skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...PV would be cost effective here in Germany for residential buildings even without incentives, though most owners would probably build smaller installations.

I suspect the cost differences between ground based solar installed by a utility and consumer rooftop solar aren't really that different in Germany. Most of the cost of rooftop solar are the soft costs, with the bulk often being the labor costs for the work on the roof. The costs for the actual panels is very low these days.

>...In Germany, these incentives have contributed massively to improving popular sentiment towards PV and acceptance of government subsidies for renewables generally.

To repeat myself, I do understand that people like getting free money. In terms of public opinion, I see this survey that was done on the energy transition: https://andel.dk/wp-content/uploads/Andel-Holding-European-s...

>...The share of
positive citizens varies across countries from 45% to 80%. Croatia and Denmark are the most
positive, while the Czech Republic, Germany and Estonia are the most negative.
Keep telling yourself that.

There are plenty of examples of us knowing our biases but still being caught by them.
hey that's pretty cool

Are you using insanely-fast-whisper?

Would be happy to contribute if it were open-source (been working in the field, with meeting bots, since 4 years)
I am no expert on licensing schemes, but I've seen major artists like Taylor Swift remove their catalogues from Spotify and the like, which tells me they're not that compulsory when it comes to online streaming?
The electrodes themself seem to cost $45 for 30 on that site? Is the rest just some low impedance wire? I appreciate economies of scale, etc, but they advertise these as “open” solutions, but is it some knowledge gatekeeping that stops this being truly DIY?
An Obesity Drug Prevents Covid Deaths, Study Suggests
Optimal Evaluation in 1 Minute (or 10 Minutes) (or 10 Years)
That email server story could have been written almost verbatim by me. In high school (this was around 1998 or 1999) I also wrote a mass-mailer bot to spam my friends. I showed my friend how to do it, then he modified it a bit but left it running too long and it ended up crashing the school's mail server. I was terrified for a bit because I thought this is the kind of thing that gets you expelled, or suspended. But our CS teacher (Hi Mr. Zamansky) talked to us for like 10 seconds, essentially saying "hey guys, knock it off, ok?" and it was all good.
"the first time ever I applied literal textbook math to a piece of software"
Remember railroads of the day were all privately owned. There was passenger service between most major cities (at least where there was enough ridership to make it profitable) but that ended as people prefered the convenience of traveling in their own cars on their own schedules as opposed to waiting until tomorrow for the next train.
I put a Raspberry Pi Zero into an iconic 1971 rotary dial phone and made it play music from the country and decade dialed into it.

If it weren't for this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39803313, I wouldn't have thought of this project.
So, I'm sharing it here as well.

One challenge I encountered (and didn't write about) is that the Raspberry Pi occasionally misreads the dialed input.
The rotary dial delivers about 20 pulses per second, which seems to be too fast for the Pi Zero 2 to handle accurately.
Each pulse interrupts the Pi, which saves a timestamp.
It seems the Pi occasionally lags, leading to inaccurate timestamps or missed pulses.
My current idea to fix this is to use a dedicated microcontroller to read the dial instead, though I'm hoping for a simpler solution.
I don't think they couldn't but maybe they aren't targetting that on purpose for various reasons.
The Technology of the 37th America's Cup
If a place somehow ends up only employing people wearing brown shirts, isn't that a bit odd?
They began testing the waters about this in 2020, when CH and NATO began a SigInt sharing relationship, which then expanded into a general military coordination relationship in 2022 when Switzerland initiated negotiations over joining an "Individually Tailored Partnership Programme" with NATO (basically NATO+ membership like Japan, Australia, and South Korea). The target for ITPP ascension was supposed to be around now.
right and in those cases, a python JIT will do nothing for your performance because all the computation is happening in C/CUDA anyway.
What are the keywords to search for to find these Celerons? I assume they're ye'olde business pseudo-light terminals? Laptops are not bad, but desktop machines have easier connectivity.
Thanks for clarifying! I'm surprised this is your first post here. If they do ever ban you over there, we'd be honoured to have you around ;)
People in this thread keep talking about "reasonable doubt", which is the standard of proof in the US criminal justice system (vs "preponderence of the evidence" in the civil system), but that standard only applies to a conviction, *not* to the decision by the prosecutor to bring charges.

