skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linseed oil is the usual culprit. It oxidizes more readily than other oils at room temperature, and a pile of rags can insulate enough for the center to reach autoignition temperatures. The low smoke point for linseed oil also makes it well-suited for seasoning cast-iron cookware (only be sure, please, not to use boiled linseed oil, as it contains lead.)
How low will it get once there's 100 (or more) people connecting from a single neighborhood?
This website also apparently sells a cooler with branding that matches Tesla's, and some planet-shaped lamps.

Putting the 'hack' in hackernews, I suppose.
I believe he's trying to print the 0..9 range by providing the proper start and end point for those characters but instead gets 9..0 (I don't know the script but I'm basing it off by the 0 at the end). So for instance 0x07c0 stands for 0 in Nko script, and this is his starting point, but the entire sequence ends up being reversed. I'm not sure how comparing it to JS helps here other than I guess pointing out that it's also behaving unexpectedly.
Glad that your house didn't suffer damage.

Supposedly, more than 70,000 building have been damaged[1].

The news report also mentions that there is trouble withdrawing money from the banks and that the funds don't reach people. Can you please confirm that the hospital donation link can accept international funds and that the funds really reach to those who need it?

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyEvcmQ8ObA
They are not going to weld castings except maybe for very small cracks and even then it's very unlikely. The casting is not in a place that could be repaired if it were steel, though. It's the main structural member, located behind the rear seats. If you needed to weld there you'd need to take the car practically down to its frame.

Even if it were in a place that was accessible and subject to repairable damage, you would not see it welded or cut. First off a lot of it isn't physically possible to weld; it's in very deep (6") pockets and you'd have a huge amount of difficulty getting penetration. Second, welding aluminum is not super easy. Anyone can weld steel, aluminum isn't the worst but it is much trickier. Third, aluminum welds create a weakness in the aluminum around the weld, because it gets hot but isn't properly tempered as it cools. It's still strong, but the loss is significant- temper is responsible for ~70% of the strength of common aluminum alloys. Fourth, the weld and the surrounding area are very weak (<40% strength) for several days after the repair. It's a huge pain in the ass and you probably can't just let somebody drive off on it.
It doesn't really go deeply into how she was instrumental. A corporation can't be founded without a lawyer to file the paperwork, does that mean the lawyer that filed Uber's incorporation documents should be consider a "founder"?

Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22060372

>[...] She was trained and worked as a lawyer. She went to Berkeley, not to study computer science or electrical engineering, but to study law. She graduated and went to a San Francisco law firm that specialized in intellectual property and had many clients in Silicon Valley. She eventually left and worked for Sun in the legal department. Netscape recruited her to help set up their legal department and that is how she became an executive at a technology company. She stayed at Netscape when it was bought by AOL to work on policy issues, but was eventually fired during a series of layoffs.

>The only "foundational" piece of Mozilla she authored was the Mozilla Public License.
NVIDIA is a source of the most kernel problems related to the proprietary drivers. Pure evil. They manage to intoxicate the ecosystem without even doing anything.
I must be missing something... What does this have to do with photo realism?
Ahh the black and white vision i see....
> No wonder insurance rates are that high.

It's insane, it's costs nearly $100 more per-term to have full coverage on my 2018 Model 3 than it does for the same coverage on my 2015 Leaf. Outrageous!
"Net zero"?
When storing 2,750 tons of AN inappropriately near other flammable materials, the question isn’t “why did it explode”, the question is “why didn’t it explode for 6 years?”

This was bound to be the outcome eventually until someone got around to actually storing that stuff correctly. It seems a small batch of welders just finally drew the short straw.
Syncfusion Flutter Charts is a data visualization library
Engineering a Safer World by Leveson [0], as well. Goes into great detail about these ideas, how to model them, and how to build safety into systems deliberately rather than as an afterthought.

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engineering-safer-world
Archives :

https://archive.is/vSiKi

and

https://web.archive.org/web/20200814174018/https://www.marit...
> Other than aesthetics, what are the advantages of the point cloud? Higher bandwidth?

Higher information density, in that it can pass ad-hoc wifi network info and cryptographic keys. The animated "QR code" also contains a unique code in each frame that is then sent back during the pairing process. This allows them to measure the round trip time from display to camera to wifi back to the original device, preventing relay and replay attacks.

(This is based on my attempting to reverse engineer watch pairing for a few days)
Is Alpaca Sustainable Material?
It would be interesting if Epic went ahead an released FortNite on the iPhone AltStore instead (http://altstore.io).
The URL structure is usually mirrored on the actual website by way of clickable breadcrumbs or as navigational information architecture.

People understand slashes indicate folders and directories, even though database-driven CMSes do not use folder structures. They can figure out that they can go one level from from "example.com/cars/toyota" by removing the "/toyota"
Please please stop this, Google.
Firstly, they have done absolutely zero of the work needed to make the platform into the giant international success that it is.

