skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few accidents? There are 20 seasons of Air Crash Investigation, and 20 episodes each. Total 400+ accidents (probably a quarter of which with the DC-10).

There are only 480 submarines in the world, and the 400 episodes exclude General Aviation accidents (non-planned routes) so there are definitely more planes than submarines which dived into water…
From memory, all the UK-style plugs I've used (in HK) have been a tight fit. I can't see how they'd fall out.
I actually am curious about the entire crypto space, and I’ve been trying to get a good theoretical grounding. I find the tech fascinating and potentially valuable.

But the majority of potential use cases so far, particularly those relating to applications beyond the strictly financial, seem to rely on flawed premises. The idea of oracles seems to go against the whole point of even using the blockchain.

Perhaps Chainlink or any number of competitors will eventually resolve some of these issues, but I don’t think they’ve presented a convincing case yet. Or I just don’t quite understand it.
How is binance a scam?
The East India Company: The original corporate raiders (2016)
> It seemed to me that Http2 was meant to be a file transfer protocol, but designed by people who don't really quite understand how TCP performs in the real world (especially on mobile)

And not only mobile, same applies for server-server connections over near perfect, inter-dc connections.

Even gigabit, and above links drop packets... because it's how TCP is supposed to work!

The higher is the speed, the more aggressive curve will be used by the congestion control algorithm.

In other words it will hit drops fast, be in the drop zone for longer, and this will be recurring more frequently than on slower links.

In fact, faster congestion protocols for speeds above 500 mbps get their speed by having A LOT MORE drops, not less.

Any protocol designed for the TCP transport must have been designed to work in concert TCP mechanics, not fight, or try to workaround it.

This is a perfect example of how AB test vodoo lead people down the rabbit hole.
Good sense applied to Covid.

Which other countries governments are sensible (some will say bold) enough going to follow?

The notion of zero Covid is an absurdity and it has always been. No one ever spoke of zero influenza, so how did zero Covid become a thing?
20% savings on fuel is still good regardless of what fuel it is. So these sails seem relevant in a green energy world.
The problem is like any software feature nowadays it can be restricted in the future once general acceptance occurs. And most users who don't know anything abour sideliading will download from Amazon and not know what is going on.
It's only worrisome if the Stores don't allow you to do that, AFAIK most people can still sideload apps on Android, not sure how the new Windows 11 Android apps work in this case.
Except when the 'local thing' is a local business owned and/or financed by a multinational. It's the easiest way to get around such things and it happens all the time.
It’s “worked” for a very long time. Greatest generation through even some older millennials have been able to treat their homes like a self filling piggy bank.

It’s natural that there would be a lot of denial that this can’t go on forever.
It's similar to the debate about "begging the question.". Enough people misuse/misunderstand the phrase that the intended meaning becomes vague: did the author really mean "beg" or "raise"?

It doesn't make the incorrect usage correct, but it does mean correct interpretation of _intent_ requires acknowledging incorrect _vocabulary_.
Access is what matters.

Consider two groups of ten people. Group A consists of ten people, who each have a Ferrari. In this group, the average car is a Ferrari. But in Group B there are also ten people, one of them has ten Ferraris, nine others own a 2CV. In this group the average car is also a Ferrari.

But Group B's cars suck. 90% of people in Group B do not have access to the "average" of a Ferrari.

