skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Up in Orkney on vacation, the pretty constant wind all year (according to relatives) with a little solar, battery storage and heat pumps, I reckon off-grid might be possible. Add in starlink for internet and I might just stay here.

Not sure of the cost (need to do the research) but all of the above are getting cheaper. A small wind turbine can’t be that costly, surely.
Could you illustrate how any other language inspired Powershell in any way, beyond the most basic concept that it is a scripting language?

In bash/unix, I feel -l often stands for list, -a for all, -f for force, -q quiet or slient, -r recursive, -d debug. A modern approach could have been for Microsoft to clean it up and make it more consistent. But no.
Nothing in the iOS Settings app for Authy, but tapping the little gear icon in the app UI shows my phone number and email! I guess I did enter them at some point and forgot. Thanks.
I would say that their view is akin to religion. Any religion really.

And religion is not always bad. It can help us stay focused, and selfless for some unknown greater good.

That greater good does not have to exist. But decreasing the focus on self can still be good for your soul.
Running on the original hardware is a different experience than using an emulator. Also, you can test if your emulator is correct.

The old ones can have internet! They were mostly for playing games. There was far more software than Lotus123.

They look cool on a desk powered on. For instance, I have llamafile piping output to the Apple II.
Tell HN: BuildZoom posts jobs on HN, but no actual openings available
I see a HN job post from BuildZoom a couple of hours ago. If you click on the link, you will be taken to a job board which says no jobs are available.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40874189

Just wondering why a company posts a job on HN without having actual openings.

Is it some automated system to post jobs, or are companies using job posts as a marketing tactic?
I'm of the opinion that it's basically fine yo store them in your password manager. Yes if your password manager is broken into you lose everything (same as having no 2fa in that case), but you still prevent people from guessing your password and often avoid having to deal with email- or text-based 2fa. And if your password manager is broken into, there's a good chance your device has been broken into, in which case it doesn't matter where you store your 2fa.
https://archive.is/WZbF5
> The reality is that for any language, including C, compiler optimized code will never be as fast as hand optimized code

That's not strictly true; sometimes a C compiler can optimize away my whole program: https://godbolt.org/z/oG5nfGE6z
This is what I've done; I use a Z-Wave power meter on my electricity meter for whole-home, then some individual ones for my desk/3dp/rack, the ~50 ZigBee devices I have are mostly bulbs or sensors (I also have another ~40-50 Z-Wave devices) and the majority are things that use very little power; the usage stats from those things is a rounding error.

For bulbs and sensors, the power usage isn't useful for automation either, you can use other data they provide (turn off lights when no one is around, do stuff when doors open/close).

For whole-home though, it can be useful to see if the power is higher than you'd expect; if it's not dinner time and we're using 2kW+ for more than a few minutes, send a notification in case someone left an electric heater or an iron or something on.
If you do not need QR codes, oathtool is great. You can protect your tokens, recovery codes etc. with gpg -c or similar, so the encryption is entirely separate from the authentication mechanism.

And you actually know what is going on. Works for GitHub.

https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/
so, in this narrative, it seems like the most popular news outlets are ones that take a specific side — daily wire the young Turks. Do you think these outlets represent the “true” narrative that people are looking for?

Like I’m not making any statement about whether or not news organizations are reliable purveyors of “truth” I don’t think they are, but I think the argument is the opposite of yours, that the attempt to unbiased is pushing people away.

In the COVID narrative, people are drawn to news organizations that take a strong stand in one direction or another, not the ones that try and thread the needle towards “truth” and that legacy media like the New York Times. Is too liberal for conservatives and too conservative for liberals.

