skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case it wasn't clear, this is a separate project from the RetroArch front-end. It's integrated into several emulators: https://retroachievements.org/download.php

My colleague did all the work for integration into BizHawk, and I'm proud to see it at the top of the list (it's sorted alphabetically, but still).
Well, you’re covering about 23 years of development there between ASP and ASP.NET Core.

Don’t get me wrong, the naming sucks. Microsoft is far more likely to recycle names for marketing reasons than just introduce a new name for plethora of stupid reasons.

But Active Server Pages means nothing anymore. It stopped meaning anything since 2003 but they use it as a brand name than anything. It’s no less stupid than gulp, bower, webpack, bun, deno, express, koa, next, vite, etc.
I wouldn't say disingenuous but uptime has been disastrous.

I'm definitely not buying anything there.

I run a free service on fly.io.

It's been ok lately (or maybe my users just stopped complaining), so maybe they got better.
Pretty much all commercial cookies contain palm oil. Including Girl Scouts, which acted a few years ago like they were learning new information and would act on it, and have done nothing.

Although their concerns about Palm Oil weren't (or at least are no longer) about orangutans, they were about child labor.
The current MBAs are actually fairly close to this category of laptop:

12 inch Powerbooks: 4.6 lbs., 1.18" H x 10.9" W x 8.6" D

12 inch Macbook: 2.03 lbs., 0.14-0.52" H x 11.04" W x 7.74" D

Current MBA M2: 2.7 lbs., 0.44" H x 11.97" W x 8.46" D

So widest of them all, in the middle for weight and depth.
In my experience, the hubs listed tend to be obsolete. For instance, that LinkSys one I just looked up and its manual is copyright 15 years ago.

Someone on Amazon is boldly offering to sell you one, a 4 port USB 2.0 hub, for $72, but whether they actually have it or are a robot planning to order one from another robot that doesn’t have it but thinks it can get it for $60 is anyone’s guess.

Last time I went through hubctl’s list, none were available new, and lots of the ones listed have “issues” where later buyers can’t make them work (probably because the manufacturer changed the design but kept the model number). But that’s been a few years.

I just like to tell the manufacturers that I’m a niche, but I will happily pay double for them to put the current sense shunts and power switching transistors from the IC reference design on their board.
Old but still relevant:

https://techcrunch.com/2010/10/26/wepay-ice-paypal/
A download manager doesn't need to access your .ssh directory, your browser cookies, get your motherboard serial number, query a list of nearby WiFi points and so on. But in Linux all of these is accessible to any program by default.

> and you will open the files it wrote.

Open in a sandbox? Why not.
Queries on https://github.com/pypa/flit/tree/main/flit_core/flit_core (omitted tests/)

https://pastebin.com/qyzWm6YC

https://pastebin.com/DDnDKGxd
> > comparing by country does not make sense

It makes sense to identify who are the fools and who are the wiseguys.

Like the solar panel industry which was jumpstarted with immense subsidies by Germany, EU and the US and now is 99% a Chinese industry manufacturing product. Amazing.

And EVs will be too, once the smoke clears we'll be lucky if we are left with just the brand and the cult of personality of Tesla, while everything else will be manufactured in China.
Ask HN: Electricity Rate Arbitrage?
One issue with solar and wind is their intermittency. But (my economics / engineering mind thinks) if we have a market for electricity where the price of electricity depends on current moment supply and demand rather than a fixed rate (time variable pricing, I think is the term) then the market itself should, over time, address the intermittency.

So, when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing and the price is negative, savvy operators of battery storage, pumped hydro, etc. stock up on energy for later.

Then, when it's the middle of the night and the wind's not blowing, the price spikes, and those who stored energy ahead of time make a profit providing that energy when it's needed most.

