skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firewood is not cheap and is becoming increasingly harder to acquire. 10 cubic meter of processed and ready to use wood was around 750 or more euros this year and will be even more in the future.

I put in an order at a mill in June and didn’t end up receiving anything due to bureaucracy shutting down businesses shipping out this year’s production. I don’t know if they ended up getting past that or not as I haven’t heard back on my reservation and I cancelled it. I managed to find the last of last year’s production at a local building supply store. They told me they will not be bringing new stock next year due to high costs and decreasing profit margins. I might have to completely transition to electric heating in 2022.
until the age of 50 when I spoke to my physio about problems the language was tending to healing/recovery.

since turning 60 the language has increasingly included words like 'adaption' or 'stragegy for coping'

this is a field-observation anecdote to the quality that for musculo-skeletal problems, the body's ability to repair seems to reduce. And, that vital components of the biomechanical structure like collagen are in decreasing supply.

"illness" in the article very probably is dominated by hypertension, kidney disease, cancer, kidney/gall stones.

Bone demineralisation with menopause and, the decline of pre-menopausal hormones would probably also increase womens risks of ovarian and breast cancer, and breakages which can be as simple as turning over in bed -> ribcage -> loss of lung function (shallow breathing) -> reduced oxygenation..
Android != Google
I wouldn't know if "serious practitioner" is an absurdly narrow qualifier because it's vague and slippery. "What's that, your church doesn't do any of that? Well, that's because they're not serious practitioners".

Granted, the GP didn't actually respond with that (AFAICT they haven't responded at all) which is why I agree that it's not quite the "No True Scotsman fallacy", but that is precisely the weasel wording that sets one up. Hence, a No True Scotsman qualifier, a qualifier that preempts any counterexample to this elaborate description of what religion is really about.

Restricting a definition doesn't eliminate a No True Scotsman, that has nothing to do with it. The foundation of No True Scotsman is a vague and slippery definition. Just like no true Scotsman can disagree with my theoretical description of what Scots do, no serious practitioner can disagree with GP's description of religion. It's about falsifiability.
>Passwords in the traditional sense of "secret you have memorized" have never really worked well and we should get rid of them.

No, we shouldn't. Passwords, as they are allow me to use whatever means I choose to remember the key. I can memorize the password, I can use a password manager or I can even derive the password based on some rules I've made up. The choice is mine. A passwordless future is almost certainly going to remove that choice from me.

If you told me that in 30 years you need to insert your national ID card into your computer to log in or to browse the web, I would believe you. And I would much rather have broken things instead of that kind of dystopic future.
So does this mean anything for clients worth supporting? I don’t care if some museum piece like an iPhone 4 no longer works.
Well to a first approximation I would say phishing is about 1000x more widespread and dangerous to the average user than SMS-based attacks, so the impact is pretty immediate and significantly larger. I haven't seen any indication of SMS-based attacks (which often require compromises of cell providers or inside jobs, and are often targeted rather than being en masse activities) being in the same league, or even the same sport, as daily phishing attacks. But then again I'm wrong often.

You'll almost certainly never get rid of a long tail of compromises in this area, and some tricky parts will be left up to the service provider to get right (there's nothing stopping someone from bungling the password reset feature, for instance.) But at the end of it all, WebAuthn is here today, it axes multiple major vulnerability classes that are used to compromise accounts globally every day, and any future improvements are going to start from that point.

To be honest, at this point the only people I see hanging onto passwords in 2021 desperately are nothing but computer people like us who have been doing it this way for 20+ years and don't want to change out of stubbornness rather than any kind of actual analysis (this exact dynamic explains a lot of things, actually.) Most normal people already use e.g. federated login mechanisms like FB Login or password managers and don't care if the underlying auth mechanism changes this way.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...
https://www.openssl.org/community/thanks.html

"The following organizations who contribute staff time to work on the project (alphabetically): Akamai, Cryptsoft, Google, Oracle, Red Hat, Siemens, and Softing."
On Android important software, like browser, is updated independently from the os.
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The trick is having a password manager and associated password database synchronised across your linux/windows/android/iOS/MacOS devices.
Cities tend to have central gas heating or communal here. Gas tends to be the cheapest option and electric the most expensive.
There was a propaganda effort trying to paint renewables as dirty, pointing to environmental problems with Chinese REE refining. Shellenberger was hawking this at one point, claiming PV uses rare earth elements. One still hears echoes.
At my last job at OurWorldInData we made something like this. One of the head researchers would build sophisticated spreadsheets containing all the transformations and views our users could do, and rather than re-implement that logic in Typescript, we saved it as TSV and built a spreadsheet editor for the researchers to use. From a code perspective it was just a tree to traverse.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l2QWH-iV3k

Changes in the spreadsheet UI then work really well with git. For example: https://github.com/owid/owid-content/commit/37ef12d65655fa14...
Microsoft is somewhat transparent about it:

Inking, typing, and speech utterance data

This type of Optional diagnostic data includes details about the voice, inking, and typing input features on the device.

Samples of the content you type, write, or dictate on the device.
Details about status of transcribing input into text

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/data-collection-Windows
I'm guessing you learned those skills before puberty? A Markov-chain bot also "knows English" and "can operate a computer", though probably posting a comment like yours would require at least GPT-2.
> In fact, had the Ottomans just built proper toll roads, they may have held back the Reformation _and_ Renaissance for a 100 or so years.

Now sure I follow. The Reformation in my view was not an inevitable advancement but an unnecessary disastrous event (involving a good deal of looting by protestantizing princes lusting after Church property) that plunged Europe into disastrous religious wars. Why would toll roads have slowed the arrival of this revolt against the Church?

