skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a buddy who was an explosives expert from the Marines. He tells me that it is safe to store a bunch of explosives in one spot, but only if you carefully measure the distance and distribute them appropriately.

The general idea is that if a warehouse containing 2500+ tons of explosives catches on fire... then you have 5000x explosions, each 1000lbs.

That's pretty bad of course, but not nearly as bad as all 5,000,000 lbs exploding at the same time.

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So the error was primarily in the way they stored the explosives. They didn't have any explosive expert run the calculations or think of safety issues.

The military has to store tons of explosives all together. Be it in ships, bombs, C4, or other truly frightening explosives (and ammonia nitrate isn't a military grade explosive: the stuff the military uses is much, much more dangerous). Keeping that safe even in the presence of fires and errors is possible, but only with the proper training and procedures.
Sorry, what I meant was to clarify your proposal, not to ask what you literally do now.

I'm wondering, more or less, whether the key management is another case of backups and deletion being hard.
I can't imagine how 5G could leap-frog LTE. As I understand it, 5G has to blanket an area to be able to reliably transmit into a building. When the companies seem to put 2-3 towers per ridge in mountain areas, how is that going to happen? And generally, I'd expect any new 5G towers would also be LTE towers anyway.
c is the speed of light in a vacuum
Yes, if these kind of apps had save/import to org file I could use them.
It's not just the crippling slowness. There's other hints as well.

I probably will move to MS SQL, too. I'm virtually obligated to use azure and it's the only non crippled database available on azure.
> Canonical's announcement to stop maintaining the Chromium deb package

Funny twist. They hijacked it to install snap.
"Unskilled laborers" would have been a better turn of phrase.

Not to imply Syrians are generally so, but just probably so in this case given recent events and war refugee movements, unverifiable credentials, and available jobs, etc.
Same in Sweden, essentially starting in second grade for me.

Thinking back on it I now see how thought out it was. The clock facing the school yard which everything depended on. In second and third grade every time it was PE, shop class or something requiring a different place than the homeroom it was scheduled so the teacher would bring the class if necessary, later just letting us go. Fourth and fifth it could be right after a break trusting us to get there on our own.

Then starting sixth grade we were essentially on our own. The first class started anywhere between from 8 to 10 in the assigned room. During breaks we could go anywhere, the only limit being to get back in time. Sometimes having gaps in the schedule leading to some time to kill. Often going the public library, or playing something, or hanging out in the school building or buying coke and mentos because kids....

Then choosing high school and field of study based on interests all over town getting there using public transportation, which every student that had to travel longer than a couple of kilometers is given a pass for which is valid during school hours.

Also getting the government stipend of ~$100 every month having to learn manage your own money.

Wow, this was a trip down memory lane.

One thing I vividly remember is feeling like a child again when starting American high school. A contrasting memory which stands out is during lunch getting in a friend's truck sneaking out to buy fast food for lunch and "stealthily" avoiding the parking lot monitors to not get into trouble. Wtf.
Oh that Steve Mann.

Yeah I probably fished that idea out of long term memory.
The EU could probably spare a dime on Firefox and MDN, the US and other big nations too. I find public infrastructure of the internet is something I wouldn't mind my taxes being spent on.

Of course this opens another bag of problems of how to decide on which projects to finance how much or unwanted govermental influence on the projects. But I would still say it is a realistic alternative to corporate sponsors and patreon style funding.
Recap: Every time you have trouble searching for something, make a page with the information you find. It makes sense, but I'm just wondering what's the end goal since I imagine the frequency of such searches is very low and your site will have to be a blog or some kind of site with disparate content.
If Linux were the only operating system out there, and incidentally was completely controlled by a company that only kept it open source for its own amusement, would you still be singing this tune? I doubt it.
It would be awesome to know if the other issues hey had have since been improved. RethinkDB has some great ideas and great ergonomics and I'd love to use it again.
Maybe she's on to something with the no computers thing.
When I decided to go back to college as a 30 years old dude, most of my professors had projects that offered a small pay. I even end up working for a multinational startup for a year (my payment was crumbs, but it was better than nothing). Maybe try something like that. You can make great connection at college. Get closer to the professors who likes the same stuff you do, they would be able to recommend you.
And when it's at scale it'll actually have to make a profit.
do you have neighbors within ~100 ft? if so, why not share internet (and cost) with them? with that much bandwidth, you can split it 10 ways and not even notice.

an smb-class wireless router will let you segment neighbors into their own isolated vlan, and with mesh/repeaters, you can cover a fairly large area.
I got the impression that if you were polite and realized that it is a shop that caters to regular folks you'd be fine.
According to the USPS OIG, it's standard procedure to move or remove boxes that get fewer than 25 pieces of mail per day.

