skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ship is a cruise ship, the Orient Queen. Shout out to the brilliant Marine Traffic app where I found this first, but it's also written about on some industry websites.

The consensus seems to be that that the hull was damaged and water flooded the ship on one side, causing it to list and then sink.

https://gcaptain.com/beirut-blast-two-killed-on-orient-queen...
Last year I briefly erected a CMS that I imagined had no abuse potential. I got asked by my host to fix it (I nuked it too), because spammers were registering accounts with it... setting the email address as the target of their spam.

I apparently got into trouble here because I was tired of WordPress and decided to try something else... and look where it got me.
Every filesystem ever has the concept of file attributes.

The problem is the exact details of what file attributes are supported vary widely from system to system.

The best approach is to support a subset which is reasonably common across platforms – file type[1], modification timestamps, file size in bytes, etc – and an extension mechanism to enable platform-specific attributes.

Java NIO handles this reasonably well with the java.nio.file.attribute package[2] in my opinion. (Not sure how easy it would be to port the concepts of that to Go though.)

IANA has a registry of OS-specific facts (i.e. file attributes) and OS-specific file types[3] – this is for use of FTP MLST and MLSD commands[4] but the registry is rather empty because that RFC doesn't appear to have got much adoption. It is a good idea though.

[1] There is a standard list of file types most platforms support – regular file, directory, link – but there are lots of special file types specific to various platforms (e.g. named pipes, UNIX domain sockets, BSD whiteouts, NTFS junctions), plus some filesystems have different subtypes of regular files or directories. (For example, on IBM z/OS, a "regular file" could be a UNIX file, a VSAM dataset, or a non-VSAM dataset, and the later two both have several subtypes; similarly, z/OS has UNIX directories, but PDS(E) could also be viewed as a non-UNIX type of directory.)

[2] https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/14/docs/api/java.base...

[3] https://www.iana.org/assignments/os-specific-parameters/os-s...

[4] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3659
Why use Electron instead of React Native or something else?

The only cross-platform environment I've used is Qt, so I'm just curious.
I think this is referenced in the sci-fi book Fall of Endymion by Dan Simmons, where some characters spend time in a historical desert town built by a community headed by an architect.

I always thought it was some sort of Frank Lloyd Wright reference, because I didn't know anything else, but this fits the reference better.
It really depends. If I’m building a Java project, I’m pretty sure I’ve got a deterministic build just by running javac pointed at a source directory. If I want a reproducible build, I probably need to do a lot more:

- ensure timestamps of all files embedded in jar files is consistent

- ensure there is no BuildTime/BuildHost/BuildNumber variable of any kind being captured

- ensure the exact version of compiler is documented

- ensure exact versions of all dependencies in classpath is captured
Cool, another piece of Millennial crap I don't need to install
> Vitamin D has been endlessly promoted as a treatment for many diseases due to evidence from observational studies, but hundreds of millions of dollars in randomized controlled trials have never demonstrated it to be effective for any disease except rickets.

This randomized controlled trial, with 11000 participants "confirms vitamin D protects against colds and flu":

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/02/study-confirm...
I use macos and linux and the keybindings are compatible with emacs.
Ammonium nitrate is a popular readily available ingredient for many militant groups that want to improvise a bomb. The Oklahoma City bomb was ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel or heavy fuel oil. Not like this is something exclusive to Hezbollah. In this particular case the instance of the ship and its cargo that were abandoned at the port in 2014 are well documented and no significant links to Hezbollah have been documented yet.

Anyways, if Hebzollah wanted the ammonium nitrate for their own use, surely they would have found a way some time in the past five years to remove it from the port in 1 to 5 ton quantities and store it somewhere in more rural areas outside of metro Beirut.
That was 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate.

Finding someone willing to take the risk of storing that is probably non trivial. As is transportation.
Alliance Airlines Buys 14 Embraer E190 Passenger Aircraft for $80M
> After the Tianjin disaster, wouldn't someone have thought of that, you would think?

