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Ask HN: PG&E site does not function with ad-blockers
NOTE: PG&E is California electric&gas utility company site (pge.com). Issue only occurs when a real customer tries to login.

I am trying to debug why I can't login to PG&E site when I use pi-hole/dns ad-blocking. pi-hole seems to block the following URLs from PG&E login page [1] [2] [3].

Net effect is that I can see a greyed out logged-in page, can see my amount due in a faint color, but can't click on any subsequent links because some "grey out everything until page is fully loaded" event hasn't happened.

So sad

[1] https://cdn.appdynamics.com/adrum/adrum-4.5.9.2098.js

[2] https://cdn.optimizely.com/js/1115471569.js

[3] https://s.go-mpulse.net/boomerang/....
That is a good summary, but of course, there is "cheating" to do the infinite amounts of work required in a finite time!

The board appears as if there exist at any time infinite levels of cellular automata going all the way down running things. In fact, they only compute one level deep and then short-circuit to using the "hardcoded" rules of Conway's life, and simply pop up the higher or lower levels on demand.
A cool device. Seems like its completely autonomous. Seeing as we used to have tails in our evolutionary past, I wonder if this could be fitted like a myoelectric prosthesis around the coccyx or something and function like a biological tail.
"privacy partner" seems like an oxymoron.
Russia's Cozy Bear caught phishing German politicos with phony dinner invites
I like the poster's "open standards" view on the topic.

Of course closed platforms try to destroy this - try downloading your contacts from LinkedIn in vCard format and email one of them. You can do exports, but there won't be email addresses in them! And try to delete a conversation there in order to avoid that it leaks in case one day LI may get hacked - not possible. Smart people don't carry out business conversations on LI but quickly move to another medium.

My hope is that as LinkedIn is increasingly becoming like Facebook, that eventually all people will leave for something simple(r).

By the way, I have started using real paper business cards again. They are more useful if no-one else is giving out any. So after a a conference, guess what attendees find in their bags when they come home? My card.

And when I return from a conference, I go through all contacts I've made and enter some data in a plain text file (the only durable format), with LI still an additional step (but >4000 people that you cannot organize in groups easily makes it a data grave).

You should start a vcards.org business network where people can add their own profile and follow others. You would only need "Create business card" - an interactive editor, a single page HTML form, "Search for Contacts" (a simple Lucene fielded search) + a "Follow" button and a "Post an Update" function - if not commercial and minimalist style like your own page, I would immediately sign up there.
I know at least a few many-hundred-billion dollar companies that fit that description...
My personal pet theory was that prions are an evolutionary mechanism which prevents cannibalism in mammals.

I know nothing about evolutionary biology, and I wonder if there is any chance that this is true.
There's a bit in the law text that supposedly penalises bad DMCA requests (ie the sender must consider if it's fair use, etc) but it's turned out to do nothing in practice and for example fair use covered stuff on youtube just gets repeatedly DMCA'd even if by some miracle the target has the time and energy to try to counter it.

(A concrete example I remember off the top of my head is on a blog that doesn't welcome HN links...)
I didn't quite understand that point, can you rephrase? I mean, yeah, things like specs for computer languages do define a space for ambiguity, but that space is ambiguous just the same.
We also had the sugar shortage in 1974
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/jul/09/archive-...

... and the cod wars (not a typo), and a potato shortage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars
https://rulesfoolsandwisemen.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-1970s-...

Both of which hit fish and chip supplies!
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1975/jul/...
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1976/feb/...

Plus as already mentioned the blackouts. I remember we had a camping gas stove, candles and paraffin heater to get us through those nights, plus hot water bottles (with water from the stove) for going to bed, because the whole house was cold.
> Thus, anti-money laundering do not solve or prevent any crime (crime has already happened).

It prevents crimes as long as the people who would be committing them know it’s hard to cash out. As a simple example, phone theft was much worse in the United States a decade or so back because a teenager could grab a phone, wipe it, and get hundreds of USD. It plummeted once the stolen IMEI database went into effect because nobody buys a phone which can’t get service. It didn’t have to go to zero to be worth doing – just getting the easy money guys out often makes a big difference.
Has the Microsoft of today become the IBM of the late '80s? (2004)
Project Wakefield
My general rule is, if Reader Mode improves your site, your site is a failure.
Not so famously, I'm afraid, I'd love to hear more. I did put in a honest effort: 35, fairly well read, and I spent some time Googling. Can't find anything other than a syndrome called "Alice in Wonderland syndrome" where sizes are perceived incorrectly in e.g. epileptics before a seizure.
also php driven https://getgrav.org has a webui admin panel which can replace it's CLI admin tool chain.
What I need is a solar powered turtle that can silently mow my lawn.
I have seen industrial training films from the 60s/70s/80s and they are horrifyingly/hilariously brutal. The 'best' one had some having someone having their (fake!) arm graphically torn off by a spinning lathe. I guess it got the message across though.
What does this do for you that the NVI idiom doesn't http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill18.htm?
You link to them, they pay you for referrals, you market you're concerned about privacy.

