skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco will poison DNS to Block Piracy as Ordered by Court
You can't even install the play store in China... Google hasn't been accessible there since in 15 years.

You can buy an iPhone there today, and Apple has agreements with China to hand over user data and has done so in the past.
Show HN: I gamified your task management process
I was forgetting so much things that I need to do...
Study, workout, drink water?!
I said enough. So I built MyTasking to help fight procrastination in a more fun way
He tried to keep his crew alive ... so there is that.
Dmenu like fuzzy search does make sense when you have alot of expansions. I'll add it as I find the need for it myself.
“Geppetto and SnappShot playing important role in stopping fake research from being published”
Concentrator Photovoltaics (CPVs) exist but are expensive not just because of the lenses but because you need a tracking system to follow the movement of the sun and adjust the lens constantly to keep the light focused.
The licensing seems.. atrocious (both the wording and pricing), maybe I'm too far disconnected from the space where such applications are used but. I'm unsure which industry would tolerate this.
(November 15, 2022)
Porting old games to the web is fun! Many are smaller than a typical modern webpage. They load fast and run great.

I just ported Quake 3 and I'm having some fun with it: https://thelongestyard.link/
It's interesting to see the US still investing billions in maintaining their military supremacy, while its adversaries have been fighting a much cheaper and more effective warfare of information for decades now. The effects are becoming increasingly apparent in the political and social instability we're seeing in western countries.

All the fancy planes and bombs can't save you from your society and government collapsing from the inside out, amid the confusion of not knowing who the real enemy is. The crazy thing is that the US built the perfect weapons (social media) and made them available to its enemies to use as they please, and it still can't figure out ways to stop it.
My competing site can have <img src="https://yourdomain/wp-login.php"> and customers won't be able to view your site after that. Thanks for the free customers!
"Pushing Ice" by Alastair Reynolds is a great sci-fi novel that explores some of these ideas, if anyone's interested. Highly recommended!
Sure, they probably won't crack that, but there are other things to consider as well. A sshd on IPv4 port 22 that accepts password auth attracts attention, and you'll spend CPU cycles constantly checking credentials from very large database dumps that float around. In my experience it leads to more log noise too, it seems many bots will discard your IP and stop pestering it if passwords aren't accepted.

So in practice you'll probably also use something like fail2ban, firewall rules that only allow connections from certain IP blocks, things like that.
Minimax search. Such a simple algorithm, but it perfectly solves chess and similar games.
I think yours is the most under-appreciated take on this entire hn thread.

> endless fawning solipsism on demand from a simulacrum of a human

ChatGPT: Every narcissist's best friend. Why settle for a stupid and fallible human when you can have an algorithmically optimized yes-man trained on all of human knowledge and available 24/7/365.
I keep making that same error =D
> There’s also plenty of opportunity to involve AI in this kind of virtual world.

interesting type of game, even though i would not personally play it. however, the author shared a resource to simulate the game for reinforcement learning (https://github.com/utilForever/baba-is-auto).
There is ~1000W/M2 of electromagnetic power from the sun, and if it's not turned into electrical power it will be turned into thermal power, thus heating up the panel.
I don't think I was unreasonable, as that was my only comment on this thread, but oh well.
I agree. It doesn't seem to make sense for some facts.

I was way out of my wheelhouse on Wikipedia one day and I saw some popular K-Pop group had announced their new album release date on their Instagram feed. I updated their Wikipedia entry with a citation to the group's own announcement and was very swiftly smashed by some over-arching editor who told me what a fuck-up my life was for even thinking this might be a suitable source for the information.
Not a hardware guy,how does one crimp and secure those custom ends?
I think analysis of gel and blot images is very important for the life science fields. But in general, the "peers" in the peer review processs have to be more careful now.
Not so much cost of energy, but the price of energy charged to consumers. As ever, the cost + margin sets the minimum for the price, but the price maxes out at what the consumer is willing to bear. Though to be fair, in the last 5 or so years, the cost of energy has risen due to the need for a dynamic network, entailing more and bigger transmission lines, but that doesn't explain the reductions entirely.

