skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, all that pee is on the plane when it lifts off, in one form or another. The only thing that changes is distribution of mass (depending on where the tank is and where they keep bottles with drinks). A tonne of pee gathered from all over the plane is most likely less effect than 3-4 people moving from one end to another end of the plane. So a stewardess with help and a cart.

Second, pilots can trim the plane while in flight.

Third, no safety margin is needed here because this is not a safety problem.

The amount of pee that can be deposited into the tanks is limited by the amount of pee they can physically hold at the start of the flight plus the amount of drinks they can consume during flight.

But more realistically, on a long flight, it is just the amount of drinks they can consume assuming they drinks are mostly used to replenish whatever they have peed. Most people try to empty their bladder before flight and are willing to have full bladder when they leave the plane (to relieve themselves afterwards) so I think even this is already a little pessimistic.

On 747-400 you have max 660 passengers. 1135L divided by 660 passengers gives ~1.7L per passenger on average. Which is a lot. Consider this is an average -- some people may drink way more than that but most people drink less than that in a day.

So it seems it might be possible to run out of the tank -- if you have a very long economy flight in a large plane converted to densest possible seating arrangement and if you are willing to believe people will be buying over 1.7L of fluids per person on an economy flight.

Of course, all that calculation goes out the window if you plan to fly an economy flight full of Australian Oktoberfest fans directly from Germany to Sydney.
A sort of “computer interface claustrophobia” felt when using mobile phones is part of the reason, I think.

Lack of space, like lack of time, is stressful.

Also, the web became a more professional and commercialized environment, which brings its own problems.

> Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and to specialize, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment. The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly and [sic] unaware. The “expert” is the man who stays put.

—Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore in The Medium Is the Massage - An Inventory of Effects
I never had a problem with the website of my Finnish bank 20 years ago. And I could order my plane tickets too through the Web in the first half of the 2000s.

I cannot say the same of the website of my French bank and its multiple rewrite over the last 8 years, which still provides less features and make them harder to reach each time.

Or the website of the national lottery and its countless rewrites, each of them getting slower, more inconsistent, and displaying less information on each screen.

Or the website of the national weather forecast, which gets worse at each iteration: now there's a 'weekly' view that shows 5 days; and I cannot for the love of God find the curves of snow and other parameters from the automated altitude weather stations any more (at each iteration, they have become harder to find, but with last iteration there is no access any more; someone's got direct links to the pictures URL on a website, but for how long?). Each time they make an update, the site is completely broken for days or weeks, before they sort out their crap and return the new shit to a more functional state.

Or the website where I did put my bicycle recordings for years without a problem and without feeling the need for any extra feature, which all of a sudden cannot be displayed any more by my old browser.

In all those cases (except the last, which is probably more recent), the needed features have been implemented for at least 15 years. They were working 15 years ago. Yet they got rewritten multiple times, and not for the best. Oh yeah, sorry, for the weather forecast website (which is a public service belonging to the legal type which is the most integrated with the State), there is a new feature added at each iteration: more advertisement, and now more tracking too! The site has become unbrowsable without and ad blocker.

And BTW now, I am met more and more often with the infamous "your browser is not compatible with this site, please update to Chrome / Edge / ..." messages. I thought this kind of things were dead and buried. They were dead and buried, for 10 or 15 years, but now dreadful times are starting again and they rise from their grave.
And the thin/thick client/server wheel continues to turn.
Do you have a source? This is coming from how I feel when depressed so at least for me it is definitely not false. But that's just anecdotal and I don't have any studies to back it up. Just on intuition I have a hard time believing a depressed person would rather be surrounded by happy people they won't be able to relate to, then they would to have someone to share and talk about the bad feelings they're both experiencing.

I'd also add that (again maybe just for me) it's a way more helpful way to view it. It helps me recognize when I need to just go through the motions of being positive until I can get back to doing it naturally. It usually feels a lot better in the moment to focus on the negatives but somewhere in my head I know that's not going to help me.
Indulging paranoia: If there were classified orders taking up fab space, would we ever know? Could the entire "supply chain crisis" be wartime / state led stock ups and associated coverup operations?
Ah. ok. I didn't realize this was strictly a backend call.
I pretty much only drink it black, unless I get an espresso/latte. My favorite way of brewing is a french press, but I also enjoy a smooth Chemex. Fresh ground, typically something from a subscription coffee service so I can try something new every couple weeks.

