skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full internet isolation is an underrated solution for critical systems. And it doesn't mean the students or staff themselves can't use the internet via mobile devices or school-issued netbooks -- only that the critical data systems themselves aren't accessible online.

Another helper technology that's underused is data diodes, which prevent two-way connections but allow one-directional data flows, such as security updates for a lab full of workstations, or in the other direction, allowing internet monitoring of a source-of-truth or sensor while preventing internet tampering.

Unfortunately, distributed orgs can't as easily benefit from air gaps and data diodes, but they're effective tools when your physical boundaries align with your security boundaries such as in a lab or around a campus.
I've started using MobilePay — the Danish send-money-to-anyone-with-a-phone-number system — rather than a debit/credit card wherever it's offered.

I've usually provided my phone number already, as part of the delivery address, so it's a click to choose MobilePay, another to confirm the number, then I fingerprint-unlock the MobilePay app and swipe to confirm the payment request that appears.
Reviews were twice a year? Fricking waste of time. You’d almost think that being smart doesn’t make you wise.
They might be calculating for loss in getting it from Colorado to Los Angeles. LA averages around 28k gallons a years per household.
Keep in mind I'm in the UK, so I think it functions very differently than in the states. Religion is already a prominent part of the culture there, whereas here I don't know a single person my age that has gone to church since they were a small child. We don't have the level of radical level of belief of commitment about much here. As such, the atmosphere is more of a pub, minus the drinking, but it fulfills my "3rd space" need outside of work and home. I've heard from people within the community that CF in the US was scarcely cultish in comparison, so take my previous comment through that lense.
Heh, got scared it was going to be Papyrus
Where are you located? If you're in the EU, this might be illegal: https://www.howtogeek.com/342735/if-you-live-in-the-eu-you-p...
I think these are pretty complementary. Switchblade 300 is a 10km range Javelin (same warhead in fact) with integrated surveillance capability that can go beyond range of sight. It is not there to replace mortars, artillery and MRLS, which are area weapons.
That’s asinine. The fact that someone thinks you could just not have a 9-5 job or bills to pay? Sure, I’ll just pull myself up by my bootstraps and suddenly not worry about a job or bills. Thanks, I’ll just let them eat cake instead!
I recently searched through the ML companies listed on https://topstartups.io/.

One repeating pattern that surprised me is that there are few successful ML startups, the ones that are there don't seem to be remotely close to self-sustaining - or even product market fit in many cases.

Why is ML such a struggle? are we overstating the impact relative to "old fashioned" data collection and analytics? Is the tech to expensive for companies to adopt in terms of man hours?
I would be suprised if such a thing doesnt exist in the fancy programs professional movie poster making people are using nowadays. If not, then totally sounds like a product with a clear business case, customer #1 James Cameron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxSdWhkMB_A
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> we only need to point to an example - let it be SpaceX - when a billionaire shows better results than the government.

Stross anticipated this too:

> Granting individuals enormous leverage can sometimes be socially useful. But before you point at Musk and Tesla or SpaceX, I need to remind you that he didn't found Tesla, he merely bought into it then took over: SpaceX's focus on reusability is good, but we had reusable space launchers before—the only really new angle is that it's a cost-reduction measure. Starlink isn't an original, it's merely a modern, bigger, faster version of 1990's Teledesic (which fell victim to over-ambitious technology goals and the dot-com bust). Meanwhile, billionaires can do immense damage: the Koch network has largely bankrolled climate change denial, Musk's Mars colony plan is fatally flawed, and so on.

You say "better" results than the government... but it's not obvious that a government can't make these marginal improvements... you just assert that "these words are basically wrong".
"Every time my wife and I drove up to our Lake Tahoe ski cabin on Friday nights after work, we’d have to keep our snow jackets on until the next day. The house took all night to heat up."

That is first world problems hall of fame material right there!

But a great origin story for the Nest regardless.
Considering for how many the internet has a negative overall value by turning them into conspiracy nuts and mouth pieces, yes. Yes it was.
As far as I know, Furnace Creek is an oasis, and its golf course is irrigated by non-potable groundwater from local springs.

Water Conservation at The Oasis: https://www.oasisatdeathvalley.com/who-we-are/sustainability...

Hydrogeology of Lower Amargosa Valley (see Fig. 1 in report): https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sir20185151
Currently on my 4th month of a Sabbatical and not looking back. It's great to explore and find joy in the world offline again.

I also no longer feel the need to be validated by the work that I do but really by how I feel and I feel good.
A Woman Alone in Oman: Three Weeks Along the Arabian Coast
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) includes review and change cycles driven by teams at the grass roots level. Of course some organizations skip that part, but you can't blame agile frameworks for management choices.
As mentioned by atombender, COM is the main Windows API in modern Windows.