There are two elements to access and the US doesn't do great at either of them. One element is: Can you actually get a decent service? If the best service you could actually buy is a 2Mbps ADSL connection then, "No", you can't, even if your best friend has 1Gbps symmetric. The US is almost inevitably going to suck in this respect for some of its most rural residents, but nobody in a suburb let alone inside a city ought to be suffering this under a rational approach. Second element is: Can you afford decent service? Maybe 1Gbps is technically on offer in your neighbourhood, for the same price as your rent. Obviously you won't buy that. In some cases this is going to be impacted by other economic decisions. If your country's idea of a "living wage" doesn't include paying for Internet service then that's maybe a problem in 2021.
This is fascinating. Thank you for linking to this.
But system init is a hard, complex problem. You can’t create a simple solution for that, since there is an inherent complexity. I prefer systemd over having a bunch of bash scripts trying to do service restart, logging, dependency management and failing at it. You would still get the same complexity but at a different (worse) level.
I find it hard to empathize with the idea that you had good friends and wouldn’t even send them an occasional “wish we could hang out; miss you” type message. I can understand why someone might think their true friends were revealed.
> How desperate the hunt for glyphs is in syntax design is exemplified by how Guido van Rossum did away with the canonical scope delimiters in Python, relying instead on indentation for this purpose. What could possibly be of such high value that a syntax designer would brave the controversy this caused? A high-value pair of matching glyphs, { and }, for other use in his syntax could. (This decision also made it impossible to write Fortran programs in Python, a laudable achievement in its own right.)

The irony here is that Python does have an open-scope delimiter. It is the colon. What it lacks is a close-scope delimiter. But you can hack one using the PASS statement and emacs auto-indent, and in my code I do this so that my Python code always auto-indents correctly. Without this you cannot reliably cut-and-paste Python code because you can't count on leading white space being correctly preserved.
Why not call it something else and it would sell equally well on its own merits?

You are basically given a better starting position because of the association with the name Feta, Champagne or Cognac.

If Nike, the North face or some other trademark owner moves production to a different factory, you can’t continue production of the same goods even if the quality is the same.

The GI and trademark name translates to extra value.
"10Gbps ethernet is still cost-prohibitive"

That is old news in 2021.

Do you know about <<MikroTik 5-Port Desktop Switch, 1 Gigabit Ethernet Port, 4 SFP+ 10Gbps Ports (CRS305-1G-4S+IN)>>?

Amazon sells it for 140 USD.

It is legendary on home networking discussion boards. (They have a nice 8 port version also.)
Technically I guess you could. It would be a bit odd though as the keyboard app would need to display the plaintext as well, so the user can check it for typos.
> (I never understood granite countertops... they're porous! The last thing you'd want in a kitchen).

https://www.easternsurfaces.com/seal-granite-countertops/
SciHub ;)
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The situation is a little better compared to Windows, but it's not perfect.

I always disable telemetry, but iphonesubmissions.apple.com:443, radarsubmissions.apple.com:443 and securemetrics.apple.com:443 are still contacted.

People messing with ocsp.apple.com:80 (https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/1460) also need to be aware of ocsp2.apple.com:443.

The iAdSDK setting is somewhat respected, but all the Siri subdomains are pinged even if Siri is turned off.
When recipes say "caramelize/cook/brown/soften onions for 5 min", what they almost always mean is soften onions until they're a bit brown not caramelize.

The brown bits are the result of the Maillard reaction not proper caramelization which takes time for the sugars to break down, but what you have isn't "caramelized onions" what you have is softened onions that are a bit brown.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/how-to-brown-onions-913397

> The problem with using the term "caramelized" for browned onions is more than just inaccuracy. What causes confusion is that the term is used for two very different methods and results. The first method, which involves very slow cooking, results in onions whose cells have broken down so far that they almost form a paste. They brown slowly and evenly, almost from the inside out.

> The second method cooks the onions more quickly over higher heat so that they brown before they have a chance to break down. You end up with browned onions that retain their shape and some texture. They also retain much more of their volume.
What if you make Cola that tastes exactly like Coca Cola, with the same ingredients?

Geographical origins serve the same purpose as registered trademark, the only significant difference is that they don't belong to a single corporation.
Monitorisation isn't necessarily going to be that big an issue. If you have a common theme for the group, you can serve ads around that theme and you don't need to track anything.

