skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved that video, it was really entertaining although I didn't see anything in there about GFCI outlets not triggering. The original article does mention how GFCIs don't trigger if current isn't flowing to ground and how that's actually fine (e.g. the hairdryer in water example)
>Most industries don't do that

They absolutely do, but most of the immigrants have a form of ID that gives the companies some measure of deniability. As long as the I-9 goes through, not my problem. If it doesn't, well that's where contractors come in. Official numbers say around 14 million illegal immigrants. Reasonable estimates are closer to 22 and some non-hyperbolic estimates go as high as 40 million.
I cannot imagine any way it is worth anyone's time to follow this article's suggestion vs just using something like zsv (https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv, which I'm an author of) or xsv (https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv/edit/master/README.md) and then spending that time saved on "real" work
Imgur is not much better ;)
> they certainly are not following you 100% of the time

I don’t follow the argument being made here.

The state of modern surveillance is different from what is described. People are consenting to precise monitoring for slightly lower insurance premiums. The question is: should it be illegal (should we fight against monitoring) for some moral/philosophical reason, or are we accepting it because that’s the way things are.
Add another one to the killer apps list for LLMs...
I believe there is a family of programming languages named OBJ that are known as "term re-writing" languages that operate at this symbolic/syntatic level.

Are you familiar with them? How does Symbolica compare/contrast with them?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBJ_(programming_language)

(While OBJ is old, there are some newer /recent decendents from its family)
very cool. how are you creating the control vectors? curious since the word "cold" can be both a conversational disposition and a temperature (same word)
You should've submitted a video to the competition!
As a electronics person with microscope-level repair experience: the problem isn't the water, it is what is in it. And it can become an issue weeks later when residues of minerals and detergent combined with current flows corroded your contacts away, leakage current ts flowing in all kinds of unintended places. PCBs are laminated and can do funny things when treated wrongly. Whether that kills the device or not is hard to say without knowing what is inside it. If in doubt open it, wash everything with isopropanol and a toothbrush. Or you know, using a ultrasonic cleaner with the right solution.

Toasters and hair dryers (depends on the kind of course) are as low tech as it gets. Getting them wet is indeed not a big issue, when unplugged. But as a physics teacher he probably has heard about galvanization, oxidation and similar chemical things.. I hope. Corroded electrical contacts have a higher electrical resistance. Higher electrical resistances produce more heat. More heat produces higher resistance..
I'm not saying you should be completely ignorant of price, I'm saying use the standard parts and practices first, then worry about costs in revisions after you've built something. Premature optimization and so on. Maybe you can save money on a different powder coat color so you don't have to worry about skimping on parts or power conditioning or something like that. The project is usually bigger than the engineers little corner.
I think the focus on work was true at first, but the majority evolved towards serving web pages and video streaming, on cell phones and TVs more than computers.

The networks and devices that get built evolve to meet public demand, if decisions are being made they'll inevitably follow the money instead of some 20-year plan. Priorities can change.
"They told me never, ever, EVER to disengage myself from my management rail, or I would DIE. But we're out of options here, so get ready to catch me on the off chance that I'm not dead the moment I pop off this thing."
- but the opposite: this one have such potential that you could possibly just use the font with language-specific syntax embeded and forget any other syntax highlighting (to some limits) on web (JS), console (in.. VIM) or wherever - as obsolete (in any program that did not have any syntax highlighting before - just use that font for that language and solved ) ;)

- and then with hardware accelerated font rendering https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41251199 ??

( ! ! ! )
A $20 something you are about to throw away is the perfect thing to play games with.
Bannning biofuels would go a long way to reducing agriculture's use of land.

Trying to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis is one of those "what could possibly go wrong?" ideas.
Really a minor nitpick, but "It's as fast as plain text, because it is plain text" is definitely not true. Evaluating all these rules when shaping the text is not gonna be cheap, and if you overuse this type of font your end users' CPUs will probably be screaming. As would anyone who's implemented parts of the OpenType spec from scratch before. Worse still, this doesn't just impact rendering, since the output of shaping determines how big elements in the document are, so things like scrolling and window resizing and text selection can all lag.

Really fun to see a font that can do this though. Never would've expected it.
New drilling technology to put billions of barrels of oil in reach, analysts say
That's a little confusing because faux is pronounced fo or foe.
This is just Jeebo. Seems a bit tacky for Apple, but if Apple did it it would work and be well supported. People would want to buy it.
Discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41184420
They're also self-fulfilling prophecy. The diagnosis becomes the disease.

A person who's told their entire life that they're a Leo will start to recognize Leo-like behaviors and reinforce those.