Epic is the reason that iOS is a gaming megahouse today.

Infinity Blade, i.e., the game that Apple itself used to demonstrate the iPhone's gaming abilities, was created using Unreal Engine. Epic provided a substantial amount of assistance to the developer to get the game made.

But clearly there is no moral case to be made for the claim that Epic has better business practices than Apple or they they are some kind of victim here.

Apple has done none of the work of creating the billions of $$$ in valuable apps. Why do they get to claim 30% of that? There's a term for that: rent-seeking. (Also, greed, if you want the moral term.)
The tooling for Terraform with bare metal is poor, but it is out there. There are plugins for MAAS, Cobbler, Some giant HPE thing I never wanted to touch.

If you're willing to write code, I found it a good fit for provisioning servers over ILO/Redfish.
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Hey guys, what does this means exactly?:If you have not formed the company yet, describe the planned equity ownership breakdown among the founders, employees and any other proposed stockholders. If there are multiple founders, be sure to give the proposed equity ownership of each founder.
I'd sort of expect LTE operators to pay SpaceX for kit to do literally this.
There is decent evidence that the US did a worse job than other places. That I cannot and do not disagree with. What we don't have is evidence of what exactly would have been different if the US did other things. So, in that, we don't have perfect counterfactuals and I think most of the news has been more speculation on how much better it could have gone than folks are admitting to. There is also the chance that things would have been just as bad as this basically no matter what. (The cynic in me asks "could native populations have just followed social distancing to save themselves from measles and smallpox?" The answer could be "yes", but that feels off to me.)

I'll ignore you being a jackass, and claim I am not saying we are alone in anything. This is a global pandemic of a novel virus. That is not really in dispute. The US is marked in how the numbers are, and there is every chance we remain that way. I just have a hard time reconciling much of the news of how contagious this is, with how well anyone contained it, without using something like vaccination. That would make this not just a novel virus, but a new one that has been contained in ways that we have never contained a virus before.
When I worked on oil rigs in Saudi Arabia, ~300kbps seemed to be the minimum necessary for WhatsApp/Facebook messenger/low-intensity web browsing like old reddit or arstechnica. HN might work a little lower but probably not much before HTTP fails for other reasons (if your speeds are that low, likely your packet loss is far too high to keep things working over 2G/3G/4G).

Truly even 0.3Mbps made all the difference in the world to the people who had been stuck on those rigs for the past 30-800 days. Often it was the first time in over a week, sometimes over a month that they could talk with their families. It became a necessary part of my job to spend 6-12 hours/day rationing access to the WiFi hotspots so that each of the 60 or so personnel could talk with their families each day.

I purchased with my own money all the WiFi modems and a set of 8 different antennas for various frequencies, with very long cables. Generally took about 2-6 hours to align everything correctly to get any usable signal. Used public cell tower databases to find the GPS coordinates of the nearest towers and used vectors to those positions as starting points.

Some of the locations I never could get any signal and no one could talk to their families or keep up with the news. Hopefully Starlink eventually connects these people to their families on a much more regular basis.
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> Sparks from their welding work ignited a supply of fireworks, which had been stored next to the ammonium nitrate cache.

That sentence is nearly unbelievable, like something from a cartoon show. How much incompetence can you layer upon further incompetence to reach this insane level of danger?
The difference here is that Microsoft/Sony loose money to sell as many machines as possible to generate a viable market for the gaming studios (and obviously for them).

On an iPhone, apple has made plenty of money already.

In any case, the main thing here is not the 30% that they charge when you buy the software, is that they want to keep getting 30% for the services and such, which is crazy.
Coronavirus: Sweden's economy hit less hard by pandemic
IE gave us XHRs, which are kind of important to the modern web.

Monopolies have agency to remake the world; ecosystems have competition over a relatively fixed landscape. Each has their pros and cons, but to build a radically new social structure, nothing beats a monopoly.
The first frame of that 1st video when the explosion hits is morbidly fascinating. The image looks almost as if it is pieced together from torn paper.

https://i.imgur.com/1GkJgxt.png
It would have been so cheap to handle early with more strict policies.
> a supply of fireworks, which had been stored next to the ammonium nitrate cache.

Wow.
With my Pixel 2, only the B&W worked with Google Lens.
> In saying that most companies probably are doing many things wrong

I think that sounds actually very plausible :)
> our per/capital death rate isn't the worst

It's close to the worst, though. We're sixth among industrial nations. And moreover that's down to luck: we had a terrible initial outbreak in New York, just as other cities like Milan, Madrid and Brussels did. And if you look at those metro areas, in fact NY is the worst. But we're a big country so the initial deaths were lower as a fraction.