Anyone who remembers how pervasive CRTs (later rear projection, and plasma TVs) and incandescent bulbs were, can sense that things are far more efficient around the home. Better standards for HVAC (using heat pumps vs heating elements) are a big deal. A big driver of this has been large buildings where the cost reductions from efficiency can mean millions saved. Business errs towards efficiency. Another driver is that the more efficient stuff also seems to just be better too (like OLED screens)

We also have chips that run on about the same energy (or even less) and provide far more compute than 2 decades ago. Looking further back the ENIAC used 174kw of power for 0.005 MIPS (5000 additions). By comparison an M1 has 2.6 TFLOPS (2.6 trilling floating point operations) for 40-100 watts. My cores are mostly idling. In fact most of my computer usage happens on my phone which runs on far less energy still.

Then consider energy for transport. In the last 5 years, telecommuting has become so normal that fewer people are commuting to work, particularly cities.
This makes far more sense. A lot of people with insomnia have Sleep Disordered Breathing - sometimes apnea, sometimes UARS which is roughly the same thing except you tend to wake up before oxygen desaturation, resulting in somewhat different symptoms and high false negative diagnostic rates.
I founded 6 businesses that were more / less failures and lucky number 7 paid off. But if I had founded 20 failures and retired I wouldn’t have cared in terms of whether my life was a failure or not. Some people just live to try, win or lose. If you aren’t trying then it’s an auto-fail.
Have you considered using crowdsec?
I simply run fail2ban with a whole bunch of customer filters that will ban people very quickly. There's no need to request php or malformed urls when php is not used for example.
The untold truth. Logistical advantages and lower cost of labor can explain some price asymmetries but often you get what you pay for.
Seriously, I'm stun about what happen if you it the space bar. Nice fractals.
I'm curious too when bikes became that expensive. I just recently started looking for a new bike. Every major bike brand (Specialized, Trek, Cannondale, Orbea, Canyon, Santa Cruz, etc...) all sell bikes between $4000 an $18000! That's regardless of whether they are e-bikes or non-e-bikes.

When did bikes get that expensive? I bought a "brand name bike" just like 6 years ago for $900 and thought I was going way out of a normal budget.
This is something I've been wondering about with regards to museums, live music, tourist sites, eating foreign food in their places of origin, etc.

Sure, ideally I'd go for all the real stuff, but traveling to faraway places for that requires lots of planning, vacation time, money, and putting up with discomfort along the way. Some of the museum-visiting and sightseeing can probably be replaced by something like a Vision Pro without much loss in the quality of the experiences, with some upsides in the factors I just mentioned.

Whenever I'm on a trip and visit an art or history museum I feel like I'd be able to better enjoy and appreciate the stuff if I weren't so tired from the walking/standing/travel and didn't have to go through the entire collection within the time constraints, and maybe a high-end VR headset at home can offer a higher quality experience. I still haven't paid for a Vision Pro though.

Right now I do try to experience a lot of the aforementioned things (live music etc.) in person, but to be honest I'm not 100% sold on their appeal given the more affordable/convenient/comfortable substitutes we have in the modern world. So far the value for me has been more about the memories I'm making with others than the actual content of the experiences themselves.
In one of the snippets, there is a 10 second sleep inside a transaction to add delays between polling if there are no tasks,

Shouldn't that be outside the transaction?
Ideas don't "work", and different implementations of a particular idea can both work and fail at the same time (but most of them fail).
it's even posix complaint!111
I used to run fail2ban, but I found it (or at least its defaults) ineffective against discouraging further requests. With iptables, you can specify the connection to hang for a period and then drop
But an attacker with one of the biggest vulnerabilities on earth (hell, ssh noauth 0day) would very likely use it against big cloud providers and infrastructure (isps and others) and not burn it on your home server! Keeping it reasonably up to date with your distro's cycle is probably enough for most people doing this home server thing.