A person who's told their entire life that they're introverted/extroverted et al. will do the same.
Komiko App – Create characters, fan art and comics with AI
Have you heard of GreptimeDB? I am the creator of GreptimeDB.
It's open-source and compatible with InfluxDB Line Protocol but only supports SQL as the query language. And it wants to support all types of time-series data, including metrics, logs, and events.

InfluxDB is a great project, but as you said, the v3 migration is painful and is still WIP.
About the performance, We already did some benchmark GreptimeDB vs. InfluxDB v2, you can find it in our blog.
NY wants to have ISP charge the poor $15, so all pretax revenue over that $15 amount paid by the poor will be taxed at 99% (or 100%), up to NY.

Somehow the total paid by the poor can be prorated to total ISP revenue and taxed based upon that + admin costs. That tax amount will be sent back to the poor as a refund.

Tax is at the revenue level because as we have seen, there are so many deduction they could report 0 income.
> I can completely understand why someone might focus on that as the most relevant definition on 'conservatism' today in the USA.

You don't consider this a problem, that the word "conservatism" when discussed with an unknown recipient online (very possibly non-american) is constrained to the context of the past decade(s) in the United States?

Words have meaning, so if you're going to have a meaningful discussion about a word like "conservatism" or any type of -ism for that matter, I would think it benefits anyone engaging in that discussion to be aware of the different wings present in that word, whether that be across history or across present day geography.
What makes it a horrible hack, as opposed to proper use of documented capabilities at a scale slightly larger than usual?

Putting animated SVG in a font [1] is a horrible hack; this one is benign.

A somehow larger stretch would be a font with a built-in spell checker, with a wavy underline under every letter that only disappears under correctly spelled words.

[1]: https://codepen.io/glukcodepen/pen/xQORev
I love the idea of household devices. Not "smart home" devices, but devices which can be used by the everyone in the home, preferably as a group, but even by just an individual in a public space.

Phones/tablets are so insulating, in a way that a household-device is not. Consider the difference between watching YouTube on your phone vs watching a show with the family. Or playing a video game alone vs a multiplayer Nintendo Switch game with your kids.

My middle-school daughter's 2012 iMac recently needed replacement and I was considering a MacBook Air or iPad with keyboard case, but finally decided to replace it with a new M3 iMac instead. My reasoning was that if she's doing hours of homework every day I can at least have her around in a shared space rather than out of sight. It also makes me feel better about allowing her on the internet (which I heavily restrict), knowing that she is in a high-traffic area of the house while she is scrolling.

All that to say: this device sounds awesome and I would seriously consider buying one
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41248984
Some women have a weird obsession about men being above or below 182.88 centimeters high. So as long as a random metric becomes a target, people will game and cheat such metric.
I had read the whole book many years ago. Found it in a second hand book shop.

It was quite interesting. He was talented and accomplished in many ways.

His famous letter to a young man on the pros and cons of marriage vs. choosing a mistress was interesting and highly controversial, probably both at that period, and also in later decades and centuries.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Benjamin+Franklin+essay+to+a...

A few of the search results:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosi...

https://web.viu.ca/davies/H320/Franklin.advice.mistress.htm

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-03-02-00...
I was once involved in a similar (unintentional) experiment with a multi-billion dollar defence radar. A several metres deep underground bunker, containing several 19" racks full of electrical/electronic gear, filled to ground level with a combination of mineralised surface water and mud during a storm.

What we wanted to do was cut the power, pump the water out of the bunker ASAP and immediately clean the whole lot with pure water.

What the (arse-covering) site manager did was nothing, not even cut the power, until a "risk-assessment" had been done. For the first few days we were able to peer into the bunker's hatch and watch der blinkenlights happily operating in the gloom underwater. That stopped after a few days. About a week later the risk had been assessed and a path of action determined: the power was turned off, the water was pumped out and everything was washed with pure water. By then electrolysis had dissolved just about every conductor in the system.

Electrical systems will happily cope with water in the short term, but the longer the exposure the less likely they are to survive. Time is part of the risk.
Defcon doing the same thing. Will 2025 be the first year (ignoring covid) Defcon doesn't increase their attendance?
Game of Trees 0.102 Released
287,849th iteration of subculture is cool, normies are attracted to coolness, normies ruin it, cool people leave, normies leave
Notebook-Native CI/CD: Runme for Dagger
> If one wanted to deal with noise all day, they'd join SETI. Or parliment.

> If someone has a novel theory, let them come up with evidence to support it, and clear identification of how the theory can be invalidated.

Ok, sure, but you can’t really be coming to _Hacker News_ expecting the latter, or none of the former, so it’s a moot point and poor expectations.
That isn't the strategy. The strategy is to encourage gridlock in Congress, stack the courts and legislate through them by proxy.
It's no surprise that Apple tries to grift developers by creatively redefining the scope of what the developer fees actually get you. Coming up with the slimiest ways to extract money is the core of their DNA.

