skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Remove before flight" items often also have a long red streamer attached.

One possible engineering solution would be to make the cover out of a material strong enough to keep out the weather, but flimsy enough that if the engine was running it would suck it in and harmlessly shred/burn it.
Current policy has been telling people to be more like Bob since the GFC.
> but really if you don't know the answer then speculating about it is not answering it.

There is a tendency for people who are knowledgeable in one thing to believe they have enough knowledge and discernment to answer on any other thing.
Yes, please list. Just a couple will do.
These days with everybody understaffed, making a doctor's appointment can be very time-consuming, as well! You might on hold / re-routed and the whole call could take 15 or 20 minutes, which is a lot in the middle of the day.
> How much of what we are is a product of what we've built up?

At least 1.5% by mass

About 3% of our body is nitrogen, about half of it comes from fertilizers made using Haber-Bosch process, an industrial chemical process that is unlike anything found in nature.

But if we count differently and consider agriculture in general as "something we've built up", then it is about 99.9%. It is estimated that the earth would support about 10 million hunter-gatherers, we are nearing 10 billion.
'Awful' is quite hyperbolic - pulses (aka beans and lentils), nuts, and seeds all contain protein[1]. In the US, it's not like we're struggling to get enough protein[2]. So demanding to eat meat is a little like insisting that you don't just need to drive, but that you absolutely have to have a V8 diesel pickup for your commute to the office.

1: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...

2" https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speak...
Many people want an answer so long as other people do things to solve it.
It's generally an anti-spam measure
The other thing that happens is that as you walk more and get healthier, it gets easier over time to carry the groceries and you tend to eat less. I experienced this firsthand when I gave up my car: Over time, I had more strength and stamina and also less appetite.

America has an epidemic of obesity and I think for some people that fact makes it unimaginable to live without a car. But I think cause and effect run the other way: So many Americans are overweight and frustrated with their lives in part because we have made it so hard in this country to run errands on foot.

It has become a vicious cycle.

You reverse it by just starting. Let some people run errands on foot and by car. Target the low-hanging fruit, the people (like lv) who say "I could do that if I only had this small bit of help."

Let them take the leap. Take the gains you can access instead of quibbling about "But that doesn't work for everyone!"

Nothing works for everyone and ruining our planet is working for no one.
Become an "artist" and buy NFTs from yourself?
I moved from back to front and I can confidently say for me the backend is much easier. But it probably has something to do with doing it so long. I imagine given time I'd decide they're about the same difficulty.
I got that same impression from “Applied Cryptography” (Schneier). But Bruce isn’t exactly giving it away! :)
Lol yes I chatted today with him :)

Cool!
For anyone looking to write their own Deflate/Gzip/Zlib, I would recommend looking at the little program called `infgen`:

> infgen is a deflate stream disassembler. It will read a gzip, zlib, or raw deflate stream, and output a readable description of the contents.

https://github.com/madler/infgen
Oh yeah, the TRS-80 Level II was much fancier and more powerful than the Level I, by far! Level I BASIC was pretty cheesy. Good call. ;) I bet you even had an Expansion Interface, huh?
And as per usual, there’s a futurama episode covering the bee dance: where bender, with his fantastic dancing skills goes out to communicate with space bees.
For anyone thinking of making their own therapy device, the paper has further details:

> The 670 nm light devices were supplied by CH electronics (UK) and based on commercial DC torches with nine 670 nm LEDs mounted behind a light diffuser so that energies at the cornea were approximately 8 mW/cm2. 670 nm light was delivered down a white internally reflecting tube that fitted over the eye with an internal diameter of 3.2 cm.

Standard through hole red LEDs are around 630-650 nm.
And of course, governments rarely want to change these laws of antiquity, because it is perceived as being "soft on crime". The optics of it to a lot of the voting population is poor, even if the change is just to be in line with the original intention of the law.
Suppose four identically skilled and driven people: Adam, Betty, Charlie, and Debby all started their careers at the same firm and time. Adam and Betty each took four months of parental leave for each of their two kids while Charlie and Debby continuously worked on their career. The company eagerly and warmly welcomed Adam and Betty back each time (as is proper).

