skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At Apple, we believe that climate change is one of the world’s most urgent priorities and we are deeply committed to doing our part.

... and meanwhile, the company constantly does typical scummy corpo moves to reduce their product repairability, fights against right-to-repair advocacy and seems to be anti-repair altogether (=> more e-waste). Forces users into their closed, proprietary ecosystem which is basically planned obsolescence on the software side, the list goes on and on.
The Kramnik Files: Unveiling the Dark Side of Online Chess [video]
I think its reasonable against spur of the moment shoulder surfing. I'm a little doubtful about how common that attack vector is - i think showing passwords as ** is a reasonable deterrant against literal shoulder surfing as well. Once you get security cameras involved things get more sophisticated and people can watch the feed live or do other things with physical access to the device.

Ultimately, i think for the average user the attacker is mostly not in physical proximity (although there certainly are exceptions), and if you are being targeted explicitly then you are screwed if they are installing cameras and modifying your hardware.

Maybe the big exception would be a camera in a coffee shop place looking for people (not live) logging into their bank accounts. I could inagine this being a helpful defense.
The data is whatever the data is, but measuring in nominal dollars sure seems like the wrong way to approach this. Did 40% more gigawatts get deployed or did the cost of installation labor account for some/most/all of that increase?
This is the event that made think it'll probably stay open:

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/6/why...

It seems like a big chunk of the Democratic party started supporting nuclear power at roughly the same time. The IRA passed a few months later, with subsidies for nuclear.
Yep, but I haven't made the leap yet.
Greed is an endless evil
I believe all of the IDEs support essentially everything via plugins.

I personally prefer the segmented nature since it lets me more easily customize per language functionality.
Depends on what you are measuring because there are many metrics by which you can judge a water filter.

For example: Should it drop TDS(Total Dissolved Solids) to 0? That makes the water taste "flat" and remove any fluoride and any minerals that people may want. Also makes it easier for the water to absorb co2 if sitting outside for a while.

Should it remove bacteria? That involves a different filtering method and can really reduce flow rate.

Should it just improve the taste of the water? What is involved in that? Thats also subjective. Typically it involves reducing chlorine and thats it.

Or should it just generally remove all known harmful contaminants and leave the healthy minerals/fluoride? After all, the government put the fluoride in the water for a reason(at least in the US). You may agree with their reasoning and want to keep the flouride.

Here is a test: https://youtu.be/ja0ioX6GSz0?t=535

In this test, the Berkey seems to remove contaminants but does not reduce the TDS to 0.

FYI for anyone else reading: The main winner in this test (Zerowater) dropped TDS to 0 as advertised but does not remove bacteria which some of the other filters do. The water also looks clearer from the Berkey and Aquatru compared to the Zerowater so it would be interesting to see what else is floating in there that is not picked up by a TDS meter.
The UK is a further north than all of the US except Alaska. Seattle is about the same latitude as Paris, New York and Chicago the same as Madrid, and Los Angeles and Houston the same as North Africa.

Solar is never likely to be as important in the UK as it is for the US, but even so it seems it can be helpful because solar generation is at its highest during the summer when wind generation (over a quarter of UK total generation) is lowest.
Is it opensource? I'd love to check it out.
>on a given day

That conditional statement should set your skeptic sense to Defcon one.
> You likely already have an electric wheelchair or could buy one of the many e-trike or LSV options, and at least the former will benefit greatly from first-class bike infrastructure.

Not very useful during winter. There're places with lots of snow (meters) and temp dropping down to -30F and below. Simply can't bike when snow falls heavily. People live in such places. And their almost exclusive options (except air) are:

- cars (unreliable: engine fail or no fuel/battery with hundreds km from the nearest town means death too often when it's -30F)

- and railway (very reliable and cheap).
I've also just learned this recently. See "Meditations on Moloch" for the original essay. It explains so much but it's also very depressing -- it's hard to imagine how any ordinary person has a prayer of changing the system when so many elements of it are primed to both produce terrible outcomes and to resist change.

