skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There has been no crying wolf.

... In your opinion. Perhaps we could agree on the term "moving of goalposts" instead. A skeptic might ask how the dangers are being undersold and how you know those dangers are legitimate as opposed to inflated claims made by those who earn money through making them.
Again, I'm not saying I don't have my concerns - or that I'm not doing more than most to minimize my impact. I just think the doomsayers aren't necessarily entirely correct, without blindspots or without bias. To think otherwise seems naive.
I think that's the point, people insist on using 23:59:59 as end of day instead of the correct 24:00:00 (which happens to be the same instant as 00:00:00 of the next day, since there's no gap between days)
Yeesh, no. I'm against it.

But I do think it is reasonable for a "windows PC" (one where the device is sold with windows preinstalled) only can boot windows by default. As that is what will benefit the absolute vast majority of users (though to be fair, there is plenty of lower hanging fruits than the boot process for most users).

But it is wholly unreasonable for the owner of the PC not to be able to disable that by themselves (without internet access or anything). If the solution to that is to require a UEFI password to be setup (perhaps windows could set the UEFI-password to the same as the main user if it hadn't already been set) - and resetting the uefi-password would wipe any encryption keys in the TPM that is fine (as long as the option to reset the uefi password exist).

And further, not allowing the owner the control to dual-boot windows and any other OS is also wholly unreasonable (but I'm fine with the owner having to enable it in UEFI first).
Here's some ideas:

- Delete the social media apps from your phone, set a strong password/2FA and make yourself login via web to check.

- If its a social media account used for purely browsing/posting (i.e. not used to keep in touch with family) delete it. It really changes the browsing when you can't comment and don't have a "score" to look at. [PS]

- Stop following people you don't personally know, except maybe tech related stuff since following those can be helpful (zero day vulnerability stuff, cool features, etc.) If you limit yourself to people you know, as in you actively keep in touch with, then feeds become less cluttered. Its less engaging but thats the point.

- Are you doom-scrolling? [0] Looking at "news" on places like reddit can do that. Having an account to have a curated list of sub-reddits sounds like a good idea, right? No. It encourages you to post comments which pulls you in. Limit to top 50 in r/all, any "news" that shows there might be actual news vs. scary headlines. Limit via time.

- Get an app that tracks time spent online or specific sites. Limit yourself, make it a game to lower your time.

- You'd be better off binge watching some shows/movies you like.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomscrolling

[PS] - I look at the HN points as an indicator if something I commented on is getting comments, like there might be an active discussion happening. I'd rather they changed it to that to encourage discussion and not encourage point gathering, but I don't work here so meh.
Probably not, unfortunately. (I'm also in that 5-year window; the original Commander Keen was the first PC game I played on my own and I played the hell out of it).

The one form that MIGHT work might be something like a tabletop adaptation somehow: A nostalgic/90s aesthetic TTRPG on a group saving Mars from the aliens or something. It'd be cheap enough to produce + distribute and TTRPGs can live on niche, dedicated fandoms in a way that's harder for video games, plus there's some crossover in the people who like both.

Oh, wait. We could reboot it playing as the ALIENS. That might be unique enough to catch some new fans if it were well made. A just plain reboot won't work, though.
Honorable mention for the ill-advised looping slide at action park[0]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/Bs4Hs3E.jpg
I think that's the wrong question

IMO, a better question (two questions) is where is RSS now and how did RSS get there?
Some long-term microgravity health risks are also short-term mission risks, like ocular problems and increased blood clotting. If a centrifugal habitat helps prevent these, so much the better.
I don't know anyhting about NIM in particular, but you touch on points with which I'm right at home, and I suggest you have a look at programming in C, it's a simple and small language, and its syntax is less intimidating than C++, while at the same time introducing you to the concepts you mention.

The nice thing about C in your case, is that you won't get very far before being introduced to things like pointers, and allocating memory on the heap :)
I feel like building this as a spinning ring (possibly inside a crater) makes more sense from a structural integrity standpoint (and possibly also a radiation shielding standpoint). Granted, lunar gravity probably makes structural integrity about ¹/₆ᵗʰ as hard to achieve as on Earth, but the spinning tower still seems a bit precarious.
Nice to have an easily found pricing page. It looks like the product takes a twitter feed and strips it down to 'popular' posts which are then emailed in digest form. If something is found interesting, how do you interact with it? Do you need to go back to the twitter site? Is this a RSS style stream in email form? How can feed item selections be adjusted? What data is being mined? How will you deal with the temptation to accept money for classifying a post as trending?
Totally. They're all shitcoins if the con-man has enough to bait with.
Or, more commonly, Nihon. Nippon is more emphatic, which is occasionally taken to make it sound more nationalistic.
Yeah. Fluid dynamic bearings and parked heads don't seem very vulnerable to shock and vibration.
The hammer here is both. Cryptocurrrency is solving an incentive problem here that doesn't really exist. If anything, File hosters should not be the ones that pay for the hosting, it should be whoever is retriving the file, and those funds should go towards relay nodes and hosting nodes. filecoin's incentive structure essentially replicates that of the existing internet, where file hosters will have to find some other form of income like advertisements or tracking to cover their costs.