At three years in, it would seem a little weird if Charlie and Debby didn’t make more progress in their career than Adam and Betty across that time period. They’ve got almost 30% more experience on the job.
Srsly. I use Vintage Verb over stock reverb 99% of the time (usually just set to mode: "Dirty Hall" + time: "Now"). Sounds fantastic. Their UIs are simple, to the point, have tooltips on hover, and are built using vector graphics so you can scale the plugins to whatever size you want. And they're already M1 compatible and don't have shit like iLok ruining my day.

Valhalla is the model VST developer that err body should take notes from. In another life I'd have paid more attention to my electrical engineering courses so I could actually work at companies like this but what can you do.
Two effects going on there in parallel:

1. In the last wave, some hospitals reported more ICU beds than they were actually prepared to staff, because each available bed in the datasheet got them a hefty government subsidy.

2. A non-negligible number of ICU nursing staff were worked into the ground in the Winter 2020/2021 wave and decided to quit (read: move into similar jobs with less horrible working conditions). From what I hear (caution: anecdata), a lot of the remaining staff are now considering to follow them.
Hey, buddy. If you want privacy, stop reflecting photons into my camera! How can you claim ownership over photons you threw at me!
JWST (Webb Space Telescope) Halo Orbit Around L2 Sun Earth
I've always been a little mystified about the Lagrange points. I had no idea this telescope was orbiting in such a way.
As a counterpoint to the flak you seem to be getting for this comment, I am awful at admin stuff and my partner is better at it and has more free time than I do. since we moved in together, and especially post-pandemic, I have been surprised at how much we have fallen into traditional gender roles - I had never wanted or expected that in a relationship. To the point where I've been considering hiring a PA for exactly those kinds of misc tasks you mention, precisely to prevent my relationship from further developing such '1950s' dynamics. I really don't see what is cringeworthy about that.
> Moreover forests are carbon neutral - that's why it's called a carbon CYCLE

As is the meat industry despite many citations of a retracted paper - the cows aren't emitting anything that wasn't already in the grass (at least not in the long term). Both however to act as temporary buffers/reservoirs and emitters that can affect things if they are kept around in perpetuity.
Personal assistant you say? Do what George Costanza did.
I loved questprobe spider-man on the Commodore 64, but I didn't finish it.
He might be referring to the hundreds of pages (and very complicated implementations, usually of encoders) video formats have.

People think of technology as a straight line moving forward. But it's perhaps better to imagine like species in nature. It's just everything getting bigger. The smallest ant or bacteria evolves to better adapt to its niche, as the largest elephant or whale will develop adaptations (sometimes getting physically larger, depending on the environmental changes). The rule is that many scales have a role or niche. I think technology is similar.
These companies exist because the market demands they do. If they disappear something else would fill the gap, swiftly. “Just” entertainment? That seems to me to be a better investment of effort than creation of war machines without a cause.
I could indeed been on the cover. I hope he was a good teacher. I loved geometry and it was my first exposure to solving things logical. I remember it came naturally and I aced the course. QED
A Plumber's Guide to Cloud (2020)
Definitely. But at the time it was probably the least bad option.
Roundup of Bootstrappers Breakfast Events in December 2021
The chase for fusion energy
I'm a woman. I've worked in office jobs. I frequently have noticed that getting "life" stuff done is very hard because office jobs were created in the 1950's, when they assumed everyone had a wife at home to take care of "everything else." It makes sense that helsinki is describing his assistant as a 1950's housewife, because all those tasks are the ones that are hard to do now, and where the gaps are these days.
I can't fathom how people grow up in cities with no access to nature, (the only nature available is hyper populated parks with dogshit and cigarette butts routinely cleaned up when the sanitation workers comb over the grounds). When the mind is developing, to have no access to real nature outside of cities,... how does it affect the mind, adhd, anxiety etc... seems like a no brainer to design heavy nature exposure into the cities of the future
When the JSF program started, the only FAANG that existed yet was Apple.

