skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Batteries are not cheap, nor renewable.

Forget batteries for now. How about replacing half of the US that is using coal in the middle of the day?

> - A society based on only solar

Said no one

> - Solar only works under ideal conditions, which is to say, in daylight, without clouds, smoke, ash, snow, etc.

Ok, use them for those ideal conditions then, not coal or nat. gas.

> - At some point, people run out of land to put panels on. Geography and legal/political boundaries around the world vary. Sometimes there just won't be enough land.

You must be joking. Take a look at all the land in the US. Especially in places that are >50% coal in the day, like Wyoming, Montana, and most of the Midwest.
I am nostalgic for this former age too, but I don’t want it back. I don’t lack for ports, swappable bays, or removable media. Sure, the Pismo could be upgraded via a new daughter card and the hard drive was easy to access but that’s because you needed to upgrade every year. Before my new M1 Macbook Air I had a 2012 Macbook Pro that lasted me about eight years. On another note: In the early 2000s I had a Lombard, 2400c, and Thinkpad 600. There is no doubt the 600 was the best built of the three. Both of the Mac’s felt cheap by comparison mostly due to their plastic (though, the Lombard screen was nicer than the 600.) I remember picking up the first aluminum unibody Macbook and thinking “finally something that is as nice as the 600!”
They've been supporting iOS 15 with security updates for devices that can't update to iOS 16. Not sure how long they'll continue doing it but I imagine it'll be for a good while.

Looks like they just released an update that fixes CVE-2023-41064 at least: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT213913
Interesting but what is it good for?
Look up ISOs.
Re-Form in the most literal sense seems necessary. A completely new department, from the ground up, with highly vetted employees and strong oversight. Run in parallel with the old department and slowly cherry pick officers who fit the criteria.
> User can open the application, get the database, the frontend does all the offline updates the user want to perform.

"get the database"

How small do you think these databases are?!

You're going to download the entire hotel booking platform's database?

For how many hotels? One at a time, and then get another databse? Or are you getting a Sqlite booking database for every hotel in the world? And you're going to send them to each user? For what date range?

And even if that were possible, you then have to commit your offline updates. What if someone else booked the date range prior to you? Now your Sqlite copy is stale. Download the entire thing again? There could have been countless changes from other users in the time since you last got your copy.

This explanation just leaves me even more confused. It's illogical.
The Good Space
High dose codeine too. Permanently cures coughing!
> This is all incredibly sad. You should look for affirmation in other, more meaningful places.

Huh? If you don't think this HN post or comment chain is meaningful, why are you spending your time commenting here in the first place?
I will now compress all of human knowledge: fuck

/s
Unity sends their thanks
because it closet to human, a probably way is that someone uaed body of primates to fake these specimen, like the "mermaid specimen" in Japan.
I Seen something similar on here the other day where someone had their game rejected because of AI.
I actually naïvely thought that having AI in a game would be advantageous because it could be used to make the game a more personalised experience. I don’t know anything about game development so… so my thoughts are actually irrelevant
Author here. We're using LiteFS to replicate SQLite databases in real time so the changes sent are only incremental. I think there are several ideal use cases for sharing databases across applications:

1. Internal tooling: you're able to manage the contract better since you have control of the source & destination applications.

2. Reporting & analytics: these tend to need a lot of query flexibility & they tend to use a lot of resources. Offloading the query computation to the client makes it easier on the source application.

As for database size, the Corrosion program mentioned in the post is about 8GB and has a continuous write load so this doesn't have to just be for tiny databases.
GP said "A society based on only solar would"
> Finally Fennel includes a macro system so that you can easily extend the language to include new syntactic forms. This feature is intentionally listed last because while lisp programmers have historically made a big deal about how powerful it is, it is relatively rare to encounter situations where such a powerful construct is justified.

In other words, there are serious drawbacks to using macros that are usually outweigh any benefits they might give you.
Correct, I'm referring to artificial limitations on products used to differentiate between tiered price points. I don't like to use the other definition of artificial when describing features themselves for the reason you point out... even the smallest features might be very useful to certain people.
Agreed.

I would formulate it slightly more cynically: to be part of many programs you have to go through the right motions so that the civil servant in charge can tick the box that says 'wants to be re-integrated' etc.

If you are literate enough with bureaucracy and paperwork, that's not too much of a hassle; and they can't really look into your heart and see that you'd really rather sit at home, collect welfare and play computer games, compared to working a low paying, entry-level job.