While a conservative looks at the New York Times and sees a liberal rag that occasionally panders to conservatives with an occasional below the fold op-ed that is intentionally de-prioritized to spin a narrative. Liberals in fact see those same below the fold op-Ed’s as evidence the the paper is unwilling to tell the “true narrative” because of fear of alienating conservative support.
A lot of people actually want to fight.
For Android I'd recommend Aegis

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.beemdevelopment.aegis/

Or if you have a YubiKey you could also use it for TOTPs

Windows, Linux, Android: https://github.com/Yubico/yubioath-flutter

iOs: https://github.com/Yubico/yubioath-ios

I personally use Bitwarden for TOTPs (with a self hosted vaultwarden instance), it's by far not the most secure way to store your passwords and TOTPs next to each other, but it saves so much time.
Which one did you get? Did you get the Apex Flex from Dangerous Things? How do you like it/how was the process?

https://dangerousthings.com/product/apex-flex/
Most freezers already do a defrost cycle so could probably play with that. It’s only a few degrees oscillation so idk how much savings you could get there.
By that logic, though, there was never any reason to implement it in the first place.
Russ is doing diffusion now? Must be very applicable to robotics.
There was never a "dream". Just lies and populism.
> In the US, neighbors will pay for your funeral

They do? Genuinely curious.
I agree the US in particular should have better data protection laws and consequences.

But phone numbers aren’t something I’d consider confidential in most cases. Hell, we used to publish our phone numbers in physical books and give them to the whole town for free (literally).

The data was even monetized with ads plastering every page. I guess the digital age isn’t all that different from the analog age (in certain ways!)
A Dormant Army Within: How we learned to unleash T cells on cancer
I have a very nice Graphana-based UI showing electric consumption data from Tesla power wall:

https://github.com/jasonacox/Powerwall-Dashboard

Together with temperatures in the rooms and AC activity:

https://github.com/cdzombak/ecobee_influx_connector

I plan to add a vehicle charging date to it (via Chargepoint Home).

I think Graphhana+Influx is a way to go for this type of projects.
Clay's Path to Product-Market Fit – A 7-Year 'Overnight Success'
Seems like having an ultra-chill button for that function would help with that.

Might want some phase-change materials to optimize the thermal banking.

That’s easier for a freezer (very salty water bottles) than a fridge (need some carefully produced waxes), but fridge contents should be more tolerant of temperature variability.

Would add that refrigeration is more efficient at night when ambient temperatures are generally cooler and/or heating needs are greater, so the “ultra-chill overnight and daytime backoff” might not increase consumption.
For the record, hetzner cloud also has multiple data centers (at least in Europe, haven't checked for US) with sharedand load balancers . What you don't get is managed services like k8s, databases, sqs, lambda/faas. These are generally easy to setup via preconfigured Terraform or ansible scripts, but if something goes wrong, you'll have to look at the logs yourself - that's true. (But that's ignoring that such a small team as you're proposing would likely be better served with a more mundane setup, avoiding all of these extra points of failure you'll have to manage... Making a simple bare metal setup once again the less involved and better performing alternative)
MapBliss: Create Beautiful Maps of Your Adventures with Leaflet in R
What is the issue exactly? Span is trivially copyable and destructible and, at least with the Itanium ABI, it can be passed (and returned) via registers: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/4rbcshve4 .

Other ABIs might have different constraints but there is no reason why they couldn't special case std::span. In fact if span was a built-in type there is nothing preventing a compiler form picking a suboptimal ABI and being stuck with it. In any case it is not a standardization issue, but purely a QoI.
Ask HN: Recommended front end stack for complete beginner?
If you had zero frontend experience, needed to create a web app with medium complexity in less than 2 months (its no figma but its not a static website either), what stack would you recommend?
This.

I migrated to Aegis a while back because I wasn't happy with how hard it is to get secrets out of Authy, or that someone else is managing them, and they they need my phone number (guess I was right, again).

