skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh. Subscriptions for things that don't require updates or continued support/infrastructure from the vendor drive me crazy.

The Opal C1 is a prime example. It's a webcam. If the feature-set at sale is acceptable to the consumer, there's no additional cost to Opal (no servers to maintain etc) to necessitate a subscription.

It's been posted many times, but it's a good one, so...

The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.” “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.” In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. “You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it."

― Philip K. Dick, Ubik
I only get opportunities every few years to affect in a minuscule way NASA's budget and mission, the rest of the time I have to act as a passive observer. In that time I choose to be happy with what they've accomplished and excited for what comes next.
> I don't know anyone who would advocate using the raw git: protocol without ssh. Setting up an ssh key is not a conspiracy to make it more difficult. Using ssh is simply how it's done.

But it does require having an account or public key on the server. https does not require having an account, but the http transport protocol is less efficient compared to the native git protocol. If git supported a protocol like gits where it could establish a TLS connection to the server and then use the git protocol for fetch or push, that would be ideal.
On this topic, I recommend watching this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
This sin't really true. First, there was decent drinking water in most towns and villages in medieval Europe. Most towns had "masters of conduit" and water carriers dedicated to the task. Second, we have brewers journals dating back some 500 years in England and further back in Germany. Beer is made by mashing or steeping grain in hot water and rinsing it out to produce wort, fermentable sugary/protein rich water. Historically this rinsing (sparging) would be done in 2 - 3 runnings with successively less sugar content in each. The 3rd running might produce small beer 1-3% ABV, but the first runnings could produce beer as strong as 10%, or more. sometimes the first and second runnings were combined and diluted. Much like today, beers of various strengths were available. Small beers were popular as a calorie rich energy drink for laborers, but they also had access to stronger drinks. One reason for making beer is the stable storage of surplus grain, and small beer has a very short shelf life.

Before mechanization farm work was in many ways less dangerous, with a few notable exceptions. To list only one example, you can easily drive a horse cart with a fairly strong buzz as it's slow moving and the horse is largely self guided.
It's not testing positive per se that is the exemption, it's if you have a medical contraindication to the vaccine. The argument is that recent infection is a medical contraindication, which the tournament organizer accepted but the feds have not.
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I don't think it was fraud specifically, but having sold something they weren't allowed to sell, they should refund the customers who are losing the features.
We are cracking down on slave labor supply chains. We are merely starting with the worst offender: China.
Either that or the positive test is a fabrication that was backdated on paper to claim the „recovered“ status. I would also not rule out the possibility that there has not been a real positive test at all and that the tampering could include false data entry.
But Doom 64 on the 64 had filtered textures! It's the one place where that was default!
I was surprised to find that they give you a free glass of water with ice in the US restaurants. However, it's very awfully tasting "Chlorine Springs" ;) No wonder people tend to avoid tap water there.
I agree with your point but I think that $5 billion is an overestimate for a telescope as capable as JWST which is much less mass/volume constrained. ELT, a ground based telescope vastly more capable than JWST, is expected to cost €1.3 billion.
Off.

Eye contact and body language over video are a false proxy; you can't actually read expressions as well, and I find it better not to have the signal than to be misled/mislead by it.

Additionally, when teaching online, it's useful to have a way to change the tone; going on camera is really useful for that, and you lose the ability if you start with your camera on.

Most importantly though, being on camera and constantly having to model attention is exhausting; we don't require that people seem so ostentatiously alert in real life, and I think that everyone who ever complains of "Zoom fatigue" is actually suffering from "constantly bright-eyed and enthusiastic on camera fatigure".

Off-camera, you can pay the exact same amount of attention, but also keep moving, engage in other relevant tasks, read something carefully without appearing rude and so on.

Off-camera by default is easier, more pleasant, and more efficient.
What do you base this on? I don't see how you can affect the market price of any of the big crypto's in any significant way as a regular buyer or seller, there are simply too many market participants. This is not the case for the smaller ones obviously, although even there you'll likely need a bit of capital (compared to the other market participants for that specific crypto). The smaller ones are basically a drop in the ocean compared to the big ones.
How does this differentiate at all from NotePlan3? Just from the landing page is looks damn near identical.
ICD-11 just went live? 55000+ diseases and conditions. Anyone starting to use this yet?
Github repo: https://github.com/Ringloop/mr-plow
>Besides I have free and open source

I took a look in my note taking bookmarks folder to see what I meant. I thought Obsidian was open source but it's not. I was thinking of Joplin, which I haven't tried yet, but will today

https://joplinapp.org/
whatever did happen to pebble bed and all the other emerging nuclear technologies from 20 years ago that were supposed to move the bar into passive fail-safe territory and eliminate the waste problem through spent fuel reprocessing?
> Firefox is de facto a Google project. If Google says jump, Mozilla says 'how high' because Google holds them at budgetpoint.