It's possible that you could design a new system of government deliberately designed to counter some of these natural tendencies, to change the rules of the game to reward beneficial outcomes better than selfish ones. But I don't know you'd ever get such a thing in place when the people who can make that kind of change are the ones with the most to lose.
That seems like an oddly specific guess. Not saying wrong, not even implausible, just...specific.
I have a dim notion that Sir Isaac also had quite the feud with Leibniz, is that also a wildly entertaining story like this one? And if so what’s the best telling?
Sorry but i hope my long-winded explanation explains it.

In computer science we have a way to score how good lossy data is. That way is to make it lossless and look at how much data the arithmetic coder needed to correct it from lossy to lossless.

This is a mathematically perfect way to judge (you can't correct lossy data any more efficiently than an arithmetic coder). All the entries here do in fact make probabilistic predictions on the data and they do all use arithmetic coding. So the suggestion misses a key point of CS involved here. I don't mean to be rude about it but the idea does need correcting.
It's almost as if the 'sponsored by foreign agents' mark imposed by the Russian government was somewhat justifiable
I'm sure a lot of people are like what you describe (this doesn't occur to them), but I think it does affect those who are a bit suspicious/on the fence, potentially like the person in the article. ("Throughout the conversation, the employee grew more and more suspicious, but unfortunately did provide [the MFA code].")
Hm I think you're right. I must have been thinking of Laguna Seca.

Of course, I'm assuming THAT isn't a "real sports car course" either.
I won't speak to consequentialism because I'm not a philosopher, but using the ends to consider if the means are justified certainly can be valuable to justice systems and human rights in some cases.

Of course it would be foolish (or self-serving) to rigidly adhere to an overly simplistic and abusable system. But at the end of the day are we arguing over ivory tower dogmas, or are we discussing morality and law in the practical world?

(Also, I think there's a chance you are meaning to speak to retributivism rather than consequentialism)
Holy cow that lithium price graph is astounding! It's a log plot that looks like a linear decline in price. It's like Moore's law for lithium..
How does one do the equivalent in Linux with nftables? It's very cool that you can create a logging interface.
Hints of low-frequency gravitational waves found
Imagine if Windows just allowed DeleteFile() even if the file was open, like unlink() on almost any other OS...
Sure but a large part of the reason for that is he's locked himself in to an obsolete storage technology.

To be clear: batteries are still not cost effective relative to a grid connection, but everyone who has an off grid system goes for LiPO for a reason.
Mostly OT, but the SuperDisk (LS-120 and LS-240) were the best of the super-floppies:

- Over 100MB is useful for a lot of things
- Backwards compatible with standard 3.5" floppies (though I'm a PC user; they were apparently spotty with old-school 400/800K Mac GCR formatted floppies)
- Eventually could store up to 32MB on a cheap 1.44MB floppy (but required writing all 32MB in one go; kind of like a very limited SMR)

They were just far too late to the game, as Zip had established itself and affordable CD Burners were hot on their heels.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/buy-too-much-sudafed-and-you-m...

But if cops will choke someone to death about selling a cigarette, do you really want them to know about you buying Sudafed?

It’s funny that there is no outrage about a national psuedophredrine database. But people go nuts about a national gun database
No, not at all. I don't read a book to regurgitate the text in an imperfect form later. I read it to learn about the ideas and thought. The syntax itself (ie. text) is not that important.
Another way of putting it would be - are your object manifests typed according to the OpenAPI schema?

If we have:

pod = Pod({
"apiVersion": "v1",
"kind": "Pod",
"metadata": {
"name": "my-pod",
},
"spec": {
"containers": [{"name": "pause", "image": "gcr.io/google_containers/pause",}]
},
})

Is there a mypy type for the dict to tell you that only specific keys are valid, and `apiVersion` etc. must be present? And will I get a squiggly in my IDE if I type `apiversion`?
One aspect in the price of scientific tools is alignment with know physical units and breadth+flatness of measurement. If your goal is to control a dynamic system within a narrow band, you may cut on price to fit for your specific needs.
As long as it’s carbon neutral it’s A-OK!
Maybe it's better to have views in the first place, and to require (though it can only be enforced at an administrative level) external services to query against those views.

