skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If there's a permanent Moon base - so what? Does anything really change? How? (What - in practical and economic terms, as opposed to symbolically - did the ISS change?) Can you even have a self-sustaining Moon base without relying on Earth. (Hint: not for a long time.)

In practical terms, permanent Moon bases could make it easier to get to the rest of the solar system:

> Perhaps a more immediate use for this water, though, is to make rocket fuel. Water molecules are made of hydrogen and oxygen, both of which are super useful for rocket propellants. The molecules can be split apart by running an electric current through the water (electrolysis), yielding hydrogen and oxygen, which can then be stored as liquids, ready to fuel a rocket.

> If only there were places for rockets to refuel somewhere along the way … like, perhaps, a service station orbiting the Moon.
This could allow rockets to leave Earth with just enough fuel to make it to the Moon, where they could then re-fuel before moving on to the next destination. Alternatively, fuel from the Moon could be transported to a fuel depot in low Earth orbit, allowing rockets to dock for re-fuelling closer to home. Either way, it means a more efficient use of fuel and energy that could potentially allow spacecraft to travel a lot deeper into space and lower the costs of space exploration activities.

https://www.science.org.au/curious/space-time/mining-moon

I agree that it's not likely to be very significant if we're only looking 10 years ahead, but on a longer timescale, I think it will be almost absurdist to look at the little steps we took to get off planet as unimportant. Sort of like saying that Europe has been largely unaffected by Christopher Columbus getting in a boat and going for a joyride across the Atlantic, though I suppose there could be a case made for that.

> But behind this the real issues are psychological. The planet without toxic media and mad billionaires is a much nicer place than the planet with them. Many of the biggest trad-media offenders will be dead by 2030. Will they be replaced? Will there be a Metaverse Abstinence movement? Can one be engineered?

This is one way in which I see a Moon base as an important symbol even over the shorter term. Something that could prompt realizations along the lines of: "We're not stuck here on this planet, we can go elsewhere and live in other ways... so maybe we can live in other ways here on Earth, too. Our reality can be what we choose to make of it together, not an 'inevitably' shitty situation where one of us is stomping on the other's head forever."
Never as our main energy source is the sun.
Even fossil fuels are just stored solar energy.
Of course there is other minor sources of energy like chemical or nucular energy, but even those came from some star/sun at some point.
Why not install it without internet permission?
So you are saying a pandemic could potentially collapse a civilization, but the flu was not serious enough to do that? The Inca should be a cautionary tale. The human race is unlikely to go away unless we have a dinosaurs-like extinction event. However, civilizations are much more delicate.
Its a name not a regular word.
I don't know where people get these crazy numbers -

Even in America outside of the coasts and outside of FAANG, making $140-$150+ as a senior developer is very good (and compared to almost all other industries is absurd) - salary.com which doesn't just rely on self-reported info as levels does reports the median salary + bonus for senior software engineers as $120k

https://www.salary.com/tools/salary-calculator/senior-softwa...

Outside of the US, even in more expensive places in the EU, even the equivalent of $100k for a super senior lead architect would be Very Good - I don't know a single SWE in the midwest in the US - including senior embedded systems engineers working on medical devices, senior firmware devs working on networking equipment, or any web engineer that makes more than $175k and I know plenty of Very Good senior full-stack web devs that make $125-$150

$125k a year is still a top of the top salary in the US, so don't cry for them tho
Its a name.
I’ve suffered from depression for 20 years with no relief from many different traditional antidepressant medications and many different modalities of therapy. I received my first MDMA therapy treatment in October of last year. It changed my life. It is the most important thing I’ve ever done in my entire life.

It feels like I’m feeling emotions for the first time in my life. I had completely lost hope for any kind of improvement in my symptoms, until this. I am so, so thankful I found this, and am so glad that it will (most likely) be becoming legal for use in treatment outside clinical trials in the very near future. So many lives will change for the better. For the first time in a long time, I’m excited to wake up and ring in each new day.