Nope. Look at deviations in implementing Manifest v3 as an example.
I still buy digital albums as well, and I've bought a decent number of albums on Bandcamp over the years. But I also enjoy getting older albums cheap when I can.
The site https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.htm... is neat. Change the scale from Time to Distance to get an idea of how far out it is.

(edit - the "earth moon" distance isn't to scale with respect to planetary diameters... the distance from the earth to the moon is about the same as the sum of all the diameters of all the planets - that's a long way itself)
Great post! I find it interesting that all root servers are located in United States. Should some of them be elsewhere for redundancy?
Linus Tech Tips has a current video showing this kind if patent "non-obvious"-ness was broken long before the "with a computer" age. A mechanical calculator had to split the "divide" button into two buttons because another company had a patent on a "single button division" patent.

https://youtu.be/axtQvkSpoto?t=470
Yes, sorry, I don't mean to make out php as this scrappy underdog or that we are under constant attack or anything... I see it more like, ummm, a pumpkin spice latte of languages, something viewed as a lesser choice because or in spite of its popularity? There are all these other amazing options, why pick this? Of course, with programming languages, you have many objective criteria where a coffee drink is totally subjective. Languages are also a huge investment time-wise instead of being able to try different flavors each day. Not a perfect analogy, but maybe you still see a little what I was going for as far as lighthearted stigma. PHP is and has been doing so well for so long, but I couldn't argue a huge case for it personally besides... it was there. It clicked at the time. I grew up with it.

I am balancing my love for it with the public perception I have seen over the years (fortunately I think much of the vitriol has waned sorta), in terms of how bashful I feel whenever discussing anything coding-related as to not overstate what I know/do. Most people, I think, grow out of php, so I see myself as a bad stereotype in still using it. But it has done a lot for me in terms of confidence building, being able to make things, the creative process of turning nothing into something, even though admittedly if I'd picked a different language I could likely say the same. But as far as staying with it, I feel like I look lazy for it, it just does what I want it to do. I am grateful for it. I hope this made sense.
it's been a while since I've used chrome, but iirc it signs in on the browser automatically when you sign in on google
Thank You for mirror!
Public messaging often includes the more extensive PANGO lineage (e.g., B.1.1.529 for Omicron). I think there is a limit to what can be conveyed in each news story.
This is my issue with the debate between Nuclear proponents and Renewable proponents (most of whom seem to be nuclear detractors): They usually compare what is possible in a future state with renewables to what is currently possible with Nuclear technology from decades ago.

I want people to start imagining what innovation in Nuclear can look like again. If you want to compare current state to current state, then neither are going to move the needle enough. But let's imagine what can be possible, especially if we poured in the same tax dollars and incentives to Nuclear as we are with renewables. We don't have to imagine that we will be decommissioning the same honking reactors from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Let's imagine what's possible with next-gen plants.
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> why is sign in to chrome a thing?

Because your personal data and browsing habits can be monetised.

"They" sell it under the guise of conveniently taking your browsing history from one device to another (your PC to your phone and vice versa), but actually the big companies have realised that _knowing your browsing habits_ as intimately as possible means they can profit by targeted advertising and so on.
arent you assuming everyone will have more than 1 computing device, laptop or desktop or tablet that they want to work on at all times? how many people are those compared to who only have any one of these devices only? who will they sync to ? their phones? why?
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/10/edps-decision-european-par...
A massive thanks for the work you put in - I am sure it will pay off manifold. Assuming your models are robust over time this will clearly help the development pipeline of BioNTech / Pfizer to come up with adjusted vaccines should the need arise (i.e. an especially nasty mutant showing up). Shortening the detection from weeks (months?) to days is an order of magnitude gain in lead time.
From a commercial point of view this agility will give BioNTech / Pfizer a lead over its competitors (assuming this is not public / shared information?)
Oh man, Librewolf was the one I meant to link.
XMLHttpRequest led to the Ajax paradigm, not REST.
Google can’t cloak documents showing an ‘antiunion campaign,’ NLRB judge rules
Google isn't the only source, but the largest, and by far. Unless the company is just stacking serious cash reserves, I assume the company wouldn't exist in its current form without that money. (Though perhaps another big spender would fill that gap)
Refuelling satellites is currently a hot topic in the aerospace world. No matter how cheap launch gets (and there are some very real limits to how cheap it can get for orbits like what the JWT is in), the hardware itself is quite expensive and it's often worth maintaining older scientific missions for continuity.