We won't have to do this switch to a view, we've paid that upfront.

We can then include a version number in the view name, similar to how we do with APIs. So if we introduce changes we can keep services which didn't need that change outside the blast radius.

And we have a limited ability to enforce contracts and declare some columns internal.
Would you be visiting an news site where every piece gravitates towards the many failings of USA in Iraq?

I believe, at most, that you would read it for a week, then give it another week and chuckle, and then abandon it.

Even if all of the articles are written in the good faith towards the facts and all.
With 8 GB RAM, I wouldn’t be surprised if these pros will be able to do it with 2026’s algorithms.
well, that is fully compliant

The goal of the EU legislation is to avoid people needing special chargers and cables per device.
Is this a true cloud managed SQLite or is this like their PostgreSQL documentation where it's just a bunch of pre configured docker containers and the developer is expected to manage everything themselves? If the db goes down for an extended period of time at 3am, does fly.io have an engineer on call?

I find that fly.io has been a very disingenuous startup. They position themselves as some sort of Heroku successor and hide behind their developer content marketing while providing very low quality infrastructure. At the end of the day, fancy blog posts may win hearts and minds, but downtime cost businesses actual money.
This is probably a dumb question, but I recall from (way) back in my college days studying Shannon's source coding theorem that there are calculable limits regarding how much a data stream can be compressed. Has this limit been calculated for the sample file in question? And apologies if this was in the linked article or one of the footnotes.
How do you pronounce it?

Krewbernetes?

Krates?
lol, in the last week I have:

Setup dualboot linux/windows, installed my 6 fav games on the linux side

Decided I didnt like that distro, wiped it and reinstalled with a new distro. then installed my 6 fav games

messed something up and decided it would be faster to reinstall again, did that and re-installed my 6 fav games.

got issues with my steam deployment, mucked about and fixed it but in the process deleted my previous install. realized i could just copy the data from the windows partition across and did that.

With this scenario I could be up for 24 install charges, despite never playing the games.

My 15 yr old son is teaching himself programing for the purpose of being a games developer and this news horrifies him. I really dont see this is going to last.

*Edit, 30 installs. forgot to count the windows installs.
Seminal reads on AI and computing
I'm curious the types of users this has. This feels like something that small to mid size companies may leverage but anything slightly more sophisticated would typically require access controls, merging data with other sources, etc. Doesn't feel like a very scalable appraoch.
> Would you be visiting an news site where every piece gravitates towards the many failings of USA in Iraq?

In the mid 2000s, I pretty much did this, and I don't regret it. It would have been better for the world if the New York Times and Washington Post had leaned a bit more that way.
Plastisphere
Well it's hardly my fault that I've not had to use windows in the past 10 years.

And no, not every UI has made needless changes since then.
I typically don't upgrade until the first minor macOS release. With Ventura, I waited much longer (at least 6 months.)
In NL the agro lobby has just successfully launched the largest political party here, on the back of a very well financed and organized series of protests. These people will stop at absolutely nothing to be allowed to fuck us all over for a few more years just so they can rake in some more dough. It is very disturbing to see how gullible the voters are.
Nice article. Especially in the way it emphasizes energy efficiency over just trying to continue to power the things we already use.

One thing I would have like to have seen discussed, in the section on non-battery storage, is pumped liquid storage.

This is a great technology for grid scale storage, but I wonder how well it could be applied to small scale instalations.

I would think something on the scale of the Living Energy Farm would be able to make good use of this, and maybe even smaller scale, like with a 50gal tank on his balcony?
Ah, see but what they really meant to say was "Lossy text compression has a little utility" but due to lossy compression the meaning changed to be the opposite, thus proving the author's point.
The biggest real reason the people use VPN services is probably because they are downloading lots of copyright-infringing torrents.