Of course this is an abstraction, and I'm not an expert, but... are there utilities whose rate structure enables execution of this kind of arbitrage business model?
Location: Florianópolis / Brazil
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> The syntax itself (ie. text) is not that important

So, you're preferentially discarding information you consider extraneous to your application, distilling it to a smaller representation that retains what you consider important about it.
You wouldn't use this if that was a requirement
+1 for the 2400c. Picked one up when I moved to SF in early 2020 and restored it (SSD + more RAM).

The one complaint is that the keyboard (both US and Japanese) is just a tad small for comfort. The Wallstreet/Pismo keyboards were much better and a favourite of mine.
Is there any evidence that arithmetic coding works at the level of concepts?

As a thought experiment, suppose Copernicus came up with this Hutter prize idea and declared that he would provide the award to whoever could compress the text of his book on the epicycle-based movement of planets around the sun (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium).

Today we can explain the actual motion to high accuracy with a single sentence that would have been understandable in that age: "A line drawn from the sun to any planet sweeps out equal areas in equal time"

This however is mostly useless in attempting to win the Copernican Hutter prize. Predicting the wording of some random human's choosing (especially at length) is very far removed from ability to predict in general.
You aren't deforesting the Amazon for you. You're deforesting it for us.

First world paying emerging economies money for their non-renewable resources at what seems like reasonable rates only because they haven't the resources to use them for themselves yet, and by the time enough money accumulates to do so, they've shipped off a regrettable proportion of that resource to other countries. Tale as old as colonization.
Silver necklaces are pesticides then?
I did read that article. Borlaugh seemed very "political" in his views on agriculture and land use to be. And a good guy!

But if local involvement has taught me anything, people always have their own incentives, and it's really impossible to be anodyne it unless you're just letting them run over you.
Yeah, I'm talking about situations where it's a department that's not tied to the main call center. The credit card fraud people, for example[1]. Or, with Comcast, some guy saying your modem return was missing a piece, etc. Those are often hard to reach by calling the main number.

[1] For at least one place, the people that proactively identify things that could be fraud and call you...they aren't the same people you call to report fraud on your own. Why? No idea.
Instead of "authenticate as admin" the prompt should contains specific privileges required by a program, for example:

- read .ssh directory

- write to .ssh directory

- read motherboard serial number

And so on. Accessing the keychain should require confirmation if one program wants to read other program's secrets. If it wants only its own secrets, then no prompt needed.
the words and presentation/storytelling are different, surely?

I spent a few minutes comparing the two articles because I'm a doofus and hadn't noticed the author of the post (you) had replied. But now that I've done this pointless bit of work, can confirm - the topics are similar but they focus on different facts and even time periods. One is very much not a copy of the other.
I wanted to make something that used pixel drawing in Godot and ended up creating a Image, manipulating the pixels of the image then copying the image to a texture and setting a sprite2d to that texture.

img = Image.create(width, height, false, Image.FORMAT_RGBA8)

img.set_pixel(x, y, col)

tex: ImageTexture = ImageTexture.create_from_image(img)

spr.set_texture(tex)
Terrific book: The Man Who Stole Portugal by Murray Bloom. Tells the details and how he did it. Fun read!
well, nfnl transpiles it for you
Do you understand how creepy it is of you to go digging into other users comment history and posting about it when there's a disagreement on a topic? Maybe let the arguments speak for themselves? We're not supposed to be some kind of commissars looking for dissidents or witch hunters looking for heretics.
FBI Hacker Dropped Stolen Airbus Data on 9/11
A lot of SPA’s already operate this by leveraging things like localstorage in the users browser.
There are a lot more than 1600 “millionaires” in the sense you’re describing. Moreover, people who just have a expensive house and some 401k savings won’t have 250k or more of back taxes owed.

It’s likely a more accurate term for the 1600 targeted by this auditing would be multi-millionaires.
I think Android does it better with third party store and sideload support. It seems that iOS depends some security to their own the AppStore. (example: disallow dynamic code generation like JIT)
> it's an unnecessary noise and adds nothing of value.