So of course, as things always are with security this is a matter of risk assessment and understanding your attack surface, a server with only public key and maybe on a special port goes a very long way, add fail2ban on top and i'd say it's probably fine for quite a while.

But that does make me think... what if... a wormable noauth 0day like that on ssh or some other popular system... how fast could it replicate itself to form the biggest botnet.. how long would it take, to take over all visible linux servers on the internet (so that your little home box ends up being a target)?

I guess at that point you are limited by bandwidth, but since you can scale that with every compromised server... hope someone does the math on that one day!
In London it is a slight benefit to poor people with lots of time, as you can travel a long way (sometimes) on a single bus.

But the Netherlands has a country-wide system (unlike Britain) so it has this compromise of tapping out.
Cool, speaking of rock stars, "You Give REST a Bad Name" is a bit heavier; since you're OP, maybe the next one could be "Is there a program that rocks as hard as...?"

I still remember a particular moment in the early 1980s. I was working through K&R, and temperature conversion (§1.2) had been mid, but the RPN calculator (§4.3) was lit, and having typed it in, then figured out its principles of operation, I just knew I wanted to become a programmer.

He heard one guitar, just blew him away
He saw stars in his eyes, and the very next day *

From then on, I was destined for a life of Hex, Bugs, and Rock&Roll.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic02W1bWeFU
microsoft has you covered
I agree but would word that as "...more conscious than most other animals."

Humans are animals, and we don't have an agreed upon definition of consciousness that would allow us to quantify it so precisely that we can be sure of the way you worded it. Many of the smarter animals may have just as much (but somewhat different) consciousness as humans, and you we can definitely come up with a reasonable definition of consciousness under which some animals may have more of it. For example, if one of the major measurable dimensions of consciousness involves spacial awareness (and it might, as it helps delimiting self from other) then cetaceans could easily have more of it.
This is hard to believe but if true it's insane. The claim is, 2 million bikes are stolen in the USA every year.

https://cyclingindustry.news/bicycle-theft-surpasses-2-milli...
> without other technologies which are much less developed

Sure, but the factories to make batteries are also being rolled out pretty quickly.

> and grid investments which are not priced in current PV deployment.

Which are necessary even without renewables, because of their age in the west and increased demand everywhere else.
> Out of curiosity, what are the ramifications of exposing ports 80 and 443? Can these ports even be 'hacked'?

These are the ports usually employed to serve HTTP and HTTPS traffic, which mean public-facing servers.

Having a server listening to those ports is the precondition to have web servers running specific types of services, some of which have known vulnerabilities that can be and are exploited.
He was part of the literary London set, a group of well-connected people who like to discuss their own lives, interests, and work on the pages of influential newspapers and magazines. His dad was a famous writer, which must have been a blessing (access to the literary and publishing world without the drudge of having to wait to be discovered) and a curse (the inevitable imposter syndrome). I think they admired his style, his ability to survive as a writer, and his legend (e.g. allegedly running an escort agency from his flat).
Try to write a resume or a CV in word and pardon my French, it will fuck you up. That meme about moving an image a pixel to left and in the distance sirens is true.

Markdown or latex OTOH make it a breeze. You don't have to do constant adjustments while typing or fear output is outside boundaries.
Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition
Meanwhile, in real world, non-zero:

Today, coal generates over 60% of the electricity used for global solar PV manufacturing, [...].

This is largely because PV production is concentrated in China – mainly in the provinces of Xinjiang and Jiangsu where coal accounts for more than 75% of the annual power supply and benefits from favourable government tariffs.

that said:

Continuous innovation led by China has halved the emissions intensity of solar PV manufacturing since 2011.

This is the result of more efficient use of materials and energy – and greater low-carbon electricity production.

