skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Our agriculture and food production are major contributors to the damage

Yes - deadly serious.

I had to travel to the US midwest recently, after not having been there for a long time. As I drove out of the city the first impression of the farmlands was pleasant. But after an hour of highway-speed driving past nothing but bare fields (out of growing season) with scant rows of trees, we became a bit horrified — there was absolutely zero habitat for anything but the artificial plantings, when they were in season. And they would be coated with pesticides to ensure that there were no insects, or anything that ate them, or that ate the things that ate the insects, etc.. And indeed, returning to the airport in daytime, there was remarkably little wildlife.

It was a seriously disturbing experience, which I did not expect.

>>Feeding 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary limits may be achievable

Yikes. The damage being done by 7 billion right now, adding 20-30% more is kind of unthinkable, even setting aside the agricultural damage. And you're absolutely right that we need to adopt a plant-based diet.

The conversion away from meat does seem much more doable, since only 12% of Americans eat 50% of the beef. Moreover, that's men between 50-66 years old, so if younger generations don't acquire that habit, we'll get a 50% reduction just by that sub-population aging out.

[0] https://phys.org/news/2023-08-mere-americans-nation-beef-sig...
I found out I was the maintainer of the Nixpkgs derivation for 86Box when I got pinged to update it for 4.0 last week. Apparently, what happened was, I created and merged a derivation for it while working on something that it would've been useful for, but then got sidetracked and never actually wound up using it for that purpose.

Not that that's a bad thing, or anything. 86Box remains a useful tool as well as an entertaining toy and it's certainly nice to see more work being done on it. It did, however, remind me of how chronically bad I am at staying focused on one thing.
Yeah, but if you can order identical guacamole with one pinch of salt for $5 and guacamole with two pinches of salt for $20 without feeling a little screwed you probably need some guac rechab :-)
A Fridge that was solar power aware could absolutely freeze a big chunk of water or another material that was more energy dense with diverted solar power and then use it as cooling through the night when solar wasn't available. The same is true of water heaters (for which we have diverters already available) for storing hot water and a bunch of other devices like ceramic heaters.

A lot of these appliances exist already for shifting power use to the sunny hours based on electricity, but right now all the various parts don't really work together as the home grid is just dumb AC and people orchestrate it all with Home assistant where possible.
It's unlikely to go offline. They've got the funding to keep it open, they're just waiting on federal acceptance of their continuation plans.
https://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs36/36407/36407p.pdf

Legit extra-stuffy-noses? Sure. But that isn't a Brazil type situation. A Brazil type situation is where you get mistakenly caught in the gears of a no-win bureaucracy just trying to survive.

Not a super high risk IMO, but definitely not ZERO risk. The DEA hasn't always been known to give the benefit of the doubt, or ask questions before shooting.
https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/st-matthew-island/

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_capacity#Planetary_Bo...
Planned to go offline, but probably will keep getting extended. This would be an incomprehensible decision.
> he has no civic sense

What about the civic sense of proving that great electric cars can be made at a profit, space launch costs can be cut 90%, and Starlink can enable communications by people who live under oppression?

Doesn't actually doing things that matter to the human race matter far more than saying comforting words and avoiding giving offense?
IMO most of this is because most security training I've seen is abysmal. It's usually a "check the box" exercise for some sort of compliance acronym. And, because whatever compliance frameworks usually mandate hitting lots of different areas, it basically becomes too much information that people don't really process.

That's why I really like the "Hang up, look up, call back" mantra: it's so simple. It shouldn't be a part of "security training". If corporations care about security, it should be a mantra that corporate leaders begin all company-wide meetings with. It's basically teaching people to be suspicious of any inbound requests, because in this day and age those are difficult to authenticate.

In other words, skip all the rest of "security training". Only focus on "hang up, look up, call back". Essentially all the rest of security training (things like keeping machines up to date, etc.) should be handled by automated policies anyway. And while I agree TOTP is and should be on its way out, the "hang up, look up, call back" mantra is important for requests beyond just things like securing credentials.
Even more Google layoffs: This time it’s “significant” cuts to recruiting
In there it says Lua uses 'for' for looping over integer ranges and object ranges. They didn't like that so they broke it up so that for is for integer ranges and each is for object ranges.

That seems strange to me. A range is a range so why have different ways to iterate over ranges based on what type of range it is?
I introduced ArgoCD to a project with 20 teams and the acceptance from developers was very high.

What they had befor was a terraform based pipeline (i would argue similiar to a deploy.sh) and they struggled with those scripts hard.

ArgoCD with dex is easily integrated in your auth system and you don't need to write some scripts to handle issues like login errors, timeouts etc.

I have seen plenty of bash scripts which do exactly what they should do with 0 error handling and it was always a pain in the ass to analyse and fix those scripts.
Perhaps note that only 12% of Americans eat 50% of the beef. That group is men between 50-66 years old.