Cheers, Will
Good suggestion–I just added this!
Anyone having success connecting with the iOS client?
If you create a package which claims to do one thing, but actually deliberately does something else that you know users don't want, then surely there comes a point where the harm done counts as hacking?
Freedom of open source doesn't mean freedom of consequences on their platform.
100% with you, VLC on Mac is unusable and often won't even play things when I open them anymore - black screen, audio only, corrupt looking, I thought my media had the bits flipped or that something horrible had happened.

I use IINA now (linked elsewhere in this thread) and it's amazing, the rest of the internet seems to have found out about it years ago.
> Subjectively it feels like highway speeds have been going up steadily over the last 10 years. Maybe not. But I don't like that "cruising" speed on US interstates is 70-75

Secretly, I hope that range anxiety in EV sticks around a little longer so that people lower their average speeds on the freeway to max out their range.

That, coupled with a growing realization that most of the fun with driving is in the peppy acceleration and good handling which is pretty much table stakes for modern EVs across the price spectrum.

High sustained top speed in a straight line with an overpowered ICE car is boring and should be buried with the Lamborghinis and Ferraris (among other trends from the 80s).
more importantly, a "cease and decease"
They presumably negotiated a license to include Candy Crush. The original makers of the pinball game may no longer be in business, or may not be responding to Microsoft’s emails.
USB-C and then portless when the technology is good enough. It'll be hard to stick with iPhones knowing this. I never want zero ports, they'll never match charging efficiency of a cable having no port.
Non-sequitur. Remember, the comparison is the EU (multiple sovereign nations, plural) to the United States, a single nation. Is it the word 'sovereign' that's confusing people, here? 'Administrative districts'?
The A-10 and it's redundant abilities are worth reading up on too:

- https://theaviationist.com/2017/08/16/the-crazy-story-of-the...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunde...
While I agree there is an element of personal responsibility to obesity, the industrialized food system is rigged to make everyone fat if they live long enough.

It requires winning the genetic lottery or having a significant amount of self control to maintain a healthy weight as one ages. In some places healthier food is also more expensive, such as in major cities and food deserts.

Until the food industries are regulated more responsibility it's unrealistic and cruel for those of us born to be thinner to demand people 'just' exercise more and eat less.
NFT Fantasy: Why-Items-as-NFTs Does Not Enable Transfer of Assets Between Games
Just to clarify -- it wasn't a smile at the end of their gross response, it was a winky face (only important because they're trying to deny they knew what "age of consent" meant now that they caught shit for it, but the little wink gives it away completely).
Same thing happened in the online beat space. It used to be producers creating music. Now it's a race to the bottom. Who can download a pre made loop the fastest and put the same drums over everything then sell it for $5. I don't know what has happened with humanity. Everyone just wants to make a quick buck.
Allow me to help you. It’s called profiteering. But in this case we made it legal.
Earn crypto by creating content
Everybody was able to pre-buy Ether at the time, not just "a select few insiders".

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/07/11/sale-of-the-cent...
Do you have a list of these? I'm aware of Amazon's Kuiper and also ViaSat / OneWeb. Neither are available yet.

Yes, they have a plan to deal with collisions.
> What a stupid post. If your first reaction to someone questioning a broad social movement in 2022 as a conspiracy theory (...)

From where I'm standing, the stupidity that stands out is how some people are desperately trying to gaslight themselves and everyone around them by trying to depict people chatting about workplace abuse as being something outlandish and utterly inconceivable.

