skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when the checkout terminal asks you to round up your change for a donation to help kids, and the cashier is looking at you, nobody wants to feel like the jerk that says no.

I find it helps to remember that the corporation is not in it to help needy children, but to launder your extra pennies into being able to claim charitable donations on behalf of the company and consequently reduce their tax bill.

When you look at it as corporate greed, feeling like a jerk disappears.
Give me one scifi fan on the bench or jury and ill pay nothing. After 30ish years of media sharing culture, most of those in power are sympathetic to the issue, which is why Canada turns a blind eye.
it's worth noting that percent of instructions is a bad metric since modern CPUs have lots of extra compute, so adding simple integer instructions that aren't in the critical path will often not affect the wall time at all.
I read it in an old HN comment by pcwalton. Algolia to the rescue! Actually it's even worse, he said it was 19% of the binary size:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5691684

The Rust compiler does this. Even so, 19% of the binary size in rustc is adjusting reference counts.

I am not exaggerating this. One-fifth of the code in the binary is sitting there wasted adjusting reference counts. This is much of the reason we're moving to tracing garbage collection.

It's interesting how many strategies Rust tried before settling on linear types.
Yeah, I think that’s a more relevant question to the whole plagiarism thing. It may be that it’s just easier to show little sentences in the Reddit post.
> What genocide is Canada committing?

My educated guess based on "as well as freezing bank accounts just for attending a peaceful protest" in the same breath is vaccine mandates.

Poster is a nutjob. The "peaceful protest" was a Russian dark money backed attempt to disrupt Canadian life, to sow discord and chaos. I mean, they were successful with Brexit and Trump so they took a stab at Canada but they didn't manage to tear Canada apart. On the surface, they were protesting vaccine mandates but that was just the drivel for the redneck fodder. Canadian authorities haven't seen the like yet so they let it grow up to a point where they actually managed to disrupt Canadian economy seriously by occupying a bridge leading to a border crossing. So the Prime Minister declared a state of emergency, froze their bank accounts and sent them home. No one died. These nutjobs forget this rather important point: Canadian authorities peacefully managed to end this.
I guess I just never "got" why ordinary people want to use meal delivery. Aside from things that have typically been delivered, like pizza and Chinese, it just seems odd.

Who wants to eat fast food that's been sitting for a half an hour? Even sit down food. Most of it doesn't travel well (soggy fries or bread), which is one area where pizza or Americanized Chinese takeout doesn't suffer.

And then the cost. A McDonalds meal is $10 as it is so you're going to add a couple more bucks for the convenience of not having to get it, plus a tip to the delivery person?

Sure, I can understand the spending $20 to not have to take a lunch or to stay later at work and eating dinner there. But for the most part it's ridiculous. I mean there's even a delivery order station at the 7-11. Who's getting a Slurpee delivered?

The local neighborhood Facebook group is full of drivers bitching about not enough jobs to go around, poor tipping, not making enough on their routes... and then you have the people ordering food and complaining about slow service, stolen, incorrect, or missing orders, and whatever else can go wrong.
In a superdeterministic universe, that would be probably true.
Hello, and thank you for your feedback!

I appreciate your concerns, and we've thoroughly examined BountySource and learned valuable lessons from its challenges.

Our approach involves collaborating with corporations that already leverage open source projects for their enterprise software. By having these companies donate funds to critical issues, we anticipate larger sums being contributed to open source causes than might occur otherwise.

While we recognize that we don't have solutions for every challenge in this space, we firmly believe in the ongoing involvement of open source repository maintainers in our donation process. We are committed to innovation and plan to adapt and improve with the help of the community using our platform. We encourage the community to actively participate in finding solutions for these challenges, as we believe it can lead to a sustainable model that brings significant value in the long run.

Thank you again, and we welcome any additional feedback you may have.
Of course, bumping transmit power on the AP does little to help poor little mobiles that can't transmit back.

Sure, you get 5 bars of signal strength indicated, but your TCP performance is still garbage.
I don’t make charity decisions on my doorstep nor at a point-of-sale.

Instead, we plan our giving, update the plan annually, and I have no problem saying no to the adhoc requests for me to pay for a “company’s” contribution.
>I have no issues saying no to all of these, at the expense of being called a jerk.

It's less about being called a jerk, and more about the fact that these are repeated games you're playing with the people who now expect these tips.