In addition to that, meetup.com makes its money by charging people who want to setup a group.
Sorta. Examples abound of notation that had changed or that is adapted for some fields. Complex numbers using j instead of i, for example.
That seems like a very valid use case. Corporate laptops also often have mandatory software like RemotelyAnywhere on them that allow the mothership to poke in anytime they like.
human universe is not so hot. please log scale toward smaller values.
Wikipedia launched that in July 2013 in response to rising web traffic and the existing site not working well on mobile browsers. That was preceded by Wapedia, an independent site that started in 2004 to provide a reformatting proxy for mobile use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapedia

The basic answer is that early on the tooling wasn't there to support very difference devices from the same HTML. You could try tricks to detect mobile devices and serve different content. But it was much easier just to let people decide which they wanted.

I haven't kept up, but I know the tooling keeps improving, so I expect that few people today are creating mobile-specific URLs, and that the existing ones will go away in the long run.
That’s not how complexity works. Inherent complexity can’t really be outsourced meaningfully.
This thing could be so helpful during my chemistry classes.
We need more of this. Great job!

I also like how you can select isotopes in Isotopes tab in Z-axis.
Lets assume you can make a trainer in exactly the same way as Adidas do, can you stick Adidas on the side?

No, it's a trademark. That's effectively what PGI is, and unlike patents and copyright, trademarks have a direct benefit to the consumer (they know what they are getting. Nobody is stopping people buying a Gutchy handbag, but the selling can't pass it off as Gucci)

Same with "100% Florida orange juice" or "Idaho potatoes". I can buy "Southern Style Whiskey" and that's fine, but if I see "Tennessee whiskey" I am assured it's made in Tennessee. That may be important for me, it may not be, but I have the power.
Why didn’t you make “dvd/blu-ray” plural?
It's not a trademark, but the point of this system is to afford it a similar protection to that afforded to trademarks.
> A few countries (including Lebanon and Thailand) use five different plugs

Isn't one particular plug prevalent in all modern installations or at least prevalent in particular geographical areas?
China uses a similar inverted design as well.
I think the problem is when you're not particularly familiar with the US senate lingo or a non US native. In this case, the term 'lobbying' might most often be heard abroad when discussions are around the problem of the 'big money' behind lobbying. And it's this practise that was unlawful a few decades ago, not the lobbying itself. My bad, educated a little more and thankful.
Flash memory requires relatively high voltage for block erase operations, but this is at least twice the voltage that flash uses. It's likely to adopt the same strategy of including charge pumps on board to generate the required high voltage from one of the lower voltages available from the system.
It's not true though. Due to unique circumstances and regulation you usually have lots of "virtual ISPs" to choose from.

There is no real incentive to upgrade the network outside urban areas though, that's true.
MQTT is simple. You open a single connection, and thats about it. You can use an off the self TCP implementation, which you almost certainly don't have to worry about. The hard part is managing certificate.

Even though I don't have to, I'm pretty sure I can implement a MQTT client on my own. I'm not sure I can do it with HTTP3, and thats before I implement the pub:sub bits on top. And you still have to manage certificates.

But reading the paper there are some glaring issues. firstly its using MQTT over QUIC is not the greatest choice. They don't compare it to raw MQTT over tcp. They seem to be labouring over the assumption that UDP is "faster". Given that ideally your message size for MQTT is < than MTU, in most cases UDP has little advantage. (depending on how you cost the connection initialisation.)

Second, peak memory usage for the Http3 implementation is 10 megs, thats more ram than an ESP32 can address (4/8megs). I'm not sure what kind of target hardware they are aiming for.

The total data transmitted per 1kb of message appears to be off as well. I'm not sure how 1K of message turns into 24k of network traffic.

In short, it might be an alternative, but not as implemented in this paper.
ThermalTake has actually released one based on the Sandia design (and Cooler Master flirted with this one), but it's not really living on its promises. It works, but there's a lot of non-Sandia designs with comparable size that works as good or even better than ThermalTake's Sandia-like design.

