skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Merlin’s $1.8M heist highlights role of code auditor CertiK in the issue
Ha. I made The Most Dangerous Writing App for that very purpose (sold it a few years ago after it became an unlikely success), I love finding other peoples home made writing tools! Thanks for sharing Enso!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Writing_A...
Not just NPR.

Republicans Mocked Over Outraged Claims Government 'Coming for' Gas Stoves
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-mocked-over-outraged-cl...

"... the rightwing immolation at the mere suggestion of a gas stove ban is just one more line on a long list of rightwing lies made for political gain."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/18/how-di...

As usual, "That's not going to happen!" gives way in short order to "It's a good thing that it is going to happen!"
Substack, apparently :P
Sort of but not exactly. The way I'd explain it as someone who's had to deal with a lot but has not been formally trained in it is that WGS 84 is a system for reasoning about the earth spatially. EPSG:4978 and its more commonly used sister EPSG:4326 are standardized ways of writing down coordinates relative to the WGS84 model of the earth.

The "joke" in my comment is that EPSG:4978 coordinates are written down in distance in meters from the center of the earth, as a sort of absolute position that's nice to use in maths. In contrast to EPSG:4326 where coordinates are written down (usually in degrees) relative to the equator and a line through some place in England over an idealized representation of the surface of the earth.
Sure. A heat pump only needs to be 170% efficient to make back the generation losses. As for infrastructure losses, natural gas distribution has leaks as well.

Also, if the power plant is integrated into a CHP system to heat nearby households then generation gets back some percent.
Quoting. "OTEC (Ocean thermal energy conversion) can also supply quantities of cold water as a by-product. This can be used for refrigeration and can help crops and fish grow. OTEC can also produce large amounts of salt-free water"

... heck I read all the stuff written here and am thinking now 'someone may have patents for that...' (-;
It might be worth it for you, but how many people like you are there in the market? Not many I suspect. Most wont be able to afford it or will go for free options.
I’ve built a mac app that has all the dev tools I use on daily basis. Its 100% local & 100% offline. I was worried pasting company specific data on public website tools like JSON formatter, SQL Formatter etc and also hate having too many single trick pony apps.

So one app to rule them all.
Current list of tools in the app are:
- Todo list integrated with Pomodoro timer
- Notes with ability to be converted to todo list
- Pomodoro timer
- JSON/SQL/XML/YAML/Protobuf formatter and error detector.
- Converter from JSON to CSV and other formats.
- Meditation/Gratitude general
- Universal time clocks
- Count down timer, focus timer, stopwatch

In development:
- Unix time formatter
- CloudWatch metrics reader (to monitor my other cloud apps)
- S3 explorer (My own infinite cloud storage with no one reading meta-data or scanning my pictures/documents)
- Cron explorer and scheduler

In process of putting it on app store. If anyone is interested in trying, DM me.
You can apply for access, and you'll be added to a waiting list. I only have access to the GPT4 API with 8K context, not 32K.
I’m currently working on this with the caveat that I want to do the work locally. Using whisper but the summarization portion if this task is not straightforward given the limited context size of models.

Does anyone have any additional insight into this problem?
same, not a great user experience, why would I pay money when you've already shown me you fail at doing the thing?
This is reasoning by analogy and assuming that the analogies are at all valid. The null hypothesis is that they are not.
Most people around here buy enough battery or generators to keep the power on. PG&E is way below one nine of availability this year, but the outlets inside our house are at 6 nines followed by an eight.

Granted, once the propane rationing started, a few of our neighbors lost power for extended periods of time (weeks). The phone company doesn’t maintain internet if the power is out, but there is starlink, and fiber co-ops are starting to spring up.

This is the SF Bay Area, so it’s pretty much a third world country if you measure things by quality of government services. I assume this isn’t typical for most other parts of the country.
... gas heating is more cost efficient (heat per currency) is probably what he meant.
CERN takes first small steps towards giant particle accelerator
I don't think 30 mins, 3 times a week of exercise is remotely close

only stretching back a few decades, my grandfather was working his own land as a subsistence farmer without much "automation"...probably doing the equivalent of three hours of CrossFit a day, basically every day. looking back at pics of him now...he was strapped, even in his late 70s (what was also known as "normal").

my genetics probably come from hundreds of generations of people who led similar lives, yours too

I achieved my "normal" body weight with a minimum of two+ hours per day, every day, of exercise...just like all of my ancestors who shaped my genes