The remaining half is spread among the other 88%. Convince that 12%, or let them age out, and half the problem goes away.

[0] https://phys.org/news/2023-08-mere-americans-nation-beef-sig...

Edit: Fixed link — Thx myshpa! (still looks truncated, but seems to work now)
It depends on your local climate. I assume the desert southwest in the US uses far more energy in the summer, for instance.
I've purchased the Similasan products before when I was dealing with dry eye/eye strain issues, and they are bunk. Mostly saline and some homeopathic BS. That said saline "helped" and they usually labeled it as "relief" not a cure or treatment so I knew it wasn't anything more at best than a symptom reliever. That said I never bought them again as they didn't do anything more than plain saline drops.
This is awesome. Jacob, your work on Dask Kubernetes has been immensely helpful to me. The world of distributed Python grows stronger!
Paging Christopher Nolan.
Interesting, didn't realize Steam was banning AI art. That sounds like a very difficult policy to enforce too. If it's manually approved, it can be difficult, though there are signs like characters keeping their hands in their pockets. If it's AI checked, that sounds like using thieves to catch the thief.
I run one too. International, customers in Europe, us, south America.
It's been running for almost 8 years, so now it's practically 'finished' - basically does the job for the niche it's targeting.

But I'm tired of being solo, so I'm merging with other people that are more on the sales part. One of them also has a profitable company (not saaa - involves people transportation) and needs a tech to make everything smoother (insurances contacts etc)

We'll see how it goes because we come from VERY different perspectives and need to bend our habits to be able to work together

Having a profitable SaaS is awesome (I can work on it something like 2 days a month if I want to, just managing specific invoices) but you just get nuts working from home alone after a while. It was fun during COVID-19, can't say it is anymore
> Apple introduced a bug

It seems pretty clear that the article isn't bashing OpenBSD in any way whatsoever.
It's not outside the realm of possibility that life on earth might have been seeded from other alien life either intentionally, or by viruses or bacteria hitching a ride on meteorites.
Aside from pure curiosity and or research purposes...
Is there any everyday/practical apps/uses for something like this, for the avg joe?
Building something for 500 that would normally be 10k, already has me intruiged.
I like to think HN is skilled in spotting fake upvotes which means I'd not have the "perverse incentive to fake upvotes for money."
And John Madden (Shakespeare in Love).
Some startup, please make a product that uses AI to identify these obviously fake emails.

Hello A, This is B. I was trying to reach out in regards to your [payroll system] being out of sync, which we need synced for Open Enrollment, but i wasn’t able to get ahold of you. Please let me know if you have a minute. Thanks

You can also just visit https://retool.okta.com.[oauthv2.app]/authorize-client/xxx and I can double check on my end if it went through. Thanks in advance and have a good night A.
None of this supports the argument you made? It's just a DOJ report talking about the smurfing-to-lab pipeline, which was obviously very real, until we made it annoying enough to get Sudafed that smurfing became irrelevant and production shifted offshore.

No, this is an instance where I won't hedge, because I think my cards in this hand are strong enough: the risk of what you said earlier, of DEA getting bored and looking for marginal cases of Sudafed acquisitions in the logs to trigger enforcement work, is zero. Absent some important other high-signal source to correlate with, that tactic is mathematically guaranteed not to work.
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Hah! Still, that does rather shoot the original boast in the head, eh?

'We're renewable, as long as we do emergency measures (and override safety rules) to keep our creaking old nuke plants online because we can't get enough renewable energy.'
They want a monopoly on it?
I think Fastly offers some similar products: https://www.fastly.com/edge-cloud-network/

But Cloudflare offers a lot of features/services. What specifically are you trying to find alternatives for?
They very well may still get it
I love how we're still stuck not being able to buy Sudafed normally though. :(
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From the referenced paper:

“Other examples of scientifically proven ineffective OTC medications include guaifenesin as an expectorant, dextromethorphan as a cough suppressant, and chlorpheniramine for cold symptoms.”
The point is that a credit report is probably a poor signal of risk when it comes to the kinds of things most employers care about when considering hiring someone.

If you have evidence to support the idea that a credit report actually is a good signal here, then by all means, present it. If not, then the default assumption should be that it's not useful, or at the very least not equitable. We shouldn't be adding qualifications to things based on guesswork.

And in general, we very often legally require companies assume higher risk in various things (including hiring) in the name of anti-discrimination (for one thing). We consider this to be a benefit to society. In this specific case, I want the person who has bad credit to be able to obtain steady employment (and on decent terms; not just one out of the fewer jobs they'd have to take because the others disqualified them based on their credit) because that's pretty much the only way they'll be able to improve their credit. They'll be able to become more financially stable, perhaps be able to buy a home. All of this is a benefit to the stability of society.

