skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got Philips Hue LED lights around the house, and although the bulb remains relatively cool, the base gets surprisingly hot (75-80C) after they've been on for a couple of hours.
Unpopular opinion, but I used Haskell "scripts" with relative success for a while. Stack has a nice script interpreter mode that is runnable in the familiar #! way.

Even allows to add dependencies and if necessary compile the script on the fly.
Cryptocurrencies didn't disrupt anything though. It was supposed to liberate us from banks and their fees. They reinvented banks and the entire financial system on top of crypto, exchanges are literally unregulated banks. It was supposed to free us from government currencies. It turned into stocks instead. A good currency like Monero that actually works for transacting quickly, cheaply and anonymously? Nobody cares about it or uses it.

It's pretty depressing really.
That he did is the most revealing...
That and memory foam / gel pads in your shoes. I walk a lot since the lock down and I've had knee issues in the past. Good gel pads help and using your knees with light exercise actually improves things. I Mostly wear sneakers. Hiking shoes tend to be a bit more rigid and have less shock absorption.

The poles might help as well. Nordic walking, is a thing that a lot of cross country skiers do in Scandinavia to stay in shape during the summer. Also nice for people with balance issues or weak backs of course. Done properly, it makes for an intensive workout.
It’s reasonable to say that the causal relationship between the mind and the body (if we treat them as distinct at all!) is fundamentally undetermined, and attacking inflammation issues from both mental and physiological wellbeing angles is worthwhile.

For example, it may be possible to say that inflammation correlates with mental stress, but given lifestyle choices made under mental stress (such as your diet and so on) are also what causes or at least contributes to that inflammation it’s dubious whether we can completely untangle the two and definitively prove that the causal arrow does not, in fact, point in the counter-intuitive (from physicalist perspective) direction.
You're not wrong. Although we can agree that this _sounds true_ because of who Bolsonaro has demonstrated he is, it doesn't mean that it's true until we see some evidence.
You can run ICE cars on LPG (propane + butane, would probably work on pure propane as well), with minor (<1000$) modification in the fuel injection system and fitting a proper tank.

This could make millions of older cars cleaner, also in the developing world. LPG is already cleaner, would benefit the developing world, and ICE engines can be produced without needing exotic materials, can be recycled 100% by smelting, are a proven, well known, durable technology, unlike lithium batteries (which are also proven, but recycling and exotic materials are problematic), and are and will be a popular technology in the developing world for a long time.

Also it would allow for cheaper and cleaner cars in the developed world, where not everybody can afford the electric dream many here are living.

It would also be somewhat suitable for long haul and heavy machinery, but most likely in a hybrid drivertrain setup.

Also it would solve the big issue of the German home heating and industry: how to stove away the sun and wind from the summer to the winter, when in the windless dark days nowadays coal is burnt, as battery of hydro storage cannot be scaled beyond a few days capacity at extremes.

There is already built, or cheap technology to gas powered solutions, no need to transition to new technology hastily. This would give runway to the green transition, as it could be net zero carbon footprint solution with less disturbance to the existing solutions.
Indeed, mostly smoke so far. But there might be some leads, like:

> Delgatti said he met with Ministry of Defense technical experts to discuss the electronic voting system on five occasions. The first time, he said, was right after meeting with Bolsonaro, when he was driven from the presidential residence to the Ministry of Defense, entering through the back entrance.

https://www.securityweek.com/brazilian-hacker-claims-bolsona...

MoD should be able to confirm or deny that the meeting took place. Possibly, from there evidence of wrong doing might surface. But then again, it might not.
>The article assumes the ends never justify the means, and it seems to me fairly naive to have that position

It's pretty naive to assume that you and your family would be on the "enjoying the ends" side of the equation as opposed to the "sacrificed as means" side.

A lot of people, from Robespiere to USSR party officials found out the hard way.

Not to mention that the kind of types who opt "for the ends, the means be damned" seldom show much restraint.

Or the problem of who choses those ends, for whose benefit, and who did they ask?

>A police who shoots a knife wielding attacker in the leg is clearly a means that justify the ends for example. The only difference between that and Hitler is 1) the scale and 2) that Hitler was factually wrong about the universe.

No, the difference between that and Hitler is one of quality, not scale.

For starters, shooting the leg of 10 million people is not the same as executing 10 million people. Even as physical bodily damage is way less. I'd chose to be shot in the leg over being gassed any day of the week.

And it's even less "the same" if the ones who shot in the leg were knife wielding attackers and you did it to stop them, as opposed to them having done nothing.