Someone calling you a jerk is minor; someone acting on the fact they think you're a jerk is another. Best case you get poor service, worst case, who knows...
That includes citing your work that is unpublished (there are valid ways to cite unpublished work), and building on it which would be fine in many cases.
Trying to see a doctor in Maine? Why your wait could be months
At least google is finally admitting that incognito mode is useless for privacy online. It protects local data only, they might as well call it "porn mode" as the only real value is to avoid having history and cookies stored along side your everyday browsing history.
Ip address and user agent + whatever unique information about the browser you can pull via Java script (fonts, timezone, screen size/shape….)
The problem is that once threading gets involved they have to be interlocked adjustments and that's very slow due to all the cache coherency traffic. Refcounts are also branches that may or may not be well predicted. And you're filling up icache, which is valuable.
Perhaps their system is fine but this is a way to filter out people who are likely to try breeching the Uni security so they know who to watch? Or there's a ctf challenge for local security agencies...
Presumably you would apply the same sanitizer at login time to whatever password the user enters. If the input is the same and the transform is the same then the output will be the same.

Hopefully you don't actually have to do any of this because your backend wasn't written by monkeys on typewriters.
I have a question for anyone in an R&D/Bell Labs-esque place - are there any good recommendations for similar places to work, particularly outside the US? "Old" Google apparently was, but going by what ex-googlers have been saying it hasn't been the case for a long while now.
It's pretty common to force usernames to be valid C or Pascal identifiers (only letters digits and underscores, first character can't be a digit). So why not extend the reasoning to passwords. /s
Swiss startup unveils the first hydrogen VTOL jet
Never-before-seen octopuses discovered in deep sea off Costa Rica
Firefox's private browsing disclaimer is more honest/easy to understand as well:

> Private window: Firefox clears your search and browsing history when you close all private windows. This doesn’t make you anonymous.
I'm not familiar with US accounting laws, but why not just move R&D teams to operational roles, and have them do the very same work there?
They usually ask when they don't know. Also, they take responsibility of the errors they make because their lack of skill (or skipping the instructions).

This is similar to suing Samsung because their microwave doesn't say that you must add water when cooking rice. People should be aware and responsible of their own ignorance and limitations.
Me too! The more obscure, the better. At least in the circles I run in, I can always count on someone asking me about what's on my torso.
I never give that shit to my kids because I know it’s made in some uninspected Chinese factory
> whats the difference between merch logos and regular toy brand for the kid?

On top of that, some children's shows are clearly tailored to push toys and all kinds of things, hoping to create a feedback loop of demand for swag-adjacent gear.
What are the industries employing software developers in the Tampa area? I assume there's some work in the insurance industry but not so much software industry work?
How about a little accountability? It's 100% the driver's fault:

>The video itself shows the delivery person handing her the pizza, which text across the screen clarifies was a $20 pie. “I just want to say, it’s a nice house for a $5 tip,” the man replies as he walks away.

“Thank you,” Purciful replied as the delivery person chimed in again saying, “F.. you.”

Imagine having that level of entitlement.
> Also, it is 2022 and the future is wireless.

Gotta admit, got me to check the calendar. Though can confirm 2024 is more wireless than 2022.
My bad, I was indeed able to re-activate my account by fiddling with the user database. I was mislead by the doc stating the superuser account can't be deactivated, where clearly it can :)

I don't remember reading about the end of the free version but that's probably bad memory on my part. Good to know about the forum and one time payment too.

My apologies and thanks to the filerun dev, I was wrong and ungrateful.
Just a thought, based on a loose synthesis:

I think the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson offers a lens to look at why "anarchism" is betrayed. There is something about being human that creates hierarchies. There is also something about being human that takes these hierarchies and pushes them to any given horizon. My idea being that any given utilitarian hierarchy, over time, becomes a differentiation to create class divisions. I think this lens can be used to resolve the focus of Graeber's criticism of "anarchism" and what it means to remove inequality from a human system.

My own thesis is that when you remove any given inequality from a human system, a power vacuum is created; some other inequality expands to take the place of the removal. This happens when an inequality is reduced, as well. I am unclear as to why and the mechanisms of how.

This does not mean that inequality should not be addressed. It simply means that cognition of the effect of removing or reducing the inequality needs to occur and any action taken be adjusted to address it. The only system, so far, that seems to be dynamic enough to handle this is "small-d" democracy in its various forms. These approaches are not without their criticisms.
Nope, this is a very common thought these days.
Many of my friends are watching media from the 90's to early 2010s, and I've been doing the same.

I can only guess why:

- More focus on content instead of message

- Less political restriction on content compared to today

And this includes friends across the political spectrum.
Nobody has experience in a field until they worked in it for some time. You'll be fine.
Russian Thinkers (1948)
Hedgehogs and foxes; among the best essays in world history.
That's a good observation, but the part where this breaks down is that these evangelists are clearly not Cristian.
I only tip on traditionally tipped service.

Barber, tattoo artist, barista, bartender, waitstaff, pizza delivery... I'm sure there are more but that's my usual.

