skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious what efficiency improvements are enabled by standardizing on married surnames. Maybe nurses at hospitals never need to request to see your marriage license if you have the same surname? And besides that...?

This is coming from a somewhat anecdotal place. But as a married person in the US whose partner didn't change names, it's not been an issue at any point in the last 10 years of marriage. Not once have I had to explain to someone "oh yeah, we're legally married." If anything, in our case so far it would have been inefficient for us to go through the time filing paperwork to get one of our names changed to the other's. Which, is exactly why we never bothered in the first place. What a waste of time (in our eyes.)
I think this is really cool, I think the economics of it are really tough, but there's a lot of ways natural gas is just a much easier thing to deal with, or at least a more approachable with our current infrastructure.

I think taking a step back though, the hydrogen itself is important in the first place.

I don't know if it is the largest use of hydrogen, but certainly the significant use is in steam reformation of natural gas to make ammonia.

It's not power generation, but it's keeping us alive and natural gas is a feedstock more than a fuel. You really are finding a way to replace it and its not fungible in the way electricity is.
cargo-goggles: verify reproducibility of Rust libs releases
This is nice ! Lots of these games I honestly don't feel like playing, but for some reason I liked yours. It's simple and the animations are good !

I'm curious by the way, how do you handle the randomness of starting positions and additional bricks to make sure there's always a valid move possible ?

Maybe it's just basic combinatorics (enough possibilities that not having any valid move on the board is impossible ?)
Or you can look at whether Firefox will add the same feature. They do.
That doesn't make a lot of sense. People understandably though graphite and diamonds were different, because they seemed so different. Assuming 2 things are fundamentally different because they differ in all observable properties makes sense. Assuming 2 things are fundamentally the same because they are they same color but in no other way similar really doesn't.
Sadly, the .zip tld wasn't a joke.

Edit: holy **** I just realize this is googel, not google. And yes, I had to fight autocorrect to correctly misspel googel.
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Not necessarily.

While slave labour is cheap, at scale a combine harvester is even cheaper.

But it's not just the raw production cost that matters. If you add a 200% levy, then ofcourse you risk tipping the edge back over to the black market.
You are comparing apples to oranges tho.
> This backdoor means that it doesn't matter how long your key lengths or cryptographic key sizes are; that's kinda the point of a backdoor.

If we’re talkning about this specific backdoor, consider this: If the attacker had successfully identified a target SSH server they could reasonably assume had the backdoor, would they be completely halted by a port knocker? No, they would brute-force it easily.

Port knocking is very bad security.

(It’s “Kerckhoffs’s <law/principle/etc.>”, by the way.)
'Acquired savant syndrome' or 'sudden genius' probably does not exist
My Wi-Fi used to work better in the rain because our signal was fairly weak as it was coming from the apartment behind the wall and the channels were generally crowded so (I assume) rain helped to at least insulate us from the networks in the buildings across the courtyard.
We've been using bun for a while now. We love the speed, but we love the integration even more. No need to use node, npm, nodemon, tsx, esbuild and jest.

Bun is our one-stop-shop for Typescript.

Thank you!
I'm a different person but the key for me is a wrapper than can handle uncertainty and ask questions for clarification.

Currently I don't find LLMs tremendously useful because I have to be extremely specific with what I want, which IMO is closer to writing code than the magical promise of turning ideas into products.

An app that I can just talk into and say, "I want to do X" and it can start building X while asking me questions for functional requirements, edge cases, UI/UX, that's a killer app.

It's also an app which could actually decimate many SWE jobs, so, I should be careful what I wish for.
If I was interested in a Tesla, I would be in the market for a Model S, not another Model 3. The Charger Daytona that I'm looking at is also multiples of what I'd paid for my Model 3.
I think the a legitimate and trusted IC is essential. Unfortunately though, the perception is the US IC:

(1) has been weaponized against non-establishment politicals

(2) is heavily involved in censorship cutouts against non-establishment politicals

(3) is evading the spirit of the law around constitutional protections via 5 eyes & outsourcing collection to BigTech

(4) is heavily involved in regime change operations "color revolutions" overseas that may trigger WW3.

(5) Hasn't been completely forthcoming around a number of different things such as JFK assassination, 9-11 hijackers, Epstein/Mossad, Spying on Congress, intentional weakening of crypto standards, plots vs Asssange.
The Federal gov keeps running a deficit and keeps expanding it.