90 mins a week is probably not enough to even slow down weight gain, we are dramatically underestimating how much exercise we need, and dramatically underestimating how much we need to clean up our diets...in 1880 basically anyone doing subsistence farming (most people) was the equivalent of a CrossFit nut with a "clean" diet...everyone
Citation needed. For example, patients may have a vested interest in their care and answer all questions truthfully each time.
The N1 rocket was intended to be similar but how far along it really was to completion seems questionable to me. I’m not a rocket scientist, but my understanding is the first stage was not statically tested and the complete rocket failed in the first stage on each of its four tests - one of which caused a gigantic explosion in the launch complex visible from over 20 miles away. If anyone with deeper rocket history expertise can weigh in I’d be interested to know how feasible an average historian would consider the successful completion of the N1 if it had continued to be funded.
In the US it is fairly common.
This article would be much more informative if it told us more about categories of pills (or diseases), how frequently they are taken, and the ages of the people who take them. Almost half the US population has hypertension [0], and 19 million have stage 2 hypertension -- those people should be on drugs. Each year, 800,000 Americans have a stroke, and another 800,000 have a heart attack -- these people should be on drugs. My doctor's office has me on more than 5 drugs, but I only take 2 regularly -- the others are for specific short term conditions (e.g. poison ivy). In general, statins, aspirin, and anti-hypertension drugs cost effectively save lives.

I have no doubt that there are too many people who take too many pills, but there are also too many people who should be taking medication and are not. The article does not make a strong case that, for a given age group, we are being over medicated.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/facts.htm
"They" in OP's post is referring to Deno Land Inc.
Hey, at least you got one. I tried one and it said my limit was reached.
Using a generator when the power is out is probably still healthier than burning gas in your kitchen on a regular basis.
Security means many things, and supply chain vulnerabilities are just one of many factors to evaluate when considering languages.

Rust improves or eliminates some issues, but that does not imply that other issues are magically solved.
I had an ear training teacher who claimed to have acquired perfect pitch by listening to a tuning fork for 10 minutes a day, and training himself to remember the pitch as a reference. I doubt very much that this worked long-term.
The problems with the standard library (and I will say I agree with the criticism) all seem to stem from the fact that this text appears to be a 'port' of the "Write yourself a Scheme in 48 hours" which implements a scheme interpreter in haskell from 2008, thus the standard library is built upon haskell's list processing.
This is a good article.

Also good, along similar lines, is the W7 paper:

"A Security Kernel Based on the Lambda-Calculus", Jonathan A. Rees, MIT AI memo 1564, 1996.

Available as PDF at its official home at https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5944 and as readable HTML at jar's homepage at http://mumble.net/~jar/pubs/secureos/secureos.html.
Pretty obvious that if a billion people finds themselves in the conditions that the article describes they will take drastic measures.
So it's much cleaner then.
> Israel traditionally only has two ranks: "Professor" which is someone who has tenure, and "Lecturer" which is anyone without tenure.

That’s not what Wikipedia says: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_ranks_in_Israel

According to Wikipedia, Israel traditionally uses a hybrid of the British and German systems, including the British rank of “senior lecturer”, albeit Technion has renamed that to the American “associate professor”
History of Perpetual Motion Machines
Big banks asked for final bids on First Republic
Crigslist is given most of the used market up except for cars.
Still have housing and jobs.

They need some direction.
Again, Bluesky isn't Jack.
it’s accessible via the beta. they gave me access after a day or two of waiting, but I don’t know if that’s typical or not
I suspect as soon as top management realizes how useful it can be on all levels there will me mass subscriptions from companies. Of course OpenAI needs to convince it's safe and secure. New dark mode will help.
That's not really true elsewhere. Using in-ground oil tanks is an antiquated practice that isn't used anymore. Any modern heating oil installation has the tanks either in the cellar or in the yard behind the house. Either one would immediately reveal a leak so it could be remedied quickly. Yes Seattle is full of shitty bungalows with in-ground oil tanks that have to be condemned, it is a problem and one of the many reasons Seattle sucks. I did a stint at AWS so know the area. You can get away with a heat pump or baseboard electric in Seattle because the outdoor temperature rarely dips below 30F in winter. Go to a place like Maine where the vast majority of houses use oil. There is no natural gas infrastructure and heating with electric is impractical. 30F is a 'warm' winter day. A heat pump cannot effectively deal with the frigid climate in the NE and electric space heating would be insanely expensive. Many thousands of homes are heating with oil in the northeast everyday and not turning their yards into superfund sites. There are many compromises that work for the milquetoast PNW that won't work elsewhere.
Serverless = pay per request

Cloud computing = someone's else's computer
It was added back in a later commit but only prints if the mail is configured.
May you please explain ELI5 what "perfect pitch" means?

(I was told I was a musical savant, and once I was told that, I was scared away from music... my Violin teacher was known to be owb of the best, SO i dont know what "perfect pitch" is, as I attribute it to 'bad actors'
> At very low temperatures? I think if you're above zero F, you should be ok, but below zero it gets expensive.

Did you read my comment before replying? I already addressed this. Yes I am talking about well below zero F.

