skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in 2016 I got one of the ACR PLB-375 "ResQLink+" locator beacons. I did a bunch of research at the time, and liked this because it was $250, and required no subscription. Looks like they are $300 now.

The alternatives have more features, like sending messages or two way messaging, and incoming messages, but also tend to require monthly subscription fees. Some of them now have subscriptions that you can "pause" when you aren't using it.

I bought the beacon for offroading, after one trip where my son was screwing around and fell and hit his head pretty hard on a rock. He was ok, but it made the ability to reach out much more real. Sometimes I can get cell phone signal on the trail, but usually not. The medical kit I carry and my medical abilities were not up to serious injury. My trauma kit stayed at home: my wife is a nurse. :-)

I like it, but in retrospect I wish I'd gotten a 2 way Iridium one, because my wife really worries when she can't get status updates. "Not getting a call from emergency services means we're ok" is not good enough. <shrug> :-)
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time - Marthe Troly-Curtin
How Baltimore Is Experimenting Its Way Out of the Food Desert
In my own experience:

1. everyone starts out like that

2. some realize that and (sometimes having thought of it for a while) make a decision to persist/stop that

3. some years have passed by since, and now you can't get that reaction out of me, only understanding
okay, this is a fine line but... is that line suggesting that you can't join because you also want to empower everybody else?
Is the Doomsday Clock Still Relevant?
can't take design advice from a site where the text is centered off to the side of the monitor center line.

like the basic is to design for the humans to the other side of the screen, and you want me to shift around or read the thing looking sideways?

there's more than visuals, it's forgetting the most important thing, whom we build things for.

but anyway, here's a different take: just build wire frames of the structure as needed to whatever default your framework has, then pay a professional. if you bill yourself your time, or factor in cost opportunity, you'll inevitably come ahead.
Bending the Rules on Bacteria (2011)
Why can't the government run its own computers? I mean, shouldn't it?
Incredible service.

Is there a payment required for rescue services? For instance, does the Coast Guard charge the six people rescued when the boat sank?
While I'm sympathetic to the author, we have a significant amount of history showing that two parties work quite well. We certainly have our issues with long-term thinking that's not helped by this system, but in general, America is still doing quite well.
I mean it would work for me. I typically vote by mail but if my phone popped a notification that was like "It's election day!" and let me vote it would be done less than 5m after the ping.
Data leak strikes US cannabis users, sensitive information exposed
Why would anyone block all of Akamai? This is the problem with user-generated-lists; sometimes the user clearly has no idea what they're doing.
One server is elementary, yes, but hundreds of thousands working together is an entirely different beast. There’s nothing easy about cloud computing and there’s a definite reason why it’s worth buying into.
Actually the voter database is public record[0], and it includes birthdays. This means that it would be easy to have 100% turnout in the first few seconds of the polls being open.

[0]: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vrdb/extract-requests.aspx
There is no other side: either they arrested him for cause or they did not. Arresting someone thinking they are someone else should automatically result in a release and in this case probably compensation. You are 'just presenting the other side' in the same way that news organizations will pretend to be balanced by presenting two sides of an argument which has already been resolved as though there is some kind of controversy that needs to be kept alive.

So, either he was 'a bad guy', let's see the charges, or it was a case of mistaken identity. It does not look like there is much middle ground here.
Virginia just made it a state holiday, yay for progress. Too bad half the people that should vote will still be working on that day or don't even think about voting because they're too stressed to care.
I've had the ResQLink for 3.5 years, haven't had to use it for anything other than the test cycle, and have been happy with it. I wrote more details in a reply to the parent.
> The onus is on the owner to control their animal in public

Unfortunately, most do not. And then they just go "oh, she's friendly, don't worry", when their dog jumps up into some 3-year-old's face and scares the crap out of them...
Real life mirrors television once again.
love the feel of your site, great job. I think you would really enjoy this podcast https://mastersofscale.com/caterina-fake-build-a-more-human-... It talks about building community focus tech. I think you should take a look into it.
Idk why it didn't work for you but I have both my bank account and credit card on mint and like you I pay it off fully each month. Each transaction on my credit card shows on my budget.

When I pay off my credit card, a transaction shows up on the credit card side, say +$1000, I put this is Credit Card Payment. Since I have my bank account also in Mint, another transaction of -$1000 comes my bank account and I put this in Credit Card Payment, so it cancels out.

I've done this enough that I no longer have to do it manually.
Show HN: Timeflake, 128-bit roughly-ordered UUIDs
Put differently: Real change in such a voting system can only come by turmoil. Like war. You shouldn't pray for that and vote for a change.
Right, that's what I mean by "inherent". When all OSs include features like this and all applications know about them, security and malware immunity will be much improved.