Assuming we take the OP's story at face value (obviously something you wouldn't do in a courtroom!), surely there's enough evidence here for a case, even if the defendant isn't, at the end of the day, convicted? Or is Sweden more averse to questionable cases than the US? At least according to this thesis [1], the difference in conviction rate between Sweden and the US doesn't seem to be large enough to support that idea.

[1] https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4835&context...
Ghana signs agreement to build small NuScale nuclear reactor
These are outstanding observations
This is one of the reasons why I disagree with point three of the article.

The emotion that AWS helped overcome was frustration that individual developers faced when trying to build something new. Suddenly, hardware was in their control from their keyboards.

That was a magical experience, and it definitely filled me with emotion the first time I uploaded an object to S3.

(I loved it so much, I later worked for that team!)
This is not at all true. Only projects that have the intention of wanting to be able to screw over their users have a CLA.

The obvious counter example is Linux which has no CLA.
Isn’t that amplification and filtering part of whatever the “hat” would plug into? I.e not part of the product offering anyway?
im good, thanks
> Books yellow and age and rot. No content you have ever bought lasts forever.

Many libraries all over the world have books which have lasted for centuries, far longer than a single person's lifetime. The books I bought as a child can last longer than my own body. That's close enough to "lasting forever" for most practical purposes.
My brother sat with my mother one day, meticulously recording every detail he could while she made a pie crust, filled it, and baked it. All the quantities, how they were combined, temperatures, durations, etc.

He still cannot replicate her pies.
He was likely test-driving early versions of Apple products
Depends on what you need.

I was once able to fix my toilet watching an Indonesian video. I understood approximately zero, but I could still follow that guy's hands.

It is a different story with programming or other abstract/text-based tasks, but when it comes to anything done with hands, I like a video better.

3blue1brown videos on maths are beautiful as well. I wish I had them when I was 18.
Mike Lynch yacht sinking must be due to human error, boss of boat builder says
There wasn't even a cleaning crew or custodian or security person that at least passed by?

I mean, this isn't some frothy AI startup that has approximately zero chance of having any impact on the world. This is one of the largest banks in the country. They should, at the very least, have someone checking every office and cube, every night, to make sure no unauthorized personnel are there after closing.
Meanwhile, my wife just had a beautiful ameythyst she bought as a birthday gift for my son stolen by security in Mexico because it "could be used as a weapon". I say stolen because they wouldn't throw it away and just smirked the whole time at her.

It is sadly an all-too-common occurence when you give uneducated dimwits police-level power with no oversight and no recourse for anyone affected. I assume flexing government power is the real objective here since everybody knows that security is not.
Genelec is a speaker brand isn't?

(Something like this https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?attachmen...)
As a person that has almost no contact with other people beyond the daily stand-up meeting I'm forced into... I kinda have to

> press x to doubt

The reason why some people (including myself) avoid social interactions is because of previous interactions that likely happened in their teens. But it's still objectively a very unhealthy thing. It's like being overweight, drinking alcohol or smoking. It's fine, but definitely not healthy.

So I have to concur: we're social animals, even if some of us choose to avoid social interactions. Just like some people succumb to other unhealthy habits
Apple is reportedly trying to invest in OpenAI
Some competition, in the wrong place.

Exclusive licencing is the problem, giving a 'monopoly' of sorts on streaming particular content. If everything was available everywhere, they just paid pay per view royalties say, then we'd have proper competition on pricing models & the quality of service provided.
IMO all this alarm fatigue stuff is worrying in the wrong direction, or it is worrying about details when the issue shouldn’t exist in the first place.