After the Longhorn collapse, all major ideas that were originally implementated in .NET got redone in COM.

Eventually WinRT doubled down on it, and even if they messed up the whole execution, the main goal of Project Reunion is to bring them into regular Windows, now rebranded as WinUI 3.0/AppSDK.

Parallel to that, many .NET APIs on Windows are COM wrappers at their lowest layer.

Classical Win32 C like APIs, are effectively "stable" since Windows XP
Maybe the database that was stolen had none? I know my old community college just used a pin for everything. Maybe all the data tracks to this pin and then another database contains the pin to real name/info mapping? Hopefully personal information at a college has stricter regulation.
> It’ll take a disaster to fix it.

It didn't happen in the US, but it has happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaste...
a simple skill tree:

software sales -> FOH

software dev -> BOH
This is what I was thinking. Got Tornado plus a load of home grown code at my work. Compared to Django it's just so slow to develop on. There are so many well tested, documented features in Django, while we have some half arsed buggy implementation doing a poorer job.
> If code is kept organized, it can be split into microservices when/if the need arises.

This is my favorite thing about the nature of Elixir actually because it happens automatically.

With functional, no-side effects code you ensure that your logic is free from the entanglements that would otherwise complicate the separation. You take one function, you move it somewhere else and it works exactly the same.

The ability to cluster BEAM nodes allows you to call that function you just moved by just pointing to the node where it lives and then calling the function. And you'll get the response back just as if it lived in the same place it always did.
Japan adopts 'Green GDP' metric of sustainable growth
>You are essentially saying that if only we voted less frequently, we'd somehow have more democracy and less corruption.

I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying we should vote out the incumbents until we have a government we are happy ruling us.
Large purchase, most customers choose one and leave the market, many possible consumers, seasonal.

Residential solar or real estate agents?

The crazy thing to me about higher ed is that there's large loans and everybody qualifies. We'd probably get a better skills/job match by including the major in interest rate calculations.
Human consumption if you have an ocean isn’t much of a concern in the dry places, desalination is cheap enough for what people can pay.

Agricultural and industrial usage, not so much.
Have you tried switching that folder to "Gallery" view? It display a list of all images and then a large preview along with an info panel to the right. Seems like it should give you everything you need. You can then switch back to your normal view when done so it doesn't mess up how your folder is setup.

https://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/m...
Yes. Change for changes sake. It's hard to improve on something that already works fine.
Check out the Eaton 5PX series. Local web-based management, no subscription BS, easy to replace standard 12v7ah batteries in a user-serviceable sled, can be used as a tower or rackmount, 120v options available, and you can find them on ebay in good condition for ~$300 shipped with some patience. Just pay attention to the ones with 5-20P plugs, but those can be used with standard household outlets via a simple mechanical "5-15p to 5-20R" adapter, assuming you won't be pulling more than 15 amps.

APC is a trash company with trash products. I've had at least 4 of their prosumer UPS models fail over the years.
Almere is very walkable, just a bit boring. Cycling is okay too, although it needs a bit of work I think. In regards to cycling, it is not that popular in Almere.

Not sure why, it could be that rudimentary, half of the people is upper middle class that is doing everything by car, the other half was born in another country and could more easily find a house in Almere compared to Amsterdam but they don't share the cycling culture much.

Edit: And every neighbourhood has supermarkets and small fastfood and bar locations. It is not that different from other dutch cities.
I'm really sorry I posted a price I found on a simple Google search. Let's say you're right and SSDs are actually $150/TB. Now our 1 PB is still just $150k. Not even a fraction of revenue worth worrying about.
I had this same thought because I think Elixir and Erlang are actually similar enough that translating between them directly may be feasible and have decent results. I don’t really think forking is a good idea though. As I understand it most BEAM maintenance is actually done by Ericsson, and I’m not sure the Elixir community has the resources to sustain a project like that. It seems like it would also create bad blood with the Erlang community and risk breaking compatibility eventually, which would be a huge loss for users of libraries like Ranch and Hackney.
Well, it's completely true that I hadn't heard of Insomnia. I wish I had.
`mix phx.new foo --no-live` does that. LiveView is completely optional. Node/npm has been completely replaced by esbuild and even that is optional if you want to rip it out and handle assets another way.
This seems like one of those "Good for the user, bad for the network" type features. It's great if you're an established user with a clear friend network that you want to communicate with, but it works to isolate different communities, and challenges the "open-by-default" assumption that arguably defines twitter and the way it works. This kind of asks the question that if everyone moves to this feature then what is twitter and how does it differ from Facebook.
The difference is that (some) colleges are also motivated to get you to apply so they can reject you, because it makes them look more exclusive.
We have a Nest thermostat, we have now turned off every single smart feature and just use it for a schedule and turning it on/off remotely when away (we gave up with the automatic away detection). I should also point out we are in the UK. I’m completely unconvinced that “smart” thermostats achieve anything for the majority of homes in the UK, despite most energy suppliers pushing customers to purchase them for years.