Emoji invented for the purpose of augmenting communication for Japanese mobile phone users in the 90s, starting with NTT DoCoMo's i-Mode (a kind of competitor to WAP). Pictures, especially coloured ones added later, add a wealth of information to a language like Japanese where phrases can only be shortened by so much before becoming nonsense due to the writing system (not to mention a smaller character limit per message).

Its purpose is communication. It was made for communication. It is communication. If you refuse to see the communicative value in it, that's your own issue, nobody else's.
Good books aren't lossy.
There was one retirement community in Florida that was talking about this:

https://babcockranch.com/our-vision/core-initiatives/

"In partnership with Florida Power & Light, Babcock Ranch houses the FPL Babcock Ranch Solar Energy Center and FPL Babcock Preserve Solar Energy Center on 870 acres of land. Each one is capable of generating 75 MW of clean energy, for a combined total of 150 MW capacity and 680,000 solar panels. The FPL Babcock Ranch Solar Energy Center ensures that the net production of clean, renewable energy at Babcock Ranch exceeds the total amount the town consumes.

Another exciting part Babcock Ranch’s clean energy program? We house the largest solar-plus-storage system operating in the U.S. today. Created by FPL, these ten large gray steel battery storage units can store 1 megawatt of power and discharge for 4 hours. The new battery storage system ensures a steady supply of power on partly cloudy days and at night."

Small Florida community aims for energy independence by harnessing the power of the sun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7TrBu_uEhI
Was Al Capone a public menace, or a businessman saving countless thousands from methanol poisoning and distilling accidents?

Plenty of these stories documented either way: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsburgh/news/police-erie-boy-...
> My own meat consumption is less than 200g per day

You think that is little? 200 g per day would be 80000 tons of meat for a 400m population (EU) - let's generously account for the less hungry babies and we'd maybe have 60000 tons.

How many cows and pigs are we talking about here daily?

> The Earth itself will be fine.

Sure. Earth will be fine even if we are hit by a megathingy that rips apart the entire lithosphere. Nature will be fine even if our sun blows up tomorrow. But what has that to do with anything?

PS My own meat consumption is down to 2-3 meat dishes per month. Don't know if that helps...
I agree with the sentiment about media sensationalism but I don't think "space junk" is an issue we should be so quick to dismiss.

Just because the problem hasn't gotten too bad yet doesn't mean it isn't real (especially because the problem involves a positive-feedback "domino effect" and junk might be infeasible to clean up).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

With regard to Starlink: I was a little bit concerned because of the large number of satellites they're putting up, but as far as I understand, Starlink isn't actually a big risk right now as far as space junk goes because the satellites orbit at low altitudes (340 miles) and are expected to naturally de-orbit relatively quickly due to atmospheric drag. (The decision to put them at low altitudes had to do with network latency.) If Elon were to say tomorrow, "hey we're moving Starlink out to 500 miles" I would hope some kind of regulation would be able to prevent that.
Speaking as your typical highly experienced W-2 40+-hour-a-week tech worker who eats the full brunt of the Federal income tax every year without trying to play any games, being it on. Make 'em pay, just like I do.
What if I don’t want to run a daemon for my text editor?
> Nobody owns a tuxedo

Many people own tuxedos.
> In Spain, electricity provided by solar increased 8 percentage points Y/Y, from 16% to 24%.

This increase is only for the month of July, not Y/Y.
Yeah, I will check back and see how you feel in a few years after all the dev jobs have been farmed out overseas to somewhere like Nigeria.
Yeah you're right. For some reason I was thinking only NSO had these zero-days, which is not possible.
I think we can agree to disagree at this point. You believe that corporate power will lead to authoritarianism and the only way to stop that is a stomp on that power at the cost of liberties (because we can't just regulate Google or Twitter; California's registration policy nets up every Mastodon node and every home gardening forum and every still existent BBS). I think the liberties are more important and people should have authority to shape the network, and government intervention hampers that freedom. You see authoritarianism as coming from corporations; I see it as coming from the government.

