skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking to see what escalation numbers I may still have...

[Edit]: Sent them what I have but it isn't much. Most human contacts have been replaced by menu's. I hope the last one I sent helps.

It appears someone managed to get NetworkSolutions (now web.com) to put the domain he.net on clientHold for one Phishing complaint, unrelated to he.net meaning someone did a lookup on bgp.he.net and reported he.net instead of the domain they were looking up. If true it means web.com did not do any due diligence, investigation, etc... and just put a very popular domain with many shared services on hold. The domain he.net is used by MANY services and those services are likely going to start breaking. I have no idea what's going on over at web.com.

As a side note, I recently transferred all my domains away from NetSol/web.com as they lost the ability to define custom name servers (glue in the root servers) which is bizarre to me, given many of the meme-style resellers of resellers can still do this. I had many other strange experiences with them, including having to teach their escalation contacts how to use dig outside of their own name servers.
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As a document clustering / dataset deduplication technique, how well does "throwing ML at the problem" (e.g. using a pre-trained LLM encoder to generate vector embeddings of your documents, and then sticking those vectors into a vector DB and doing k-means to cluster the vectors) compare, quality-wise and performance-wise, to these simpler discrete-algorithm methods?
Even infants are really good at sucking.
> Seriously, who is the intended audience of this headline? People who only read the headline and think "Woweee science is amazing!" before scrolling down?

That's a bigger fraction of the population than we might like to think...and probably the majority of the eventual readers of that headline (as it trickles through to other publications). I'd bet your sarcasm is actually correct there.
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Congrats on launching. It's still not clear how it works from the how it works section.

You do not have access to internal Google indexing APIs so how does your app make indexing faster?
I just want to point out that the paperclip problem was already present in a short story from 1959 by a Soviet sci-fi writer Dneprov - Crabs on the Island

https://archive.org/stream/AnatolyDneprovCrabsOnTheIsland/An...

I am sure there are even earlier examples - but the above is a nice short read.
So, you think it is based on physical layout of keys, and not character mapping? I am thinking of that, too.
Yes, later this week I will follow up with something to tell a little bit about the animation and the sphere positioning, that graph was kind of the most fun in writing this blog post. Thank you for your feedback!
They can be recycled, its just currently more expensive than the post-product
I thought they could be recycled but at the moment it’s cheaper to mine. Is that not true?
I did this for years with a beefy arbor press (just for mechanical drives).

For our scale at the time (destroying 10s of drives a month) it worked fine and it was a great stress reliever.

Get off a frustrating customer call? Go take 15 and take it out on the stack of drives needing destruction.
Honestly I would just prefer to see it ranked as a table or similar to the databases on.
I really wanted to use this tool because I love Vim, but it just feels 'off' to me. I'm not sure why, though.

In a spreadsheet, I'm used to being able to move around with arrow keys and start typing immediately. Using SCIM, it feels like I'm constantly hitting a wall.

Despite that, I think the idea of a spreadsheet as a TUI is really great.
Spam repo around a simple prompt.
Common Lisp Names All Sixteen Binary Logic Gates
Didn’t realize it exists for Android. I use ios now but Aegis was great on Android.
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/epp-status-codes-2014-...

> This status code tells your domain's registry to not activate your domain in the DNS and as a consequence, it will not resolve. It is an uncommon status that is usually enacted during legal disputes, non-payment, or when your domain is subject to deletion.

> Often, this status indicates an issue with your domain that needs resolution. If so, you should contact your registrar to resolve the issue. If your domain does not have any issues, but you need it to resolve, you must first contact your registrar and request that they remove this status code.
Most religions are syncretic. You're taking a very modern view of Judaism, as a very clearly defined set of beliefs that cannot just borrow from other religions. Early Judaism (if that's even the correct term her, because this was a very different religion from what we now know) was not even clearly monotheistic. The idea of borrowing stories from neighboring peoples (especially incredibly powerful neighbors with great cultural influence) would not have been as shocking as it would be nowadays.

> they would have been descendants of the same story originating from the proto-Semitic people they both came from.