When there was an audit a few years ago, they found that no one ever got around to removing 99% of the collection boxes that should've been removed. On the flip side, in some regions management had removed collection boxes without proving that they met the 25/day standard

More info here-- https://www.uspsoig.gov/document/collection-box-removal-proc...
Seems like dealing with satellites is a truly trivial application of "adaptive" optics.

You can't possibly expect me to believe that you have the processing power and technical know-how to remove the influence of atmospheric distortion, but that you're helpless when confronted with discrete fast-moving objects for which you have ephemerides. Sorry, that dog just don't hunt.
Radioactive relic of nuclear weapons tests found in deep ocean
The constant c is the speed of light in a vacuum. Different mediums have different speeds of light within them; in fact, it's actually possible for light to not be the fastest thing in a given medium (for more precise definitions of all those words): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
At this point I kind of wish Firefox would get moved to the Apache foundation.
This type of constellation won't be able to do it.

They are planning on picking off the users who cable has to run the furthest to off of the ISPs not the close users. If we started spreading out evenly I could see this, but while we've got the population density we do, I don't see this happening.

Each house will interfere with it's neighbor, the more they spread the easier it is.

>The constellation today is not ready for high density usage , it is not that it will never be ready .

I am no sith, I shouldn't speak in absolutes. But, I'd bet that this technology won't disrupt ISPs within 50 miles of a city. I hope it would, but I don't see that happening.
> what would we do?

Some combination of procrastination and denying the problem exists.
You can install the mod that merges lamps and power poles or the one that makes it always day.
Ask HS: Why are game updates so large?
I'm an casual player. Every time I want to play I have to download 55GB. The game does not change from my perspective. What is in those downloads?
I live in an apartment in Passaic County, NJ. My ISP, Optimum, has a monopoly on this group of apartments.

They take advantage of this to charge $75/month for plain broadband Internet service, which is about 50% more than the average Internet service (including Verizon FIOS) costs in the nearby area.

Just sayin'.
Respectfully: The Firefox layout team did not have a plan to integrate Layout 2020 (we hadn't yet found a way to ship it incrementally), and doing so was never the basis of our strategy to compete with LayoutNG.
Ask HN: Is anyone considering moving away from Firefox Lockwise?
I started using Lockwise on Firefox on my desktop and mobile. It's been a great experience. It generates passwords for me and they're available to use across devices. It's completely free too.

With the recent Mozilla downsizing, I am worried about using and depending on software that may get killed off.

Does anyone have experience migrating off Lockwise? Is it even possible? What are the best alternatives out there? I tried LastPass in the past but I did not like the experience.
> "May God protect Lebanon"

Well there's your problem mr. government official. You thought God was going to do your job for you.
Over the last few days I've seen several front page articles on SEO pop up on HN.

It is almost too meta for my brain on Friday afternoon to see a !@$@! buzzfeed article on HN that is lightly chronicling AirBNB's amazing publicity stunt.

Which is, even as you read it now, generating untold fathoms of sweet, sweet SEO link juice and domain authority.

THAT is how you SEO!
That's a lot of words to say "write stuff that you wish existed but doesn't".

It's the strategy used by literally ever beginner blogger I've come across. Not saying it's bad but I'm not sure why there's a whole article about it.
According to this Reddit thread, the dish only has one cable presumably with POE

https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/hqu7p6/data_minin...
There are "variants" of LLU that allow ISPs to install their own equipment in the ILECs central office buildings, which would allow the ISP to utilize their own equipment on both ends of the line (CPE and DSLAM). It is rare, though, and incompatible with Vectoring for example. Most xDSL ISPs just resell service and the ILEC uses a L2 VPN to route traffic from the DSLAM to the core network of the reseller ISP. Price is rarely lower, usually only with bundles such as IPTV or landline with cheap international calls...
Yeah, the suburbs of Chicago and most of the rest of the state of Illinois have pretty much been calm. Almost entirely peaceful protests, with the exception of a couple of suburbs for a few nights at the height of the national unrest, but nowhere near the same level as Chicago proper.

You can still move to the suburbs here and get a reasonable house at a fraction of the cost of Silicon Valley (Well, in most of them. If you want a super pricy home, there are a few suburbs for you here too also), and it's about as safe as anywhere else.

But the state is broke and the tax burden is still one of the highest in the nation, so we still have more people leaving than coming in as a whole.
I don't like the length of their solution, quite the same logic can be shortened to just a few lines of code

setInterval(() => {

const { currentSpeed, horizon: { obstacles: [{ xPos, width, yPos } = {}] } } = Runner?.instance_;

if (xPos < 25 * currentSpeed - width && yPos >= 75)
document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent('keydown', { keyCode: 32 }));

}, 100);
You should be able to speed it up a bit by precomputing a prefix tree of all words. Then you can stop after three characters if there's no word in the tree that begins with those three characters. That would also allow you to do away with the 5-character limit and recognize longer words like 中华人民共和国 without a performance penalty.

