skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many cities have scanners that track cellphones via Bluetooth for monitoring traffic congestion.
It feels suspiciously like it’s 1999 all over again.
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> Is it advisable to only list package names, in TOML that can't be parsed from source comments with the AST parser?

This at the top of a notebook is less reproducible and less secure than a requirements.txt with checksums or better:

%pip install ipytest pytest-cov jupyterlab-miami-nights

%pip install -q -r requirements.txt

%pip?
%pip --help

But you don't need to run pip every time you run a notebook, so it's better to comment out the install steps. But then it requires manual input to run the notebook in a CI task, if it doesn't install everything in a requirements.txt and/or environment.yml or [Jupyter REES] first before running the notebook like repo2docker:

#%pip install -r requirements.txt
#!pip --help
#!mamba env update -f environment.yml
#!pixi install --manifest-path pyproject.toml_or_pixi.toml
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Looks cool! And I like the effort you put in making your readme clear and covering many possible configs too, it feels very easy to read to me.

Would you be okay with me listing your project in the Community and Alternatives[1] section of the StatiCrypt readme?

[1] https://github.com/robinmoisson/staticrypt#community-and-alt...
Entire Tolstoy novel transmitted using tap code in solitary confinement (2017)
Ask HN: Which books did you read multiple times?
If you could also explain why you did so.
I’s going to be nice to get cheap gpu.
"censor political opponents" is the most intellectually dishonest take, and in it lies the whole root of the discussion. Said opponents' accounts were asked to be shut down, not because they are opponents, but because they were being used to commit crimes against the electoral justice. The Supreme Court is a lifetime seat meant to not be caught in bi-yearly electoral politics, so it can oversee it, this current judge was the appointed by draw the judge of the whole "fake news inquiry", like every thing at the supreme court, he was also the elected president of the Supreme Court at the time of the previous elections (he was elected president by his colleagues in the supreme court). If the president at the time, or the drawn judge, was to be pro-coup, then we wouldn't have this whole debacle and elon musk would probably be CEO of Brazil at this moment.
Since elon musk became owner of Twitter, brazillian court has struggled significantly more to obtain data from criminal accounts (a famous example being hate speech accounts that were not shut down, nor "doxxed" to the court, since according to twitter the hate speech didn't break TOS), to a point where it became impossible, so the court had to act, this situation has been boiling for a few years with Elon trying to strongarm his will in the country, he raised the bets, STF's called his bluff.
Back when I was just out of school, I worked as a computer tech guy. Our company got hired to test all the PC+BIOS version combinations a certain department had, to ensure they'd work after y2k.

Spent several weekends rigging up computers, and running a battery of tests on them.

Did actually find a handful of combos which misbehaved, mostly incorrectly handling the leap year IIRC. None of them had NTP running, so could have been an issue. A few didn't handle the transition well at all. Most got resolved by a BIOS update.

I recall thinking after 2000 came and went that sure, a fair share of superfluous work had probably been done, but the reason it seemed like such a nothingburger afterwards was because a lot of work went into ensuring exactly that.
Stable ordering an (my) lazyness :)
You're not alone. apt install minidlna didn't work so I assumed it was dead. Just learned of the rename from your comment.
In 2015, we took the California Zephyr from Berkeley to Chicago and then (I forget which train) from Chicago to Washington D.C. The connection was pretty smooth. Met a friend in Chicago for drinks for a few hours while we waited for the DC train to depart.

I remember loading up ebooks, podcasts, etc, just in case I was “bored.”

No joke, I sat in the parlor car staring out at the landscape for 3 straight days!

It was absolutely glorious.

One fun thing (“fun”, depending on your perspective) is that you’re paired with random strangers at dinner.

The first night, I am telling the couple across from me how “awesome and civilized” this felt and it was nice not to have to deal with the bullshittery of TSA agents at airports.

They politely coughed and I knew instantly I screwed up.

“Yeah, we’re actually both TSA agents.”

Dinner was pretty awkward after that!
Providing basic context for facts isn't the province of 'investigative journalism'. It's nuts-and-bolts basic journalism.
No it doesn't. The economy then was actually good.
Been there, done that in 2008, but it was only half a million blogs.

A very interesting undertaking anyway.
> but I'm really curious how _this_ is the most egregious issue for you.

Because it's so basic. Add a switch that lets me decide how I want the date to be displayed on the lockscreen/notifications centre.

> why would you need it featured so prominently?

It doesn't need to be more prominently than where the date is right now, I just want the current year next to it as well.
Yeah, can you imagine a business selling to the bad space man. Don’t they know they’re supposed to hate him?
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I agree with this comment, but at the same time I am troubled by the spread of deliberate falsehoods - things that the speaker knows are not true, done to further their own agenda.
Especially with 600k PDBKF2 iterations, 16 alphanum chars should be very safe.