Propellant is often a key limitation to life of a satellite, especially for earth-observations sats in low earth orbit (the opposite of the JWT), and it's well worth refuelling a satellite in principle.

The JWT is a _lot_ of expensive hardware. It's not crazy at all to think about refuelling, especially if it's expending significant propellant to say in a stable orbit +/- maneuver for imaging operations.

All that having been said, refuelling is still a long way from reality, and despite a lot of companies marketing refuelling ports and similar things, it will be a long while time until it's a realistic solution. Over the lifetime of the JWT, it probably will become feasible, though.
> Do you have an idea how to make a nuclear plant 10x safer comparing to today?

Yes. All the reasons for the catastrophes are well known.
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> When the federal government begins to force values upon the country en masse problems begin.

What is your opinion about the US Civil War? I'm curious about this because it is in part an abrogation of states' rights over a question of utmost moral importance. Are there some values that are so valuable that we should make them universal by any means necessary, including a war?
This is good for Node, but would be bad for a large front-end lib.

If you're delivering code to the browser, you don't want every package to ship with its own stdlib. You want them to share dependencies.

Maybe this will matter less in the future when treeshaking is more reliable, but right now "zero dependencies" is not an unqualified advantage in the JS ecosystem.
Oh I actually wasn't really trying to make a reference to Trump though it's somewhat unavoidable. Kushner was actually known for being a terrible legacy admission before Trump even announced his candidacy, and Kushner's stent as Chief Innovation Officer/Chief Nepotism Advisor to the Whitehouse sure didn't make him look much smarter.
I wouldn't count on it. SMS is available on any cellphone. If you don't know what chat apps the other side has, it's still the trustworthy if clunky baseline.

For more than 10 years, SMS and a chat ap have lived side by side. The favorite chat app changed a few times, but SMS just plods along, never really gaining or losing market share.
Now we've made full circle because this question of yours is how we started the discussion. To this I can only repeat my answer: it matters because the exact opposite is being told, even in this thread in the top comment. If it didn't matter, this lie wouldn't be repeated ad nauseam.

I think it matters that Germany's fossil fuel use for electricity went from 60% in 2010 to 40% in 2020. I also think it matters the US went from 60% in 2010 to 60% in 2020 (although I didn't check the US numbers in detail, so I might be slightly off). So in this regard, what Germany is doing is an obvious success, but reality does not fit to agendas. If everybody was doing this, the world would be in much better shape. Instead those that do well, are criticized for not doing better, mostly on wrong assumptions and bad data. That's just weird.
I couldn’t find a permalink to the NPR article, but here’s the linked NASA blog post: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/12/29/nasa-says-webbs-exces...
Sad and uncomfortable reading. Coming from a different era I realise how fortunate I have been.
The important change is that LCP DRM is no longer supported [0] (git history was rewritten):

> Support for LCP DRM removal was included in the past, but Readium (the company who developed that particular DRM) has decided to [open a DMCA takedown request](https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2022/01/2022-01-0...) in January 2022. This means that for legal reasons, this GitHub repository no longer contains the code needed to remove DRM from LCP-encrypted books.

(Quote from the FAQ)

[0]: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/blob/master/FAQs.md#why...

This is the file that was removed: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmVoHkQ7AYMprL9eMtDQUa7zgGz...
Anyone know of any examples of cool cases where websockets have been used? (Maybe other than games.) I feel like in most cases I see them used the latency gained is basically added back with bloat in other parts.
Essentially you have 3 types of web backends

1) CGI and similar share-nothing architecture like PHP, unaware of process model, threaded or processes, everything starts from zero. Any state needs to be handle outside of the runtime. Stateless thus a good conceptual fit for stateless protocol like REST.