Welcome to Incognito Mode

-A list of details that say why this mode actually doesn’t make you incognito

-Actually it doesn’t hide your identity at all

-Look, we’ve written some bullet points, why would you expect incognito mode to make you incognito?

-You dummies, the internet doesn’t work that way

The problem isn’t that my bullet points are too long, or alarm fatigue or anything like that. It is that we need them in the first place, to correct the mis-understanding caused by the name.

Sure, if the bar is:

"can anyone have ever misinterpreted the meaning".

That’s too high. But, not every word has equal weight. The name should not be misleading in the first place.
AnandTech shuts down after 27 years
You mean Steve was doing remote work? I thought that wasn’t possible to do.
Oddly enough I searched for a fix for this after posting. And amazingly I found one that works (as well as several that didn't, and one that require add-ons)

For anyone interested, this is in my .tmux.conf now

unbind -T copy-mode-vi Enter
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi Enter send -X copy-pipe "xclip -selection c -i" \; send -X clear-selection
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd1Pane send -X copy-pipe "xclip -selection c -i" \; send -X clear-selection

You would have to switch the xclip for wl-copy if you're using Wayland, and some form of pbcopy command on Mac. No idea what windows folks do.
Very cool case of using s3 conditional writes for distributed leasing
Raw-Dogging Websites
I've had pretty good experiences with the Vue version of this framework. Not sure what more there is to say. IIRC, it's pretty tailwind centric.
I think your comment around the dip in their stock price is fairly misleading because it lacks context of the market sector overall. When ETSC announced in January 2021 their stock was around 150 and by November 2021 it was in the 180s, so the change very much was not responsible for crashing their stock - the market was. Their entire industry sector was pounded heading into 2022 and has never recovered. For example Datadog crashed from ~$190 to $80 over the course of 2022.
It might not be sufficient to trigger trademark violation, but that doesn’t stop it being a dick move.

Edit: As was Amazon's choice to offer a service named that once Elasticsearch was established, to be clear.
the mini power mac is just a scale model, nothing functional

the other thing is a speaker, you can see the other one in a different angle

https://web.archive.org/web/20150415020308/http://successsto...
But how many were caught by TSA?
Show HN: Postiz – open-source social media scheduling tool
This social media scheduling tool is similar to traditional ones: Buffer, Hootsuite, SproutSocial, etc.

Key features:

- Schedule for 9 social media platforms (Threads, Pinterest, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, LinkedIn, Dribbble, YouTube, Instagram.)

- Basic analytics for almost all the social media platforms.

- AI Features: Copilots, AI Auto-complete, Canva-like editor.

- Team support: Invite your team members to manage social medias.

Tech stack:

- NX (Monorepo)

- NextJS (React)

- NestJS

- Prisma (Default to PostgreSQL)

- Redis

- Resend (email notifications)

Fully open-source (Apache-2)
"I have a catapult that launches loosely demo-targeted things, without me checking what is being loaded into it. I only intend for harmless things to be loaded. Should I be liable if someone loads a boulder and it hurts someone?"
It would also appear that the mini Mac Pro isn't connected to anything, so it's probably just a scale model?
Getting paid minimum wage to wander around an empty building will not become a status job no matter how many sit-ups you do. Training standards would help. Paying real wages would help more.
Under-addressing bad behavior within trusted communities never stops biting us.

The most pervasive human condition I know is:

No one anywhere wants to clean their own house.

I can't think of a life-bettering system that doesn't fall victim to it.
I love the calm communications. The feeling of everything possible thought out.

Regarding moon landing videos, I also enjoyed the "story" of the computer on board which is told in this great presentation [1]: Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer by Robert Wills. Definitely worth a watch if you fancy the moon landing.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J2RMorJXM
As sibling comment says, this is the outcome of what we did right, and decades of policy programme.

We spent the 20th century changing the norm from "women will, from teenagerhood, roll the dice on pregnancy approximately five times with a 2% maternal mortality rate, with the expectation of at least one child not making it to adulthood, and a reasonable chance of experiencing famine at least once in your life" to .. not that. From the 1.65 billion people who entered the 20th century to the approximately 8 billion today.

