skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computers (even phones) have a enough spare computing power and bandwidth that a true, cooperative mesh network is probably possible now: Data routed through a mesh of local networks created by each device to taps which can route across long-range fiber and satellite comms.
Isn’t starlink internet connection expensive atm? $99 per month plus one time h/w costs?
So it says that ~6500 members are driving this by ponying up ~$511 annually. Interesting.
The lifespans of cars have been elongating rapidly. The median car on the road recently passed 12 years. Especially sensible cars with medium-displacement engines making little power through a CVT, these will go a million miles with ease. The long tail of model year 2030 Honda Civics is going to be almost impossible to eradicate without controlling the supply of fossil motor fuels.
I think the “activist” Was flagged as being hacked. He has his account back now.
So an X-shaped straw would have six holes?
> That's uncharitable and untrue.

This is a strange misconception about climate change, even among many of what should be the better educated and informed section of the population, at least on the issues of the science. The misconception is that more people need to be convinced about climate change and the need to take action.

Many climate change topics that come up even on here get well received comments about problem of the greedy selfish uneducated rednecks who are preventing climate change action, and the subsequent hand wringing about how to educate or scare or convince them into changing their minds.

The facts just don't support this outlandish idea though. Even in the country with the most climate deniers in the world, Indonesia, they number just about 21% of the population. In the USA, deniers are under 20% and a staggering two thirds of people and more than half of Republicans think the government should take more action on climate change. This is an overwhelming political mandate, it's not even a question.

The ruling class enacts far less popular policies and legislation all the time and doesn't bat an eye. You're telling me they'll go on expeditionary wars on flimsy pretexts that last decades and cost trillions of dollars and kill thousands of Americans, but they won't implement overhwelmingly popular policy that has bipartisan support of voters to address what they keep telling us they believe is the biggest and most important problem facing humanity? This is clearly utter bullshit.

And that's the way they like it. Their divisive propaganda (which includes seeding distrust in science) has worked extremely well. The facts show that they never had any intention to more about climate change, that they routinely lie about the political reasons for not doing more, and they're happy that the commoners are blaming one another for it instead of the robber barons who own them.
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Then they start over.
That only works if people are forced to use the product. Obviously if their spying is proven, nobody will use it :)
The Odd Lots podcast had an interview with the moderator of the AntiWork sub-reddit a little while ago:

> Over a million people are members of a subreddit called r/AntiWork, whose slogan is "Unemployment for all, not just the rich." While the page and movement have been around for awhile, discontent with the state of the labor market has been growing since the pandemic. Many workers are refusing to accept the conditions and pay that were the norm prior to the virus. On this episode, we speak with Doreen Ford, who also goes by Doreen Cleyre. She is a moderator of the AntiWork subreddit as well as the founder of AbolishWork.com. Doreen explains the growth of the movement and its philosophical underpinnings.

* https://player.fm/series/series-1504378/this-is-the-booming-...

* https://open.spotify.com/episode/2YK3j1IsQAxj0JXHIplX6h

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-the-booming-mo...
they are describing a trend where security is omitted or skipped because it’s inconvenient. even though OTP is used to increase security, it’s inconvenient for people so they go around it like this.
From the consumer perspective, subsidizing the cost of the printer in order to sell more expensive supplies feels like a swindle. Consumers welcome 'loss leaders' where they can take the bargain and choose to walk away at a profit. But when it turns out the bargain is going to end up costing more (ie. you would have been better off buying a more expensive printer), it is a swindle. It is common, and no way to gain customer loyalty. Many customers actually become hostile. Yet these businesses can survive and thrive, which I find sad.
Do there exist any good comparisons between Calyx and Graphene? From an outsider's point of view, they both seem broadly similar, in that they're privacy and security focused de-Googled OSes that run on unlocked Android devices, but they're different. Somehow.

I've spent some time in the corresponding IRC channels and... asking about the other OS and how things compare seems rather frowned on in both of them.
How is that a wild conspiracy theory?
Not just expensive. IIRC, the receiving dish and associated gear burns 120W or something like that.
That's a fair point, but isn't your beef with externalities associated with electricity not electricity itself? Blaming bitcoin sound like whack-a-mole where you can blame video games, AI, whatever for wasting electricity. The real problem IMO is that electricity consumers create negative externalities, be it from making their home a bit too warm and comfy or from using a crypto-currency instead of a gold bar.
Honestly I think I could do this build an Island thing with a bunch of people much better... Might have to do it now LOL
Honestly, the whole bomb making stuff was out of left field. This guy is Mr Robot
If the transaction was unauthorised (i.e. the collection does not relate to the signed mandate), the payer can ask for a refund up to 13 months after the direct debit.
> It was even believed that newborn babies couldn’t feel pain in the same way as adults – meaning they were sometimes subjected to painful surgical procedures without analgesia. It wasn’t until the 1980s that medical professionals realised that the stress of the pain actually led to life-threatening shock and complications.

