skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite having all sorts of advantages (a head start and patents for batteries and renewable energy tech, robust research capabilities, etc.) and a literal roadmap of how climate change would play out, they realized that it was easier and less risky--for them, at least--to maintain the status quo. After all, once you've started a revolution, there's no guarantee that you'll keep control of it.

A long, slow transition that started in the 70s would have been, if not painless, then close enough to it that the pain was easily managed. Worries about stranded assets? By the time the transition was over, they'd have been near the end of their expected lifespans anyways. New, more nimble competitors popping up? They could just acquire them.

Lost revenue? Please. They convinced the world not to take action on climate change, and even managed to hoodwink one of the two major political parties in the US that climate change didn't even exist in the first place. Persuading politicians and the public to support mindbogglingly massive federal subsidies to fund the transition away from fossil fuels would have been easy in comparison. And probably cheaper, for that matter.

I mean, my god. I can just imagine the marketing and PR angle: The industry that chose to end itself to save humanity's future. We'd have shoveled money at them, and thanked them for the privilege.

Had they been willing, they could have pushed for an energy transition that, in the end, would have likely been as profitable or even more profitable than what they managed since they first understood just how catastrophic climate change would be. Instead, they chose to merely delay the inevitable. They'll still face the very consequences that scared them off of acting on climate change, only they'll be worse due to the shortened window of action.

The only difference is that the executives who first made that decision will likely not be around for it.
> And I imagine that makes refinancing quite rare?

You can refinance whenever you want if you qualify

It makes sense when rates go down
Thank you for bringing this up! It appears ghost has this turned on by default, and I turned it off now. Sorry for any inconvenience. For context, we had an internal debate whether we should host the blog ourselves, but ultimately decided to use ghost. It ticked a few boxes, being open-source and run by a non-profit. The fact that it would do outbound link tagging by default really comes as a surprise, so thanks again for bringing it up.
Here I thought the AI would turn us into paperclips. Well, I prefer being a biological mass insread.
There has only even been one way that succeeds, violence. I hope it doesn’t go that way, but the idea that those with absolute power will simply grow a conscious and give it up… I don’t see that happening
Ask HN: How has the shift to remote work affected your SaaS pricing strategy?
Thomas Jefferson: reliably wrong.
J. Kenji López-Alt documents trying a bunch of different methods/liquids/lengths of time of marinating in The Food Lab book and it just doesn't do much of anything IIRC.
I agree. I can either abstract with the app platform or kubernetes, or I can go straight into the box myself and do whatever needs doing. It has been a real pleasure.

I think fly’s tooling feels better than doctl, but the infrastructure is incomparable at the end of the day. doctl has improved over time too, and with added pressure from newcomers I don’t doubt that it’ll continue to improve.
Right, I see your point. Since Sudoku is fixed-size, you can always construct a Transformer with the worse-case depth. That makes sense.

I was assuming given a trained Transformer, you wouldn't know how many effective "steps of computation" it contained, and so would probably have to resort to CoT.
What’s the deeper etymology ?
Good pick! Nothing like a little light literature to get you started off properly on the path to literacy... Sarcasm aside, I first read it when I was in my 20's for the first time (and again recently) and it definitely changed the way I look at the world. Heller is an absolute master.
The fact that the 8th gen can handle 64gb ram is a nice surprise
Again, Apple/Siri is just a front end, Yale does the actual work. You can take some features and skip some, so it’s not an all or nothing thing. I’m thinking about changing to a Level+ lock because they support Apple key, which allows you to unlock on tap contact with your watch or phone. The biggest features for me would be auto lock and some sort of quick unlock, which could be based on NFC rather than Wi-Fi.
This seems like the type of thing that feels good, but I don't buy that it is good without more justification. I've never read any compelling support for the idea, it is almost always presented as obviously a good idea with little justification. It's proponents rarely seem to feel like it needs justifying and I greatly disagree.

The "revolving door" seems problematic. The politician -> industry bribery pathway seems like it would be strengthened by policy such as this.

The root problem is corruption, not experience. Corruption is a force that is happy to work on any system and I see no reason to believe that term limits would do anything to reduce corruption, only modulate it.

If the positions themselves are limited, it just pushes power and seniority into supporting positions such as staffers or the party apparatus itself, potentially even the think tanks/lobbyist groups that are often the entities that write the laws anyway.

The greater issue is that you are describing an idea of how to reduce corruption in terms of what politicians need to do. An iron law of reality is that you cannot control other people, at best you can influence them.

If you want to solve political problems you must ask "what can I do?" because talking about what politicians should do is glorified masturbation.