There's a (warning: very detailed) issue covering the topic of PBKDF2 iterations and password length over here, if you feel like diving into that rabbit hole: https://github.com/robinmoisson/staticrypt/issues/159
>In fact, what you point to are completely irrational thoughts that have nothing to do with the risks presented by undertaking those activities. It doesn't matter if speeds are set low or irrationally, the fee for a ticket is the same as is the insurance premium increase.

I can't tell whether you wanted an opportunity to rant about unjust speed limits in your area, or are trying to get in a smug "well ackushally \u{1F913}" response. While it's true that speed limits can be arbitrary and driving above it doesn't magically make you a dangerous driver, it's pretty obvious when people say "driving like a complete maniac", that's not the sort of behavior they're referring to. Thinking "speeding" and "driving like a complete maniac" means driving 1 mile over the speed limit in an artificially low speed limit zone is about the least charitable way of interpreting that statement.

>Same with being better than another driver, it doesn't matter if you are or aren't better than another driver when they crash into you.

Again, I can't tell whether you're trying to be snarky. Being a better driver (however it's defined) might not fix your car when it gets into a crash, but I don't think anyone doubts that a professional driver is going to be able to avoid more accidents than the 90 year old granny that only drives every sunday to go to church, when put in the same situations.

>I appreciate you making my point for me.

Whatever you say, champ.
"accounting fraud" is so quaint compared to what it takes to outrage people these days
This syntax would be just nice to plug into WordPress Contact Form 7 plugin which is also a feasible FOSS alternative in itself.
I read it as, a real problem wasn’t identified by the management side of the company. Finding typos in spreadsheets and printing corrected versions to slap in a binder was a CYA event, the article says as much.
They might even put reasonable amount of RAM on reasonably priced models... Why can I not get 16GB on some 700€ gaming cpu... I can get CPU+Mobo+32GB ram for around same... I just hope this intentional kneecapping ends so I can get something that can be used for a few years.
Not it would not. Nvidia has never been the good guy in the eyes of the public and most people buy Nvidia because they are better than the competition. Getting in bed with Elon would just be seen as a capitalist company doing capitalist things.
I'm curious if AtomVM is compatible with Erlang nodes.

Could you have a Pi on Nerves talking to microcontrollers?

I've never really worked with hardware but this all looks fascinating.
I assume the consumer GPU and data center products have minimal overlap. If NVidia never sold another server product, would that really impact consumers all that much?
Thanks for taking the time these references up for me!
I don't know why you are being down voted.

I know from first sources that it is true. The car dash design is completed independently of the UX/UI work.

And the designers/programmers never test it in the car. There is almost no iteration there. In fact the people I talked to worked remotes. They couldn't even try to get into a prototype car if they wanted.
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Here's something that really irks me. On macOS I'll use Spotlight (Cmd+Space) to do some quick math. For example, press Cmd+Space, type "1.2+3.4", and it sort of displays 4.6. Now to copy the results you either have to click the copy option in the dropdown, using your mouse (no thanks), or press enter to get the results in Calculator.

Assuming you last left the calculator in "Programmer" mode the calculator displays the value "4".

Ideally, pressing enter in Spotlight would simply replace the text in the input bar with the result. The equivalent Alt+Space tool in KDE (Plasma Search) performs math this way and it's amazing. I haven't used Quicksilver or Alfred in a decade but I'm sure they do the right thing, too.

Otherwise both Spotlight and Plasma Search are both pretty great. Type something like "14oz to lb" and they both display the result (though Plasma Search displays the exact "0.875 pounds" while Spotlight displays the rounded "0.88 pounds").

Overall I'm mostly disappointed with first-party Apple software. Being one of the richest companies in the world I have higher expectations.
Just tested this on mobile and desktop on our side and it seems to be working fine, not sure how to reproduce this.

Can you try here directly if this works?

https://terminaltrove.com/newsletter/
Jellyfin exists on various hardware as an optional install so it seems likely FCast would work on that distribution model.
For reference, there were about 62,500 power plants in existence about a decade ago [1], many probably constructed several decades ago. In 2022, China, the biggest industrial force, constructed an order of 100 power plants [2]. This is for something that people desperately need for our modern life to function.

But suppose, we do go crazy and build in short order 62500 of these Carbon Capture plants, which provide zero benefit to any individual but have positive externalities. That will amount to offsetting 0.69% of current emission rate. Laughable.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=28392

[2] https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-permits-two-...
Are there any possible consequences to sequestering CO2 rather than splitting it into C and O and putting the oxygen back into the atmosphere? If we were to sequester all the CO2 we have emitted as a species, the end result would be oxygen making up less of the atmosphere than before we started.
>> How much incoming solar power ends up in the methane?

As in how many power to gas plants are operating currently? I would guess not many due to the price vs fossil methane, but as the GP notes this is a major market failure due pricing the externalities of fossil methane.