Here is a comment I made yesterday on the matter:

>Instead of "liking" or "upvoting" a post on a centralized forum, why not "rehost" or "forward" a post on a decentralized forum: essentially seeding it like in BitTorrent or "pinning" it in IPFS. "Followers" of a user donate their storage and bandwidth to them, combating bureaucratic attacks like delisting and DDoS against popular users.
I still have to see any computer system that implements leap seconds correctly (adding a 60th second, instead of reversing time or smearing time).
While I find some parts of your sympathetic, conflating the left with academia is not really a valid approach. That some (on the left) have picked up on academic usage of some words or models is perhaps more accurate, and the misuse of words and terms. Which is far more prevalent in my experience.

There was an interesting article about some social inequalities where when we talk about something more -is actually making it worse-. Apparently doing sensitivity and diversity trainings have the effect of making outcomes worse or ineffective , counterintuitively (its this part of your comment I find most sympathetic) https://hbr.org/2019/07/does-diversity-training-work-the-way...
Ah, and now “I’m a bad person?” for not jumping on your bandwagon which promises so much but delivers so little.

If you really think cryptocurrency can help with abortion access - stfu and get to work, no need to virtue signal when you have a working system.

In the meantime, things like Biden’s recent executive action to enable purchase of birth control across state lines is far more likely to actually be helpful.

You have to at least realize that the defenses you’re making are the same ones that a jaded libertarian might make and have very little to do with the actual tech, which is too complicated to usefully describe anyway. This paired with the underlying belief-oriented nature of cryptocurrency (e.g. “it has value because we all agree it does”) makes it effectively a neo-libertarian political movement, using self-rolled (objectively worse) “patreon” as its backer.
If China waits 10 years, their population will already have gone down in absolute terms, and their population is aging significantly faster than the US'. This is worse than it seems when you factor in the very low retirement ages that China has saddled itself with.
Deep Space Network ( Dsn_status) / Twitter
Clouds do very much attenuate UV radiation; how strongly they do so depends on their thickness/density. See ballpark figures here: https://www.epa.gov/sunsafety/calculating-uv-index-0
There are maintenance costs associated to heated seats. The rest of the sentence you wrote falls under maintenance cost anyway.
Yes, and Finns don't call their country "Finland" — Finnish language, after all, doesn't uses "f" natively — they call it "Suomi" and they call Russia "Venäjä" (even though Wends really don't have much to do with it). So what? Names are arbitrary, especially names in different languages, that's just how they are.

As the Russian proverb says, "you can call me even 'kettle', just don't put me on the stove".
> All of the communications channels use the Reed-Solomonerror-correction protocol—the same error-correction standard as used in DVDs and Blu-ray discs as well as QR codes.

I find that somewhat hard to believe, LDPC are well established and much more suitable. I would have expected that they would use a DVBS2 standard code.
Shouldn’t do. Postgres is usually pretty good at making these types of optimisations.
In my experience “Cape Verde” and “The Seyschelles” are more common in English. Martinique, like Costa Rica, is a loan word.

The only recent ISO change I noticed was “the Ukraine” -> “Ukraine” (still heard the old form until a few months ago) and “Belarussia” -> “Belarus”, both 30 years ago.
NwN did have workarounds for online play after GameSpy went poof and I believe Beamdog's Enhanced Edition does restore official online support - no idea if it is any more future poof than GameSpy was.
i was unable to update my driving licence for the best part of a year because of some (still unknown) internal issue.

i hope they have better luck bringing back up a degraded/read-only etcd service after a power cut.

unrelated - i guess i have some real contempt for the current deployment stack meta :/
Ah yes I missed that bit, thanks for the correction.
Wait, who are these enemies?
We Built a Digital Whiteboard Tool Used by over 17K People
> This. OP has posted a classic first world problem.

Specifically seems like a XY problem https://xyproblem.info/
Was there any serious group claiming otherwise? The powerful are usually fairly obviously moving to keep wages low, and the poor are usually complaining that the powerful are moving to keep their wages low.

