skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm a firefox user, but firefox is 2,4% from being dead. that's still a lot of people but dangerously close to the kind of numbers where people stop bothering to test if their websites work in it (if they were even doing it to begin with, let's be honest)
What would make me happy, both as a consumer and a musician, is that if I only listen to my favorite artist for the whole month, then 75 % of my monthly subscription money would go directly to said artist, and not Taylor Swift or what ever is the current "most popular pool".
US military is the only entity that provides data to the public for free; but they only provide TLEs which aren't sufficient for close passes. TLEs are processed (they are just like JPEGs in cameras, in a sense), what you need for reliable prediction is raw measurements (which they don't publish). There are also commercial networks used by satellite operators for precise orbit determination of objects of particular interest. (i.e. about to collide).

Satellite laser ranging is also nothing new, it's used for GNSS and other satellites requiring determination accuracy. But current instruments mostly work with retroreflectors on the satellites, and the coverage is a problem since the orbit can only be predicted for a limited amount of time.
I think most chargebacks are by fraudsters and carderz.
It isn't worth collecting.

This is Earth orbit, not the ocean or some strip of land.

The debris zooms around the planet on all kinds of trajectories and it's immensely difficult to match velocity and direction in order to capture it.

It's worse than trying to collect machine gun bullets mid-flight that were fired from a rotating carousel by a guy with shaking hands...

Some parts, like spent second rocket stages, present some value because they could be reused as wet-workshops [1]. Material value alone, however, doesn't justify the cost of capture in most cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_workshop
I think yea, but I didn't read all cookie related stuff

>Operational cookies

>There are some cookies that we have to include in order for certain web pages to function. For this reason, they do not require your consent. In particular:

> authentication cookies
> technical cookies required by certain IT systems

https://ec.europa.eu/info/cookies_en
> why haven't we found anyone?

Space is big. Earth is old. When all is told, we just don't know.
I have to check Space Sweepers out, I liked the series Planetes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes
I don't think Da Vinci ever saw that money...
usually such places (destination under embargo or sanctions) are happy to not mark your travel document in any way and let you through. they may issue a booklet to indicate when your stay there should end which you can discard when you're out.
Well, get this: I agree! As someone who studies linguistics, I find Wiktionary really useful... and yet, it frankly isn't what any of the people who are donating to Wikipedia think their money is being used on, given the banner on their site. It is unethical to ask for money to run Wikipedia and then spend that money on other projects, no matter how useful they might be. If you want to do that, the banner should say "we are so glad you are getting value out of Wikipedia! don't worry: Wikipedia is safe; but... we have so many other ideas for how to improve the world, and would love you forever if you helped us achieve those dreams by donating money to our parent foundation, Wikimedia, to spend on others initiatives!". Of course, I bet almost no one would donate then.
At this point it seems to be more of a problem of changing the cultural norms that were created by over 30 years of a one child policy but I guess you have to start somewhere.
I know right?! I went there and met by a giant wall of GDPR bullshit without a button to say "no", buttons grayed out but clickable, multiple page scroll down to reach the desired opt out, default everything off on the first page, but default as you went further... prime example all the way.

At one point in the process I got worried that the GDPR popup is itself whats posted and not an article.
I have a very rare immune-mediated neurological disease affecting my peripheral nervous system, that started at age 5, in 1994. The disease was discovered on NIH research grant funds in the 2000s. But, the grant funding is never remotely enough, respective to need, for society.

In 2012, my medical problems became so severe that I scavenged the medical literature. I was tremendously lucky to come across such literature, ultimately describing the disease I have. At the time, there were only 38 articles written about it. Anyways, I was tested for it, and I had the antibody.

Soon after, I literally had a near-death experience. Anyways, I was 22, and I was basically a kid. My parents and my twin brother pretty much saw me on my deathbed.

I am in pharmaceutical remission now, after trying about 10 different treatments, plus combinations of them. It was never statistically likely that I would end up like this, let alone be alive.

I am culturally American, but I hold dual citizenship also with Croatia, so I am a European Union citizen. I am not as sentimental about being American as other people. Honestly, the only reason why I would never renounce my American citizenship is because the US ultimately saved my life, along with others around the world.
If democracy made western countries great at the beginning, now I can foresee western countries fall soon, because governments are distancing more and more from democracy and freedom of people.

I should start learning Mandarin to be competitive in upcoming future workforce.
Packet switched voice was such a mistake. Even under great conditions it is ROUTINELY worse than the worst days of circuit switched and TDM.

Kids these days will never know how great phones worked in the 80s and 90s. Fuck.

