skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electricity/Magnetism isn't understood well enough by modern human monkeys yet. The default representation of electrons as particles gets so ridiculous in AC context. Like, suppose you'd like to transfer N buckets of energy in the form of apples to a monkey zoo. You'd just straight move them from their departure point to their destination point in the zoo. Now if electrons are supposedly just tiny particles of the same type and you'd like to transfer some energy from point A to point B via an AC transmission line, why would you need to toss them to and fro between these points at 50/60Hz frequency in order to deliver to point B instead of just straight passing from A to B? This is ridiculous.

And here's another one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron
FedEx hangs up on you. I tried.
Fantastic Planet
It depends on a lot of factors. Where do you live relative to the train station? How annoying is the drive? Do you want/need a car on the other end? New York checks two of those boxes for me. (Getting to the train is out of the way.) But a lot of places that could be train trips I’d want a car once I got there.
They sell some items at a loss.
Germany also has a housing crisis at the moment, at least in the major metro areas where the jobs are.

Tough to increase native population when you don't build enough housing because you have CO2 caps, and you also turned the existing housing stock in a speculative casino table designed to enrich the few asset owners and the banks, and hoping unrestricted immigration that will suppress wages and prop up housing prices enough to get economic "growth".

Basically, Germany is just burning the candle on both ends, economically speaking.
Good point. I'm not right now privy to their rarefied machinations, but I'm sure they have some aces in the hole.
This.

If it was some kind of fluke and is not easily reproducible but the sample exists and is a room-temperature super-conductor then it becomes a reverse engineering problem.
It's not necessary for this drug to have the same negative effect, just because it has similar positive effect as alcohol.
The Rise of AI Girlfriends
Sui Generis
Alcohol is the most boring psychoactive substance ever, even Benadryl is more fun. I really do not understand those who enjoy the experience.
I'm from India. But working on a startup in the open source space, hence my target is US market.
"Our government does such a good job of protecting us. Why can't the rest of the world be more like us?"
I guess germany's ambition has been wholly crushed following ww2. Certainly an interesting effect. All the more surprising that they managed to aspire to so much when it comes to the EU.
It can be a form of corruption.

Trouble with closed doors is that in principle he might have actually told all the same people about the secret thing before swearing under oath that he didn't do the thing, and genuinely have believed there reason he gave later (IIRC that as the session was public, the question couldn't reasonably have been about the secret thing).

But we'll never know, unless someone else does a Snowden.
So you believe the story?
Thanks for your insights, I'll check the link out.
No paywall: https://archive.is/fzVfz
IRC uses persistent TCP connections as a transport. You can't lose a message in the middle of a stream without the whole connection being closed, and your client would tell you about that.
in the long term higher order of things WEI will cause disparity, death, and physical global insecurity, division and ignorance of each other
Software isn't just a pretty UI. It also covers (partial) autonomy, emergency breaking, traffic sign recognition, drowsiness monitoring, automatic parking, air bags, voice control and much more. It's not a differentiator today because all premium car brands are very bad at software. Cars are not computers on wheels yet, but that's the direction. Sensors are dirt cheap now so cars get loaded with them and software becomes a big differentiator.

BMW makes pretty good cars, but most Europeans can't afford them. In Germany (which has favorable taxes on cars) the average new car costs €36,000. BMW has nothing at that price. Chinese cars will probably first compete in the budget segment. Only after having established a reputation for making good cars will Chinese brands try to compete directly in the 50k-100k segment, which has consumers who have car ownership as a big part of their identity.
To me this reads as a really complicated form of physician assisted suicide. I also think the marketability of this would be complicated, as most adult people would want to start over in their teens or twenties, not as a baby.
The average user cannot be expected to run an additional piece of software just to use chat.
Heh, yes, and they don't explain shit either. I've had so many calls start at "I can't print" that were really "the server is a total wreck" and I had to fight the user on the severity of the situation, they kept trying to focus on the printing issue.
I know an old person who uses a Rolodex S-3000.

Seems to work well for them.
I read something a while back where the owner/CEO/VP/Head Brewer of Sam Adams, who was expected to go to certain beer/brewing events and basically have a beer with each vendor, would eat a packet of yeast beforehand.

He claimed it allowed him to make his rounds and sample everyone's beer without getting drunk/hungover.
Now that Raspberry PIs are back in stock, I'm actually working on this concept using a Wacom One screen.

The RasPad v3 isn't too far from it:

https://raspad.com/products/raspadv3

but touch only, no stylus.
Looks like a rebranding of GHB
Hypothetically, what laws would I be breaking if I were to file claims on the hundreds of accounts I made for astroturfing in that time window?
Ask HN: Best Way to Harden a Server?
Hello everyone!