The Epic of Gilgamesh predates Genesis by about 1500 years. The people who wrote Genesis would have known of the Epic of Gilgamesh. I do not find it convincing to hand-wave the identical details in the stories (like the story about beaching on a mountain and then releasing birds from the Ark to find dry land, until one doesn't return) as merely suggesting a common origin. Babylon was a superpower of the time, both politically and culturally. The Israelites were influenced by it.
Those stories are accurate and not just hearsay. First-hand experience here.

Its largely because of third-party interference in the hiring process.

There is no enforcement of fraudulent postings.

GPT has made generation of in-differentiable scam positions cost effective.

Head hunters are incentivized to engage in this activity since it concentrates value in their services.

There are also some companies engaging in dubious legal agreements where they outsource their hiring to a third-party which is incentivized to engage in pay-for-play kickbacks among their real customers.

There is also about an equal chance that this is either the Chinese government (causing sabotage), or monopolistic companies seeking to suppress wages.

Bad things happen when the majority of people can't find work to feed their family, and there is no means to retrain.
Recovering lithium from batteries is not cost effective compared with mining new lithium. However, battery recycling is possible and still worth doing, because it recovers more valuable metals such as cobalt or copper.
I know yoh mean this in a general sense, but I just whish to point out for everyone that in this scenario you don't actually need certificates: a MAC to prove authenticity is enough.
You can use "man <command>" the same as in nix. The man command is an alias for Get-Help and it retrieves the same information.

There's a lot of nix aliases for Powershell commands. Get-ChildItem is also called with ls, mv calls Move-Item, cd calls Set-Location, etc. They made at least some effort to make it more accessible to people coming from *nix or cmd.
Map of Pontypandy in Fireman Sam
I'd rather hear a projection from an engineer/scientist/operations person in the industry. This kinda reads like it's written by an armchair expert who thinks about batteries a lot, but doesn't have much to do with building that future being described.

Sometimes the technical details matter and projected scaling trends aren't an inevitability.
Lithium batteries still have limitations with charging at low temperatures. OEMs can design systems that will warm the battery up to a temperature where it can be charged after the car is started, but it’s not nearly as simple as dropping a lead-acid battery in.
This is cool, but note:

* ~~It requires two passes over the data to hash (notice the two while loops).~~ Actually it doesn't.

* The first loop casts the data pointer to a 64-bit int, so you will get different results depending on endianness. I don't remember if this is undefined behavior or not.
Plus you'd need a boat. Borneo is about a hundred miles from the mainland.
Rare form of eye stroke that causes blindness now linked to Ozempic and Wegovy
there was a really simple string sort by similarity oneliner I can't find in my history, but the basic idea was to take a wordlist, split each word in half, reverse the halves, concatenate them back together, sort the resulting strings, then flip the strings back to their original words.

this simple shuffle was a poor man's similarity sort that I used to find sound-alike words. the thing about the quality of similarity is that it's hard to know for sure if it worked, but this was sufficient.
Analysing style is just a hardcoded string?

https://github.com/innovatorved/copy-my-writing/blob/47defc8...

At least it could have used ChatGPT to analyze the style itself and then feeding it back to itself.

Then again this repository is just 3 days old. Maybe it gets some polishment later
I like the T-34 layout[0] - I like how much 'science' (research) did he put in it. An another one is the callum layout[1].

There is an option with QMK to rediscover TRRS cable when it gets disconnected or is plugged after startup, but I see now that that's not the only problem. TRRS is an easy/cheap solution, but a dangerous one if not correct.

[0] - https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2021/06/03/the-t-34-keyboar...
[1] - https://github.com/callum-oakley/qmk_firmware/tree/master/us...
Exactly. This is what Tony Seba is talking about for 10 years already! He talked about this in his 2014 book Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation.
I could be wrong, but I think it just goes over the data once. The first loop increments i by 8, so is processing 64 bits at a time. It looks like the second loop only does the remaining few bytes, if any.
This should have "Show HN" tag
Also you don't have to use selenium or HN api - there are DBs with updated HN data
Also in Germany, four person household, we have been around 1500kwh per year for years now. Last year we actually spiked a bit to around 1550kwh, it was usually a tick below 1500. We are also away for at least a month every year, but we also have guests frequently.