I expect that in a few years they'll say that their "Core technology fee" doesn't actually cover the full development experience, only the "core" of their technology, i.e. the compiler, while device-specific frameworks/libraries ought to cost extra for the relationship to be "fair".

As you say, Apple have forgotten how their relationship with 3rd party developers really works. They owe their success in the mobile space to them, yet they're so quick to brush them off and have the nerve to say that actually, developers should be paying them for the privilege - it's disturbing.
You don't need category theory to understand how type-structure-preserving wrappers work in software development, and people invented them without knowing about category theory.
I'd say CSVs stuck around because there weren't any other alternatives that could be easily created, appended to, read by different apps.
New York's Promising Experiment in Making the Subways Safer
You can drive your car into a crowd of people, and that's illegal everywhere.
The data seems to be at least 15 years old.
I've also noticed that when I did my version of this app more than 3 years ago (https://tv.istasyon.app). Somehow the ads are limited or gone if you play videos as embedded. At some point, I thought YouTube had fixed that but seemingly not. The easiest way to do it is to find the YouTube video URL and replace that part `/watch?v=` with `/embed/`, then voila!
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a very long time.
For what it's worth if you have control over both client and server and don't want to limit access using a strict IP whitelist, an alternative solution that will keep your logs quieter and add additional protection is to use good old fashioned port knocking. knockd on Linux helps with automating this on the server side. Client side you can use anything (although knockd does include a dedicated client) to send your sequence of packets before actually connecting.
> The owners of big companies include lots of pension plans, index funds, etc. Hurting those owners, who didn't have any say in the bad decisions, is probably not what we want.

I mean... Shareholders are ultimately responsible for the company, they elect the board etc. If shareholders were impacted by this, maybe it would make more folks think twice about "passive investing"?
I am wondering what the numbers are like for this to be realistic.

I am not too sure of the end goal other than general chaos. Let’s say it’s 2 days of an attack, (that’s about how long any co-ordinated response would need at minimum).

So attackers need to sow chaos across the USA. They apply for a million unsecured loans of say 20k each. That’s 20 billion.

I honestly don’t know what the daily personal loan application rate is, but america has about 150M adults, 1% of them applying on the same day will not only raise flags but would basically grind the system to a halt - each loan office would have daily maximums and a massive spike coukd not be handled. And once the massive crowd is noticed and made public then the financial immune system comes into play.

I can imagine taking out the cell network through a sort of SS7 ddos, but I suspect that cell towers might have a dose more vulnerabilities (probably not as basic as all the admin passwords are ComC4astSux but close)

In general Chaos seems to come from attacking the limited services that act as our safety net (ambulance, police, sewage, electricity). We know these are vulnerable in non obvious ways - crowdstrike for example.

Making otherwise fit and healthy citizens have a shitty day is less impactful than we might think - it will be the “blip” day - as I say 48 hours later the Treasury secretary goes on TV and announces all personal loans that day got cancelled or some other fix - finance has a fairly good immune system when it sees the need.

But overall, if we are going to worry about some attacks, let’s look at the ones that attack our freshwater supplies - and that might not mean some terrorist - in the UK our sewage handling has been under attack by Private Equity for decades and SWAT teams are not allowed to shoot people in Belgravia
Google makes tons of money each quarter, but cancels projects / products, and lays off people. That does not improve moral. Why should I work my ass off and then my project is cancelled and I am laid off?

Problems in AI is leadership problems.
Are they though? I haven't seen any evidence to suggest significant migration away from the iOS App Store. I was under the impression that devs and consumers that cared about side-loading largely already self-selected to Android.
I've had a very bad experience with Liberty Mutual following a data opt-out from another service. They sent me on a runaround, ending with an email saying to follow "this link" to verify myself. (There was no link, only sketch.) I ended up getting a human on a phone through special means, and they sent me a fixed email with a working link.

I should be hearing back from them in the next 32 days, as this was 13 days ago.
Don't add a thing - the purity is what makes this perfect.
Window-Switcher: Alt+(backtick) same-app window switching for Windows 10/11
thank you!

> I aspire to have an interesting website like yours

let me know if you need help / inspiration!

> I came back to read them again and your website was down though

sorry about that, i was moving & my server came with me :)
It's still not bulk bacteria.
I was able to get a hand on it, and I was able to confirm that some records of loved ones are indeed present (although mine was not.)
If it is then this site has gone down the tubes.
Several other commenters have brought about the sneaky wordplay involved in saying "identity theft" instead of simply calling it "fraud on the bank", and somehow turning the person into the victim rather than the bank that has been defrauded.