For those unaware, the majority of homes in the UK have a gas boiler central heating system with TRVs on each radiator. This means that you end up with two competing temperature control systems in your home, which result in some rooms regularly being too cold/hot, it literally worse than have no central thermostat.

We now have the Nest set to about 5deg higher than we want, then have all the TRVs set to what we want each room to be.

In our last house we had the Tado system with “smart” electric TRVs, you would think that would solve the problems, but it was flaky, noisy and very expensive.

If I was doing it again I would get whatever the cheapest boiler controller with remote (internet) control I could find. But then I would probably not be putting in a gas boiler again, I'm hoping that by next time we need to overhaul a heating system heat pump systems have dropped in price in the UK.

I'm sure that in countries where people tend to have forced air HVAC systems these thermostats make a lot more sense. And I do love the industrial design, it is a "beautiful" thermostat.
+1 this looks so cool
That makes sense. But it doesn't seem a very significant difference on the face of it. More modern implementation of same idea?
That supports my argument though. A highly populated country is much more likely to have citizens with clashing philosophies or cultures. Subdividing it to smaller states results in a state having less citizen "worth" but more efficient application of that worth overall.
Sans-serif is typically not a very good fit for body texts. The line-height is also set too low, makes it harder to jump to the next line as you try to find which one it is.
Evolution of ML Fact Store
Amazing - thank you
That comment belays a misunderstanding of the crypto sphere as a whole. If you don't want to partake in the speculative nature of the asset, you can simply transact with a stablecoin.
I've been using Thunderbolt since TB 1, was it 2011? It was mind blowing at the time. With the original Apple TB Display it was so great to be able to just connect to the display and also get ethernet and my laptop charged.

I want Apple to have healthy competition to keep them on their feet but they often just run a different race.

(I have LOTS of complaints about Apple stuff, I am not a fanboy, but as a technologist, I like that they push the envelope and raise the bar in many areas).

I'm especially glad that we seem to be out of the Jony Ive era where every design decision was a head-scratcher.
> a bidding war for morality turned into a proxy war for power.

What a packed and insightful statement. I'll be turning that over in my mind for some time.
Cool - duly noted. Thanks!
From NASA's founding to putting a man on the moon was 10 years, and that was having to invent the technology.
> Blue Apron, and other with this model, consider how much garbage you are creating for the minimal value of your schemes.

This is getting a bit tangential, but I've been wondering about whether the environmental footprint of grocery delivery really is lower or higher than going in-person to pick it up. Grocery stores have a huge, air-conditioned square footage just so that I can walk around and pick stuff out. Lots of food gets thrown out unused. I bring less packaging home, but stuff is still delivered to the grocery store in packages, I'm just outsourcing the guilt of throwing it out to the grocery store. Meanwhile, companies like Blue Apron and Imperfect batch deliveries to my building, so the carbon footprint of delivery is amortized over everyone who benefits from it.
Hah, had to chime in here. Unfortunately everyone is so poisoned by untrue things about Rand that people still come out at the end of the day thinking she's a libertarian. Or complaining that the characters are totally unrealistic without realizing the characters are meant to represent ideological extremes rather than real people.
Are you going to actually answer the question of how corporations would've phased out leaded gas versus the government declaring it illegal due to the harms it posed?

You can't address the rollback of government without addressing the corresponding power increase in corporations.
I’d say that doing the fun parts (and what’s fun for them varies with the individual child) will give them enough of a head start compared to children whose parents do nothing of the sort.
You have this backward. There being more at stake is precisely why we need better oversight and accountability.
Most parking garages can't even accommodate delivery vehicles. And do you seriously expect a UPS or FedEx driver to park blocks away and then bring packages on foot? That's just completely detached from reality.
I'm about to read it, just wanted to glance at the comments first.
Man, I know your feel. It was end of last week when I realized I'm facing burnout.
I've no idea what to do with it. Ideally I know that break would be good but yeah, I need to work because I like not to starve :/

I hope this post will inspire also me somehow.

But in the meantime - I hope you'll beat it fast.
Publicly-held corporations, and earnings.
If you read any respected source, they echo the same thoughts, ie:

"For many organizations, the modular monolith can be an excellent choice. If the module boundaries are well defined, it can allow for a high degree of parallel work, while avoiding the challenges of the more distributed microservice architecture by having a much simpler deployment topology. Shopify is a great example of an organization that has used this technique as an alternative to microservice decomposition, and it seems to work really well for that company."