The title already gives it away.

We are running Ubunutu servers and curious what’s the best way harden servers.

There are multiple blog posts. Some similar. Some cover different aspects then others.

There seems to not be a one-size-fits-all „best practice“ (probably, because there is none?).

But maybe some of you have new insights we don’t know about already.

We are also looking for tools to monitor the „hardness“ over time and alert someone from our team if e.g. a port was opened that should not be open.

Appreciate any tips, hints, and insights!

Thanks in advance!
Same. The kritik and topicality argument forms were everywhere, and typically pretty fucking boring.

It was rare that any negative team would take the time to present counterarguments to any discrete part of the affirmative plan.

These, plus the shotgun, rapidfire delivery style, dominated policy debate, and made it pretty un-fun to participate in.

I ended up switching to extemporaneous speaking and enjoying it a lot more.
Yes! Monarch butterflies have a multigenerational migration in which every third generation is the super generation with the migration memory
By opting out of the class action, you are not bound by the terms of the settlement and can pursue your own separate legal action against the defendant on your own behalf. But good luck...
And don't have a car, because the DMV sells your data too. “Stop selling your data” is too simplistic.
Several times I've found help from a regular FAQ though. That's something yet to happen with a support "AI" bots. I sure hope we'll get there soon, because right now they still seem to struggle with mixed case, exact-word queries
Chun Jiang is the founder of Monterey AI, an AI startup looking to be your copilot for product insights. Coming from a background of urban design and architecture, Chun has built design-centric AI products across industries like self-driving cars and geospatial data platforms.
Just watching it. He brought up something I noticed also, showing the magnet moving the hanging copper plate with the material deposited on it... In like basic physics class you go over eddy currents induced by moving magnets, isn't that all we see there? I can't understand how this showed anything other than that?

Thunderfoot comment though seems ridiculous. It would be irrelevant because it is a ceramic??? lol. They proposed a mechanism how it works! Obviously this would just be the first step. That's like saying the first transistor was irrelevant because we don't use that design anymore.
My understanding is that taking the paper at face value it seems like they’re saying the diamagnetism was an encouraging piece of supporting evidence beyond their other rationale for what they believe they’ve found. I’m not enough of a physicist (or one at all) to speak to that though so I guess I’ll just sit here wit ma popcorn for the next week with everyone else
This is why I went with HomeKit devices only where possible.

The door lock is HomeKit and does Bluetooth so it works when the power is out and internet is down, has a key and PIN code for backup.

Garage door opener requires the WiFi to be up, but it will work without internet if you’re close enough to connect to home WiFi.

HomeKit is far from perfect but I like that it doesn’t require internet for the core functions to work. Thread and Matter devices have made it even better.
The Arcade Game That Crashes Itself for Anti-Piracy Reasons [video]
That's the kind of opportunity which must be seized, not received. The French figured this out but the British probably never will.
Recording stacktraces of errors is a pretty reasonable thing to do. And ideally not every hit causes an error.
> I have a question that their site wasn't able to answer, or I need to contact a representative to do something I can't do on the website

You sound like someone who has never worked in frontline support.
…my last account was banned for merely expressing my opinion…

Nebulous anecdotes such as this always made him curious: opinion regarding what, precisely? “David Lane’s 14 words and 88 precepts, perhaps?” — he wondered to himself, unable to divert his eyes from their username.
I mean, if you go back I'd assume you didn't find the answer. If you close the tab, that's a different thing, and tells me you did, in fact, find what you were looking for.
Well, a similar burning of the Torah was stopped in Sweden before. I am not sure what makes that different than burning the Quran re: free speech, but now Sweden has approved for a 50-year-old woman to burn the Torah outside the Israeli embassy in Sweden, and people are rallying to stop it. It should be all or nothing if the reason is free speech, no?
Would it be too cynical if I suggested that many of our laws (worldwide, I'm not in or of the USA) exist in order to be sure компромат can be found on almost everyone?
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-chea...

Sustainable eating is cheaper and healthier - Oxford study

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35719615/

Plant-based diets were protective against cancers of the digestive system, with no significant differences between different types of cancer, a meta-analysis based on 3,059,009 subjects

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/04/meat-tax-would-boost-health...

Meat tax would boost health and cut healthcare spending: research

https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/over-17000-doctors...

Over 17,000 doctors call on White House to shape nutrition policy on plant-based diets

"It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes." - American Dietetic Association

"A vegetarian or vegan diet can be suitable for everyone, regardless of their age." - NHS UK

"[I]t is possible to follow a well-planned, plant-based, vegan friendly diet that supports healthy living in people of all ages, and during pregnancy and breastfeeding." - British Dietetic Association.