The Federal Reserve plays along and keeps financing that bad behavior.

Together they're compromising the dollar and the associated economy but... we're going to blame a random third-party when the shit hits the fan?

Is this an April Fools' joke?
Compared to 2006, or 2015? No. Compared to 1990, probably.

Emphatically calling the Russian invasion despite widespread media, domestic and international skepticism helped gain a bit of it back. They should keep doing more of that and less fucking around with paramilitaries in South America.
Easy, look around the world and see if the things you want to have happen are happening.

Are the right governments being overthrown? Or no.
they’re internationalists who have no particular attachment to America. Many of them weren’t even born here.

WTF, dude.
If we are doing classic stories - Grace Hooper and the Nanosecond of wire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_692464
Between the U.S. IC's long history of spectacular failures, blind eyes toward high-level enemy moles, and squanderous operating expenses...when in the (say) past 80 years would competent policymakers actually have trusted them?
You can sometimes see a similar approach in somewhat recent (~last 10 years) microcontroller devboards. Many of Nucleo devboards for STM32 microcontrollers, and some Cypress PSoC devboards (CY8CKIT) consist of two halves. One containing the main MCU (the one devboard demonstrates), and other half containing programmer/debugger. Idea is that you can use it as is out of the box for running basic example programs, or you can break it in half thus obtaining a cheap programmer + devboard which has a slightly more convenient format for embedding in product prototype.

Similar thing but reversed roles with ChipWhisperer-lite (platform for experimenting with side channel power analysis and glitching attacks). There you have the main board which connects to PC and performs the IO for attack and example target (victim) board.

But all of that is for R&D purpose only, not for use in manufacturing of final products.

I looked up the images for Starfox PCB it looks weird. Can't imagine it ever being practical in production just for programming. Did they just shipped devboards to customers? In the images I saw the area near PCB edge where traces stop looked very smooth and somewhat recessed compared to broken tabs that were connecting PCB to bigger panel. As if that area was cut by router instead of being broken off. Maybe they just kept the production PCB design (almost) identical to devboards, to save the work designing two different PCBs and reduce the chance of any issues caused by differences between devboards and production PCBs.
If you give such comments a lot of credence without doing that own verification then you open yourself to what is essentially a social denial of service attack.
When calculating the costs, you don’t get to just ignore the huge, expensive harms caused by releasing CO2 and methane into the atmosphere because they are inconvenient.
I've heard it goes down to 9w on a podcast I listen to.
> Race isn’t a biological factor like age, sex or weight — it’s a social construct.

Interesting conjecture there AP, but I don't buy it. Surely race is a biological factor. Maybe not for kidney health specifically but wouldn't race be inextricably tied to a person's biology, heritage, medical history?

Race is determined at birth by parents' biology, therefore is biological. Not _everything_ that makes people different from one another is a purely social construct.

Don't black people get sickle cell at higher rates than other races? Race is important in a lot of medical contexts.

Great that they fixed the kidney thing but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, or the next headline will be "excess deaths due to incorrect treatment of <condition> for <race>".

By all means if the race-based heuristics are unsound, throw them out, but the article makes mention of a bunch more that are under scrutiny. Are they really all inaccurate or are we discounting biology in favor of social justice?
I think the previous code was using dot products, f32 instead of bf16.
Right, I was kind of getting at that: there's a difference between "low" and "low-enough-to-induce-ketogenesis" when it comes to carbs.

For example, the Atkins diet, despite being very low-carb, didn't result in a lot of people accidentally becoming ketogenic.
Badly lacking in wig budget.
Everest? By that measure, nobody should climb it ever. It's an unthinkable amount of effort, at the end with your strength at its lowest and no eating or drinking for the final days, nobody can do that with effort left over for anything.

It's easy to make rules sitting behind a desk.
Honestly depends on what you are doing. Most of my python work is data collection and analysis on top of Postgres.

Being smart in how I use Postgres indexing (and when to disable it outright) has more performance impact than the actual language doing the plumbing.
Ask HN: Why is Vercel so expensive?
Vercel charges low/mid five figures for their enterprise plans, which essentially comes with higher usage limits, some security features like SSO and IP blocking, and an uptime and support SLA. This hardly seems worth the additional cost?

