skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My comment was not meant to disparage the work that NASA does so apologies since that’s the way it landed. The engineers working on NASA are really good. I was just trying to convey that the requirements you have are very different from the general ecosystem and thus you will always have a greater cost to do engineering. Where possible, it’s always cheaper to relax constraints at the program level, not at the individual software component level (eg auxiliary components that have a recovery path in the case of SW faults). My impression is that NASA generally strives for highly reliable systems although I think they’re getting better with the Mars copter experiment. SpaceX is also doing good work trying to drive the cost down by making launches less expensive (that way SW faults aren’t as critical in most systems and payloads themselves don’t need high reliability because they can just retry).

On the dependency front, Rust solves this about as well as you can hope for at the language level since dependencies between components don’t imply anything else about the dependency chain. I was just trying to convey that at that point there’s no way I can think of to reduce the cost of upgrading unless you make agreements with your exact SW dependencies about what versioning and changes look like for them (for general OSS that’s not generally tenable as NASA is likely to be a very small use case compared with the number of environments a popular package might get deployed to). That works in some cases but there’s no way to enforce that and nothing any language can do about it.

Generally I’ve found that organizations ossify their dependency chain on the assumption of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”. I’m not sure I buy that because that’s just tech debt that starts accruing and it’s better to just always pay a little bit of money along the way. Of course I don’t have any experience running teams on the kinds of problem domains NASA focuses on so I can’t speak to which development process is better for that use case. All I can note is that using off the shelf software and reducing the reliability requirements on as many components as possible generally results in a cheaper outcome (eg the Mars drone). When you’re in that domain you’re out of the high reliability domain of expensive space rocket launches and into more of the traditional SW development processes. Generally I’ve seen Rust libraries do semver better than most since that’s culturally the expectation. Even with Semver though you’re stuck if the library authors decide to go to the next major version.
Apparently PET's safe to burn and has the equivalent energy content of soft coal - Penn State's found a way to make a coal-substitute out of it.
https://tpsalliance.org/pdf/conference/2010/5B-Garthe-Plasto...
Wouldn't the correct css for the dithered image be `crisp-edges`? From the specification:

> The image must be scaled with an algorithm that preserves contrast and edges in the image, and which does not smooth colors or introduce blur to the image in the process. [...] This value is intended for pixel-art images, such as in browser games.
Huh, neat. Out of curiosity, have you considered using our official Redux Toolkit package as part of the server implementation?

https://redux-toolkit.js.org
Shingles happens decades after getting chickenpox. Conceivably an atennuated (or live) virus immunization could have a similar future issue.

Lots of other possibilities of immunization causes a small but unnoticed inury that later on proves to be fatal, but because of the gap between injury and fatality is very hard to track down.

My son participated in a 'long term' vaccine trial of a slightly different combination of childhood vaccines (if it had been successful in the US, it would have reduced the number of needles by one, but I don't recall the specifics). But long term means they followed up for one year.

It's just not really possible to keep track of participants for very long outside of very small studies. Maybe if one day we have decent medical records, it will be easy to run epidemiological studies and find small effects. But you would need to make the decision on the immunization with the known information; maybe 20-40 years later you might find out that it increased or decreased the likelyhood of some disease in old age.
Yeah but I think the bad PR for breaking commitments should encourage upstreaming improvements, also the AGPL would definitely help.
The UI looks very polished. What's it built with?
Interesting, I knew about cmd+option+m which does the minimizing part already. Weirdly doesn't seem to be an un-minimize shortcut though.
Another fun thing you can do is install Hammerspoon as your URL handler, and make certain URLs open in different Chrome profiles--any work websites open in my work Chrome profile, websites related to a game I play opens in a Chrome profile specific to that, and anything else opens up in a personal Chrome profile.

I've also setup cmd+shift+1/2/3 to brings the aforementioned profiles into the foreground, so e.g. cmd+shift+2 brings my work Chrome profile to the foreground.
Check out pretty good free open source alternative, Double Commander: https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/
Microsoft does, and it has just about everything that I use. Huge opportunity for them. None of the smaller vendors have their own extension store.
Arguable either way in my opinion, but irrelevent because not analytics
> Even if it's only 10 more years of quality life, this is the greatest good that could be done for humanity

Why would that be your conclusion? It's 10 more years of life. It's not 10 more years of better life. It's a little more of the same.

That 10 years is "experienced" as only a short increase in local time. Whereas before 33% of your life would have been 28 years old, afterwards 33% of your life would be at 31 years old. So life events would happen a couple years sooner or later but you wouldn't feel the difference.