There's a string of similar disasters reaching back about a century, and unfortunately not everyone seems to take note. There was a big one in Texas just two years before the Tianjin one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters
The way I interpret what you say is that you'd like to have the benefits of being in a union, without being in a union. If that's the case (otherwise, sorry for misrepresenting your views) I don't see how that can work. How are a bunch of independent individuals going to secure their common rights without collaborating with each other?
They are likely aware of it, as spf13 works on golang at Google. :)
Gwern had a good piece on it. It's crazy expensive to train and run, not something for a laptop or gaming rig. The claim is it's really not that interesting, just a bigger GPT-2. It will be more interesting to see similar results with smaller models that are more accessible
it’s also commonly used in the insurance industry for before and after image compare for large scale catastrophe management.
People need to be really careful when sharing papers like these and repeating their conclusions without the appropriate disclaimers. That's always the case, and especially during a time when so many people are unable to consult their doctors and resorting to self-medicating based on hearsay and overconfidence in their own ability to interpret scientific papers.

To be clear, I'm not saying vitamin D deficiency in relation to Covid mortality isn't a valid line of inquiry for the health community to take their research in. But from what I can tell, this is far outside the authors' areas of expertise.

I'd say this kind of thing in particular has the potentially to be even more dangerous than irresponsibly discussing the effects of something like hydroxychloroquine, because so many people don't realize how dangerous vitamins and other such 'natural' remedies can be when taken without the supervision of a medical professional.
To expand on 3: most spy satellites operate in sun synchronous polar orbits. This is so they can cover the entire earth and will have their solar panels lit by the sun. This also has the ramification that they'll always be in the same spot in the sky depending on the time of day. If you know this time, that's when you hide your tanks and don't fly your top secret spyplane
I think this has great potential, and immediately understood the value offering of it before visiting the page. That said, I'm glad you're re-crafting the landing page.

A couple suggestions/phrasings that come to mind and - at least in my opinion - would quickly convey the intent of the platform:
"Make the world your next convention venue"

Okay, maybe I'm worse at this than I thought...
Subscription based services can do everything that ad funded services can do, but on top of that they can irrefutably link my real name to all of it, which makes their data even more valuable.

I don't know many subscription based content publishers that promise not to monetise what they know about me in all sorts of other ways. I do have a newspaper subscription. That doesn't stop them from showing me ads or using ad networks and trackers. Payment networks and banks monetise my payment data as well.

Even if a particular publisher is willing make such promises, I wouldn't have much confidence in their ability to keep my data safe.

So the upshot is that I simply don't want my real name irrefutably and permanently linked to everything I read, write or watch.

What ad neworks know about me is extremly patchy. Every time I see what they think about me I wonder who on earth would ever consider paying them for that rubbish. But that's not what it's about. All they need to be able to do is make predictions that are slightly better than random guesses.
> the ship not be able to roll back upright

There are pictures on twitter [1] of the ship listing but still upright, so it seems it sank from damage.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eemmk9mXkAElWIY?format=jpg&name=...
fun that there is both arcosanti AND taliesin west
Regarding "redirect tracking" why not just disable (HTTP) redirects? Is that possible in Firefox?

Out of curiousity, what is the "threat model" when using Panopticlick? Is it suited for users that just want to avoid tracking for commercial purposes? If the user does not enable Javascript, what good is that user to such trackers?
How much commercial tracking is conducted without any use of Javascript (and without cookies)?
A few months ago I took a safety training course. In the course the instructor showed us a video of a voice fire alarm, which talked along with emitting a shrill sound. The reason was that some people, especially children, could not be awakened by the alarm sound, but will wake upon hearing a human voice. I have a mix of old and new fire alarms, and my new fire alarm does indeed talk in addition to emitting the alarm sound.
Gold has been a pretty rewarding investment for the last 20 years.