I'm not tipping the people at fast food or the other places that have started 'asking' for tips
That was a pleasant little read.
The catch with t-shirts is they MUST be made of high-quality material. I've been handed so many promotional t-shirts where it's obvious they went with the lowest-cost supplier and they just feel awful on against my skin. Straight to the Goodwill with those.
I'm from the US and I love piracy too. Who doesn't love getting free stuff?
Buster beagle sells a variant that goes up to 50 mL but once you get beyond that I think the price point is going to significantly increase. You need more pressure and capacity that an off the shelf air compressor might be able to give, for instance. So unless the availability of COTS stuff changes I think there is somewhat of a ceiling of capacity you can get at this price point
It's leadership depending on the benevolence of outside factors, which is based on their strategic interests and what they want from you.

Doesn't work if you're just a land with resources to plunder and they have no interests in seeing you thrive, but the contrary.

Works even less if you have other ideas about your governance, trade, and allies that suit you, to what powerful countries taking an interest in your area want you to have because it suits them.

But if you don't have resources for them to covet, your existence fits a purpose in their plans, and you don't get too independent but always keep their preferences in mind, yeah, you can then apply leadership to make things better.

It's just leadership in much easier circumstances than elsewhere.
Your password should not go anywhere near a database.

It should be salted and hashed a few hundred thousand times and that compared to the salted, hashed version stored on file.

If you can't even manage that, you have no business writing software that can store credentials. And I mean that. Software security starts with acknowledging that data is toxic and will bankrupt you if you refuse to respect it.
Now with Joplin Server it’s getting better (compared to WebDAV), in terms of syncing speed
Looking here https://marclou.com/, it seems a somewhat classic entrepreneur selling to entrepreneur kind of projects.

Not that it could not work for other products, it sounds sensible but I've seen so many of those that learned to be careful.
Thanks Hakan. I know about HALAC as I follow both HydrogenAudio and encode.ru ( with a different user name I used 20 years ago ). I thought about posting HALIC on doom9 as well but I dont think they many would be interested there.

Anyway keep up the good work. And hopefully some day it gets open sourced.
Or anywhere else except a hash function for that matter?
There is a mounting problem in Canada with CBC and public funds funding productions we can never see or are delayed/pay walled.

Movies that are 100% paid by public money are not available to see anywhere, after a short theater release. Even if you are willing to pay for it.

I fear the result is that the public funding will dry up completely, shutting down an entire industry. That would be a big cultural loss, just because they manage the funds so badly. Fund projects people actually want to watch. Fund more diverse works. And make the damned product available to the population that paid for it.
In the UK, there are three (or four, depending on how you count them) types of device associated with smart meters.

Electricity meters are designed to last, and contain a radio that lets them communicate use to the distributor. What type of radio depends on where in the country you are.

The Gas meter is battery powered, and tries to send data to the electricity meter every half hour, over Zigbee. This works better for some than for others.

Then there's the in-home display, you get one with the meter but it's not required for reporting -- it's purely a display. At some point between the meter being installed and us moving in the one that goes with our house went walkabout, so we don't have one. Except we actually sort-of have two: our supplier makes a small box (with an ESP32 in it) that sends them near-realtime data (and also, happily, completes the otherwise-unreliable Zigbee mesh because the junk I have in the garage blocks the signal) and before that arrived I got a Hildebrand Glow, which talks MQTT to my Home Assistant.

The electricity meter receives the current price if it's a normal non-dynamic price, and the Glow can read that, but can also cope with Octopus Agile with its half-hourly pricing because it's able to fetch that data over the Internet.

The raw metering data isn't quite available to everyone in open formats, but there are procedures that one may go through to be able to receive data and at least one company then makes that data available to the consumer. It's not as fine-grained as the data available on the local Zigbee mesh, which is why those same companies also sell hardware that'll join said mesh. Unfortunately the mesh isn't open for use by arbitrary hardware.

You can also get random monitoring devices that sit on the consumer side of the meter and give you whatever capabilities you buy, and it sounds like the article is an example of one of those, rather than of a smart meter. The author would probably be better off with an actual smart meter, if that's an option.
Nobody will accept self-driving cars that are as dangerous as a teenage driver.
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Conference booths are usually heavy on sweet and light on salty.

If you are organizing a booth, consider salty or savory options (popcorn!).
can you elaborate on this? Or link something that does? My intuition is that whatever gets sent over the wire is effectively the password. Not sure how the server could validate some rolling hash of the password (based on like a timestamp or something) without having to store the pre-image(i.e. the raw password).
The WAF hypothesis still holds if you assume the password change page is governed by the same WAF. The WAF would reject any new password it finds offensive, and the "rule" about not using certain SQL keywords just matches people's fuzzy understanding of why these passwords are rejected. It was probably even true, a couple WAF rule updates ago.
Maybe you should update the text on your front page:

> Why not use Android file transfer?