Workload: everything except heating, we cook a lot etc. The thing we don't really use except occasionally is the dryer for the laundry. In general I try to be thoughtful about it, but not to the extent that it becomes a huge sacrifice. E.g. if I boil eggs I just switch them off once they start boiling, the remaining heat in the stove will last for the few minutes, no need to waste energy and it's no effort on my side. Obviously it's a bit different if you have induction, but even there I'd always keep the lid on. Tiny things add up surprisingly quickly.

Also in a shared office space where the six of us use around 1000kwh. The biggest waste is probably the old lighting but it's mostly used just in the winter.
For anyone not well versed in DNS who needs an ELI5 level:

This impacts anyone using HE.net for their domain name service because a domain name specifies its nameservers (in an NS record) using fully qualified domain names. I believe it's ns1.he.net and ns2.he.net.

User at WildISP tries to go to a site. Resolving nameserver at WildISP.net fetches the NS records for samplewhamplesite.com from a root server and gets pointed to ns1.he.net...which no longer exists because the entire domain disappeared from the root servers.

It looks like things are back up?

Edit: nope, still in clienthold.
I can't believe that NetworkSolutions doesn't have a list of significant ISPs by domain name or something. I would proactively work with significant ISPs before suspending the entire domain and interrupting their services.
I think it would be good to have some publishers require reproducibility, and some publishers that don't. Every requirement is exclusionary, and there are always edge cases where a paper can be useful even if it doesn't fulfill a requirement.
Interesting data, but I think the percentage of remote listings is misleading. Many “remote” jobs now require you to live within commuting distance of a particular city, usually SF or NY.
I know there are plenty of other examples of governments not trusting their constituents but it’s little stuff like this that really highlight that divide to me. Always go over the local populace and botches simple plans while overspending when many people are willing to solve the problems through volunteering but are never afforded the opportunity to.
He claims the expert estimates have been wrong every year (too conservative).
I would love a 5-20kwh battery backup in my home, I even have a place for it. But when I called my local solar/battery installer they said that it was illegal to install grid-charged battery backups in home. I live in Minnesota.

They even told me the power from a hypothetical solar rig is sold to the grid utility, not stored, and they give a discount on future winter rates as payment. This seems like a lousy deal.
These statements are 100% pseudo-scientific woo. If you look at the mechanism, you can't measure anything on it even with 1mm precision, let alone 0.037mm.

https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/AF613...

I can't believe so many people people for for that kind of woo.
cursor-addressing uis likely have a higher barrier to entry (both for developers and users), so they are not suffering from the regression to the mean that has made modern guis absolutely unusable.

that, and there aren't any "ui/ux designers" specialising in cursor-addressing uis.
As someone who works in a robotics company, our biggest competition is minimum wage Latinos working in warehouses.
So, I have some competing thoughts on this. On the one hand, science is tedious and boring but people often pursue it as a career because it is in some way inspirational or aspirational. Students in science programs aren't just yearning for the mines. Also, science is highly repetitive and yet all grant money is scoped as pursuing something new and innovative.

When I worked at a research lab, the communications folks would often ask me, can we call it AI? They were almost begging to put that label on it, I suppose they new that would be high quality bait. But no, sorry it's just statistics and computational methods.
Totally, Rust has substantially affected how I write code at my day job (C#). If I ever get round to learning a functional language, I'm sure that would have a much bigger effect.
It's not the endianness that's undefined, it's the dereferencing. 75% chance of this causing an alignment trap on my current development target.
I'm reminded of Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott[0], which is in part about just this sort of thing. Maps were one example presented in the book. And it does apply beyond just that too; I read this blog post a while back relating this tendency to social networks: https://technomancy.us/199

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
>>Spoofing a CAN or ARINC429 bus requires physical access. At that point an attacker has access to the physical systems of the plane, at which point the plane is compromised anyway.

I gather a perp only has to access the right piece of equipment in any phase of the logistics.

These buses are employed mostly in the avionics industry, but they are also utilized in ground vehicles, weapons systems, and other commercial and military equipment industries.[1]

[1] https://www.logic-fruit.com/glossary/arinc-429-guide/
I agree, I've realized too late that I should have introduced a "Hybrid" category in this.
I’m fine with the occasional .DS_Store getting added, because you can just remove it afterwards. Most of my work is either my own projects or at work, and whether people at work commit .DS_Store files is a question that touches on code reviews, company onboarding guides, etc.

