skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just limited to dragging windows around. The mouse-clicks get passed to the background app. You can use it with anything. It's called click-through and has been around for a long time.

I first learned about it here: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=click-through+site%3Adaringfirebal...
I think it was the exact weight of the combat robot that elicited the curiosity :)
BBC censored a Star Trek TNG episode in 1990 (reunification of Ireland in 2024)
I've done that sort of work on a late model Daihatsu. You will need access to a frame pulling setup if the damage is extensive enough, you'll need the exact measurements from the manufacturer, a lot of time and very good measuring and metalworking skills but it can definitely be done. Fabricating new structural members from plain automotive sheet steel is a study in patience.

The car I did this to was totaled in Belgium, bought for the scrap value and repaired on a very small budget. It is still driving the streets of Bucharest today. The MOT inspectors could not find proof that the car had been worked on, which I took as a badge of honor until they went off on a tangent that therefore it must be a stolen re-id'd car. Then I showed them the step-by-step pictures and it was all good. Fun job!
Depends on the kid and what they want, I think as early as possible b/c I think it's good for young kids to exp. many different things at an early age.

Too early may be a problem depending on the kid, if s/he's got a lot of things that take a significant amount of cognitive load day-to-day, then they won't like it b/c it takes a lot of brainpower to learn relative to other kid stuff, and probably stop doing it, b/c ppl tend to gravitate to things that they perceive they're good at and that could hamper their decision making.

I started coding sophomore yr in college b/c I didn't have access to technology until then and I think it worked out, I certainly don't feel behind by any means.
NLnet was suggested in the discussion, and it would be a good fit culturally, but I wonder whether they have the resources to fund a project like Servo in any meaningful way.
I agree with the author. With local bike shops, it’s about guiding you in the right direction. When I was getting back in to casual biking, I was thinking about buying a black helmet and the owner said, “something to think about here, let’s say you’re wearing what you’re wearing right now (black sweatshirt and jeans), if you got into an accident in low light conditions, which might prevent your head getting run over by another passing car?”

He was completely correct and I bought the reflective white helmet with light mounts and a light to mount when dark. I probably paid $20 in markup but the advice was worth much more.
"Many universities cannot."

"Most" cannot.
> "4g is between 5Mbps and 12 Mbps (up to 50Mbps in burst mode), while 5g generally starts at 50Mbps."

Yup. I actually regularly get sustained speeds well over 50 Mbps on 4G with carrier aggregation (which some phones call "4G+"). And anything less than 200 Mbps is a bad day on 5G. (Vodafone UK network)

https://www.speedtest.net/result/9898742367
I appreciate that, hope I didn't come across too harsh. Have a nice evening.
>"Everything just always was"

Or it wasn't and came into existence with a 'big bang'. So how did it come into existence? There's no scientific or religious answer for it. You'll still be skirting the question with the old 'who made the gods' problem. I know what you're getting at and trying to conflate science with religion. Spoilers here: Scientists don't know these answers and just because we don't know doesn't mean the thousands of denominations of thousands of gods of thousands of religions of thousands of years has a true answer either.

>we are supposed to be satisfied

No one said you should be satisfied by it. That's what's good about science, you're expected to not be satisfied and to survey and question, it's not infallible nor claim omniscience.

>God manipulates the minds of top scientists so that they do not definitively prove his existence, which would ruin the point of his simulation. Each time they get close, he finds an idiosyncratic way to make them forget about it or dismiss the idea.

And of course it's the gods, or all created thereof, who are behind helping or hurting belief in gods. Ask a god believer and it's always god's plan.
I’ve heard (way) more than one story about MongoDB mysteriously annihilating all the data. Launched into oblivion.

The worst imaginable outcome for a database.
High-quality satellite internet that isn’t hamstrung by ridiculous download caps is one of the things I’m waiting for before attempting a nomad lifestyle.

