it still rings true today. The sad thing is that we _knew_ that _something_ had to be done, but our political and economic structures provide no incentive for long-term thinking, and so we didn't change anything.
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Like the way toothpaste ads show them squirting 3x as much paste as you actually need onto the toothbrush
> All of this comes from there being no universal way to prove you are a human on the Internet. If somebody were to invent a physical device (think YubiKey) that atttested that your activity is human without it being usable to identify/track you, we might have a shot at solving this without CAPTCHAs.

Which is good. That's a desirable property. The distinction isn't available without also allowing fingerprinting.
Further, the line between bot and user-agent is not perfectly clear. Something like cost-based attestation where humans and bots are treated equally is ideal.

> And before somebody makes the argument of "but that's centralised, big brother, blah blah whatever bullshit", let me remind you that every payment you make goes through either Mastercard or Visa.

That's an even bigger problem!
I'm going to keep saying it - unionising has been a bad stratagy that loses. That has been true pretty much forever. Trying to muscle and threaten the organisation in the world most willing to give you money is wildly silly. Red Hat doing layoffs doesn't change that.

Software Engineers have been massive winners of the hyper-capitalist faster-than-regulation world of software. The salaries are outrageous relative to the amount of effort put in. Changing strategies because of a 5% workforce reduction would be stupid.

As a body of engineers we all stand to gain far more by breaking the anachronistic guilds in law, medicine and other trades than from unionising in software. We'd see some real progress in medicine if it was easier for people to get in and fix the rather obvious problems that plague the industry. I know that'd do much more good for my family than me avoiding the pain of sending out a lot of resumes every 2 decades.

Locking down software companies did not work in Europe. They just ended up playing 2nd fiddle to more cut-throat approaches. It won't help. People might get an emotional kick out of it, but we'll end up paying more and getting less if people keep trying to force companies to make irrational decisions.
Yeah honestly that would be pretty fun, to be honest. :)
Maybe it's all the beef from those spherical cows they're eating
I built an opinionated RSS/website reader - https://lenns.io. Everyone can register and use it, but it's built based on my requirements and vision only. Yet, I believe it could be useful to others, and that's why I made it open for everyone to use.
Same thing with fraud against a business being turned into “identity theft”.
I seem to remember at one point that conservatives celebrated federalism - something about the states being the laboratories of democracy. Who knows, maybe New York will show how successful such a ban can be and the federal government can take that into consideration, but for now it seems like this is just New York.
I don't know. This lowers the bar.
So interesting though. So many different ways to go about life
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648206#34659373
I have a feeling this is going to involve NIR-II with fluorescent particles. To be clear, I'm not advocating for this, the thought of it freaks me out. Just because something isn't physically invasive, doesn't mean it isn't invasive in other ways!
The ferry dock.[1]

[1] https://earth.google.com/web/@38.95800982,-77.13235337,18.82...
How else would you interpret "I see them using some VPNs and using Tor, but that makes sense, because that's super close to the type of traffic that these filters were designed to block"? They seem to be implying that Tor is a form of acceptable collateral damage, but the likely problem here, i.e. the CGNAT instantiation of collateral blocking, is not.
I’m still surprised that got swappable batteries isn’t being seen as an option for commercial. It seems like it would solve a lot of issues (Eg slow charging during peak solar, fast refueling swaps), while giving the manufacturers a subscription model which seems to be the kind of thing companies like.
Yup

How Adobe’s CFO is avoiding mass layoffs: ‘We don’t want our employees worried about when the next shoe is going to drop’
https://fortune.com/2023/03/22/adobe-mass-layoffs-tech-industry-trends/
Most straightforward carbon removal is accelerated rock weathering IMO

https://www.projectvesta.org/

The ocean is the carbon sink that’s reaching a tipping point. If it keeps becoming more acidic and heating up, the plankton will die, oxygen levels drop and we all die.

Limestone rock weathering is how carbon is lowered naturally - usually it happens from an earthquake that exposes these types of rocks. Then over millions of years they suck carbon out of ocean as they weather. Accelerating that process by transporting the rocks to coastal areas with a lot of waves will dramatically reduce carbon. We’re talking carbon removal at less than $20/ton. Nothing else comes close, is as natural, or attacks the problem at the source by going after ocean carbon and acidification.

We need $1 trillion spent yearly on rock weathering and we could avert mass death this decade. We got about 3 years to do it. 2026 is the last chance since El Niño and the sun cycle is at peak that year, after that human civilization is done for.
This looks awesome. The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon right now is a bit painful. If this really does provide semi performant x86 Linux emulation and there was a Vagrant Provider plugin then this would easily be the defacto tool for dev / testing VMs on macOS.

https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/tree/main/plugins/provi...

Same probably applies to hashicorp Packer.

Every tool I have tried like Parallels and VMWare Fusion 13 Pro says that nested virtualization for windows is not possible. If this is possible with Orb at some point i’d pay for it.

I often want to test a Windows VM with Docker installed into WSL2 and this becomes a nightmare now on Apple Silicon.

Also I wonder what possibility this opens up for an improved toolchain to develop stuff like Asahi Linux by bridging macOS native tooling and Linux emulation to write and test code without rebooting or using two machines.

Amazing work. Why can’t Apple, Vzmware, parallels or someone else do all of this when a single developer can. Sad.
I don't think the article called for 90s like software, just the general user experience. There were a lot of problems under the bonnet. One of those things though harder for a site developer was writing for the different browsers that surfed the net back then, and I still recall looking at page sources that streamlined use for a couple of different popular browsers of the time since otherwise the site would appear a bit broken.