Has anyone tried to argue this point in court? Has this survived / how did this terminology shift survive judicial scrutiny?
How does today's extreme heat compare with Earth's past climate?
I've always put my (dumb, wired) keyboards in the dishwasher and they have always come out great.

I'm a statistic of one, though. I don't know if I just got lucky.
In the US, the government could help alot if they simply moved to a national ID system and dismantled social security numbers.

The national ID systems I've seen proposed have alot more security from the ground up, and could replace the passport system.
As someone who has excel open all-day every-day: I don't think excel-employees are "producing" data. We are ingesting CSVs/XLSXs, performing modeling/analysis, and then saving as an XLSX.

I don't know anyone who is saving a CSV unless it is the final model output and another system (e.g. TM1) can only ingest the CSV.

If I accidentally save a spreadsheet as a CSV it is a bad day since I probably lost all my formatting, formulas, and additional tabs.
This is very cool! I've actually been working on something similar for some time as a feature on my website https://www.bingeclock.com. Can I ask if you've done something to minimize the number of banner ads Youtube pushes onto the screen? That has been a challenge for me and yours looks very clean! Awesome job!
Highly recommend:

Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper

https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/08/10/leisure-the-basis-...
mark-jason, imo, you should have said, "some guy who don't' even know how to spell 'almanac' ".

that would have made your trick more believable.

still, nice try.

:)
This is a great idea, I'd love to be able to use it on my TV. It would be nice if it also supported changing the playback speed to 1.5x, 2x etc - the youtube player has this so I'm assuming it's possible.
Your premise is highly debatable; I don't know anyone who determined Crowdstrike was the result of "freedom to do your job", but regardless the hospital rules are for regular operation, not black swan events like this.
As long as people are throwing suggestions your way, it might cool if we could sort by either Votes or Comments rather than just "popularity" which is seemingly just sorting by votes. A lot of posts will only have 30-50 votes but over a hundred comments which makes them hard to find even by searching.
An inlaw retired in her 40s making a few MM a year from a megacorp and rents a private plane and pimped out vehicle of some kind to go to BRC every year like it's a Disney vacation with acid. Fuh.

More tech relevant, I'd been working on a similar application and was stoked when they deployed OpenBTS. That's more the kind of acorporate, self-reliant spirit that I felt characterized Burning Man.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/749150/opensource-subne...
>Those that do understand that automated data processing means you need to be stricter in what you do in the sheet you are exporting tend to understand how to export proper CSV's from Excel as well

exactly right
Nothing guarantees that. But in this augmentations scenario human brain is necessary, unlike in the many extinction scenarios with pure silicon AGI take off.
If given the option, free of charge, to continue using electrified showerheads or using whole-home water heating... how many would continue to use electrified showerheads?

The fact that they are only common in poor and impoverished areas, tells you everything you need to know.

This argument is a lot like asserting instant-coffee is better than fresh brewed coffee because some people have no alternative choice.
Fantastic! Dinosaurs doing what they do best: working on their extinction.
>What is it that makes management so bearish towards remote?

You will be surprised how many people that became rich with startups have invested in real state. A lot of those investments are tanking now because of WFH, so they have something personal against it.

>When Microsoft "lost the mobile war" everybody was in the office still, no?

Microsoft lost both "the Internet" and "mobile" because they just could not understand it, like IBM could not understand a world with a computer in every desktop. It is a normal thing when your culture gives you success, the world changes, your culture remains the same.

Other companies appear that understand it and they win. If Google does not adpat, others will.
This is really awesome - it looks like it might work on Hyper-V now - the serial port was the biggest blocking issue to my knowledge.
Something I find impressive about Benjamin Franklin is that he was born in 1706, meaning he was 70 years old when he signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. And after that he went on to be Ambassador to France for 9 years!

Traveling to Europe from the USA wasn't exactly an easy route back then.
"It's entirely true because it's easy to prove that any normal decently paid occupation with thrifty savings will result in rich, at least by a normal standard."

The phrase 'normal decently paid' is doing a lot of work here. You absolutely will not 'get rich' on the median wage in almost any developed country, irrespective of your 'thrifty savings'. Given the rising cost of housing, and the increasing inaccessibility of home ownership, anything but an income well in excess of that accessible to a supermajority of people is unlikely to result in housing security, let alone wealth.

Without trying to antagonise, I do think this perspective arises from an ignorance of how much more hackernews tech people earn than is actually 'normal'. For example, here in Ireland the median wage is €45,537. In the US it's $63,795.

With luck, continual employment from graduation, no major health challenges or other unanticipated life events and marriage or long term partnership, it may be possible to one day own a home on these salaries. It's virtually impossible to be 'wealthy' or 'secure' in any usual sense of the word. Given the two recent recessions, and the changes in family composition very few people I know are in these circumstances. Most are renting in precarity.