skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems a bit extreme but I suppose they have to try to at least some mitigation strategies.

7th largest DDos attack in history last august, Gmail cyberattack a few hours ago. That's just what we know too.
> If I define a function that always returns 1…

then it's Kolmogorov complexity is also extremely low.

Look if you have a well enough hash function, it output should be near the Shannon limit and hardly compressible, and ideally contain as much entropy as it has bits. But you can feed in just a single bit or the entire knowledge of humanity, in the end you're going to get a fixed amount of bits, and entropy near of that, and if you throw any form of lossless compression at it, it will hardly compress.

But quantum mechanics tells us, that information cannot be destroyed. So when you feed it more bits, than it emits, then its mostly the entropy of the information you feed in, that you get out of the hash. But if you feed it just a single bit, the additional entropy comes from the computational process.

I know, this is now getting really philosophical, but here's something to ponder on: How would you implement a hash function for a reversible computing architecture?
Woa! Be careful! Baby making seems like a holy activity for some people on HN and elsewhere. Any time you suggest not having as many children or not making as babies all around the world, some very intelligent person will put words in your mouth and reinterpret your words in bad ways, to be able to call you a murderer or similar. Part of the problem.

And of course when it comes to making babies almost everyone thinks, that their child or they themselves are special and it is OK to have more than one child for them. Especially comfortable when they already have two or more children, or for some ego reason want more children than proposed. Oh and never dare to mention China and one child policy either in this context, or the consequences for the world, if that policy had not existed.
I really needed this right now. Thank you.

We had some negative customer feedback come in last night and a contract was canceled because of it. I wish this customer had responded to my emails asking for feedback over the last three months but they didn't. Now it's over and done with and some of the most damning feedback we've ever received.

It breaks my heart, I'm in a low place today. But as you say, business is hard. Being a passive consumer-critic is easy. I will say that once you start a business and get your hands dirty, I think you can never go back. You see how hard it is to make the sausage and you gain a lot of respect for the process, even as you have random anons telling you to commit suicide on Twitter, how the men making a quarter million dollars at Google in SF are so oppressed because their rent is high, etc.
In The Netherlands, long term mortgages (mine is 20 years fix interest at the moment) come and go. If interest rates are likely to go up, it typically doesn't make sense to have a long fix interest period. It will cost a huge premium if offered at all.

If interest rates are going down or are stable, it does make sense for banks to offer them. Or course it can be tricky to decide if a long fixed interest period is smart of not.

Banks do impose a fine if you try to refinance a mortgage during a fixed interest period and the current market interest is lower.

I don't see negative externalities in this system. But maybe I missed something.
Is it only me that finds it strange that engineers working in a particular language will get another language to solve issues with said language? e.g. Javascript using C, C++, Zig, Rust, etc. Ruby and Python is also similar situation there are tools, libraries and such built in other languages
Given the total amount you are going to spend on living, whether its a mortgage or rent, and given the total market of houses and rent prices, there is a clear line on whether you should rent or buy.

Over the course of 30 years, you will necessarily lose money to interest, money that you will never get back. At current rates of ~6%, you will pay more than the house is worth when you buy it. Add to this maintenance, property taxes, insurance, and HOE fees, and thats money that you will also never get back.

Lets do some rough math:

- 330k house, 6% rate. Total amount you will pay over 30 years is $712,266
- Yearly fees: HOA = 3000. Tax = 2500, Insurance= $1,820. Total over 30 years: $138600
Combined total: 850866. Net loss assuming house value stayed the same is ~520k

An area comparable. $1400 rent a month over 30 years is $504k. Difference in monthly payment is about $1000. Assuming a conservative 2% growth with safe investment, that $12000 per year put into those instead of mortgage over 30 year nets you about $500000. So you are better off renting.

Of course things change, and house prices can appreciate quicker than you accumulate interest, at which point you sell the house early, which is what most people are banking on. But that is never a guarantee.

In the end, you can do the math for you particular situation and figure out if its right to buy or rent. But owning a house is certainly just as much "throwing money away" as renting.
> How about repeating the process several times?

No idea if it does help, but that is exactly what the 'marination mode' on chamber vacuum sealers does. (And also disables the sealing bar.)
The logical end-game of direct democracy is the death of Socrates.
Doubtful. On our £250K house stripping out the old heating system and fitting a combi boiler cost £4K, which is about 2%. Rewiring the house was another £2K. A reminder that you claimed above "Except owning a house costs way more than the mortgage itself", so even if all this stuff costs 10%, it still vastly cheaper than the mortgage (even of just the mortgage interest).
This seems so crazily complex! I know only GCP of the three large Cloud vendors, where networking sure isn’t trivial, but still somewhat straightforward and consistent.

