skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China has given massive subsidies for EV and PV production. That is strong evidence of "caring". You can argue that they're just doing it to capture markets, but given that the Chinese vehicle market is about 3X as large as the American vehicle market, that argument is hard to make.

China also cares very strongly about local pollution levels. The air in Beijing over the last 15 years has gotten dramatically better.
> The number of physical positions you can be in in space is uncountably infinite

You don't know that. Spacetime may be quantized.

Actually, doesn't the notion of Planck length / Planck time already suggest that shorter distances have no physical meaning?
No doubt CFS existed before covid. But the question is: does the flu trigger CFS in people not previously suffering from the condition?
> Yet last I tried on Google having a login/password is mandatory

I just tried and all I need to provide is the email ID and passkey. You need to use the "Try another way" option.

If implemented correctly user shouldn't even need to provide the user ID at all.
Whenever you have “there is complex business logic that determines how SQL clauses are chained together” the Django ORM is invaluable.
Aleph 1 turns up when you try to (very) formally deal with probability theory, specifically when dealing with probability measures over the reals. This is sort of useful for physics for example when trying to be very careful about operators like position and momentum in quantum mechanics but it isn't really central. Its sort of nice to know you can do this stuff "properly" but physicists don't care much.
Absolutely. Here's the most important part: I seem to have really bad apnea in REM, which is late in the sleep cycle and extremely important. Sometimes I would literally start awake and I was aware (a few times, not always) that I had stopped breathing.

The new machines, I have a Res Med Airsense 11 (had a 10 before that) is really good. I use a nose cushion and not a face mask. The latter did not work for me.
Because crypto is mostly speculative with no actual legitimate usecase, and really (except for speculative NFT wielding crypto bros) nobody outside of the cryptosphere (i.e. normal people) uses it.

There are only downsides with crypto and that is incredibly risky for Stripe as they don't want to be a facilitator of scams, NSFW payments, ransomware and other illicit activity that crypto is associated with.

It is simply not worth the risk.
What is a "pretty url"?
Databases? Just use files instead
I think they meant that they were an outlier from the rest of the south
foo_organization_id_idx is the correct index, in my case using foo_organization_at_idx is 100x, 1000x faster.

In all my queries, the correct index is in the where clause, not the order by clause: When I removed the use of the wrong index, (ORDER BY update_at + range '0 day' forces the use of the correct index), the query used less resources and was much faster.

Of course, there may be cases where the index in the order by clause is the best one to use, but in my use this never happened.
Cue Microsoft AutoDev.
Sites that store plain-text passwords and don’t move to storing hashes won’t move to passkeys either.
I assumed that to mean the layout work is limited to a single thread. You need to know what content made it onto page one before you can start working on page two, right?
Cost of construction is not the problem with housing policy. In point of fact housing has been getting cheaper to build steadily over the decades. An all-steel (!!) home just intuitively seems ridiculous to launch into a market trying to compete with OSB and drywall.

We need places to put the homes and rules that allow for denser homes. We're doing just fine on "cheap homes".
Don't overlook that language is fundamental to the process of discovery of the "truth" here, as is culture. For example (of culture), if someone was to suggest we clean up our language while discussing the matter, the notion would be rejected absolutely.
They may not fix it, but my understanding is they are relying on undocumented features and that's always a crap shoot. My company does low-level language stuff and we've been burned like this, too. We decided not to trade performance for compatibility in the last decade or two.

EDIT: maybe not undocumented, but undefined behavior?
i share a similar story but today we don't seem to have any alternatives. it is a shame really but i wonder if there is something else that does not involve freenom today.
Ask HN: Why no browser-based E2E encryption?
I created a toy web app locally that does single-use e2e encryption. It uses browser subtle crypto (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypto).

Essentially the idea is that you land on the page and an asymmetric keypair is generated for you. You send a link to someone else that contains the public key in the URL. When they go to that link, they can encrypt a payload using your public key (envelope encryption, which I believe is needed for arbitrary payload sizes). They send you the encrypted payload back and you can decrypt in your existing browser session.

So if it's not obvious by now, I'm clearly no cryptography expert, but I know enough to be horrifyingly dangerous :). Can anyone here help me understand where this model breaks down, assuming someone very smart about this stuff were to do the implementation? Thank you!
New Outlook has actually been decent for me. It started out pretty bad and slowly got better. The big decider will be if they continue that path or stop early in the next two years, not whether or not the app is exactly the old one. E.g. COM add-ins are out but cross platform (what will be browser/phone/web and Windows desktop) compatible extensions will be pushed instead. Some will miss the COM addins after the end of the decade but most will be really glad it's not just a legacy windows desktop that has the addin they need at that point.
I can tell you that I worked at a large company that was moving pieces like identity and secrets management to SaaS or open source solutions years after rolling their own and failing to keep up. I'm well versed in built vs buy vs opensource.