I happen to stumble upon posts from /r/antiwork and I have to say that personally I had the misfortune of experiencing far worse than what's reported there on any random day, and in western European countries where workers rights actually exist and are enforced.
Something tells me this update doesn’t quite go to production in a lot of cases. At least I don’t generate production data using faker.
It's insane indeed, this stunt wrecked Googles official firebade cli app for npm.
Google is full of talented developers and org is supposedly security minded, how does something like that get through. People pay top dollar to use their cloud services.
Patience. I’m about to finish a technical book that is around 1000 pages. I have been reading it for 10 months already.
It always makes me sad that 2048 is the more famous game. Threes is so full of charm and joy. 2048 is sterile, mathematical and precise.
That is just amazing and insane at the same time.

Relevant to this I think is the Mellified man [1]. First read about it in the novel The Dervish House by Ian McDonald which involved the search for one. The idea is that people would start eating and bathing only in honey, eventually die, and would be placed in a coffin filled with honey. Eventually the body would become pretty much a candy that was supposed to heal pretty much everything.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man
My favorite con from the 19th century is the Spanish Prisoner which is now a staple of the modern Nigerian 419 scams:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Prisoner

https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-scams-and-crimes...
That’s the craziest thing. What does Github have to do with the npm packages? Why would his account be suspended over an upload to npm?
Aboriginal oral tradition is often an accurate historical record:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-16/research-gives-merit-...

As the article notes, oral tradition has "error correction" built into it as multiple generations overlap and check each other's accuracy of retelling. It's not like a game of "telephone", where the message gets repeated only once.
Gin derives from Jenever and Wikipedia suggests the Dutch pronounced it differently. It's mispronounciation all the way down.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenever
Thank you for writing Accelerando.
The current systems redirects the anger of the poor against the "other poor".
For those too lazy who just want to click:

https://www.myspectral.com/project/lumini-t/
I used to think "who cares? why would I want to self host?" but even if I or anyone doesn't care about self hosting, the fact that they block everyone from doing so is wrong.
I look at gits diffs to see what's changed between versions, but that's for fun and not diligence.

> With the level of scrutiny required to detect a maliciously-obfuscated security exploit

Nope. Not paid to do that and I have not been given any such responsibility.

That said, I think the attack vector on this is very low.

Packages are rarely updated to the latest version.

We don't use a lot of packages.

We mostly use packages from trusted sources.

We use packages that are open source.
I'm really struggling to see how either of those two sentences fits into this conversation. "Code is speech" seems to be pointing in the direction of a spurious First Amendment argument, "stop listening" seems counterproductive, and the example of someone defacing their own Facebook page is at the very least incomplete without you saying whether or not you think Facebook would be obliged to continue hosting the defaced page.
There's not dozens for broadband internet. A lot more if you count companies intending to build low throughput non realtime m2m data networks with cubesat size things.

Announced but not implemented Leo other than SpaceX include amazon, Russia, china, telesat.
On your own repos? Never for code, nobody force you to run the code.
He may have committed a crime. Interfering with computers you don't own with malicious intent is a crime, legally Microsoft may have had no choice but to take it down.
Never use Upwork? Got it. Thanks.
Closer to 40% than 50% from the most recent numbers I've seen, and that's of volume shipped, not volume*distance (Australia to China / India being a relatively short route that carries quite a lot of the coal).

That wouldn't disappear entirely if you electrified everything; coal is widely used for producing steel (1kg blast-furnace steel uses 750g met-grade coal, this is ~10% of imports in China) and preparing cement (producing 1kg cement uses 500g coal).

However, mass electrification would still be a dramatic drop in shipping.
This is admittedly a bit over my head, but does that mean it is technically possible that an image of earth could be captured from the distance needed to see Pangaea?

Thinking about this has sparked a bunch of questions I hadn't thought of before. For instance, does information encoded with light degrade over long distances in a vacuum? If not, it does seem like a mega-lens could potentially capture such an image right?
it's probably easier to find a burner email address than getting a burner SIM.