But then what happened? We went to sleep as a huge second wave crested, and everyone else got it under control. So while it's true that we're still behind other nations in deaths, we're catching up rapidly, while their outbreaks are nearly flat (though starting to trend up a bit in many places -- they should watch that).

Give us a month at the current death rate and we'll have passed everyone but Belgium.
My backend is written in php and I simply have a separate container running a copy of the same php codebase that has a long running process pulling from a pubsub queue in a loop.

So anything that needs to be processed asynchronously, like say, sending out a few dozen emails or notifications, I just publish the task to the queue and that other container handles them.

This could be simplified even further if you use a pubsub service that can post data to a url as it comes in. Thus allowing the single php container to asynchronously process the tasks all in their own individual threads.

This didn't work for me as Google cloud's pubsub seems to absolutely flood it's target with requests seemingly ignoring 503 or any other error code and not backing off until it has dos'ed your server.
For those who've ended up here, my solution for now is to use Feedly.
> In a highly structured and rule driven entity (government) what happens when a problem falls outside the set up structure?
It tends to be ignored as nobody is responsible for dealing with it.

This class of problem isn’t unique to governments. Modern society has a whole host of problems that are caused by externalities generated by corporations.
Starlink internet is not meant to replace hard line internet. There is no getting around the physics of cable being so much cheaper/easier. Even terrestrial cell towers are more efficient and cheaper than satellites.

This is 100% meant to supplement existing infrastructure not to replace it. You will almost always get cheaper and faster internet (for both you and the company providing internet) over a cable to your house. If you can't get that, then maybe a cell tower is better, if that doesn't work, then a land based beaming internet may be better, after that I'd look to space based internet.

It can probably supplant land based beaming internet, but I don't see this replacing ISPs/4g/5g anytime soon.

The target audience for much of this infrastructure is the places you can't put a cell tower, but want to get signal. Ocean based travel being a big one.

EDIT: I will contend. 5g could beat out ISPs at cost (which I thought I'd made more clear above). It's about the cost of infrastructure given the population density. I don't have as much knowledge in that area as I do satellite costs. But satellites won't beat out 5G at cost, not even with the reduced cost to space that SpaceX provides. It could with another couple orders of magnitude cost reduction in space. But there's a reason SpaceX is targeting only 5 million Americans and not 300 million.
> buildings, ships, etc. that are either under construction or undergoing maintenance are more "at risk" because alarm systems, automatic fire suppression systems (eg, sprinklers), etc. are often times not in place yet, or disabled, while work is going on

Reminds me of the loss of the Normandie / Lafayette: "At 14:30 on 9 February 1942, sparks from a welding torch used by Clement Derrick ignited a stack of life vests filled with flammable kapok that had been stored in the first-class lounge. The flammable varnished woodwork had not yet been removed, and the fire spread rapidly. The ship had a very efficient fire protection system, but it had been disconnected during the conversion and its internal pumping system was deactivated." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Normandie#Fire_and_Capsizin...
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I spent 6 months tutoring senior citizens on how to use computers (specifically it was word processing).

Believe me... some of the gaps in knowledge are alot wider than you'd imagine. None of them even knew what I meant when I mentioned the "URL bar". These are people who had previously used the web to search, pay bills, etc. To them, "the internet" was the entire computer, and had no concept that the browser was a distinct entity within it.

You're 100% right this is teachable but it is important not to understate the size of the canyon.
Wow, thank you for this link. I appreciate it when my assumptions are challenged like this, particularly given the fact that I have a tendency to take benchmark synopses like FastAPI's [1] for granted. I'll have to be more conscious of the ways in which authors hamstring the competition to game their results.

[1] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/benchmarks/
URLs are supposed to be human-readable because they're intended to signal to users what the content is about.

What is not human-readable, although fully semantic, is all the parameter trash that comes after full URL. Stuff like "utm_source='twitter'&utm_medium='social_share" or cookie information and the like.

I can understand trimming that information, but hiding the URL to show the domain only makes no sense.
It's a front/back-end system. I'm currently running the backend on a c5a.xlarge instance.
For hydrogen-burning stars, the life expectancy is reciprocal to their mass. As Betelgeuse is much more massive than the Sun, its lifetime is considerably shorter. As it is already a red giant, it is in its last phase before going supernova.

One far day in the future, the Sun is also going to become a red giant, extending out till the Mars orbit. But that is still much smaller than Betelgeuse is right now. Actually it is so large, that its diameter can be directly measured by astronomers.
Apple is making lots of money by selling iPhones and services already (iCloud un such).

Charging 30% is outrageous.

The other problem is that Apple won't allow anyone to buy an app store for the iPhone.
There is absolutely no way a satellite network can clear that kind of downlink bandwidth.

Evergreen comment. Encoding and compression software and hardware continue to improve. The only constant in technology is change. Will we be able to do this sort of bandwith to LEO eventually? Yes. Can we do it this very moment? No one has tried.
I take your point, but I don’t feel it’s disingenuous to take the quote at face value.