The Renaissance, pace the tidy myths we're taught in schools, was not some clean break from the Middle Ages or even a revolt, but a transition that was heavily indebted to the Middle Ages (actually, in terms of philosophy, it was kind of a mediocre period of history, save for perhaps some exceptions). Are you claiming that exploration was essential to the Renaissance? I'm not sure I buy that.

> I know in European and American histories the existence of the Ottoman Empire and it's impact is not considered when evaluating the external forces that were nudging societies one way or another,

I wouldn't generalize. Had the Ottomans conquered Vienna, it is argued that this breach through the Alps would have allowed the Ottomans to conquer the rest of Europe. Or at least tried to. That much is taught in some European countries.
I’m curious in what way/metric you think the Australian Government handled (or mishandled) the pandemic compared to other countries?

I’m Australian, living in Australia and I feel we’ve had and handled it remarkably well here compared to other nations. Worldometer aligns with this sentiment too.
I am happy to meet you. Thank you for the link (and for inventing the concept). I'll probably use it for some files but again this means uploading files to some untrusted server (I believe you when you say you don't gather data but uploading a file and being sure it won't be saved anywhere feels harder).

You probably know better as you have probably done some business modelling but just for my piece of feedback - I would buy it if you would offer a purely offline Linux+Windows+Mac app that outputs coloured (and structured) PDFs given a MarkDown (or some XML intermediary, perhaps FB2, for more complex structures) file and a paper format for input. At the moment I feel like the price I would pay could be something near $100. I wouldn't even mind paying if it's just a proprietary script on top of free software.

It would also be great if one day you would add an on-demand (on the extension button click) mode to the extension to save the users' CPUs and batteries.

I hope you don't feel insulted or discouraged by how do I speak about your creation's performance - I understand it can be hard to teach a browser's text rendering engine a totally new trick. Perhaps you have even improved it since the last time I tried (which was years ago).
I coached a bunch of entrepreneurs on this topic. Most were flirting over and over with burnout, so please be careful; you probably know what I'm talking about.

> My strength/passion is in identifying a need and building things people like.

I would turn this on its head and ask:

- Can you identify a need in yourself, as if working on/with a third party client?

- Can you build something that person is more likely to like?

- Is this relevant in any given long-term scope for you? That will look more like a sustainable, energy-producing system.

This is just one possible outcome or way of looking at things. Good luck to you.
I wonder if the scene depicted is much of an action scene then, or if the archer is just there because they're soldiers. I'd imagine swimming with this goat bag is hardly tactically viable in almost any situation.
If you use one password and it leaks, it's almost as bad as leaking a password manager. The attacker can just try it out on all the sites they care about. And it's much more likely to happen.
Do you enjoy perl constructed header files? VMS support? Inconsistent error codes across APIs? Then OpenSSL is for you.

None of the problems have been fixed.
Surprised to see overwhelmingly positive comments on this.

It’s a cool project, yes. But getting even poorly faked versions of this with a “handwriting” font is super annoying.

The purpose of this is to deceive the recipient, plain and simple.
The two storage modes are complementary. Batteries would be good for diurnal storage, hydrogen for longer term and rare event backup.
Absolutely. Depending on your threat model a password manager is exactly the same sort of "single point of failure" as Microsoft's "passwordless" implementation with a worse added huge information disclosure risk on a successful attack.

It's more reason I consider our current collective "password" approach broken. Passwords don't scale at a human level and password managers full of "random garbage" passwords are a great workaround for that, but they have their own threat models and risks and accidental information disclosures to worry about. I believe we need to keep in mind that it is a workaround.
I was the head of product for the developer tools at Atlassian in 2012. We thought long and hard about taking Bitbucket cloud and packaging it in a VM (which is what GitHub did at the time) or leveraging the platforms we’ve already built for Confluence and Jira that would give us access control and a plug-in system from day 1. It was a tough call.

Ultimately we’ve decided to build on top of our server platforms and target companies with 1000+ employees from day one. That decision had a huge impact on how we approached performance and what features we prioritised. The hierarchy of projects and permissions associated with them as well as the way we designed Pull Requests are good examples of that.

It was the right decision at the time, even if the product happened to be different in cloud and server, which did lead to some confusion. But Stash customers were really happy with the product.
Yeah, I think it turns into apples and oranges the more detail one goes into.

Mao was definitely more reckless, Stalin more paranoid, and it makes sense that Stalin's position would be more secure barring an assassination or something.
If you don't have time to make coffee or go grab one, you're overspecializing and not working for the same humanity as I am. Your work output is never worth _that_ much. Go out, breathe in, take the time to accept time constraints of the physical world.
Reading code should completely replace all the coding portions of current technical interviews. There's a lot of issues with writing code under interview conditions, many tech interview threads here and other places have covered this. Reading code avoids all those problems. And if someone can explain well what a piece of code is doing, then of course that person can also write code. How can you read without knowing how to write? And reading code also allows showing the depth of experience much easier in an interview setting. For writing code, the leetcode answer from a junior or senior is going to look exactly the same. But while a junior and senior may both adequately explain what a piece of code is doing, a senior can show more of their experience by discussing how it could be improved for readability, maintenance, and other engineering factors.

Reading and writing are two sides of the same coin. So why not test for the side that works much better for interview conditions and also allows more signal between a junior vs senior levels of experience?
i love the attempt here but isn't 2021 all about containers? does k8s even generate coredumps? lol. what a joke.
I mostly use set a calorie goal, eat the same types of healthy foods and adjust it up or down a bit based on my weight change rate aka hackers diet style trailing average and such. It’s simple and not too stressful once you get a good menu of food and exercise system in place.