The answers are at least:

Get directly involved and run for a position of power and don't be corrupt when provided the opportunity to be
Never choose loyalty to a person over loyalty to ideas. Loyalty is the unit of corruption.
Get directly involved in the bureaucracy and use your position to do good and stifle bad
Use your position at work to practice professional ethics
Get involved with a union to provide consequences via striking, show solidarity
Get involved with investigative journalism to uncover corruption and speak truth to power
Get involved with campaigns to get candidates you don't believe are corrupt into positions of power
Get a good grasp on what fighting authoritarianism with force requires and meditate deeply on the use of guillotines or analogues
When someone else puts themselves at risk or sacrifices themselves to fight power, venerate them
Understand that "If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny."
Educate yourself on the history of revolutionary movements and try to make complex ideas simple and viral
Understand that cynicism is coerced consent and that cynicism does not change anything
The green dye experiment, from the same site:

https://genuineideas.com/ArticlesIndex/dye.html

... supporting the logic that marination is mostly a surface treatment, and thus there's not that much point in waiting a full day to marinate something, but rather just enough time for the marinade to "penetrate" the surface layer that's as far as it's going anyways. Which is why, for instance, if you read a Kenji recipe, it's going to suggest marinating for "at least 30 minutes".
I was always under the impression that the reason retail investors can succeed lies in the difference in volume. A retail investor finding a niche that earns them, say $100,000 in a year with moderate risk, is great for them. This may not he worth looking at for an institutional investor if that's the cap for the volume and they're trying to invest $100,000,000.

A retail investor may only need a small, fertile, family farm. An institutional investor isn't even looking at something under 100 acres.

I don't really know, not my field.
The reason you're seeing blueberries year-round in stores is due to a huge improvement in naturally hybridizing commercial blueberries to remove this requirement for frost and chill hours. The industry owes a big debt mainly to U of Florida's Dr. Lyrene for discovering blueberries that could fruit without the need for a winter. https://floridaaghalloffame.org/2011/11/dr-paul-lyrene/ You'll have good luck with any of his varieties in California.
> Yes, the heat helps here too, but that’s not enough on it’s own

It absolutely is. Biochemical reactions run exponentially faster as temperature increases. In most cooking, the limiting factor on cooking speed is that water (and, thus, any food that contains water) can't be heated beyond 100°C without boiling away, so the food never exceeds that temperature. Pressure cooking breaks that limit by using pressure to raise the boiling point.
IANACulinaryPhysicist, but if the main mechanism is boring old slow diffusion, that supports the traditional advice of perforating the meat, creating additional distributed sites for the marinade to work its magic.
I’m curious what happens in the restorative justice model of the victim doesn’t want to participate?
These are a great size and one I like a lot

Still the NUC size machines have their place, even the small chromeboxes, etc.
> Worst case scenario is house prices drop causing you to go underwater and eventually bankrupt.

Why would you go bankrupt if you are underwater on a fixed rate mortgage ?

I’m not advocating buying beyond your means, but prices going up or down doesn’t come into play if you don’t sell
So, the question I want to ask is how the shift to remote work - and the accompanying increase in dependence on digital tools - has affected the way SaaS companies price their products. For example, as businesses increasingly rely on certain types of software to manage remote work, has demand for these tools increased such that SaaS companies can charge higher prices? Or conversely, have SaaS companies needed to lower prices to stay competitive in a crowded market?
There are two scenarios: First: Microsoft uses the JWT signing keys in memory and the attacker were able to get access to it by injecting code or get access to the memory image of such a process. Second: Microsoft actually uses HSMs but has to distribute the keys geographically and the attackers were able to get access to the key this way.

The first scenario is more likely, but you cannot exclude the second as well.
I went to a UK uni but my observation was that the curve was much narrower and forgiving for humanities and then much broader for STEM. So this meant it was much more straightforward to get a top grade in STEM but on the flipside it was easy to objectively fail.

Whereas for humanities it was extremely opaque what it took to get a top mark but most people would get a decent mark. And almost no one fails.
Yes, the best online courses I have ever taken: entertaining and challenging in equal measure.

I then used MiniZinc to solve a resource allocation problem for two large border checkpoints, assigning staff across lanes for multiple transit types (motorcycle, car, truck, bus and train).
Talking about efficiency. LLMs are often more efficient running batches. Sort of several lines at a time. Which means we can at some point branch new lines and run them in parallel. It will be more efficient than running one after another. More over, with some tricks we can share the 'history' instead of recomputing. This requires going deep into the model though.
Gibson has lost it for me with the 'stub' concept. Communicating with an alternate timeline through 'a server somewhere in China' is too thin for me.
Oops, just re-read this and realised I'd misread the comment I was replying to, it wasn't taking about range at all, so feel free to ignore the first part of my reply!
Keys on an HSM are difficult to use by a team. Network attached HSMs are a thing but they have poor integration with the toolchains developers often use. Recently I was able to write my own ideal tool to help bridge the gap between toolchains and hardware secure enclaves: https://keymux.com
Same guy who lost all his cases when they went to trial for this “corruption”. Republicans have led the FBI for the last 20 years. Comey, Mueller, Wray,Freeh are all republicans.
> If they’re changing, growing, et c. you can’t tell where they’re at predictably and random is the least likely to cause problems and allow sub-sharding dynamically.