It's not like world hunger would end. In fact we would need more food, because more humans would be alive at any point, because people are dying later. The senior citizen voting block would increase, expanding the lobbying power of senior citizens, which has a disproportionate unfair effect on the young. Which will get interesting as time goes on seeing as the birth rate has been declining steadily.

It also means your retirement would not last long enough anymore, meaning you would either have to work longer or harder or save more in order to retire. Social security dates would also have to change, and paycheck contributions may even have to increase. But corporations won't want to increase wages (as they never want to) so your money won't go as far in retirement, and inflation would act on it over a longer time, reducing it further than before. And since it would be a voluntary vaccine, as we have seen from the COVID-19 insanity, just having a life-saving vaccine available is no guarantee people will take it. So there would be controversy over whether to extend social security, and some significant amount of the population is going to get screwed over.

Finally, as the wealthy will live even longer, more wealth will get tied up in private ownership for longer, extending the wealth gap. Copyright would also take even longer to expire as it's based on how long since the creator died. There's tons of other random ways that arbitrarily extending the life of a portion of the population will not immediately lead to the greatest good that could be done for humanity.

Call me crazy, but I think we could do much more good for humanity today than just making it take longer for them to die.
Not at all. With sites like isthereanydeal.com and random and seasonal sales, I very rarely pay more than $25 for a game. My typical price for a game is $10 and one that I can play with all my friends inline would run about $15.
I don't remember any particular early interactions, probably just hundreds of little ones over the decades. He was a force for good and will be missed.
> Weirdly doesn't seem to be an un-minimize shortcut though.

Yup, the existing minimize shortcut's missing twin led me to learn a bit more Lua so I could implement it :)
This presupposes that paid software doesn’t have vulns, when in fact it often has even more!
Yes, thank you for thinking outside the box.
"what may be asserted without evidence, may be dismissed without evidence"
" ... wouldn't be a way to compare hashes the way you describe ..."

Hashing files shouldn't be hard ...

ssh user@rsync.net sha256 some/dir/some/file

ssh user@rsync.net sha512t256 some/dir/some/file [1]

... or if you like it quick and dirty:

ssh user@rsync.net cksum some/dir/some/file [2]

[1] SHA-512t256 is a version of SHA-512 truncated to only 256 bits. On 64-bit hardware, this algorithm is approximately 50% faster than SHA-256 but with the same level of security.

[2] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/remote_commands.html
We are currently at the brink of extinction, ironically by overpopulation. Everyone knew rapid growth is unsustainable, with 7.9 billion people on earth right now, we are causing more: Carbon emissions, global warming, pollution, environmental damage, ozone depletion etc.

Soon we won't have a planet to live in. I am sure mother nature will find more subtle but beautiful way to eradicate us.

But, hopefully we leave this small planet and explore other planets in near future.
James Dyson: 5127 failures and $20B
Older people are happier than younger people, pretty much every such survey confirms it. Young people don't appreciate their looks and health when they have it.
I never had a head injury per se, but I did hit my head a couple of times with no particular changes in perception, but as someone with OCD and probably a whole range of other undiagnosed disorders, and probably future schizophrenic as I don't know how to get out of the pit I've dug myself.

I wanted to talk about a special case of brain injury, namely: self-asphyxiation through psychogenic problems.

I had to experience this myself the last month, I wasn't particularly aware that such a thing could occur, 2 weeks ago I was in a delusional loop, that in turn caused me anxiety, which lead to psychogenic dyspnea(irregular breathing, feels like choking). It wouldn't dissipate for a long time, my head or brain I'm not sure what to call it anymore, constantly: tingling, itching, like gears constantly pulsating, until the sudden onset of what felt like a screw loosening and jumping out, this is the best analogy I can think of as of now. This isn't a one time occurrence, there have been plenty of similar experiences that I've piled up over a timespan of 3 years as of now. I am 24, just for the record.

As the reader may infer, sleep schedule?: sucks, diet?: sucks. friends?: none. Loneliness?: since a long time.

I'd like to think of myself as someone very patient and resistant to most things other humans can't deal with, but I too have occasional meltdowns. In some rather amusing fashion, I've glanced upon this post before sleep, and after sleeping I broke down in tears, and came back to this thread. Everything is becoming too much, I probably have to seek help, this facade of the invincible is probably hindering me much more, and the delusion of self-progress through ones own intellectual effort seems to be in vain, more and more. I'm trapped in this maze within a maze, I've given up as of present. I don't know how to continue, but I will.

There is no tyrant, like a brain.

edit: I'm at a point where I can't tell apart whether I became dumber due to the asphyxiation or not, I do notice a change in perception ever since that last week, but is that a delusion? Can I delude myself of a feeling, a physical one at that? And, yes, I don't visit the doc very often. Nonetheless, as the days pass my capabilities seem to return more and more to the "usual".
What do you do if the $800 drive dies? The ~ubiquity of ethernet / fast-ish wifi is is one of the best reasons to use online backups.