Linux is usually out front in getting OS features in place, but that's just the OS part, not the application software. Windows and the Android version of the Linux kernel (and all android apps) really need this feature too.
To others who were curious of the definition as I was:

vitrified - To change or make into glass or a glassy substance, especially through heat fusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrification
Almost every government lab I've seen has a rule that says you aren't allowed to use free software in the lab. Everything was supposed to have a vendor that was responsible for it that you were paying.

Development labs end up using Linux and other open source software all over the place, but it gets a bit more iffy when you're going into production.
Trump saying stupid things is nowhere near comparable to the decades-long standoff that was the Cold War. I don't think people today generally understand how much bigger the divide was from Post WW2 to the 1990s.
Properties worth paying to live in vs Properties worth renting have an intersection, but they are very distinct groups.
Just the fact that StackOverflow have been accused of not being inclusive at all is enough to create something else. They also have moderation issues. I’m trying to keep a high quality standard on Women Make, just like dang and sctb here with the moderation.

Also, like I said in another comment, women tend to promote themselves/put themselves in front of others much less. The idea of Women Make is really to show them they can and they should. So basically it’s giving women confidence, and the specific support they don’t necessarily get from other places.
Wow I was thinking of Will Smith, realized the movie's not titled that. It might still apply... I did listen to Blink-182 a lot growing up.
Lake Erie Turns Toxic Every Summer. Officials Aren’t Cracking Down on the Source
That's true, I hadn't thought of that and in my city 70% of PT is indeed funded by taxes. But if there wasn't PT my city would probably need to be less dense because of the additional required parking, roads, suburbs, etc and therefore generate less taxes per acre. Also once a high enough percentage of people use PT, it could pay for itself through fares (Tokyo apparently?). The entire situation is complex and hard to measure IMO.
> how did we buy 2 extra $50k Cisco chassis and then keep them in storage for 3 years

Military budgets... Spend it or lose it.

It's better you find spare cisco chassis, than hundreds of zip disks or obsolete laptops >.>
E-sign business documents from over a dozen Zoho apps with Zoho Sign
it's these tech ads or the ads about face cream and celebs. I mean its so hard to monetize these days. You can't please everyone. Maybe if the site had ads like these https://i.imgur.com/hg31VTB.png then you would be happy??
> let alone convincing them to change their minds.

This has become a growing issue in American politics. As much as a love progressive politics myself. I can't deny the important of strong political opposition and the importance of conservative view points in opposition to progress.

Progressive politics has become ignorant to the people, and as a result the people have turned a dead ear towards it. Instead of trying to convince them of their new ideas and why they're
better than the old ones. Progressives have adopted an assumption of, "the other side is evil and is deliberately holding us back".

It should be hard to cause political change. Most new ideas in politics are truly awful and failures at that level affect society gravely. Disagreement over how to move forward is fundamental to a functioning democracy and the emergence of good ideas. Yet modern politics seems to treat any amount of disagreement as a solemn oath of obstinance. Yes, changing minds politically is challenging, and yes it should be.
Often times on river trips before going to sleep I'll read a few pages/chapters of whatever I'm reading aloud to whoever is near me, if they're interested. Sometimes during the day if we stop we'll pass around a relevant book, poetic'ish environmentally themed books..., to read to the group kind of like reading to the class in elementary school. Everyone has a unique style of reading aloud and it's always interesting to hear how they interpret the story and words through inflection/tone/cadence/etc... or as the article says "through the concentration of our faculties, the inflection of our voices, the warmth and presence of our bodies—to reach the listener."

This is one of those things we do not practice or really do for better or worse. For some the aspect of reading to others is terror inducing even among close friends. For some there's terror from being still and simply listening to another because it's so different from our normal lives of fast consumption and noise. Next time you're out in nature bring a short poem or story, take a pause and read it aloud to your group. It will probably be uncomfortable as it's strange to most but give it a try.
I'm currently trying out Copilot (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/copilot-smart-budgets-bills/id...)

Love the fact that it is a paid app, so my data will not be monetized as a revenue model. Happy to pay for privacy.
Anything that indeed has an 'end of beef' to it might be the battle of the ideologically possessed, a battle of ideas in J. Peterson terms. Because this is the end goal, the consumption and annihilation of other doctrines.

But mostly what I gauge out there is indeed IoB. The article is so on-point for me that could just as well have written it myself.
There are questions that can be asked if you suspect that someone is abusing the system. THey'll only work if the person is unprepared, though:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22124349
well these days, it's these tech ads or ads about face cream and celebs. I mean its so hard to monetize these days. You can't please everyone. Maybe if the site had ads like these https://i.imgur.com/hg31VTB.png then you would be happy???
I think this is a REALLY bad idea because of the security implications surrounding it.
I see, thanks.

