skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see lots of comments about how awful Scrum is. In the comments it appears they are from people working on projects directly for their employer. Scrum's greatest value is for teams that are not directly employed. For example a contractor or consultancy. It's value is to align both parties to work towards providing the most value without having to deal with the up front cost and negotiation of fixed bid projects (and the buffer that is almost universally baked in to the price). Yes, it can be abused by the consultancy to continue to bleed the customer but if used in good faith usable software or value (able learnings/knowledge) is delivered at the end of the sprint. Then the customer can make a better informed decision on whether to continue on and/or what to work on for the next sprint (because they believe it will deliver the most value now).

Using Scrum and sprints to break a larger and fully committed project into small chunks can and will slow progress down due to the increased overhead and time consumed by sprint rituals. Use kanban for that instead.
I'm currently in a pickle in this regard, as my new house has solar on Net Metering, but no ATS or battery. While its nice to only pay the base connection fee, I still go dark when the line power does.

I'd love to add at the very least an ATS to keep my fridge and freezer going when the power goes out during the day, if not a battery but I have little to no documentation on the existing solar install, so i'm reaching out to the county to see if permits have any info. Fun times!
Cosmic Research Hints at Mysterious Ancient Computer's Purpose
Another dehumidifier from MIT
Thunderf00t is going to have a field day
"Power-off data retention is increased from 1 month to 3 months."

I don't think these are meant for ordinary users. One extended vacation and your data is toast...
https://archive.ph/1bBzO
Dr Dodson has been helping pharma companies push these drugs for a long time:

https://archive.ph/2024.04.17-223802/https://www.nytimes.com...

Full disclosure, he was my doc and diagnosed me with ADHD. I kind of think the whole thing is a scam now in large part due to this.
If you're bored, and want to invest about $3k in tools and dust collection, cutting boards are a great project! (=

Standard Board - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYBg-L3R9g8

Chaos Board - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is7Qn5JuSV4

Restoring Butcher Block Table - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R6Bmc3ztPg
> 1. white, male, college (at least middle class) is exactly the demographic that the system would have provided the benefit of a script to since middle school if they wanted it.

Yeah I felt weird writing that.

That said, if they’re abusing it their legal prescription is probably not enough. My doctor gave scripts like candy and even he would only give 60 20mg pill per month in addition to the 30 days of 70mg Vyvanse. If the college kids are snorting it, it goes fast.

Also just realized that it could be because of exposure to the drug in frats.
>Simulation requires representation, which requires requires remaining differences unrepresented

Right. But presumably not all physical properties of brains are necessary for consciousness. For example, the fact that action potentials happen on the order of 1ms to 1 second probably isn't intrinsic to consciousness. That is, there is no in principle problem with having consciousness supervene on neural networks that have much longer cycles for the basic substrate of communication. It also probably doesn't matter that neurons communicate through opening and closing ion channels, are made of carbon atoms, are constructed by protein assemblies produced from DNA, etc.

What we need is to represent every necessary feature and relationship involved in manifesting consciousness. As a first pass estimation, it seems very likely that only the information-bearing structures are necessary for consciousness. But the information-bearing structures are substrate independent. It follows that a perfect simulation of these information-bearing structures engaged in their typical dynamics would be conscious.

>You can simulate the interaction [...] but the two are not the same.

This idea that something needs to be "the same" is doing a lot of work in your argument. But most relationships involved in brains are incidental to consciousness. We need to get clear on what the necessary features of consciousness are. This is the only measure of sameness that matters, not superficial resemblance.
English subs are available via the captions :)
I wrote an application that sends GPS coordinates to a Web API that plugs into Home Assistant which I use to open and close the garage door when I come home, or leave the house. 2 independent sensors confirm the action completes and if it doesn't, it re-sends the command until it does. Another sensor detects the door from the garage going into the house being opened, which closes the garage door when it was opened from the GPS application.