2) Threaded frameworks like Java Spring or Python frameworks, the framework forks for you, but the architecture is leaky, you can share data between threads intentionally or unintentionally. Benefits from things like connection pools to be used between requests. Can be easier when need to handle a single mutex of a resource compared to 1), e.g only one job instance should run simultaneously. However most of the time you write code as if it was share-nothing, because fewer complications (no need to worry about locks, concurrent collections etc) and reduces risks of introducing any hard to debug and expensive mutex.

3) Single threaded event driven architecture, no need to worry about race condition thus you can keep global state within the application between requests, no locks or anything but with a big caveat, as soon as you start running your application as multiprocess, like cluster, that global state can no longer be used for data sharing, only for caches like database connection, thus the best way of writing application code is to write it as share nothing to avoid any state related bugs.

BUT single threaded event driven architecture also has a huge drawback, you can essentially freeze the entire application by programmer error or introduce hard to detect mini freezes because it is single threaded.

Proposition: the larger the single threaded event driven application becomes the higher the chance of freezing your application.

I think this is why nodejs shepherds you to write micro services and conversely PHP shepherds you to build monoliths because you don't care about the process model when writing PHP.

Conclusion: You should almost always design your code as share nothing. The only benefit of picking either of 1), 2) or 3) is for performance considerations outside of team expertise and community. 2) and 3) can have better performance than 1) due things like to connection pooling but 3) is bad choice in respect to longlivity because of the monolith mismatch. 1) is easier to reason about because the process model is irrelevant thus increasing longlivity.
The "open era" in tennis refers to the opposite situation: where the grand slam tournaments are open to professionals. Amateurs were always allowed in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tennis#Open_Era
There was a Dutch website a while ago where you could order a dose of coronavirus to infect yourself with.
RTGs are even more hilariously stupid simple. They are literally just lump of radioactive material that is slowly decaying by itself and heating a thermocouple, producing electricity. No moving parts, no complicated reactor chambers and systems, no nothing.

edit: fissile -> radioactive
> You are weaseling out.

Thanks for telling me what I meant. But I did not mean that, and the square quotes were intentional. It’s a way of speaking that’s quite widely accepted, and referring to a phenomenon rather than individuals. Surely this is not new to you? Like when someone criticises an authority’s decision, the blame is on the decision makers, not the line workers.

Not much to respond to the rest of your comment - I wasn’t telling people to not get the vaccine, and I’m fully vaccinated myself. I’m emphasising the value of skepticism and questioning authority. Cheers!
Yeah, thats right. Also some other alarming details like Novak knew he tested positive and yet instead of quarantining he went on to attend a gathering of children unmasked.
Yeah it's the "partially" part that's important.

You could be right that:

Blood keeps you alive, working hard is important, community makes you happier overall.

While being wrong that:

If you're sick it's because your blood is poisoned, you should work as hard as possible no matter what, you should always put community first.

This is an imperfect set of examples. A better set would look like a graph of interconnected beliefs that are hard to disentangle, each node being a statement that is true under certain circumstances but not others.

The idea that there is an absolute truth with no shades in between truth and falsity... that:

1) ignores the graph-theoretical nature of truth

2) is a form of psychological "splitting" (which is described in the article)

3) is basically a fundamentalism

When we decide to label someone's statements as wrong and act against them, we ought [;-)] to be aware of this and take ownership of that stance, not attribute our epistemic decision to absolutes.
Off, unless the people Im on the call with generally use theirs. I don't want to pressure people (by turning on my camera) to turn on thier camera if they don't want to.

It is signalling. Use of signalling without explicit communication is abuse.
I started following a fellow cryptography enthusiast who is awesome, he is called Soatok Dreamseeker.

https://soatok.blog/

I learned a lot about the furry culture because of him. Furries are outcasts, very often with an LGBTQ identity, and there are fascist furries too. Those groups generally prey on vulnerable people and being a furry is about seeking an emotional connection. Furries are rather weird, but intelligent and interesting people.
Correct the title: "Video On or Off?"

Off. For remote work there is no needs in watching faces of each other to solve tasks related to programming.

Sharing screenshots of working display is enough.
This is why I suspect the attack on the 2016 US election was the most cost-effective intelligence operation in history.
Here's something that might apply in some cases: a group of writers might well be capable of producing a better fiction book than a single writer but probably the process would be less efficient: with all the discussions, three writers might take longer to produce a book than one writer would. TV and cinema have big enough budgets to justify the increased cost, but books don't.
> I'm not saying who's worse, I'm saying we need to do better before we critic others.

why can't we do both at the same time?