A lot of people think texty stuff is over rated ... but also scream blue murder that the spiders crawling the web aren't doing a great job, because only big search has the permission to crawl and can correctly understand which version of the can can dance to represent the information a particular site uses.

Including a simple html text version minus bells and whistles of the same always seemed common sense to me, it opens it up the site to those with simple text browsers as well as anyone contemplating a better or real search engine.
And know imagine you didn't know you can switch the tools.
Is that to say there's a municipal steam power system of some sort? That's pretty alien to me, but it reminds me that there was a municipal hydraulic system in London before the advent of electricity that industrial users used for energy.
Not really high tech, built a countdown timer with a calculator UI for quick and precise entry say 1m25s. For the Apple Watch. Used mostly for coookign but it’s great if I need it quick. Also built my own music app to listen to music the way I like it
Pathetic that this is what it takes for a company to do the right thing.
In another context, I recall someone doing something similar, but they didn't have images in advance. So they would study the list of names, but wouldn't know who is whom. Supposedly made it faster to learn people's names anyway.

Cool trick either way!
My laptop picked up three extra cameras on folding sticks[1] for tracking? For MediaPipe hand pose. And chopstick wands (could be held while typing) with barber-pole marker for rotation, a small Xmas half-ornament to glide over keys for keyboard-as-graphics-tablet, and an unfinished arduino pressure sensor. Face pose, low-precision gaze and higher-precision head pointing with markers on glasses. Long-thin curved mirror bar at top of keyboard to get keyboard-as-touchpad touch events from the keyboard cam. Shallow-3D UI using eye-tracked perspective, anaglyph, or arduino LCD-shutters. I was interested in software dev inside aphysical XR, to extend rather than replace existing mature laptop dev tooling. Diverse input latencies interestingly required complex event processing and backtrackable ui state. Lenovo "portable workstation" fans would crank high just from the input handling, before 3D apps even started. Battery life under half-an-hour. But... it was oddly the flop-up cameras which most gave me joy.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERqCfdkX0AEWTN_?format=jpg&name=...
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Impressive shots! Very nice project.
That's good for you, I never claimed otherwise, that one shouldn't have an affinity for their own species. My claim was merely that nothing about creativity is innately and only a human property.
Only if you realize that the game could be looked at as Game + Game B
I dropped acid one time and turned a coffee grinder and an arduino into a system that opens my front door. I showed it to my friends but they laughed at me. But it worked, so I don’t give a shit.
Maybe it's different in the US, but in Europe, all Samsung phones can have their bootloader unlocked via a simple two-step procedure, so end users can flash whatever they like as the OS. They also have all their Linux kernel source code, along with any changes they've made to other open source components, available at https://opensource.samsung.com, so you can build custom kernels if needed, or port drivers to a mainline branch.

I've repurposed an old Galaxy S7 to run as a remote development server, via this method. I have it set up so it's just like logging into any other Linux box.
The claim is not "humans don't have creativity," the claim is that "only humans having creativity (or the potential for creativity) is false."
Human behaviour is fascinating. Never heard of this happening before.
I think trying to frame "customers mark unwanted email as spam" as a customer problem is just shouting at a river at this point.

How I design my, admittedly not corporate, email delivery system is to require the user explicitly click "Send this to my email" every single time. No email is sent without a user clicking a button painfully explicitly asking for it.

Honestly treating e-mail like sex where it requires enthusiastic continuous consent feels like it should have always been this way. It's really not that hard to have a button and have receipts/tracking to only be on your account page unless they ask for it.
It's only legal to maintain order, not to discriminate.

If a shop is operating under a license to be a business, it is open to everyone who does not do something wrong.

Choosing to use a different browser is not the same as being nude or so dirty as to be a health risk, or commiting violence or property damage or other disruptive acts.

Even private businesses, at least in the US, are not allowed to mysteriously be out of stock of everything only for the black family. They aren't allowed to have a "dress code" that says "be white".

A dress code for a business can say "you must have shoes".
It can even say "you must have appropriate shoes that meet this necessary safety standard" like work boots on a job site.
It can not say "you must have Louis Vuitton shoes".

The closest valid analogy to block an http client would be for failing to adhere to agreed standard open protocol specs, ie, not being a functional http client.

I think web services currently just get away with being in the wrong simply because the various legal systems simply haven't caught up with how various established legal principles apply to various on-line things.

Not every digital event has a direct analog in pre-internet reality, but most legal principles are priciples, and there is always some way to apply them, merely that way has not been hashed out yet for most things, because most of the people making the decisions just have very little deep understanding of what all goes on or how everything works, and so they have no way to judge what constitutes reasonable or unreasonable, or where to assign obligation and responsibility in most situations.

To date, it's still simply too easy for any lawyer to say almost anything halfway reasonable sounding, and all the relevant judges, jurors, and politicians just go with it, pretty much based on which lawyer or lobbyist told the better sounding story, or their own personal prejudices and interests.

Everyone has some way to make themselves look like the reasonable victim and someone else the reasonable culprit, but that doesn't mean those situations don't have a definitively correct answer, just that it hasn't been unpacked and hashed out yet by anyone in a position that matters, and to date, a lot of court cases are still arriving at essentially coin flip results, and most cases never even get past the point of a user being annoyed with a faceless web site and just living with it, let alone get decided either the right or the wrong way by some judge.
Basically a NUC with no case. I guess 3D printing your own case is the "hackable" part.