"People from who you can inspire from" - do you mean you might have higher "basic level" of connection with the same sex?

Or are there also topics you can get into?

Seeing im downvoted up there: these are honest curious questions, I want to understand better how these social things work. And I'd be glad if I could understand more here, because unfortunately my previous attempts to understand similar social constructs failed (unfortunately I've been told multiple times by women that as a man something is not my business at all and I was not even let understand the nature of the relations.)
Permalink to that comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/esiv9b/psa_...
> The "enough" here is zero.

No, it isn't. Legally it might be zero, but multi-billion dollar companies don't enter legal processes that last years and cost them millions just for the sake of it. This isn't the same as "you'll hear from my lawyer".
Try thinking about this not from the point of view of the supplier, but from the point of view of the customer. In particular, of a non-technical customer.

Imagine this. I've bought something, I'm using it, it's wonderful, and I love it. I buy more things from the same supplier, and they too are excellent. I even go so far as to recommend them to friends. I'm not a technical person, I've just bought things that work, and I'm very happy with them.

Then I get a letter. The letter says, basically, that all my kit, all of it, will cease to get security updates. Or any kind of updates. I'm not entirely sure what that means, it was never made much of when I bought them. But it sounds serious, and sounds like something I should avoid.

But there's an upside! The speaker that I love can be sacrificed. I can let you brick my speaker, for which I paid £400, and send it to landfill. In return I get discount 30% on a replacement.

That doesn't feel like a good deal, and it does feel like extortion. As a non-technical customer I feel like I've been had, and am now having to pay more to retain capability I already have.

Does that explain further why some people are a bit upset about this? Putting yourself in the customers' position can help.
Fixing Google Map Transit Feed Mistakes in Taiwan
They get to pay an "unhealthy lifestyle tax".
My wife and I recently started enjoying this! It's a very calming way to wind down in the evening instead of another installment of $TV_SHOW. I've been narrating Bram Stoker's Dracula, and I must say, the imagery and scenes stick in my mind much better than when I (quite quickly) read silently.

It's fun doing the voices, and taking time every now and again to discuss what happened gives us a more engaged sort of relaxation that's at our direction. It was a bit of a challenge finding a book we both agreed upon because we have very different taste, but we were able to meet in the middle by starting with a classic.
If you are a purely-Microsoft shop (AD/Exchange/Visual Studio), using Azure could give you better integration within their ecosystem (i.e. native Azure tooling within Visual Studio). I realize AWS has similar tools and plugins, but there is something nice to having first-party support down the entire vertical. Making your Microsoft account rep responsible for everything really does help to consolidate business administration concerns.

If you are not a Microsoft shop (i.e. >50% of your stuff runs on Linux), I would almost say avoid Azure because of how focused it is on their stack. I know you can run arbitrary Linux on Azure and generally get everything done, but AWS (and all other non-Microsoft cloud vendors) always seemed more friendly/cheaper for non-Windows/Office concerns.

So, it's not just about the cloud platforms and their respective costs per feature consumption unit. It's also about your business and the ecosystem required to support and operate within these cloud platforms.
The article doesn't seem to mention that on a state and local level the republican and Democratic parties have conspired to pass laws that make it harder for third parties to get on ballots. In many places third party candidates have to get a lot more signatures than Republican or democratic candidates which makes it harder for them to get on the ballot let alone elected.
Five Methods for Database Obfuscation
Ah, and before English today, the educated said that French was the most precise language, and before that, Latin.

I agree that English vocabulary is very well-developed for concepts in the modern world, but I hope that readers will recognize that it is not this way because of some essential superiority of the language, but because many people are using it for precise communication.

Imagine for example that the entire population speaking English were to die off but for a few rednecks who don't understand much of the world, and you will find that English as is spoken by them is too imprecise to apprehend most things.

Or when a casual conversation steered into specialist territory, and those of a different profession felt like the conversation was Greek to their ears. English speakers would need to be trained in your profession's jargon and idioms to be able to understand what is being discussed. Here the value of English is that there is already a community of people who understand this idiom, whereas to discuss the same matter in another language would require fixing jargon and idioms that nobody is already conversant in.

That is, it is the existing communities of speakers that understand specialized English that makes it developed for precise communication in a variety of advanced topics, and not some essential superiority of English in terms of how it interacts with each individual's minds that other languages cannot potentially achieve.
Essentially...yes.

But it allows you to point all devices in your network to one "fatass hosts file" instead of maintaining them on each device.

You do not need a raspberry pi to run pihole, it can be on a VM also.
> Most of my projects never made it to a release!