Give me that circuit switched reliability over high res audio with occasional/intermittent/unavoidable packet loss and jitter any day of the week.
In theory the solution is easy: As a website owner don't use tracking or marketing cookies (or any other non-essential cookies) and you don't have to annoy your users with banners.
Unless, you know, they are on your property, ie your field, on the side of the road to school for your children. Interesting to see 1st world perspective vs 3rd world, where the former looks at it as strictly 'other's problem'.
You're drastically underestimating the most convenient feature of a microwave: repeatability.

Once you know how long something needs to be cooked and at what level - say, a mug of your favorite soup - you can just throw it in, put in your usual settings, and have something that's ready to eat when it dings[1]. A few seconds either way can be the difference between "needs more time" and "oh dear god my mouth is on fire."

There's a reason one of the first "smart" features microwaves added was customizable presets.

1. This is, incidentally, how microwaves are used in restaurants too. Nobody's guessing.
So you can multiply an AI attack drone easier than a pipebomb... because of software?
Chinese ‘artificial sun’ hits new mark in fusion energy mission
I've seen plenty of anecdata over the years, including seemingly endless amounts of government and private propoaganda/advertising, that seems to drive public interest.

One of many shameful examples is "war on iraq/weapons of mass destruction" storyline

FAIR did a report showing how media coverage drove public opinion. I would guess it also drove increased public interest -- certainly felt like it.

also, when there is strong public interest in an issue, we still might not see that issue get mainstream media coverage.

One example would be 'lack of healthcare (in america)'.

An incredible/horrific situation, almost unique among advanced western economies, richest most powerful nation in the history of the world -- no universal healthcare -- strong public interest -- little to no mainstream media coverage, and certainly not sustained past a political campaign that forces the issue into the media.
> it's completely reasonable for a small business let alone one of the largest brands in the world.

Why would it be more per employee for “larger brands”?
Well, yes, although this "for technical stuff" is quite vogue and misleading. Law actually states things "strictly necessary" don't need and agreement. So your auth session doesn't need anything, but your 3rd party monitoring software does. I wish this would be easier for me. A lot of sites on my market add disgusting banners even if they don't use cookies at all, or cookies were already created :)

"This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide the service."

I had a glance at my local interpretation it also states that it is not necessary to consent if it is directly required to fulfill action explicitly started by a user.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62...
Very cool!
Also, it hijacked my back button, hard!
> The opening question remains unanswered.

>

It have been argued that "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
No, they've just fined her for now and said that if she keeps missing interviews it will (sensibly) count as repeat violations. It is the (supposed) repeated violations which carry the possibility of a forced default.

A one day time lag would mean the media couldn't get a quote for the match until the day after, an impossible long time to wait before reporting the outcome of the match. So most media would just cut the time they spend on tennis, and spend the liberated cash when reporting on other sports instead.

I suppose some really niche tennis journos would go the other way and start agressively pestering the big players for a quote to put along with their match report as all such same-day quotes are now elevated to the status of "scoop".
I must admit I like the idea of the WMF having a grand vision for the future and raising money for it (and I'm a bit puzzled by the people who want restrict it to where it was 10 years ago). It's their foundation to run, they have big plans, and it you don't like it you can ignore it.

If people feel that they were somehow tricked into their donation, they have instructions on how to request a refund.

It's an interesting thought experiment to consider if Wikipedia didn't exist what would change in the way we learn about and discuss things, especially in these days of fake news etc. Britannica is 75$ per year.
> Software has been in weapon systems since the 1970's from guidance to target acquisition. It's already there, and has been for a while.

Obviously correct, so in a sense the parent commenters concerns are not about something new.

But historically these weapons systems are massively expensive custom systems developed by defence contractors for major states. Costs, budget cycles, and technical limitations went some way to limiting their ubiquity and the rate they could gain functions.

So cruse missiles had autonomous terrain-matching terminal guidance, but the US needed the combined abilities of the NRO and General Dynamics / McDonnell Douglas /
Raytheon etc to build it.

Whereas now we have free and triviably cloneable software (embedded OSs, drone flight and guidance s/w, ML and image recognition stacks, global mapping data) and a massive range (compared to event ten years ago) of dirt-cheap cots hardware (GPS, lidar, ...)for making autonomous moving objects. And often those devices are fairly thin hardware shells around yet more software.

The network effects driving these capabilities, particularly in software, and their seemingly exponential increase, are what I took to be the source of the parent commenters concerns.
> only one country plays and misnames Handegg

In Chinese it's called "olive ball".

I understand South Korea plays it.
I think that term is used in the US to mean basically "country". It's often used for multinational states, so I don't think it has to be taken literally.
>Where does one draw the line here?

The use of leverage/margin to buy more than one can reasonably afford is a good marker, in my opinion.

