skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much about the Hindenburg disaster, but the fact that it is difficult to set something alight with bullets traveling through a thin fabric and then (flammable) air (as opposed to having sparks generated by bullets hitting e.g. metal and even then, there's not a lot of sparks) is not really evidence of hydrogen's safety. It's really really hard to make even normally flammable things catch fire with normal bullets or even tracer bullets. You could shoot at a gas tank all day and it won't explode. Even absolutely riddling a gas tank with tracer rounds often won't set it alight. It is far far far easy to set something alight with a single match than it is even with full magazines of bullets, all the more so if it's a patch of air that the bullet goes straight through.

Hydrogen is still widely acknowledged to be extremely flammable (see all the references here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_safety). We have had many many disasters with hydrogen explosions pre and post-Hindenburg.
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He said contemporary American society. MLK died 53 years ago.
Except there are already anti-anti-adblockers out there like REEK which work very well. Their campaigns might escalate but so would the efforts of the adblockers and in a fight between an established tech player like Mozilla and even a very large old media conglomerate, I don't fancy the latters chances at winning that tech arms race especially with all the bad press their efforts would generate.

This whole argument is largely invalided by the mere existence of Brave anyway. You could argue that their crypto based mode of monetisation is not the absence of rather the reimagining of ads but regardless of how you feel about crypto, it's definitely superior for the end user and offers effective monetisation that is optional.
Fill those voids with closed-cell spray foam, and you get even better sound (and heat) insulation.
> Julia is also behind on the version of LLVM that is being used,

Julia 1.6 (LLVM 11) and Julia 1.7 (LLVM 12) use the LLVM versions that were current, when the release branch was cut. LLVM 13 was finalized a fes days ago and will be released this week.

So I am not sure where the notion comes from that Julia is lagging behind.
I think of engineering as constraints satisfaction, balancing trilemmas. Like civil engineering. Divine all the bridges which may best satisfy all the requirements. I liken it to finding min/max solutions, in a given problem space. aka optimization.

This metaphor allows for creativity, cleverness, novelty, esthetics.

Most of my software development, production of code, does not meet this standard, so is not "software engineering".

I liken curiosity to foraging. The problem space isn't well known, or poorly defined. Or just new to me. Let's go play, see what we find.

--

As for your OC, your form of curiosity is yet another form of smart.

Some people are book smart. Some with better working memory are better at mental gymnastics. Some, like with your book summaries, are smart at generalization, distilling concepts to their essence.

I like to think my form of smart is fondness for metaphors. My contributions to humanity have come from noticing when apparently dissimilar problems can be reframed, using the parallel, applying notions from one problem to another. It's a bit like reframing an optimization challenge to look like Traveling Sales Person, applying all that prior work to a new problem set.
> Expecting a zero-config install for Linux is pushing it to begin with.

How so? Dropbox is zero config install for linux.

> Are pretty much mutually exclusive. If you want it to be powerful you'll need to do the work to configure it.

I never said zero config, I said easy to configure. Firefox has plenty of configuration nobs, but it's easy to configure it.

> What you really want is rsync over SSH to a ZFS volume with encryption enabled, or some other CoW filesystem that lets you do snapshots and access them online.

No because that's very complicated. I've done it in the past, and just the fact I have to manage a VPS to do so is more than what I want to do.

I've used rsync as well, it's again, too much scripting, meaning to much margin for errors.

Apple Time machine for linux is what I want, with remote capabilities.
Unless you live in a shed in the Rockies, I got bad news for you.
It’s hard to find the proper analogy since the phenomenon is so new. On a legal basis, it was actually hard to build a case against the Mafia until racketeering laws were passed. It was difficult to prove that it was ‘organized’ crime before then (where before the criminals could say these are all unrelated events, and there is no larger organization, there is no boss, there are no lieutenants, you are imagining connections that don’t exist).

I think Facebook’s mechanisms are in the realm of 20th century propaganda efforts across a variety of countries (Americans/Soviets/Nazis). Is anyone forcing you to believe propaganda? Is anyone forcing you use Facebook? Is Facebook forcing you to be altered by their efforts?

Yet, we know how insidious propaganda was, and how coordinated and deliberate it was, and most importantly, how effective it was.
People are being fed deliberate poisonous stupidity because Facebook figured they were vulnerable to it or rather implemented an algorithm that maximized engagement and therefore revenue at the expense of the health of society and people's lives.

You are trivializing this harm. I have family that aren't vaccinating and may harm themselves or others because of poisonous shit they learned on Facebook.
> But yes, yes indeed. If people were smarter, propaganda would not work.

Okay, so you think you know better and the government knows better. We're done here. You're the useful idiot (not an insult, a historical term) for the powers who want to censor.

