skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I recall seeing the images out of SF last year where the sky just had an otherworldly color to them. Here in the northern reaches of the country this summer we’ve had our fair share of wildfire smoke out of Canada—probably something like 2 days a week on average when the wind lines up. But yeah, nothing like what was going on in CA last year.
Brown noise is the way to go.

White noise is too broad - and largely unnecessary - the higher frequencies are more likely to damage your hearing over time (particularly at any elevated loudness, ie if you're trying to drown out some loud noise to sleep). Brown noise will do a far superior job at blocking out snoring, thuds, etc.

I don't know how people sleep with white noise, the highs are too screeching.
It's worth knowing that, according to some recent research, taking a topical antibiotic like this might have permanent impacts on microbiome in your nose (and lead to drug resistance.)
In addition, there is a physical machine somewhere that has all the actual data and it's costly to move. The machine you're connecting to can get taken down by a noisy neighbor and rebalancing data is expensive.
As an ethical-vegetarian, these are very much not for me, but I've also noticed this weird thing where some restaurants (Sushirrito's the most recent one I've seen) drop their traditionally meat free items and replace it with something that is just a meat item with the meat subbed out.

I get why they want to do this for streamlining purposes, but it doesn't make any sense to me. People that want to avoid eating meat will still avoid it, but also the differences need to be taken into account regarding texture and seasoning, which it doesn't seem like they do.
> Netflix film grain

TIL: https://www.slashcam.com/news/single/Netflix-removes-movie-n...
Securing Internet-of-Things [pdf]
I can recommend the documentary Coup 53 [0] on this subject. The rest of the episodes of End of Empire have kindly been uploaded to YouTube and are worth a watch.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_53
The smell of a newly opened rewriteable CD
Just wow. Using the government as a cudgel is how mass societal change works in authoritarian regimes with little regard for rights and liberties.

I for one don't want to live anywhere the state can dictate arbitrary terms to businesses, even the businesses I don't like.

It's bad enough that our democracy has so much centralized power that this legislation could get rammed through in the first place.
>disruption was minimized by Telegram’s use of RPKI

Telegram has spread their hosting across the three big cloud providers; AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It is most likely the cloud providers who have enabled RPKI as a default.
> The Shah couldn't have taken the power without US help. It's one of the US few success, Pinochet being the second.

Can you explain this? I wouldn’t call Iran’s situation or Pinochet good outcomes at all, but are you meaning that the US achieved what it intended too, so was therefore successful?
I wouldn’t really consider WD an off-brand. Off-brands to me are the cheapie no-name brands from China.
I always thought storms in the pacific were called ‘cyclones’.
You're still a clump of cells
Right, that would be nice wouldn't it?

As a workaround, you can create a sparsevolume to store your parallels volume. Sparsevolumes are stores in bands, and only bands that change get backed up. It might be slightly more efficient.
can they?
> Either way, "building dozens of nuclear power plants" is something that should have been done decades ago.

Great idea. How?

Even China, which regularly builds new nuclear power plants, can't do it at a pace sufficient to keep up with wind power, not to mention renewables as a whole.

I talking here in terms of reported TWh delivered.
Yup! Sorry, glad you caught on :)

Maybe my point was rubbish, just wanted to highlight that the learning curve is --> this is an IFR instrument + how it's represented/actioned thru our avionics suite

For sure, something bigboys might be happy to hear you covered in your ATP
The manufacturing and distribution.

It's like with corn based ethanol fuels. Yes, we can turn corn into fuel. Yes, it takes more fuel to burn than we get out of the process.
That's my understanding: Windows doesn't want the security problems of people allocating disk space and trying to read back garbage deleted files left behind by other programs in the hopes of finding user secrets, so if you explicitly ask it to allocate a file of a certain size, it (slowly) fills it with 0s first.