Only a small proportion of the program involves software, and at that they were, for example, designing VR/AR helmets as a feature. What people are talking about being an entire industry was tacked on as a minor feature.

Imagine designing hardware where your single product is developed as computer tech advanced from 1993 to 2006 (program inception to first production flight, more or less)

There was an estimate that the program employed a quarter of a million people, because of how spread out contracts like this are it's hard to really come up with a comparison.

JSF is on a similar level of complexity of the entirety of Google, and has been in development about five years longer.
If it takes great effort to bestow this institutional knowledge on the EA, is it buying you that much of your time back? You already know the algorithm for when free time can be most easily made. Just a matter of flipping through the calendar for a brief, few moments, versus the hours spent with the EA getting them up to speed on these nuances.
Highlights: new Las Vegas chapter schedules face to face meetings and Silicon Valley adds a location in downtown San Jose.

Our end of year Lightning Round question: traditionally we ask entrepreneurs at our December breakfasts to look back on what they have learned in the current year (2021) that they plan to apply in the coming year (2022).
JavaScript library to convert pixels, viewports and rem
I made this library for a project i'm working on, but i thought it could help someone else. So i decided to publish it. Enjoy! =)
Is a New Eugenics Afoot? (2001)
> would you want a flat-earther science manual in the school library

Classified correctly and with sufficient material so that this doesn't look like a gift shop at Arc Encounter, yes.

Under the DDS, that would be 525.1 ( https://www.librarything.com/mds/525.1 )

Under the LCC that is QB275-343 ( https://www.librarything.com/lcc/QB275-343 )

Note that this is right next to books such as "ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION: Human or Alien Technologies?" that has a review of:

> This book includes never before mentioned accounts of popular UFO topics like Area 51, Roswell and alien abduction claims. Also subjects such as Nazi and Japanese antigravity experiments and rare theories involving quantum physics and lost civilizations of the ancients.

> The book is well written and researched. I found the photos and (photos) of articles intriguing, compelling, shocking and last, thought provoking. I was never one to believe in aliens, UFO's or anything of that nature.

> But after reading this, I am open minded and am beginning to wonder how much has been kept secret from society. It now has crossed my mind that there very well is truth in this theory, and the possibility of a government cover up seems more probable than improbable.

> I highly recommend ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION: Human or Alien Technologies? to those who are curious about the unexplained (Aliens, UFO's, cover-ups)and science. A definite 5 star read! I feel should be on everyone's TBR list.

I am completely ok with a book on UFOs, flat earth, or a technical manual for drones disguised as birds being find in a library as long as the library is able to remain impartial on its collection.

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How can we expect to teach children skills in critical thinking if only a particular group's orthodoxy is available?

If the answer to that is "we aren't expecting to teach critical thinking" then I would contend that this is what is setting school systems to fail - not poor teachers or overpaid administrators.

If someone is to utter "both sides are to blame" then it is important that students learning about this and seeking context of both sides have the material available to them in a manner that is allowed to present both sides without judgement - such as a library.
Jacktrip is really hard do set up in your non-tech musician friend's computer.
Be super careful with that setup! I did the same with a pair of 32” curved 4k monitors and they were large enough that I was slowly injuring my neck to look at the lower halves of the monitors. I have them oriented in landscape side-by-side now, and they’re honestly just too large even in that arrangement, but I’m at least not hurting like I was. That’s going to be one impressive workspace if it works for you!
I was about to make the same recommendation. Marc Fenell is great, he's been a beloved figure in Australian radio for some time. He has a very compassionate view on the world.
Hi check out the downloads and links section of my personal site www.msadams.com for the classic games or www.clopas.net for new ones.
Everyone I know who does this is very successful actually. And they have high retention.
There’s another backup rule that is largely skipped (especially in personal backup space):

“Do not backup everything!”