The propaganda is this event, you are the person they convinced. You are advocating censorship on their behalf for them. You are going against you and your people's inalienable rights of freedom of speech.

I support your freedom to speak this nonsense, you should support other people's speech, but you prefer to be a tool.

Shame on you.
> Isn't anti-authoritarian typically considered a leftist position?

It seems as though it used to be, maybe 30 or 40 years ago, but that's shifted pretty much 180 degrees.
> Yes, they do feel flimsy to a German, especially the doors and windows, but that's something that would be easy to change (and I guess there must be some manufacturer that produces more sturdy doors in the US??).

Not really that easy. You have to special order all of it from Europe. That requires knowing a special dealer and getting a container shipped over. The nice stuff just isn’t really carried in the US - even the nicest stuff is still pretty weak in comparison.
It may well be that this was the pandemic we needed - really bad, but not so bad as to be catastrophic. When the next pandemic comes along, we'll be a lot better at fast vaccine production and lab testing, more prepared for how to lock down early and effectively, and understand better how to keep an economy running in lockdown. And the supply chain, when it eventually recovers and has time to breath again, will realize the value of building in more slack, shorter supply chains, etc. In the end though, while a lot could have been done much better, society generally has survived this disruption surprisingly well so far. Will it survive a worse future pandemic or larger disruption? I guess that depends on how well the lessons from this one are learned.
I believe you have misinterpreted (understandably, perhaps, given my comment's wording) what I meant by "abuse".

I meant "abuse" as in deliberate hostile misuse. Things like XSS, penetration scans, bruteforcing logins, phishing messages, etc.

Constant penetration/vulnerability scans are baseline background noise of the internet. The best-case-scenario is that the scans find no vulnerability.

The point I was trying to make is that I would prefer a world where existing online as something other than data-livestock felt a little safer.
In that case, the stack trace from the exception should be able to tell you that you failed on the line _before_ the "log after".

It won't be nearly as convenient to dig that fact out, though.
> Just as democracy itself stops working when everyone can vote

Um, what now? Are you saying universal suffrage is a bad thing? Who are the people you think should be denied voting rights to keep "democracy itself...working"?
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lol, I think you're probably talking about me. I remember that troll, he's what killed a lot of my motivation to work on Tox too. He likes stiring up shit on other foss projects too :/.

Saying I don't understand the security properties is an interesting take. My intended comments meant I misunderstood the issue. I was only half paying attention at the time; I assumed it was another troll reposting the same issue "if someone steals your private keys they can steal your identity". Which is true, but an annoying complaint, because that's how crypto has to work. To be sure, I didn't write base the protocol itself, nor the crypto primitives. So while I don't agree with the assertion, even if it was true. It wouldn't matter because I didn't design the original system :)
Great - there's half of the solution - hardware. Got the software to integrate and leverage it to the hilt too?
I didn't have the floor insulated my first winter, and, yes, it was quite chilly in there (keeping my feet warm was very hard).

It wasn't done by the time the original post went up, but the following year, I added more insulation, including some insulation under the floor. A local company used an open cell foam insulation designed to have a low curing pressure (so it wouldn't pop the floor up). I also improved the insulation on the eyebrow windows.

https://www.sevarg.net/2017/12/24/solar-shed-part-17-more-in...
> I think you’re getting downvotes by saying “it’ll never happen” which I find unfortunate

Fatalism is how Bad Things survive in a committee-government such as ours. :-\
> the restriction to paletted images makes everything look bad

Not with 16 million colors. That's what 24 bit color mean (2^16) also called "truecolor" mode

> Also, changing the font size breaks the images.

Not on mintty. I can change the font size up and down, it even resizes the sixels in proportion so the images remain aligned to the text in a pixel-perfect way.

It's a terminal problem. You are using bad terminals. I grant you that xterm is the least worst option on linux, but do yourself a favor and try mintty on Windows.

> Also, the protocol is still terrible on bandwidth

Are you using telnet on remote hosts? Unless you do that, with ssh, compression means I can stream video (!!!) just like on local hosts (where bandwith is not an issue)

> It may even make things worse for me if apps are trying to use it when I don't want it.

In the future, sixel-tmux will intercept sixels live and rewrite them into other format, like iTerm or kitty.

How is that making things harder for you?

If you really don't want sixel even if your terminal supports them, use the appropriate terminfo and you will see nothing.

> seriously flawed

You have yet to tell me the flaws in your own words, flaws that are not due to a given terminal.

Try to use sixel to play videos in mintty, with 24 bit support so palettes aren't a problem. Then try tweaking the font size (why not!), notice how it remains a perfect user experience, then we'll talk again.

