skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in the snowmaking industry at ski resorts for more than a decade before getting into tech. Many ski resorts have a snowmaking reservoir at elevation and a pumping system to fill it (usually off peak) and then use gravity to actually feed the snowmaking guns (at least partially). Almost every snowmaking manager (that I talked to) has had the idea at some point to try some sort of pumped hydro offset, but I'm unaware of anyone who has actually tried it. It would be fairly small scale (reservoirs can be ~20 million gallons, usually less) but it would be interesting to see the economics of it because the infrastructure is already there (pumps, pipes, reservoirs, etc). The systems generally even sit unused for 7-8 months of the year.

I think some of the challenges are that while most resorts have a fairly massive pumping system, it's usually geared towards slowly filling the reservoir, with the rest direct feeding the snow guns. Not many places have the need to fill a 20 million gallon reservoir in a couple of days.

There's also the probability that the head pressure's wouldn't work out. Gravity feeding from an upper reservoir near the top of a large mountain can result in thousands of PSI at the bottom if not passed through a series of pressure relief valves. I'd imagine ideally you would have to build a generating station and a new catch reservoir at the perfect elevation because if you are pumping a lot higher than needed the efficiency is going to drop significantly.
> The role of the court previously was to ensure the first part: that the law is Constitutional.

No. The role of the court is, and always has been, to determine what the law is -- constitutional law, statute law, common law, all of it. Forget Maybury and think Marbury. Chevron was an unjustifiable deviation from what has been the unambiguous responsibility of the courts for the entirety of their history.

> Not everything related to interpretation should be up to the court. The court's primary role is in determining constitutionality;

No, as above, the courts role is determining the meaning of the law. The constitution happens to be the supreme source of law, but it is and always has been the courts' job to interpret law from all subordinate sources as well.

> I don't think this is correct. The court has acknowledged that Congress cannot make perfectly unambigious laws. The question is about who gets to clear up those ambiguities.

I'm not sure what you are saying you don't think is correct. No one claimed that Congress makes perfectly unambiguous laws -- that is impossible. Rather, Congress passes statutes using specific verbiage, and the responsibility for -- and expertise in -- interpreting that verbiage and clearing up ambiguities is and always has been the domain of the courts, and absolutely not the unaccountable province of people with no expertise in statutory interpretation who have an inherent interest in interpreting their own authority to be as expansive as possible.
I’ve been downvoted for stating research papers regarding covid 19 markers so I’m pretty sure the votes are applied arbitrarily in my experience
Without Analytics, I'm blind: I can't tell which feature are popular and which aren't. I need those infos to undertand where I should focus, what are users the more interested in.
By "Privacy respected", I meant that I am not asking you for your email, your name, and what you do on the editor stays on your machine: no cloud uploads of your files.
The banking crisis, VW's diesel-gate, BP's florida oil spills, the list of corporate crimes (not accidents, not whoopsies, but deliberate law breaking) is lengthy. They get away with it. Every time. I don't expect anything different happening this time.
It do involve some quite complicated plumbing :) i hope i've made at least some more ppl interested in jq as a langauge and related tools with fq, jqjq, jq-lsp and by helping maintain the original jq project
I've been a strong lover of Qt, but I've just undestood that one cannot statically link it. Tbh it's never been the case in my situation, usually writing in PySide bindings which will never link dll/so libraries, however in certain situations this would get really expensive, if static linking would be required.

I am writing this article while it’s 32°C inside my room.

It took a horrendous heat to make a programmer find the best GUI library, but it was worth it! 500KB for imgui? Seriously? I remember Inno Setup creator saying that we was compiling his 'boot' application (to reduce size, because it was glued as a prefix to a zip file) in Delphi 2...
I really like Squarespace's website builder and think it's much better designed than WordPress, Wix, Shopify, etc. But unfortunately since their acquisition by a PE firm a few months ago, I expect situations like yours to happen more frequently.
Indeed, I think it would be fair to say that no one covered themselves in glory in the whole debacle.
Theo and team way ahead of their time like always.
The Hollywood Hills show that doesn’t have to be the case.
It's a black box that takes human produced artwork without consent and spits out superficial mediocre content a dime a dozen. It also takes away developer time and focus from other aspects of the software. I don't think you need to understand the algorithms underneath to have a problem with that.
> Exploitation on non-glibc systems is conceivable but has not been examined.