The part of this that jumps out at me is how much difficulty the workers have in getting someone in to politics who is one of their own. The incentives just don't line up, and they keep wasting all their efforts on wage disputes rather than more effective bargaining strategies to get part-ownership of businesses. We can see it again here - Uber drivers are literally bringing their own car, but seem incapable of producing their own app and marketing structure.
I think, blockchains are a reasonably well understood mechanism, albeit not the one with the best performance characteristics.

If you look into the specs for decentralized identifiers (DIDs), they don't define how a "method" needs to implement its interface.

There are solutions that use blockchains (Ethereum), others use DAGs (IPFS, IOTA) and some are even static without any server required.
Interesting choice of friends. All bitcoin (and crypto) is a zero sum game. I don't see the value outside of the sunk cost the energy on mining.
> It's more things like replacing tires at least once a year (which I think high torque EVs will do even faster), then at about 100k miles they replaced the wishbones / control arms.

I've not heard of tires that need replacing once a year, unless you are doing an insane amount of driving. Tires are generally lasting 50k, 60k, even 85k miles. Can you elaborate on the scenarios that require yearly tire replacements?
reminds me of delicious library back in the day. it was really useful when lending dvds to friends!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_Library
As someone with a special character in my name - would not recommend. Way too many legacy IT systems and poorly configured ones
Some other fun country butcherings: Magyarország, Hrvatska, Suomi, Ellada. For which the English names are the oh-so-obvious Hungary, Croatia, Finland, and Greece. I haven't even left Europe yet!
How can we do better to see, stop, or price-in externalities that impact people, communities, the world?

This is a widespread issue across many essential areas of human life - like housing (Airbnb), or the environment (pollution).
Composer Bear McCreary has an interesting video about the hurdy-gurdy and its use in the soundtrack of TV show Black Sails:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DXQ0z9NCl8

The sound isn't for everyone, but I like how it's used in the show's opening credits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFTcA4QLHw0
It's not a terrible idea for a lot of stuff. It's much more economical to add many features on all vehicles than to package them. Then you can individual menu out the items to the people who want them.
The European way? Announce it months in advance (which is when it was decided anyway) that you are in the process of layoffs and align with both investors and employees about the plan.
> English speaking world still butchers German town names

Try Czech: Cáchy, Trevír, Řezno vs Aachen, Trier, Regensburg.
Uber's big promise was to replace workers with automation. This failed, but you could see Waymo or another service replacing all taxi drivers. You could have automated semitrucks that drive freight on freeways and reduce the need for truck drivers.

Heck even most Burger King stores have kiosks that are replacing people.
The JWST is about three times further than the furthest a human has ever been from earth, which was on the moon.

So, it would be __really__ hard for astronauts to swap an SSD.
> but “postgres uses 8 byte alignment” doesn’t really make any sense

Makes perfect sense to me, but it seems it is wrong? At least this page[1] suggests different data types have different alignment.

[1]: https://www.enterprisedb.com/postgres-tutorials/data-alignme...
This goes a bit beyond the YC ask of "willing to break a few rules", eh?
All knowledge is worth having and the pursuit of this knowledge will help us become more than we were. I appreciate that.

That said, consider the path of the warehouses over the last 20 years. Previously, you needed teams of data developers and engineers with modeling experts to put forth a datawarehouse that may solve a companies problem. Now, you _can_ toss very wide tables in a cloud data platform (snowflake, redshift serverless, synapse) and it likely will 'just work'. Sure it can be faster, but these problems are being slowly removed from something we have to care about.

I'm a data specialist, and my knowledge is going to be worthwhile for a good long time, but the premium that exists for it will go down I think.
Well, vacuum cleaners are a thing and could probably be exported to the moon to take care of any dust getting inside. The dust is extra abrasive because it hasn't been exposed to weathering due to the lack of athmosphere and so has kept all the sharp edges. As soon as it gets inside and gets chafed/bumped around, many of the sharper edges will abrade. Of all the challenges for making humans live on the moon, sharp dust is one of the smaller ones.
Doesn’t seem to work on iOS?
I suspect they know what they're doing.
/anecdata
I can't recall ever seeing a classic car involved in a road accident. Modern BMWs, on the other hand, quite the opposite.
You might want to look into "Generation Jones" which covers the younger half of the more traditional Boomer definition (e.g. my older brother) plus some of the very earliest part of GenX (e.g. me). It's quite distinct from early Boomers, including in some of the ways you just mentioned. To the extent that generational boundaries and labels make any sense at all, it seems like a somewhat useful grouping to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones
> The company developed a ‘kill switch’ that would remotely encrypt its computers and devices if an office was raided by authorities, used at least two dozen times

How are they not drowning in gigantic obstruction of justice lawsuits and regulatory demands?
Per-employee distribution might tell one story; per-manager distribution might tell another.
Aren’t you guys on a hiring freeze?
I wish it would save your slider levels, e.g. in the URL, so you can bookmark your favourites.
That is not the point. The point is by employing dark patterns, Microsoft makes it progressively more difficult for normal users to switch away from Microsoft.