Despite these improvements, absolute carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from solar PV manufacturing have almost quadrupled worldwide since 2011 as production in China has expanded.

and there's a bit of a bottleneck:

Based on manufacturing capacity under construction, China’s share of global polysilicon, ingot and wafer production will soon reach almost 95%.

Today, China’s Xinjiang province accounts for 40% global polysilicon manufacturing. Moreover, one out of every seven panels produced worldwide is manufactured by a single facility.

This level of concentration in any global supply chain would represent a considerable vulnerability; solar PV is no exception.

We're talking billions of tonnes of raw materials here to meet decadal global demands, and it simply isn't just sand (and remember that really good sand is a resource in demand also):

Solar PV’s demand for critical minerals will increase rapidly in a pathway to net zero emissions.

The production of many key minerals used in PV is highly concentrated, with China playing a dominant role.

Despite improvements in using materials more efficiently, the PV industry’s demand for minerals is set to expand significantly.

In the IEA’s Roadmap to Net Zero Emissions by 2050, for instance, demand for silver for solar PV manufacturing in 2030 could exceed 30% of total global silver production in 2020 – up from about 10% today.

This rapid growth, combined with long lead times for mining projects, increases the risk of supply and demand mismatches, which can lead to cost increases and supply shortages.

https://www.iea.org/reports/solar-pv-global-supply-chains/ex...
Mountain bikers run on "finicky" derailleurs over rocks and through wet mud and sand all day. They are unbelievably reliable. With the modern 1x10 or even 1x12 systems, you get enough range to remove the front shifter, reducing maintenance even more, remove almost all sources of jumping chain and allows fitting chain guard with better coverage.

SRAM has a famous video where they lay the bike sideways and jump on the derailleur while shifting, without it bending. Admittedly that model is out of price range for most riders.

Ideally you should give the chain a quick rinse and brush of to prevent grime from accumulating. Sure, the internal gears are a bit easier in that regard, because you don't need to get into the cassette. Otherwise from a reliability standpoint they should take equal beating. The cleaning frequency depends a lot on the oil you use also, wet lube will accumulate more grime than dry.
Ooo like that awesome techno music on startup, or maybe bee movie during install
A while back ported RuneScape client to web.
https://play.rsps.app/
Wasm, Typescript and WebGL
10 years ago when publishing the code to bitbucket, I grabbed what I thought was a copy of the BSD-3-clause and replaced my name and year

Seems like it wasn’t accurate. I updated the license on the github repository a few hours ago so it is exactly the BSD-3-clause template now
That seems to be a modified bike, with a head tube extension plus lots of random spacers, and lots of accessories. It's probably used as a very comfortable road/gravel bike.
"I self host my email "

Is this still possible? Are your emails getting delivered?

Downvoted. I don't know when the downvoter tried the last time to "host their own email". Yes, DMARC, DKIM und SPF. Good luck trying to get your email deliverd to t-online or something.

https://forum.hestiacp.com/t/t-online-curious-story-about-th...

They may even check if your domain has an "imprint". I kid you not. I use my own domains too, but I piggyback with infomaniak.com
Good grief. A couple days ago I re-enabled password logins on a server that normally only accepts private keys, just to check something from a third location, and then forgot to turn it off. Two days later the server's logs were full of thousands of failed login attempts that started a few hours after I enabled passwords and then ramped up to dozens per minute.

Just because it didn't instantly say "Goodbye".

I checked ip locations on the biggest offensing addresses; all were in China.