The application sits on a RPi in the truck powered through the cig lighter plug. I don't know how many hours I spent on it as it was a weekend project I did when I had free time (not every weekend). I can say I got it working in about 4 months though. So however many weekends I had free from that 4 month period is about how long it took. Probably 40-60 hours though.
Mechanically, all hemoglobin does is take up an oxygen molecule when in an oxygen rich environment, and releases it in a CO2 rich environment. CO2 just dissolves into the bulk fluid of the blood and diffuses out in the lungs, it is not carried by hemoglobin. However, hemoglobin can bind to CO carbon monoxide, and it can't let go of it. The hemoglobin molecule is effectively dead and useless.

If you had a molecule which functions in a similar way, it'd probably work in blood. The real trick is getting it to release the oxygen in the presence of CO2.

Immune response is a different matter that I don't know enough about to weigh in on. I'd assume there's ways around it. Possibly immunosuppressor drugs for the (hopefully) short time you're on the synthetic blood.
Another economy of scale for clamping is to put everything into a clamp rack, rather than onto your assembly table in parallel clamps https://www.jamesltaylor.com/product/8-panel-clamp-79f-8-pc/
Russia will always have an adversarial relationship with Europe. Russia is huge. Its borders are essentially indefensible and (justly or not) it will always be insecure about its own territorial integrity unless it controls the countries around it as buffer states.

Russian territory is stupendously rich in
vital natural resources, to the extent that
sooner or later it will become a super power
just on this account alone.

So why hasn't this happened yet?

Russia is resource-rich but sparse. There are riches in the ground, but everything is 1,000km from everything else. This makes it hard to transport goods and also hard to have a prosperous middle class outside of Moscow or a few other cities.

Also, considering what has gone on with Russian natural gas, many countries don't exactly love the idea of relying on Russia for crucial resources.

Russia also has poor farmland and can't feed itself easily without grain from places like Ukraine. Maybe after 50 years of global warming some tundra will thaw and then they can grow wheat in Siberia.

I'm not exactly "blaming" Russia here. Russia's territorial concerns are, well... hey... you know, the Cold War really happened, and the wounds are still there. Both sides.
What is Chalmers saying then? As i understand he is saying that there can be a world where conciousness does not exist, but all the possible physical experiments cannot distinguish between that world and our world. But that simply means the conciousness he is looking for has absolutely no consequence, and therefore his point has no value...
Do you have a destination in mind within a couple hundred miles? I hope you're not setting up to get stranded on the highway.

I think I'd be sorting weather events into two buckets: "I can get somewhere that wasn't hit hard with 50-100 miles of range" or "I need to travel a distance measured in states and refueling will be needed". So the difference between "full battery" and "half battery" is pretty tiny, and I can do plenty of house-powering.

When I think of evacuating a long distance, I think of something like a hurricane where you should be getting out of the way before it hits. If you're in the aftermath of a storm, you don't need to go more than 100 but less than 300 miles.
Why was Intel stock so high from November to April? It hit a peak of about $50 which is higher than certain points of the pandemic tech bubble.
I think this page is a few years old
Red 5 standing by.
Aegis allows you to create groups and put codes into them, and then you can filter the list to any number of groups. Works quite well for me.
Ok, except that the secret is the TOTP generator. Anyone that has the secret can generate any TOTP for any point in time, and own your 2FA. An attacker needs nothing else. So if the secrets are stored online - ever - it's nullifying the "offline" claim.

Does anyone know a 2FA app that only stores secrets offline? Eg without any networking code; as it's not only not required, but IMO is required NOT to be there for it to actually functionally be "two-factor authentication", and therefore locally-isolated.

iCloud is the worst choice of a place to store them as it's the same place the other factor may be routinely saved / backed-up, especially if "across devices".
To the point and clear, as it should be!

Helpful for the paper I am writing right now.