I use Folder Sync on my Android to sync the Aegis auto-backups to a MinIO bucket I host at home.
That was just for local real-time monitoring iirc, using eg an Emporia Vue. I think you can still get the data from their website.
I have no idea of the tone on that question so... Everyone since the sail was invented. Every sailor at least.
Vim has a steep learning curve though, GUI apps don't.
In my experience as a dev... Kanban is a useful tool that helps teams organise work, break it down, be flexible. It helps the whole team to see what needs doing, identify dependencies and where to help each other out. Scrum OTOH looks similar on the surface, but is a form of micromanagement and becomes a system to be gamed. Project Managers become more concerned with velocity and burndown charts and whether specific stories were done in specific sprints or within the specific story points, than whether actual useful productive work is happening that moves the organisation forward. In the version of Kanban I've been in, you can chuck in the occcasional tech debt story into the so-called "sprint" (basically the 2 weeks between planning meetings) and no-one minds. Thus something that's slowing you down can be fixed. Whereas in Scrum, you'd have to haggle with the project manager to be "allowed" to do something like halve the build time in CI or something.
I have a Sun Ultra 30 with CRT monitor, mouse and keyboard in south London, UK that I have been trying to give away for free for a while.

This thread may push me to try again.
I mix it up and store some 2FA on different apps.

When it’s not a system I’m deeply concerned about I will just use the 2FA on the password manager.
Ask HN: Would you incorporate your startup in Belgium?
Hi HN,

For those of you that have founded a SaaS-based startup in Belgium, what's it like to incorporate & run your startup in Belgium? Would you do it again?

I've always thought that incorporating & running a BV/SRL in Belgium would be a PITA, full of endless bureaucratic processes, similar to a GmbH in Germany. The fact that you have to create a projected financial plan & balance sheet for the first 2 years, that could be held against you in court in the future, when you don't even know if your startup will be around in a year, seems strange. Since I'm planning to be fully bootstrapped, it should be fine (I will still consult an accountant & lawyer just to be sure), but I have my doubts.

Some specific questions:

- How much were the initial accounting and legal fees associated with creating & running a BV/SRL?

- In the case of a BV/SRL, what happens if you decide to pivot your idea or go the "indie hacker" route where you try a new idea every X months? Do you need to update/resubmit the financial plan every time, or can the initial plan contain a more broad/vague activity description?

- Are companies in Belgium usually ok with employees working on their own startup as long as the product/industry is unrelated (on their own equipment, after work)?
Linuxserver Container Image Collection
I used to work closely to this on whole home energy disaggregation. There are products for doing this, but the value is very limited.

Excluding EVs, heating and cooling is the largest factor for energy consumption followed by other large appliances. Small appliances and electronics don’t use much electricity or aren’t on long enough to matter.

If you’re interested in some product recommendations, the Sense Energy Monitor used to be a popular choice. Basically it is a set of clamps that you can attach at your breakers to monitor specific circuits. It’s good for monitoring large appliances with their own dedicated circuit. For individual appliances, a Kilowatt Meter works fine. If you want something for continuous monitoring long term, I’d look at the Eve Smart Outlet.
Full quote:

> Once Tesla fully solves autonomy and has Optimus in volume production, anyone still holding a short position will be obliterated. Even Gates.
I use andOTP https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP and my favorite feature is the database of 2FA can be backed up PGP-encrypted and reimported on another device. But sadly it is no longer maintained. The latest version on Google Play Store is from 2021 and can still be installed and works fine on Android 14.
Environment is a theme, but not sure about environmentalism. I am pretty sure the message is “don’t sweat it, we can always get another one when we mess this one up”.
They've been posting for a very long time
> Twilio has detected that threat actors were able to identify data associated with Authy accounts, including phone numbers, due to an unauthenticated endpoint. We have taken action to secure this endpoint and no longer allow unauthenticated requests

How do I avoid such problems in my own app? Force authentication for all requests with row-level security? Rate limiting?

Any testing frameworks that would catch this? Something like "given endpoint /user/phone-number-validate make sure only <user> can access it".
Blending frames only works in very few scenarios. It’s not something that scales well to the multitude of things that need to be shot. For example, If something enters the frame, how do you blend backwards without a frame to do so?