But the skills that make this dissembling easy are also the same skills that make holding down many kinds of job easy. Especially low level, white collar jobs. Conversely, the people who can't get nor keep a job or also likely to lack these skills and preferences for playing the bureaucracy.
I would presume that the thing Mullvad are (rightfully) doing with firewall rules in their app, is to prevent non-VPN traffic from flowing whenever the VPN is enabled. The whole “leaking your IP through DNS / privileged connections to OS update servers / etc.” issue.
Is the log clarity on macOS better than the mess that is the Event Log in windows?
Also a random aside here, but have you noticed the social media video folks setting up on this mezzanine to do dance videos? Every time I've been through lately I've seen squads of kids filming...
We use OTPs extensively at Retool: it’s how we authenticate into Google and Okta, how we authenticate into our internal VPN, and how we authenticate into our own internal instances of Retool

They should stop using OTPs. OTPs are obsolete. For the past decade, the industry has been migrating from OTPs to phishing-proof authenticators: U2F, then WebAuthn, and now Passkeys†. The entire motivation for these new 2FA schemes is that OTPs are susceptible to phishing, and it is practically impossible to prevent phishing attacks with real user populations, even (as Google discovered with internal studies) with ultra-technical user bases.

TOTP is dead. SMS is whatever "past dead" is. Whatever your system of record is for authentication (Okta, Google, what have you), it needs to require phishing-resistant authentication.

I'm not high-horsing this; until recently, it would have been complicated to do something other than TOTP with our service as well (though not internally). My only concern is the present tense in this post about OTPs, and the diagnosis of the problem this post reached. The problem here isn't software custody of secrets. It's authenticators that only authenticate one way, from the user to the service. That's the problem hardware keys fixed, and you can fix that same problem in software.

† (All three are closely related, and an investment you made in U2F in 2014 would still be paying off today.)
The flying thing is weird. It’s really that you emit a lot because you traveled so far. It’s more efficient that driving per mile and slightly less efficient than rail (not sure the type)

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2015/09/evolving-climate-...

So it should be don’t travel so far and if you have to, take a train and if there’s no train, carpool, but fly rather than drive if you are traveling alone.
They pushed for the shuttering of something they considered (and consider) an existential risk to life on the planet, and believed that movement towards renewable electricity generation would occur relatively quickly (which is now starting to happen, but did not happen as fast as they believed it would).

You can call it a failure of judgement, but it's not what was claimed in the GP.
Agreed. You can't fix this without replacing the people and culture that normalizes things like this:

> Shortly after saying “she’s dead,” Auderer laughs and says “it’s a regular person,” referring to Kandula. He then says “just write a check -- $11,000, she was 26 anyway, she had limited value.”
Also listed elsewhere, this repo has a much more up to date list. Maybe I should make an edit to the repo after all these years!

I also had trouble finding the original author online when I created the GitHub repo, but the other repo links him. I’m sure this didn’t exist back in the day. I did reach out to Niibe Yutaka way back and get his permission to post on GitHub.

https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl
Writing in water
> Umm yeah but mostly bottom of the barrel stuff, riddled with bloatware.

Huawei had some of the best (personal opinion: the best) Android phones on the market back then. They had the best cameras, the phones looked really nice (if you care about that), and the specs were on par with flagships. They modified Android to make it feel more like iOS, but it wasn't nearly as annoying as what you're describing - I would prefer Huawei's Android to Samsung's.
Stack it a few layers... hope nobody from Ryanair reads this.
Or just require the results to be 99.99 percent accurate (within some edit distance)
I feel like, realistically, for a lot of the people that feel might be affected by this change they could probably do their games in an engine like Godot without much trouble.

Though as it says in the article, Godot does lack proper support for consoles.
Ancient fashion: 3,200-year-old pants on Chinese mummy
> The caller claimed to be one of the members of the IT team, and deepfaked our employee’s actual voice. The voice was familiar with the floor plan of the office, coworkers, and internal processes of the company.

huh.. this raises way more questions than it answers; my first two are:
- how did the voice of some random employee (in IT for that matter) get learned by outside the company (enough to be deepfaked (and i presume on the fly) for that matter)? Maybe we should record less conversations (looks at Teams, Discord, Zoom)
- where there already leaks of 'internal processes'?
It "needs" to do absolutely nothing. The amazon is ours and we can exploit it if we want. If it was up to me, I'd burn that entire jungle down if it brought even a tiny bit of prosperity to Brazil. Who are you to judge?

Even our current left-wing president is pushing for oil prospecting in the region. I support him in that.
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Hey HN, I recently bought a Razor laptop and put Ubuntu on it. After the initial set up I couldn't get the microphone to work. In the process of running a microphone test I saw that the domain itself was for sale, so I decided to pick it up and make a website that did exactly what I wanted. Hope you enjoy the simplicity of it. If there is any other suggestions please let me know
Seems to be a verbal namespace collision with Rust crates (assuming it's pronounced the same)
I do have back up of the photos and videos, but the rest of the phone can only be backed up using iCloud or Finder/iTunes on Windows. Both methods are actually impossible to test without a spare phone.
> cites a paper from 1957

By Fred Brooks no less…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks
I can understand how someone with my coworker's voice might lull myself into a false sense of urgency and safety.

