skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solar and Wind vary on both a diurnal and seasonal basis. It is one thing for the grid to have enough storage.

I was looking at this paper

https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/powerplants/capitalcost...

where solar is quoted at $1300/kwh and adding a battery that can store a little more than an hour of output brings that to around $1800/kwh. I see people quoting that one like it is gospel but that doesn’t seem to be enough storage. If you assume the system needs 12 hours of storage to get through the night you need 10 of those batteries and the cost is getting into the $3500/kwh range.

They quote the AP-1000 and NuScale around $6000. Solar looks cheaper now and maybe it is in the tropics but in the Northeast you are going to get a lot less power in the winter than summer so to keep the lights on all year you might need two of those solar installations (though I think the battery stays the same) and now you are getting around $5000/kwh so that gap with nuclear is getting smaller.

That estimate may be a bit pessimistic, but renewable advocates right now sound like the people who were saying nuclear would be “too cheap to meter.”

Now if you have excess capacity in the summer you could in principle use it for something but that is not trivial. If you use something half he year you basically double the capital cost. Do you hire workers to do nothing in the winter or do you lay them off? “Free” excess solar energy might be “free as in puppy” not “free as in beer.”
Keep reading. That was after directly participating in at least two crypto companies himself, Efforce and Equi. So he's been both victim and perpetrator.

The fact that he had already been willingly involved in and personally endorsed multiple Crypto schemes makes it even more plausible that people would believe other scams claiming to have his endorsement.

After getting scammed out of $70k and losing a lawsuit about having his likeness used without his permission, perhaps he should be more reluctant and picky about personally endorsing other crypto scams.

When you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
I absolutely have an axe to grind against consumer harm incurred by lazy and/or negligent technology companies (all companies, really, just scoping for this convo). Guilty as charged. When good behavior is not forthcoming, spin up regulators and the legal framework.

EDIT: I do not believe this is an unreasonable position to take. Years ago, I interviewed with the CTO of 23andme and almost took an infra job there (comp too low) ~12 years ago. I am a customer. I have mostly good things to say about them as an org. That is not a free pass when you do harm. Do better, it is not hard.
There's probably nothing that I hate in programming more than having full access to the file system. Any time I write a program that has to delete a file I just make it move into a trash folder instead just in case I mess up somewhere and accidentally delete the entire file system.
> For example, they might make the Accept All Cookies button prominent, colorful and appealing, while burying the Customize Settings option in small text or a less noticeable location. This design choice can be misleading, effectively nudging users towards accepting all cookies without considering the consequences.

Kind of burying the lede there that this isn't just annoying, it's illegal.
It doesn't seem ridiculous to me.
You can check against HIBP on login the same as you check on password reset. If password is compromised on HIBP, force a 2FA and a password reset

Ideally MFA should be based on the accounts / sessions risk and not mandatory
I recently saw my niece with her six month old child. Obviously the baby doesn't have a phone yet, but they seemed fascinated by their mum's obvious interest in her phone.
I've heard a ton about HTMX/Alpine, but nothing about Turbo/Stimulus yet. Will have to look into it.
Yes, I did know that, was just a general caution that before you go twisting knobs, be sure you understand what they do and are prepared to diagnose yourself any issues that result.

"Ask me how I know"
> So modern versions of e.g. the Bible could not be in Standard Ebooks.

There are modern translations that are permissively licensed and are of surprisingly high quality. See the NET Bible as a prime example. It's also the only one I know of with good translation notes that can be had for free.
Use Fire Toolbox to disable all the bloatware. Buy a license for Fully Kiosk to convert it into many different practical things.

Personally, I use Amazon Fire Tablets as audio drivers around my house for Snapcast. Each tablet has USB, wifi, 3.5mm Aux, and a built in battery, which make them great for this task, especially on sale at $45 a tablet
Two at around 40Y: has worked out well. Partly because I was/am more grown up and financially secure than I would have been earlier. It does mean that I'm back at uni while both my kids will be starting at theirs... B^>

(Edit: for full disclosure I am not a "helicopter parent" or hugely sentimental, and in Blueprint, Robert Plomin licenses benign neglect to get good outcomes!)
Substack is better, imho, if you can serialize it . Monthly subs is recurring revenue, compared to one-time book purchases.
The wildest part of this article is the part about the successor scam, which was touted by masked, pseudonymous representatives - and people willingly gave them their money! Boggles the mind.