For the record, Hashicorp vault was 10x the cost of our fully managed Identity system for a million+ unique logins a month.
Did you notice that your comment is flagged and mine isn’t? That should tell you something. Up to you if you want to fix your behaviour though.
Zenv: Forth for the ZX Spectrum
Stubborn Visionaries and Pigheaded Fools
Oh man, what a trip to see Dewdney mentioned.

I have a copy of The Magic Machine on my shelf which I (unintentionally) stole from my university library at the end of my senior year. His work was pretty influential on me, inspiring me to keep exploring programming at a time when my day to day work in the subject was often painfully boring.
Just for my router
ADC sensitivity is influenced by quite a few things, some of them pretty unintuitive (e.g., some interference from unwanted signals in the RF passband can be a good thing if it provides a source of dithering that allows weaker signals to cross bit boundaries).

Bit depth is surprisingly far down the list in overall importance. To understand why, look up "FFT processing gain." Consider that sigma-delta converters are 1-bit ADCs, yet the S-D topology is used for many applications that require wide dynamic range.
I would love a KaiOS phone (or any feature phone) but I want a great camera. It’s a struggle to find something.
permits aren't too expensive that's true but the surveyors and engineers are.

the waiting can be very expensive for individuals as they have to live somewhere. for developers it's more about the indirect cost of having a lot of capital tied up during that time.

then there's environmental assessments, some places have to deal with archaeological assessments too. developers need to pay people to deal with the permitting processes. lawyers are often involved throughout as well.

architects and engineers need to be involved, often repeatedly, if you're modifying an off-the-shelf design too.

as with buying a house, there are a lot of expenses that very few people consider, and are hard to predict even if they do.
It should be noted however that this shortage is happening because the water suppliers are refusing to pump up more water than is sustainable. This is rather different from the free-for-all depicted in this article, and is in fact what I mean by managing the ground water.
I completely agree. Regarding discussions.apple.com, I had a laugh a couple of years ago when they took it down for a few days and when it came up all previous URLs were a 404. Wow.

Here's the other kicker about Apple documentation: it absolutely sucks. There are exceptions to this, but in general, it is incomplete and completely lacks examples. The man pages for a ton of stuff are just horrible.

It shows that Apple doesn't really care much about developers.
Yeah, ecosystems are fragile, they're equilibria. Of course if you disrupt them you eventually get another one, but I'm quite fond of the ones we have and not looking forward to a cool fungi and jellyfish locust swarm ecosystem or whatever comes next.
> I don't get how this kind of skepticism can exist...

How are LLM's trained?

How are humans trained?
That's easy. We look at the predictions a DM model makes, and then see if the predictions match observations. People seem to think that just because DM does not interact electromagnetically, the DM hypothesis cannot make testable predictions.

Models are quantitative entities – this is physics we're talking about. They almost always have quantitative parameters whose values initially have large uncertainties. We make observations in order to tighten the error bars of those parameters – to rule out parameter values inconsistent with observations.

Now, if we found that two observations are inconsistent with each other – each implies a parameterization incompatible with the other – and could rule out experimental error via repeat experiments etc, then that would be evidence against the entire model. In dark matter's case, we might realize, for example, that we cannot predict both galactic rotation curves and CMB anisotropies with a single DM model. That would be evidence against DM. (But that's not the case, both seem to be perfectly consistent with a single, well-constrained model.)
Why do we have to give up?

Why is OK with "Company is too large to police, nothing to see, move on"?

Maybe the platforms shouldn't work, in that case. And where is elsewhere, exactly? They are welcome to register their own domain and web site if they want to.

Why is it OK for Meta to make money on not policing their platform? We as a society are expected to pick up the tab.
What exactly are you suggesting will get figured out?
We've been farming for 10,000 years, and the vast majority of farm land is still fertile.
I agree with everything you said, but it's frustrating that the planner fails on a seemingly trivial query ("seemingly trivial", perhaps it's a very complex problem).

> So it takes time to get new stuff in.

It's true, I discovered this problem in PG 9, and it's true in PG 16, if I'm not mistaken.
> Because while AI uses a lot of energy, it's mostly of the renewable variety.

This bullshit again?

Power is, to an approximation, fungible. Marginal power generation is fossil. It doesn't matter whether your electricity is renewable, as long as renewables aren't powering the grid completely you're effectively just squeezing someone else onto fossil power instead.
Bacteria cannot produce new ways to obtain resources, we can. Quite literally we’ve developed ways to grow food in space. We will be fine.
Understanding Browser Tracking and Logins: The Invisible Trail
Does not seems stable, when all Java based applications are crashing.
Frame pointers are still a no-go on 32bit so anything that is IoT today.