Maybe the quote lost some context but talking about “...levels of voting...” being a negative thing seems like a pretty obvious admission of a desire to suppress votes.
I worked for the Telco that services all of Northern Canada (world's largest operating area for a telco).

We installed one of the world's first 3G towers that uses only satellite as backbone. Think fly-in only communities that are thousands of kilometers away from anything in the Arctic. Many of our sites are served by radio backhaul for that reason.

The sat backhaul tower is extremely expensive and temperamental. It does work, but not very well. 3G (and LTE) are not very fault tolerant, and phones drop calls when the quality of the call drops below thresholds that can't be set. AFAIK they have not installed another one because of all the problems.

For data the cost is astronomical - many thousands of dollars per GB. Hopefully starlink can at least fix that.
Hate, prejudice, and discrimination are not valid political views. Slavery was once a political issue, and your comment would fit right in with that era also.
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I'm pretty sure I read in either Herodotus or Thucydides a paragraph documenting complaints that the students were drinking instead of training.

Sound familiar? (And that was several thousand years ago)
It will also put pressure on land based ISP to either give up customers, or pay to increase infrastructure to get comparable internet to those areas.
People do this for exercise and because riding fast is fun. Having proper equipment, which can be much cheaper than you might think, makes it more enjoyable. Do you think exercise is weird?
I haven't personally deployed VDSL2, but I have deployed DSL and other data-over-twisted pair systems including recent G.fast, G.hn and MOCA. I strongly doubt that VDSL can achieve those kinds of speeds reliably at the distances and densities needed to provide this service to the areas that need it most. In rural areas the copper lines are too long and too old to achieve these speeds (but they're fine for voice/POTS, so there's no mandate to upgrade.) Twisted pair is also really susceptible to noise and crosstalk, so in more densely populated areas once you start doing DSL to a lot of customers whose cables are bundled together they start to interfere with each other and everybody's service gets bad. In both cases the problem is signal to noise ratio - long cables mean poor signal, density means high noise, and twisted pair copper just isn't designed to deal with either very well.
I guess the prediction was made in his 1798 book:

https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/traite-de-mecani...

John Adams was the second US President. 5.3 million people lived in America.

Makes me want to learn more math.
No, not religious at all. And I would not call it bland either, as I told I liked it.

But pretty much everyone around you was, well, college student of roughly same age. And plus everyone was focused on math, computer science or something similar. The university itself had other fields of study, obviously, but they had own building so practically you rarely really interacted with each other.

The city it was in obviously had sports clubs, entertainment and whatnot where you could meet non-college students or people of different age or people who study something different. You was not forced to close yourself into some kind university bubble.

But university itself necessary collects similar people at one place. Because everyone there has to be college student and has similar choice of study.
> better than LTE pings

If you're getting latency worse than that on LTE, consider changing provider (and checking that you're _actually_ on LTE). These would be reasonable for the better class of 3G (HDSPA) but not great for LTE. Just did a speed test on my phone with wifi switched off (to a server in the same city). 20ms.
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Would you consider 60-78% to be a small percentage?[1] Do you have any evidence suggesting that the flu's rate of long-term cardiovascular consequences is similar?

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...
It should be inline replaced. I'll add a link to the final image name in case the connection breaks.
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Maybe, if you have only one tab open
Every user cares about performance / responsiveness feel.
Yes, that was a really helpful shared experience, thank you!

Basically, it enforced my point of view to only try it out, if I really think it is neccecary.

I never done cocaine, but weed.

With the right time and settings it can help me get into a flow lasting for 10+ hours. But weed really does not help mid or long term, my productivity goes into steady decline after couple of days.

And coffeine I never liked, so I prefer the natural rhythm, with varying success.
Does that mean you had to re-invent the wheel with your go monolith for a lot of things?

My understanding is that the go philosophy is very package independent and the availability of existing code to solve common problems is rather sparse.
-This is not meant as a witticism, but suggesting the Lebanese government is 'highly structured and rule driven' is giving it way too much credit.

Cynical me find the explanation that AN fertiliser simply is too cheap more likely - it simply wasn't worth the effort to -ahem- reallocate the resources from the warehouse it was stored in.
wet canvas curtains and dropsheets are a must when i weld, even over a concrete pad
Also recently spotted as an avenue for attack in the wild:

Magecart group uses homoglyph attacks to fool you into visiting malicious websites: https://www.zdnet.com/article/magecart-group-uses-homoglyph-...

Homoglyph attacks used in phishing campaign and Magecart attacks https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/106916/hacking/homoglyp...

https://cisomag.eccouncil.org/homoglyph-attacks/
Seems like hot work causes lots of accidents.

https://youtu.be/zWkcuR0adeI