But also, Steam's allocation step seems an interesting relic of Windows 9X design patterns, smaller hard drives, worse cache/temp folder options, and (much) slower download speeds. It probably isn't necessary and they could maybe design something simpler and better from scratch today. (But it's probably a "not broke don't fix it" thing at this point.)
Well, realistically though - and I know your comment was rather sarcastic, but still - some people pay tons of money to go to a live concert, but nobody ever paid for a white noise concert.

So I think it is reasonable to say that pop music is worth more. Let alone the fact that it takes tons more work to create.
Which is fairly consistent with other El Niño years [0]

[0] https://vancouver.weatherstats.ca/charts/precipitation-month...
Wow, that's wild. Certain rooms do that to me. In the house where I grew up it was the upstairs room. (It wasn't the stairs themselves; no other stairs in the house did it) In our current home it's the basement. Sadly those rooms are not filled with books.

I can't tell if it's a statistically real effect. I had always told myself it was not real, but having heard of "Marikio Aoki" phenomenon for the first time just now, I'm wondering...
Yes but some forms of death are a good deal worse than others. Many cancers in particular can be an awful way to go, especially when it's happening with your full knowledge of its inevitability and lack of ability to do anything about it.
I'm not going to give up something I enjoy (or even the indirect benefits of using a particular substance) just to live a few extra years, but if doing so significantly reduces the chances of a drawn-out painful death, then there's surely an alternative worth looking for.
Sadly just me being dumb :')
The young generation of Iran doesn't buy into the whole blaming the US thing for something that happened 70 years (1 generation!!) ago - which the US tried to install a more westernized leader. A lot of anti-US people with agenda wants the world to think otherwise. Case in point:

Mourners In Iran Refuse To Trample On Swedish, American Flags. https://www.iranintl.com/en/202307280335

Iranian students avoid stepping on images of U.S., Israeli flags. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNJLG8jCq1Q
> I am not sure who funds this type of garbage but it shows that "science" is rifle with ridiculous findings.

This is just such a bad-faith, effortless, shallow dismissal. If you wish to criticise the study, please do it on the basis of the methodology and not just because you think that somehow it can't be true.

> This is like that "research" where speakers of different languages percieve time in different ways.

This was a claim put forward by Benjamin Lee Whorf in the 1940s which has been discredited since at least the 80s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_time_controversy

Also, it was always conjectural and never grounded in solid empiric evidence in the way that is at least attempted in the article you're criticising here (whether successfully or not). And for good reason: at that time, linguistics simply wasn't yet as developed a field as it is now and doing experiments like we can do them today would probably have been hard to conceive. For all his faults, Benjamin Lee Whorf is one of the fathers of modern linguistics, and it's not right to criticise him based on today's standards.
Most people can't adjust to many of their beliefs when confronted with contradictory evidence.

The most interesting modern example of this is the zoning vs "real estate investment" beliefs going around. We know that zoning restrictions are the cause of the housing crisis. It's been studied to death and the relationship is measurable. We know that real estate investment is a symptom of the predictable supply restrictions caused by byzantine land use laws.

But most people don't want to hear it. They're like "no it's Blackstone and greedy developers" blah blah. And they will use easily falsified arguments all day to try to "prove" their completely mistaken opinion.

We are all susceptible - it just depends on the topic.
I wonder if some of this also depends on how the secrets are consumed (and created), I'd imagine that if you store things like an API key and secret for a third party API, someone needs to 'enter' that data at some point in time and then set an ACL to allow a person or system to then consume it.

But if you have two programs what exchange secrets between multiple instances of each other, (one can do CRUD, the other only Read), you'd have much more interaction. Same as with a system creating secrets and a human reading it.

As for where it would make no sense at all: automated workload identities where you get time-limited temporary credentials that represent a role; most public clouds have some sort of link-local API, an injection method or mount method to provide ever-rotating secrets which gets picked up by the client SDK automatically. If you are using something like AWS, you'd be able to consume hundreds of services without ever persisting a secret anywhere.