Can someone with more multi-Cloud experience chime in and comment on how the big three compare in terms of it being easy or complex to set up internal and external communication?
> The problem with term limits is that they discourage the lower classes from getting involved in politics.

I think that ship has sailed.

> Only the wealthy can afford to just take a 4-6 year break from their career.

Many elected political offices get paid a reasonably good salary, higher than median wages. Many people change careers after 5 or 10 years too. Even the commoners. So I'm don't buy this assertion.
You haven’t met many people who died of cancer as infants?

Me neither. Perhaps you and I don’t hang out in the same places as those who died in infancy.
Are you perchance able to provide some kind of RSS feed to his website? I'm having a hard time finding his newest stuff. You can subscribe to his newsletters but he stopped doing those two years ago
Coming up with (at least a bit) fun names for grant applications is a small plaster on the pain these applications involve. If the money actually comes, the fun name has a good chance to stay, as everyone has gotten used to it.
> But trivial change could be to make pensions base on retirement age: someone can retire at 62, but get smaller pension, and another could retire at 78 but get much larger pension, plus have pension base on contribution.

That trivial change is essentially already the case. There's no law that requires you to work like some kind of slave. You can retire whenever you want. The laws are about the age to be eligible for full-retirement. You can already retire early and receive a lower retirement, or keep working for much longer and have a much higher income in retirement.

> corp tax dropped from 33 to 25 in last five years

To drive economic growth. France's gdp per capita is lower today than it was 15 years ago. In the US it's 45% higher than it was 15 years ago. France's corporate system wasn't working, and high taxes were a key reason from lots of studies.

Anyway, taxes aren't really that relevant for retirement. If a person needs to consume 10 units of goods/services (e.g. food, clothes, healthcare, whatever), and workers produce 40 units each, a population of 25 workers can produce 1000 units and sustain another 75 retirees (1000 production, 1000 consumption).

If you lower the retirement age such that there are just 15 workers and 85 retirees, you're now still consuming 1000 units, but only produce 600 units. There's massive shortages, prices skyrocket, and many people become poor because there's not enough production to meet their needs.

Raising lots of money through taxes doesn't change this fundamental issue. Even if you give everyone $ 1 trillion dollars of money, in this economic system, there's still not enough production to meet needs. So you need one of two things to solve it: more workers (= more production), or more productivity per worker (= more production). That latter point is not something the government can really control, although high taxes tend to drive productivity per worker down because economic activity is less rewarding to the source of the activity, as the activity is taxed. So high taxes can actually make this situation worse.

I'm aware I'm simplifying a lot but I hope it helps to show taxes don't address the root-cause issue.
But we got .rs and .me in exchange. The world just wants to maximize domain hacks :)
"Randomness at the edge: Theory of quantum Hall transport at filling ν=2/3" by Kane, Fisher, Polchinski impressed me the first time I read it and still impresses me. Concise, (relatively) accessible, and ingenious.

On the other end of the spectrum is "Anyons in an exactly solved model and beyond" by Kitaev. It's very long, and yet densily filled with ideas. I'm getting back to it after years, and still finding out new things.
Does anyone else think that practices in the food industry have gotten more careless?

The amount of fruit flies has definitely increased in the past two decades. Recently I also had food moths for the first time and strange little black bugs after buying cane sugar.

Apart from a moderate amount of fruit flies, I never had any of these a decade ago.
Our First Glimpse of the Navy’s Orca Unmanned Submarine at Sea
I imagine people will resent you when you go about claiming that meat is a “luxury” indeed. It might just be you, not everybody else.
No one is really interested in doing the work to slow global warming.

- Build nuclear power plants everywhere. Yes even in countries like Iran and North Korea

- Don't subsidize fossil fuel use by any mechanism. Yes dropping the Russian fuel cap.

- Make reducing emissions a priority that means it comes first in consideration. Yes ahead of Uighurs in China, Women in Iran and Afghanistan.

You will not get everything you want.

But if you believe climate change is civilization ending then you need to give up what you don't need.

Just Stop Oil is super obnoxious but if climate change is destroying our planet why is it they still get openly assaulted in the street in a "first world" country? It's because people aren't even willing to be late to the cinema.
I'm not sure I follow the question, but presumably the people borrowing the money aren't bearing it and the people lending the money probably aren't stupid enough to lend money for 30 years at fixed interest rates. So by elimination, the the people holding the bag are probably the taxpayers.

But I don't know the details of how the market works. Wouldn't surprise me if there are other quirks at play.
So basically it's a democratization of DRM. Now everyone can easily use it. I think it's a good step forward.
> The sprint goal is not a contract

I kinda disagree with that. We recently switched to a sprint mode « undercommit, overdeliver ». The objective is to not commit to a lot for the duration of the sprint (ie. something we 100% know we can achieve), but we commit strongly to it. And this gives us time to handle production issues if any, or to deliver on « surprise » features of we have time to kill, or work on DX, CI, etc.

