skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you actually care about the answer you can read up on it (or watch the video) here: https://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-pollution/

tl;dr: In 2018 rockets accounted for about 0.0000059% of global carbon emissions.
To put that in perspective, the airline industry produced 2.4% in 2018.
In 2016 this claim may have made more sense, but today in 2022 several smartphones get a full /64 IPv6 address while your laptops are under however many layers of CGNAT it takes your ISP to give you connectivity by putting in the least effort.
On Desktop, I can agree. But uBlock Origin on Android is only possible on Firefox afaik (and one of the major ways Google uses Android for Ad revenue leverage)
If this happens on an exchange (such as Coinbase), there is no risk, since the trader/middle man knows that there is a buyer for 140 and a seller for 120, so he can 'front run', buy at 120, sell at 140, keep 20.
Exactly - but they are not the primary stack by far. To be fair, you can certainly get into a FAANG as a .NET developer (I've seen ex-coworkers do this) so long as you can pass the leetcode gauntlet like anyone else.

As I said above, my decision is more about filtering out many of those companies that use .NET as their primary stack because I've found far more often than not, they aren't the best companies to work for as a SWE.
MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
That's true. Not my game, but it is true.
You're asserting more parts of the urban legend, but there's zero evidence this is true for anything that's not a mid 00s era dumbphone.
The idea of the bang syntax came up. https://talk.commonmark.org/t/mermaid-generation-of-diagrams...

But in the end went with simple. There will be a very limited subset that will render this way - executing raw code without the users permission in the browser just opens up too much attack surface area that we’d need a very compelling use case to do the security work necessary to make it protected (even if that was possible)
I knew a Facebook employee a while back, but when there were still enough problems known and public. I asked him about it. He just said they were all lies and BS. He worked there, and never saw any of that.

So either he rationalised it away, or, like anything political, half of what you read is blatantly false, and the other half is mostly false.
People don't refuse help that they need and want. If large groups of people are consistently refusing the help then it is not the help they need.

Yes yes people don't always know what they need it can be complex. But the majority of homeless people I know and have known needed and wanted help, but were unable to accept the terms of the help offered by the state, or various charities.

I have been homeless and not some cute "living in my car for six months after college" but open sores untreated addiction rotting teeth in the subway station homeless. People I love are still out there dying those deaths and it hurts so so much to hear the way you talk about them in comments today. Not just this one either.

"These people" need anything but more carceral violence directed at them. I've spent time both in jail and institutionalized. Jail is worse but the difference is more a matter of degree than type.

What you want is to have them removed. You're entitled to your wants of course and even to pursue them. But don't use helping homeless people as part of your justification. It is very hard to read these comments and believe you have ever known or cared about someone who was homeless in your city.
Lenovo took care of my Thinkpad T14s AMD when the keyboard started acting funky. Ordered the parts and sent a tech to my house to install it within a week. So I would still recommend getting a nice Thinkpad.
8.4M in donations plus another 0.57M going to GSG (not a bad racket eh?) over 92k rows. I'm using the word rows intentionally here because I can't make any claim about the number of actual individuals.
What goes in must come out.
1st law of common sense LoL
It's basically assured that Anna will fly before Anil. Anil's got to do 2 years of astronaut candidate training, then become an astronaut and wait for a flight slot.

Remember the epic "Navy Seal + Harvard Doctor + Astronaut" guy still hasn't flown.
I got voted down for saying what you did but in a more terse, direct fashion. Too much heat in here with one-day HNers, yourself excepted.
I like svgbob[1] and textik[2]. Far from perfect, but pretty good already.

[1]: https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/
[2]: https://textik.com
They should do a Apple styl “Think Different” campaign.
I'm honestly surprised SpaceX doesn't have a planned moonbase named DEATHSTAR already. Probably too gauche from their point of view.

It is really nice to see the work of going back into space is happening again.
I know. But that chestnut was probably not an American one.
You will find a person complaining about every laptop, the internet is a big place.

I've been very happy with my dell xps 13 developer edition. Had it for years running windows and linux dual boot with zero problems.
Of course, the person in the hero image for that article has his UK flag upside down.
Can we get a name for the Internet phenomenon where a post like this says "Nearly all [thing] is this way..." and then several replies are "aha, not true, what about [exception]?"

If someone says "Most..." or "Nearly all...", they already know there are exceptions.
Not a reply in good faith?

I stated from the beginning that this is a class issue and not a left/right one. You in your very first reply said "being objective here" and then went on some screed about how this is obviously left wing vs right wing politics.

Then I stated that if you look at the only actual interviews being done with these people and hear them in their own words they say that this is not a left wing vs right wing thing here and you say that I'm commenting in bad faith.