Sure. And a horrible investment over the last 40 years. You’d still have a negative return if you bought in 1980.
At the prices they're charging, they're rather asking for it.
I think whether the keyboard is "better" than the mouse depends to a degree on where and what you're selecting. If I want to start the selection at or very close to where the cursor is at the moment, I'm going to use the keyboard; if it's somewhere else on the screen, though, the mouse might well be quicker. (I just experienced both of those when I wanted to change the last phrase in that last sentence, and the cursor was all the way at the bottom of this comment, then wanted to edit something just one line above. The latter case, keyboard; the former case, mouse.)

> Use correct meta or home/end key along with shift and arrow key to select the entire line, based on your platform of choice.

Ideally this is just one command, I think, like Cmd/Ctrl+L for "select current line". :)

> I'd like to see some more intelligent selection hotkeys though. JumpingBetweenCamelCase, "everything inside the quotes" { data:'inside', the:'braces'}

The only editor that I've found that does both of those out of the box is BBEdit for the Mac, which uses Ctrl+left/right and Opt+left/right to navigate and select by word but Ctrl stops for camelCase and underscore breaks while Opt doesn't. And Cmd+B, "Balance," selects text between enclosing characters in the current scope: brackets, parentheses, quote marks, etc. I'm not sure why equivalents to these aren't more common in other editors.
Because the largest market for growth these entities have outside of China, is India. The middle classes want the goodies, and these players want the income.

Jio has the market.
Capitalism doesn't blend perfectly well with issues of Health, so we usually need to step in with some rational rules.

There are special regulations for almost all aspects of Healthcare; so it's not unreasonable that there might be special rules or regulations for ads on Google as well.
With out current capabilities space only offers intangible services to earth (not to discount them as they are still profitable markets). With the step change in capacity we can start talking about getting equipment into space to bootstrap making it physically productive for earth.

We can start looking at the infrastructure that makes moon or asteroid mining for fuel possible. 'Cheap' fuel in space is the dream because it means asteroid 'mining' for materials that get returned to earth can be profitable (massively profitable to the point of dwarfing any investment currently made).

But the amazing side effect is suddenly we also have materials in space that like the fuel now costs orders of magnitude less than if we were sending it up. It'll becomes viable to build more infrastructure in space and so (perhaps ironically) there will be more demand to get materials from earth to space.
You can get that from your logs though?
Potentially kooky website (many gold bug sites are), but it has some details for anyone interested.

https://www.fff.org/2013/12/09/the-u-s-vs-robert-kahre-a-hor...
Yeah I realize that. It is just surprising is all. It is a very nice to use interface. Getting an equivalent in stdlib would be great.
How would you feel about a $300 fee to use the national parks?

If a PLB is required in all but law then that's almost the same effect. IMO that kind of goes against the spirit of having national parks and other purposely undeveloped areas.

Sure it would be nice if everyone had one but I don't wanna make hiking and camping, which can be very cheap ways to recreate if you want them to be, instantly $300 more expensive.
Diagnostic shortcuts that help physicians can also lead to grave errors
We are wasting our time and money looking at Vitamin D again and again and again.

I seriously doubt that because I think exactly what it does is poorly understood. But we do know that people with cystic fibrosis have serious compromised immune function and, among other things, see terrible, deadly lung infections (and account for a large percentage of lung transplants).

Some of the remarks in this discussion have been helpful to me and I've spent nearly two decades -- ever since my diagnosis in May 2001 -- trying to understand my condition.

New information comes out all the time and new tidbits that are reasonably verifiable as true become building blocks for more complex mental models. I am just beginning to understand things I've been squirreling information away about for a lot of years with a keen interest because my life literally depended upon such understanding.

I have kind of "bookmarked" this discussion, in part to get me ready access to the article it covers. I'm short of sleep today and not following things well and this piece is piquing my curiosity in ways that most discussions of vitamin D fail to do.