Maybe the benefits / drawbacks would be different for an open-source project with a lot of contributors.
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Show HN: Foorr – A minimal to-do app with social accountability
I've created Foorr, a minimal to-do list app that focuses on short-term getting-things-done and the option to do this with friends by holding each other accountable and helping each other grow together. Main goal is to fuel your progress whatever needs to be done and hold yourself accountable for your own progress (with some external motivation).

Here's what it does:
- Create tasks for today and tomorrow only (real hyperfocus on short term GTD).
- Invite friends to cheer each other moving forward.
- Building up a daily streak as you finish all tasks daily. All tasks completed before midnight which were planned for that day, earns you a level up. Rewarding that sense of completion.

Why I built it:
I used physical post-it notes and was a bit done with it. I really wanted something minimal focusing only on my to-do's for today and tomorrow.

No bloated features, nothing to fancy/polished, just something no-nonsense I wanted to use myself. It might be useful for others who struggle with procrastination and keeping op progress getting things actually done. Feedback is definitely welcome and nice to hear if this resonates with anyone else.
"Green Li-ion Marks the Opening of its First Commercial-Scale Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Plant in Oklahoma"

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240618645137/en/Gre...
Lifepo4 (lithium iron phosphate) batteries for the home are pretty cheap as of today. Power storage for residential use in a 48v metal rackable linkable system with battery management system (BMS) is $89/kwh shipped/duty paid from reputable chinese suppliers CATL/Seplos etc. You have to wait for sea shipping, add $30/kwh if you want to buy it in the US today.

From the same suppliers sodium batteries are currently $130/kwh and about 26% less efficient in the same form factor. I look forward to this changing.

Due to rising power costs I moved one of my homes completely to solar and battery (lifepo4) and haven't had any problems. I can't imagine ever going back to the power company. Panels have gotten to the point of being ridiculously cheap. I have a lot of space. I purchased pallets of used panels for more or less the cost of transportation ($34 per panel 270w). They produce about 85% of their nominal rating.

I mention this because other comments mention costs that are much much higher.
Once the police and military do not need a single human to operate, the basis for democracy may be completely gone.

Consider past periods of history where only a small number of soldiers could dominate much larger number of armed citizens, and you will notice that most of them were ruled by the soldier class. (knights, samurai, post Marian Reform Rome).

Democracy is really something that shows up in history whenever armed citizens form stronger armies than such elite militaries.

And a fully automated military, controlled by 0-1 humans at the top, is the ultimate concentration of power. Imagine the political leader you despise the most (current or historical) with such power.
Not sure that was the case 50ky ago. That was during a glacial period, sea level was probably 100+m below current level.
It does seem to be written by someone who's very far above the ground — even managing to throw the blockchain in there at the end.

But the point they're making is reasonable. Just because the author isn't deeply technical doesn't mean they can't fit an exponential and extrapolate correctly.

Exponential growth always has to stop somewhere, but that's not in and of itself a reason to think this year is the year that it will. The napkin math about sodium and battery cost is at least reasonable, it's worth considering seriously rather than handwaving the author away as not an engineer.
In the UK you can buy a battery at £160/kWh, complete with BMS and thermal management:
https://www.fogstar.co.uk/collections/solar-battery-storage/...

For less than £130/kWh if you're willing to build it yourself, you can get a slightly less capable setup: https://www.fogstar.co.uk/collections/solar-battery-storage/...
They should have called it PowerScript, because it's a perfectly decent scripting language and an absolutely horrendous interactive shell language.
What do you think of the thumb keys on the Pinky4 keyboard by tamanishi?

https://github.com/tamanishi/Pinky4

Even the leftmost one is about as far over as Alt on a typical keyboard.
Feedback I’d have like more examples to watch at the top of tha page and less “create your video” buttons. All the buttons feel desperate.
The same challenge with calling conventions happens with Python calling into Windows APIs, moreso since there aren't that many wrappers available, other than installing something like ActiveState Python.
Google Cloud has an API to crawl a page, but it’s only meant to be used for job postings and live events, so they can add and remove the pages quicker than usual.
I would be concerned that adopting PR would force dominant parties to agree to the demands of smaller, fringe parties in order to form a working majority. FPTP, to some degree, stops this from happening..

Is this a dumb take?