(I think that I can write, and have done so commercially, and have a published paper, but some fresh advice is helpful.)
How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation
I still can't get my head around the fact that one can earn a doctorate in nursing.

Therefore: Dr. Nurse Doctor
Who is Keir Starmer? UK's new prime minister is complex, unknowable, aggrieved
I suppose if I’m doing nothing, I’ll drink 8 cups in a day.

But most days when I’m out and about, I’m drinking about a gallon. And if it’s hot, it’s more.

There was a short and dumb period where I started buying plastic waste bottles and I was blowing through like 6-8 plastic bottles per day.
And when Apple's automated systems disable your account you're locked out of your accounts.
jQuery codebase is pretty ugly, it has written mostly ES5, it is using custom mixin system and is full of weird workarounds for IE.

jQuery age was horrible. You needed to manually add <script/style/fonts> into HTML. Everything was based on classes and IDs, small change in CSS would brake jQuery functionality. Codebases were poorly organised and often a mixture of PHP and JS that was re-initialised on every form click. If you wanted to use a third party component, you typically needed to pay for it. Before package managers, you got a zip file, or you needed to include script tag to third party domain in specific order, after jQuery and jQuery-UI.
I made a compass app for when I'm driving. Shows direction, speed, and coordinates. Doesn't work of you're not moving. I love it.
Thank you!

Apps like Auth are a great fit for Flutter, where desktop support is nice to have. We're also using Flutter for our Photos[1] app, and it has served us well so far. Wherever necessary (cryptography, ML, transcoding, ...), we use a bridge to communicate with the native layer, and Flutter becomes a presentation layer of sorts.

Reg. Gmail marking our verification emails going to spam, we aren't sure what the issue is. We migrated from Zoho to SES recently hoping to fix this, but that has not helped. If anyone here understands email deliverability, please do share your thoughts, we'd be grateful!

We've a migration guide from Authy here[2]. They make it difficult, but it's possible.

[1]: https://ente.io

[2]: https://help.ente.io/auth/migration-guides/authy/
I’ve probably made dozens of tools for myself that no one else uses, but — sort of by definition — none of them are publicly available. Who needs my orchestration app, access control UI, or Jenkins replacement? Nobody, that’s who.

But a few years ago I took a couple weeks out and polished up one my personal tools for public use, and since then it’s seen exactly one other user. So, uhh, I guess that counts? It’s called Saascast (https://saascast.io), and it builds revenue forecasts based on your Stripe subscription data. Took me probably two weeks to build, and required maybe half an hour of maintenance per month on average.

I use it every.single.day, though.
No. 500 year storms. 1000 year storms. etc. Though the sample time is short on these events we do possess recorded history of extreme weather events. From pre-industrial times. Which suggests the potential for off-planet causes for these phenomena. Which nearly all climate “scientists”completely disregard. Such a lack of curiosity disqualifies such an avenue of “science”.
I wonder why you want POSIX compatibility when you start a new OS from scratch. All this broken and weird stuff, like signals, buffered synchronous IO, strings, locale, ... can be written in a functional, safe and modern way, enabling safety and performance, which is just not possible with POSIX.
Thanks for the detailed info. This is really enlightening.

In a hypothetical scenario where the fed cuts interest rates a little - say 25 bps - does that have any impact on all of this? As in, is there any chance your business - the small supplier - could potentially survive the lowering of payments by your regular buyers?

What options does a small business have in such circumstances?
I thought that Hawaii is the best place to go see the Milky Way
Add 2FAS to that.
> That said, if they’re abusing it their legal prescription is probably not enough.

Adderall is also called kiddie cocaine. It's used as a party drug by crushing it up and snorting it before and during the binge drinking that is also common.