For now, all I see is FUD.
installing a software with simple click and entering a url is complex. How??
Polarization was lower when TV political coverage was regulated. Regulation of media can work. The thing is, TV wasn't algo driven. Facebook is a WMD for misinformation, it's just devastatingly effective, capable of toppling (or raising) governments and should have special rules.
You're not wrong, but it would be interesting to see some 'hyperscale' operator publish a paper on how many simulated routers you'd need to get a somewhat accurate test: 0.1, 1, 10% of a network?
I don't understand why you're downvoted. The government does profit a lot from social networks, especially domestic ones. Just look at the US' handling of TikTok.
I think a lot of folks are conflating two issues:

1. The existence of social media

2. The application of carefully optimized algorithms that prioritize problematic content

To be a fair comparison, I think you need to reframe the telephone example: If the telephone system specifically prioritized communication related to terrorism, it would be fair to blame the telephone system and call for changes to how it operates.
I went the baserow route because I feel that Airtable throttles features aggressively to push for paid accounts and my use cases don't warrant spending on a recurring subscription. It's more limited features-wise (no formulas for instance) and the UI is more gloomy than Airtable but for simple needs that you want to protect against a future revenue maximization strategy (I wouldn't be surprised if Airtable kept dialing back what a free account provides) I can recommend it (and it supports .csv export in case you need to migrate)
That author however has some reading to do around structured logging and related practices, which might raise their personal "best".
That seems pretty straightforward to me - there are a huge number of teenagers who use Facebook, some of whom say that it improved their mental health and a smaller group who say it made it worse. The media reporting only talked about the teens who said Facebook was harming their mental health rather than the broader picture. Which, if accurate, would mean that closing down Facebook would actually hurt teens' mental health overall but anyone getting their news from the mainstream media would falsely think it'd help. This kind of deception using facts that're technically true is really common in the mainstream media, and Facebook in particular has pissed off journalists by hitting their industry hard both in the pocketbook and in terms of the amount of power they hold in society.
Ah, suppose it depends on how much you're doing and/or how verbose your logs are. If you've got lines speeding past then yeah I maybe wouldn't write them all.
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Can you have 2 different profiles on chrome opens at the same time on android?
Almost every proposal for micro transactions for email involve the sender bearing the cost only if they don't want the email. This proposal would make everyone have to pay.

I like the idea of using the blockchain to handle the micro transactions, but I'd rather only have the money put in escrow until the reader opens it and either accepts or rejects it (or it goes back to the sender after 10 days or something).
All of the IRS forms are in pdf format. The form fields are programmable in Adobe Acrobat. One could code in all the necessary computations into the form fields and combine all the forms into a booklet.
Loopholes in Aadhaar-enabled payments are putting poor people at risk
That "nobody" is a Harvard MBA with a degree in Computer Engineering that's worked at Google, Pinterest, and Facebook as a Data Science with high level access to key data and leaked over ten thousand internal documents who witnessed what she believes is a critical failure of one of the largest companies ever that controls a vast majority of how the world consumes information and communicates with one another. This is a bombshell of a leak and I'm glad the world is paying attention.
I could be wrong but I don't imagine most of the manufacturing economy as being operated by companies that have due diligence done on them very often. Acquisitions happen but once a decade would be considered very often. Depending on the size of the company boards are often completely clueless about ground level details; I can hardly imagine someone on the board of P&G knowing a single thing about the supply chain risk of an individual SKU.
> We ban kids from alcohol

And it's worked out well! I, for one, never so much as tasted alcohol until I was 21, because it would have been illegal for me to have done otherwise.
For python logging specifically, here's an excellent article: https://blog.guilatrova.dev/how-to-log-in-python-like-a-pro/
We also spent trillions on endless wars, sacrificed our own to the tens of thousands, and others to the millions.

These wars stopped with social media. They can't possibly happen if everybody has a voice and can call BS when they see it.

If you start to regulate media this way, you will destroy this and we will tumble head-in to yet another war.
This is new for 1.7
You also need the ability to raise prices when there are shortages in order to encourage buffering. Unfortunately, the people who like anti-price gouging laws appear to prefer shortages and misallocation of goods.
https://snikket.org/ aims to be an easy hosted or self-hostable solution, complete with apps for popular platforms.
The richest Americans became 40% richer during the pandemic
I don't use it either, but there is a lot of value in it because it forces formalism and transparency, and allow reproducibility for something as important as taxes.
> Naturally, the government got endless flack for this, as is often the case when a government puts measures into place for a contingency that doesn't come to pass.

I’m not one to show much support for the current government but the negative (media) reaction to these hospitals not actually being needed was pretty short sighted.

We should be thankful that the hospitals were there and even more thankful that they weren’t needed.

There were more obvious things for which to hold the government to account.
I believe it falls under that umbrella.
It can be legal to be an asshole, but you're still an asshole. It may be legal to act in an unethical manner, but you're still acting unethically.