I can’t wait until it’s more available.
> I'm not about to say that this is good

yeah the fact that this company exists and is making a lot of money doing it and likely has an undue influence in how our laws are made makes me shed not a single tear.

I am only waiting to see if they have backups for their data; if they do i will shed one.
What you said feels so "obvious" but really it's profound.

Corruption and Incompetence DO go hand in hand! And where there is one, you're likely to find the other. Damn it would make an awesome area of study for a sociologist!

In my career in both big companies and startups, I feel like I've been exposed to so many mysteriously incompetent departments and executives, only to find later that there was an explanation that I consider corruption.

Of course, thats not to say it's illegal. It's usually perfectly legal behavior that optimizes for personal gain rather than the outcome you'd expect from the person or department's title.

And that brings us to a point that has been bothering me for a while- When we look at those global 'corruption index' infographics and stuff, they must be measuring the _Illegal Corruption_ in a country, right? Like when a bureaucrat demands a bribe.

How could anything measure Legal Corruption? Like when an executive hires friends who are less competent than whatever the 'regular' hiring process would produce? Or when lobbyists get legislators to pass regulations that materially favor their business, stuff like that.
> there is a good chance you might experience symptoms of PTSD and early therapy after a traumatic experience

i think massive traumatic events also result in a kind of PTSD at the level of population, and unfortunately there is not much we know what to do with it.

Couple other notes. The conspiracy theory is that the Mozambique destination was just a cover, and the AN was intended for Hezbollah. The Hezbollah affiliated company tried to buy the arrested AN, and failing that, Hezbollah was also stealing that AN which was conveniently stored in an unguarded warehouse with broken door and a hole in the fence walls - for years despite numerous alarms raised by various people/agencies.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-tv-hezbollah-apparently...

Also interesting that AN seemed to be Nitroprill as seen on the photo in the article (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeowoGhVoAM2_zs?format=jpg&name=...) - googling shows that it is a bit more stable form of AN.
From the article you posted, the faculty senate found that it was fine to keep the SAT and ACT because admissions officers were already correcting for racial and socioeconomic bias, not that bias doesn't exist. It says nothing about a study that finds no racial bias in the test, which is what I'm asking for.

"The new yearlong faculty review found evidence that most UC admissions officers offset much of the bias against disadvantaged students by evaluating standardized test scores in the context of their high schools and neighborhoods."

"Among students with SAT scores of 1000 — the 40th percentile — half of Latinos were admitted compared to less than one-third of whites."
All of these things are tradeoffs. How much worse of a product would you accept in exchange for repairability?

I'm not even sure there's a tradeoff here, since bending a frame of any car is bad news whether or not its one piece.
Once upon a time there were millions of individually-owned windmills in the U.S. There were hundreds of windmill manufacturers. Around the 1920s that went into decline. It didn't take long before all of the U.S. was dependant on power companies instead of harvesting their own energy.

Perhaps you would argue that "if we never plan for public energy infrastructure we're screaming towards some kind of Gibsonian cyberpunk future where energy is privately controlled".

Do you know any Americans who are completely self-sufficient in food production? Should we plan for public infrastructure there? Or is it ok that our food production is privately controlled?

I personally think it is foolish to move a company's data entirely outside the company and place it wholly at the mercy of a single third party outside your control. But I don't see it as needing some plan to put it into the hands of "public digital infrastructure".
I was thinking of the opposite use case -- an American traveling to China for work and getting uncensored internet.

But I mean once a Chinese citizen gets their hands on the equipment, I'm not sure how China would stop them. I suppose they could have roving bands of listening posts looking for the uplink signals.

I'm sure someone could figure out a way to take payments for them. Many rich Chinese citizens already have bank accounts outside of China.
That's the point... worth is situational.

If you have a project car that really wants a tesla engine.. the car wants what the car wants. I wouldn't be surprised if some number of Teslas have been bought new to scrap.
$100-150/mo for satellite based service would be totally reasonable (depending on data caps, etc). When you figure the average home (wired) internet connection is in the $80/mo range, cell phones start around there too.