Note that only the quick release Adderall works this way and many other ADD drugs cannot be used as a stimulant like this
This^

It is a pain to switch over; but that is the way it is with all sorts of proprietary programs. They just tighten the noose regardless if you pay or not.
the copper foam is a really nice idea. for those not familiar with the problem space, the issue is that when you condense water with an adsorbent or other desiccant, it releases a lot of heat, which limits how fast you can condense water: quickly enough your hot desiccant is in equilibrium with the air until you remove some of that heat

nrel did a record-breaking design in the last couple of years with i think calcium chloride on aluminum fins, optimized to provide air conditioning (cooling) rather than water harvesting. if you're interested in this news item you might want to look that up, i don't think i saved the link

(how do they keep the chloride from eating the aluminum? i don't know, maybe i'm misremembering. zeolite avoids that problem)

my own thought is that you ought to be able to rapidly blow the air through a closed loop consisting of a recuperator and the desiccant, thus allowing it to reach the desiccant's deliquescence humidity at the temperature of the temperature reservoir the recuperator interchanges heat with, rather than at the brine-bulb temperature of the desiccant (zeolite doesn't form a brine or have a deliquescence humidity but the principle is the same). this will surely have a lot more frictional losses than simple passive conduction through copper or aluminum, but on the other hand, it's a lot easier to fabricate

in my proposal, once you've reached the desired low humidity inside the closed loop, you open it up and pump your charge of cool, dry air into the place you want cool, dry air, and then begin the desiccant regeneration process with new air circulated in the same way, but passed through a heat source

a somewhat more elaborate version of the system uses a series of heat reservoirs at different temperatures to recover about two thirds of the heat rejected at the first recuperator, using it to heat the regeneration air

but who knows, i haven't built a prototype yet, and my grasp of thermodynamics and psychrometrics is shaky at best; maybe the idea is flawed in some way i haven't figured out
>Obligatory The Office reference.

At first I thought 'Huh?".
After clicking the link I see you
were referencing the US version of The Office.

Thought I was going crazy for a few secs.
I mentioned all this in another story, but:

Having it integrated with a password manager is less secure than having it as a separate app in a separate device, but it makes it so much easier for the average person that they're more likely to actually use it.

In a vacuum, yes, you're right. It's not as secure this way. I wouldn't use that for something hyper-sensitive like classified systems. But as a system, "less secure but widely used" beats "more secure but most people avoid using it whenever possible".

It's like with the NIST recommendation against regularly rotating passwords. In an ideal world, it's a great ideal to require new passwords frequently. In this world, it only makes people pick bad passwords and append the date or serial number to it. As a system, it's more secure to require strong passwords and then leave them alone until/unless you suspect they've been compromised.
Haha this is great!

For anyone wondering this is from the Socketry team behind the ruby Async gem and Falcon webserver.
Watching the watchers - Tools of the spy trade have changed
I created a scraper that scrapes around ~30 different property management sites for new rental listings. It then sends me new listings on telegram

It’s been useful for finding new places for myself and my friends - we can usually get tours before the properties are posted on Zillow.

Though definitely against a few privacy policies
Research into homeopathy: data falsification, fabrication and manipulation
I’m very confident that if you could sell your blood on the free market and avoid donation scamming centers, which literally are taking your blood for free (time compensation) and sell it, partly to the Pharma industry for profit, the problem of not enough blood would be solved quickly.

But blood counts as organs and organ trade is prohibited.
When I was starting out a bit more than a decade ago, I was on an agile/scrum software team in a hardware company. The team was fine but I found the process painful. I ejected as soon as a new director realized he could do algebra with the story points and began plotting stories quarters out. I've never been on a scrum team since and am happier for it. As a manager now, I would push back on scrum in almost every situation (and have).
The picture is amazing!
> in the EU there are no dual-hose units for whatever reason

You could import one.

> Generally nothing

I'm surprised, then, that the EU AC bans we're discussing don't lead to mass noncompliance and civil disobedience.
Debian. Because it's worked almost all the time for a couple of decades and I am not a careful sysadmin. Wayland does not work very well though and it's getting increasingly hard to burn that crap out.