This is just one part of many worrying parts of modern medicine from a few decades ago.

If it wasn't for HIV, many surgeons would still be using their bare hands, sometimes cutting themselves but passing on infections, instead of using hypoallergenic latex gloves. Ironic that the likes of Freddie Mercury and other non heterosexual people have helped society become a little safer.

In time, I expect to see COVID will have reduced the antibiotic resistance seen so commonly in hospitals, because of the routine deep cleaning regimes now employed and routine wearing of facemasks by all inside a hospital.

We might also see the delays in cancer treatments highlighting the one's that work and the one's that dont work.

Considering the stigma that existed a few decades ago and still remains in many parts of the world, regarding unplanned pregnancies or unmarried pregnancies, I wonder if the stress the mother experiences through gestation impacts the mental and physical health of the baby.

In time I think these societal and religious pressures will be seen as negatives if the mother is outside of those conformist pressures, which will further weaken the conformist grip on society.
This is not the case in the rest of the world.
faker and colors aren’t exactly high value libraries. They’re widely used but only because they’re easy to import and free. I think that’s part of the problem.
The pandemic in 2022.
That one is extremely weird (and distracting if you happen to be talking about a Craig).

I assume they just don’t notice the difference, like with marry/merry/Mary.
> If it's "5-10 years per collision," and each new one resets the 5-10 years timeframe

It's not.

The concern is that unwanted collisions will become common enough that satellites break down or are completely destroyed within months. There will never be enough debris that we can't fly through LEO.
Babies do all kinds of weird things. One of my daughters said “uh oh!” right out of the womb. She still says it 2 years later the exact same way lol
Note: Starlink orbits at an altitude of 340-350 miles . Hughesnet’s geosynchronous orbit has an altitude of 22,000 miles. That is over 62 times higher, not 4.

FWIW.
the whole point of the internet

> are literally remote code exec vulns
> the eugenics trend we're currently on

The what
I've been using Zimbra 8 for years. Not a docker image but has a single install script and sits on ubuntu. It's a poor-mans enterprise email client for free.

It's a bit chunky and when it doesn't fall apart it has a nice friendly client with support for mobile. Includes all the bells and whistles of spam assassin, dkim, briefcase etc. Mobile view is a bit dated but it works for elementary sending / receiving.

The free version has no backups which is a pain and makes me scared to reinstall/move away from. But for a all-in-one email server client it does have a charm.

Zimbra 9 looks nice but licensing.
> This guy abused Github to distribute malicious code to thousands of projects.

He could've done far, far worse in terms of the technical impact of these changes. It's obvious that he was trying to make a statement, not exfiltrate data to sell on the dark web.

It's scary because, as a FOSS maintainer, your code is your responsibility to do with what you will until it's no longer in the market's interest. You don't have the right to expect any sort of compensation for it, but if your project somehow becomes successful and you upset the natural order, all of the work you were told belongs to you that you should be grateful is so successful without being compensated for is now no longer under your control. There was never a business relationship to sever in the first place.

The market doesn't want to come up with a way to compensate FOSS developers with high-profile projects like these, yet the general expectation is those individuals should just continue working on these libraries for companies to profit off of them.

I wouldn't have handled this situation the way this person did, but we're reaching this point where legitimate protest and speech is being met with erasure and confiscation of your work, and that should scare everybody.

> This guy abused Github to distribute malicious code to thousands of projects.

That's one way to look at it. An alternative view is that a bunch of companies took some free code and shoved it into their apps and then got mad that the free code is causing them problems. Instead of examining the inherent contradictions of the FOSS community, commercial interests would rather just erase the protestor.
Are you talking about the paper forms you find at banks, because they dont work that way.
Published versions are immutable, you can only submit a new patch with a new version number. It's common for dependencies to be pinned to a minor version (getting patches automatically), however if you use a package-lock.json, as is the default/best-practice, I believe you should be guarded from any surprise patches. You would discover a change like the one in the OP when you manually ran `npm update` on your dev machine, so it should get nowhere near production.
What if the objects to be disinfected could be rotated under the light?

I'm imagining a washing machine full of masks (COVID concentrators), beaming UV-C light at them as they spin around.

Would that mitigate some of the shadow effect, because they're in motion?
Glycine can put a big grin on your face. Kids have higher levels of glycine than adults, thats why they smell nicer than old people.
The original article have more figures and deserve a visit. The fossils zoomed have truly spectacular details.
ALKYL -- took me 14 guesses.