(that sounds sarcastic: I 100% believe Mozilla is concerned about privacy, it's more indicative of people mistaking the map for the territory, being concerned isn't the same as what is put in place mechanistically to honor that value)
The Fed has been reducung the money supply since June 2022. i don't think we can blame the issues of 2024 on the actions in 2021.
Google. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/cracking-fever-autism-mystery
BYD is for sure a legitimately remarkable company and to some degree I’m thankful for the competition. But I am highly, highly skeptical (and you should be too) of pretty much any number coming out of China. You should be especially skeptical of a company that can make such valuable contributions to the CCP’s hybrid warfare doctrine.

BYD can degrade the US manufacturing base; degrade consumer sentiment (as seen above); put millions of mobile sensors on US/EU roads; etc. It is absolute naivety to think that’s a company that will ever need to truly stand on its own two feet.
I do wish NeXT had a better naming system in place. The first gen cube is called the NeXT Computer, later faster ones are actually called Cube but they’re all cubes to most people.
Perhaps the police are trying to find a way to apply asset forfeiture because Bitcoin is so valuable? That would make more sense than AML because police forces don’t generally investigate those crimes — enforcement is usually the domain of FinCen and banks.
How do police find out that John Smith is the person whose files they want to get a warrant for?

Maybe because John Smith was one of only eleven people who signed in to a building on the day a crime took place, and he signed out right after the crime happened.

But should the police not look at the sign-in sheet at the building because that will infringe the privacy of ten innocent people?
Charlie Brooker is a genius. I guess most of his creatve energy is directed into Black Mirror these days.
Try Tufte CSS:

https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/
Article conspicuously omitted how long the race is, seems like a relevant headline level detail...
This is a dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793754

> Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

19 hours ago | 295 points | 116 comments
Back in 2021, I was wrestling with 10+ browser extensions to inspect, edit, and refine websites. But all these extensions either lacked features, had bugs, or had inconsistent UI. I needed something better, so I built an all-in-one extension to solve this problem for me. Took me 16+ months of development, 12000+ lines of code, 100+ extension updates and 2000+ users to reach here.
And with fewer people producing (but still consuming, they're retired...) we have less supply (and same or more demand) of goods and services also leading to continuing inflation.
The American merchant marine was bigger than it ever was in the decades following the passage of that act. 1940s was the era of the liberty ships!

The Jones act was passed in 1920 because the merchant marine had been withering away in the decades leading up to WWI. WWI was an "oh shit" moment for the US when it realized that if it had been more directly involved in the shooting war it wouldn't have any ships to fight in it.

Arguably it worked as intended because the American flag fleet was large and modern by 1942 when the US found itself in a shooting war across two oceans.
Not just IBM. A few years back I worked on a large project with one of the big international consulting companies as the prime contractor. They threw a party for the whole team when the codebase hit one million lines of code.

Those of us who knew better treated the "celebration" as a wake.
> real wages rose during the 2% inflation period

There is no consistent "2%" inflation period. If a year were to have 6.5% inflation (like with year 2022-2023), most firms will not raise real wages to match it. Over the last decade we've had a 2.82% average inflation rate with 4.41% variance showing how much we overshot both metrics.

source: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/consumer-pri...
So when cloud providers like AWS are contributing to an open source project that they also host, I wouldn't call it "charity". The self-interest is obvious.

The problem is that it may not match the self-interest of other contributors. Especially when there is a "main" company that owns the IP of the open source that is not them.

But note how Amazon forked ElasticSearch when it became no longer open source, to their "OpenSearch" OpenSearch is Apache-licensed. Amazon engineers maintain it. This is not charity exactly, Amazon makes money from selling hosting of it.

In the "classic" age of open source, most projects were collaborations, where different people who got paid by differnet employers worked on it on company time, because their employers used it for their operatons. And were willing to pay to contribute to the software they used. Most of these were not in the business of selling software. They did not expect to make direct money from their contributions to the software.

This is how apache httpd began for instance. I think some of the employers of contributors were non-profit as well.

I think that's actually the only sustainable model for open source. A single company paying people to develop open source software and hoping to make money from that -- was probably never actually sustainable.

If the current economic conditions don't support people working on the clock to contribute to open source software that their employers use -- because software has gotten too complex, or because companies have gotten much more stingy or unwilling to pay for such things -- then indeed we won't have much open source anymore, we'll have proprietary source-available licenses like this.
Anthropocene unit of geological time is rejected
That's a fair point, but I don't consider that "cheating" any more than Hashlife [1] (which it's based on) is cheating. It's an ingenious trick that guarantees that what's displayed is exactly the same pattern as if all of the infinitely-many higher and lower levels had been simulated, in finite time. The rules of the cellular automaton are never broken, only elided.