It seems like they need a much better solution somewhere in the mid-tier--Vercel is great to get started on projects, but if you basically need to go from small project to 5 figure bill without much in between, it hardly seems to make sense to use for a project that is going to scale.
>This would not have protected SSH, since a direct system() call by the VPN daemon would have ignored SSH completely.

I don't know how VPNs are implemented on Linux, but in principle it should be possible to sandbox a VPN server to the point where it can only make connections but nothing else. If capabilities are not enough, ebpf should be able to contain it. I suspect it will have full control over networking but that's still very different from arbitrary code execution.
(I detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39866275, for the sake of pruning the top heavy thread.)
Because when IE was utter garbage, Chrome had better performance, an ecosystem that included GMail, and also stored our passwords and bookmarks. Chrome also eventually allowed you to conduct google searches directly from the address bar. People use what they are comfortable with, and all the functionality built into Chrome by google is a HUGE sunk cost to bypass. The only person I know who uses Edge and Bing regularly does it to earn gift cards from Microsoft.
> Starting today, you can use ChatGPT instantly, without needing to sign-up

It’s actually been up since at least Thursday of last week, maybe longer

I wanted to show ChatGPT to someone who hadn’t used it before, they went to chat.openai.com and were able to use it without creating an account
I'm trying to understand what you're saying here.

If the speed of light is a hard limit, leveraging localized cognition would not be useful at all. The localized cognition would only be able to ponder things it observes or experiences, that is, it can't ponder whatever the conscious universe wants it to, so the universe has to create it where it needs it, and then it can't use this cognition anywhere else because again, the speed of light. It really gets us nowhere.

I think though probably this "consciousness" of the universe, if it exists, is apparent and localized, but not bound and distinct locally, if that makes sense.
Pretty sure labelling entire community is against HN guidelines
Looks nice. First thing I wanted to try was setting up a dynamic source of content (e.g. a table that repeats its rows from a data source I specify) but I couldn't figure out how. How can I include dynamic content in my site using external data sources like a REST api?
reminds me of the better call saul toilet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1m29cNVsc
Also, and not claiming there is any cause/effect but there is a correlation, at least for men, between short, common names and career success. C-level individuals tend to have short, one-syllable names (or nicknames) like Jack, Fred, Tim, Don, etc.
We're replacing a single Model 3 shared by myself (works from home) and my partner (commutes). I make due now by taking my motorcycles, but that has some significant inconveniences. My partner wants a mostly-boring, sensible car for commuting (the Ioniq) and I want something spicy (the Charger). The two cars have two very different purposes and intended price points. So to your point, you're making bad assumptions about intentions.
Of course. It's turtles all the way up.
If it's any help, here's a lit+svg web component I did as a learning exercise: http://hermit1.scsys.co.uk/~matthewt/clock/t8b.html

Given JS imports are direct references, you can export a 'let' from a module and if it's modified by the module the importing thing will see the change (though it isn't allowed to set the value) ... though of course you want to be able to have more than one set of state, so that's probably not applicable here, paragraph left for the interested.

But. It seems like you could have the template logic in svelte style and lit style and share basically everything else easily enough if you wanted to. Not sure that's the best way to refactor, just mentioning.

Very neat piece of code though, I'm not sure I have any idea when I'd use it but I definitely intend to go back to the code to learn more about doing cool things with d3. Cheers!
Most countries implemented policies they called "lockdowns" so whatever personal definition you're using isn't very helpful. Certainly, being able to go outside was seen as a regrettable bug and not a feature in many places. For example, the UK police notoriously used drones to find couples sitting on park benches. Where I live I was forbidden from leaving my apartment for a couple of weeks when my wife got COVID, for any reason except purchasing groceries. So that was definitely a China-style lockdown.

> If we ever see mortality rates in the double digits, expect real lockdowns.

We'll see them because our ruling classes are psychologically and politically unable to push back on corrupt academics, not because they work. Lockdowns had no effect on COVID because respiratory viruses are able to spread long distances on air currents, but lockdown policy assumes they can't.
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It's important to distinguish choice/will and consciousness. Conscious experience can happen in an entirely deterministic context..they are orthogonal concepts.
Your comment is deep into tinfoil hat territory.
Sometimes I wonder exactly how much financial engineering a "non profit" entity is supposed to need...
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"AI" art fails in at least two ways:

1. It can't actually communicate anything, as it's a fake simulation that lacks essential elements ("AI" art is to art as playing Guitar Hero is to playing a real guitar).

