skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wouldn't recommend borrowing for it.

Not necessarily. Just run the numbers.

I installed rooftop solar during low interest rates. I could have paid cash but my loan payment is less than the power bill it replaced.
I like it. Good texture and a fun origin story.
Fun fact: antipope is not an anti-catholic name, according to the site (https://www.antipope.org/charlie/old/antipope.html)

"What sitename do you want?" he asked.

I'd been posting on usenet under the alias "AutoPope -- pontifications by email". (If you don't know what the long word means, go look it up.) So I said, "How about autopope.uucp?"

"Okay." Hic. Burp.

And the next day, I was the somewhat bemused owner of a site called antipope.uucp
Disagree. ComicChat was a great product, and a great way to introduce non-tech people to IRC.
You've misread the article, and Gruber more broadly.

Gruber has been saying for years that Apple should have acted more strategically, that, in particular, they should have allowed apps to link out to their own website for payment processing, in order to avoid the DMA.

Here's his article from last week: https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/coming_to_grips_with_appl...

> Apple should have been looking for ways to lessen regulatory and legislative pressure over the past few years, and in today’s climate that’s more true than ever. But instead, their stance has seemingly been “Bring it on.” Confrontational, not conciliatory, conceding not an inch. Rather than take a sure win with most of what they could want, Apple is seemingly hell-bent on trying to keep everything. To win in chess all you need is to capture your opponent’s king. Apple seemingly wants to capture every last piece on the board — even while playing in a tournament where the referees (regulators) are known to look askance at blatant poor sportsmanship (greed).

Note the closing paragraph of today's article:

> The delicious irony in Apple’s not knowing if these massive, complicated proposals will be deemed DMA-compliant is that their dealings with the European Commission sound exactly like App Store developers’ dealings with Apple. Do all the work to build it first, and only then find out if it passes muster with largely inscrutable rules interpreted by faceless bureaucrats.
Outside of VR, there's some other future uses (with the big assumption it will be easy & cheap to implement some years in the future) that are interesting if you have a floor that can direct people/objects.

Somewhere of course like a Disney theme park or an airport where you choose your destination and you're shuttled to your gate with your luggage following.

Or perhaps a secure room/floor in a building that if you don't have authorization to you simply cannot walk into without being pushed out of it.

If we go dystopian, imagine a business suspects you of shoplifting and simply doesn't let you leave, or shuttles you to security automatically.
I imagine the asbestos is sealed inside? Don't chew the fridge.

Also old fridges inefficiency mostly comes from two things. The seals on the door, which you can replace, and 2nd the compressors are less efficient. Why are they less efficient? Mostly because they use thicker oil which causes more drag. However, that's partly why they last so long. Oil in modern compressors looks like water.
I'm not sure "exposed" is the right verb here.

This issue has been known for quite some time.

The problem is that no one is doing anything about it...
From reading the article, it seems the author assumed that disk encryption is on by default, which is not the case in Windows. You have to, for example, open the "Manage BitLocker" control panel applet to set up disk encryption.
Spotify exists because artists agree to it. Before spotify the music industry was doing horribly, spotify largely is responsible for saving the entire industry.

> while filling their own pockets nicely

Spotify loses money every year. Sure it has a market cap in the billions, but if it never makes money that wont last long.
OK, here's another analogy:

Imagine if every time you installed software on your Mac, they charged a $0.50 fee to the software maker. Even for a shell script.

How is that ANY different?

They're only doing this with iPhone/iPad because they can, because by the time they realized it could be a profitable business for Mac the expectations with their customers had already been established, and they had too much competition.

As soon as they had a competitive edge with iPhone, they resorted to rent seeking.
Technology and (In)Humanity
To be honest, as italian, we’re such piece of shit, some people in a entity supporting refugee were terrorists, and out government suspended funding because there is no retaliation in being strong with the weakest, like we did anything when saw those piece of shit Americans killing civilians in Iraq, because it’s harder to have a soul with piece of shit that have power
Sick of dangerous city traffic? Remove left turns (2021)
> Most likely you have a genre preference

My genre preference is exactly the genre Baldur's Gate 3 is, I've played dozens of CRPGs and that's why I'm so convinced it's not anything special.

I'm also fairly convinced that the hype for it is largely from people who aren't familiar with the genre and think games are still only FPS games. Hopefully they will discover that there exists a wealth of other CRPGs out there for them to experience. Better ones.
sounds like a 16-bit int overflow?
Agreed, it wouldn't be insider trading - just fraud - with potential horrible unintended but predictable consequences; of which the person(s) buying the stock around that orchestrated event happens would be complicit in.

There's probably far easier and more lucrative ways for clever criminals to execute on though.
Your post is excellent. Context really changes everything!