With port forwarding, reprehensible people downloading rubbish hollywood movies using bittorrent can download from lots more peers.

For ipv4, a home internet box normally gets one internet ip address. The traffic to and from the three smartphones, two computers and two smart TVs uses one ip address on the internet side. The process of combining the traffic is called NAT.

Commercial public VPNs mostly have lots of customers using each VPN server. There may be a thousand customers behind the one ip address of a particular vpn server. It's a big NAT. (I know of only one commercial VPN service that gives out real ip addresses.)

A computer behind NAT can connect out to a port on a remote machine, it can connect out to the https port on facebook.com or whatever.

Bittorrent clients both connect out to a remote port and listen for incoming connections.

Two people who are both behind NATs without port forwarding can't connect to each other. Their bittorrent clients can't reach each other.

In the year 2001 there were lots of people on dialup or with a single PC on a cable modem. They had real ip addresses, not 192.168.0.x They could connect to each other.

In 2001 about two thirds of machines swapping mp3 files using emule, winmx, bittorrent etc had reachable listening ports.

These days, on public torrents, it's in the ball park of 1 in 6 peers are connectable. 1 in 10 in Asia where people are commonly behind CGNAT, both on home and cellphone network ISPS. Around 1 in 2 on private trackers.

A majority of the bittorrent clients can't connect to each other, it mostly keeps working because a minority of otakus upload tens of terabytes, but there are lots of torrents with one or two seeds where the unconnectable torrent clients get nothing.
There's probably straight pseudoephedrine available anywhere you can get something with it added.

Based on a few comments here, having it behind the counter is apparently pretty much just a waste of time, with meth production having moved to some other synthesis.
It enables a future world where CPU architecture, OS, and runtime don't matter. Code from any language can run on any hardware and interop with any other code. Cloud hosts can buy whatever hardware is most economical and your code will work there. Just like Docker eliminated a lot of tedious dependency management for deployment, this eliminates another chain of dependencies, but CPU, language runtime, and operating system.
It's the ideal solution (and one I already implemented with a Keygen-Date header), yes, but this bug was discovered months after the feature was introduced and relied upon (I run an API product). So it's not as simple as using a different header, since previous clients will still be on the Date header. Backwards compatibility can be a bitch.
> 20% of people will buy the cheapest certified usb-c cable they can find on amazon because they are just tech savvy enough to know there is a difference and that its worth finding a good one. But this cable will likely only be usb 2 speeds.

If you don't need data transfer, there are reasons like cost and cable thickness/flexibility to get a charging-only cable.

Most people need very few cables over USB 2.0 speeds, and they typically don't need those to be very long.

Unfortunately, there are a bunch of non-conforming USB-C implementations (original Switch models, Raspberry Pis, and tons of other charging-only gadgets) such that it is not possible at any cost to standardize on a stack of USB-C cables with the same properties.

The annoying part is that cables still tend to not be labelled with their properties, it is challenging to determine if a device properly supports power delivery and cables rated > 30W, and there aren't a lot of tools to diagnose issues or cable capabilities.
He's not wrong. What's Pelosi up to trying to get re-elected at 83. What about McConnell's recent strokes-that-aren't, while on camera? When you have to wheel 90 year old Feinstein around in a wheelchair and she's totally out of it when votes come around. As I say, he's not wrong.
In fairness dvdhsu responded about that point elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37502239
I think most palm oil production is in SE Asia.

Indonesia and Malaysia together product 84% of the world's output. https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/10/02/which-...

PS to all: Don't buy products with palm oil, it kills orangutans.
Same. I thought there’d be at least /some/ discussion about the implications of this change
I’ve literally never taken my phone off mute. I think fewer and fewer people are using the ringer and it doesn’t make much sense to dedicate one of only 4 buttons on the device to it.
A better approach would be a solution based on an Allwinner V3S or S3, since they have DRAM embedded in them. For example, the Lichee Pi Zero [1] is 45mmx25mm (instead of ~25mm^2 for the VoCore) but with a USB and a microSD slot on the PCB.