Humans do a bit more than simple prefix matching, though. E.g. most people won't read 有权利 as 有权/利 because that doesn't make much sense.
I remember discovering Moxie Marlinspike talking about this issue 9 years ago and he described this attack as "deadly".

And it really is. In essence, a man in the middle converts all https links to http and proxies out the traffic. A victim would need to notice the missing https in the the url to detect this.

HSTS and https-everywhere browser plugin partially solves the problem.

I think the only viable solution is for all http traffic to be encrypted and to consider non-encrypted traffic suspect.
In keeping with the level of explanation in the article, I was omitting the role of energy in describing the exploration of possible microstates by the system.

A system with zero energy is highly constrained in its exploration of possible microstates, and thus is unlikely to undergo a change in its macrostate.

A system with a lot of energy is much less constrained, and is more likely to undergo macrostate changes.

This wasn't really covered in the article, so I didn't want to put it into my (perhaps foolish) add on sentences.
> A more "economically neutral" perspective (not that I claim it is a better perspective) is that there is labor that this particular human has available. Letting them choose to spend it on hunting down a sale is strictly better than removing that choice. There may be "better" things they could do with it according to you, but ultimately it should be their choice.

Unless you consider the sale price as the base price, in which case you're forcing people to spend time hunting a sale to not get gouged, and it's strictly worse than having a fixed lower price.
Customer service, features/bundles, and deal terms are reasonable ways for a company to differentiate itself I believe.

I'd rather everyone have great internet access at a fair price and let the companies battle it out for a smaller piece of the pie. Consumers win.
I wasn’t implying some sort of mandatory military service, just that there are other avenues to personal growth. I personally don’t think advocating a rite of passage potentially built upon lifelong debt is prudent
Why not? He doesn't have to reach everyone, just some portion of the population that's profitable.

My argument should have been this is only (imo) going to get at most 10% of the worlds population.

That's based on the signal interference in space. Scale gets costly.

EDIT: Then I'm done replying for real. This thread has been fun but I need to stop myself at some point. Thanks for replying.

physics => Co-channel and adjacent satellite interference to be specific, the closer you put your satellites the more signal they have to handle. These things are built to scale for the worlds population and you can't just add more satellites without scaling the whole constellation. If it was built to scale for NY city then they'd need to support that population density on every single satellite. But if they build it for Wyoming and steal those customers then they need to only scale for that and allow ISPs to keep NY city residents.

While it's cheaper for cable companies to lay wire close to hubs, it's cheaper for satellites to hit people the more spread out they are. So the physics of this constellation are such that it's cheaper for them to give more rural people a baseline of internet rather than upsetting ISPs. I think that's wishful thinking by many people who hate ISPs.

I'm not saying it's cheaper for cables to hit everyone everywhere in the world, or this system wouldn't exist. As I said earlier, it's meant to supplement a weakness in our current infrastructure by blanketing the world with cheap internet that works at lower population densities.

I used this metric in another thread, but if you're on Septic Starlink is probably for you. If you're on sewer then you're already surrounded by a density of infrastructure that probably makes ground based communication cheaper. No I'm not going to bet that someone on HN doesn't have a counter example for me, but overall I think this would probably make sense.
Has anyone used Facebook pay for anything? I haven't ran into any instance of it. My main question is... can you buy a Facebook card with a balance on it and use that to pay? That would be enough to make me consider using Facebook to pay for things. I'm not giving them my debit / credit cards though.
Another example from Rust community, without reading the article commenting that Rust is always correct without any bugs or error and programmer is stupid.

This attitude continuously drives me away from learning Rust, didn’t find such attitude in Haskell or Lisp community which really took computer science and art of programming forward unlike Rust, which is similar to other competing niche languages.
2 of the people working on Layout 2020 (out of 3 afaik) are French employees, so haven't been fired yet. They may or may not be depending on how the negotiations between the management and employee representatives go.
I super excited for the students at my small rural school district. This will be a game changer!
The more absurd idea is stocking parts that sell at a loss (outside of a specific loss-leader sales campaign).
This followup still predicts that cooling water cannot cause it to freeze. (And relatedly, it predicts that cold ice will take a long time to melt, but not that it won't melt. In fact, it won't melt.)
I'm surprised people believe it is so bad to spend on salaries. Contrary to startups and traded companies, Mozilla has no stock to inflate compensation, so they have to pay large salaries.
This seems to be the model in Norway for both power and internet service. You pay a small fee for "line rent" in both instances. While this works well for electricity in Norway, IMO it's not that good for internet service. How many ISP's there are depends on who's got a server in your immediate area. I don't know the details of how it's regulated, though. This is just based upon what I see on my bill, and the competing ISP's in my area, whic surprisingly aren't that many, even though I'm in the middle of Oslo.
https://www.google.com/search?q=my+best+SEO+tactic+so+far&oq...