The people who need this service are the ones whom are so far out that they have no option for DSL, Cable or even 4G tethering.
I think the story with async is always "it depends", unless we are questioning whether the specific implementation is broken.

For some web applications, it might actually be faster (in meaningful aggregate volume) to service a complete request on the calling thread rather than deferring to the thread pool periodically throughout execution. I think the break over point between sync and async comes down to how much I/O (database) work is involved in satisfying the request. If each request only hits the database 1-2 times on average incurring a few milliseconds of added latency, making sync all the way down is might be better than with any amount of added context switching. If each request may take 100-1000 milliseconds to complete overall due to various long-running I/O operations, then async is certainly one good approach for maximizing the number of possible concurrent requests.

In most of my applications (C#/.NET Core) I default to async/await for backend service methods, because 9/10 times I am going to the database multiple times for something and I cannot always guarantee that it will return quickly under heavy load. For other items, I explicitly go wide on parallelizable CPU-bound tasks. All of these are handled as a blocking call against a Parallel.ForEach(). Never would a CPU-bound task be explicitly wrapped with async/await, but one may be included as part of a larger asynchronous operation.

This stuff used to confuse the hell out of me, and then I finally wrapped my head around the 2 essential code abstractions: async/await for I/O, Parallel.For() (et. al.) for CPU-bound tasks which have parallelism opportunities. Never try to Task.Run or async/await your way out of something that is CPU-bound and is blocking the flow of execution. Try to leverage asynchrony responsibly when delays >1ms are possible in large concurrent volumes.
Luck has a huge role in how we were created as well. Think of the all the permutations in atoms since the big bang and the probability of you even existing.
Not being able to use functionality because it never got implemented due to some licensing shenanigans does not restrict the user?
I'm even more confused.

It's like all of BuckleScript and parts of ReasonML is now ReScript. Except BuckleScript has a new C-like syntax unlike the ML syntax that made BuckleScript BuckleScript as opposed to ReasonML.
I consider a CO2 Fire extinguisher as standard as a metal brush. Keep it just as close as your brush and the pin out. I used to TiG and the fire risk is at least predictable and reasonably avoidable. With a MiG, you can start a fire 8 feet away.

The auto-dark can be a mixed bag as you leave it down longer and less likely to notice a fire due to the field of view that you mention.

I'm not sure how you would build a fire alarm. Coatings tend to smoke so detecting ionized air would probably just drive you nuts.
You can also do this by opening a new window, resizing/positioning it how you'd like, then immediately closing it. Next time you create a new window it will be exactly the same.
Yep. Thermal hardening is a thing and if a weld isn't properly annealed post work then there is a good chance that it will fail right next to the weld itself. This is taken as proof that the weld is stronger than the material that's been welded but actually it is more often than not proof that the weld wasn't properly thermally treated.

Once you do that though, it is actually true, and even then you may see stress cracks next to the weld if the change in thickness is too abrupt. You need to gradually thin down or you'll get a focal point for stresses.
So, I'm on 4G right now, getting 45/25 Mbps, in what is considered a rural area (20km from the city).

I lived in Birmingham, UK, a way more populated area, and got ~40/30 on 4G, as well.

I noticed many people say they're lucky to get ~15 Mbps on 4G and I'm confused, why? Is it just congestion or is there some difference in the towers/implementation?
When they bought Skype, my first thought was: oh, they want to kill it to replace it with something else (Teams?)
The extension method might be on an interface of the class and not on the class type itself. That's really the only time I've ever had to use this.
I hope it's a disgruntled former 'customer'
My grandma in rural Arkansas would get 26.4 kbps over dialup. Cell service is passable outside so she could get a house mounted antenna but the data caps are so low it's not worth it. Sat internet was crazy expensive last time I checked.