We need this « strong commitment » because we’re an early stage startup, and our sales need to know exactly what to sell to the clients, what will be available later this week.

We also take 1h every Friday to demo our work, _deployed in prod_. No demo in local/dev.
https://waterfox.net/ to the rescue.
I work at a bank and I know our security is higher than most, but I'd be shocked if usb drives are allowed in the Google offices.
They did say what it is:

> Bun is an incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler, and package manager — all in one.
It’s not just food security, but also water security. Rainfall patterns are set to change globally, with more frequent and increasingly severe droughts and floods. It doesn’t look good for the world’s biggest economy either

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4028
The URL is not working, can you update it?

The study probably explores what would happen if _everyone_ did that. And that’s the issue right there. Everyone casts a wide net, it includes climate deniers, poor people, rich people, hard core dairy aficionados, etc, etc. The single most important thing an individual can do is inducing systemic change in one way or another. Preferably somehow avoiding alienating the bulk of the audience, as that may end up with people in power who actively undermine any efforts towards solving the situation.
K-9 Mail Collaborates with Ostif, 7ASecurity on Security Audit
In Swedish it's quite inappropriate if you ignore the last two letters
/> Maybe they should just give their employees two computers, one air-gapped for accessing internal systems

And why do you think that may not already be the case? Even other big tech companies already give out two computers.
This is the way any interpreted language works, the interpreter has to be written in something and for good performance this has to be a compiled language
Stop cutting trees and turning forests (rain or otherwise) into Savanna's. 'For agriculture'.
Ask HN: What are some of the most interesting AMAs on Reddit?
Hey, fellow Hackers! I've been an avid Redditor for quite some time now, and one of my favorite pastime is reading AMAs on reddit.

I wanted to tap into the collective knowledge and experiences of the Hacker News community. So, I'm curious: What are some of the most interesting AMAs you've come across on Reddit? It could be from any subject, such as tech, science, art, entertainment, business, or even niche communities.

here are some of my favourites:
Peter thiel AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2g4g95/peter_thiel_technology_entrepreneur_and_investor/

Sam Altman AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cudmx/i_am_sam_altman_reddit_board_member_and_president/
We’re spending an enormous amount of money on climate alarmism and various apocalyptic cults right now. Are we living a different reality?
Actually everything he wrote has merit.

However your response is extremely condescending, and doesn't help your cause, if in fact you care about climate change. You sound like a climate zealot who downvotes someone if they disagree with you.
They link to the Linus Tech tips video in the article.
Basically, the fact that a second hand GPU might be a good deal if honestly sold as such doesn't change the fact people creating fake OEM boxes and warranty docs to sell them as brand new are scamming people.
You're right, but then the heat capacity of the material would have to be low or the electrocaloric effect would have to be very strong for this to be more efficient than gases. Still skeptical.

Edit: And what about the surrounding material, pipes and stuff. They are now cycling between hot and cold too, wasting energy.
It's not clear why you would post that but it's certainly worth pointing out that climate change denialism has been funded since the mid 1970s and that the author of that opinion piece is Art Robinson, a recent Oregon State Senator and long time denier via his "Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine".

While it adds nothing to the history of actual earth based science it is certainly an insight into the history climate change denialism.

Above link in full: https://archive.is/qYWfn#selection-2095.58-2095.99

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Robinson

https://www.desmog.com/oregon-institute-science-and-medicine
I don't deny climate change, I deny your prediction of hell on earth.
5) We spend the cash reserves, increasing inflation but not getting any more work done
I would say that the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Of course, people behind projects matter a lot. You can have robust and beautifully crafted PHP projects, and also horribly running, bloated and hacky Rust or Java projects. But, AndroTux has an absolutely valid point with saying that PHP was designed to run websites. Most languages have a clear focus of what they should and can do. There's the neat quote "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should" and it pretty much sums up the matter. Some languages should stay with what they are made for.
When buying frozen blueberries (forest blueberries of course) in Norway however, they are often marked as picked in Poland, so there is someone making a business out of it.
Allegedly, GPT4 itself is an ensemble of models anyway, right?
Unfortunately the name "huckleberry" is applied to a number of berries across two genera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry
I don't think it's strange. A programming language should focus on a specific problem domain, and not try to solve problems outside that domain (not that Javascript is a particular good example of that philosophy though).
The Constitution doesn't require judicial process. It requires due process. Warmaking and national defense powers lie with the executive and legislative branches, and there is precedent that the courts should not interfere with the military chain of command. The executive informed the congressional oversight committees more than a year before the assassination.