The reason we removed them was not a myth but comes from the pre-64 bit days. Not that long ago actually.

Even today if you want to repurpose older 64 bit systems with a new life then this of optimization still makes sense.

Ideally it should be the default also for security critical systems because not everything needs to be optimized for "observability"
I love how these are the people who always worship and adore the free market and freedom don't worship and adore the free market and freedom when it means people doing something they don't want them to do. Fascism and hypocrisy at their finest.
Why?

I assume your intentions are positive, but you aren't helping anyone--you're harming people. Prisons in the U.S. are not rehabilitative: prisons are actively more harmful than unregulated drug use. They do absolutely nothing prevent drug use. However, they DO cause increases in violence including both violent crime and violence perpetrated by law enforcement. They also result in more single-parent children.

If you want to reduce the problems of drug addiction, the BEST thing you can do is donate to lobbying for legalization. We certainly need more research and funding for rehabilitation, but these things won't help if we don't put into action what we already know: prohibition doesn't work.
> Buying their phone is more of a psychology thing, than 'I did lots of research and I bought a high quality phone'.

For me it's more of "I'm no longer a kid so I don't have time to do lots of research". Samsung gets my money because their flagships are reliably good.
Good rant. But the final sentence is pure edgelord (edgelord is someone, typically on the Internet, who tries to impress or shock by posting exaggerated opinions and nihilism)
I agree. It's not Cloudflare's place to remove something because it might be illegal
https://archive.ph/yCRs6
They are, more and more. They richer a country becomes, the more they demand meat and animal products, the more they overconsume resources relative to provided calories/protein.

And who cares about India, when we're already screwing ourselves over well enough: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23655640/colorado-river-wa...

70% of the water used from the Colorado River (which is slowly losing water) is used for crops, and 80% of that is used for feed production. But let's stop taking so many showers, that'll fix the issue.
If Israel could have removed all Hamas presence from Gaza without harming a fly, it would have done so already.

Ask Hamas if they would be willing to co exist with jews, on this same piece of tiny land you'll get your answer.

They state their intention in their covenant, plain and simple:

"The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: 'O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him." (Article 7)"
Adam is a force of nature.

I had already done the first one but I am eager to dig in to all of these and learn the deep APL-Fu.

The array paradigm is so interesting and powerful even if you never take it further than looking at your other programming differently. Dyalog deserves a lot of respect for putting resources into educating people about it!
XFS with Linux 6.9 Brings Online Repair Improvements
It is absolutely not false! This is taught in every undergraduate set theory course. Please point to me the step in the above proof where there is an error.
The web being slow is an example of UI in general becoming slow.

My experience over the years has been that UI frameworks are very fun to write but we'd all be better off if our managers said "no" to them — vanilla HTML is very fast, as is UIKit.

Likewise for development, while Interface Builder gets flack for the file format making it hard to collaborate or even to code review, actually using it to implement a UI from the design team is fast and easy compared both to UIKit in code and to SwiftUI (and SwiftUI is better than some of the other programmatic UI frameworks I've seen, though it also loses points for a WYSIWYG editor that gives up if you look at the keyboard wrong).
Many countries with stricter laws don't have anywhere near the problem the US is facing
Big bike lobbyists strike again /s
> Frame pointers are still a no-go on 32bit so anything that is IoT today.

Isn't that just 32-bit x86, which isn't used in IoT? The other 32-bit ISAs aren't register-starved like x86.
The mapping from binary to source code.
Probably relevant:

- https://android.stackexchange.com/a/225396
Despite all of the ceremony, Vietnam still hates China with good reason too. China keeps invading it including taking the islands in the South China Sea that Vietnam laid claim to. I believe the PLA actually attacked and killed Vietnamese troops stationed on those islands.

I’m also confident that the Philippines will now claim that China is the worst offender in the South China Sea.

As for any country involved in the 9 point line including Malaysia, anyone would have to be delusional to think that they support China stealing their territory
> The Lustron, for all its failings, certainly proved its durability. Of the ~2.5k built, ~1.8k are still standing,

Doesn't sound like much of an achievement.

The town I live in (in Norway) is full of wooden housing built in the same period or earlier. I'm pretty confident that far more than 75% of them are still standing.

The brick built house I owned in the early 80s in Southampton, England, was one of a street of hundreds of houses built in 1890. The whole street is still there together with dozens of others of similar or greater age.
I completely take your point and agree with you.

I’d just like to add a nuance/complication: sometimes it makes perfect sense for a lead to come and insist on the test coverage metric hitting X%. Not because it’s a good idea on its own or in general, but probably because of very context-specific reasons. It’s not uncommon for engineers to not think about how their code tests at all (which is related to the interfaces they design), so something as arbitrary as this can be a forcing function to bring a baseline of awareness and competence to a team. In that sort of scenario, ideally the norms change as the team problems evolve, and so that arbitrary test coverage goal would ideally become irrelevant over time as a team improves and matures.