Not anywhere did I tell you to refer to Fox News as a source for content. You picked that source entirely on your own to suit your argument. As myself and others have mentioned in the thread, the only long form interviews being done with these people are being done by independent journalists on youtube.
New evasive Mylobot botnet seems harmless but is potentially dangerous
I had hoped being at home would make it easier to drift to more worthwhile distractions (eg, reading my books instead of the news) but that hasn't worked out. Obviously I'm here.
Have the kernel patches you mentioned in the post been merged already in some form? Or is that required for a hacky solution?
So by "significant" I'm excluding nonsense like this [1] where the government comes up with a creative (incorrect) interpretation of the law, and things like "a few rogue members of the government break the law" (e.g. [2]).

Neither of those would explain a government entity hacking this website to leak this data in an attempt to benefit the government.

I can't produce evidence that there isn't a history of actions like this, since my evidence really is just the lack of evidence. Thus I'd ask you to produce the "ample evidence" you claim exists.

[1] https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2020/09/04/ontar...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/17/canada-covid-c...
Waste is largely subjective.

Is it wasteful to have a 1000W gaming PC that only one person can use at a time when a Nintendo Switch uses a tiny fraction of the power and can support up to 4 players?

I think it is, because I don't personally value PC gaming. But I also don't think it's right for me to dictate how people spend their money (energy allotment) just because I think it's a wasteful use of energy compared to other things they could be doing.
One of my mom’s friends has a great method for keeping in touch with people. He keeps one of those daily tear-off calendars (filled with cat/dad jokes) on his desk. Each day he looks at the joke and decides who it reminds him, then just tears that page off and mails it to the person, along with his business card. No further explanation or note involved. I guess he just needs a lot of stamps.
Hi, Author here - I went to lambdas because I got some compilation issues... because some stupid mistakes the code with std::apply(printImpl<Args...>, tp) didn't compile...

But now I see the issue and it's improved. So the version:

template <typename... Args>
void printTupleApplyFn(const std::tuple<Args...>& tp) {
std::cout << "(";
std::apply(printImpl<Args...>, tp); // <<
std::cout << ")";
}

is fine and probably the easiest
> The secret to Dell is you need to buy “ProSupport”. It costs like $100 more.

I had the prosupport, still got Indian call center.
Yeap, the same story like Windows and Explorer.
Unexpected update: the parent comment has been downvoted further since being edited. I am officially lost.
I sold two domain names. It was pretty straightforward. For one, I got paid via Escrow. It was time-consuming and somewhat stressful because it was my first domain name.
And for another, I agreed to sell without any paperwork and Escrow.
I wouldn't risk large transactions, but for 1-2k domain names, I keep it as simple as possible.
Conversely, I would think that a lot of imposter syndrome stems from feeling like they “beat the system”.

When I applied at Google, my screening interview consisted of a question I was already familiar with. Naturally I passed the interview with ease. Did I deserve to move on further or did I just beat the system? Feelings of imposter syndrome followed.
Decoding radio-controlled bus stop displays (2013)
It is not possible to use popular forms of communication to criticize popular forms of communication, in good faith.

Message received loud and clear.

It's not a good message, to put it about as nicely as I possibly can, but I've received it.
You bet! You're also one of my heroes so I'd be absolutely delighted to chat with you more about this problem on a call or something.
To be fair they gave up nukes on the promise the US would defend them. Seems a bit shitty to take their nukes and then not do anything.
In 1830 in Sebastopol it similarly took 2 years of pointless quarantine for people to rebel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevastopol_plague_uprising

The powers-to-be, civil and military, had great "business" going because of the quarantine by pillaging most of the funds the government provided for the city supplies (as the normal trade and supply was broken by the quarantine) while population was starving. The military doctors responsible for the quarantine received pay several folds higher than their usual pay. To maintain the supposed epidemic, ie. to generate sufficient number of deaths which were all chalked to plague even though in reality there weren't any plague cases, they for example forced people to sit in the sea in winter supposedly for public hygiene purposes, and naturally the malnourished population was getting ill and died in numbers. Anybody who showed any signs of any illness would be put into total quarantine into a hospital building with especially bad conditions which all but guaranteed the death.
OP's point was that basically smartphones did not allow you to "create" at all. I would consider that most content by that larger definition to be created on a phone (Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and even if it was edited on a PC to be using media created on the phone first.

Only photographers, influencers, and etc. have the time or need to do a full pro-camera -> Editing Station -> Publish cycle for the majority of their content.
Oh, nice. Back when I was using them, Bumble and Tinder definitely didn't, although I did find one kinda hacky Tinder web-based thing that was a result of reverse-engineering their APIs. Glad to hear they're making progress, and I hope they are mobile-friendly. It should be very easy to implement the basic functionality on mobile. As pointed out, messaging will take a lot of work, but it's doable.