( https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.8 )

Darn - here I was hoping Alpine was properly immune, but it sounds more like "nobody's checked if it works on musl" at this point.
people on average are naive about politics, even when they declare they dont trust politicians. they fall for the same tricks every time: fear and greed mostly. they then go and vote based on what they think will maximise their returns and the people they vote for turn around and start bootlicking while ignoring domestic concerns until the next election cycle. so no, we arent bootlickers, stupid yes, bootlickers no.
Show HN: We created the most comprehensive global sales tax/VAT/GST index
Hey all, global sales tax compliance is one of those things that's not top of mind but can be an annoyance because sometimes you just can't get away with it when selling internationally.

We've been really frustrated with how sales tax tools out there usually only focus on one particular region (i.e. US states, Canada, and maybe Europe), even though there are like 260+ jurisdictions around the world each with their own sales tax, VAT, or GST rules pertaining to digital products.

So we made our own global sales tax index that covers virtually every jurisdiction you can think of, with updated information on B2B reverse charge mechanisms, general tax rates, as well as registration thresholds.

There is even a self-assessment feature where you can get a tailored assessment on where and when you need to charge and remit sales tax.

And of course, this is completely free - so feel free to play around!

Hope this is of use to at least some in the forum. Don't hesitate to comment with questions, and we'd appreciate any feedback!
I do think my vitamins cause me to have less small sicknesses, or make them less worse. Like, less common colds etc.
A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications
A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability
> Writing the GUI part of the program should not take more time than the actual functionality

Oh man, I wish. No such tool exists. Adding a GUI to anything almost always at minimum triples the complexity.
Zürich needs Lärmblitzer against pointless revving and honking.
legally? Not everywhere
Since this is a single go binary I bet it would work perfectly with litestream. I use litestream in the exact same way with Pocketbase and it works perfectly (Pocketbase is also a single go binary). I'm going to give it a try and report back.
Not yet, but it has already been asked several times, so I'll keep that in mind. There's balance hard to find: should I try to make it as complete as AE, or make it a simpler so it's more accessible.
Analysing 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next (2019)
Her body didn’t “adjust”. She just built immunity against all of the common illnesses.

We went through the same thing when we sent our two to daycare. Just constantly sick for the first year/
That’s a nihilist statement though. :p
I was just outing my experience, no need to get that riled up.
Two in living memory? If you know something with a better track record do speak up.
I think it's rather the other way round. People who want to promote solar energy want to make it look as if the high volatility of this energy source can be simply solved with pumped storage, allegedly making it possible to get rid of coal and fission power plants, as well as natural gas power plants and biomass power plants etc. To this end they compare the cost of pumped storage merely to battery storage, which makes anything else look cheap. (Because batteries are so expensive.)
This is a great site, I always point people to howdns.works too
You've only heard on ThinkPad having it because it's most easily encountered problem. HP, Dell, ASUS, Fujitsu, Toshiba, VAIO, ... they all have it in some models and not on others. But Dell users don't swear by their Inspirons or maintain LatitudeWiki.

White-box suppliers/resellers like Clevo or Walmart, or more recent entries like Microsoft, Huawei, Razer, Valve, etc might not have it across the lineup. Whitelist feature also invites people break root of trust; that might be an alternate concern for those brands too.
Past related threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30266927
And who was notoriously not exploitable? The ones hiding sshd behind port knocks. And fail2ban: would work too. And a restrictive firewall: would help too.

I don't use port-knocking but I really just don't get all those saying: "It's security theater".

We had not one but two major OpenSSH "near fiasco" (this RCE and the xz lib thing) that were both rendered unusable for attackers by using port knocking.

To me port-knocking is not "security theater": it adds one layer of defense. It's defense-in-depth. Not theater.

And the port-knocking sequence doesn't have to be always the same: it can, say, change every 30 seconds, using TOTP style secret sequence generation.

How many exploits rendered cold dead in their tracks by port-knocking shall we need before people stop saying port-knocking is security theater?

Other measures do also help... Like restrictive firewalling rules, which many criticize as "it only helps keep the logs smaller": no, they don't just help keep the logs smaller. I'm whitelisting the three ISP's IP blocks anyone can reasonably be needing to SSH from: now the attacker needs not only the zero-day, but it also need to know he needs to be on one of those three ISPs' IPs.

The argument that consists in saying: "sshd is unexploitable, so nothing else must be done to protect the server" is...

Dead.
I'm sorry I know this HN and not reddit, but your formulation is so close to the meme "Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a homemade megaphone, using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone."