- repeatedly clean your data

- and discard redundancy and garbage before adding to backup set

- otherwise you’ll just to be creating a backup set that’ll turn into a pile of “mostly” garbage soon

- and it’ll just be GBs and TBs of “too much” - essentially useless - and costing more as well.

Keep your storage footprint in check.
I was on Gnome for a long time starting around 2.10, but the camel's back broke at 3.40 when they really wrecked lots of extensions.
If you like to have a desktop that is fashion du jour, you are in for a treat but if you want your desktop the way you like it and keep it that way you don' t stand a chance.
You really have to work the way they think is good for you or they will wreck all your computer fun.
In the end after testing many desktop systems I personally stuck with LXQt, not going to try and lure you there, just see for yourself if you like it.
I wasn't really arguing anything in particular I just think the [Swiss equivalent of a wehr-aboo, i.e. people who go on holiday to Switzerland and come back telling stories about how secure it is] don't understand the kind of opponent the Swiss might actually face.
I had the impression that Firefox' real world JS performance went up briefly 3-4 years ago and then down again 1-2 years ago. Totally subjective, of course. But I went back to a V8 based browser after using Firefox for 2 years or so.
Or they just don’t want to… I love my kids but I would prefer work to the tedium of dealing with small children or an infant any day. Most men I know just aren’t wired with the ability to tolerate child care. The last few years of “wokeness” can’t undo a few hundred thousand years of evolutionary biology.
> You don't need to install any third-party software

Oh, so this is like a web browser thing?

> Click here to download FarPlay

Oh, so I _do_ need to install FarPlay. Just not any software that's a third party besides FarPlay. Which wouldn't make any sense.
How much does this cost you per month?
> The analysis is wrong. Gruber wrongly interprets the word “single” as meaning that there should only be one store and that store should work across all platforms.

I think that’s a fair alternative interpretation.

> I buy a game, I should be able to play it wherever it can be played, and that I shouldn’t have to repurchase my entire game library because I got a PS instead of an XBox.

There is no logic to this whatsoever other. If it costs more to support more platforms (which is does) there is no reason users should expect not to have to pay more.

It’s hard to see how creating a world where small developers are expected to do even more work for free, is good for anyone other than a monopolist like Sweeney.

The obvious goal here is to make it uneconomical to target anything other than a cross-platform game engine, which of course Epic will provide.

Can we stop pretending now that Sweeney wants anything other than to expand his own monopoly?
This is gold. Valhalla's reverbs are the best around.
Is instacart going to find the exact brand of kombucha you want and be able to substitute it when it's gone? Will they put it in your fridge for you and leave one out on your desk?

An EA/PA is low touch and avoids all the context switching. They're a dependable person you have a working relationship with rather than hit or miss gig for hire.
The most important task for junior programmers
It impacts your evaluation by lenders. If you are underwater on your house, even if you can afford the payments, carrying a net-negative balance on your house (owing 500k on a house valued 350k resulting in net assets of negative 150k), it can make it harder to buy a vehicle or cosign loans for your children etc etc.
I think you're seriously underestimating the problems a homeowner faces if they purchase a home (with a mortgage) and it later experiences a large reduction in value. This, by the way, is going to happen to a lot of people who have recently bought houses.

First of all, buying a house for $1 million that is later worth $700,000 has no bearing on what is owed to the mortgage company. The mortgaged amount has already been paid to the original seller, that money is gone and the buyer has agreed to repay it. Defaulting on the mortgage can be done, but any money already paid will be lost and the borrower won't be able to obtain another mortgage for 7 years.

Or the homeowner can continue to live in the home, but there are a few potential problems:

1. They cannot sell the house should their life situation change. Depending on the overall real estate market, they may also not be able to rent the house out for an amount that covers the mortgage payment.