Frame interpolation and generation ignores the contents of the screen and softens all elements, resulting in the overly mushy results you see on TVs with motion smoothing turned on. Impacts are softer, lip syncs may be off.

To your other question, even with your stills camera, you compensate for your higher shutter speed by changing exposure elsewhere.

Either you need a wider aperture, but now you’ve set limits on your depth of field, and potential sharpness. This is part of storytelling, for both stills and motion.

Or you’ve added more noise by bumping sensitivity. Which people don’t notice as much on a still, but do with subsequent frames when noise isn’t spatially and temporally stable. You’re also not driving your sensor for extended periods of time with stills where that heat buildup of extra sensitivity can matter.

Or you need more light.

The camera is one of the most emotional parts of a film. Yes you can do all these other things, but by doing that you place hard limits on the story the camera itself tells.
Greatest common ancestor (merge base in git terminology):

https://www.bitkeeper.org/man/gca.html

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-merge-base
I use tools such as Google Maps and Open Street Maps, and I cut/paste, mostly just by eyeball, with the relevant things I might be interested in - the train stations of Rome, for example, and so on. Google Earth is also great for this, but I confess that the last one I made for myself (Berlin), I just screengrabbed and pasted my friends # in place, with the train details, etc.

There's something comforting about knowing how to get around when the power goes out. Since I enjoy roaming adventures requiring navigation, making little maps for myself is basically just how I roll .. got me where I needed to be.
Modern sailing is an incredible departure from the traditional. The technology has come so far that when I watch an Americas Cup trifoil float above the waves (on two legs), turn on a dime and race away at 90km/h I can’t help but think back to classic science fiction. It’s become real and is beautiful.
Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial is still among the best https://www.railstutorial.org/

Rails is opinionated but its opinions are often correct!
"A pig? Looks like two bears high-fiving to me."
> thus difficult to handle in a CLI outside of a utility (usually need privileged MS insider OS API documentation)

There's a CLI command for it! What are you talking about with regards to APIs needed to do the particular task I mentioned?

> (GUI usually slowly leak memory over time.)

No, no, no, no. Please don't make up false statements to try to "prove a point".

You're just being disrespectful to be disrespectful. You're disrespectful of many talented individuals in the industry. For shame.
No, they are used in some classes of ocean passage races. IMOCA 60 is one such class.
Yeah, its fine, I know these things exist. I just wish they didn't.

:)
> Wow, it seems I was not able to satisfy your sky high metaphysical expectations either.

You didn't even try. Your argument, if it can be called that, seems to amount to "what if metaphysics doesn't matter?" which is lazy and pointless. Essentially you're just saying "nah uh" without actually presenting any sort of evidence or deep thought.

Good day indeed.
Speaking as someone in the US, I certainly recognize the theme. Apparently quite effective, historically-speaking.
Maybe this is a US vs Europe thing? I'm in the latter region, where I am there's a ceiling for dev salaries, virtually the only way to break through is to become a manager. It's also very uncommon to share the companies success.
I used to fly into Pittsburg and take an Uber to my grandparents house 40 miles away. For years I could always get an Uber but then after the pandemic my trip was rejected so frequently that I had to start renting a car. So basically no one wanted the gig and Uber never told me my ride was unreasonable. Something changed in the algorithm to benefit drivers, Uber, or both, at the expense of the customer, and that info wasn’t made clear to the users.
Sometime in the 1990s, judging by how young Mike Meyers is. The Iraq reference makes me think they’re joking about Gulf I not Gulf II, so probably circa 1991.
I liked to lie to people that my big old modular Thinkpad (the one with two bays for batteries, disk drives, cdroms, etc) had a tiny gas generator module in it to charge up the batteries, then I'd mime pulling the start cord, while surreptitiously playing a loud audio file of a chainsaw starting up and running, to prove it.
It being cold also tends to help with better sleep.