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/045/029/Scr...
trademarks don't prevent you from making a copy and marketing it under a different name. you still get to profit from my work

also, a trademark needs to be actively enforced. that costs money. something a small developer like me can not afford. copyright protection is automatic and i don't risk losing it if i decide not to go after a violator. i can always change my mind later.
You're misunderstanding the bit of that blog post that you've quoted - it only says that starting to analyse t.co links for malicious content is a good thing for reducing malicious content. It says nothing about whether that job is easier than if they started doing the analysing without having a link shortening system in place. And in fact it goes to show that spam prevention wasn't a motivating factor in their creating t.co shortener in the first place, since they only started analysing for malicious links later than they started shortening links.

It is possible that their task was made easier by having the t.co system in place - impossible to know without understanding engineering details of how Twitter and t.co work - but it's not a claim they've made publicly, nor a reason for their deciding to use shortened links.
As I mentioned in another comment, in short, WebCodecs and File System Access API I believe. Both pretty essential for an app designed for editing large video files from disk.
Nah, Sleep Number beds are basically just an "air bladder" (aka a giant vaguely mattress-shaped rectangular bag) that sit in a tomb of foam.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pMiTq6YkJ2c/maxresdefault.jpg

People are literally paying a couple grand for a fancy adjustable airbed with some foam on top of it.
An Age of Hyperabundance – At the conversational AI conference
Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes: A Cautionary Tale from the IQ Test Arena
Why would you prefer to preincrement an integer? Too much time around C++ iterators?
Share price is linked to Elon Musk’s cult of personality more than Tesla itself.
Those not notoriously exploitable were those using gated ssh access only via known IPs or connecting via tailnets/vpn.
I just wish they wouldn’t plant acorn trees anywhere near a road, squirrels just end up in a kill zone
For AudioData and VideoEncoder, it should be possible to enable webcodecs by setting dom.media.webcodecs.enabled to true in about:config.

- https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/af09c55c0e6253ba8f...

- https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/af09c55c0e6253ba8f...
Why can't you just host your app somewhere else?
macFUSE discussion: https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/1025
Firstly, 'having a horizontal stabilizer is a source of inefficiency' is not an argument, it is a fact (one that might be a premise in an argument, but see below.) As you know this, how did you get from seeing that I said a certain argument is unsound to supposing that I am disputing this fact?

Maybe you think it is the only way that argument could be unsound, which brings us to the second point: the argument I am commenting on is not 'having a horizontal stabilizer is a source of inefficiency, therefore canards are more efficient', which would not even be valid. It is, instead, the argument that canards are more efficient because the conventional horizontal stabilizer usually produces a downwards force (incidentally, this is not always so [1].) While this may seem an obvious conclusion at first sight, it tacitly presumes a sharp separation of concerns which does not hold in practice.

The argument 'having a horizontal stabilizer is a source of inefficiency, therefore tailless designs have greater efficiency' (which was not made in the post I was replying to, but which is sometimes alluded to) does not hold up any better, on account of the compromises in making a stable and controllable tailless airplane (at least without active stability augmentation.)

[1] For some conventional airplanes, with the GofG near its aft limit, the horizontal stabilizer will produce an upwards force at low speeds (without being unstable as a consequence.) This happens to be the case for many gliders. A while back (and possibly now lost - at least, I have not been able to find it), there was an interesting article (by Wilhelm Dirks - co-founder of DG Aviation, I believe) explaining why, in practice, this cannot be exploited to get a little bit more performance out of a sailplane.
Tired: SIM swapping attacks against cryptobros.

Wired: Since Sleep Number beds get tied to orders, break into Sleep Number, find your target, SSH into their bed, and pivot into their home network to steal their crypto wallets.

After all, everyone always hides their money under their mattress ;)
Ask HN: Anyone using Delta Sharing in production?
My company has shared slices of very large datasets (100s of GBs to TBs) through Delta Sharing since we're already heavily invested into Databricks.

Thought I'd see if anyone on HN was also using it in production. Experiences, thoughts?
you can recreate your old number, but the contact list - no, there is a new database
The bed doesn’t need a cloud connection to do any of those advanced features. A phone app and BLE connection (like a smart watch) could easily handle it.
They’re already doing clinical trials on cancer vaccines in many countries.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/31/what...
And 16 years later it has only "sold" less than a dozen airframes overseas (and non delivered). It was only this year (2024) that a Comac aircraft has completed its second international flight (Vietnam).

Comac have a long long way to go yet; they have yet to tackle the certification issue let alone the delivery and operational issues. Maybe another decade?

Only then could it be considered a proper international airframer.
Yep. All the Serindia exhibits were moved into a Chinese specific corner without any mention that they were from the Mogao Caves (fairly obvious with the Sodgian and Gandharan styles, and the fact that I've seen them labeled as such in various textbooks), yet only labeled as "Gansu, China" without any mention of the Silk Road, Tarim Basin, and Greco-Buddhist art.