In a metaphorical way, it reminds me of the "tying the knot" trick in pure functional languages like Haskell, to turn an infinite computation into a finite data structure.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife
Why does it matter it was a Google engineer? People from all non Uber driving professions have bad Uber experiences. Vote zero stars and no tip and move on with life
Why Streaming Services Recommend Garbage–and How to Fix That
I guess what they mean is that the "zoom" would be cyclic, e.g. at the same time the game zoomed at 1x would look like the game zoomed at 101x, zoomed at 2x would look like 102x etc...

Totally different thing, but this makes me think of looping procedural animations, which are achieved by sampling noise on a circle (or walls of a cylinder in a 3d noise space).
Ancient ecosystem brimming with dinosaur tracks discovered in Alaska
Archive [1]

[1] - https://archive.is/pNGL4
Apple researchers explore dropping "Siri" phrase and listening with AI instead
Finishing a 60 hour ultra marathon in 59:58:21 must have been a nail-biter.
Dupe. Original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793754
> This is true for pretraining - creating a "base model" - but it's not true for instruction tuning. There's a second stage (RLHF, DPO, whatever) where it's trained again with the objective being "take questions and generate answers" and from there "generate correct answers".

Yes, but those are essentially filters, applied after the base model has already learnt it's world model. I think these are more controlling what the model generates that what it learns, since you don't need much data for this.

> merge models with proven capabilities together rather than trying to train everything by example

Merging specialist LLMs is already a recent thing. I'm not sure how it works exactly but basically merging weights post-training. Yannic Kilcher mentioned this on one of his recent YouTube videos.

> if you give GPT4 a line from a song it can tell you what the line after it is, but it's a lot worse at the line before it!

I suppose a bidirectional transformer like BERT would handle this better, but generative language models are deliberately only using the past to predict the future, so this might be expected. Some short term memory (an additional "context" persisting across tokens) would presumably help.
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I think the analogy is rather strong. Where does it differ?
Unfortunately our anti-fungal arsenal is not particularly large or all that great. Resistance evolves quickly for most of the commonly used ones; and the ones for which resistance is less easily acquired tend to be highly toxic (key problem being that core eukaryotic cell biology is highly conserved between fungi to animals).
Valles Marineris: what happened to Mars?
I'm on day two of an analysis, zero code written. I don't know what, if anything, needs written. If I had to pound out something to keep from being zero it would be fraud.
And every HomePod, Apple Watch, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. Plus the later Apple TVs. I think even some of their newer displays have the OS in there too.
Not a masterplan, but definitely guides. I mean there are all sorts of meetings that occur where the rich and powerful meet and arrange this or that - eg Bilderberg, WEF, Trilateral Commission, UN, WHO, etc. These aren't elected bodies, but somehow all the governments act in tandem according their pronouncements. Its as if voting doesn't matter, as if its merely a pressure release valve.

Elsewhere I posted about technocracy inc - which Elon's grandfather was involved with. (https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorpo...). Just 2 generations later, and you have this guy apparently putting out electric cars, space ships, neural laces, etc. Its more coherent than you think. Bill Gates's father headed Planned Parenthood.

It seems to me that there are a group of very rich individuals that try to shape policy and direct this or that. Its really a very natural state I think - we see this everywhere - eg a headmaster of a school will direct the school towards this or that, a CEO does the same in their company. This is the same principle, except at a far higher level. I don't think its even debatable that this is the case, tbh.
> 100 miles

The exact route is not published and competitors are banned from GPS. But it's more than 100 miles. Might be ~25 miles a lap.
> you can print iteration by iteration the intermediate result

You would not be able to do that with a multi-threaded/multi-process application.

And this is the reason why e.g. Trino/Presto is so powerful together with SQL.

Instead of telling the computer how to go by to get your result, you tell it what result you want and let it do it in the best way.

The most up-front way of telling a computer "how" is a for-loop. And SQL does not have it. It may seem limiting, but avoiding explicit for loops gives the freedom to the computer. If it sees it fit to distribute that calculation over 200 distributed CPUs it can do that. With an imperative language you need to tell the computer exactly how it should distribute it. And from there it gets really hairy.
IIRC there were studies done on the effects of lead on people living near busy traffic areas, such as the spaghetti junction near Birmingham. It might be difficult to separate the effects of the lead from the effects of living near Birmingham though. ;0)
Maybe OneRep is fine, but these services always seem a bit fishy, I wouldn't trust or recommend any without strong evidences. I don't want third parties in the path of my private stuff.