If you're borrowing money to play the market, you're gambling, not investing.
You should be reading the source all of the time. The point of documentation is to tell you what the code doesn't. If it tells you the same, you should delete the documentation.
Indeed. I would like to watch a tournament that has some integrity as a competition.
> He parked the Ryder truck in a drop-off zone situated under the building's day-care center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_city_bombing
I think it's important to clarify the statement above, for anymore who is not familiar with the issue and keeps misusing AES-GCM.

AES-GCM has a relatively short IV (= nonce): only 96 bits (12 bytes). To make things worse, if an IV ever gets repeated GCM fails catastrophically[1]. The design document[2] explicitly point out that a FIPS 140-2 compliant GCM hardware[3], must take all possible precaution to ensure an IV never gets repeated, even if the device suffers a critical power loss.

The safe way to use AES-GCM in software (for instance, the way it is used in TLS) is to just use a running counter and replace the key before the counter overflows and starts repeating itself. Random counters bad, since if enough messages are generated with the same key the chance of a message that repeats an IV under the same key increases. The statistic phenomenon behind the chance of something like that being repeated is called the "Birthday Problem"[4], so exploiting this kind of weakness is often referred to as a "Birthday Attack"[5].

tl;dr: If you want an easy life, just never use any form of AES at all. Most AES mode can be completely safe if used and implemented with care - but it is generally quite hard to do that. AES has too many knobs and there is too much bad advice on places like Stack Overflow and various blogs.

Generally, for encrypting multiple messages with the same key, the solid advice is to use NaCl secretbox (XSalsa20-Ply1305) or libsodium aead_xchacha20poly1305_ietf[6].

But you probably need more than that when encrypting potentially long-lived bidirectional streams of data.

---

[1]: It fails even worse than other authenticated counter mode ciphers due to the design of the GHASH function:

https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/projects/block-cipher-techn...

[2]: See section 9 here in NIST 800-38D:
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpubli...

[3] Keep in mind that like most 2000s vintage cipher specs, GCM was designed as a hardware cipher. Software was more or less an afterthought, if anything at all.

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack

[6]: https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/secret-key_cryptography/aea...
> provides a place to work on non-encyclopedic content that should not be in Wikipedia itself

I don't think I agree with you at all here, given that I grew up wanting the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Wikipedia refuses to offer it... seemingly in no small part because the founder of it makes money off of Wikia.

But, I believe regardless: if someone goes to an encyclopedia and is told "this encyclopedia needs your help: it is going to run out of money unless you donate to it", and you take that money to do something that isn't to improve that encyclopedia, that is absolutely unethical, no matter how useful it might be on its own.

> Wiktionary indirectly supports translation work that benefits Wikipedia

This alone might be somewhat fair (though I find it hard to believe, honestly); but, I still challenge whether someone who comes to the website and is shown the current banner would believe their money isn't being flitted away on things that don't benefit the resource they were using, even if it might be "more ethical" to provide better translations.
Biden’s Internet Plan Pits Cities Against Dominant Carriers
How Common Knowledge use workflow automation for activism
Sure, as long as your favourite artist doesn't receive money from anyone who doesn't listen to him.

All the money from a small percentage of people or a small percentage of money from everyone is the same.
And still deletes insignificant information as if storing it was an unbearably heavy burden.
Yes, but unfortunately the copyright mafia was precisely designed to take money from independent artists up into the pockets of a tiny elite of bureaucrats and famous artists. If that sounds suspicious/conspirational to you i'm happy to elaborate.
It's dehumanisation.

1. Many of the police's murder victims were children. People accept this because hey, it's not my kids.

2. The process by which victims are chosen is opaque. When you're dead, no one's going to listen to your family protest your innocence.

3. Early on Duterte promised to haul in big fish: generals, governors, and the like. So far the biggest fish have been mayors in small towns in far-flung provinces. Most victims have been from the poor and marginalised. Anyone who thinks the drug trade has been stamped out is kidding themselves.

4. What little statistics there were at the time the anti-drug campaign was launched showed that drug crime was not the bogeyman it was hyped to be.

5. Street crime and violent crime is still rampant. Wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be the same cops now emboldened with a license to murder.

The human cost has been appalling, for no benefit that I can see.
Create comics in Google Sheets using Comicgen
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Immobilized seems more fit.
teleconsole is also great!

https://teleconsole.com/

It also allows to do selected ssh tunnels, useful to share services on local ports.
and ambassador for the sport.

Not showing-up for media could well be viewed by swaths of the fans and big bank rollers as two birdie fingers in the air.
There's always the danger of "doing a Mozilla" - focusing on useless senior management pet projects until the point that they're unable to actually fund the thing that they're getting paid for.