I think this is an exciting era in which to be alive if you have a mystery illness that they don't really know how to fix. The amount of information available at your fingertips while literally laying in bed, too sick to get up, overwhelms what I could find at a library as a child. It is game changing in ways that most people seem to fail to appreciate.
One weird thing I noticed at a particular FAANG was that there were many teams that were either overwhelmingly Indian or Chinese. It seemed very unlikely that these could be random, as they were minorities. I made sure to avoid any team like that. Although to be fair it also happens with white people, but at least they are the majority so it seems more likely to occur randomly. I've even overheard certain teams having technical discussions in other languages beside English, which seemed weird because if I was in the team it would make me feel very uncomfortable or excluded.
I know how it's supposed to be read (and I've even seen real reels at old movie theaters!), but I still just think about fishing reels every time I see it.
Hypercasual Game Publishers Are Squeezing Us for Free
We had little to no support from parents. Having full support of immediate and extended family would have been really, really helpful. Instead, my dad's girlfriend decided to kick my then-girlfriend-now-wife out when we were living at my dad's, my mom did the same, her dad was not in the picture, and her mom was at best a terrible room mate with mental issues. We were able to finally (through help provided by my best friend's dad) rent our own place at age 19. From there, my wife worked 2-3 jobs at a time while I had 1-2 part time jobs while being a full time student (one was doing php programming which would eventually lead to the way out of poverty). I eventually got my degree (BS Business Admin, minor CS) where I worked for the same friend's dad selling insurance, then went out to be a financial advisor with Edward Jones, did some construction work, got my teaching credential and taught inner city high school math (very rough), and all the while through those years I worked on programming/web-dev as a hobby. After losing my job as a teacher, I was able to work with a recruiter and able to get my first real programming job. We are now well adjusted upper middle class people and my wife is a stay at home mom and homemaker. Quite a wild ride!
>but also send out 50 quadcopters or uavs as a force multiplier.

Random small aircraft with FLIR on a swivel mount that beams the results back to somewhere else for analysis would likely be more cost effective for equivalent coverage.
This website isn’t very useful because every browser is unique, save Tor.
My god! It made the buildings all lean the other way! /endsarcasm
> I would improve it for new users by having a little animation after load that "wiggles" the handle a bit to get the user's attention.

Please don't. It's just one more reason to apply Kill Sticky.
TBM FTW.
HOLES! I need HOLES! :)
omg, thank you for this
The two images were taken about 2 months apart, so the same ships likely were not there. But still... that was a lot of energy released.
> every editor worth its salt has an option to use vim keybindings

Also a lot of inputs use Emacs binding or a subset of it: Bash and other shells, Cisco routers, heck, even in Slack you can Crtl-a or Crtl-k.
pretty easy to tell ground-zero from the big crater
It should be scary, because since internet discussions often become less than argumentative. Instead of even lack of arguments, it becomes combative. People need some guiding principles, but with different streams of information and manipulators willingly misleading people, you end up with lowest common denominators setting untrue agendas. I guess this is what they mean by "digitalization", just that nobody know the consequences of what they say.

And no, I don't "fear" or am "frightened", as some using dominating speech would have it. There are real concerns in the world that need to be openly addressed, and people need to demand accountability and fairness for those issues.
Not saying your wrong, but high inflation and poor growth happened not long ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation
Sure, if you make such a list I'd be interested to see it.

Btw, if a comment is faded and you're having trouble reading it, you can click on its timestamp to go to its page, and in that case it should be rendered normally.
It looks to be a custom function for parsing JSON arrays: https://github.com/haifengl/smile/blob/5bf4075b2978af68b31c7...

The benefit is that the type will be known to be JSArray without need for runtime casting (at least, outside the scope of the function). For comparison, `json` returns a JSObject.