We averted the Malthus catastrophe. With tremendous effort we got the line to dip below replacement rate. Now people are panicking that it will never go up again?

How many people do you think they should be on Earth? 8 billion, sixteen, a hundred billion? What does the average megacity look like at that level?
What tasks being automated will make research more epistemologically sound?
You're comparing completely different products by abstract concepts that are entirely contextual. So the GP is going to be just as "correct" as you. That's the problem with analogies, the more abstract they are, the more people disagree because they perceive them from a different contextual view point.

edited to make the point clearer
What do die shrinks have to do with ISA performance? Also, there are no RISC-V CPUs available that match the latest X86 or ARM CPUs. Even then, the ISA chosen doesn't have much to do with the performance of CPUs (at least, when comparing major ISAs like X86, ARM and RISC-V).
A lot of mobile apps use TLS with certificate pinning, so even if the user installs a system-wide root CA, the app doesn't accept it and won't let the user look at what data is being sent to the servers.
It's not possible for the simple minds of peon workers. For ubermensch executives it's well within their ability.
> Everything became single use zoning, so you need to drive from your house to the store, school, work, etc. None of that needed to be done

But let's not pretend that it was forced upon us. Most people liked their single-family suburban home in quiet neighborhoods without a lot of businesses nearby with their crowds, traffic, and noise. Nobody was ever prevented from continuing to live in their inner-city apartments, they just mostly prefered not to, when they had the choice.
Yup. The second “mystery” object is definitely a speaker.
As for the mini Mac Pro… my guess is it’s a scale model for that particular design refresh.
You may want to not have your content disappear suddently if for some reasons Twitch or Youtube decide unilateraly that they want to get rid of your account. Ditto if at some point you realise you don't want to be associated with them and want to close your account. You would still have that place you control where you can redirect people.
I would wager that the little bottles of liquid are tinctures.
> If you revoke a priv, things stop working immediately.

for a human-scaled definition of immediately, perhaps, but IAM updates are eventually consistent across the globe.
yeah reading this it feels like it lacks anything tor isn't already better at
If the Mercedes infotainment screen had shown you a curated recommendation that you run them over, prior to you doing so, they very possibly would (and should).
Emacs is pretty snappy these days, what kind of performance problems are you seeing with it?
This reddit thread seems to agree.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/s/6c6HKjhu11
Yes. Some of the best active (studio) speakers available.
This is a very expensive way to do leader election, at least from an infrastructure perspective.

This is because you're essentially pushing the problem down to S3, which does its own leader election in a way that is waaaay overbuilt for what we're trying to accomplish here.

But... that doesn't mean it isn't cool. :)
It is not revolutionary. It is evolutionary just like web2.0 was. That is kind of the point.

But together with other, similar technologies it extends the current with metadata etc web just like web2 extended the existing web with things like ajax interactions, drag and drop and folksonomies ("tags") and other forms of user generated content.

The (IMO) fake crypto peddler "web3" is (again IMO) "revolutionary" unlike web2 and the real web3: it is a complete break from many of the things that made the web great. I'd even hesitate to describe much of it as web at all.
> do deep packet inspection

There is no DPI on Tor networks. Traffic analysis for de-anonymization for Tor works by knowing all the variables in the system and solving it, not by looking at any content of the packets themselves.

The last time something like that was possible at all in Tor it broke it entirely and destroyed the anonymization. The bug involved a vulnerability in the way Tor handled the traffic confirmation attack on Onion Services. This attack allowed malicious relays to embed uniquely identifiable information into Tor cells (the packets used in the Tor network).
Sure-- but that structural shortcoming has been a thing for a long time-- I wouldn't consider it a secret vulnerability that Tor was facilitating for US intelligence, as was initially implicated. I'm not in the field, but it seems like it would be way more useful for law enforcement working against criminals naive enough to think tor would be a one-stop op-sec solution (e.g. ANOM) than for nation-state-level counterintelligence.
Well, for better or for worse, it is true that 9 dollar/hour or 1440 dollars/month would be a decent salary in India. Twice the current median.

