kevinbowman

There's a guide at https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github..., but the critical bit is "In the "Code and automation" section of the sidebar, click Pages."

I think Project Zero would count as offensive work in this regard; they are actively trying to find problems in other systems, rather than trying to stop other people trying to find problems in their systems.

Also relevant, houses aren't boiling a kettle and running their oven 24x7, so this is more like worst-case peak load and will be spread across different houses. Having some kind of battery storage closer to the houses will help a lot - the tidal generator can run fairly constantly and fill the battery, and the houses can draw in short bursts from the battery.

It's now!

No affiliation, I just thought this was an interesting approach. They publish the prices the previous day, in 30-minute blocks based on the wholesale prices, and add an uplift in the evenings to encourage people to change their usage patterns away from peak (usage and carbon-intensity) times.

You have a sale. Maybe the most expensive mug I've ever bought :) I look forward to it.

I don't know the numbers, but I would guess that more people sit NodeJS servers behind a CDN or proxy of some kind than PHP, making it potentially harder to identify.

It wasn't available in my country (UK) yesterday, but I just checked after updating to 16.3 and it now says I can enable it.

it lets you transfer a web "player" to a TV set that could support sports betting through the remote control

The problem with that is the broadcast delays; live betting will always be as fast as possible (so that people who are physically at the match don't get much of a window to place a "guaranteed winner" bet, e.g. "next player to score"), but the various broadcast methods can add up to maybe 20 seconds' delay and most people probably wouldn't want the betting overlay to tell them that someone had scored before the TV pictures show them the action.

I've been to a few events where White Coat have been doing the captioning, and they're very good. I often find myself reading the live captions even whilst I'm listening to the speaker, I think my brain sometimes finds it easier to follow along with (e.g. to lighten the cognitive load a little if the speaker has a strong accent which I'm not tuned-in to very well). Live captioning is highly recommended for all sizeable events, and White Coat seem to be pretty good at it (I have no relationship with them, just encountered them a couple of times).

“Shade balls”, there are 96M of them in (on?) a big Los Angeles reservoir : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade_balls

They are made from HDPE, with an additive to prevent UV-accelerated breakdown into bromates (which is what they are there to stop forming in the water, as well as to stop evaporation).

Good to know, thanks for the confirmation!

I think Charles proxy can do that, by installing itself as a VPN on iOS devices and also as a device configuration profile (so it can use a custom CA to MITM the traffic).

From a quick look at the code, it seems to be doing something similar, except it does it for you. Here's a link to the Firefox bit, where it makes a custom Firefox profile and then injects a certificate into it: https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit-server/blob/maste...

I haven't seen the source for the .deb package, but in theory it could add a system cert at installation time. I don't know if it does, though.

I really like that this weighs the cat; having regular, non-intrusive cat health metrics is particularly useful. Weight change can be a sign of a variety of other issues, but also probably a bunch of non-issues, so _only_ weighing a cat on an annual visit to the vet is less useful but it's quite a pain to manually weigh the cat each day to see trends. Even if only to calibrate the amount of food to dose over time, it's a useful feature.

Nice project!

where do you report lateral flow tests?

https://www.gov.uk/report-covid19-result

if a lateral flow is positive...

I imagine that that report result site will refer you for a PCR test, although thankfully I've never personally been in that position.

I assumed "benefits", i.e. perks beyond the basic salary

From the most recent news item on the link you posted: “In the coming weeks this website (https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/) will be selectively decommissioned and/or forwarded to the corresponding OpenSearch.org content.”

If there’s only one owner, either through limiting the contributions or through insisting on a CLA, then that owner can do what they like moving forwards. They can’t change things retrospectively, though.

The UK definition is “within 28 days of a positive covid test result”. There was a day in July with no reported deaths, but that used a different definition.

The FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) is the most authoritative source of info, but if you look at @dang’s post history there’s some interesting discussion of other algorithms in use (a recent one was about giving some submissions a “second chance” at making it onto the front page).

From the FAQ: “””

How are stories ranked?

The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way.

Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator action. “””

Although the FT is paywalled, from a web search the same topic is covered at https://digitpatrox.com/englands-nhs-plans-to-share-patient-... (I have no idea how reputable that site is though). Quoting the start of it: “”” England’s NHS is making ready to scrape the medical histories of 55m sufferers, together with delicate info relating to psychological and sexual well being, prison information and the abuse of adults and youngsters, right into a database it is going to share with third events. The info assortment venture, which is the primary of its form, has triggered an uproar amongst privateness campaigners, who say it’s “legally problematic”, particularly as sufferers solely have a couple of weeks to decide out of the plan. NHS Digital, which runs the well being service’s IT techniques, confirmed the plan to pool collectively medical information from each affected person in England who’s registered with a GP clinic right into a single lake that can be obtainable to educational and business third events for analysis and planning functions. “””

This link is also relevant for people registered with the NHS: https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/manage-your-choice/

I’m interested in how these perform in bad weather, or even just strong winds. Presumably they’ll get knocked around more than aeroplanes due to their bigger profile?

Press release at https://supplyframe.com/press-releases/siemens-accelerates-d...

Interestingly, the OS is detected from the user agent, so really it’s only hashing the IP and the user agent.

Worth mentioning as well that there's a good CLI for Arduino these days, at https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/. It's written in Go, and shares config etc with the traditional Arduino UI. I have no affiliation with it, but have used it happily along with vim, and not needed to drop back into the traditional UI.

This is probably what was being referenced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25772462

"macOS Big Sur 11.2 beta 2 is out with full custom kernel support" ... "The OS now finally includes the firmware and bootloaders and tools necessary to replace Big Sur with not-Big-Sur. That was previously not possible."

They likely use off-the-shelf bluetooth modules which are already certified, and just talk some kind of higher-level protocol over it which sits above the SiG certification.

“We continually search the web for open proxy servers and save the working ones into our database.”

They’re charging for access to other people’s open proxies, without the other people knowing. This seems... disingenuous?

Yep, 4 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20888817