Looks like his tactic worked ;)
Golden Rules of Building Online Communities That Matter
As an aside, there are some non-profits that are well funded but don't pay market rate for their talent, and I sadly see them falling behind.

If you want a non-profit that you donate to succeed, you should hope that they're attracting and retaining the skilled talent needed to achieve their goals efficiently.
I've finally read 1984 last week while I was fishing w/ family. They never did find out who/what big brother was/is.

I'm pretty sure it's Mark Zuckerberg and the ai cyborg he becomes one day. /s (maybe).
Starlink Daily Coverage Estimates
Then what is your strategy to compete with LayoutNG? A concrete roadmap would be a lot more useful than platitudes about how great the Servo team is, which everyone already knows. Nobody seems to know what the future of Firefox looks like, or at least I'm having a hard time finding that information. I don't know about other people, but I would find such a thing much more reassuring.
Woe is me. My poor little (looks at notes) trillon dollar company can't cope! Instragram seems to be able to cope with 100000 new photos per second - that they can do. Across geographies and data centres. Ever seen a user facing error due to a newly uploaded photo?

No one expects you to just rm -rf. They just expect you to expect the same effort to remove the file that they put in to create the file. It's not like the file got propogated to 10 different data centres by accident. There was a decision that an uploda needed to be everywhere in 5 seocnds and a deletion was an advisory hint that could be ignored for a year.
Nice, I just published one of my games there, Qubes.

Let me know when you are able to make payments to Brazil.
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I had a water heater almost start a fire recently. Installer didn't shield some plastic insulated cable at a point where it exited through a metal hole. Small nick in the insulation plus a little time. It made several 4 inch diameter black spots before the breaker blew.
lol “attack,” your mobile browser already does this
In the planned DLC they plan to significantly rework space and introduce playable asteroids, so rockets will be use as a logistic system between your main base and space outposts.

On your other points, it looks like you simply haven't understood game systems deep enough.

>you'll run out of stuff fairly soon

Geysers can support really large bases and other materials you can get from space missions, which are powered either by oil wells or water geysers. It's a great simplification that you can built self-powering oxygen generators, which consume water and produce oxygen with some leftover hydrogen.

>the heat it creates

Aquatuners + steam turbine setup solves all heat issues. And you can cool metal refineries output directly inside steam rooms which power stem turbine (by using oil or petroleum for coolant).

>the meteors that destroy anything you put on the surface

Bunker doors + radars + a tiny bit of automation. I think that radar mechanics are unnecessary complex and not explained properly, but once you understand it, they are quite easy to use.

>the crappy power generation methods

Even without advanced sour gas/petroleum power setups it's really easy to get a TON of power generation. In mid and late game I usually sit on top of so much power generation and unfortunately game does not have any power sink game mechanics.
>The whole growth experience is leaving quite a few people in difficult situations after.

This is true. It’s not a cakewalk for everybody. But the dichotomy of some of those difficult situations is they can both foster growth and simultaneously stress is an individual. I think some would say that stress/sacrifice is a necessary precursor for that growth. Unfortunately, sometimes the stress exceeds the individuals coping mechanisms.

The book Tribe gives an interesting perspective on military service. The author wrote it after his personal growth (and stress) from creating the documentary Restrepo about the outpost of the same name in Afghanistan.
I think this is a great example of "scratch your own itch". Rarely are frustrations so specific that they don't impact multiple individuals. SEO aside, you're benefiting those who come after you asking the same questions.

About two years ago I started writing specific technical posts that I had to piece together from various sources. Although it's primarily for my own selfish reasons to reference later, I've seen quite a lot of traffic from folks who are trying to find the same solutions. Not too unsurprising, the key here seems to be the more niche a post, the better it performs compared to posts that cover broader topics.
Set a different default search engine on Firefox.
When you refract light, you change its speed, slowing it down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractive_index#:~:text=The%2....

https://www.zmescience.com/science/physics/how-to-slow-trap-...
> What a weird promotion. I guess Airbnb approached Blockbuster about this, and is paying them? I can't imagine Blockbuster would have any desire for this kind of advertisement for their own sake.

I don't think there's really such a thing as "Blockbuster" anymore. IIRC, this location is a franchisee that outlived the franchise itself.
As someone who has been following Servo since 2011, the stakeholders have always emphatically reiterated that the goal was not to outright replace Gecko.
Plus, "We gave at the office".

We'd prefer to give our funds for homelessness and the like to charities we trust, can vet, and can hold accountable.

Instead, those funds are appropriated from us and given to governmental entities, run by people who often hate us, where they are promptly squandered, mismanaged, or redirected into lobbying for higher budgets for themselves.

Seeing this happen over and over tends to lead to apathy, if not disgust for the homeless, warranted or not.