>> And how do you get the energy back out?

Easy, burn it. For heat, or with a turbine, electricity. Zero carbon impact because it started out as atmospheric CO2.
A newer larger pilot plant is set to remove 4000 metric tons / year. Annual emissions are > 36 Billion tons. Even if the 'commercial scale plant' could remove 4 million tons / year, and they would need to make thousands to really make a difference.

It's unclear how many emissions are required operate it. How much rock is required, and how many emissions does it take to mine/process/transport it to the plant, and then put the processed rock somewhere else?
It will be interesting to see how AI opportunities evolve and if open source models will play the same role as the public infrastructure of the dotcom boom did.

Or if closed models will dominate. For example, by the largest companies leveraging their existing distribution channels and/or acquiring promising startups.
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> "So why not just, well, burn (i.e. rust) the iron directly? What exactly is the dissociation and re-combination of the steam accomplishing?"

Direct use of reduced iron as an energy carrier has been discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24996153

Oxodizing iron gives rather low intensity heat, comparable, iirc, to burning lignite. That might be good for some combined cycle applications (but still a logistics nightmare?), but it's not a drop-in replacement for anything. Hydrogen on the other hand is good for an extremely wide range of applications, from fuel cells to e-fuel production (and all kinds of other chemical processes) to flying Neil Armstrong to the moon.

To succeed in decarbonization we will need an entire "cache hierarchy" to solve the intermittency problem, a single storage solution will never be enough. Batteries to make hydrolyzers able to run around the clock during high availability seasons, hydrogen storage to make converters further down the pipeline run continuously during surplus seasons and not only on the best days.

What will definitely not get us to decarbonization is any of the following three approaches:

(a) building enough production capacity that we don't need storage (most production would be idle most of the time for lack of a buyer)

(b) focusing on one kind of storage (same problem again, now with conversion capacity)
Agreeableness and disagreeableness are terms from the "Big 5" psychology theories.

Both sides have pros and cons, and disagreeableness can be very useful for breaking out of conformist traps.
> The problem was known variously as Y2K, ...

I really hate this take some people have (especially people that weren't there at the time) that Y2K wasn't a real problem. It was a real, large problem effecting businesses across the globe. But the thing is, the problem wasn't that "everything was going to fail catastrophically at the turn of the year". It was that "some things could fail catastrophically at the turn of the year, and we didn't know which things would". So a lot of time and money went into figuring out which things actually had a problem, and fixing them. It was entirely possible that, if we didn't fix something, planes _could_ fall out of the air, or energy providers could shut down for long periods of time.

So we spent lots of time and money finding out what things needed to be fixed. And "it turns out that not that not that many things did really need to be fixed" is a GREAT result from that time and money; arguably the best possible result. But it doesn't invalidate that the time and money was spent, in the same way that "I didn't get into an accident" doesn't invalidate the fact that wearing your seat belt is a good idea.
And housing was cheap and plentiful.
Okay, so we ban selling data and then people who want it will buy or even fund breaches instead. Massive breaches will likely become more common, because that's how driving valuable stuff into a black market always works, and companies who aggregate data already do a shit job protecting said data and face negligible consequences from regulators or markets for this. Even the press will happily blame the constant stream of leaked data on unnamed "hackers" every single time

I also expect to see a shift to buying more "data-driven insights" from big data aggregators, which in practice will mean the same thing as buying the data means now, just with the middlemen rearranged slightly

Governments will still be able to subpeona the data in ways that route around human rights and on the rare occasions where this comes to light, "national security" and the need to fight whatever war - whether against a concrete nation or organization or an abstract concept - they believe will most muddy the waters to cite
The consolidation of progress into the hands of a few should be fought against at (almost any) cost. Run Linux!!
I found the experience of getting the ticket a little bit confusing. I was in San Francisco and heard mixed things about the train to San Diego. I wasn't exactly sure about where and when would the train leave as well, so I just took a plane. I do want to take a trip in a train though, I quite like trains.
Oh cool that looks awesome thanks for sharing! Are you the maintainer?

I saw that StatiCrypt is listed is the alternative section of your README, I'll do the same on StatiCrypt (and add a bunch of the one listed there that I didn't know about!)

The "Alternatives" section of StatiCrypt has always felt a bit empty to me, I'm glad to discover all those great looking projects and beef it up a bit. :)
Elon is strongarming his positiion in Brazil because he has no property in brazil, no tesla factories, no twitter offices... All he wants in Brazil is political influence and data, to exploit Amazon, look into starlink's presence at the Amazon, all the illegal mining operations overlap with starlink's antennas and signal, plus, even the brazillian military in the amazon is now on starlink, so crucial national defense data is at the fingertips of authoritarian billionaire, plus he's got the illegal miners community all pro-neoliberalism.
Well, he is known for stiffing his contractors and creditors.
Wow this is wild and so counterintuitive. Basically totally free too. I hope its actually true!
I was commenting strictly on what’s in the articles’ links. If he did that, it would be just as deplorable as the censorship they were claiming to oppose.
Yes, M-C

https://github.com/lem-project/lem/blob/main/src/commands/mu...
Interesting to see Greece taking population decline one way - more work days, and Japan the opposite.