"For adults, protein from two or more plant groups daily is like to be adequate. " - World Health Organisation

> There have been plenty of studies detailing the dietary impact of vegan diets

Meat & dairy industry is spending massive amounts of money of keeping the status quo as long as possible, same as with cigarettes or fossil fuels. A lot of those studies are paid for, be aware.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/03/beef-ind...

Inside big beef’s climate messaging machine: confuse, defend and downplay

https://newrepublic.com/article/171781/meat-culture-war-cric...

Why Right-Wingers Are So Afraid of Men Eating Vegetables

https://www.salon.com/2022/11/11/the-meat-industry-is-borrow...

The meat industry is borrowing tactics from Big Oil to obfuscate the truth about climate change

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23778399/media-ignores-cl...

Why the media too often ignores the connection between climate change and meat

https://www.salon.com/2023/05/13/how-big-oil-is-manipulating...
I just cashed a $68 check from yahoo that I vaguely remember signing up for at some point in my life. I fill the forms out and never expect anything, then one day I'll get a small check out of nowhere and each time I'll be surprised by it
Tell me I'm not the only person who clicked on this because I watched Afflicted on Netflix and saw the woman with "electromagnetic hypersensitivity" (she moved there).

Speaking of which, the link inside to that article is telling, also.
The more interesting thing here to me is the nasal spray that can supposedly help alcoholics want to drink less. That could help a lot of people stay sober-ish if it’s effective, albeit there is a psychological component to just wanting to enter oblivion that it might not be effective for.

Out of curiosity I tried the hangover cure on Nootropics Depot and found it to not really help at all. Not drinking helps the most so I stick with that normally these days.
Automatic music playlist generation via simulation-based reinforcement learning
My main issue about Discord is not what it is, but what it replaced. A lot of websites or forums have been replaced by Discord. It sucks, because it's fundamentally a messaging app, but people will use it for reasons where a website would male sense ("link is in my Discord").
Don't tell me what happens with that bomb I saw in the trailer! No spoilers!
New football stadium video board changes wind patterns, will affect kickers
> The whole protocol you would have to build around IRC to achieve client agnosticity would arguably be more complex than IRC itself.

You don't have to build a new protocol. The Ergo IRCd supports multiple clients connecting to the same account (and using the same nick) at the same time using the regular IRC protocol: https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/blob/master/docs/USERGUIDE....
Hadouken! They wish they had monads.
HuggingFace Text Generation License No Longer Open-Source
>BLUF is my favorite nugget as well

I wonder if the next generation will invent their own version of this. The current 'trendy' one is tl;dr
The solution: large scale reforestation and rewilding.
This person’s view is so insular and so self-centered that they truly seem to believe that IRC is not complicated. This is an excellent illustration of how important it is to stay grounded and connected to your real-world user base.
I'm making focaccia this morning, but give me an hour or two and I'll post a link.
People and content getting removed from twitter has always been a topic of conversation. Folks on the far left were banned for various reasons, including hate speech and calls to violence. Folks on the right were quite vocal on other platforms when they got banned for the same. If you weren't aware of it, good for you; in my experience, it was discussed to death.
You can if you are constantly controlling what comes up next, but is there a way to automatically stay listening to an artist after an album ends?

What I'm talking about is that I put on a certain album on Spotify, and as soon as that ends it immediately goes to the algorithmic anonymous playlist, if you have the Autoplay setting on.

It really comes down to that I'm against the norm in that I prefer albums as opposed to individual tracks like the vast majority of Spotify listeners do, and the effect of having randomized playlist hurts being able to know what artist you're listening to at any given moment unless you're constantly watching the tracks change (which probably no one does).

I want an algorithm that can slow down slightly and recommend me a series of albums so I can get a good sampling of similar artists, but also have enough time to see who I'm listening to and listen to the work as the artist intended, instead of just a random smattering of faceless "content".
That works for a fringe minority of users
I don't know if you meant to imply that a Macbook Air starts at $500-600, but if you did then you'd be incorrect based on https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/.

In any case, I think the switch from Intel to ARM makes any such comparisons meaningless until we start seeing more ARM-based laptops in the same niche.
There is a thing I rarely see on HN in discussions about nuclear power in France. French nuclear "success story" is based on colonialistic exploitation of African uranium mining. With the increase of US, Chinese and Russian influence in Africa, France may one day find themselves in a position where they won't have cheap fuel for the power plants.
Isn't the entire point of debate to restrict how you can argue in order to provide a similar creative structure to artists using arbitrary rules?

Doesn't allowing adhoc attacks on semi related structures effectively bypass that structure?