Reviews:

Gamers Nexus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2tCnjb6lp8 (video), https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2806-thermaltake-engin... (text)

Quote from Steve: "Ultimately, the Engine 27 isn’t a bad cooler – it performs about the same as similarly sized products, so it’s not some crime against humanity. That said, it’s priced significantly out of its performance bracket, and the high-pitched whine at max RPM can get a bit irritating. You’d want to run this at a lower RPM to account for that."

Linus Tech Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCghRn2Zae4

Quote from Linus: "The Thermaltake Engine 27 gets my "Better than Nothing" award for working better than I expected given its size, making it a great option if you don’t have anything else that will fit."
Found this awesome simple demonstration of Flettner rotors.[1]

One question I have is, how would this work with a sort of semi-circle fan version, where the blades retract when they start getting pushed into the wind. This could theoretically have the rotor turn off of just wind power instead of external power. Here's a crude drawing lol [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsGin7CFaF8

[2] http://draw.to/D47BxHT
Wine/Proton is so good that you might find you don't even need it for that.
As goes with everything in life, nothing is certain. But I operate under the assumption that there is a higher probability that a reputable brand known for selling higher quality goods is actually selling higher quality goods and performing the necessary quality control measures to ensure it.

Of course, one also has to remain informed on which brands are decreasing their quality and cashing in on their reputation.
MS seems offers a few ways of back the decrypt key. One of them is uploading the bitlocker key to your account if you logged into ms account in that system. Or you could write it down (Which isn't very useful IRL, I haven't see anybody actually write down recover code or whatever to paper yet.)
> If keyboard keys were small e-ink displays, easily configurable and accessible by programs, programmers would have come up with a lot of interesting stuff already.

The touchbar on my M1 Macbook Pro does this. It makes using Emojis a lot easier. I incorporate emojis into my languages more and more nowadays.
> Apple shipping keyboards that have the £ character where the # character would otherwise be

That's not really an Apple thing so much as a non-US thing. The standard PC UK layout also has a £ in that position.

> I personally prefer US International over Apple's layout.

Which Apple layout? Apple has its own US English, International English and British English layouts, as well as myriad other languages.
Not sure if sarcastic, but the systemd default makes sense. Why should random processes linger in a background, with an ill defined “not answering a signal” hack? There is no distinction between a frozen process and tmux. They can easily register a user service and continue running there.
In my experience even in small amounts the process is faster and the results are inferior. Not enough to ruin the dish unless you overdo it, but enough to not make it worthwhile for me.
> The normal outlets in the house are wired across half the transformer, giving 120 V. Ovens, water heaters, dryers, EV chargers, air conditioners, etc get wired across the full transformer giving 240 V.

Why not just give the 120 V up and go full 240 V in every outlet?
For browser-based conferencing you can simply require them to ask for camera access every time. But that won't help you for tools with their own apps.

One of the many reasons I try to avoid running the apps of "random" companies.
I think the op addresses this... These are unlicensed securities.
I agree with that, but also 99% sure the latency in those apps have nothing to do with their graphic design and more to do with these apps waiting for an API roundtrip response before updating the UI, and possibly lots of analytics bloat.
It autosaves to the filesystem whenever you make edits. Until you hit save, though, it saves them to a separate Draft file.
If APKs were normal Windows executables I'd agree with you. But given that they're not, there's not really an expectation that they'd just work.
I watched a pretty good PBS-NOVA special on CRISPR recently that covered this.

It seems like the scientists interviewed (some of them leaders in CRISPR) were of the opinion that we should stay the hell away from editing the human germ line (not sure if I used the right term, but basically stuff that would be passed to offspring).
Florida Orange Juice, Vidalia onions, Idaho potatoes, and of course the "Made In USA" stamp.
I really don't understand why government aren't considering nuclear energy. The main problem of energy is batteries. Solar, Wind all have issues that they can't give constant energy.