This is also where my 'cloud' (and K8s) remarks are based on; when your workload and your resources speak the same authn/authz with a centrally coordinated policy system, there really isn't much value in adding something in the middle of that, and as such you don't see a lot of Vault and Vault-like implementations.

That said, as soon as you add something disconnected like local virtual machines, on-prem stuff etc. where authentication has historically been extremely bad and unless you brought a proper Kerberos setup you're screwed beyond mitigation. That's where Vault (when it came out) delivered a lot of value. It's probably also why we see AWS, IBM, GCP, Azure, in the same list with Vault and CyberArk. I'm surprised VMware doesn't have anything yet, but perhaps they recognise they lost this one already.
Got any proof?

I'm skeptical, because many things, like Corn Ethanol, are actually not what they're promised to be. I would love it if this wasn't the case here, but I suspect it is.

Any proof either way?

Updated- the guy above provided a bunch, thanks!
Judge Rules Wholly AI-Created Art Can't Get Copyright Protections
I don’t see that as a problem. The problem is brainwashing (mostly well meaning progressives) into doom culture, it’s an easy way to justify extremely totalitarianism.

We already went through that in the 70’s with nuclear power. Humanity would be far better off if it weren’t for 70’s progressives and their anti-nuclear agenda. It’s the same but worse this time: welcome our new climate tyrants.

Climate change is a cult with religious qualities. I haven’t seen anyone rebutting that.

I don’t give a shit if people use private jets for whatever reason.
I don't understand why telling children they are doomed is regarded as worse than actually dooming them.
Ben Franklin invented the US, not freedom and democracy. The distinction is important.
Part of it is the prevalence of "pop and bang" maps, modified ECU configuration which changes timing and allows unburnt fuel to enter the hot exhaust and explode.

There is a purpose to this in turbocharged cars in motor racing - anti-lag - as the extra gases keep the turbo spinning during gear changes. No reason for it on public roads though.

There's also a lot of "cat deletes" (removal of catalytic converters to improve exhaust gas flow and increase engine power). Illegal, but very common to see on YouTube and just like pretty much anything else illegal on the roads in the UK these days, the police don't seem to care at all.
I think I will not lie on my death bed regretting not having lived in a lead painted house, not having smoked or having showed some common sense. Also I think I will not be alone because of it.
Just paying it forward, love your project, thanks for sharing it with us.
What’s the nutritional and health verdict on the fake meat products generally so far? Seems like we’re encouraging people to replace the least processed part of their diet with something completely processed. That seems like a bad idea and it seems like the kind of thing we’re going to really regret in 100 years when we trace back a load of diseases to it. This is just a gut feeling though - is there any research?
Ok, so you're a contractor and set up some LLC or something (which pays 12% on its profits) but then you (the company) pay yourself (the person) a salary on a regular basis. Won't you still need to pay personal income tax on that income?

Or did you mean to say that you (the person) only receive money from your LLC in the form of yearly dividends? In this case, however, it'd be 12% taxes at the LLC level + whatever the Polish tax rate is on capital gains.
Windy also provides with embedded location webcams. Very cool to track the storm as it moves north.
It's the status quo for any kind of journalism. Read anything you either do for a living or have life knowledge or education about, and the credulous BS just leaps off the page. Pick any controversial issue, do some research on it, and you'll realize how much "common knowledge" is misinformation due to crap media coverage.
> Are you a historian?

Not quite, but almost. Just follow the links in my profile page to learn more about me and my projects.

My username is a literal translation of my first name into Ancient Greek.

> And the level of detail into the Tacitus/Gospel mix is quite deep.