As for being "factually wrong", Hitler could just as well be equally vicious while being factually correct. Saying "I know Jews are not pulling the strings, but I want to blame and exterminate them anyway because I want to use them as scapegoats" would be factually correct, yet the deeds would be no less evil.
Strategies to unlock profit potential.
I'll second cling, when having to teach C/C++ to beginner programmers I usually start them out with cling to familiarize them with C statements/expression/printing before delving into functions.

(When teaching I view high token count for hello world as a pitfall, starting with a REPL I can dive directly into computation before they start getting stuck on syntax)
And when he gets sick gets free healthcare while your junior will go bankrupt. Compensation isn't comparable without comparing external costs and benefits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_city_tier_system

You can find the Chinese city "tier" classification system on wikipedia. It's not an official scale, but used commonly due to just how massive and varied the country is. Looks like the scale I remember isn't the standard, since apparently the most common one is ~4 tiers.

As for why I brought up the generalization; corruption is variable within a country. Corruption in China is rife, in part because of the population size. I am fairly sure you have heard of Tofu Dreg construction. That kind of corruption is barely noticeable in cities close to administration centers. (Such as Tier 1 cities. It gets cracked down on very quickly) The same does not apply elsewhere.

I just don't want to be too unfair to china with this. Most countries have corruption outside of the major cities and administration centers.
Modems used to cost a dollar a baud!

Introduction To Time Shared Systems (June 1972):

https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2020/isde-...

>Apparently, there's a rough rule-of-thumb formula
that the cost of a modem is about a dollar per baud.
This estimate accounts for the extras that are usually
added as rated speed is increased to give the device its
1-m1*in-turn utility.
TL;DR:

> Once the team visualized a light wave as part of a mechanical system, new connections between the wave’s properties immediately became apparent — including the fact that entanglement and polarization stood in a clear relationship with one another.

> “This was something that hadn’t been shown before, but that becomes very clear once you map light’s properties onto a mechanical system,” said Qian. “What was once abstract becomes concrete: using mechanical equations, you can literally measure the distance between ‘center of mass’ and other mechanical points to show how different properties of light relate to one another.”
> …to the parliamentary commission of inquiry. But his detailed testimony raises new allegations against the former far-right leader

Maybe he has something to prove his claim, and he doesn’t want to reveal it still?

Otherwise yes, it’s a weird claim, also because people like “hackers” usually keeps the documentation of everything inside these conversations.
There’s issue with metadata & the requirement of sharing one’s address book to use WhatsApp. I wouldn’t be surprised if it too like Signal required users have a Android/iOS primary device & a phone number or you can’t use the service which has privacy implications but also feeds the mobile OS duopoly as you can’t choose another OS (or to just not have a phone).
Why seek self-realisation? In the face of climate crisis, Spinoza to Næss
According to this article: https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/the-amount-of...

The cost of carbon capture straight from the air is about 10GJ per Tonne (they quote 8.8 and 14 from competing sources). Which is about 2800 kWh
That would put a serious damper on the efficiency, but might make it viable even when 'easy' sources of CO2 (like the exhaust of fossil power plants) are no longer available.
> Dutch law allowed the throne to pass to a female child, but the Grand Duchy was under different laws and was inherited by a claimant rather than the new Dutch queen

If you are confused by this, try Crusader Kings game by Paradox (I prefer ck2 to ck3) for a good taste of multiple types of inheritance and problems arising from ruling medieval realm and passing all accumulated titles to your heirs.
I meant that specialists should do more research on the topic. For the average consumer there is not much choice, either wait for more conclusive results or try it out themselves and see if it makes a noticeable difference in their specific condition.
You’re not thinking through what you’re talking about, unfortunately that’s typical.

Think about it, how can there be a “SHORTAGE of jobs”, when we have over 8 billion people on this planet? Are we running out of people in general? No. Is everyone employed and happy? No.

So we are short of the kind of increasingly mythical people with 20 years experience in some tech that came out yesterday, we’re short of people with IQ 180 and above with five diplomas, people with certain increasingly higher level of requirements. PRECISELY the kind I’m talking about.

Most people do not qualify for those jobs. They never will. They can’t. They’re not seeking those jobs as they don’t understand them (the employers often also don’t), and if they saught them they would not be given to them. Do you understand what I’m talking about?

More and more people will be in the pool that do not qualify. The more “shitty jobs” you take out of the jobs pool we have available for humans, the more “shitty unemployed people” there will be. Eventually there will be billions of “shitty unemployed people”, because what passes as moderately intelligent person today will be just another shitty person 10-20 years from now, who better brush up and get those five diplomas and his IQ to 180 and otherwise how dare they ask for a job?

There is no such situation where dumb people rule over smart machines. If the machines are better then the people become useless. Many aren’t good at much. They’re decent people but just happen to be best at “store clerk”. Those are maybe some of your friends, parents, siblings, children. Your wife. They don’t get math, and find it hard to remember too much. Those people are doomed. And that’s most people.