2. Not only did they agree to pay $300,000 too much at purchase time, they also are continuing to pay interest on that amount. $1 million for 30 years at 3.5% is $616,000 in interest; $700,000 is $431,000 in interest.

3. The loan cannot be refinanced, because they don't have at least 20% equity in the house. Say that interest rates drop from 3.5% to 3.0% -- that would save $100,000 in interest over 30 years. But in order to refinance, they would need to pay the mortgage down to the point that they have 20% equity in the house (in this example pay the mortgage down to $440,000).

4. Since they have no equity, they cannot obtain a HELOC to help finance home repairs or life events in an emergency.

So yes, investors and speculators will be hurt when their portfolio value drops and those are the risks you take when investing. Homeowners, however, are also hurt by the decline of home values.
That's not going to scale well; can you get it to just take arbitrary git(hub|lab)/whatever URLs like https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm , or does it require buy in from the plugins?
ERCOT, the massive statewide blackouts, and bailing out massive price gouging of the electric utilities that basically makes the reliability of the grid an issue in the first place?
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/25/electricity-market-f...

Or, in general:
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/08/09/are-business-ties-be...

Billion dollar "public/private" investments turn in to boondoggles except for those who retire as lobbyists or foreign firms who pick up the pieces of the bankruptcy.
There is so much idiom in this comment. I just... love it!
> I can't help but wonder if the world really needs another Canva or Airtable or whatever

it probably doesn't and a business venture is a means to an end. I always thought the idea of 'doing startups' is kind of silly. Business as a recreational lifestyle produces mediocre entrepreneurship and probably stuff nobody needs.

there's nothing wrong with getting a job somewhere and working on something interesting that needs fixing, there's enough of it to go around.
Sorry to be that pedant that zeroes in a singular point that in no way nullifies the larger argument being made--but that isn't how HIPAA works at all.
Crony capitalism, the best kind of capitalism eh?
> Is any other 'mainstream' company offering a similar feature?

You mean apart from basically every other mainstream tech company? [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/google-to-al...

[2] https://www.wired.com/2015/10/facebook-now-warns-users-of-st...

[3] https://threatpost.com/twitter-warns-some-users-of-nation-st...
If you are that big of a deal, wouldn't you have your own power plant with reserve power? My university had 2 power plants. Surely it isn't that hard
> That’s because Apple strictly controls what can and cannot be done on iOS which is the fundamental problem here.

Yet he doesn't seem to be happy with Google either:

> Google also earned a strong rebuke from Sweeney, who criticized its approach of charging fees on payments it doesn’t process as “crazy.”

> The Google Play Store service fee “has never been simply for payment processing,” Google spokesman Dan Jackson said in an emailed response. “It’s how we provide Android and Google Play for free..."

Presumably that's exactly what Apple would do as well, so nothing would change.

I kind of feel bad for him so far (I'm sure he cries himself to sleep like most multi-billionaires do) but perhaps he will prevail somehow.
> Your anecdotal lived experience is not representative of the entire population.

Of course. That goes without saying. But neither you nor this person you cherry picked from a Google search is representative either. (And it's noteworthy that you had to drill down into Google search results in order to find a useful citation. That alone is evidence of iMessage spam not being a broadly pervasive issue.)

> You're missing the point. iMessage spam (though it does exist as I've shown above)

Huh? I never said it didn't exist.

> is not the problem.

Huh? I never said it was the problem.

> The problem is iMessage doesn't have a good way to "verify" that messages that purport to be from Apple or anyone else truly are from a known and trusted sender.

I completely agree. I never disputed that.
It's a ski jump, the plane only needs a short roll.
Many people have purchased a house that they intend to remain in, the friction to move houses is often larger than friction to change jobs.
Also, there may be a spouse who just doesn't want to move house.
Does this work between two devices on the same LAN?

- edit -

Thanks to another user I found: https://www.sonobus.net/

Which does seem to work over LAN.