[1] https://licheepizero.us/
(May also have to delete this later, but...)

Law enforcement is currently attempting to ascertain whether or not the actor is within the US. If it's within the US, I (personally) believe there's a good chance they'll take the case on and presumably with enough digging, will find the attacker. (The people involved seem to be... pretty good.)

But if they're outside US (which is actually reasonably high probability, given the brazenness of the attack, and the fact that they're leaving a lot of exhaust [e.g. IP address, phone number, browser fingerprints, etc.]), then my understanding is that law enforcement is far less interested, since it's unlikely that even an identification of the hacker would lead to any concrete results (e.g. if they were in North Korea). (FWIW, the attack was not conducted via Tor, which to me implies that the actor isn't too worried about law enforcement.)

To give you a sense, we are in an active dialogue with "professionals". This isn't a "report this to your local police station" kind of situation.
The best way to measure this is from the CO2 emissions estimates. These fell by about 23% from 2018 to 2023[1], implying that renewables have displaced about one quarter of fossil fuel inputs. However, it should be noted that nobody really knows the true denominator of energy demand, because distributed small-scale solar production adds up to an unknown quantity.

In the spring and summer seasons California routinely hits over 100% of demand generated from renewables at some point in a given month. CAISO, which does not cover the entire state, says that in June about 47% came from renewables. Last June it was only 37%.

1: http://www.caiso.com/Documents/GreenhouseGasEmissions-Tracki...
The most cost-effective form of solar power is utility scale solar farms. In 2012 California was installing those faster than it did last year. Hover over the chart in this article to see the year-over-year changes:

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/chart-whos-the-le...

As toomuchtodo mentioned in another comment [1], the cost of solar declined 89% in the past decade. California's installed base is weighted toward older, more expensive solar power installations because it started installing solar power sooner and more rapidly than other states. That's compounded by California's slowdown in utility scale solar farms added in recent years. Texas is about to surpass California on installed solar farm capacity and Texas's solar generation will be cheaper because those farms have been built more recently with lower cost solar hardware.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37502924
The solution to this is the same as with APIs: versioning. Instead of naming your table "my_foo", you name it "my_foo_v1". Then, when you want to make a breaking change to the schema, you:

1. Create a new table "my_foo_v2" with your desired schema

2. Modify write queries for "my_foo_v1" so that they also write to "my_foo_v2"

3. Copy over existing data in "my_foo_v1" to "my_foo_v2" with a migration script

4. Modify read queries for "my_foo_v1" so that they read from "my_foo_v2" instead

5. Remove all write queries to "my_foo_v1"

6. Drop the "my_foo_v1" table
The toddler got there first.

Seriously, though, it's hard to keep track of something that gets used once every five years.
Why is it so expensive? 3 words: Investor Owned Utilities.
And two more for good measure:
Regulatory Capture.
Some devices (mostly security devices) trigger things based on the physical connection state, cycle count, etc. and it's useful to have a means to test these.

I've never seen a device so far that has a physical switch to make sure it's really been unplugged, but I'd imagine someone could find a use case.
There are some sold for privacy which do not have the data pins.

However, I believe this prevents negotiation for power delivery. Even if not, you need the CEC pins for the cable to function and that is a data channel as well (there are firmware update specs over CEC)
The one that pissed me off was moving workflows to the top of the screen rather than having them in the chat box. The org I work for uses a lot of them, and they're all hidden behind a small button that takes me out of the flow trying to find it everyday
Great charts. I hope they update them for current years soon. I'm not sure if: the trend continued (because of technologic progress and the learning curve), the trend reversed (because of supply chain issues), or stayed the same because of the combined effects of those 2.
>MT7628, 580 MHz, MIPS 24K

Legacy ISA. I'll wait for RISC-V version.