Your elitist attitude is only further stressed by the incorrect reference to the Luddites. They embraced technology with open arms. Their bosses told them no one will be fired, only promoted, everyone will be rich. Then they got fired. They protested and were subdued with violence and prison time. That’s the story of the Luddites. They didn’t hate machines. But the machines made them useless. So they were gone from the picture.

You think you’re not like them, you’re better. You’re one of the smart ones. But you’re precisely them. Your don’t know your history so you’re doomed to repeat it.

I’m not against machines. I love machines. I make machines. I program machines. I evolve machines. I’m sympathetic to any system in this universe, be it smart, dumb, protein, silicon and metal. But it’s incredibly awkward to me to see people cheer for their own obsoletion. We really have no idea what we’re doing. We’re simply the scorpion riding on the frog’s back and following our nature. We can’t escape our nature.
Doesn't it flatten all behavior and not just impropriety?
I'm not British, but it is my understanding that after WW1 and WW2 the money had just dried up when it came to capital-intensive projects. I've just finished reading a book [1] that explicitly mentions the lack of available money as a reason for the Brits having to give up their Sea Power status just after WW2.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Seapower-States-Maritime-Continental-...
The Uncanny Sight of Waves Breaking on a Star
instead of presenting something as scary, you can try presenting it as lame.
> I wonder to what extent the overarching business culture of the UK (which I'd categorise as being generally apathetical, if not hostile, to the engineering profession) might have anything to do with it.

That's nothing to do with it - the company is only listing on NASDAQ - ARM has office all over the world but will still be based and managed in the UK along with most of its employees (engineers) like when it was owned by a Japanese company.

Listing on the tech heavy NASDAQ rather than the LSE gives the company more access to investors that are likely to buy shares: retail, commercial, and hundreds of index trackers and funds - increasing the share price.
This. Just clipper it all off.
Interesting editor. It's made using Jonathan Blow's language called Jai.

Tsoding has a video on the editor and shows him modifying the code - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhPm8pv6dEs

It has a very "Emacs" feel to it.
Vendor says their solution is cheaper than competitor solution. I'm shocked.
As a Software Engineer with decades of experience working with PKI/cryptography/infosec, I believe that online voting is a fundamentally bad idea. It stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of the requirements of an election.

The requirement is not "accurately count the votes". It is: "Allow people to vote, and have their votes counted, in a demonstrably fair way, so that an average person can have high confidence the outcome is fair, given the adversarial nature of the system and varying levels of education / honesty among all present".

A election only means something because of the consent of a large number of average people to abdicate their freedom to someone else based on what they feel was a fair process.

In Ireland, observers from multiple parties observe the votes as they are counted and publish their own numbers realtime (see tallymen).

In this context it's very hard to argue the vote was rigged...
No the British news accurately reports on how bad it has become after over a decade of politicians defunding it. It's sad. When I left London a decade ago I had no reason to ever use my private insurance. NHS was excellent. Now I still use NHS when I visit but it not to the very high standards it used to be. And I have to sometimes use my private insurance. Everyone knows this and talks about it. I don't expect this to continue though. Most people want to return to a well funded and more functional NHS.
The irony of course is that this has been caused by regulatory induced de-risking of employer pension funds after a lot of them went bankrupt and left the government on the hook via the PPf
Safari users keep repeating this, but it's simply not true: go open http://twitter.com and see for yourself.
> Forwarding is not really a problem, the algorithm is well known

I understand it’s not a problem to make forwarding work, but making it not suck doesn’t seem easy. My impression from the literature was that a moving collector requires either an O(heap) pause + write barrier (to rewrite all pointers at once), or a read barrier (to catch stale pointers on the fly), and neither of these options is all that pleasant—read barriers in particular are often decried as expensive.

On the other hand, the articles doing the decrying are usually using a SPARC or the like as their reference point for up-to-date powerful hardware, so I’ve no idea how true any of this is in today’s superscalar world.
Oracle also does this. Connecting to their database requires (required?) you to send a poem which is copyrighted by Oracle[1]. This would, in theory, let Oracle shut any unauthorized db driver down at will.

https://dacut.blogspot.com/2008/03/oracle-poetry.html
Financial Climate Activist
> Note that CNAMEs is literally caused by GDPR

nonsense

GDPR is not technology specific weather you use aliases or not makes not difference (neither weather you use cookies or other e.g. heuristic methods for fingerprinting btw.)
Making my side-project for free after it failed
Hey HN,
A few months ago I finished a side-project called edutube.app A platform to discover 1000+ educational YouTube videos. I put a lot of work into the project, but it failed (Didn't have a lot of paying customers), so from today on, EduTube is free to use for everyone. I hope you like it
Andy Hertzfeld is a national treasure for saving all of this tech history by taking the time to write it down. He’s got some amazing stories.