Actually, it is not so difficult to dive a little deeper. The basic question ist: What are the sources of our knowledge? Bret Devereaux's blog is really excellent in demonstrating how it is done. If a topic catches your attention, my first advice is, to find out what the most important sources for our knowledge are. And then look at the sources. Even if you are not trained in Latin or Ancient Greek you can still dive a little deeper with the help of a dictionary or an encyclopedia. Therefore my first advice to anyone interested in ancient Mediterranean history is to learn the Greek alphabet. You should already know most of the letters from mathematics and physics anyway.
This seems more like someone arguing to impose western culture on Japan than presenting arguments in favor of the headline, aside from the throwaway "research shows"
> Scientists develop sophisticated models that show the dangers of global warming

Scientists treat their jobs as sinecure, benefit from unpublished data and closed-source code while receiving public funding

Nothing to see here, people, get that Believe Science t-shirt and move on.

> The catastrophic consequences are now being felt on a regular basis "Okay, it's definitely time for gradual, market-based solutions to global warming."

I guess you disagree with economists who won the most prestigious award in their field and who also build sophisticated models? Pick your own dismal science to root for! Being a science believer have never been so exciting, now you can treat it like football or politics!
Because the Linux kernel has stringent guidelines how a driver should be written and work. Companies don't want to put in the work (i.e. pay someone with experience) to upstream their drivers. Whether this makes sense monetarily isn't really relevant to many decision makers. At least that's how I explain why Nvidia and Broadcom don't upstream their drivers.
Ask HN: How to Restrict Webpage Access with JavaScript Enabled Browsers
How can we prevent access to a webpage server-side if the browser has JavaScript enabled? I'm not asking for any specific or realistic reason, but rather as an interesting thought experiment to explore potential server-side solutions. So what would you do if you want to achieve that?
Amusingly, football was created as a way to keep people from killing each other after the Civil War.

That's why the game resembles warfare.
Insulin resistance after a 3-day fast
I had some good times with dBase III and then FoxPro on the Mac where I learned SQL. Data drives everything...
When I was first diagnosed with sleep apnea I asked my doc about alternatives to CPAP because I didn't think I'd be able to sleep with that thing on my face. He sent me to a dentist who specialized in making those oral appliances for Oral Appliance Therapy. I did the adjustments for a couple of months (you move a screw just a bit further every few days which pulls your lower jaw forward in the device). After a couple of months he had me do another sleep test - it was actually worse than it was before without the device. Soon after I got a CPAP and after a 2 or 3 week adjustment period I was sleeping just fine with it.
Yes, for nazis it also was "lol", or their equivalent of it.

I tell you, you don't understand Russia (and how would you, if you listen to western, or much worse, ukranian " media"), you refuse to see that it was US who is the primary responsible for this war, and you refuse to see the nature of US propaganda which led to this war (Russians guilty of everything, as jews in medieval Europe or the nazi Germany).

But your refusal does not change the reality.
It would fail because people farther from the center of the plain would feel more extreme movement as the plane banks on turns.
That was just a dispute about taxation. January 10, 1776 was when the clarion call sounded.
It's actually really annoying to get an example from a video, but nevertheless...

The example shows you still didn't really seem to grok my point, which I will state again. A compiler can introduce additional checks for overflow that guard a large region (e.g. the repeated code in that example plus the loop after--maybe even the whole function!) and then make exactly the same transformations in the guarded region. The result is exactly the same machine code. It will go fast and not go out-of-bounds or wrap around. If the program would go out-of-bounds or wrap around, the guard will dynamically catch than and branch to a slower copy of the code that does exactly the right behavior at the right place. This is exactly how Java JITs approach C code quality. They use all the same tricks, they just have to try harder to handle the edge cases.

And besides, there are several other ways to get that code--instead of using int32_t, it could have been uintptr_t, which replaces UB with platform-specific behavior but nevertheless lets the compiler do the LEA and other addressing mode tricks. No need to resort to UB.

The entire mindset of opening holes in the language specification to allow compilers to optimize without thinking hard is just wrong. Programs have bugs. They go out of bounds. Preserving the exact out-of-bounds behavior is what allows programmers to debug their code. Checking bounds is what keeps programs from getting pwned all the time. It's not an opportunity for magic go-fast at the expense of security and debuggability.