Also she refuses to learn computers so I gave up trying to get her internet but that's not related to this conversation.
Yep, my Python code is littered with "self" noise. The PEP "limit" of 80 characters per line on top of that is just taking the piss!
I don't know. My assumption was that their "energy conversion efficiency" was 50%.

I guess sometimes it may be less. For airport rides it may be more. Do you have a better estimate?
Internal USPS Documents Outline Plans to Hobble Mail Sorting
> And even in remote areas, building out VDSL2 networks with relatively decent speeds (200Mbps down and 100Mbps up[1]) would be better, honestly.

I live in the suburbs of Paris and the length of the phone line is still too long for VDSL2 (it's only available for distance less than 1 km) so I am not sure how feassible that is in rural areas.
> Why were fireworks stored right near ammonium nitrate?

Just a guess, but for filing purposes?

You can imagine thought processes along the lines of deciding to store it in warehouse X because all the dangerous explosive stuff goes there.

You can also imagine that it would be convenient to have all the dangerous stuff in one place where it could be monitored easily and have extra security.

It would be superficially logical.
> Most business degrees (graduate & undergraduate) are not recognised BAs anymore.

Why does it matter if they’re BA or something else? And recognised by who?

And obviously a postgrad business degree is not going to be a BA... because that’s an undergrad degree.

I think if you’re saying a MBA from a reputable school is useless I think you’re being really really silly. I see the opportunities these degrees give you and they are in a most literal sense extremely useful. They also seem academically valuable to me, with fascinating lectures by extremely well qualified people, and visiting amazing institutions.
Degenerate's in increasingly common use. I can't speak to the parent's use of the term, indeed from the context of their statement, there's good reasons to be suspicious of their intent. However, my social circle uses it quite heavily to refer to things like people who consider pet ownership equivalent to parenting, neonazis, and karens who fabricate sleights against themselves in order to haggle prices at retail outlets.

Despite its distasteful origins, it's becoming a catch-all for self-aggrandizing anti-social behavior, and destructively anti-normative sentiments.
Reliable 10mbps is a stable full hd stream and 5ish mbps to spare. Easily one stable video call or two at lower quality.

It'll be annoying if you want to download the latest AAA shooter coming in at dozens and dozens of gigabytes, sure. But you can do a lot at 10mbps as 1-2 people needing the uplink. That's really nice.
Bigger factories being the kind of thing that takes hundreds of hours to build.

The game is beautifully optimized and will run quite well on a potato.
Not just limited to engineering, you also just described one hypothesis for the manifestation of biological cancers through systems biology. "Most solid tumors arise from a spectrum of genetic, epigenetic, and chromosomal alterations. [...] molecular alterations can be classified by dysfunction in as many as six different regulatory systems that must be perturbed for a normal cell to become cancerous [...] The mere recognition of cancer as a systems biology disease is a key first step. This hypothesis views the individual defects observable in solid tumors cumulatively as system failures either at the cellular or multicellular level." [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2666950/

[1] http://news.mit.edu/2017/cells-combat-chromosome-imbalance-0...
Fired Up by Stimulus and Debt Deferrals, Americans Went Shopping. But Where?
https://github.com/koreader/koreader and you can host your own koreader server to sync data
https://github.com/koreader/koreader-sync-server
I like this that you see an opening in the Google enhanced ecommerce space, I see it too. What have you heard from customers that tells you this is the way to go (for my own curiosity, I'm an analytics and data nerd)?
We use exchange, Apple Mail and Thunderbird can both be used. There are limitations but there are options beyond the status quo in enterprise. Its a protocol.
From lobsters to honey bees, social distancing is common in the animal kingdom
Parts of Servo succeeded, like the webrender GPU stack and the CSS selector engine.

The parallel layout engine failed. It just kept running into corner cases that didn't handle parallel layout well. If you look in the layout_2020 folder in the source repository, you can see an in-progress pivot to a new approach that would hopefully have less problems, but now we'll never know.