The management probably don't see themselves as caretakers of incredibly valuable resource that needs to be preserved. Which is probably what 90% of the rest of humanity want them to be.
California has done that, and hence NYT allows you to unsubscribe online without this hassle if it's IP geo-detection detects you're in california, which exposes this as the business/retention decision it is and not a technical limitation.
The property value presumably increases as well though, so there's potential the buyer will come out ahead with the annuity payments even if they pay more nominally than current value
Reagents generally test for presence, not purity, so all you can conclude is that there is some ketamine in there.
The majority of the Venezuelan economy exists outside its borders, because that's the only place where it can exist.

Currency controls are actually preventing the recovery of the country. They are a short term fix for a short term problem but they create long term problems in the process and those long term problems are definitively the worse poison.
Xiaomi introduces new 200W HyperCharge tech: 0% to 100% in just 8 minutes
I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

Comparing cryptocurrencies to the Internet is about comparing its usefulness, not it's understandability. I won't argue that people in general understood the Internet.

Take my example of Fidonet. If you were not a computer expert then you had never heard of Fidonet. BBSs? Maybe you'd heard of it in some news clip about the dangers of computers.

Hell, the only time non-experts even saw anything close to a BBS was probably the movie Wargames.

> You’re giving a completely wrong impression of how the early web was and the early internet.

In what way?

> I wasn’t around for that so I won’t personally give my input

You don't know, but you know I'm wrong about it?
Alright thanks, it sounds like being reasonably worrisome if what you say reflects what's going on. I feel like I don't have the faintest clue as to how these things actually affect geopolitical dynamics though, so I find it hard to evaluate stuff like this.
Traderino and its first week of automated cryptocurrency trading
"o&o shutup10 and "w10 privacy" are on the top of my list of things to install when setting up a new windows machine
> 3R's was a campaign manufactured by the plastics industry

A good idea coming from a bad source doesn't stop it from being a good idea though so I'm not sure why people bring this up so much.

Individuals and companies both have a responsibility to reduce waste.
Ask HN: Where do the young nerds hangout?
I get the distinct impression that HN, like Slashdot before it, has aged along w/ its original audience. I suspect most of the readers and submitters are aged mid-30's to late 40's. Which online communities attract the young weirdos these days?
I think the gliding slope pattern has more than one reason to exist. One is the inability to innovate due to backward compatibility requirements. In fact this pattern repeats itself in smaller software not just platforms. Look at Adobe Photoshop, and now it's Sketch's time to glide while infinitely approaching the ground.

But I think there's another reason: not only inability to innovate but also unwillingness to do so. Companies on a gliding slope trajectory can attract a special kind of management people who like just that: to be in a gliding flight that can give enough material reward for a sufficient period of time. Why innovate then?

I can think of maybe 2 or 3 exceptions of durable technologies that have survived decades and are still thriving because they don't belong to anyone. Unix for one, maybe SQL too. Ownership (or lack thereof) is the key here it seems.
> run on fumes

That's not what I got from the article or even the headline. It's talking about why they are using "tearful-sounding messages like: “This Thursday Wikipedia really needs you. This is the 10th appeal we’ve shown you. 98% of our readers don’t give; they look the other way … We ask you, humbly, don’t scroll away.”"

"really needs you"? Really? That too in India during COVID? With millions in the bank and salaries of everyone over $130k?
> though mine takes sort of the opposite approach, input and manipulation is very visual.

There is already opensource app for that: microMathematics Plus (μMath+) — Extended visual calculator for Android.[0,1]

[0] https://github.com/mkulesh/micromathematics

[1] https://f-droid.org/packages/com.mkulesh.micromath.plus/
Why is it amazing for the players in the midst of a very emotional moment to have to endure an inappropriate question, and respond with an attack?

People have such a fetish for “Person A DESTROYS Person B” drama that they’re disregarding the humanity and dignity of the people along the way.
USDC Builder Circle Raises $440M
It's not a 'disregard of due process'. It's straight up murder. The drug crime situation in the Philippines was never as bad as what we're seeing in Mexico. Voters were shown a bogeyman and many fell for it.

Also, the victims of the anti-drug campaign are suspiciously mostly small-fry (or worse, innocent). Anyone who thinks that this is any sort of systemic solution is kidding themselves.
> What else should it be, when nobody tries to put ads relevant to`sed'

If there's one company who should know what to advertise when the user searches for "sed", that company is Google. Yes, without personalization, as the user just gave you the information you need!

If they don't they might as well roll the doors down because that's the main core business of Google.

How did advertisers knew what to put on the WSJ? on Time? on Sports Illustrated?