Then, not only is it great that he’s preserving history, but I love his delivery. Short, no filler, but long enough to give a little flavor.
Probably the best time to be a propane and propane accesories salesperson.
Why so?

Who become the best engineers? Those who struggle the most with engineering issues.

Who become the best musicians? Those who struggle the most to refine their skills with their instruments, etc.

Who become the best scientists? Those who struggle the most with the theories/problems at hand.

What's the danger? I'd argue living with lower capabilities is more dangerous than otherwise; it's even less fulfilling to live with limited skills/resources.
And as a FB employee gets private healthcare as a perk and would also get it in the US. The US comp is much higher than the UK's even taking into account healthcare.
What always annoys me about these blogs is that they have no obvious link to the main site, it all just goes to blog homepage which doesn't bother explaining itself.

This is fine for personal blogs where I don't really care who you are, but it does for projects and companies. (And personal sites often prominently feature About page so it isn't even a problem)
Sure. No problem.

While it may not be in any ANSI/ISO spec for C, even Windows has popen these days. There are also some tiny Nim popenr/popenw wrappers in https://github.com/c-blake/cligen/blob/master/cligen/osUt.ni... covering the Windows case.

Depending upon how balanced work is on either side of the pipe, you usually can even get parallel speed-up on multicore with almost no work. For example, there is no need to use quote-escaped CSV parsing libraries when you just read from a popen()d translator program producing an easier format: https://github.com/c-blake/nio/blob/main/utils/c2tsv.nim
Many lot of human emotions are when judging a situation, based on their assessment of mindset of the villain. But using that as a yardstick will leave society worse off. It is an instinct that does not scale to 8 billion humans. Doesn't even scale to the 10s of millions of humans.

If brutal honesty is not tolerated then people will just lie more. If Hitler had believed that this speech mattered (and he was probably correct that it did not) then he would have just said something different and had the same actions carried out.

The real problem is the people who, in public, only accept exactly what people claim verbally and either unwilling or unable to look at the incentives in play. We've had people just as bad mindset as Hitler in government - probably even in the major democracies. There isn't really an argument otherwise, we know the system favours amoral narcissistic sociopaths in high office. The checks on power and better incentives in a democracy matter far more than honesty or lies.
JetBrains, while maybe not comparable in size, is still private.
I too have seen a lot of people in upper management who shouldn’t be there. I wonder if this means that nobody really deserves the respect and power we show to upper management.

They’re just people like everyone else, subject to the same psychological failings as anyone.

Giving people a lot of power over other people might just be a recipe for disaster.

Of course I’ve met some compelling leaders and I’ve seen them replaced with total fools so maybe there are people who are better at it than others. (Eric Schmidt springs to mind as an example of the former and Sundar whatever his name is an example of the latter) Maybe it’s just hard to tell the difference. Or maybe our selection process is flawed.
A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
yes and the point I made that usually when you are using most applications that aren't fetching content from the internet, this is to work on your data, so you have to give those applications access to your data and thus if the app is malicious it can do stuff on your data. Worse is if your application needs local files and internet access, said app can exfiltrate your data, receive payload and the fact it is sandboxed to a subset of your data doesn't change a lot compared to a non sandboxed app if this is data you cannot allow to be stolen/modified/ransomwared.

Sandboxing can limit a bit the attack surface / scenarios, but that's it.
Propane fuel cells already exist, and are in use for remote power. The problem with using them for cars is that they operate at high temperature, so you spend a lot of battery warming the cell for steady state, but most trips are short so you would be there before it got to temp. Might make sense as a phev sort of thing where you punch in a trip and it decides to warm it up or not. You'd always leave enough battery to warm the cell while driving so you never get stuck.
We just get use to material objects very easily, like colour TV for example, was amazing I don’t own one and would prefer to read a book or surf the net.

If we had flying cars tomorrow morning it would be a wonderful novelty but we’d get bored with them too.
Well no one can predict the future but what's your reasoning that such an important technology partner to such massive companies will all of a sudden stop innovating and become less significant?
I wonder if that legal theory has ever been tested? I admit I'm sceptical that it would hold up in court.
> "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Survivorship-bias.svg

How many startups simply died or how many projects never got to be launched because they thought they needed some enterprise support from the start?
God I miss the taco phone.

https://sidetalking.com/
If Bolsonaro wasn't interested in rigging the elections, but rather to cast doubt on the result (as suggested in https://www.securityweek.com/brazilian-hacker-claims-bolsona...), then he might have (unintentionally) done a good service by trying to persuade a hacker to poke holes in this implementation of this "insane idea".