2. It's a wholly derivative rehash of existing art that will ultimately lead to artistic stagnation (as most art creation becomes a deskilled, automated task, knocking out the first step in the pipeline of artistic innovation).
A newborn baby is an example of physics at work, rather than an underlying physical law.
Take a closer look at the domain ;)
Also, Gmail.
'Vaccine lettuce' bill (food containing a vaccine is a drug) passes in Tennessee
All we know is that we have it because its not about what the word means. It's about how we apply the category of "conscious" to things. It's a way of either distancing or bringing ourselves closer to things.

We might as well just ask "Is the universe like us?"
More to the point it prevents your enemies from using the exploit against friendly targets.

The tradeoff is that, once you find it, it's very clearly a backdoor. No way you can pretend this was an innocent bug.
That's what I thought this article would be about before I read it. I've observed the same thing before.
I have almost the exact same story. Except my older sister freaked out about me potentially having "lead poison." She called my *nurse* mom at work. Mom said it would be fine and she'd take a look when she got home. Mom was pretty old-school, fwiw :)

I still have the blue dot next to my knee.
What even is a JSON number?
The newborn baby is "just" an assembly of atoms and molecules. What is it about this particular assembly that makes it so special? That's the key question. It might very well turn out that there is something very special about animate life forms that can only exist inside animate life forms - particular arrangements of molecules, or perhaps a heritage that encodes some quantum states we don't understand, or some feedback loop inside of the baby's brain, or maybe all of it; and these things don't exist inside of a rock or a star or a galaxy (beyond, of course, all the babies that exist inside the galaxy, and outside of the question, did the galaxy will the babies to exist, and is a baby an expression of the galactic sensory apparatus?)
That not correct.

Abundant commodities are valued at the average price a person in the group is willing to pay. This "gemstone" is actually beryl, a very common crystal. What they're trying to do is take this commodity mineral and price it like a scarce object. Paintings so scarce as the Mona Lisa with an available quantity of one are priced at auction to the maximum any person on planet Earth will pay. They actually don't even know how to price it they had to invent a competition to discover the number from the greatest fool in the room. If there were two or eight original copies, the value would nosedive. The scarcity provides the value, not the art.

Since 2010 some shrewd businessmen have decided that pink beryl is a coveted gemstone and marketed it like diamonds. But it's totally worthless, as are diamonds. Similarly cut glass looks the same.

How evil is it to target couples who want to get married and start a family, to then start a marketing campaign and invent a tradition to force them to buy a worthless rock for three months of the groom's salary? I wonder how many expecting working class families had less food on the table because of that.

You've got to be very careful about this kind of thing. Stamp it out. Deviating from utilitarian logic gets perilous right fast. Your unborn children will literally starve
Stupid question: Why do we keep adding things like this to the browser when they could be a library on the system?
What extras do you need from Vercel when deploying a basic react app? In theory all you need is an html hosting service if you don’t use any of the fancy react featured…
Google went public in August 2004, so <5 months after Googlemail launched, which is what we're talking about here. And it's hard to criticize regular people for not seeing privacy issues in 2004 that weren't surfaced until 2006/7, especially when the average person barely knew how to use email.

I know 20 years doesn't seem like all that long ago, but no normal person had any expectation that they would be carrying a device in their pockets that reported their every move and conversation to a giant megacorp that sold their attention to the highest bidder. Not back then.
George Bush Sr. was POTUS in '90. He'd served as CIA Director back in '76-'77, and (that I've heard) still knew exactly who to call, from the Oval office to 'way down the CIA's org chart, when he need correct and competent facts and analysis.

(Obviously you can argue that he still wasn't talking to the right people about Iran & Kuwait in July of '90.)
It really depends on which side you are on. If you support Evangelical-backed business interests and are partial to Israel then you would have more trust in the intelligence community than someone who wants higher taxes or someone who has no religious preferences.
Thank you so much! I think the starting board could theoretically be an instant game over but there always seem to be a lot of possible moves.
For new bricks, sometimes there won't be any more valid moves in which case the game will end.
FWIW, I’ve looked at Cloudflare pretty closely and I don’t think they are monetizing - but given the potential rewards it’s always going to be a “break glass in case of quarterly revenue dip” type situation.

Google is…Google.
Saying no is a great way to improve productivity