I honestly haven't seen this before working with Scala, and it's defined just for the smile repository.
Just a random gopher sharing their level of surprise. I didn't know about the spf13 project, but I instantly thought of https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/godoc/vfs

Looks like they mention that package in their proposal.
lots of trades people make 6 figures...maybe vocational trades should be taught instead?
I must confess I did not recognize that icon from anywhere. Seems like a much simpler root cause is that many others also did not recognize this as a chat icon, particularly those outside of webdev or design circles.
>They are both a 10x increase in market cap. Why would one be easier than the other, aside from the mild psychological effect on retail buyers?

Let's imagine we're in the future and bitcoin made up 5% of global wealth. In that case, do you think it would be easier for bitcoin to go up 10x than it was back in the early 2010s?
It makes sense many doctors, especially general practitioners, would forget or not know about the Vitamin D/Calcium link. However, wouldn't a doctor prescribing a large dose of Vitamin D take at least yearly standard set of blood tests too that would include calcium levels? Then again, that's assuming there's a fairly standard set of blood tests to check for imbalances of this kind. Also, it seems odd there isn't a standard procedure for prescribing Vit D that included "check calcium levels".
I don't know if K supplementation helps with calcium levels, but you don't need magnesium supplementation as long you have half-decent diet.

There is plenty of magnesium in foods.
If the police are seizing your PC (presumably following an investigation and a warrant) and you have put an accelerometer to shut it down (or unmount an encrypted volume) when moved in order to deny them access to the encrypted data, would this not count as tampering with evidence?

If I were to do this, I would try and find a secondhand server that already has similar protection built in, so if anyone asks I could say "I did not even know it came with this feature".
> Ideally this is just one command, I think, like Cmd/Ctrl+L for "select current line". :)

I find it easier to, instead of remember another command, remember "jump to start of line, select entire line."

Mentally composable and it works in all text input boxes across the entire system. (MacOS, cmd-l selects current line in VS-Code, jumps to URL bar in Chrome.)

IMHO the problem is getting stuff to be system wide. Per editor hotkeys, or even worse. hotkeys added by plugins, cause dissonance when I sit down at someone else's computer, or just switch apps.
Snails are rated in furlongs per fortnight.
Those are grain silos, which are incredibly strong structures.

You can see an image of the damage done to the silos here:

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/up-to-300000-...
I love Firefox as an alternative to Chrome but I hate how it goes of its way to be as cumbersome as possible.

Witness this example of the most terrible UI ever; how frustratingly convoluted it is to delete specific cookies:

1: Open Preferences

2: Search "cookies"

3: See a bunch of cluttered stuff

4: Scroll all the way down to "Cookies and Site Data"

5: Click "Clear Data"

6: Oops, that's not it. Cancel and try "Manage Data"

7: Search "google" for example (to avoid their crappy tactic of signing you into Search when you sign into YouTube or Gmail, but that's another story)

8: Click "Remove All Shown"

9: Click "Save Changes"

10: Get hit with a modal alert in your face showing you the list of changes to confirm.

11: Click "Remove"

https://i.imgur.com/QrE4EH3.gif
I created a dmenu patch-friendly distribution
Hi guys, this is my first post as well as my first open-source contribution o/

I noticed how hard dealing with dmenu's patches was, so I gave it a try making them easy to manage. For example, this simple lines will take care of the border patch for you:

==========================================================

# path/to/dmenu

./handle patch border # Apply patch, quietly by default

./handle depatch border -d # Remove patch, showing compiler output (debug)

==========================================================

Currently 31/32 official patches are available. You can find out more on the repo (https://github.com/jaimecgomezz/dmenu). Of course, your contributions or own patches are welcomed!

Hope you can find it useful!
I’m sorry but you are not engaging. You’re basically creating a No True Scotsman fallacy out of what “is” acting in self-interest, almost verging on a tautology.

The research is clear that even when confronted with proof their actions will not result in the outcome that people self-identify as the outcome they desire, they nonetheless knowingly engage in behavior that makes them worse off (under their own preferences and utility) than other options available to them.