Also given the notes in the article it sounds like the judges are too generous with blue sky proposals. "It would be neat if" does not make good policy and shouldn't make good debate.

Policy and by extension debate should focus on changes small enough that the outcome of the change is predictable. "Capitalism is terrible" is easy to show but an off ramp to anything else requires more than an hour of explanation...
> HTTP 500 errors when viewing an account

> Stacktrace for that 500

This is the default ruby on rails behavior. It prints a stacktrace on any 500 or unknown error, and it's just line numbers and filepaths.

> megabytes on every single hit

I run a rails app that's very poorly designed.

I just checked, and the stack trace for a single 500 is 5KiB. It doesn't even add up to 1MiB a day since there's only a 500 error about every hour.

> This is either deep voodoo magic, or the code or configuration is turning a Xeon into the equivalent of a 286

Having a call stack handy is is actually pretty performant. Java's default exception behavior is to bubble up a stack trace with every exception, whether you print it or not, and java applications run just fine. You have the call stack anyway since you have to know how to return, so the only extra information you need handy is the filename and line number debug symbols, and ruby needs that info anyway just by the nature of the language.
Hm, so a distributed twitter runs into the challenge that each independently managed node is ... and independently managed node. Backup problems etc.

Centralized twitter improves its operations for all users over time. But can be purchased by a nutso billionaire on a whim, or subjected to the """"""national security"""""" directives of the US Government.
>TLDR: The government is the source of all wealth. Which is terrific. So long as the government's ongoing investments are repaid in kind.

Governments are important but I think this is terrible logic. The government didn't use magic to create the land out of nothing.

It also seems to imply some sort of Perpetual debt, which can never be repaid. Like a parent that claim stuff on everything a child makes or creates.

If the government grants or sells land, the obligations end at the terms of sale.
x: this site wants p.i. from me

y: so what? here you can have everything you need from me [for e.g. identity theft] for 50 bucks!

me: that's the price of a cheap date! you don't appear to value it at all. so why don't you just post it here?

hope that clears it up.
There was a period where people were claiming that critical theory is being pushed in schools, while school board members refuted the claim as nonsense. Then it became clear that the students aren't being taught critical theory at all, but are being subjected to critical pedagogy - ie. teaching methods influenced by critical theory.

So, the school board was correct!
The problem is they are unlikely to let the bot really do anything I can't already do on the website - ask for refund, correct payment etc. Otherwise it would be easy to trick the bot and abuse it.

Without human you just get a powerless regurgitation of FAQ and links that can't help in situations they didn't anticipate.
And for a large portion of their routes are already overpriced and less convenient than almost any other means of travel (except for a handful of actually reasonably-priced routes.
A local route on Amtrak costs almost $100 for a one way ticket traveling <200mi
A bus ticket for the same route is $30. The bus takes an hour longer.
I want amtrak to thrive, but they need to attract customers, not drive more away with higher prices.
I love that they credit Tumblr and Pinterest for the illustrations, most of which are just taken from the Shadowrun sourcebook. It would be like me crediting The Pirate Bay as the director of a movie.
So i should hesitate to buy a german EV?
Other substances are gaining popularity specifically because people are learning enough about them to have a conversation beyond grade school scare campaigns.

People are objectively noticing that they can get a social lubricant without a hangover, without liver damage, without esophageal damage, without lung damage (not an alcohol thing, just a reference to smokers of anything), and that alcohol is more toxic than more tightly regulated drugs.

I believe the person you were responding to was pointing that out, while I believe you wrote a false dilemma as nobody here is talking about abstaining from mind altering substances, they find it absurd to try to force making alcohol the substance of choice, given that harm reduction already exists for recreational use of other substances.
South Africa's electricity and coal sectors are run by kleptocrats: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/carbon-notes-4-from-feast-t... . The solar boom is notable, but the author hasn't sone his homework.
I don't know what you are talking about. Greens are probably the most hated party in Germany. Second place goes to AfD but only because they welcome literal Nazis.

SPD is a CDU clone. The word 'social democrat party' is the socialist equivalent of north korea calling itself democratic. No that is not a socialist party. It is actually a conservative party. 50% of the votes went to conservative parties. 14% to greens. 11% to liberals. 10% to AfD and then a whopping 4.9% for the actual socialists. Let me remind you that you need 5% to enter the parliament so the socialist party that so many people warned against is so unpopular it isn't even eligible to participate in national politics.

So my conclusion is that you are looking for a boogeyman to blame.
The time period covered is more than 15 years. 187 months.

$35 / 187 months =18.7¢ / month

Seriously? That's all it costs to do this to people?

And it's only even as high as $35 because they're expecting the overwhelming majority of eligible members of the class won't file!