The thing that generally pisses me off about attitudes like yours is that it advocates for a system where when you do one thing wrong, you get further restricted in ways where you're guaranteed to do more wrong things, and every step you take -- even steps taken in good faith, in seemingly the right direction -- makes it harder to dig yourself out from under the mess.

I've found that the people with these attitudes are usually those who have either a) never experienced much in the way of hardship, or b) are one of the rare cases who managed to dig themselves out, despite all the adversity, and now have a chip on their shoulder that makes them advocate for continuing to make it hard for everyone else.
I haven’t noticed any major difference, but I don’t use it a ton. My biggest gripe is that the search on the mobile app is terrible (mostly because it doesn’t let me sort by date), but I think that predates the acquisition.
I hope you don’t have a voting ring. I had about 2000 fake users on a portal for developers years ago that didn’t require email verification. People weren’t too surprised that my best blog posts rose to the top but they did wonder how my worst ones did. I lost all their passwords in a hard drive crash.

I will confess I have an autoposter script for HN but I think an autovoter (upvotes anything from Cornell) or autoflagger (flag anything from Quilette… but what happened to them?) script is strictly off limits, even if it wasn’t backed by an army of sock puppets, since a very small number of auto voters or flaggers could have a powerful impact on the site. (Now that I think of it my agent is named after a sock puppet but it uses just one account, which is mine.)

I think your prices are out of line as it is not as focused and qualified of an audience as you would get with contextual or behavioral targeting.
Yeah, it definitely depends on the country. For western Europe in general the reason to stop at a highway gas station is because you're looking to go-go-go. If you're willing to do a 10-15 minute detour off the highway there's almost always both cheaper gas, and a much more pleasant place to stop.

With that in mind I think we've been optimizing the charging infrastructure in Europe for something that worked well in North America.

Since you are going to need a bit of a longer stop I'd think it would be equally if not more important to ensure that there's fast chargers at every restaurant & attraction that's a short drive from the highway, rather than blindly copying what works for gasoline powered vehicles.

Re #1: I didn't mean to do short pit stops because you need to, but, and particularly with kids of a certain age, getting them out of the car to walk around for 5 minutes every hour might work much better than a similar 15 minute break every 3 hours, etc.

Which is still a big advantage of combustion, since fueling itself takes 1-2 minutes you can more easily pick which stop is the rarer longer stop.
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Dude, that report was written AFTER the laws which required it to be moved behind the counter, people to take IDs, etc. 2 years after.

Smurfing was the response to that.

They used those databases to identify it and target folks. That's the whole point.
Texas throwing a tantrum and refusing to have their power grid under federal regulation will become increasingly applicable to the topic since the changes we're causing to our planet and its climate will put even more strain on their weak and inflexible power grid. People in texas are already dying from the heat in the summer and freezing to death in the winter and it's only going to get worse.
You mean, by walking into the drug store and asking for it?
Phenylephrine is a popular topical and suppository treatment for hemorrhoids.
> You're attributing unverifiable negative intentions to the Defold developers.

I'm attributing motives to them based on their own admission—that they were misrepresenting their project. There's nothing unverifiable about it. They posted on HN and tweeted about it—their own words. It's not reaching on my part. (Why are you, like other commenters here, so attached to the plausible deniability angle? It's not available anymore. It's gone.)

> they also have an incentive to keep the words "open source" in a sufficiently prominent position on their website to ensure that search engines list their page in the results for the search term "open source game engine"

Uh...? Giving an accounting of the incentives isn't exculpatory.

Thieves have an incentive to take things that aren't theirs. Liars have an incentive to tell people things that aren't true. Cheaters have an incentive to have sex with someone who isn't their partner. We already know _why_ they want to do it. That wasn't ever in dispute.

> This, the last HN thread about this, and other similar negative feedback create an incentive to avoid the term "Open Source"

This is as baffling of a remark as the earlier one.

By "avoid the term" you mean "avoid misrepresenting the license under which they're really making the source code available".

Prosecuting murder is a form of negative feedback that discourages people from carrying out murder. This is known. It's not an unfortunate consequence. It's rather the whole point.
O(1) for that guy that just fired everyone during a zoom meeting.
You were fine making a list of 8 and here you punked out? Please give your reaction to each one, why they aren’t necessary or aren’t real applications and why Web3 is useless for them. Each one goes into depth for why Web3 matters if you click it.

Voting can be done with Web 1.0 and in fact is done with StackExchange sites. But how do you know someone didnt go into the database and change the votes and results? What good are elections if you can’t trust them?
After initially thinking it was a good idea, I've come to disagree pretty strongly with the idea of phish baiting employees. Telling employees not to click suspicious links is fine, but taking a step further to constantly "testing" them feels like it's placing an unfair burden on the employee. As this attack makes clear, well done targeted phishing can be pretty effective and hard for every employee to detect (and you need every employee to detect it).