There’s also an equally wild article linked in a sidebar about one of the victims who got scammed out of $30k, but then kept sending good money after bad trying to recoup her losses.
> in the US ... people here hardly read

This is not true at all. The empirical evidence shows the exact opposite: Americans tend to read far more than almost all other countries.

This "we Americans are a bunch of ignorant louts who don't read" narrative is a distressingly persistent misconception illustrating self-hating biases popular with certain segments of Americans. Fortunately, it is entirely false.

What does the data say?

* According to the chart on page 14 of [4], the US is ranked about #8 or #9 in the world (of 200+ countries) in terms of "books published per capita."

* The US "title production per capita," or "books published per 1 million inhabitants," is about 1,000 -- not the very highest in the entire world, but pretty high.[3]

* Over 25% of all books sold in the entire world are sold in the United States, which has about 4% of the world's population. [1]

* More books are published in the US than in any other country but China, which has about 4x the population of the US. [1][2]

* In 2016, the US was by far the largest book publishing market in the world by market value, larger even than China. [4]

[1] https://wordsrated.com/global-book-sales-statistics/

[2] https://www.statista.com/chart/12358/which-countries-produce...

[3] https://internationalpublishers.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/... , page 17.

[4] https://masterenedicion.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BookM...
It could be that most of the passengers are Japanese so it's largely cultural (I understand some of the passengers might be non-Japanese).

I can't imagine people in my country following these 3 critical instructions: don't panic, orderly exit, and don't take carry-on items.
Even today mouth pipettes are still used occasionally (in embryology, for example).
I've known plenty of human-run companies that have collapsed.

We clearly need more data.
Not gonna bother responding to the turfer comments in this thread but they're roughly analogous to saying "because you use facebook it is therefore your fault when facebook leaks your data because you voluntarily shared that data with facebook."

Legally, logically, and ethically this is an absurd argument on its face.
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Agreed! Any service with mandatory 2FA isn't one I want to use.
I'm just fine with passwords so far.
The acronym, that is.
OpenBSD has limits.conf and acct(8). Again, RTFM.
Many types of books have ancillary results for the author than can be lucrative. For example, writing a solid academic book can get you a job or more pay in an academic setting, or a top job in a technical position.
Why? They don't make these deals directly, their agent or business managers do due diligence. And all the DD that's required is "Will my client be paid in full?"

None of these celeb endorsements include claims of financial solvency or guaranteed returns.
Although NIM has a pretty good embedded story, it's not entirely out of the question to port it.
> Are people actually using 3rd party hosted CDN scripts for anything even remotely serious in production?

No, and I think that point makes a very important distinction here: Projects like this might be great for small / personal projects, but they fall apart fast in any sort of large-scale project. The reason people think React is bloated is because they've never worked on a project large enough to take advantage of what React offers.
Had twins last year, am 45, they make EVERYTHING worth it.

https://youtu.be/x2mS3uDqQL4?si=gRFn6XL9aMTg4sFA

The way to think about it is simply this: Who do you want at your funeral and what do you want them to remember you for?
23&Me is not subject to HIPAA, unless they are acting as a health care provider, or business associate (not sure but I don't think they are in this context).

Most people misunderstand HIPAA, and think it applies in situations it doesn't. This is not a situation where HIPAA applies.

HIPAA is NOT a privacy law. It's a law that mandates portability of medical data, some details of which overlap with privacy.
Show HN: Walinkapp.com – Double Tap to Chat on WhatsApp with Copied Numbers
I've been working on something I think you'll find pretty handy. It's pretty straightforward: whenever you copy a phone number from recent calls or anywhere on Internet and need to send a quick message on WhatsApp, just head over to

https://www.walinkapp.com

and double tap on the button. That's it – you'll be directed straight into a WhatsApp chat with that number, no need to add it to your contacts first.

I'm aware there are similar tools available, but I noticed they often lack optimal user experience. That's where my website, walinkapp.com, stands out. It's designed for speed and simplicity, allowing you to start a WhatsApp chat with just two taps or clicks - making it the fastest option out there.

You can also
- Generate WhatsApp links easily
- Create downloadable QR codes
- Send formatted WhatsApp messages

Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback.
Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis
I am inclined to think that this exact same scenario featuring a plane full of not Japanese, but, say, Dutch, English, or Americans, would not have resulted in a full evacuation in 18 minutes; possibly with casualties. Obeying commands as a group in a high-pressure situation? That takes a lifetime of living in a culture where this is normal. A group of military passengers (any nationality) would probably have worked just as well.