I wouldn't trust OKCupid to be able to do a decent mobile web UI, because they can't really be trusted to do either a regular web UI or a decent mobile app. :D Their entire UX was always just so full of jank and they were constantly tweaking it with the apparent goal of making nobody understand how anything works or is supposed to work.
I'm curious to hear your results from using this system. How long have you been running it for and what did you get out of it? I understand that the point of doing this is to not expect anything in return but, that's a little misleading because it's hard to have honest conversations in regular frequencies with people you barely know (B, C, D list). What do you do when people don't respond? Do you take them off the list?
Pivoting would kill Firefox, and this is exactly what we should be trying to save if we care about some version of the open web. Indeed, I'm advocating for pivoting away from all of these other things, and towards Firefox as the one and only concern for the organisation.
I don't doubt he's crazy, I do doubt his crazier views represent those of protesters more broadly. But in whichever case, the administration could take the wind out of his sails by yielding--no need to organize under King if the goal is accomplished. If the government didn't take an authoritarian stance in the first place, King would be marginal.
If you find this at all interesting, you have to read Neal Stephenson's classic Wired article about undersea cables - https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
> But my point was just that, to use you example, the only way you would know that said database had confidential information in it would be to "decrypt" it.

While it looks obscure to the uninitiated, anyone with a day-to-day familiarity with Pig Latin (e.g. a schoolchild) would be able to just read the information straight off, with little-to-no conscious “decoding” stage.

> As soon as you step off the path of "I am viewing information which was clearly meant for me" you're in a gray area.

People say that, but the law is usually quite explicit about such matters. Your “grey area” is just ignorance of the law. (And I'll go on record as saying that the law around this is usually really silly.)
We all know that elected officials rarely get elected based on what they've actually done. They get elected by parroting the empty promises their party bosses tell them too.

Plus, politicians who do vote against their constituents' wishes can run in a district that's more friendly to that vote.
Right, but the virus was contained. A quarantine when you have as much COVID as anyone is petty.
The best way to predict the future is to analyse the constraints on what can happen.

There is no mass-switching campaign in favor of Firefox. The only foreseeable hope of one happening in the future, is if ManifestV3 kills adblockers, and people decide to switch to Firefox; but now there are so many competitors that oppose ManifestV3 (Brave, Opera, Vivaldi) that Firefox isn't ideally positioned to benefit.

Otherwise, there is no reason to expect the factors behind Firefox's decline to disappear.

Apple bundles Safari with their platforms. Google advertises Chrome on their web properties. Microsoft heavily discourages Windows users from switching away from Edge, and occasional "bugs" reset Edge as the default browser. Most corporations promote Chrome to their employees.

There is no major reason to expect any of this to change. The likeliest change is antitrust action, with "browser choice" screens[0], but I don't see why that would help Firefox more than other browsers.

There's no reason to think that continued incremental improvements in Firefox (the current path) can prevent its decline.

The ballsiest thing Mozilla could do is switch to a forked Blink engine (Mozillium?); they'd save tons of engineering resources which they could refocus on user-facing features & UX, they'd have better webcompat with cutting-edge things (VR, MIDI, etc), they'd still be a part of web standards decisions (since they could still choose how their Blink fork deviates from Google's), and could encourage other Chromium forks to rebase on Mozillium instead of Chromium. But Firefox's most diehard fans would never forgive Mozilla, and they might lose as many users as they gain.

It's hard to think of anything Mozilla can do to double Firefox's market share. Continued decline is the most likely path.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu
Texas is suing Meta over Facebook facial recognition
There's an addon for making the Google pages work as they do in Chrome:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search...
The only thing I can think of is that the UI is not as nice as chromes for switching? in chrome you can switch the profile from a menu option and there can be more than one profile active at a time with separate everything including extensions and bookmarks.

in firefox you don't get that easy switch and I am not sure the gui for the profiles is enabled by default. you have to manually start up firefox with a -P flag from the command line to get the profile manager. And you only get one profile active at a time.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

That said, 90% of the time you can use container tabs and it is almost the equivalent of that.
Interesting read, but it feels like a catch 22. Any organisation that is mature enough to practically implement stuff like [non-negotiable KPIs, quantified peer-reviews, mentoring programs, work-life goals, ...] seems like a place that does not need advice against micro-managing. The places that do need that advice are in my experience ill-equipped to practically implement such measures. In order to get an organisation to such a maturity level you need strong leadership that is sensitive to the changes needed and how to get their people to actually make those changes in a constructive and permanent way. So if an organisation needs changes like this, take a hard look at who lead you to the current state and ask yourself if it is worth the battle. Because chances are that without change in leadership (be it approach or replacing people) you will not be able to get the things in place mentioned in this article.
To build up you also have to build out horizontally. Mega towers with buildings aren't always the most efficient use of space.
That’s a slippery slope argument.