> They're not talking about taxing gas - they're talking about banning it.

Yes and they should ban it. Electric heating is way more efficient, doesn't poison the occupants and can be powered from renwable sources.
If people were paying for their own healthcare, maybe we could let them take on the risk of improper fume hoods in their kitchens. But since the risk is socialized, your poor health choices could cost me money.
Wow this sounds like exactly what I need. How do I dm you?
Elon was always pretty sure he was some kind of Straussian wizard capable of Jedi mind tricks. Boring Company and Hyperloop were dick moves to try to stop rail and transit projects.

But having to cough up most of your personal liquidity (n.b.: not net worth) because you, mistakenly, thought you could trash talk your way out of a $44B deal for which you, personally, are on the hook could be classified a traumatic event.

Elon spent months publicly displaying that he did not want to actually pay for and own Twitter. And now he does. The opportunity cost to Elon is boggling. That kind of thing could make you meaner.
Yes, this is a very loaded, biased headline and implication. Seems oddly personal.

If the assumption is that "Jack" will remain at BlueSky indefinitely, perhaps looking at his history, and what the average founder does will show that's highly unlikely to be the case in the long-term.

Perhaps the headline should be updated with this in mind.

Even more surprising, the author is apparently a lawyer: https://threadreaderapp.com/user/ashleygjovik

Whilst that explains picking apart the ToS, it seems odd to name "Jack".
> Journalism has always been about ads, they just used to be bad at it

I'm not sure what definition of "bad" we'd need to use (and btw, "bad" for whom?) for that claim to be true.
Reminds me of when I was younger and my mom and my brother were using a windows computer. They got the message “an illegal error has occurred” and my mom called me to ask if they had broken the law.
MRSK is a bit more focused on deployment and server management: it only needs SSH access to configure a server and deploy your application. Dokku still requires managing/installing servers manually.
That will surely work in the EU, lol.
The Madness in our Methods: Crash of GW9525 and our broken aeromedical system
Admiral Cloudberg (Kyra Dempsey) writes detailed, thoughtful analyses of airline disasters. In many cases, subsequent improvements have made a disaster type unlikely to recur. This one (the suicide/mass murder of Andreas Lubitz on Germanwings flight 9525) is an exception, and the article makes a strong case that significant changes are needed but are not being pursued. The archive is full of fascinating, riveting accounts of what happened, why, and how for many different tragedies.
"Summarize Tech" is a similar tool: Get a summary of any long YouTube video, like a lecture, live event or a government meeting. Powered by ChatGPT. https://www.summarize.tech/
Pros: It can summarize larger videos for free. Cons: no chat, English only, no full transcript viewer, no settings, no transcript download.
The "next" link is not aligned across comments, so you have to move the mouse to click it consecutively.
The first of China’s desert solar and wind projects is online, and it’s huge
For what it's worth: LineageOS (and probably other ROMs too) has a setting ("Allow clients to use VPNs") for this in the tethering settings screen. With root and four or five lines of bash script you can replicate this behaviour according to various StackExchange answers.

I'm not sure if this is a setting that comes from LineageOS or from upstream AOSP, but at least the feature is there as a starting point.

Edit: looks like it's a LineageOS feature: https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_frameworks_...
Thanks for the phrase "Bonsai Programming". It explains perfectly why after many decades of dev work I still spend time on one particular codebase I started working on in 2005 purely for my own use.

I've done iterations/rewrites of it, in order, with C#, Ruby, Python, Go, Free Pascal, and have been back with C# for the last few variants. Each time the code gets smaller, faster, neater, clearer, more powerful, and better documented.

It will probably never be seen by anyone else (I use it for my own stuff), but I get the same satisfaction after almost two decades of working on it that a gardener might get when pruning and tidying a long-lived and long-loved bush or tree.

Very apt.
I got an induction stove at a scratch and dent store for 60% off and if and when I move it is most certainly coming with me..I'll never go back to gas or electric. the time I've saved heating water alone has tripled the investment. and it came with a sous vide like temperature probe, which is priceless for making a decent cup of coffee
“Your transgression has been noted and punishment may be dispensed accordingly”.
I wrote an Assetto Corsa server plugin for the ACRL racing league which enforced track limits. The initial commit was in 2016, and to my knowledge it's still in use.
It rarely hallucinates for me. But you need to know what it's capable of and how to use it to work effectively with it. You can't use it well if you think it's an all knowing sentient AI.
> a third world country if you measure things by quality of government services

And yet Californians pay enormous taxes.
A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher is electricity-free and the technology seems to have been invented in Iran some millennia ago. (But maybe itʼs not applicable everywhere and too costly for too many people.)
They probably mean cost efficiency rather than thermodynamic efficiency. It would cost a lot to install those systems in addition to the electricity storage necessary to run during a blizzard. I’m not disagreeing that electric is better but there’s a lot more to consider than just “modern systems are better so you should install them” and it’s not a lie to say so.
The fruit that hangs the lowest.
There are no solutions, as such, because "solution" implies "problem to be solved", not "predicament we blundered into with no way out".
@dang serial spammer
“And, if we did, we’d have to kill you.”
You think a manhattan apartment costs what it does because of the electric stove?
A security kernel based on the lambda calculus (1996)
Is what was described above a worst-case scenario? It accurately describes the way nearly every doctor's visit I or anyone I know has had.
A quick glance over the GitHub issue titles should give you a general idea.