As a whole though I would say large orgs generally bring stability and stability can be boring to our brains that have evolved from thousands of years of living hand-to-mouth.
I think ax is now 2 generations behind, if we count 6e and 7, and a pretty nice upgrade over ac.

The nice thing about the newer 2 is 6ghz, for people in highly congested areas. I live on an acre and pick up tons of 2.4ghz, some 5ghz. I can't imagine how bad it would be in a modern tract home development, or worse, a large apartment complex.
That's much too high an estimate, at least for the United States:

How much electricity is lost in electricity transmission and distribution in the United States?

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that annual electricity transmission and distribution (T&D) losses averaged about 5% of the electricity transmitted and distributed in the United States in 2018 through 2022.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=105&t=3
So I can use a password as my first factor and another password as my second factor?
I wouldn't be surprised if they drive something like a Honda Goldwing - the undisputed Big Chungus of the motorcycle world, clocking in at up to 800 pounds [1].

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Gold_Wing
"random internet busybody" official, yes. If you want to talk to HN people about it, you can email them, I'm just pointing out their description of the situation is already quite plain and public.
Wondering why there aren't more companies taking a more activist role like (former) Mozilla or maybe Signal? There's an abundance of successful mid-sized companies that have deep OS roots and would have the brainpower to step up. Dependence on key players shouldn't be a hindrance, Mozilla had that always. Epic would be a bad example, they took the fight for their own exploitative empire.
In motion the friction coefficient of rubber on asphalt (0.67) is not that far off from steel on steel (0.57) according to the internet [0]. That orders of magnitude difference in braking distance is more a result of train cars weighing 30-80t.

This comment does feel like talking to ChatGPT though, with the detailed clarifications the discussion didn't really require.

[0] https://www.aplusphysics.com/courses/honors/dynamics/images/...
> The IDF says it is not morally sound to investigate the incidents

Yes, sorry, of course, I miswrote that. (I edited the comment.)

> They have released their own data (without allowing third party investigation) on friendly fire for invasions after Oct 7, which they claim is 20% of casualties. They have not released evidence and refuse investigation of the casualties resulting from the "immense quantity" of "friendly fire" incidents on Oct 7.

Again, I can understand that - since people have been insisting on propping up insane conspiracy theories that Hamas didn't actually do anything bad on October 7th. Ultimately I think it's a mistake, and not one that will be relevant anyway - investigations can happen one way or another. (Again, free press, free speech and all that.)
Shouldn’t tire life be very similar assuming you accelerate and brake equally hard like in an ICE car? A Model 3 doesn’t weigh that much more than a Camry…
I can easily buy either

1. The chip works perfectly but it's documented badly/ wrongly, e.g. doesn't spell out the whole strategy needed for a periodic key renewal or does so confusingly - driver is written to match the docs or at least the best understanding of these docs, and unfortunately this defect arises after 10 hours but devs with the actual docs have never tested for that long.

2. The chip has a bug, it's not possible to use it correctly per se. Every few hours, just reset it and start over, thus a "good" driver should do resets when quiescent. e.g. After 2 hours, if you did no work for 60 seconds, reset it, after 4 hours make that 15 seconds, after 6 hours, 5 seconds, after 7 hours immediately on quiescence, and after 8 hours just reset immediately rather than wait for the bug.

[Edited to fix numerous typographical errors]
It's a good shape. The "sauce trough" thing is a little questionable though; having eaten a couple boxes, I think it would make more sense to have it on the inside surface, more sauce retained that way.
right github pages? like litterly here's an index.html I posted for free
https://github.com/joshchernoff/svelte_bare_bones/blob/web/d...

And here it is running live.
https://joshchernoff.github.io/svelte_bare_bones/
Everyone thinks Apple Google and Microsoft should play fair. Mozilla just expresses this desire loudly
Automatically trusting any cert raises the bar for attackers from passive snooping to MITM. On a home LAN/wifi, MITM is pretty much as likely as passive listening. At the very least you need TOFU (trust-on-first-use) for any kind of real attack prevention.
I got hit by this, we also noticed it being used with a second “feature” that exposed us a bit more than it should have.

Basically a requirement for this attack is to know the email of the user you want to reset, but, there is a hidden email address that is tied to your gitlab userid (a number incrementing from 1).

Since its a safe bet that ID 1 or 2 is an admin: thats a good target.

the email is something like 1-user@mail.noreply.<gitlabhost>.

Really bad, seemed like it was automated.