Anyways, while the default server in Element may require email atm, it is not a general requirement and depends on the server you select
Glad to hear ! :-)
Yeah, of course, it depends. Lawyers don't necessarily "see the case through completion", however. Sometimes all that's needed is for the lawyer to write a letter and/or give some seasoned advice particular to the situation. In those scenarios it could end up costing several hundred dollars. Is that enough? Is it worth it? That's not at all clear but it may be worth a shot for someone in an intractable situation.
I don't know that that's a legal principle. In any case, I don't think a country's sovereignty over their borders is automatically undermined because of a mistake they made.
Quantum efficiency is a ratio of how many electrons are created from typical photon hitting a detector. For optical instruments max value is 100% and is the ultimate reference - every photon gets converted into electrical signal. This is why order of magnitude improvements are not expected to happen - there are physical limits on how much signal can be generated from certain amount of light. Solar cells for generating electricity may go over 100% because high energy photons can be converted into 2 electrons but this is undesirable for optical imaging and light will pass through narrowband filters before hitting detector to filter out such photons as they would skew results.

Nancy Grace Roman Telescope to be launched in 2027 is expected to have 75-95% QE for near infrared compared to 70-90% for JWST: https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/WFI_technical.html

Last upgrade to Hubble near-IR instrument in 2009 (WFC3) has about 75% QE: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bernard-Rauscher/public...

Is it simplified model, real life detectors have more parameters regarding noise and persistence but all produced in past 20 years are close to theoretical limits.
It's also a very convenient thing for the FBI to have you believe I guess.
> The FOSS way should be to pay it forward, to contribute to projects where you can.

In theory, this was enforced by copyleft requiring derivative works to also be free software. In practice, companies use software with permissible licenses instead because then they can reap the benefits without any requirement to pay it forward.

> If you’re expecting to get paid for it, it’s not FOSS.

Being paid for your time has nothing to do with whether your source code is public or what freedoms users have when using your software. Conflating free software with volunteer labor is exactly what leads to situations like this one, where the author's business based on faker got copied wholesale by a competitor who simply ignored their attempts to reach out.

> Deciding you can’t maintain a project anymore is fine, but pulling it out from under the people that are using it is incredibly anti-FOSS.

The mechanisms that allow a rug-pull are entirely choices made by the users of the libraries for their own convenience; the author did everything needed for you to download a working copy and use it in perpetuity. It's your fault for choosing to rely on NPM, choosing to not cache your dependencies, and choosing not to pin your dependencies.
Logging as a code smell
Albeit I agree with your post to a certain degree, CalyxOS is not a hobbyist project. The Calyx Institute has a working business plan and has five full time developers. Have a look at their Annual Report:
https://calyxinstitute.org/about/financials-and-annual-repor...
Stop using version ranges.
Huh, what I usually do is generate a new SSH key on the dev box and enroll it. That means if the dev box gets compromised, first, it can't access anything other than my git server, and second, I have independent audit logs of actions from my dev box's key.

What's the advantage of using SSH agent forwarding over either generating a new key (if you don't quite trust the remote box) or scp'ing your private key (if you do trust the remote box just as much as your local one)?
Gist is a word. Jist is a misspelling of gist or just, no more.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gist%2Cjist&ye... makes me wonder just what happened around 1840. I suspect https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_the_Little_Frenchman_Wear... (uses jist regularly as a misspelling of just) may have something to do with it.
"kills germs, especially covid"

There's some misinformation that claims to "kill COVID" (which is a symptom not a virus) so therefore the recommendation is to say "deactivates SARS-COV-2".

Personally I've been trying to reach out to people with scanning electron microscopes, because there's a hypothesis that I'd like to test.

VisualCapitalist have an infographic showing the size of particles, including coronaviruses as 0.1-0.5 microns. I'd assumed a Gaussian bell curve centred around 0.3 micron, but was kindly corrected here on HN that SARS-COV-2 is closer to 0.1 micron.

My hypothesis is that UV-C light at 300 nm = 0.3 micron, or 100 nm = 0.1 micron, will cause the particles to resonate.

In a less formal way, play them the right beat and make the virus dance itself to pieces.