You're a monster.
The toast sandwich was pure genius.
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Nah, probably from Ireland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVaHvRLlHr0 "My name contains seven silent letters"...
To be fair, not a single communique of theirs has led me to believe that English is their first language.
I just don’t think HN is interested in this anymore. There was a time. It’s gone now.

Dumb comments saying software engineers make 100x a living wage (as if this would be a bad thing) are the flavor du jour. It’s hard not to respond in kind.

But thank you, for what it’s worth. I remember you from 2010. It was quite a time.
it's not a c&d if not sent by a lawyer. this is a nagging email
>Enter Yggdrasil

This is perhaps the worst branding I've seen in awhile. It's impossible to say correctly without being taught, difficult to remember, and difficult to spell. It's almost like they don't want their efforts to be acknowledged.
This would only apply if the quality of boots increased by about 4x every 5-7 years, which I'm pretty sure they do not.
> Your coworkers don't.

And their PRs aren't merged until they do, because we'd have talked about it before hand and achieved consent around the idea that pinning dependencies is a practice our team will start doing, or some other specific practice that solves this problem.
Similar to how the term "podcast" became part of the language even though almost nobody uses an iPod to listen to them anymore.
I mean that's a bit over-simplistic... It's not that a nonchicken lays a chicken egg, that implies an either/orness of chickenhood that would be radically unique. What actually happened was that at around 10,000 years ago a group of birds similar to modern red junglefowl either migrated or was forcibly taken from northern Thailand to the Indian subcontinent, where they started mating with the local birds similar to grey junglefowl with whom they were still able to interbreed. If you call those each 99%-chickens each then you had a steady meeting of two 99%-chicken lines interbreeding until they formed something steadily closer to our 100%-chicken lines, but presumably also creating 98%-chickens etc. in their breeding population. The variation inside the breeding population is larger than the distance of the progenitor populations to the final result.

Viewed this way, what actually caused chickens to happen was the migration, not the genetics. It was the part where the two red junglefowl groups came out of genetic contact and started to diverge. On the assumption that these red junglefowl were adults (which is obvious if it was a migration, but merely likely if it was forced by humans), this means that a population of non-chickens was divided into two subpopulations, one of which was chickens, one of which wasn't.

So even agreeing that we should categorize the egg by the creature it produced immediately after hatching, you still get by this argument that a nonchicken egg hatched into a nonchicken which by circumstance became a chicken... Chickens came first, and then their chicken eggs.
but that doesn't make it wrong

I agree with everything you said except that bit, it’s megawrong
> That said, even highly adversarial climate models greated almost half a century ago have tremendous predictive power.

Yes. About the warming effect of doubling the atmospheric CO2 (Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity):

Manabe and Wetherald 1967, said 2.3°C.

The Charney Report 1979, said 3.0 ± 1.5°C.

IPCC AR6 2021, says 3.0°C (2.5 to 4.0).

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atsc/24/3/1520-04...

https://www.bnl.gov/envsci/schwartz/charney_report1979.pdf

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
The problem is that there appear to be so many different root causes.
It's not a replacement for suburban internet. It's a way to pay just 50% more (in Australian pricing) for something that offers way more options.
Living with more space though, you can offset that with solar pretty easily.
What's your next hop time? Mine is about 20ms at home (FTTC - Fibre to the Cabinet) Satellite links are quite phenomenal to be honest (when they work).

The metrics to worry about are latency and loss and throughput. Jitter is really a SIPnRTP thing. Don't use ICMP to test for "quality" - it isn't even the same protocol that you worry about (TCP/UDP), it is what it is - ICMP (use it wisely).
No.

I just think they have the money and userbase to help keep the Canyon clean.
algorithm -> function
Watching people piss into the wind is fun until you get some on your shoes.
Corps don’t care about DMCA takedowns from natural persons. I sent a takedown once, the CEO replied that he was sorry it had come to that, but they still distributed it for years under a license I did not grant. This CEO is licensed to practice law in California, btw.
docker-mailserver is pretty good. It does use postfix and dovecot, but at least the default config is very good and you don’t have to touch it much.
The pandemic will definitely end in 2022
> it defaults to specifying a semver compatible version in package.json, rather than doing the secure thing and pinning a version

Note that if you have a package-lock.json (which you will by default), it will prevent any surprise updates even within the semver range specified. You have to manually run `npm update` to get the latest versions that match your semver. Personally I think this is the best middle-ground.
I'm on manjaro.
With age (and accepted work) comes some amount of privilege to make broader statements with acceptance. I suspect Mr Stross is taking advantage of this quirk of sociology. I'd take the article with a pinch of salt—he's making some... interesting claims about COVID and the certainty of long-term effects, a little climate alarmism that's on the end of the bell curve, and a little bit more pessimism than I think is warranted.