Company security should be based on the assumption that someone will click a phishing link and make that not a catastrophic event rather than trying to make employees worried to ever click on anything. And has been pointed out, that seems a likely result of that sort of testing. If I get put in a penalty box for clicking on fake links from HR or IT, I'm probably going to stop clicking on real ones as well, which doesn't seem like a desirable outcome.
It says "human activities have breached safe levels for six [out of 9] of these boundaries and are pushing the world outside a “safe operating space” If we are over a majority of the set points but there is no inhabitable area to point to, then maybe the set points are wrong.
That's nice that you can succeed without social media, as I absolutely hate fb/x/whatever and that yo can do that without trying to pitch your every article in them.
Dextromethorphan is one of the other “scientifically proven ineffective” OTC products mentioned by the authors.

Once when I had a quite severe cough I did some (highly motivated) research and my conclusion was that there is no such thing as an effective cough suppressant. At least, none that isn’t also a consciousness suppressant.
Funny thing — heating a hot water tank is still storing energy in a battery.

Charging your car is still putting energy in a battery.

And the article mentions that devices sometimes have a built in battery.

The article is talks about getting rid of batteries but really is talking about maximizing energy usage during times of cheaper energy… which is the “smart grid” stuff OP is throwing shade at.

I don’t disagree with the idea of maximizing your energy usage during times of cheap energy availability but obviously most people don’t do it because the trade off is higher scheduling complexity. What if you set a timer for your washing machine but the sun doesn’t come out — now you just have no fresh clothes..

And plus some batteries are only possible at scale — like pumped water storage. Setting up that complex distribution infrastructure allows society to invest in more efficient forms of energy storage and distribute its costs.
Ive used them for many years. They're awesome
The world is a big place. With billions of people
I re-read it again. It says that exactly nowhere. In fact, the one specific case it did talk about, the causality was reversed: the investigation started with a couple that was recruiting other people to buy.
By literally going to the aisle with the decongestants, taking a pack, and paying for it like every other thing I would be buying. Like every other OTC drug.

Without having to give ID, find a pharmacist, etc. I remember those days. They're long gone, obviously.
I gave you the knowledge to do this research yourself, but since you are unwilling to do so, here is an example of the performance possible using MIDI instruments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvaChiq6gf0

As it is clear that you intend to keep shifting the goalposts to make a point that can't be made, I will withdraw from further participation in this thread.
Essentially we just need 1) edge cache to cache response from our website / api 2) and firewall rules
Strongly disagree. Apple’s obsession with making things like scroll bars and window chrome harder to see has been a usability nightmare for me over the last few releases.

Frequently these days, with lots of overlapping windows I try to click the top of a window only to find out I’ve clicked on part of the window behind.

Yes having everything one colour is lovely and ‘clean’ but horrible to use
You went off the rails at the end. 30hz to 60hz is huge in terms of smoothness and 120hz is much the same. It doesn't take special eyesight to notice.
Google (and most other mid-large tech companies) leverage a ton of resume sorting, list building, auto-templatized outreach, etc.

Not sure the gap here is that large, but certainly recruiters have the tools to be WAY more efficient than they were in the past. Still their scaling is limited by ability to efficiently turn hiring manager requests and nuance into effective searches for tools to help build those lists.
What you are talking about is the high end of SEO or SMO. I’d say the companies that play this game the best are the ones that blog consistently about a technical topic, I’d say Pinecone is a good example. You can’t say that one post is going to get consistent results but if you are posting 50 blog posts that’s something different.

At that point it is not just getting on HN you are going to be happy to get hits on other platforms too.
What's your definition of immoral? and by whose standard? Outside of a religious context, morality can be very much subjective.
Caesars casino paid ransom after suffering cyberattack
This game is fantastic, it's alarming to realise how dependent we are on context to identify aromas. You can try one of the scents and be entirely unable to identify it, then someone tells you what it is and suddenly it seems blindingly obvious!
Hi, I'm sorry you felt that way. "Shifting blame to Google" is absolutely not our intention, and if you have any recommendations on how to make the blog post more clear, please do let me know. (We're happy to change it so it reads less like that.)

I do agree that we should start using hardware keys (which we started last week).

The goal of this blog post was to make clear to others that Google Authenticator (through the default onboarding flow) syncs MFA codes to the cloud. This is unexpected (hence the title, "When MFA isn't MFA"), and something we think more people should be aware of.
The vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions isn't military, it's for ordinary consumer uses like heating, cooling, driving, and farming meat. No matter what the form of government, lots of people will object very strongly if the solution to climate change is not having central heating, cars, hot water, or beef for dinner.