To the point of sharing an OTP code over the phone from a strange number? I'm sorry, no.
That doesn't solve the problem that I still need to do it though. I've got this problem right now with my Blue microphone: it hates being rebooted without being power-cycled for some reason.
I'm pretty sure this predate Omelas, it's an idea from Popper (that he didn't carry very far tbh).

I think almost everyone is utilitarist, you probably are too. If one time you spent money to buy flowers or a gift for no reason but make someone happy, or you told a white lie/didn't tell the truth to avoid hurting someone, you're one too.

But like I said, it's not a good moral philosophy. It's useful in short burst, to take quick judgment on concrete, temporary actions, but it fails on larger ideas.

Which is fine tbh. I need philosophy to carry me through concrete decisions too, not just through political choices. Utilitarism is useful for the former, less for the later (in the best case you end up believing Pinker's statistics).
> Who the hell was talking about the marginal profits when the clear alternative is ‘occasional catastrophe’.

You are the first to bring up 'marginal profits', so it seems like arguing against your own idea, or at best a self-imagined strawman.

Did you intend to reply to the post instead?

Though the closest in what Patrick wrote is still not this concept.
Author here. I don't see this is a general practice to be used for most applications. It was a side effect that we came across and it allowed us to share data between internal applications in some interesting ways. Internal apps are ideal since you have control of both sides of the contract. It definitely requires some more consideration if you're publishing out to end users.
And another opportunity for me to point out that there is no such thing as the Tragedy of the Commons. Garrett Hardin, who popularized the term, has walked it back, and others, as long ago as the 1990s, have pointed out with a wealth of evidence that the popular conception of "the Commons" never actually existed. More or less all "pooled" resources in human cultures have historically been carefully managed by a variety of cultural, social, political and economic systems. The so-called "Tragedy of the Commons" happens not because typical individuals over-use the resource, but because specific individuals violate norms, actively work to dismantle management processes and willfully work to utilize the resource for their own benefit to the detriment of others.
I also have an X230 that I bought from a local recycler. Its small but also a bit on the chunky side when it comes to weight and thickness. I do enjoy using it though. I put a SATA SSD and a mSATA SSD in it, upped the RAM to 16GB, replaced the Bluetooth adapter with a USB plug that I have a Logitech Unify Adapter plugged into, and replaced the stock BIOS with Skulls (which also nuked most of the Intel ME) https://github.com/merge/skulls/

Since its running Coreboot/SeaBIOS now it won't boot Windows. That's fine though became it runs the XFCE edition of Manjaro just fine.
Blinkist would like a word.
With some work you could integrate the two; create an external box paired with an app on your source machine. When the source machine can see more info about the connection it can cooperate to pass it along to the middlebox, and if the middlebox sees something the source system has no idea about, well, that's useful info to annotate the network connection with.
The problem with Sudafed isn't that it's ineffective or unsafe for its users; it's that it has the same or higher abuse potential as codeine cough drops did. We took codeine completely off the market, but you can just go buy Sudafed whenever you want.
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Giving her support of a particular candidate is not "orchestrating" any coup. By that logic, the Democratic party giving support to Biden means the Democratic party enacted a coup on the US. Following the law of a country is not a coup.

In order for there to be a coup, there has to be an unlawful seizure of power and that never happened. The president and his ministers left. I assume because the unrest of the people was so massive, he expected there would be a revolution. That would have been a coup, but even giving her support to a particular candidate the revolutionaries put forward, is not her causing a coup. Giving the revolutionaries weapons would be causing a coup. Sparking the revolution would be causing a coup. Getting one part of the government to overthrow the controlling part would be a coup. She did none of those things though (as far as we know).

Facing the reality of having no president and having no line of succession remaining, the Ukrainian parliament selected an interim president for an interim government until a new, full president could be elected and that is what happened.
It's just business for all of them. Nothing hard about it at all.
I paid for Sublime Text
My two years old high end productivity Thinkpad has an Intel Iris XE display adapter, which I would hesitate to call a GPU.
If they could have done that, they would have already done so.
This is what op is talking about
Author here. I hadn't heard of Sequin until today. "Skip the API" was just a snappy title so I went with it.
>lucrative job at QTR in Canada

Google failed me on this one. What company/entity is QTR?
Makes me want to stay there
They said the same thing in the 90s about getting Bangalored.

Yet all the FAANGs and other startups are still headquartered in the US.
If it's 99.99% accurate arithmetic coding would have next to no data stored.

Arithmetic coding is optimal in turning probabilistic data into lossless data. There's provably no way to do it more efficiently than arithmetic coding. The data it needs for corrections is smaller the better the predictions are.