> Mine supports hardware encryption with AES

Can you get the bytes off the tapes without that particular drive (or that particular model of drives)? I prefer software RAID over hardware RAID because I don't want to have to keep a replacement card around.
Sounds like they should probably be using a SQLite database instead of trying to make a custom hand rolled solution using raw files.
A Bunch of Teachers Scrounge Around Picking Up $1 Bills to Fund Their Classes
I have auto update set for Friday/Saturday night. That leaves me weekend to sort out any problems.
Gentoo https://sourceforge.net/projects/gentoo/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_(file_manager)
> TB, tetanus, and rabies may be useful vaccines for some professions or life exposures in high risk cases,

Not taking away from your main point, but Tetanus is generally recommended once every ten years (or on potential exposure five years from last vaccination). I wouldn't put it in the same category as those other diseases.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/td.html
Now I have a new fantasy: Getting picked up by Putin in a taxi and gradually realizing while talking to him that this guy had some big ideas
1950s commercial style: 'Cause after sitting though a nuclear explosion, you just wanna open a nice cold Budweiser.
I'm always a little skeptical about these articles... But it brought back to mind the last time I rented a car. After verifying my driver's license, and confirming my insurance, they asked me to give them a number for someone I was staying with. I was pretty frustrated, but even more frustrated that I gave up and told them.
Not these ones: https://p2p.nat64.dk/v4peer

And also, https://p2p.nat64.dk/why mentions: "IPv4-only users contribute by providing a communication path to IPv4-only services. In return they get external reachability of their host by having an RFC 1918 address which can be reached through NAT64. That means the IPv4-only peer is now reachable through a static IPv6 address even though it started out having only IPv4 access tyhrough NAT. "
It’s a new paradigm brah
If log4j was implemented in Rust that feature would have never been implemented in the first place meaning th RCE wouldn't exist.
I'm using Double Commander but it doesn't come close to Directory Opus' polish and customizability.
Backblaze is an awful piece of software when you look at it from “a backup software” point of view. It’s made pretty, simple, native (or is it Electron now?) - yes. But then it stops there. On top of that if you read the ifs, buts, and gotchas you’d want to stay far away from them.

They’ve downright absurd data deletion/retention and versioning rules.

Besides I do not trust any service that promises to give anything “unlimited” for a fixed cost.

As I usually mention in comments on this topic - I’d strongly urge people to use and support backup tools like borgbackup.org (Vorta is an excellent GUI), restic.net (a GUI is glaringly missing), kopia.io (up and coming; comes with a GUI), for smaller datasets there’s very good but more expansive Tarsnap (not FOSS).

And then there are others - https://github.com/restic/others#list-of-backup-software
The argument is "because it's possible to do misuse with inheritance, you should never use it".

By extension then, because it's possible to misuse Java/any programming language/computers/electricity/etc., you should never use it.
Flu by itself is a big deal[1]. Most years, more people die from flu than from car accidents.

Another flu is not a dream scenario.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
There’s an illusion that no-code is easier than firing up a usual mean/mern stack with a DB behind it. The benefits of not using no-code are you can easily adapt because you’re not baked into these no-code workflows. They end up falling apart pretty quickly.
If I did my calculation right, based on my usage, including miscellaneous egress and API fees, I could store about 1.25 TB on B2 for 7 bucks a month. I would bet their median personal backup customer is under that.
>Can folks familiar with UniFi, say how reliable (and easy) upgrades are on the Ubiquiti gear? I'm considering getting some of their hardware.

Running upgrades is certainly easy, always has been a feature of it. But "reliable" isn't a word I'd use for them any longer, internally the company is an absolute dumpster fire with toxic and unaccountable leadership. Upgrade tracks themselves are a total mess now, and whether a given firmware upgrade goes well or introduces new edge cases is a crapshoot. There is essentially zero useful bug/feature tracking system, all nuked along with the great old forums in favor of their current garbage. For the controller itself it's textbook bikeshedding, they keep redoing the UI and making it worse without adding basic features asked for (and in the old days even confirmed as accepted!) years and years ago. Also, a lot of their hardware is ancient now despite selling for the same price (I suppose inflation represents a stealth price cut to some extent).

All that said, if you're only interested in WiFi and Switching it still mostly works albeit whether their current engineering can keep up with the sudden shifts is an open question. And the basic stuff is pretty cheap, reasonably performant overall, and has nice physical design. If you don't use them for routing/firewall/services (where they are utter garbage) but run that via something like OPNsense or VyOS or whatever you like instead, then a lot of the downsides go away or become manageable. Having devices be on a management VLAN and isolated controller is trivial and goes some ways towards helping any security flaws as well.