I'm also extremely leery of anything that makes it more difficult for any operator in this network to put up a sign that says "This is not a Nazi bar," even if it at the same time makes it easier for somebody to put up a sign that says "This is not a gay bar." Because I'm not worried about the authoritarian threat posed by unfettered communication in the LGBTQIA community, but I sure am worried about it from the white supremacist community.
> It is no longer sensible to choose anything else than RISC-V on a new design.

That is a bit hyperbolic.

Whilst I share your enthusiasm for Risc-V it is not the only game in town
It also needs root access, and 3.10 is only the lowest supported kernel. Not a docker expert but I could bet that they only support a subset of features there.

What I do know is that docker images are specific to the host architecture, supporting either one architecture, or a blessed list. wasm binaries on the other hand aren't. wasm can theoretically also run on bare-metal embedded scenarios without an OS entirely.
Safari used to have a Windows version but it was so underused Apple canned it.
Do a significant percentage of millionaires acquire their wealth by rent-seeking? I’d love to see the data that inspired this comment!
Well, you stick that in some user directory that would stick around even after a 'normal' uninstaller runs.
Longer than that if you count one of the OG drugs - Alcohol
Is there something you could add to the reproduce case to workaround this, like plumb/pull up after pfrules are loaded as you mentioned?
Unions have provided an immense amount of value to your personal life, and for millions of people. (Even if you've never been a member, unions are both a product and sustainer of the overall labour movement that you have definitely benefited from every day of your working life.)

Amazon gave you a 30-day trial of Prime.
They rely on a few assumptions that seems universal to living organism on earth. One basic one is if that org live long enough on earth, their body composition of c14 should roughly match earth. This "long enough timing" can be short as few months to years depending on which part of the body you sample the dna for analysis. Is it definitive no. It is even accurate enough to be admissible in court very similar to lie detector. But the science and statistics analysis around it are very solid and well develop that for some people it is good enough for a guesstimate than just mere gut estimate. Of course if those aliens travel to earth from their home world and immediately die, then the c14 ratio will be off. But then again given so many things we don't know, some trade-off and assumptions needed. We revere Newton even though his formula is way way wrong when we discovered Eibstein relativity. Yet, we all still use Newton good enough formula in our day to day physics. Same with C14 even if it is used for this ETs.
Author here. I think we could have set better expectations with our Postgres docs. It wasn't meant to be a managed service but rather some tooling to help streamline setting up a database and replicas. I'm sorry about the troubles you've had and that it's come off as us being disingenuous. We blog about things that we're working on and find interesting. It's not meant say that we've figured everything out but rather this is what we've tried.

As for this post, it's not managed SQLite but rather an open source project called LiteFS [1]. You can run it anywhere that runs Linux. We use it in few places in our infrastructure and found that sharing the underlying database for internal tooling was really helpful for that use case.

[1]: https://github.com/superfly/litefs
> someone starts asking for information

Especially OTP codes.

I can't understand how someone works at a tech company and is clueless to the point of sharing an auth code over the phone. My grandma, sure, but a Retool employee? C'mon, haven't we all read enough of these stories?
I guess my point is that the movie was clearly sympathetic to his situation as a gay man. They exaggerated lots of things and the entire thing was overdramatized and poorly written, but I just don't think it's correct to argue that they minimized that issue.
If you have a backyard (or a balcony) I'd start with a single solar panel and "portable solar generator" off of Amazon. For about $500 (admittedly terrible $/kWh) I felt like I got a much better intuition about things like "solar panels generate ~no power in partial shade" and "power output from a solar panel changes from month to month" which can help you in your decision-making.

It's not obvious to me that rooftop solar panels will still pay for themselves (in the past there were subsidized rates that made the math work better) but being able to run off batteries+solar "microgrid" in a power outage for a few hours is a quality-of-life improvement that I'd consider for the right price. (There's some of this in corporate offices, luxury apartments, etc.)
Cite? Every nation has an underbelly.