I wish I could relate less to that statement.
Yeah but she wasn’t an actor or a musician. Most of the time they hang out with other rich people.
Sea level rise could reshape the United States, trigger migration inland
http://www.glensstuff.com/trs80/trs80.htm is not secure! Most bargain-basement hosts support https by now.

Egads!
> You you want the "adults" bullying users and developers instead?

In the same way I want the police to take over the sex trafficking business from the mafia. So no.

> You really do not want what you are asking for.

I believe I know my mind better than you do.
Dozens of non-oncology drugs can kill cancer cells
There are several reasons I couldn't use this machine as a daily driver personally, but for $199 (!) it's tempting to get it just as a toy. Just to have a:

- Dedicated Linux system to play with

- Ultra-portable laptop

- Cheap travel laptop
For better or worse, I read it as accusing them of ignoring Republicans; making no attempt to address them or speak to them (presumably because they are the evil other, beyond redemption).
> How about you just stop with the pointless wars and chemical weapon development instead? Wouldn't that be a whole lot cheaper and safer, and give rise to way fewer ethical dilemmas?

Well, there haven't been any significant chemical weapons usage since at least WW1 and occasionally in WW2, but to much lesser extent.

All recent supposed usage of chemical weapons appeared to exist just as an excuse for the USA government propaganda to make an attack and destruction of the country they don't like more acceptable.
The American Dream Is Easier to Achieve in Canada
When you install Chrome you expect the search engine to be set to Google.

When you install O365 ProPlus you sure as hell don‘t expect it to change search engine parameters in separate programs.
I wish people would stop with throwing up dialogs/alerts/signups when I start to scroll. I can't believe people think this is a good idea.
Okay, and how do we compare that to the legal trouble microsoft had with setting IE as the default browser. As a customer of course I expect IE to be built in to windows. Yet that wasn't ok.
My wife read and recorded the whole Harry Potter series for our eldest, now the second gets to either hear Mom read live, or listen to a recorded chapter everynight before bed.

I've heard you should always read to your kids regardless of their age. They'll only ever read at their level, so even reading a poem or newspaper article or scientific journal to them when they're older increases their reading level.
if you are using a cloud provider, you can use Fortinet's top 10 WAF rules..

its plug and play but comes with its own disadvantages..
The answer is that it depends on many things including state and locality, type of rescue needed, and what you are doing and what permits or licenses you are doing it under.

In Colorado there are rescue activities covered by having hunting licenses, Off Highway Vehicle permits, and a "Search and Rescue" card, which create a fund that covers costs of some types of search and rescue activities. https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dola/node/98966
Absolutely amazing that almost all techies in this thread are against this. Of course there is major security risks, and problems that have to be solved, but it is MASSIVELY outweighed by the fact that mobile voting would mean almost 100% voter turn out overnight if done on a national level. What are we at right now, 60% on average, maybe? Our nation's policies would change immediately with such a massive swing in voter turnout, with adjustments towards forward-thinking, liberal policies.
Building a community takes a lot of time and energy, and even with that it doesn't necessarily works.
As a different citizen, I'm not too enthused about ballot secrecy. 100% of the security issues with online voting come from the ballot secrecy requirement, so it's hard to get worked up about this.
I used Arch during the days before it switched to systemd (and before Ubuntu introduced Unity) and enjoyed it until I have accidentally found out Ubuntu feels faster on my PC so I switched to Ubuntu.

Once Ubuntu switched to GNOME3 I have switched to Manjaro (with KDE5) and I really love it (it feels like the perfect spot between Arch freshness and reasonable stability - you still get the fresh stuff reasonably fast but they test it before that so it's much less likely for an update to ruin your system) but I don't know how to get rid of Avahi:

:: removing avahi breaks dependency 'avahi' required by geoclue
:: removing avahi breaks dependency 'avahi' required by gvfs
:: removing avahi breaks dependency 'avahi' required by kdnssd
:: removing avahi breaks dependency 'avahi' required by libcups
:: removing avahi breaks dependency 'avahi' required by mpd
:: removing avahi breaks dependency 'avahi' required by nss-mdns
:: removing avahi breaks dependency 'avahi' required by ostree
:: removing avahi breaks dependency 'avahi' required by pulseaudio-zeroconf
:: removing avahi breaks dependency 'avahi' required by sane

i.e. I certainly need CUPS (to have a virtual PDF printer) and it depends on it (and I don't even know what 2/3 of the rest of the packages listed do). It is also very much possible the situation is the same on Arch.

Also, I don't really mind systemd from the practical point of view but the actual idea we were speaking about is having a simple, intuitive init system, which systemd is not.
It's all just business, as is this case.