I saw your other comments, so I would add that while it is a decent salary in India. That doesn't mean you can expect the same quality as you would expect from someone earning twice the median in US. Because standard of living never really scales like you want it to.

200 dollars in India still cannot buy you a cheap computer, while 1000 dollars (the equivalent in US) can definitely buy you a solid computer.

So, yeah, it is shameful for this kind of work, because it is skilled work, and skilled workers wages (because they can essentially move all around the globe) are not tied to cost of living.
> Excluding leaks, the ISP does not see the hostnames

Unfortunately they can, either through the unencrypted hostname passed in SNI or in the cert returned by the server
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I gather you are outside the US, so my solution likely doesn't apply. For those in the US, check your local library's digital offerings. Mine offers 3 day access to the NYTimes web site for free. There is a bit of a friction as I must first log into my library account and click a link. Then I have to log into my NYTimes account if I'm not already. Bam! Full access to everything for 72 hours. It can be endlessly renewed if that's your thing. I tend to use it about once a month.
LummaC2 infostealer uses obfuscated scripts via PowerShell to target endpoints
That "mini Mac Pro" thing (next to the Genelec speaker) could also be an external drive bay -- Macsales/OWS sold a silver one for years IIRC -- they now sell an SSD version of it that's not silver anymore: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TB3F81S128/ -- and I think the form factor may have shifted a bit.
> I think this is a promising approach to make C++ safer although I wish the committee would be more involved in these sort of experiments..

I'm as exited as the next guy about cpp2, circle and rust, but I'm not sure that's what the committee should focus on any time soon.

If you haven't already, take an hour or so to watch the cppnow24 keynote C++ Should Be C++ by David Sankel.
I can tell you that at scale, customers will notice this. They notice what DNS addresses you're hitting. They notice what outbound sockets you open. They notice the traffic patterns don't match the protocol you're putatively using. A given customer most likely will not, but there are networks out there where they're looking at pretty much every connection, and it only takes one bad interaction with one customer going to one press outlet for you to have a Bad Day. It's bad enough when the customer misunderstood something and you've got a good answer as to what is actually going on. You really don't want to be trying to do business in a scenario where you really were doing something like this.
I believe this is really the tragedy of formal verification tools. Everybody wants a tool as robust as a compiler. At the same time, nobody wants to invest into development of such tools. Microsoft Research 20 years ago was probably an exception to that. The other companies wish to immediately hide these tools and the benchmarks behind the IP and closed source. As a result, we have early stage MVPs that are developed by 1-3 people.
Last week while looking into the Apple DMP exploit paper [1], I noticed that the researchers were inspired by this [2] anandtech article.

Y'all will be missed.

[1] https://www.prefetchers.info/
[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
More context:

https://jonathancarter.org/2024/08/29/orphaning-bcachefs-too...
They partner with them depending on the project, though.
Yeah seems like related to homeopathic medicine (aromatherapy or essential oils or tinctures)
He devotes a big section of the post to talk about water-soluble vitamin D, and decides upon investigation that there are such products. In his narrative, he also explains how he thought his water and food tasted weird.
way more common than you think
Her Substack is pretty good too:

https://www.eatingpolicy.com/
Eulogy for Anandtech
> The US had nothing to do with Israel forming beyond being part of the UN vote

I put on my history hat and check the books

> Liberia's Ambassador to the United States complained that the US delegation threatened aid cuts to several countries.

> After a phone call from Washington, the representative was recalled and the Philippines' vote changed.

> After considering the danger of American aid being withheld, France finally voted in favour of it. So, too, did France's neighbours, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

> [......]

Mind you that I am not calling foul play here, this is par for the course for politics. This is just to refute the quoted point above, unless you consider bribery and threats of sanctions a "nothing".