> Android File Transfer is Google's tool for transferring files from your Android to your desktop.

> The tool has not been updated in a long time and feels dated.

> Also, it is 2022 and the future is wireless.

It's not 2022 anymore, and Google just released an update to their Nearby share called Quick share. Or rather, they're adopting Samsung's Quick share.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/google-is-adding-samsungs-q...
Closest thing I found with some manual searching was a blog that included an article on Kaprekar and a separate article on Exploratorium. The person seemed to be involved at some level so it suggested it was feasible, rather than providing evidence.

Maybe archive.org would have something.

Possibly hallucinaited (sic).
I've heard people being told 'sanitize your inputs!' too many times. The advice should be 'escape your outputs!'.
The SuperH-3, part 1: Introduction (2019)
The idea has merit.
Aside from the demo itself, I'm more interested in the business opportunity.

You could partner with grocery stores.
The user would have an account, not tied to any one particular grocer.
It would track all of your grocery purchases, and like your demo, give you nutrient insights as well as recipes and maybe coupons and money-saving tips.
Lots of stuff you could do with that.
WAF always sees unhashed passwords -- passwords are sent TLS encrypted in a POST body (unhashed) and are hashed by the server software -- and that's regardless of the password policy.
I just want honest up-front pricing, where the advertised price is exactly what you end up paying. If only we had the technology for that.
Previously discussed, a tiny bit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39050923
iPod also won because of an exclusive deal on harddrives made by Toshiba and others with the iPod mini. Not Jony Ive design or the wheel interface.
Synthesizing the Pinnacle of Pattern Recognition in GPT-3 and GPT-4
My understanding is that Google is tracking you across your browser sessions, even when you switch to incognito.

That’s problematic because Google (and others with such broad internet scope) tracks you regardless of whether you are interacting with Google services or not.
If your part is small enough you can do small scale (several hundreds to low 1000s) of your units in house for a machine so cheap money wise to build that it’s better than outsourcing even without the QC concerns. Also even prototyping sometimes gets old on the 3D printer when you have a 5 hour per you need to make 10-20 of that you could do in an hour with the molding machine.

Though IMO faster prototyping is not a good reason for getting a molding machine, it’s just a nice bonus. There are plenty of shops in the USA you can send your STL file to and they will print a bunch of them for a reasonable price. The real reason that you want a molding machine is fast small scale production runs because oftentimes what you produce on a 3D printer is either not professional looking enough to sell (the lines look very hobbyist) or FDM cannot achieve your product requirements long term (outdoor plastic enclosures, for example, need waterproofing with FDM but not with molded parts)
> Incognito mode is supposed to not send your regular cookies so sites shouldn't be able to track you unless they use dubious stealthy tricks rather than the explicit well-known and documented method (i.e. a cookie). While I know that it's possible, I think it's morally despicable and I expect better from established (and ostensibly honorable) companies like Google.

Yeah, that's what it does. Instead you get a new set of tracking cookies, because to Google and any other random website you look like a new browser they haven't seen before. By design, they have no idea that you're using "incognito mode".

With that in mind, what do you think Google and others should do differently?
This looks really cool. Thanks for sharing! I love that you can test it for free. Let's see where this will go :)
A license covers "1 Mac OS device" - what about PC?

Also, what happens once 1 year is up? Any upgrade discounts? Is old version still downloadable?

Anyway, good job, I was in need of something like this recently and used LocalSend https://github.com/localsend/localsend , any notable differences between it and you app?
Counterpoint - however pathetic it may be, it's better that they publicly owned up to their lack of confidence in this way. The question is, what do we do about it once we see something like that?
Someone is clearly not an experienced drunk (joke, joke)
> The construction was finished in 2015, which ensured pretty good thermal isolation for winters

I made this mistake
I'm from Germany and see it every time in incognito
I am not using Joplin’s cloud offering but hosting it on my own. But I think their cloud pricing is fair (2.40 euro/month for yearly payment, for the basic plan). I’d pay for that
>the solar updraft tower also offers some potential for energy storage

The pleasing part I'd hoped to read.

I'm not intimate with the physics (in general) but am aware that overheating of traditional solar panels can be an issue affecting their efficiency. There are some hybrid variations of PVs (PVTs) that look to remove heat from the panels to increase their efficiency and then use the heat for hot water requirements. Maybe there's an interesting hybrid solution in that where the panels are doing their regular generation at the time of use, and the heat can be used at night time.
Many people in positions of great responsibility don't do what they should. What do we do about that?
„people call“ - who calls it that? You, the author? A broad community? This feels like YouTube style clickbait
It's quite obvious...

"If you don’t call free, memory usage will increase over time, but technically, it’s not a leak."