Spying on Americans without a court order is illegal. The US government can still spy on Americans with a warrant.
The Netherlands had for a while a very popular mortgage where you only pay interest. So in effect an infinite mortgage. (It now less popular for tax reasons). The reasons that works is that in a 30 year period (in The Netherlands), prices of houses are likely to have gone up enough that the mortgage is only a small fraction of the value of the house. At the same time, due to inflation, the actual value of the mortgage in future currency units is also very low.

So if you can expect a reasonable pension, there is no reason to worry about taking a very long time to repay a house.

Obviously, the assumption is that houses will go up in value. If on average houses go down in value then this doesn't work at all.
HN, where you’ll find the greatest fortune tellers.
Looks like so:

> Google's tools and office software accessed via the web will still be accessible to those cut off from the internet generally. Workers in the program who require internet access for their jobs will be able to get exceptions.

The headline twists the definition of "air gap".
Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's ethical. The french government has a long history of very legal genocides and working camps, for example.

Those pension reforms were not "needed", unless you can argue it with a proper source. There was no present or foreseeable deficit for decades ; you say 2050 yourself. Moreover there's plenty of money around: Macron could just reinstate the ISF tax on wealth he removed, or he could fight corporate tax fraud which is in the dozens/hundreds of billions of euros every year. No, he just wants to tax the poor and redistribute to the rich.

> We could have had a better reform, but I'll take a poor one over none at all

You either say this because you are very young and not yet tired with work, or because you have very comfortable work that does not break your entire body. If you know some people working in factories, in trash collection, or in construction business, ask them what they think about working 2 years more before retiring, while white collars have pre-retirement champagne in the Bahamas built on their backs. Many blue collar workers do not even make it to the retirement age, and work injuries/death have increased dramatically in the past decade.

Since the 19th century, human productivity has increased a hundred-fold. Scientists and politicians across the spectrum back then predicted we would soon have a 4-hour working day. How can you humanely justify taking all this productivity increase and giving all the benefits to the already-rich, even taking away some of the few scraps poor people have?
I wonder, if Steam still has Russian localization, btw...
>> [...] When in heating mode, a refrigerant at the warmer temperature is compressed, becoming hot. Its thermal energy can be transferred to the cooler space. After being returned to the warmer space the refrigerant is decompressed — evaporated. It has delivered some of its thermal energy, so returns colder than the environment, and can again take up energy from the air or the ground in the warm space, and repeat the cycle.

Great to see that even Wikipedia struggles with this :-)

This is 100% wrong.

Transferring heat from a warm space to a cold space happens on its own and does not need a heat pump. In the contrary, you can even extract mechanical work from this process.

Heating mode means heating a warm space by transferring heat from a colder space, which requires work.
At Arm IME they weren't banned, just training on not picking up from car park etc. - I'd expect the same of Google, at BAE Systems I physically couldn't access the USB (or any) ports on my desktop computer, but that doesn't really work when you're given a Macbook and able to work from home and coffee shop etc.
Within the Instant Pot Pastrami recipe [1] (which - by the way - is the closest to getting the results of the 2nd Ave Deli or Katz's, in NYC), there is a *proper* recipe for brining (this one unrelated to the Instant Pot pressurizing!). Time of 6-7+ days (and flipping the meat daily, maybe less obvious), not pressure, is crucial.

[1] https://pressureluckcooking.com/instant-pot-pastrami/
You didn't even include the $9k this year to pay for a new roof (hail damage, deductible, depreciation) that I replaced just 6 years ago (hail damage), the hot water heater that leaks and I really should replace (but will wait until I recover from the roof), the AC a few years ago, etc.)

Owning a house is expensive.
> If these keys are so important, why are they not treated with similar security measures as CA keys?

No incentive, right? If you mess up as a CA, you go out of business because every browser drops you. But if you're an identity provider and you have an incident, maybe 1% of your customers opens an angry support ticket and you give them 5% off their bill next month. So why bother? Are YOU going to move your 100,000 employee organization off of Microsoft because of this? No? Then why would they care at all? They won the sale and you're stuck with what you get.

Here's a list of companies that have gone out of business because they didn't take information security seriously:

<list not found>

Here's a list of billionaires who had to sell their yachts because they didn't prioritize security over other concerns:

<list not found>

Yeah.
I am in Ethiopia. We use the metric system, maybe I am biased
I find it strange to find that strange. Why wouldn't one leverage one language's strengths to address a shortcoming in another?
You always bought property in or nearby city centers then. My mom's house lost 10k (~5%) in value in 10 years. Not an issue at all, but rural houses do not appreciate as much as the worst ETFs
Microsoft: Pay us for Windows
Microsoft: Pay us for online services
Also Microsoft: Pay us more if you want those 2 things to be secure