(Not to say that Japanese culture is better, just that it happens to be very beneficial in this scenario.)
If – read by Sir Michael Caine [video]
What was their latest production you paid money to see?
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If done correctly it works. correctly being the operative word.
Haha I do, are you with CMU's Yang Jun Cheng? Can't really think of anybody else working on this that would know these names.
I clearly articulated in my comment that this is one choice we could make for the distance between the Insert point and the Hand pointer. That distance is a parameter whose space can be experimentally tested.

Without my proposal, there is no control over the parameter: the distance is an average, and so about half the cache size. When Hand is on the far right, a new item inserted at that time will stay in the cache long. When the Hand is far left, it may get evicted almost immediately.

The only thing important for performance is a good hit ratio, however it is achieved. An evicted item is one that cannot be hit. Early eviction is not ipso facto good for performance; only with regard to some access patterns where early eviction of the right items improves retention of other items that yield good hits.
There's nothing built in now, but a common technique would be to make the image e.g. ~10px larger in each direction, and then choose a random crop every other second.

It should be really easy to build a FrameOS app that does this. Add one node at the start of the render loop to increase the image accordingly, and one at the end to crop it back down. I was planning to use a similar technique to display smooth scrolling animations/slideshows, but it can definitely be used to prevent burnin.
this is a really well written docs page
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In the case of Rails, I lose type safety but also get a huge boost of productivity in other with extremely well-documented features: database migrations, testing, mailers, queues/jobs, file storage, rich text, authentication helpers (especially v7), etc. Re: spaghetti: I'm not sure my Rails setup is less neat and tidy than the React, Redux, Saga, GraphQL Typescript codebase of my 9-5 TBH. Could be just me though.

EDIT: typo
To borrow your analogy, though, Facebook (23andMe) didn’t leak anyone’s data. That’s the issue with your position.

Also, the turfer comment makes you seem like a conspiracy theorist. There’s nothing untoward or off about the replies you’ve received so far that is off enough to suggest astroturfing.
Disable JavaScript works to block most problems or reader mode.
I've been reading about 5-10 books a year for the last 10 years or so, after having not read anything of substance (outside of school) for some years prior to that.

Since my reading time is limited, I want to read books that are really good. I have to say, quite frankly, that many books just aren't that amazing (and I'm including both traditional and self-published in this). That makes me reluctant to pick up a book unless it's from an author I already know, comes with a really strong recommendation, or just has a superb opening. If a book doesn't have at least one of those three (or ideally two), I'm just not going to pick it up.

This is all anecdata, but my point is the demand side is more complicated. Even given the competition, the vast availability of both traditionally and self-published books doesn't guarantee that quality goes up, at least in aggregate.
$1k/month doesn't just necessarily mean the financing on the car. When I look at the monthly requirements for the car, I include insurance in that number. If the place I'm living requires a parking fee, I include that number. I don't include gas/maintenance as those are variable, so I'm only including the fixed costs fees.

You can also get higher payments with money down if you have no to low credit ratings. Been there, done that. You play the game using the online calculators that dealers provide on how much your payment can change based on credit score and down payment, and the credit score will dramatically change compared to the down payment.
AppData is the Windows equivalent to Linux home directory dotfiles.

> Ideally applications should only have access to their own directories

This happens for Windows Store apps, which are sandboxed similarly to mobile phone apps.
With a keylogger, you lose passwords you typed in since the keylogger was installed, but that is rarely all of your passwords.
2FA was enabled, just not mandatory.
Yes! I just used an editor from there who gave some phenomenal feedback for a very reasonable price
I don't know who you're referring to "from Rochester", but the excitement from last summer around LK-99 came from two South Korean researchers. Which, mind you, all turned out to be faulty interpretation of their data.