So given this why even dwell on ways that add any form of subjectivity. Arithmetic coding is there. It's a simple algorithm.
> Does hanging people arrested with small enough amounts of drugs that you'd get a relatively minor punishment in the U.S. not at least toe the borderline of fascism?

No. Why?

Singapore goes up to the death penalty for trading in drugs. Consumers of drugs face punishment, but not the death penalty.

In any case, harsh punishment does not make anything fascist (nor does comparatively lax punishment make something not fascist).

Eg the US is not fascist, despite them handing out harsher sentences for eg drug offenses than other parts of the world (or even the US itself at different points in time).

(Just to be clear: I like living in my adopted home of Singapore. I disagree with their drug policies, and think drugs in general even 'hard' ones should mostly be taxed, not banned. But I don't harsh punishments for some behaviour is a sign of fascism. Especially if the laws are clear and knowable, and there's a scrupulous legal system that predictably enforces these laws for all without prejudice.)
This, and so much this. "The hope of the world is in our generation". No, it really isn't. Any given generation is, statistically, a lot like every other generation (certainly over spans of 4-6 generations).
Mila Kunis' 'Stoner Cats' NFT Company Charged by SEC
just hold the CD at an angle to the light source and stare at the reflective surface
I love seeing your spelling of his name! It took me years to realize that his first name is Jack, not Jackery. It’s Jack Rhysider.
The call was leaked on the 4th of February (and apparently recorded on the 28th of January), Yanukovych fled on the 21st. The correct context is that negotiations were ongoing between Yanukovych and the Maidan organisations, with him offering Yatsenyuk the prime minister job on the 25th of January as part of a potential deal to end the protests.

It's a very tired canard to call it a coup, of course, but it's important to be accurate about these details.
I have never in my career spanning decades have I had to ask a server to send me a dataset so large that it "most tables in the database on first page load".

In what use case do you run into that?

I'm lead and an architect on an enterprise application at the moment that drives the whole company. It's your standard configuration, front-end, APIs, SQL. The system requests what it needs to fulfill only what functionality the user is dealing with.

Earlier in my career I was dealing with large enterprise desktop applications that talked directly to the database, with no centralized API. Some of them had thousands of individual desktop clients hitting a single multi-tenant SQL server. No problem, SQL Server would handle it without breaking a sweat. The bandwidth to an indidual client was fine. It was fast. And that was 20 years ago.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerenhance.co...
It decreases the number of backyard meth labs, which are a danger to their surroundings. Despite the availability of overseas industrial meth, meth labs would make a comeback if you could simply buy pseudo-meth at the drug store to shake-and-bake in your garage.
> Massive respect for the amount of crap they put up with from their tools.

I'm not sure if it's just me being overly cynical, or just having an outsider's view, but the Frontend Dev world seems to be stuck in this loop of rewriting everything with a new framework.

Because you need to rewrite in some new framework constantly, and basically nothing is compatible with the new version - well, it's an opportunity to redesign the UI again.
Yes. Though admittedly the different ethnicities do have quite different average incomes and that is fairly well known.
Author here. It's not meant as a one-size-fits-all approach. It was an interesting side effect that we noticed that we used internally so I wanted to share my experience. The database mentioned in the post is about 8GB and it replicating it works pretty well.
Credit card fraud departments are generally good about this.
Email @mydomain.tld

Otherwise, Google/Facebook/Whatever can lock me out of the web.
James McMurtry is great as well! He is chummy with a radio station I listen to here in DFW (KTCK) and they did a little coverage on that he recently auctioned a lot of his father's estate. Some neat items!

https://vogtauction.com/auctions/the-estate-of-larry-mcmurtr...
Agreed. For all of the hate PHP gets, the state of their respective docs was a big pain point for me in trying to learn Python after years of writing PHP.

However, the PHP docs, especially for older, less-used functions, are riddled with subtle errors and inconsistencies related to the typing of arguments and handling of edge cases. But the way they're structured is fine! I particularly enjoy how you can type php.net/sprintf and land directly on the doc page you're looking for.
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> Does hanging people arrested with small enough amounts of drugs that you'd get a relatively minor punishment in the U.S. not at least toe the borderline of fascism?

No.

Fascism, of course, tends to incorporate harsh punishments for (at least some) criminals, but that's neither central to fascism nor is it sufficient for fascism, you don't get anywhere near the borderline of fascism just with ahesh criminal punishments forbthings that are widely criminalized in liberal regimes.

It may be bad, but not all bad things are fascist.
> He said 1,600 millionaires who owe at least $250,000 each in back taxes and 75 large business partnerships that have assets of roughly $10 billion on average are targeted for the new “compliance efforts.”

I pay all of my taxes due, and I expect these deadbeats to do so also.
If you harvest after the reproductive cycle though:

1000 1499 2497 4493 ...

it pays to be be patient!
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