I'm confused by your reply, because I never suggested not to use random bits for sharding.

I'm just saying that 60+ random bits should be enough to shard, change, grow, and sub-shard with. You don't need 122.
I remember X11 modelines were not that fun.
That this is needed validates my bias.
[Recycling a comment from an earlier submission yesterday]

Isn't this a bit like cold welding? [0] Unless something is in-between them or some force is pulling them apart, there's no big reason for two exactly-fitted pieces of the same crystalline metal to _not_ join together. It's not like the atoms "know" which side they belong to.

Actually... [tap tap tap] It looks like that's explicitly in the original Nature title: "Autonomous healing of fatigue cracks via cold welding." [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding

[1] https://www.nature.com/article
“Inner platform effect”
Not necessarily. If rates go down, there will be more liquidity, which could make prices go down. Right now inventory is super tight since most people have good rates and would lose a lot if they sold and bought something else.
I can confirm that this is absolutely true for LATAM Airlines. Booking a Brazilian flight (origin and destination within Brazil) is cheaper on LATAM's Brazilian portal than on LATAM's USA portal whenever I've compared them. You don't need a VPN: just look at latamairlines.com/br/pt vs latamairlines.com/us/en.

Ahh, but they are very sneaky. The Brazilian site only accepts payments with credit cards issued by Brazilian banks. They won't accept credit cards from the USA or other countries. You have to use the USA portal or international portal of LATAM if you want to pay with a non-Brazilian credit card, and you'll pay more for the exact same flight.
If you spend any time on Reels or TikTok you’ll eventually get some kind of self-diagnosed ADHD or anxiety content, memes, jokes, etc. Most of them have nothing to do with any medical ailment, they just present content that’s widely relatable to people depressed and distracted by their phones.

I think people like to scapegoat their plain old bad habits on some kind of disorder so they feel better about their inability to change their behavior.
I'm afraid I take a much cruder approach. We have a fruit fly infestation every summer, and besides keeping fruit and other food out of their reach, I simply hunt them down. Nearly every summer our walls are a graveyard of hundreds of drosophila corpses. (Though I haven't seen many of them yet this summer.)

Unfortunately they leave ugly spots on our walls and ceilings, and most walls are not that easy to clean, so I developed a couple of techniques where I don't squash them on the wall: I slap my hands together just above where they're sitting, they see my hands move and fly up, just between my hands. Timing takes some practice, but I've had thousands of opportunities to perfect this technique.

Our kitchen wall has been treated to make it easy to clean, so there I just squash them against the wall, which is much easier.
Doesn't matter. Once appointed they want to keep the job, power etc., so they kowtow to the party in power.
As a former scientist, I would say scientists who talk to the media are much less trustworthy than scientists in general, and scientists in fields frequently featured in the media are much less trustworthy than the rest.
> It is a free as in freedom replacement for the proprietary program SPSS, and appears very similar to it with a few exceptions.

> The most important of these exceptions are, that there are no “time bombs”; your copy of PSPP will not “expire” or deliberately stop working in the future. Neither are there any artificial limits on the number of cases or variables which you can use. There are no additional packages to purchase in order to get “advanced” functions; all functionality that PSPP currently supports is in the core package.

It doesn't always land, but sometimes GNU manages the most delightful humor / sick burns.
Rent makes sense sometimes. Like when I was paying $1000/month for an apartment in Beijing that the landlord was trying to sell for $1 million. No point of buying into a crazy market if rents are low enough.
It is a clone of SPSS.
I also think I had that book, or another one that was 4 inches or so thick..

X11 MODELINES, ipfwadm, BNC network cards, and PPP, tcl/tk
shell scripting..
On the AmazingRibs forums lead by 'Meathead' he pulls in science advisors to help with managing expectations with marination, salt, etc.

Sometimes I inject meat with a salty brine. I only expect a fraction of the fluid to survive the cooking process.
> Eat the cake and have it too

I don't understand how you're using this metaphor here. What's the cake? WRT the environment, they're just eating it.
From real life: NCB Bank.
And for excitement, you might catch a shark with your lure.
> In the 2008 mortgage crisis, owners didn't have the option to stay. They defaulted on their mortgages.

People were doing ARMs, and interest only loans betting on appreciation & them being able to refinance or selling for profit

When that option dried up there was no path to success

Those that bought at a bad time but were able to pay still kept their homes and have recovered now
5 / 1.44 is??