For me I still think Nuclear and Hydro are the best green energy.
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Google launches a new medical app – outside the U.S.
If it's like a conventional sailboat, the mast will go all the way down to the keel.
This isn’t just an EU/US thing - even within the EU people are unhappy about not being able to call their product Feta just because it’s created outside of Greece.
I am not really familiar with Unison, but I presume it works like this: Only the code itself is hashed. The then-current name is then added as an annotation. When you refer to a name, the language compiler looks up the hash currently associated with that name and stores the hash instead of the name. When code is rendered, the name associated with the hash at render-time is looked up and displayed. That way if the name is changed, all of the renderings generated after that automagically use the new name.

It's actually quite a clever idea.
I'm not clear on how high speed is supposed to eliminate fouling. Sure, particles are less likely to adhere but you're also increasing the number of particles.
>Or maybe just stop offering delivery in less profitable cases

With how ridiculous the fees are Id prefer this personally. Delivery once upon a time was free for pizza or a few dollars tops if you were outside a very tight delivery zone and the delivery person was directly employed through the restaurant so they made a decent wage for a restaurant gig. Over seas I'd constantly see McDonald scooters zipping around Dubai and Tokyo so it's possible to do delivery even when the person doesn't bring their own car.

Door dash does it's best to hide how far a place is from you but happily increase the fees so you can get a luke warm sandwich and cold fries from the restaurant across town instead of the one a few blocks away with the same name that isn't currently delivering.

During a pandemic where everyone was basically forced inside these companies were barely profitable so it's not even a business model that really works. Door Dash did their best to race to an IPO before the had the rug pulled under them like We work.

I'd rather have the middleman die out and individual restaurants go back to offering delivery.
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Colorforth not only does this but solved the colorblind problem by switching fonts.
It means in julia, the Editor and the repl actually replace \lambda with the unicode greek letter
I like the rule of thumb that an identifier in code should usually be longer and more specific as scope increases. The main exception is that if your problem domain has well-established terminology or notation for some concept, reflecting that as closely as possible in the code is often best. So, I personally have no problem with someone using short identifiers and concise notation if it’s either used very locally or idiomatic.

For example, suppose we have a function whose job is to calculate two vectors of weights and do something unless they are equal but opposite. Personally, I would rather read something like

v = someCalculation()
w = someOtherCalculation()
if (v ≠ -w) {
doSomething()
}

where we use short names for the local variables and vector-aware unequality and negation operators, than read something like

weights1 = someCalculation()
weights2 = someOtherCalculation()
if (not(vector.equals(weights1, vector.negate(weights2)))) {
doSomething()
}

The longer but still arbitrary names for the vectors add no value here and the longhand function names for manipulating them are horrible compared to the short and immediately recognisable vector notation.

In general, I think there could be advantages to using a broader but still selective symbol set for coding, as long as we also had good tool and font support to type and display all of the required symbols. I would be hesitant about including Greek letters in that symbol set, but that’s because several letters in the Greek alphabet look similar to other common letters or symbols, not because I think calling a value ω_0 is a bad idea if that’s how practitioners in the field would all write it mathematically.
Using ellipses as one's main form of punctuation is the present-day equivalent of penning one's Letter To The Editor in green or purple ink.
Something extremely weird happened in 2020 with regard to how that pandemic was handled wordlwide. Time will tell if it was justified, incompetence, or hysteria.
Or are bugs due to interpretations of the specification just easier to find?

The point of compiler fuzzing like Csmith was that optimization bugs are really hard to find by the kinds of testing that would find more typical conformance bugs. Before these test generators were written one might have thought that optimization bugs were rare, simply because they hadn't been triggered much.
Malware exists on the Play store too. My grandmother managed to download some aggressive adware bundled in a sudoku app.

Interestingly, she's avoided viruses on Windows for decades. I think thats because she wouldn't trust random apps from dodgy websites in the way she'd trust Google Play.