Weigh this against his experience, wisdom, and level of thought put into his work, and apply salt to taste.
That's not terrible. I pay something like $140/mo for 1gbps (in reality I've never seen speeds >300mbps) with no data cap. $100 for ~100mbps with no data cap is reasonable to me.
The comparison to log4j really rubs me the wrong way. The log4j developers made a poor design decision, but they were doing work in good faith in an effort to meet a user request. It was a mistake, but an honest one.

This is someone being a shit deliberately. They shouldn't be mentioned in the same article.
There are a lot of lies and falsehoods in your statement.

Your employer can't "take away" your health insurance in the US in most cases. If they will stop paying for it in most cases they will send you a letter giving you the option to pay for it. This will cover you for up to 36 months.

What you would do is after being laid off is to take advantage of the downtime to get LOTS of care. That's actually pretty common approach, folks max out benefits for 1-3 months then let COBRA coverage drop. I've seen some folks take advantage of the 60 day period to decide to basically go get tons of testing, if nothing comes up they let it drop after 30 days. If they expect lots of costs they keep coverage.

Alternatively, a layoff is a qualifying event. You can sign up for subsidized coverage on the obamacare exchanges. For an individual this helps with incomes < $51K, and households of 4 < $106K. For example, if you still have SOME income coming in (let's say $20K per year) you'd do something like a Silver 87 plan. That runs about $3/month.

Alternatively, if you fall below certain thresholds in income (ie, laid off with nothing) you would be eligible for medicaid for adults. For an individual this kicks in for incomes below $17,000.
> only updating if you know what the update contains

People suck at this. What this actually tends to do is mean "no updates, ever" unless you have a particularly rigorous culture of dependency management.
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This concerns me.

Is it ignorance, or otherwise?
How could we possibly get the armchair quarterbacks with no skin in the game to give up?

People in positions of power are rational to "cover their ass". When COVID-19 rips through a nursing home so fast they have to park a freezer truck out back there's a good chance that the nursing home won't open up again and that everybody involved will be the recipient of a lawsuit.

A major organization might well have its employees work from home next week. Whether or not it makes a difference on how many get COVID-19, if workers stay home the leadership can't get blamed for the outbreak.
Yeah, I was a GitHub user in 2008. Though it obviously had a social aspect, it wasn't considered a "social network" type of site. Its ongoing transformation into one is a result of the acquisition by Microsoft.
We choose to ignore that fact. Another scary statistic is the drastic reduction in testosterone levels in the west in men and women, which probably accounts for many of the recent social changes.

The question is if it's OK to adapt to the new landscape, or to consider it a crisis that needs to be solved.
> It's a bad look, why would anyone want to deal with him after this stunt is beyond me.

The maintainer appears to be unwell:

https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/64...
There's another one that could be added to the OP's site. The internet decided to call it Linux and not GNU/Linux.
"For instance, does information encoded with light degrade over long distances in a vacuum?"

Since the vacuum is not totally empty, it does as far as I know.

Just like humid air fogs the picture.
Took over 30 seconds here. I wish all blog engines came with a decent caching system though…
This is coming from the perspective a person who is not a web programmer, but who has done lower-level programming. Memory leaks and other things (security issues included) are going to naturally come from focusing the education entirely on upper stack subjects. One must understand the complete machine in order to actually make things solid. The complexity is making that increasingly difficult to do these days unfortunately.
Confused by this exact question. Similarly, can they be used in a closed source app or website? Where/how do you include the license?
Thanks for reading! I added a link to books that I found inspiring in the "Criterion" section, beside each industry. And I particularly loved Neuromancer, The Nexus Trilogy, Blade Runner, and Deus Ex.
"until we develop a temperature-stable, cheap, broad-spectrum coronavirus vaccine that is patent-free"

"A few weeks later, Oxford—urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—reversed course. It signed an exclusive vaccine deal with AstraZeneca that gave the pharmaceutical giant sole rights and no guarantee of low prices—with the less-publicized potential for Oxford to eventually make millions from the deal and win plenty of prestige." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/15/oxfordastraz...
Therein lies the birthday paradox: the frequency of collisions among n bodies grows quadratically; but the probability of a one-time passerby being involved in those collisions only grows linearly.
> Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.

Donald Horne, 1964. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucky_Country

Today, especially with the current PM and NSW premier this quote has never been more true.
Oh they can do better:

https://twitter.com/widesauce/status/1478816782966136832

https://web.archive.org/web/20220106124249/https://twitter.c...