I thought I should move to guix. I started that and ran into the non-free kernel / firmware zealotry, concluded that was deeply stupid and stayed put.

edit: Debian call their rolling release sid or unstable, the slower rolling testing is also fine.
Recorder doesn't just confuse him, it confused me as well the first time I heard the word. I'd always called the musical instrument a flute, which was apparently wrong, although I don't know why since tons of other instruments that look just like a recorder are called flutes.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorder_(musical_instrument)#... has a full etymology, which contradicts the article.
This rigamarole is why I stopped taking ADHD medicine.

I waited too long to make an appointment once (because, you know, ADHD), and then ran into a problem that my doctor's office had reorganized duties to give the renewing prescriptions role to a newly hired nurse aid without considering that he can't refill controlled substances. I kinda wondered how that could work, but either because was new to the job or overconfident he assured me I was wrong about the legality of that and he definitely would get the prescription scrip for me.

By the time he / the doctor's office realized actually no, he can't refill my ADHD medication, my doctor was out and a four day weekend would soon begin. At this point I was already a few days off the meds and going through withdrawals, which got worse over the weekend. By the time Tuesday rolled around I'd essentially been forced to "quit" cold turkey, and so I was like, what is the point of re-starting this now I've gone through the hardest part of getting off it?
Many people find their own thoughts more interesting than the ones of others. Some write. Many don't.
It depends on what "meaningful backup power" is.

If I had an EV that I could use to run house-sized stuff with, and the power were off for an indefinite time due to a storm or something, then I'd like to think that I'd use that EV just as sparingly as I would my little Jackery device and portable solar panel (that I can coax at most about 80W from on a perfectly-sunny day).

I can use my rig to [sparingly] run some lights, a small fan, and to keep portable electronics going -- with hardwired Internet if that is something that is useful/extant for information or to pass the time with.

But I'm not going to use it to run the fridge, the home theater, the thirsty desktop PC, or using the laundry machines or the HVAC. I'm also not cooking with it.

I have a portable heater that will keep me warm, and enough fuel to do this for a day or two. I know how to keep the water running to keep pipes from breaking. I don't need the fridge: When the power goes off, I can unload the important stuff into my Orca cooler along with the last contents of the self-refilling ice bin in the freezer and it'll stay fine for days. If it's stupid-cold outside, the frozen stuff that I'd like to try to keep can go outside in a tote. I have a propane grill for quick outdoor cooking with plenty of fuel, and a butane burner for indoor cooking that also has a reasonable amount of fuel for making coffee or frying some eggs or whatever.

I've tested these methods off-grid. They work.

While I do enjoy the wonders of modern electrification rather immensely, and TBH I'd find myself struggling to get through a day without some small aspects of it, I don't need a ton of it to feel reasonably comfortable for a limited time.

In this very limited use (which is not dissimilar to car-camping inside of a house), a suitable EV can probably cope for a few days without substantially reducing its immediately-useful range. It'a a small drop in a large bucket of battery power.

It can probably also keep the fridge running, and run a furnace that burns dinosaurs: If the regular F150 Lightning has a 98kWh battery, and one draws an average of 500W from that battery (which is a rather hefty average if living lightly post-disaster), then one uses ~12% of its capacity (or about 28 miles of its 230 mile range) per 24-hour day.

Over two days (48 hours), that's only 56 miles spent of 230 possible miles.

What kind of disaster can you imagine where "losing" that 56 miles of range would be of any consequence -- where 56 miles means the difference between "Oh, we got this. Everything is fine." and "ZOMG if only we could drive a little further! But we can't! We're RUINED!!!"

I can't think of any that have happened around here in my own lifetime,
Centos got killed by IBM a while ago, do you mean the fedora-alike stream thing that squats on the same name?
“An earlier class of candidate blood substitutes tried to replace hemoglobin with oxygen-bearing chemicals called perfluorocarbons…”

Great idea back then in the 80s the forever blood.