Mozilla would certainly have been a strong signal, good on them for ditching the partner, in doubt, I guess.
Show HN: World Cup simulator that can run endlessly on the browser
After creating the World Cup, click the "Forever" button in the header; it will continue running automatically without any further clicking. After a few hours, it should generate thousands of years of World Cup statistics, along with the long-term development history of all national teams.
I would have said the same thing about infinite scrolling; that always feels like a dark pattern to me because it makes it hard to find specific results again, hard (or impossible) to get to any links in the page footer, etc.

I always just want a single page that I can link back to later :)
Quoting from the readme, it embraces other executers, including torch.compile and also works with multiple GPUs:

> Thunder is a source-to-source compiler for PyTorch. It makes PyTorch programs faster by combining and using different hardware executors at once (ie: nvFuser, torch.compile, cuDNN, and TransformerEngine FP8).

Works on single accelerators and in multi-GPU settings. Thunder aims to be usable, understandable, and extensible.
(apologies i did not manage to keep it). Still, sorry for that this thread derailed.
If you're going to run commands that modify data directly on the cli, do it in a transaction so you can roll back. Also, start with `--` to make it a comment. Once you have the correct query and someone's checked your work, go back to the beginning of the line and remove the `--` so you can run it. It's also a good idea to write a select * or count first to check that things make sense, and then start your transaction, go up and modify your select into a delete/update, check affected rows looks good again, maybe do another select or two to check that data looks like you expect, commit.
Grandmother Awarded Nearly $4M over Faulty 'Find My Phone' Ping Based Swat Raid
The concept introduced by the Supreme Court regarding Pen register is consistent with all the examples you have given.

Anytime you willing share data with a 3rd party the law assumes you aren't keeping it private.

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

If you want to keep something private don't share it outside of your house.
Yeah but the electro-magnetic spectrum is a limited public good. You don’t own your broadcasted radio waves in the same way you own your house. Your cellphone is a pollutant.
This seems very clever. I’ve enjoyed abusing SQL, too. And note that abuse is the developer’s term for how what he’s doing in sqlite-schema-diagram.sql. I’m not trying to be insulting. I actually do like it.
She's female. She breastfed her kid on Montane Spine the other year. Is that female enough?
Important distinction. "Widdling" is urination.
It needs to be able to compute, but also to be able to place cells in such a way as to 'display' the result one level up.
The article says mother of two, I’m not sure why you’re confused. Are you trying to start a culture war debate?

> Paris, who juggles being an elite runner with being a mother of two and an animal veterinarian,

If you actually cared in this particular scenario and aren’t just trying to cause a shitstorm, you could’ve found the article below in less than a minute.

Here is a blog post with pictures of her pregnant, talking about being pregnant: http://jasminfellrunner.blogspot.com/2017/11/?m=1
All you have to do is read commit messages.
CO2 levels are high in enclosed spaces, not in urban environments
This proves it won’t take much to simulate reality.
More intuitive if you zoom out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8
Will this result in a new tool to unlock confiscated iPhones?
I mean, it's cars. Fossil fuel combustion in general, but car exhaust in particular.
Background: I completed my union IBEW apprenticeship in Texas.

Comment on article: I read books more than I work (often!), and this article was wayyyyyyy tooooooo longgggggggggg. The point of effective communication is to be just concise enough to still retain your readership (I stopped reading a little less than half way).

Comment on unions: I am currently supporting UAW's current push to unionize Chattanooga's Volkswagon Plant; my posit to neighbors is "if unions actually rewarded blue collar employees worse, why would the corporate executives be rallying so hard with propaganda against organized labor?!"
“When your friend gets laid off, it’s a recession. When you get laid off, it’s a depression.”

The loud protestations of people caught in the correction from overhiring are just drowning out the many many people who are still happily employed and not complaining about it online.
Pandas and now Polars can replace a lot of SQL. I find that many of my students find these easier to build up and debug.
It can't have a finite number of layers because of an argument very similar to the uncountability of reals.
I mean, crypto payments are not anonymous anyways. They are pseudonymous. And no, this is not just pedantry on my side. If a government really wants, they figure out the pseudonym(s) - you basically just need to find one instance where you can connect the pseudoynm do a pesonal piece of information, and boom.

This doesn't mean I support the EU cracking down here, I do think anonymity and privacy are very important, but I also think it's good that there are ways to bring criminals to justice who engage in money laundering and other criminal activity.
Well, not when we want them to...
Are you using SQLite that ships with macOS, or SQLite installed from homebrew?

I had a different problem in the past with the SQLite that ships with macOS, and have been using SQLite from homebrew since.

So if it’s the one that comes with macOS that gives you this problem that you are having, try using SQLite from homebrew instead.

https://brew.sh/