Kind of off-topic -- but maybe it'll help somebody -- I recently quit caffeine (i.e. coffee), so my new favorite thing to brew is Rasa [0] in a french press for 30 mins with a towel over it. I may have a cup or 2 of decaf coffee once a week, but after 15 years, I quit due to coffee all of a sudden causing me anxiety and heart palpitations. (Am I getting old?) I don't like tea, but Rasa is dark enough to become a great replacement for my daily black coffee routine. It was one of the hardest (and most painful) things I've done in recent memory, but I feel so much better after quitting.

[0]: https://wearerasa.com
TeXmacs used to retypeset a science book
Database of all finance/investing subreddits
The size of the database, the training set, the details of the architecture, as well as results on benchmark tasks should all be considered in the comparison. I'm also a fan of Behavioral Testing [1].

Parameter count is not very accurate measure of model performance. Mixture of Expert models like the Switch Transformer [2] can be 1 trillion parameters in size, but are not 5X the performance, for example.

They clock the retrieval at 10 ms, unclear if that includes the BERT inference, however. My assumption is that it does not.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04118

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03961
Walmart has a decent amount of Clojure

https://clojure.org/community/success_stories
I won’t comment on the depression, but I do see a lot of marital struggles reading through the comments, and that resonates with me too. Marriage can be such a struggle sometimes. Last year I finally said enough is enough.

I can’t recommend for everyone, and I’m not a doctor, so please take with a grain of salt. Some practical things that has helped little old me.

Date nights once a week. Get a babysitter. For me and my wife we both grew up in very conservative families where it was taboo to get one and to leave the kids and go out for a date (heck even dating was taboo). But we found a nice babysitter and went out. It helped us a lot, just making space to talk and spend time away from the house.

Couples psilocybin session. Again I’m not a doctor and there are risks here, so do your homework. But this is really good for coming closer. It helps unearth some of the possibly toxic dynamics that see poisoning the relationship and makes it apparent to both parties. But then you have to do the work of continuously staying conscious and integrating the lessons in your life.

*Saying enough is enough and being the partner to initiate the above and do something about it.
Adobe could still afford to take a year or more. I pay for CC for a project I'm working on, and in spite of the monthly fees I disable automatic updates. I don't want shit to change or break arbitrarily, I want the tools I used yesterday to behave the same as today unless I make a decision to change something.
Yes. I've read the first half of the book and it can be read without any deep statistical inference knowledge at all. But it is important to know about linear regression.
Sometimes I wonder if China is still PO'd about the Opium Wars or something.
Team Aeropress here.

1.5 scoops of Café Bustelo and 170°F water. Cheap, quick, and smooth with no fussing.
Maybe it is as simple as the fact that chaos is by definition hostile.

Users are conditioned to lower their standards, not unlike workers in a dangerous environment or citizens of an inept or dishonest (or worse) government.

Such users/workers/citizens rarely take a stand.

Usability (UX) is a hard commitment to maintain for a supplier with little compassion, and software security is just an interesting hypothesis given the prevailing tools.
I thought I knew virtually nothing about Africa. After reading this funny take I realized I actually know quite a bit of weirdly crafted bizarre misinformation about Africa. Not that you could sum up a continent of a billion people in a book/one place, but he did a great job of collecting a lot of popularized tropes. “Real Africans” probably cringe when they see the referenced articles & books this author references.
> Maybe add an (i) explaining why do you ask for the prefix?

True, could be a bonus. Took a note.

> And for me it would be another hard 'no' for using your product

Reading about your setup I do agree with you. One shoe must not fit all, totally fine with us. My goal was not to convince you, but to provide explainers and pointers to your input.

> Okay, now I have a way formulate my concerns:

> Not only you do the things you shouldn't do (eg dnscache disablement); you are omitting how exactly your 'Secure DNS' works in your documentation (no, blogs are not documentation); you purposely skew your wordings on things you shouldn't (WFP filters for browsers?!).

Now generally speaking, I acknowledge I responded with technical inaccuracies. The sentence with VPNs and browsers should have been left out.

I normally tend to BS check technical stuff with Daniel, but did not want to ping him in his vacation because of a HN response. However, I should have disclaimed I am not a Portmaster dev or networking expert. I come from a web development background.

> you are thinking you know better than me or even guys from Redmond.

I am certain I know less than you in this field. Thankfully Safing does not rely on my skills in that area.

I do however strongly push the docs, through which I want to bridge the gap between the high level claims on our website and the source code. If you are willing to contribute, I am happy to receive a write up of yours about the things you feel are missing. It can be technical and beyond my expertise, since I would discuss it with Daniel anyway and see how to best proceed.
I’m in Bangkok and it seems like contactless payment is way ahead of Europe, which in turn is way ahead of the US. If you have a Thai bank account (I don’t yet) you can pay for street food using a QR code and your banking app. Not all vendors have the code set up but more and more do, also market stalls and of course people pay by app in stores everywhere.
A couple things we should keep in mind when talking about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol:

> FBI investigators did find that cells of protesters...had aimed to break into the Capitol. But they found no evidence that the groups had serious plans about what to do if they made it inside, the sources said.