2FA saved us here.
I'm not convinced by the examples that you have listed (a conspicuously empty list at that), and examples are only evidence by analogy anyway. The reactivity of hydrogen is not proof of the reactivity of helium.
I would be more interested in a "what I like about it" sentence over a preemptively pacifying "to each their own" tbh. The tool's own description doesn't compare against exiftool either, besides that it sounds like it does only images and not, e.g., documents

> Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata.
Are you guys tripping?
There are plenty of unsigned artists being paid directly by spotify. It makes no sense to complain that spotify is paying labels when the artists are the ones that signed up for that deal.
Agree, along with the fact that there've been 65K rapes just since Roe was overturned. I don't know what number I was expecting but certainly nothing that high. That's horrifying.
Kagi Summarizer key points of the second video:

- WatchOS 9 beta introduces sleep stage tracking to the Apple Watch using a machine learning algorithm trained on polysomnography and Apple Watch heart rate and movement data.

- The author tested the Apple Watch's sleep tracking against an EEG headband over 18 nights and found it agreed very well, especially for deep sleep tracking.

- The Apple Watch detected 89% of deep sleep, 84% of light sleep, and 67% of REM sleep correctly compared to the EEG device.

- Overall sleep stage tracking accuracy was better than the 37 other devices the author has tested.

- The Apple Watch also detected sleep cycles and awake periods reasonably well compared to the EEG.

- Falling asleep and waking up times mostly differed by less than 10 minutes from the EEG.

- Future improvements could include sleep coaching based on metrics.

- Results may vary for other populations not well represented in the algorithm's training data.

- The author used a beta version and polysomnography would provide better validation.

- The Apple Watch's performance makes it a current leader for sleep and heart rate tracking accuracy.
At some point, we're going to have to learn to eat the cost of HVDC transmission. You can move GWs of power with conductors of reasonable size and complexity (both underground and undersea), if you can get the right of way, and there are no technical limitations on length besides line loss.

https://www.nationalgrid.com/sites/default/files/documents/1...

https://europacable.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Introducti...
Something is wrong with your unit. Try to update the firmware: https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-firmware-updates/20604

See also: https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-daily-driven-in-profession... and https://forums.puri.sm/t/i-am-getting-17h-of-battery-time-on...

Bluetooth audio, maps work for me. NoScript make browsing quite fast.
There are products that compete with spotify. The app store has none.
There's an ongoing insider trading case where an executive at Company A learned that Company A by might acquired. He then bought call options on his closest competitor assuming that the news of Company A being acquired would cause the value of the competitor to also increase.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2023/12/17/sec-defeats-summa...
The indie web
Reaction: The last set of Russians recruited by the CIA all stopped reporting via their @spies.ru.cia.gov Office 365 accounts - oddly at almost the same time - so it looks like we need to recruit another batch...
Mozilla should be the last entity talking about playing at all, they do nothing and expect everything.

In the same timeframe from 2016, brave created a browser, which actually protects user privacy by blocking all trackers and ads, developed new privacy enhancing measures like cookie isolation, localhost access permission, and much more.

Then they created an independent search engine, with ai integrated using their own index and hardware, and now they have their own ai service which respects privacy.

In the same time Mozilla falls really short, yes they released Firefox quantum, but nothing major other than that, and of course nothing that actually protects users privacy because they are afraid of google.

And that's how they lost their passionate users, while also not realizing that the average user doesn't care since chrome just works and causes no major problems for them
> It’s a lot of slight accelerations and decelerations

Isn't that always true? If I pay attention to it, I notice a lot of tiny movements of my head, as I just sit here typing.

"You don't have acceleration" is just talking about the big accelerations from 0 mph to roughly 3 mph to 0 mph, not implying that you're completely motionless as if frozen in ice.
The problem is that right now, Israelis feel like anything other than obliterating Gaza is a fantasy that cannot work. But see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39152982
There are only three ways it can end, two involve both sides showing some trust, and the third involves war crimes. Given the carnage to both sides means trusting each other is unlikely, that takes us down to the "fantasy" of trusting a third party, or war crimes. Take your pick.
Marginalia Search v2024.01.0 – Run it as a self-hostable search engine
I think I'd count that as a bug and a design error.

The bug is accepting an array when it should only take a scalar.

The design error is that the endpoint should not be taking email addresses at all. It should take account IDs.

Even if a system uses email addresses as account IDs they are conceptually not the same and the code should not muddle them.

Keep them separate and then even if you get an "allows an array where it should have been a scalar" bug the result should be either just the first account in the array gets a reset email or all the accounts in the array that are existing accounts get reset emails for their accounts.
One possibility - if you do regen braking as in one pedal driving, there is a lot less coasting to stop, and I imagine that is less stressful on the tires.
Now you’re gonna have terms like that on your next ticket.