We absolutely are in the "current climate" because the industry cared about profit above all else, because they could.
Why not both? I was shocked at what I could get to run on my M1 Macbook Air - a lot more than I expected!

The Windows 10 ARM beta also did a shockingly good job of running X86 code in Parallels too. Way faster than one would assume is reasonable for what was going on under the hood!
Although there's no mosh-server, some people actually ported the mosh-client[1] to Windows using C#. This client is currently being used in the popular Fluent Terminal for Windows[2].

[1]: https://github.com/jumptrading/mosh-windows-wrappers

[2]: https://github.com/felixse/fluentterminal
None of the others were Mac browsers - they all felt cross-platform.

Camino felt like a Mac app - and was the only real choice for that until Safari came along.
That's news to me. DAVx5 is mandatory to sync WebDAV calendars on Android.
somewhat related, but can anyone tell me why PCEngines specifically use Intel nics in their ALIX systems? surely realtek and other players have caught up to them by now for the performance envelope of the board.
She clearly has a motive of pushing censorship. This comment is concerned with who she's doing it with.

The ulterior motive is obvious to me and others in this thread. But some, like you, seem to have difficulty seeing it.
Except the cells are formed with rigid members which transmit sound (and heat) quite efficiently. Sound isolation can't just be done with mass. There has to be a decoupling you can't get with a brick wall alone.

Even advanced heating/cooling efficiency techniques with wood framed houses involve some form of isolation - no single material will exist all the way through the wall. They're decoupled with several inches of foam. Even modern studs are being built in a way to minimize the ability for them to transfer heat (Tstuds).
It's the face of Zuckerberg - - total DEFIANCE when he is shown at congressional hearings
Pretty obvious that Motl has an axe to grind when he mentions Arafat's peace prize but forgets to mention that he had to share it with two Israeli war criminals. Or that the architect of the Vietnam War, Henry Kissinger, also has received the prize. Certainly, some recipients of the prize have been controversial but it is not true that only leftists' darlings are awarded the prize.
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> This should reduce time complexity to O( (n - 1)^2 )

O((n-1)^2) = O(n^2).
For that there is is usually some log wrapper that times the operation, e.g.

using(_log.TimeOperation("Doing the thing"))
{
DoTheThing();
}

So that you get a start message, and an end message with timing, and if you exited with normal control flow vs. with an exception.

Author doesn't seem to have reached that level of best practice yet.
It's not just modern C++ support. C/C++ implementations mostly get taken for granted, but taking a look at the LLVM bug tracking is horrifying - there are huge amounts of years-old reports that nobody seems to be working on even though they're serious. Even things like valid C++ code failing to compile because Clang fails to parse it, if I remember correctly.

I don't have a point with this other that it's surprising (for end-users like me). Also, I'm not sure how GCC compares.
You're not remembering things correctly. The core dev team, and everyone helping with the project all agreed the whole project. Meaning the system, the protocol, and the code. Should all be audited by an independent security group. The issue we had, was the price tag of such a service.

Every dev wanted a full audit, we just simply couldn't afford it.

Separately, why do I get the impression you're trying to spread FUD about tox? All your comments seem to be negative and misstated :(
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because facebook meticulously tracks and categorizes us (the ontology), it’s possible to extricate personal data from facebook based simply on the ads you’re served. so fb still leaks data about you (to advertisers, researchers, governments, etc.) even if they don’t literally let people download the personal data. then there’s also the issue that the government can compel arbitrary disclosures secretly and without recourse.
It sounds to me like you just personally don't care about cinematography. Which is fine, but that makes it surprising to me you open with "I'm a film major", as if that means your view is the "correct" one and everyone else just doesn't know what they're talking about. I'd figure someone who studied film would care about things like this even if we're talking about an ostensibly "bad" TV show.

Really, I don't even care about Seinfeld in particular. I've never watched it and I never will, because it's not my type of show.

But this isn't about Seinfeld, and I'm not personally inconvenienced by this or angry about it. I'm saying this because it's just universally a bad idea to cut 4:3 content into 16:9, regardless of what it is. It could the lowest tier commercial garbage or Twin Peaks or anything in between. You will always make things look awkward, and the viewer will subconsciously notice. This goes even for shows that had poor framing to begin. And of course that's not even touching on the fact that, in this case, it actually just ruined a scene by making the most important part invisible.

And personally, I think it's not up to any individual to say "I consider this work to be unworthy of respect" and start messing around with it and diminishing the experience for the people that do care. Someone else might be deeply invested in something you consider completely unremarkable.

What's more, you'd have to expect that some TV shows will end up getting remastered, then cropped, and then the masters get lost before a proper release is ever done. Again, not talking about Seinfeld in particular, but you'd be amazed at how many modern works become lost media even today, and this sort of thing isn't helping.
Thank you, I didn't know about increment.