To be clear, I don't mean to cast unnecessary shade on these current results, I'm just saying the sane and prudent thing to do, especially given LK-99's recent history, is to hold off on any champagne popping, and that appropriate restraint shouldn't be characterized as "false modesty".
The lowest temperature a freezer can achieve is typically around -23 degrees Celsius (-9 degrees Fahrenheit).
> With React/Vue/etc you need at least something like Babel

VueJS works with just a CDN link and a script tag. Nothing serious actually uses this approach, and they stopped using it for examples, but it still works.
Removing kids from your life does tend to improve things. Less hassle, and all.
Yep. Anyone who uses 23andMe has already compromised their personal information. It was never going to end well for them.
I don't know if France is currently better or worse than the UK on privacy, but the French government seems equally interested in increasing surveillance.
The chocolate is useful though. So personally I preface it. But I don't know how to accurately communicate "Hey, the chocolate is tasty, but doesn't cure cancer, can we stop saying it does" without it being interpreted as "chocolate is horrible and will summoning a random number of parrots who will drop paperclips on you until you die." I'm weirded out by how hard this is to communicate.

If the chocolate didn't have such utility I'd fully agree with you, but that's the only slight disagreement I have. I definitely agree it is unethical to be selling the chocolate in this way, or overselling in really any way. Likewise I think it is unethical to deny its tastiness and over exaggerate your dislike for it.
Absolutely agree - that's why I said "so the real difference is you've conveniently pre-loaded all your sensitive information in one go for the bad actor."
> Frankly, if I publish open sources now, I can't take care of them again. Because there will be no excitement. I say this because I know myself very well.

> When I bring my work to a certain stage, I would like to deliver it to a team that can claim it. However, I want to see how much I can improve my work alone.
>if you run code on your computer, it can run code on your computer

For the love of God will someone please just make a web browser that isn't a web browser and it's just a cross platform multimedia sandbox with a couple of APIs in it, and you can run programs written in rust or something on it, and it doesn't let the programs touch your file system unless it has explicit permission? That would solve 99% of the application use cases. That's literally everything I want. I want the safety of the browser, outside the hell that is web development.
AppData is specifically where apps store data, and there are and were plenty of legitimate examples where you want some code to access data from an app in there.

The entire point is that it is not meant to be a secure location, was never meant to be a secure location, has no intended security features etc. If you store your passwords in a text file on the desktop, that is also insecure but you would be wrong to say Notepad has a security vulnerability. Similarly, if you stored your passwords in the Windows registry unencrypted, that would also be insecure, but does not demonstrate a flaw in the Windows registry.

If you want to be able to leave your secrets in the open without them being compromised, then you encrypt them.

Browser password managers are not secure. That is not Window's fault.
I am surprised there is on mention of rubber bulbs. If the main concern is safety, as the beginning of the article seems to imply, the rubber bulb would have been enough of a solution. The micropipette solves mostly all the other concerns: speed, repeatability, avoidance of contamination, ease of use one-handed. A great invention for sure. Why would they even mouth pipette if they can use a rubber bulb? Is it that the rubber bulb was somehow invented later? Did you encounter anything about that when researching this topic?
thanks, this was not clear from the article.

I wonder how easy it is to have the location (at least country) of a user from the breached data, to use bots in the appropriate country and evade "login from a new location" protections. I guess easy enough if whole accounts have leaked.
In 2023 an org of their size and with such sensitive data needs to give a bit more of a fuck about who is accessing users' accounts. Mass leakage of potentially reused credentials is an ancient concept at this point and should have been on their radar as an attack to protect their users' data against. Basically, they shouldn't have just been relying on passwords to authenticate users. Many orgs of their size and with much less sensitive information than the literal genetic data of their users do a lot better.
I bet they don't get updated, ever.
The article says it can just use the Pi’s HDMI output as a screen, so you could presumably drive that at 60FPS if you want. I imagine the HDMI output is useful for debugging even if you ultimately intend to use an e-ink display.
Counterexample
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549?wprov=s...

Edit: interestingly, the evacuation took about the same time in total, but in a river, not on land.
It’s not lazy or negligent on the part of the website when they offer additional security and users choose not to use it. 23andMe asks multiple times for users to set up 2FA and apps like 1Password and Bitwarden recognize that it’s available and prompt users to set it up.
These PCBs (and I suppose more specifically whatever parts are on them) seem to be made of literal garbage — and yet they cost a mint. Had a wall oven with an “error code” - diagnosis: replace board, part cost $400, internet says there has been no revision of the board so the new board will likely fail the same way, and only the part would be warranted so the other $500 in labor cost to fix it could be incurred again next month or next year. Ended up throwing away the whole double oven.

Meanwhile I know a PCB and a few boring ICs and resistors actually cost like $30 max so I know that we are being scammed.