And you’ll get charged a fee for the privilege.
IANAL and it depends by jurisdiction but I don't you can stick whatever you want in those sort of shrink-wrap contracts. And according to this site[1] there's at least one (Finland) where surprising terms specifically are not allowed.

[1] https://www.dlapiperintelligence.com/goingglobal/intellectua...
I shared some info then deleted it. Best not poke that sleeping dog.
I'm self-employed now, but back in the office I'd use a mix of different tricks:

- Aggressively filter incoming email. Leave most group conversations.

- Turn off instant messaging, check it every hour or so.

- Aggressively avoid meetings. Leave meetings when you no longer need to be there.

- Work from home more. Work from quiet parts of the office.
Eight Countries Pausing UNRWA Funding. Claims Workers Involved in Oct 7 Attack
If Standard Oil could make that same point, it would still be orthogonal to the issue of one company's undue control over commerce in dozens of unrelated fields.
I dreaming but man would I like a solar system that I could roll out like a 20 x 60 carpet in my backyard and connect it to a system to provide power or charge a battery pack. Otherwise fixed installation is to costly for me.
Canonical tried pretty hard.

The reality is that you're going to fight with the two richest companies on Earth, on a field where commercial relationships with OEMs (phone manufacturers) matter more than anything else - and OEMs like to talk with big, reliable companies, not scrappy startups. Your competitors have a 15/20-year head-start, in a field where such head-starts are practically unsurmountable. Your OS will be judged on its first few releases, which means you better have it on a beefy flagship phone; except no decent OEM is going to bet their flagship on your unproven OS, so they're going to give you a second- or third-rate model instead, which will make your OS feel slow and glitchy. Oh, and you can't make any real money from the whole effort, because otherwise they will go Android.
> A few decades later and the technological gap was so large that the US seemed to be from an alien world compared to the Soviet Union.

You shouldn't believe everything you read.
In fact they're both just means of generating the same essential force: rotational resistance on the axle.
https://archive.is/qUMBA
Why You Should Never Retire
It is on by default in Windows 11 Home if you go through the normal setup experience completely according to the Microsoft documentation. As part of the setup, you sign in to a Microsoft account, which then creates a TPM protector.

"Unlike a standard BitLocker implementation, device encryption is enabled automatically so that the device is always protected... When the administrator uses a Microsoft account to sign in, the clear key is removed, a recovery key is uploaded to the online Microsoft account, and a TPM protector is created. Should a device require the recovery key, the user is guided to use an alternate device and navigate to a recovery key access URL to retrieve the recovery key by using their Microsoft account credentials."

From https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/operating...

This is also how it's reported in the press:

"In fact, the mechanisms to do exactly that are already in place. Windows 11 Home and Windows 11 Pro both support automatic device encryption, with the Home version a more streamlined experience. You just have to sign into the machine with a Microsoft account, which nearly all people do during setup."

From https://www.pcworld.com/article/624593/is-your-windows-11-pc...

My main point is just that if you skip this, like a lot of privacy conscious people do, you might end up inadvertently not having encryption fully enabled.
In my country (the UK), the penalties for driving dangerously due to being too slow are usually greater than the penalties for speeding. Being unreasonably slow could make other drivers more likely to overtake and have a head-on collision, or hit other cars when re-merging back onto their side.

Single-track country roads are the most problematic, though, as everyone has a different idea of what the safe speed is - and the limit is as high as 60 miles/hour! I wouldn't be against simply reducing the national speed limit for roads without markings to 30, so that at least then people could be reasonably expected to drive at that speed, rather than at an unspecified speed anywhere up to 60.
Itv filmed Palestinian civilians waving a white flag being shot and killed by Israel this week.

"No intention to kill civilians" says this "soldier". Just pure lies.
Has someone done that? Created a virtual etf of pelosi’s stocks?
A signed 16-bit integer rolls over after 32767, which is a little after 9 hours and 6 minutes (if we're tracking seconds). An unsigned 16-bit integer rolls over at 18:12 and change. Neither fits the observed 11 hour mark.
The Bayeux Tapestry
Tyre damage is almost entirely caused by tyres slipping.

EV's could easily have a 'make tyres last longer' mode which prevented tyres slipping entirely by reducing power in all situations where the tyres are likely to slip.

The car has accelerometers in, and knows fairly precisely the downforce on every wheel, and has a reasonably good guess at the road surface, so should be able to make a pretty good guess at what point tyre slippage is likely to happen, and can then keep torque slightly below that the vast majority of the time.

As a bonus, if you can do this perfectly, you actually get more acceleration, since the coefficient of static friction is higher than the coefficient of dynamic friction for nearly all surfaces.
People were making products like acorn flour and breads from that for millennia. Even in societies that never cultivated wheat.
https://archive.ph/RsacS