We're here in this muck today because of a persistent and deliberate choice to be hostile to programmers, programs, and people running those programs because compiler designers didn't want to work hard. That doesn't fly in literally any other programming language domain; C is the odd duck and it's frankly ruined people's reasoning centers.
I don't think a lot of health claims are made about these, it's either an ecological argument, a moral (killing animals is bad) argument, or both. After all I think we all understand that it's more than possible to reduce or eliminate meat without having to eat highly processed frankenfood recreations of meat. I'd be much happier eating foods that make the best of non-meat ingredients without trying to imitate the taste and texture of something it just... isn't.

A black bean "burger" can be a joy, a greasy Beyond Burger is never a good time. If I really want the experience of a hamburger, no amount of TVP and coconut oil is going to replicate that experience anyway.
Also got segfault core dump with different sizes. 512w * 768h worked
I would expect any storage array to recommend a full backup any time you are messing with the physical disks. even "production ready" features one would not add, remove, or do anything with the array with out a full backup.

"Production" systems should not even be considered production unless you have a backup of them,
I’m frustrated because this feature was mentioned by Schwartz when it was still in beta. I thought a new era of home computing was about to start. It didn’t, and instead we got The Cloud, which feels like decentralization but is in fact massive centralization (organizational, rather than geographical).

Some of us think people should be hosting stuff from home, accessible from their mobile devices. But the first and to me one of the biggest hurdles is managing storage. And that requires a storage appliance that is simpler than using a laptop, not requiring the skills of an IT professional.

Drobo tried to make a storage appliance, but once you got to the fine print it had the same set of problems that ZFS still does.

All professional storage solutions are built on an assumption of symmetry of hardware. I have n identical (except not the same batch?) drives which I will smear files out across.

Consumers will never have drive symmetry. That’s a huge expenditure that few can justify, or much afford. My Synology didn’t like most of my old drives so by the time I had a working array I’d spent practically a laptop on it. For a weirdly shaped computer I couldn’t actually use directly. I’m a developer, I can afford it. None of my friends can. Mom definitely can’t.

A consumer solution needs to assume drive asymmetry. That day it is first plugged in, it will contain a couple new drives, and every hard drive the consumer can scrounge up from junk drawers - save two: their current backup drive and an extra copy. Once the array (with one open slot) is built and verified, then one of the backups can go into the array for additional space and speed.

From then on, the owner will likely buy one or two new drives every year, at whatever price point they’re willing to pay, and swap out the smallest or slowest drive in the array. Meaning the array will always contain 2-3 different generation of hard drives. Never the same speed and never the same capacity. And they expect that if a rebuild fails, some of their data will still be retrievable. Without a professional data recovery company.

which rules out all RAID levels except 0, which is nuts. An algorithm that can handle this scenario is consistent hashing. Weighted consistent hashing can handle disparate resources, by assigning more buckets to faster or larger machines. And it can grow and shrink (in a drive array, the two are sequential or simultaneous).

Small and old businesses begin to resemble consumer purchasing patterns. They can’t afford a shiny new array all at once. It’s scrounging and piecemeal. So this isn’t strictly about chasing consumers.

I thought ZFS was on a similar path, but the delays in sprouting these features make me wonder.
Someone at Google should invent an autonomous super intelligence capable of searching the codebase for where the Gmail settings page HTML code is, and fix it.
I bought one to repurpose an old laptop screen, if the screen uses a releasable connector, you can probably find a board that connects to it
I despise this with every fiber in my body. Intentionally adding noise back to a picture?! What in heavens name for?

Is there at least a way to turn it off?
I'm sure it would apologize for its mistake when pointed out.
I would wager the most pressing economic issue Japan has their insanely low birthrate.
Yandex Music, too, which is surprisingly good