I don't know what to call the idiocy and amorality that leads people to scan port 22 for a living (or the stupidity that leads them to guess random passwords for random usernames that don't exist), but I suppose that for every gardener there are a billion ants.
But it is from dialogue that knowledge emerges. Please feel free to ignore questions that don't interest you. I appreciate the question and its answers.
If you say it 3 times in front of a mirror, it summons Stallman
> SRAM has a famous video

I presume you don’t mean the Bauke Mollema one?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsk3zAZyLaQ
There is actually no evidence this is the case, and there is evidence it is the opposite - that the less voters support something, the more likely it is to pass.
while i am too far removed to make wise comments, it is fascinating that applied maths is being put to use for finding new patterns.

after going through the google docs for resources, i get a sense of some high level topics. however, i am confused about the current paradigms. are ml models being used to reduce the search space or as a way to let computers bring about serendipity?

it seems like these approaches are like graphing libraries or monte carlo sims that help the user see the bigger picture and then put in their own thinking.
Well, 21 is like 12 better than 9, you see… (it’s frustrating how well stuff like that works).
Less advanced in symbolic thinking and communicating. There are other forms of thinking (like fast tactical thinking, some predators are conceivably better at this than most humans) and communicating (emotional communication; if we could quantify that I would bet on elephants).
Have you ever used Tor?
Why is killing conscious stuff bad?

I see absolutely no reason for that. And if you do, that won’t be normative, because you’re a fallible person just like me and there’s no reason for why I should live my life according to your reasoning instead of mine.
"PasswordAuthentication disabled" not sure I can even do this on my shared BSD server. I have ssh access via pw and need it. Is this really dangerous?
Ah, if I understand you correctly, you're actually saying that genetic drift is not _only_ a consequence of mutation/selection, right? Because of course allele frequencies change in a population just from meiosis.

(I'm not sure your hypothetical is valid though - where would the variation in alleles have come from in the first place without mutation/selection?)
Grilled rattus. I know it will work. But will it work?
It's certainly concise, but two post-evaluation assignments inside another assignment evaluated as a boolean condition feels more like the code equivalent of an Lovecraftian eldritch horror than a beautiful sunset.
I'd expect the UK to have slightly higher average speeds, as it's nearer the Atlantic.

Searching "Europe wins speed map" suggests it's close, with the UK slightly higher.

The speed in a typical city might be higher in the Netherlands, as large cities in Britain have a more varied setting. I don't know.
Anywhere, including indoors :)
Kind of, at least in regards to mobile.

When developing iOS and Android apps, the "default" frameworks for storing data (Core Data for iOS, Room for Android) are wrappers around sqlite.

I would guess >50% of apps installed on your phone uses sqlite.
The ethereum block chain is centralized - it may not have a geographical location, but there's still only one of it. In a global partition there become zero of it (only two incorrect fragments), not two of it.

Other people have even argued that blockchains are states - as in governments, not as in distributed state replication protocols.
That's just nitpicking. There is thermal power generated from the electromagnetic power from the sun and GP is right that a solar panel turned off will be hotter than one turned on.
seems more like gog/yt shifted bitrate/resolution downwards because pleps demand 4k, and now the "High Definition" version that was good enough for cinemas looks like crap.
Curious if anyone got reasonably good at a foreign language through duolingo? (Maybe able to hold a conversation)
Italy has the system you're thinking of. It's called Piracy Shield. Upon receiving a blocking request from the government through the automated system developed for this purpose, all ISPs are required to block the domain or IP within 30 minutes or else their CEOs could be criminally charged and go to jail.
Excerpts from Coders at Work: Joe Armstrong Interview (2013)
I set it up in a fairly superficial way, and there are only a handful (two or three) rules that can be applied on the free tier, and I'm a tight-ass.

It's still running, but it doesn't seem to block much - but that might be because I didn't put enough time into "doing it properly".
Every command should support the -- path separation feature a lot of newer stuff like git does.

That's a POSIX standard feature:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696799/basedefs/xbd...

The argument -- should be accepted as a delimiter indicating the end of options. Any following arguments should be treated as operands, even if they begin with the '-' character. The -- argument should not be used as an option or as an operand.
https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/
This look like a simple test to see if remote command execution works.
There's relatively little economy of scale in placing solar panels (compared to other energy sources). A lot of the scale advantage has already been achieved by mass producing identical panels.
This reminded me of:

https://github.com/ajgon/self-hosted-mailserver/blob/master/...