Think back to your first weeks / months of programming: this sort of reductionist and over-simplistic “rule” was probably very formative in your early years, even if you had to unlearn them over time. Real teams have people with a spectrum of skills, and sometimes you have to set crazy-ish rules to level-up the baseline.
Sorry for the almost meme-like content but... Are you getting results?

My Windows simply doesn't find any of those.

Since it's a VM, I gave up long ago and search its contents from Linux.
That would be interesting given their sort-of fall out? (https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1522098889423163394)
> Also WCAG recommends

"recommends". Want to deny me the option of longer lines?
Are you overweight?
If so, did you consider losing weight instead of cpap? I feel like some people use cpap to treat lifestyle (diet/exercise/sleep hygiene), but other than the study in question (and similar), it’s not well known by most doctors I’ve talked to.
I think the problem is, JS is actually quite a minimal language as far as standard library is concerned. Node is a good runtime (as is deno), but imho, they really missed the boat on building a standard library and making it a real ecosystem. .NET, Java, and Python, arguably the top most used languages besides JS, have an insanely more extensive standard library than JS does.

Packages built by 3rd parties are the Wild West, and unless they’re a full-on company of dedicated, experienced engineers, they’re gonna break semver best practices. They’ll also design bad APIs for interacting with their packages sometimes, and there will be a total lack of consistency across the ecosystem, which is what we have currently.

If I had more free time, building a stdlib for JS would be high on the list of “help the world” activities.
We have not been farming for 8 billion that long. The scale of what’s happening right now is unprecedented.
I don’t really think Cloudflare is interested in these types of purchases.

My guess is on Microsoft. It fits within the GitHub MO.
Virtual Bubble Wrap
Companies from the 2010s cohort though, he's got a point. Stripe is a $100B chunk, Airbnb is another $100B chunk, Doordash is a $50B chunk, Instacart is a $10B chunk...
I wonder how many will fall for the trick you just pulled (intentionally or not), and the degree to which it deviates from their stance on Whorfism (not much I bet).

It is so fascinating how Normative Westerners describe "reality".
https://archive.ph/HWYLp
Plastic is simply the result of capitalizing on the waste of refining petro products. You have to do something with it so the thinking went, so might as well make plastic and make money off of it. You're also evenly distributing that waste all over, rather than at the refining site. Decades later we're realizing evenly distributing the waste all over may not have been such a good idea after all.

Anyways, if you want less plastic then you're going to need to pump less oil, and the way to pump less oil is to reduce the demand on refined oil products such as gasoline. It's pretty much as simple as that.
Ask HN: How can I get rid of addiction to HN?
I browse HN multiple times a day. Perhaps, I am way too curious. Sometimes, it eats up a lot of time.
Edit:
or perhaps FOMO disguised as curiosity?
Single family home, usually also implies detached.
It both pops with you click and multiplies. Oddly soothing.
Back in college, I had a wireless infrared keyboard which also had a thumbstick for moving the mouse. My roommate didn't have his own PC so he would sometimes use mine. I would occasionally take my keyboard and move the mouse around which would confuse him.

Later he bought his own PC, and would loudly blare music while I was trying to study. I knew it was a cheap PC, and this was a time where CPU power was not massive, and his NIC card was cheap and offloaded to the CPU. So I just ping flooded him until the music started stuttering.

Lastly - a friend of mine eventually installed some sort of remote access software on my roommate's PC which he never locked. Again, the mouse moving gag, every ~15 minutes or so. But eventually, I moved the mouse over to the start menu, opened Paint, and drew "SATAN" which really freaked him out for a second until I burst out laughing.
You are saying he doesn't prove it false?
There are new-ish monolithic pour techniques that enable slab foundations in frost prone areas. In particular, the usage of rigid XPS insulation in the soil and maintaining a minimum temp in the structure allow more efficient foundation construction.
It’s tricky to balance Doing Stuff and Broadcasting Stuff.
You need both. If you spend 100% of your time heads down, even delivering huge value, nobody will notice and your career will suffer. If you spend 100% of your time bloviating, you’ll never build anything of value.
As so often in life, I find the best solution is to team up. Partnerships between an 80 build / 20 tell and a 20 Build / 80 Tell change the world. Woz + Jobs is just the best known example.
The book Rocket Fuel calls these “Integrators” and “Visionaries” https://www.eosworldwide.com/rocket-fuel-book
I think probably the solution here is to stop using publishing in peer reviewed journals as a job requirement for academics. Even before ChatGPT, academic publishing was already falling victim to Goodhart's law. Remove the perverse incentives and it should cut down on this by quite a lot.
Turn on the noprocrast setting on your profile, and set a high minaway time