We set our AC to 76 during most of the day, 80 during on-peak pricing, and 72 overnight.
US national anthem's surprising connection to England
You know, one thing I learned from my patients... they all hate the phone company. It's interesting; even the stock holders of the phone company hate the phone company!
I don't think the point you are raising here is mutually exclusive to the parent comment, nor does it really justify anything.
I'd say the pig is somewhat recognizable, with four legs and a tail. The humans on the other hand...
there is no way Hetzner is worse than fly for uptime. Fly has deleted my db, taken servers offline for hours, and expired tls certs for hours without telling me.
You have to not latch on to causes such as "advance humanity" and then justify making people do work for free. We decided a while ago[0] that making people work for free was a bad thing. There is high demand for curing cancer. Every company that tries it will hire scientists and lab techs and large laboratories, and have subscriptions to journals. Do you think all of those people should work for free, in the cause of advancing humanity?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833
> why should they give everything and get nothing back

They aren't giving everything they're there to do a job and that job is make the company profit.

The person you are replying to isn't saying "you need to go the extra mile to make profits" they're saying "you should be focused on making money for the company, not on personal preferences in your code".
I would love a way to turn off my electric hot water heater between the hours of about 10pm and 7am.

I see no reason to keep the water hot during the time absolutely nobody needs it, and we know it will take less energy to heat it back up again rather than keep it at temperature.

Also, yes, I have turned the temperature down as low as it will go.
But anyone who needs to see these publications can reach them through libraries. One of the reasons why Elsevier can charge so much is that their customers have been institutions.
Some of the companies that post on “who's hiring” are not actually hiring too. I think they're using these fake openings to signal something to their competitors or investors.
yep, once you have the data, constraints, and utility functions properly* in the system you can brute force your way to many good enough solutions very quickly.

I coach a basketball league that has 8 periods. No player can play 2 more periods that any other player. The number of possible line-ups per game while still hitting the playing time contraint is astronomical. Very easy to find a series line-ups that fits the constraint, but very hard to find an optimal or near-optimal series of line-ups. It gets even more fun when you have to adjust for late arrivals or unannounced no-shows.

* not always completely doable
There is a Winget client module for Powershell. I used it the other day to write a one liner that could upgrade all with exclusions. I didn't want to pin, because I still wanted to see updates I'm skipping.
As alternatives: I use Authenticator Pro on my phone and keep encrypted backups whenever I modify it. I know others have pointed out Aegis.

The issue is starting the migration out of Authy. Assuming Authy has no easy export, I suggest you migrate over a few entries at a time (maybe from top down) while keeping account of transfers somehow. You can have authenticators live side by side in the meantime!
Rotating an image and moving some text apparently
My fridge (some LG models supposedly does this. I say “supposedly” because this requires connecting to Wi-Fi, which I don’t want to do, but in their the energy company sends it signals about how the grid is doing and the fridge goes into energy saver when appropriate.
People who know us and who care about us can speak the hard and raw truth
In relationships with other people, especially those closest to us, we often encounter situations where their words seem hurtful. Honesty that is perceived as unfair and harsh can be difficult to accept and is therefore automatically rejected. However, only people who know the other person well and care about his or her wellbeing are able to make comments that are difficult to hear but necessary for his or her development. Provided, of course, that they do so with empathy, respect, reverence and sincerity.

According to a Gallup survey, only 26% of employees believe that the feedback they receive helps them to do a better job. This is because appraisals and development discussions often lack the ‘tough’ content that would be helpful for their development.

Research from the Harvard Business Review supports this. They report that while 72% of employees consider leaders providing critical feedback to be important for their development, only 5% of them believe that their managers actually share such feedback with them.
> Despite efforts to provide advice, the distinction between grease payments and bribes remains a source of contention in FCPA enforcement, with legal experts and practitioners continuing to argue and interpret it.

Talk to corporate council before "grease payment"-ing anyone.
> Once

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