Also, I'd be hesitant to call these "Uyghur". The Turkic migration didn't begin until the 6th-9th century. Most of Central Asia was still Indo-Iranian (more Iranian) until the Mongols and Turkic invasions and the slow assimilation of locals into Turkic speakers.

> early 20th century Xinjiang coin in the British Museum coin gallery cast in Uyghur without any Chinese whatsoever

Well Xinjiang in the 1700s-1911 was nominally Qing controlled. That's why it's called "Xinjiang" (new frontier) - it was conquered by the Qing and their allies during the Oirat Wars, but always had some limited form of protectorate designation many times in history.

And this is where the issue arises - the Qing Dynasty was multi-ethnic with Manchus, Mongols, Hans, Hakkas, Tibetans, Chaghtai (Turkic peoples that became Uzbeks and Uyghurs), Tajik, etc well represented.

If "China" is only a "Sino" or "Han" state, then minority identities and histories (which don't show any ethnicity in a positive light) are tampered with for political reasons.

There is no reason why PRC can't coexist ethnic identity with a "PRC" identity, and this was fairly common post-Mao to 2013.

Now you have towns being renamed from Aq Masjid to Tuanjie or Dutar to Hongqi, and traditional culture (which is heavily intertwined with Naqshabandi traditional) being Sinofied. Mahmud al-Kashgari is absolutely turning in his grave.
Pakistani court sentences man to death for social media post
we are talking about alternative servers, in this case about nina.chat
1. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil De Grasse Tyson

2. Every book written by Harlow Shapley
Prob the fire department
Proper transcription to digital is to do so with accuracy, not "close enough".
> Do people still use RSS feeds?

Daily. For me RSS feed is the only option to pick what I want to read instead of reading what promoter wants me to read.

If there are other ways - I would be happy to know.
What benefits does port knocking give over and above a simple VPN? They're both additional layers of authentication, except a VPN seems much more rigorous and brings potentially other benefits.

In a world where tailscale etc. have made quality VPNs trivial to implement, why would I both with port knocking?
One of the weird things I've come to appreciate about death is it is actually a fairly communal activity in a philosophical sense. We all go through it, vanishingly few people like it and we all approach it with similar prospects of surviving for 150 years (nil, none, nothing, zip, zilch). I don't think these concepts of "positivity culture" and "denial" are really on the same spectrum. Any and every culture can devolve into delusion - in some fairly practical sense the default state of every culture is delusion (riddle me any culture that doesn't boil down to doing what "we do what we do because we can" at its logical root). We're all dying, some faster some slower, and it is possible to deal with death productively at any speed in most cultures.

The issue is more that people honestly don't know how to deal with bad situations and for obvious reasons don't have personal experience with being terminally ill to fall back on to generate instinctive empathy. It transcends the cultural aspects, I expect you can go anywhere and people will be uncomfortable with pain, sickness and suffering. One of the major things that unites humans is they'd much rather that trio of feelings stayed well away from them and this leads to some fairly harsh treatment of the people who are not doing well.

There are 2 approaches that I'm aware of - ignore death or turn to religion (I personally recommend Buddhism). Beyond that and symptom mitigation there isn't a lot that can be done although loosening up the regulations on the medical industry would probably help make life a little more bearable. I can imaging sitting in the medical system and watching it crush the life out of someone through economic inefficiency would be its own journey through hell.

> You lie there for a while and dwell on the fact that, barring technological innovation like the Singularity, you’re going to bite it one day.

The singularity won't save anyone. The maths of "forever" is unforgiving.
Together.AI is a good starting point. Even though I'm not sure what fine-tuning method they're using, the results are REALLY good.
> This was apparently a secret facility near a residential area

How 'secret' can an engine test stand be when the sound level produced by those things is enough to kill at short range while producing thick clouds of noxious fumes?
If you have root access, you may be able to re-enable ptracing:

https://github.com/BishopFox/asminject/tree/main/ptrace_scop...

That specific technique only works if root can still load kernel modules, but if I could throw that together with minimal knowledge of the Linux kernel's inner workings, there's probably a sneakier way.
Which isn't a bad idea generally, but for cities like Zurich (and its sister city Geneva which is the same also in this regard) there isn't much need - it sits at the end of a massive lake, most of the city center isn't much higher than lake itself.

Effect of the lake subsides somewhat with distance form it, but it definitely creates its own micro-climate thats always colder and more humid than further away from it. To have more high trees that prevent all that tarmac, concrete and stone from heating up during day is definitely a plus, but these cities are not some scorched Phoenix, AZ equivalent.