Hopefully Japan is right.
The Y2K problem would have manifested as the year 2000 being interpreted as 1900. As such, it could have affected anything around dates (age verification, paynment due dates, morgages, etc.). Other more extream issues (power outages) would have been unlikely but it is impossible to predict all the knock-on effects Y2K would have had.

There were several issues that happened as a result of Y2K.
Sounds like Alfred could solve this problem quite easily? I wouldn't give spotlight too much hope from Apple's end. Have seen some very nice Alfred workflows
I'm pretty sure it's the FAA that dictates that one. It's federally illegal.

And how motivated are they? Well I'm assuming someone will complain that you shot down their drone. And most police are very interested in firearm crimes.

The FAA is also very interested in people who shoot at aircraft of any kind.
Not for me, but for my employer. I don't have the company credit card. I can't really go around making deals with some random company in Poland on behalf of the company (except the shitload of money I can spend in the cloud). I would have to get the purchase approved. There would be questions. I am now tired.
Competition between slicing and buckling underlies erratic nature of paper cuts
See also David Graeber's "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs":

https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
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Those whales - probably major cloud vendors - likely have the resources to develop their own hardware at some point.

Right now it’s “buy GPUs at any cost”. If things slow, there will be a chance for these customers to consider how to optimize this cost. NVIDIA can’t sit on its laurels like Intel did with x86.
- The Harry Potter series. My teacher in school said if I finish my work quickly, I can sit and read whatever I want. I read the Goblet of Fire at least a half a dozen times in 4th grade

- Lord of the Rings, same reason as above

- Life of Pi. The story is so good, the emotions are so real, and the air of absurdity and comedy throughout are so well done

- The Martian, it’s again such a good story and fantasy novel

- Bartleby, the Scrivener. Something about Bartleby as well as his boss spoke to me, as a young professional early in his career. I also loved the imagery of a clerical office in a Manhattan high rise in the 19th century
No, it's frankly not possible to deploy Postgres at scale without a third party (or hand-rolled) HA/scaling solution. I worked on an application that hand-rolled one after considering several products.
Why would they care about compliance in other nations? If they don't have assets in the foreign countries, tell them to pound sand when they attempt to collect fines. Unless, of course, Congress stabbed the American public in the back by agreeing to enforce such fines in a trade agreement.
>I don't have to make arrangements to go get my home when it is searched

They could however, break your door (if you're not there to let them in), and AFAIK they're not responsible for getting it fixed.

>Also, if you're searching my house, more than likely, I'm directly involved in something.

That's irrelevant. The standard for a search warrant is "probable cause" regardless.

>They don't break into my house to get my Ring footage, which is much more equivalent in your attempt equating these disparate concepts.

...because the ring footage isn't in your house, it's in the cloud. Moreover, if you have an on-premise system and you're on vacation or something, it's plausible that they get a search warrant and break in, especially if they think time is of the essence (eg. your system has limited retention and the footage is going to be wiped).

>You could just as easily boot the car and wait for the owner to return.

If you read the article the police claims that it's only used if they can't locate the owner. It's unclear what that exactly means, but it's not like they're towing every tesla near the crime scene.
I don't think any such regulation can have teeth or actually protect anyone. The mechanism by which data is abused is a moving target that will shift with any regulation you throw at it. It will go to black markets, be reshaped through loopholes, or done in plausibly deniable ways by entities that can bog any legal challenge down in technicalities indefinitely, while still probably making more doing it than they'll be fined for, and every loophole will require new regulation to close it. The only way to regulate data collection with teeth is to make the collection itself illegal, and actually enforce those laws
> Rather, it's using the energy to deoxidize rust.

Exactly, really what they are storing is electrons.

Rusting the iron directly releases heat, which limits your efficiency to the delta-T of the process. Reducing steam to hydrogen and then converting the hydrogen in a fuel cell allows higher efficiency to produce electricity.
After 30 years Mr Mortgage's depreciated house needs a new roof and thousands of dollars in repairs. Meanwhile the property taxes have gone up every year so he still ends up working until he dies just to keep a roof over his head.
One of his points is that if you have a full time manager, this manager will make sure to do managerial stuff for 40 hrs a week, even if, for the team's success, you only need 10 hours.

In my experience this is true, managers who don't have enough legit stuff to do are the biggest time wasters because they want to appear busy and indispensable.
It's going to rock for gamers.