Poorer nations, those folks tend to die pretty fast though.
> mostly in other countries

Another case of needless regulation driving outsourcing, and putting our small manufacturing business out of work.
I don't, but I'll ask you to consider the following:

1) The implication of my statement wasn't that social programs would solve the problem single-handedly, but that they're more effective than enhanced law enforcement spending.

2) This would seem to be, at the very least, supported by the people who advocated for treating the (mostly white and middle-class) victims of the opioid epidemic in the US as suffering from a medical rather than criminal affliction.
Sun Microsystems would like a word with you.
I’ve often thought that it is impossible to 100% secure any software that accepts user input.

I wonder if it can be proven?
The first winner didn't even have a computer!

Q: What if I can (significantly) beat the current record?

A: In this case, submit your code and win the award and/or copyright your code and/or patent your ideas. You should be able to monetize your invention beyond the HKCP. This happened to the first winner, a Russian/Ukrainian who always had to cycle 8km to a friend to test his code because he did not even have a suitable computer, and who now has a lucrative job at QTR in Canada.

http://prize.hutter1.net/hfaq.htm#fame
But it's free.
Module prices are now $0.130/W - $0.151/W: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/09/08/china-solar-module-pr...

This is less than the 2030 projections of $0.17/W for modules: https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/articles/2030-solar-cost-t...

Related, China adds enough new solar and wind every year to cover the total electricity use of many major economies such as Australia and the UK: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-renewables-2...
Ok, I will bite. Concrete proposals for anybody regardless of political view:

* Eat half the meat you do or less

* Don‘t fly unless absolutely necessary

* Get on a plan for renewable electrical energy if possible

I know, far from everything in this topic is about consumer choices but a lot really is. If you don‘t want the nanny state to fix your problems you can start at your own doorstep.
MFA is a scam resulting from Google first, and then others wanting to get users' phone numbers associated with more data they collect on them. It provides no tangible security benefits, creates a lot of headache for IT department, creates big gaps in developer's productivity (if used in a programming company) and, actually, creates a new attack vector (phones are lost or stolen a lot more often than any other means of authentication).

Since Github now requires MFA, I'm throwing away my account: I'll never give them any physical evidence to connect me to other data they have on me.

In the company I work today (20-something thousands employees) the latest security breach was through MFA. Data was stolen. Perpetrators made jokes in company's Slack etc.

Last time I had to upgrade my phone (while working for the same company), it took IT about two weeks to give me all the necessary access again, which required a lot of phone calls, video conferences, including my boss and my boss' boss.

It's mind-boggling that this practice became the norm and is recommended by IT departments even of companies who have nothing to gain from collecting such data.
But aside from beating employees over the head with it, how many companies actually operate in a way that encourages and reinforces such an approach? I'd bet it's not many, and honestly if it's a non-zero number I'd be at least a bit surprised.

You can have all the security training in the world, but every time IT or HR or whoever legitimately reaches out to an employee, especially when it's not based on something initiated by the employee, the company is training exactly the opposite behavior Krebs is suggesting. Hanging up and calling back will likely at minimum annoy the caller and inconvenience the employee. Is the company culture accepting of that, or even better are company policies and systems designed to avoid such a scenario? If a C-suite person calls you asking for some information and you hang up and call them back, are they going to congratulate you on how diligently you are following your security training?

You're not wrong that the Krebs advice would help prevent most phishing, but I'd argue it has to be an idea you design your company around, not just a matter of security training. Otherwise you're putting the burden on employees to compensate for an insecure company, often at their own cost.
Who the hell was talking about the marginal profits when the clear alternative is ‘occasional catastrophe’.

What a ghoulish, inhumane, MBA (but i repeat myself) perspective.
There's other significant issues, such as concrete.

Read Bill Gates' "how to avoid a climate disaster" for a complete rundown, with receipts.