"Unfortunately, people have come to view the monolith as something to be avoided—as something inherently problematic. I’ve met multiple people for whom the term monolith is synonymous with legacy. This is a problem. A monolithic architecture is a choice, and a valid one at that. I’d go further and say that in my opinion it is the sensible default choice as an architectural style. In other words, I am looking for a reason to be convinced to use microservices, rather than looking for a reason not to use them."

Sam Newman, Building Microservices, 2nd Edition

You can see the same thought rephrased by respected people - start with monolith, grow organically from that into services or microservices. It can take years. It may make sense not to do 100% transition ever. Just use common sense, your context etc.
Minitest vs. RSpec: which one is better?
See also https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/306028/durac....
Null Move Pruning
The fig trees pot is to small.
? The font from here is a "folioLight 16px" (after a number of overrides in a horridly messy CSS), remarkably neat, and no special treatment. What was wrong at your site?
One can hardly say that the ordinary Russian civilians have or are “thriving.”
You could in theory do just that, but the amount of work to achieve that would be staggering, automated or not.

What we really need in this world is procedural/generated-on-the-fly fonts, where you setup how the font is suppose to react to X and then use that.
Imagine if he had decided to just pay a local dude $30 to stop by and pre-warm the house instead …
Tell HN: Cloudflare Is Blocking Firefox Forks Waterfox Classic and Pale Moon
Users of Waterfox Classic and Pale Moon browsers have been reporting that they're stuck in an infinite loop of Cloudflare's infamous "checking your browser" screen and can't access web sites that enabled Cloudflare's browser integrity check feature.

Ghacks' post [1] has a good summary of related links and an active discussion at comments section, though the "protection" got more strict in the meantime thus the mentioned workaround isn't effective anymore.

Some users have posted at Clodflare community forum to no avail and Cloudflare support is only available to paid customers. Visitors are told to contact respective web site owners and forum threads are locked quickly.

Let me be clear, this is not a case of a web site owner deciding to use a recent feature that's not supported by these browsers. That'd between visitors and owners of that web site, and completely understandable.

This is a serious issue. A 3rd party corporation is deliberately deciding which browsers are legitimate and which are not. They prevent users of these browsers from accessing millions of websites with a flip of a switch. There's no transparency and no accountability to their actions.

I hope this issue will be heard, fixed and never be repeated again.

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2022/05/05/fix-pale-moon-browser-not-passing-cloudflares-checking-your-browser-verification/

Other links:
https://github.com/WaterfoxCo/Waterfox-Classic/issues/107
Great write-up! I was wondering, do you run into any issues with corrupted formatting, like what is described in Peritext?

https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/
Totally understandable. Complete awakening isn't for everyone, and highly realized people are often an obsessed minority of deeply devoted yet tormented people who were willing to do anything necessary for liberation, including "dying" or the cessation of all experience. Towards the later stages it is like an intense 5-MeO-DMT trip over and over.

Here's a video of it captured live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t8KvdMtT4A

When I first reached stream entry, or the first stage of awakening, a slightly less filtered state, it felt like a massive relief and dropped a huge weight out of my body. My day to day is filled with far less suffering and I would rather die than return to how I was before.

On the other hand, simple guided meditation by a licensed therapist, or the many apps out there are great introductions to the vast majority of people, without the risks that come with insight practice. It's especially important to be cognizant of when you get into "insight territory", which a good teacher should be equipped to deal with safely. The sad part is some Goenka retreats completely neglect this concern for safety.
I wonder how WASM will change the landscape for these frameworks. If Python had something like Yew [0], I'm not sure I'd be writing React for my Django backend.

[0]: https://yew.rs/
This is basically Nerf but without support for transparent / translucent / subsurface / glossy / refractive objects.
Of course there's going to be some level of separation between residential areas and other areas - but contrary to, for example the US, where you have to walk for miles or put your life in danger bicycling between a suburb and the city center - the distances are quite negligible and the space in between is friendly towards anything that is not a car.

Public transport intervals are measured in minutes, and unlike in the US, it not only connects the suburbs to the city center, but the suburbs to other suburbs as well.

Really, everything you want to do is doable and everywhere you want to go is reachable. I miss it.

Regarding coffee/meal/beer, there's little shops or cafes or restaurants mixed into the residential areas as well.

This video details the fantastic engineering very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP-G-inkkDg

This is specifically about differences between US and Europe but also a great watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K8KEoZwMRY
Unfortunately, North American culture has a habit of spreading throughout the world.
Asana -> Gitlab is a good start; two-way sync is ideal. We've cobbled together a number of Zaps on Zapier as a prototype, and I've been writing up a quick NodeJS sync between them.
I have to admit, I will miss the blog.
Post the demise of RSS it's one of the few places I check in on directly every few days.

What are your other favorites that might help me fill the gap?