We also break up monopolies, so no one company can control the fate of their consumers, partners, contractors, etc.

I’m sure you’ve seen the signs at local shops saying they reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. It’s an inconvenience if you get kicked out but you don’t have a right to the provider of your choosing in the US unless you were denied solely based on your status in a “protected class” (race, gender, over 65, etc.).

It’s the free market at work and if it’s not working other solutions will pop up if there’s enough demand.
The Tech Crunch article is much more informative.

Not only was this S3 public for reading but sounds like you could create & update as well since 2018. It contained "50 gigabytes of files, including passports and driver licenses".

Per the Tech Crunch article:

> It’s not known for exactly how long the bucket was left exposed, but a text file left behind by an unnamed security researcher, dated September 2018, warned that the bucket was “not properly configured” which can have “dangerous security implications.”
With containers you can. It's literally opening a new tab.

If you have two profiles open at the same time like described you can easily switch desktops. The clear seperation of work and private browsing sessions helps me as well.
I agree that lack of housing is a tremendous stressor and may cause or exacerbate mental health or substance use issues. Affordable housing has lots of benefits.

But when you look at the path that people took to being chronically visibly homeless on the street the pre-cursor in general isn't affordable housing.

> Roger’s parents wondered why, with so many advances in the science of mental health, their brilliant son was talking to voices and eating out of garbage cans.
I'd be a bit confused if it turned out the author was a regular reader of the Gray Lady.
They should copy everything DuckDuckGo android browser does and develop in this direction.

Basically default mode should decruftify all the websites you visit. Destroy all the known garbage on websites that doesn't serve browsing expeirience just tracking and advertising.

Have an easily accessible slider to adjust level of this intervention for current website so you can turn all the crap back on if site doesn't work or complains, or disable event more (javascript, decorative styles).

I'd be also happy if they provided additional tools for modifying the way content is presented, for example influencing order of repeating element like table rows and other. Filtering. Site specific bookmarking. Linking to specific positions in the document. Highlighting.

It should bring back the control to the user and give the users more control they ever had
I own two and love them, but I don't expect perfection either.

I've owned ibm, lenovo, clevo, dell, apple, and all of them were okay.

At least the framework people are going in the right direction.
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Always impressed by the amount of engineering which goes into the undersea cables and into fiber optic connections in general. One interesting takeaway (at the risk of mentioning an elon company) is that current-gen satellite connectivity will be massively improved by constellations like Starlink, providing a really nice option to disaster zones and places where normal physical connectivity is interrupted.

We might even see reduction of dependence on undersea cables in general, which seems good considering the passages on fishing, seafloor disruption, and the whole bit about "uhh yeah sometimes these cables are salvaged..."

I am curious about the effects on deep sea marine biology in sensitive areas... most of the ocean floor is desert, but do we have total knowledge about all the places these cables are going through? By fishing activity are we talking about deep sea trawling? The presence of fishing activity implies at least the non-sea-bed areas are in fact not deserted.
If you got that form that comment, I don't understand your first comment. It's clear to you that smartphones are being used to create content, but you still think they aren't content creation devices, because they lack precision?

If content creation devices aren't the devices that create content, then what are they?
I reckon Cook has accepted that the party will end soon; and so they will milk the market for as much as they can, until the very last day.

That's the only explanation that respects his intelligence.
I actually have wondered about this. Given the changes in the way tracking protection has been done, have there been any actual studies/analyses that show Firefox is losing marketshare? If it's all based on ad companies and server-side detection, I'm unclear that you could actually correctly make the claim.

If anyone has links I'd be interested in reading; I'm sure there are fingerprinting techniques, but ones that rely on JS would potentially be prone to being miscounted due to NoScript (365k+ users of it according to FF).

For the record, I do not doubt that chrome dwarfs everyone, but I'm curious about the way the numbers are being reported/studied.
Microsoft Returning to the Office on Feb. 28 as Covid Cases Declin
> Given how politically polarised the US is it'd end up as political football too I think,

it was a political football here back in the 70s when there was talk of metric adoption.

i do hope that people like stewart brand (whole earth catalog, coevolution quarterly, how buildings learn etc) feel some level of shame for the role their proseltyzing against metric, in spite of the good things they also did.