Not many users....
I see your viewpoint posted a lot. There's certainly a cynicism that comes from following the news, or seeing listed-company-news as applying to all companies.

Your view is likely biased towards the US though - most countries don't have a PE industry. Also most businesses aren't attractive to PE in the first place.

You need to look past the headlines, past the news. As you drive consider each building you pass. That mom-and-pop store. That corner franchise. That Indian take-aways.

Most businesses aren't Apple or Google. Those are the exceptions, and despite their vast numbers they are a drop in the bucket of the n billion people employed world-wide.

Yes it's an old fashioned view on the nature of business. But it's also the reality for millions of small businesses today.

Late stage capitalism is eating the heart of the US yes, but fortunately it hasn't spread to most places yet. And even in the US good businesses do well, if you care to see them.
Why would osmosis overcorrect one way and then invert, absent some additional external force?
How much it costs to watch Messi’s US debut on TV
I'm sure there is demand, it's just too remote to be practical. They did get a fiber connection to the closest city a few years ago which made 4G faster. One million people live in the region and there are more places like that in the world. 32% of the Latin American population don't have access to high speed Internet. Schools, hospitals and businesses could be connected which would be good for education, healthcare and economy.

I spent a few days in Leticia and the Internet connection was really shaky, sometimes they can't even work at the migration office because the connection is so bad. 50 000 people live there and 67 000 in the neighboring city Tabatinga. And there's a lot of islands in the world too.
It's also super frustrating to know the author lived on a public pension. Couldn't even live the fantasy.
Just adding the Everything is ridiculously fast - nothing comes close.
https://www.voidtools.com/en-au/support/everything/
Publix and Arthur Flour are the two that come to mind immediately but IIRC several regional grocers went that way in the 90s and oughts. Hostess almost did before the Bimbo offer came through. Not sure if there's something about foods that makes it work better there.
That's for an active company?

In the USA?

Wtf is going on in Arizona? (Or perhaps _not_ going on)
This is ATX and not PCI express. It’s been designed to use old cards…
AWS networking concepts in a diagram
> In fact, some of the communities that closed down in response to the API changes explicitly shifted to Discord.

While Discord does some things right in the community platform space, I don't think its a suitable replacement for Reddit. One of the biggest issues with Discord is how the content posted into a community is lost into the abyss. The discoverability of content on the platform is basically non existent.

Lots of the Reddit alternatives, including Discord, seem to be missing the core idea of what Reddit really is (a community of communities). I think first and foremost it's the community aspect of Reddit that makes it appealing.

I've been working on a community platform called Sociables that combines the feature set of Discord with the discussion boards and discoverability of Reddit. It's like a Discord/Reddit/Patreon hybrid where the posts are search engine indexable. We've built a place to monetarily incentivize ownership over the communities created on the platform as it feels like the people curating the communities should be rewarded for the work that they do.

https://sociables.com
You may be thinking of Great Lakes Brewing
Isn’t one of those big investors Fanny Mae?
I don't think priests should get the final word on what constitutes pure fiction and what isn't. But it's absolutely hilarious to read this and I'll be sure to pass it on to my Catholic priest friend :)
A cup with a vinegar, soap mix does the trick for the small flys
> Historically, there have been far, far more documented lab leaks of SARS-CoV than there have been animal-human jumps

No. First of all, there were many jumps of SARS from animals into humans, over a period of months in which the markets containing infected animals were open. Second, while there were a few leaks of SARS-CoV after it had been discovered and was being grown in large quantities (these leaks were recognized immediately, too), there is no precedent for a previously unknown coronavirus leaking.

> It is very possible that the virus was both zoonotic in origin, and leaked from the lab.

Not really. If the virus is natural in origin (which is a certainty now) and completely unknown before the initial outbreak (also a virtual certainty now), the chance that it somehow entered a lab, unknown, and then exited again are basically zero, compared to the chance that it spilled over in any one of the many millions of daily interactions between humans and wild or farmed animals.

They were selling farmed wild animals that we know can carry SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan market, and that's where the initial outbreak was centered. In contrast, there's zero evidence for a lab leak, and not for lack of searching. There's simply no evidence that anyone at the Wuhan Institute of Virology had or knew about this virus before the outbreak, and we have a very good idea of what the WIV was researching.
Ha, I had a chance to work in the "blueberry world" over a decade ago. Ridley's blueberries are bred for flavor first and truly are exceptional. Most of the comments are correct, generally fruit is grown for looks first, yield second, and spoilage third. Flavor doesn't even factor in.

If you're in N America, here's the farmer that grows his cultivars: https://familytreefarms.com/fruit/blueberries/ Best chance of finding them in stories is during the March-April window in the US.
ElKaWe – Electrocaloric heat pumps
Real-Life Tricorder – Agilent Raman Resolve Through-Barrier Chemical Analyzer [video]