> the FBI has so far found no evidence that [Trump] or people directly around him were involved in organizing the violence, according to the four current and former law enforcement officials.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-e...
rather vainglorious to tie "all of Democracy" and "complete inventory of Americans thinking" to "particular recent political events" .. BS-meter reading +11

pass
The question in my mind, is whether Google has now gone too far in one particular direction for it to be able to ever recover.

It feels like we need a new kind of search engine with a radically different commercial/operating model to take over, with healthier underlying incentives driving the decision making. I don't see the likes of DDG or Bing as being good enough alternatives - they have many of the same problems and aren't significantly different enough from the "Google model".

Perhaps we need a not-for-profit structure for something as important as search. I know Mozilla and Wikimedia have their own problems, but perhaps something along the lines of how these organisations are structured.

Or, we remove the "indirection" baked into the commercial model and allow people to just pay directly for good quality search. Essentially have a model where the "product" is high quality, unbiased search results, as opposed to the product being the eyeballs of the customers using it. The revenue comes from people who can afford to pay for some premium features, where the search results fundamentally are the same for all, but the subscribers (or donors) get added benefits like bookmark syncing, cloud storage or other value-adds.

But, the subscribers effectively subsidise the otherwise completely free search engine for everyone else. The core search results are the same for everyone, paid or not, it has to be a fair, open and non-discriminatory in that respect.

I don't know whether this works commercially, without being pulled into the cesspit of "paid listings" and advertising, or whether it would have to be a not-for-profit/charity setup which also relies on external donors, but that has its own challenges.

As someone who relies on search as part of my day-to-day job, I would happily pay a monthly subscription for a good, clean search engine. Partly out of a moral conviction that an unbiased search engine with good underlying incentives is an important thing for the world, and partly from a more selfish perspective of wanting to improve the quality of a tool that I use and rely on.

I pay Google nothing currently. I considered signing up to YouTube Premium - which I'd be happy to do, if it didn't rely on a whole extra level of Google tracking then being turned on for me (ie. needing to be constantly signed in to YouTube - which then conveniently signs you in to all other Google properties). It feels like even when you pay for a Google service, you're still "the product" and not "the customer".

I occasionally see new search engine projects listed on HN. I wonder if anyone is working on something that may one day be able to knock Google off the top spot - a position which I believe it no longer deserves.
Reverse Engineering ESP32 WiFi [video]
A novel method of faster than light communication
You have to consider that go users can come from worst places(i.e. Java or Interpreted dynamic languages) so just getting a statically compiled binary to deploy it's already a big improvement.
> Renting isn't like owning a house.

True, but calling renters "homeless" would be ridiculous.

Unfortunately I think people have forgotten what an investment really is. An investment is just a capital allocation. It's not about buying now and then selling later for profit. That's called speculation. A good investment will continue to deliver value over time. A house literally keeps you alive. Of course it's an investment.
try increasing font size with [cmd]+[+] instead of using pinch-to-zoom, it works perfectly for me with that
Interesting. I’m guilty of this in my online writing in the name of SEO. After all, my readers might search for either term. This probably makes my writing worse.
> I personally find that Mac hardware holds its utility far beyond its value

I've often seen broken Macbooks and iMacs (mostly issues with screen or hinges) in the hackerspaces i've visited. Maybe it's a selection bias where the functioning hardware is resold not donated, but it doesn't exactly inspire me confidence.

It's not specific to Apple though, modern day Thinkpads are just as "bad" (but the older IBM ones will probably outlive us all).
+1 for karnataka style filter coffee
I'm sorry, but you're wrong. The thing is, when folks typically buy art it's either because they connect with the artist, the piece, or the time and place. This doesn't happen very often, even for great artists. With NFTs, there are collectors that are looking at this stuff through a different lens. They are incentivized to collect for various reasons, usually because of the tie-in with investing, etc.

I'm a great example - I've been doing art for almost 20 years and have made a few hundred bucks here and there selling prints, paintings, having art shows, etc.

In 2021, I made about 2x what I make from my tech job selling NFTs. I consider myself lucky, but at the same time, there are thousands like me.
Refactoring can be satisfying; but spending two years refactoring kernel headers for a gain in build performance but not in runtime performance, is objectively "massively boring".