Whilst I don't personally share all of the concerns posted there and even believe some of them are a little bit silly, I have to say that I do not at all like the way most of the discussions are abruptly cut short or simply left unanswered, and how difficult questions or ideas that aren't entirely in line with the original proposal are immediately declared nonsensical/invalid or shot down without any further exploration at all.

The above is a common theme in that repo and not difficult to find. I've never seen that kind of behaviour in any other proposal at that stage. Very sad to see.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-function-implementation-hid...
It's anthropomorphic to the extreme to assume that computer programs will assume all of our evolutionary, biological characteristics
This seems to be a spam account for hacking services. This account should be nuked.
>Berkeley attempted this and it was recently overturned: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/court-overturns-berkeley-califo...

There is a legal difference between a state banning it and a city. States have far more powers that cities don't (unless the state delegates that power which they often do)
I was surprised to start getting emails about my cron tasks once I set up my mail server. It's neat.
Next step is to remove users/groups/sudo from Linux/UNIX entirely. I'm one person using the computer, running software I trust. I don't need it.
> gRPC is yet another attempt to extend the function call of imperative languages to the network.

Not really. Grpc is just sending/receiving messages to/from an address. Other protocols like COM/CORBA tied the address to an object.

Also there is nothing to prevent you from writing a grpc service in a resource/entity oriented style while REST makes expressing non-resources like actions seem a bit awkward.
Ask HN: I get anxiety working with computers
So i find myself in this interesting situation after having struggled a few years where i've had a few stressful jobs (web developer) and rather demanding university studies.
I had some kind of burnout (or long covid, don't really know) last year and have been slowly recovering to the point that i can function again. But i still need to make money, as well as finish my university studies, but i find myself becoming very anxious in front of a computer.
So when i'm doing any sort of work (play is mostly ok if not for too long) in front of a screen i'll start tensing up my core and face muscles and stop breathing properly, which kind of puts me back in a non functioning state after a few hours and i'll need a day or two of not touching a computer to recover.
Has anyone been through this and know how to recover?
As for what i'm already doing to get back to normal: I eat super clean these days (anti inflammatory, keto as well as probiotics). I'm also in fairly good shape (cardio wise) and run or bike every day, do yoga and meditate every morning/night and spend as much time outdoors as i possibly can. I also sleep until i wake up by myself so i should get all the sleep i need i suppose.
I suppose therapy is one way, but i find myself barely making enough money to get by and the free healthcare i have access to don't really help much. Currently looking into reading some books on CBT hoping maybe that can help.
Most communication is non-verbal, with 7% being attributed to words (see the "55/38/7 Formula"), so they may need to listen to how you say what you say (vocal), but don't have to believe the words you say.
I had the impression k8s is still not recommended to run a DB or any kind of persistence. Are any large companies doing that in production?

Regarding logging, object storage, how does kubernetes help? You'll have to implement these regardless of the underlying container infra.
Loxcraft: A compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox progra
Too many people also don't take enough pills - because they can't afford them.

Myself, friends and family all have untreated conditions and aren't getting preventative care because the out-of-pocket cost of meds and treatments are more than their total earnings. Due for Shingles vaccine? $400. Need an inpatient visit to resolve something before it becomes serious? $2800.

Five hundred here, $5000 there and pretty soon healthcare becomes an alternative to housing.
It's probably connected to the internet, downloading critical updates to the burner software and ads to display while you're cooking.
Would have been easier to take the content seriously if it weren't for the clickbaity title
Yes. More or less the first time I used Linux was on a fedora workstation at my desk at MIT. The very nice sysadmin down the hall sent me an email just a bit later saying "We see you were trying to install x program. We installed it for you." I understand that this is a very rare experience but the first time I saw that message, a helpful person was actually looking at these reports.
> When the power is out, am I expected to start a fire in my yard to cook food? Fire up my JetBoil? My BBQ?

How about a little butane stove? They work great at hotel omelette bars! Or a Coleman stove? It's not that big a deal to cook when the power is out, really.
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it was a revelation to me that everything that happens on the computer was defined by people, and I can be one of those people even if I’m an eight-year-old in the middle of nowhere.
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Never forget.