This isn't a surprise. It was supposed to be a research project; if parts of it didn't fail, that would be a surprise.
Facebook trying to position itself as friendlier to small businesses than Apple
You have better access to hotspot data than someone who is further from the nearest cell tower. I'm using a more physical infrastructure discussion to draw an analogy to what you might experience. It might make sense for someone in a city to build a well or water capture system, but in general it's not the same calculation as in more rural areas, where 1 mile of cable may reach 0.5 people vs 20.

What you have could easily be too many people per cell tower in your area, which would be the exact same problem that these satellites will encounter. The physics of adding a cell tower is much cheaper than adding more satellites.
Do stores pay a percentage of each sale to the mall?

That seems directly comparable. The store wouldn't have any sales without the mall's infrastructure so it seems like they would be owed a cut of everything that happens in the store
Welding is like programming. Everybody with half a brain and some skills can weld. But proper welding is an art form, and the difference between the two levels is many years of work and study.

So for most people welding like that is not in the cards, but a trained and meticulous professional can do miracles (or close to miracles). It starts to get really interesting when you start hanging stuff from your welds, for instance when building an overhead crane.
Main advantage of Starlink over existing satellite is a (much) lower latency. Starlink constellation is flying by with a new satellite overhead every 10 minutes or less, and they're operating just above the atmosphere. Musk has claimed 20ms latency, which if true, would be absolutely a smash victory for rural Internet users everywhere.
The recession is over for the rich, but the working class is far from recovered
What was OP referring to re: Mozilla?

In-context, it's clear what degenerate meant.
I can't follow your first paragraph. You are redefining words left and right.

App stores don't create "laws"; they have contractually enforced rules.

Regulations are laws if the regulatory body was granted the power to make regulations.

Your use of legitimate confuses me; I can't grok your intention.

The FTC has the directive and authority to regulate commerce. If Apple is violating an US law or an FTC regulation, the FTC should prosecute. Otherwise this discussion should be focused on what laws (if any) you think need to be created.
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And in 10 years, Starship should make it possible to put more space observatories in orbit, so it should get better for the professional astronomers eventually. It'll still suck for amateur astronomers and photographers, though.

Although, with the way 2020 is going, we'll probably miss observing the asteroid that kills us all because a Starlink got in the way of the observation.
Signs of ‘citation hacking’ flagged in scientific papers
he says many things and his timelines are completely off but IMO he delivers
Chorus: "You grill them on irrelevant details?!?"
They're referring to Mozilla and "degenerate activism"...
This is a huge problem in government from what I've seen. In Canada, every province code has a longstanding two character .ca domain I think they all have a 'gov' 3rd level domain. For example, in Saskatchewan we have gov.sk.ca. However, instead of using that namespace, some departments go and register domains that look like phishing URLs. How about ehealthsask.ca for everyone in Saskatchewan to access digital health records instead of ehealth.gov.sk.ca? Yep, that's a thing.

It's pure idiocy. Instead of teaching the public that *.gov.sk.ca is a trustworthy, government run namespace everyone has their own domains and the general public is left to guess what's legitimate and what's phishing. Good luck with that.

And they all buy overpriced SSL certificates.
I wonder if it’s somewhat similar to Linux developers refusing to support TCP Offload Engine functionality, inventing various excuses easily proven false by experiences with TOE support for other systems.
Not all heroes wear capes (assuming threat actors don't intend to release any data they're taking hostage).
Was your hearing damaged at all from the blast?
Whatever are you talking about?
Cult of the free? Are you kidding me?

I did pay for MDN.
Google monetized my personal data and gave some of that money to Mozilla.

I paid for MDN.
Not with money, but same difference. Mozilla got money.

Now if you want to complain about Mozilla not spending that money on MDN but relying on crowdsourcing, then be my guest. I don't have enough insight into who go paid what at Mozilla to comment on that.

But please stop the "cult of the free" b/s. Just because there is no paywall in front of it does not mean it wasn't paid for.
> mechanical failure of my car

That's scary. What was the failure if you don't mind me asking?