I've attempted something similar myself - a refactoring of a very dirty Java project that was orders of magnitude smaller than the Linux kernel. I didn't have good refactoring tools, nor even a good SCCS; my month-long effort had to be backed-out. I didn't enjoy it - it was boring, but needed doing, because the accumulating cruft was impacting my ability to work on the codebase (and presumably everyone else's). The project stayed dirty, and my reputation suffered.

Credit to Ingo for his perseverance. That is massive commitment.
I think just the history->xml conversion would be a bit of a hard sell, but I would be willing to pay for a sub if there were some additional features like:

* easy add to my filter list (like maybe a browser plugin so I can see that the current site isn't in my filter, but I can click a button and now it's in my filter & opposite for remove for when sites start to suck)

* stats on which sites I visit after searching

* aggregate bing+google filtered searches

* curated site lists for different topics, top 100, etc. Maybe like a temporary search using these sets such that I can try them without affecting my own filters. Maybe sharing lists w friends

* some sort of search anonymization/log deletion feature

* integration with browser search on desktop & mobile

* search flags like duckduckgo so I can easily switch filter sets by typing like /news or /nerdshit in the query

* integration with archive.ph & wayback machine
I just want to comment to reject the equivalency of lab-leak hypothesis with absurd conspiracies. Humans make mistakes; it's known that contagions have escaped from labs. How does acknowledging these uncontroversial facts cause one to jump to intentional engineering, or not understanding how 5G works?
I suspect that the majority of people who think "lab leak" is among the set of reasonable origin hypotheses are looking for better transparency and safety protocols in labs, not trying to end virology research.
I would argue corporate shills keep some information confidential by removing specific things on Wikipedia. Arguably, they do this to protect cut-throat predators in powerful positions. Which is why these cut-throat predators have an artificially cleaner reputation at the expense of exploitable people arguably. I don't completely trust Wikipedia when it comes to information about politicians, rich people, famous celebrities, specific "philanthropists", etc. Ricky Gervais, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Graham Elwood, Lee Camp, Whitney Webb, George Carlin, Aaron Russo, and other people made me not trust Wikipedia anymore. Wikipedia comes across as another way to put information online through rose-colored glasses to some extent for protecting people in powerful positions, such as the C.I.A. intelligence agents, by making confidential things nonexistent on public websites. People can claim I went down the rabbit hole all they want. But I know that the rise of Orwellian online surveillance, creepy phone verification systems, dehumanizing censorship, brainwashing social credit scores, decreasing human rights, increasing wealth inequality, cut-throat rulers, mental health issues from not being rich during this pandemic, and younger generations being less professionally skilled than older ones are happening internationally now. I find cut-throat rulers who have lots of money are keeping most people trapped during this pandemic via vaccine passports, not letting them renounce their citizenship, online surveillance, censorship, monopolizing the internet at the expense of online anonymity, not letting them be employees without coronavirus vaccinations despite negative side effects that killed some people or worsened their health significantly, forcing people into coronavirus quarantine needlessly that makes them financially threatened when they are getting unpaid while being quarantined, etc. From what I experienced, Wikipedia has favoritism of information that benefits the ruling class only. I would rather go to other online sources for truly investigative journalists that are not shills for oligarch-owned media companies.
The World of Vintage Operating Systems
How exactly are you going to collect the evidence if the host nation does not allow you to do any investigation?
> how much safety margin does the tank have build in

From the article: 1 liter (747) to 2 liters (A380) per passenger. More than enough, even if a dozen people manage to catch the runs and eject more liquid.

> how would an almost full tank affect flight behavior

Not that much, pilots can (and have to, as part of weight redistribution caused by the fuel tanks emptying) "trim" the airplane - basically, applying an offset to the neutral position of control surfaces (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_tab). And all the content of the toilet waste tank was already in the plane before (either in the bodies of the passengers, or in the freshwater tank), so it's only a minor distribution change.
DSM may not still be, but last time I looked it was built using Sencha ExtJS.

I'm not sure when the buyout happened, but a few years ago Sencha became the shadiest, nastiest organisation I've ever dealt with. I'm keen to see what Synology do / have done to displace it.
I second p5js. Try Dan Shifman's "The Coding Train" videos on youtube.
That kind of article is trash anyway, they should limit it to 3 or 5 bikes not 10. Many best "auto" reviews simply have a category so they dont piss off any one auto manufacture.

Even if you look for the top 10 trucks, they will end up showing all the major brands, because they will break it down for: 4x4, extended cab, full size, mid size, ...

Lists are mostly garbage because you dont care about the top 25, you really only need to know the best item and the next best at a certain budget