I'd still hesitate to recommend them for greenfield projects though. But unfortunately there also isn't anything else I can point to and just say "yep that's the drop-in replacement", industry is depressing right now with all the either total isolated individual web management on the one extreme or cloud-subscription-tie-in on the other. UniFi's strengths and model doesn't have an obvious successor. I remember some news that Cisco seemed to be aiming right at them, but haven't been able to locate it again? There are a few other self-hosted options apparently but I at least haven't been able to quite figure out their licensing and limitations yet.

Edit: I'll also add in fairness that even if an upgrade is junk, I've never not been able to recover. Recovery has absolutely been a bit hair-raising on occasion, particularly when the controller once hit its 4GB log limit IIRC and silently corrupted itself then backups for months, but even there I still managed to manually get into mongo and get controller config back out. Just keep an eye on your backup system there. And even super dead devices I've so far over the years always managed to get back with at worst TFTP. In that regard it's been pretty solid though again routing aside.
Because the data keeps matching their Business as Usual model. I think there's more recent research, but here's a paper from 2014, showing 40 years of reasonable fit: http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/M.... If we keep matching their model, we'll soon see dramatic population declines.

Also, the patterns revealed in their models are useful for understanding patterns in nature and human interaction with it.
Love Hammerspoon! I wish there was an easier way to find great scripts, though. They seem to be all over the internet in random places.
Forget the money, but I have gone through a divorce and remarriage (very happy and grateful! approaching 9 years), and thought at great length about the process (to put it mildly), ...

...and wrote what I learned at my site (in my profile, then click "other", "life lessons", "dating and marriage", then the "DOCUMENT" (but really everything from the dating and marriage page). (I used eHarmony conscientiously and it worked out well for me, but I also have specific opinions about them; available if you ask.)

It reflects my beliefs, which are a big part of our relationship -- they are things that are deeply important to both of us. Happy to answer questions or discuss (my email is in the site footer). Feedback appreciated, and I wish you the best.

(ps/edit: I suggest considering that sexual license is not associated with multigenerationally happy/loyal families. Traditional values are such because .. they have worked for a long time. We today really aren't so much smarter than what the 10 commandments can give us. Really. I have written about the various ways I have come to that conclusion -- like algebra or arithmetic -- get the same answer several different ways, and one can feel confident about it.... questions welcome.)
My AT&T DSL is blasting at 3 MBit/s down and 0.5 MBit/s up!
Reminds me of the great article by Matt Levine on how Good employees suffered from the not-so-good acquisition by BlackBerry:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-12-23/good-t...
There's no free lunch. Returns on lending stablecoins are ~ 2X higher than a 5-year treasury bond atm because the risk is 2X higher that Circle/Tether will default vs the US-government over the next 5 years.

Stablecoin returns aren't a miracle - you are effectively lending money to these organisations and taking on associated credit risk. For example there are many small banks around the world that will pay > 3% APR on USD deposits [1]

https://nomadcapitalist.com/finance/highest-interest-rates-b...
I vehemently disagree with the big G edicts here but to put forth an argument that automatic updates to a known user software tool is THE problem in an era where automatic updates have reduced the attack footprint for a variety of applications is... confusing.
As 'anti-choice' as it may appear (AND IS) automatic updates for net connected software is how we have improved the general base level of security for the net.
Unfortunately that has been completely dependent on providers of widely used software focusing on security and brand image over self serving interests. Nothing has ever prevented these companies from doing what could be considered the "wrong thing" over the right thing to date and, in general, blocking updates would be the wrong thing.
With that said (written).... A project like this with an (mostly) open code base should have a veto mechanism to push the developers towards a different solution when something like this comes up.
Trust me, I’m a libertarian communist meaning I oppose the use of the State or any force. There are no gulags nor prisons in my imagined future. Marx’s economic analysis of different ways to organize production is invaluable even in a completely voluntary society, which is what I advocate for. I want to build systems that help people the way Wikipedia helps people - in a “take it or leave it” totally voluntary way.

Even if you ignore Marx completely, the basic idea that “perhaps it is bad for most people to have society ruled by a small elite” is a quite reasonable one to have.
I haven’t done the research, but Facebook is generally exceptional. I would expect that on average shareholders of companies that drop on IPO would be better off selling at the open and diversifying than holding for any period of time. I’m even more confident this is true of SPACs.
Maps.me started to implement some monetisation UI bloat a while ago. I swapped to organic maps. Can’t remember if it’s a fork or by one of the old maps.me developers but there was some connection.
Clearly visible to you, a human. The ML systems can't "see" and don't know anything about the world - they're just processing a torrent of pixels.