To that end, I bought some UV-C lamps (safely inside plastic boxes) from an aquarium shop. Air filters are all sold out in New Zealand, and suppliers are on holiday. The seller understood, but warned that it can cause sunburn within seconds, and eye damage - so don't look into the blue light! This makes sense because of the size of rod cells in the eye.

Then I got a regular PC fan, and ran it overnight, blowing air through the light. It felt like the air became very dry, and increasingly unpleasant.

Although it didn't smell "fresh", and the window was open for some ventilation, I'm a little worried about ozone production. Not sure how to test that though.

Fabric filters in HVAC will work according to their feature size (like an N95 vs surgical mask), but the difficulty is remembering to change them. So personally I still think UV-C is the solution, I just don't know how to use it safely yet. Certainly it makes sense for disinfecting the mask recycling bins (biohazard infectious substances taken out of the environment = litter picked up) but for ambient air, I'm still learning how to do that safely.
Which docker images? I've been having trouble finding "simple" mail servers for incoming and outgoing. Stuff like postfix and dovecot make my eyes cross, I just want to point DNS at an IP and send and receive mail there, securely.

It's not that I can't set those other ones up, I just don't want to, nor should I have to for a small service...
It doesn’t run itself.
That video doesn't discuss marak's "history of mental illness". Do you have some information on this?
Broke cli tools (firebase for me), computer crashed because of some weird infinite loop out of memory error that I wasn't able to recover from. Anyway good wake up call not relaying on million of deps for npm works hopefully.
I love you. So this basically forwards the port itself through each host? Intermediates never access your SSH keys, right?
I'm not even sure it's not a fool's errand with the current software ecosystem.

I think at some point it will have to be a language level feature. The ability to sandbox or provide permissions to packages/functions. Just like our OS had to, just like browsers had to, just like phones had to.

Our code is the platform, the packages the apps. It's a similar use case.

If I could download a module, and tell the compiler this module, and everything it uses (including packages that I also use, but through a different call tree) will never access the network or write to disk, it'd help grant some small peace of mind in terms of security at least.
I was going to make some coasters by gluing some 4-inch silicon wafers underneath glass coasters. I should get on that.
I don't know who convinced you being deliberately obtuse was an effective rhetorical device, but it's not.
From the comments on Charlie's site, and not by me:

Wyvernsridge | January 9, 2022 19:06 | Reply
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I love these kinds of posts! I would, however, caution about thinking that the end of ICE car manufacturing will be dictated solely by government diktat. It will most likely come earlier and more chaotically because of manufacturers being unable to source parts and components to continue making those cars.

The auto industry is basically a pyramid where OEMs [ie the car companies] depend on module/system [Tier1] suppliers as well as component suppliers [Tier 2] and Parts suppliers [Tier 3]. Those relationships are built on contracts that span out to five years and beyond. Today, contracts are being negotiated for 2025-2030. Those contracts, if happening at all, are being done for much lower quantities of units. After all, an EV does not need a cast-aluminium gearbox assembly. The manufacturers within those tiers are highly competitive among themselves and they know they need to find alternative to manufacture and remain viable well in advance of 2030. For OEMs this means trouble finding components, and paying much higher prices for those than they used to [ie the suppliers are costing in the risks]. This means that ICE car prices will skyrocket at the same time that EV prices go mainstream.
Have you ever downloaded software from the Internet that claimed to do one thing but then did something completely different? How did that make you feel? If you had a hosting service, would you really let people distribute that kind of software on it, if you could help it?
The email is likely not faked because they doubled-down but it shows another area of incompetance. A real cease and desist would likely go through an actual lawyer (with relevant contact information to ensure they actually have standing), not a legal@ email address.
Since space debris in the satellite zone is already a problem, that's not a solution.
Unfortunately for you the same laws of physics and initial conditions created prisons and you are about to get entangled.
This just makes it worse!