Want to switch default browser? Adding yet one more step to stop you.

Want to boot other operating system? Now you have to go to UEFI setup and change boot settings.

etc.
Same for any news out of China in the western media.

It is as if people in the West thinks the entirety of China is united on every decision, invention that comes out of every entity in the country.
I think, this is the main problem. Nobody really wants to host other peoples stuff, especially not on their desktop or smartphone.

That's where Filecoin comes in.

But yes, I think the Filecoin model is to heavy weight right now.
But you would pay more for it if they had to put it in only certain models based on the packaging. They've done it with satellite radio for a long time now.
I think it's safe to assume that the person posting is "bragging for a friend"
Wait, I thought Türkiye is homophone with Turkey? Did you mean Turkey being homograph with turkey (same spelling different meaning). Or is there a pronunciation change I've missed?
Correct, it's not a country but an autonomous region belonging to Finland.

To make things not any easier, the only official language for Åland Islands is Swedish. The Swedish name is just Åland, nothing else. Nobody would call it Ålands öar, well a tourist brochure might call it Ålands örike (empire of islands) but that would sound ridiculous as an official name.

So basically Åland Islands can't be anything but an English name. Maybe not a very clean one because it contains a non-English letter. So Türkiye is not without precedence.
It would be much better if they simply dedicated this database to the public domain.

In the "clarification" they indeed seem to consider that the database is covered by their copyright, and any free use is subject to their continued benevolence:

> However, ISO and its members do not charge for the use made of the codes contained in these standards, subject to this being consistent with ISO's copyright.
This is correct of course but we can't ignore that Windows computer are ubiquitous nowadays. Alternatives like Tuxedo or System76 are either pricier or are missing options such as keyboard layouts, delivery to non US/CAN/AUS and European countries, world wide support (in your language). Also, people just know Windows. Those issues might go away in time but there's non-zero friction to acquiring Linux hardware imo.
Here's an interesting article about the gyroscopes / related tech used on the JWST.

TL;DL — it uses reaction/momentum wheels to change orientation, and it uses non-mechanical gyroscopes to detect changes in orientation.

https://www.universetoday.com/143152/spacecraft-gyroscopes-a...
Of the ~20 assorted Deskstar and related Ultrastar drives of that vintage I've had in regular use over the past decade, exactly one has failed...because I dropped it.

HGST SAS SSDs (the ones that pair Intel NAND and Hitachi SAS controllers) have also been reliable performers in my home office experience, even without (RAID controller support for) UNMAP (SCSI "TRIM"). Incidentally, these now appear to be selling on eBay for more than I paid for them "lightly used" several years ago.
My working theory on why this happens is that there are two different models and people sometimes have problem choosing the correct one.

When you say "Thursday" you mean entire 24h period. It is not a point in time, it is a label for a span of time.

But when you say "1 pm" you don't mean an entire hour, you mean a point in time that is more or less precisely 1pm.

It seems people extend the first model to a lot of cases where it is not correct. And so for many people their mental model of 23:59:59 is a label for a span of time that is one second in length.

If your model is that a day consists of 86400 "seconds", each second being a span of time of length of one second with a label like 12:37:28, then 23:59:59 is the last second of the day and 00:00:00 is the first second of the next day.
While standard disaster practice in there looks solid, the only thing I can find among the links you shared that sort of has to do with nuclear attacks is:

> Missile attack
> It would be extremely difficult to identify the target of
the attack, and it is estimated that the time to impact will
be short.

And that's... not very specific. :)
Your first point is kind of negated by the fact that he specifically says he used a second-hand battery from a scrapyard. Indeed, what he's doing is a very good way to keep it away from any environmentally unfriendly process.

I expect that in the somewhat near future, used EV batteries will have a similar second life as house electricity storage. You don't want an EV that's got half the range it used to have, but install it in a house and it's just useful.
OK, but the state of California is the fifth largest economy in the entire world ($3.4T USD) and has less than half the population of Germany.

Arguments like this are pointless.
Do we say that someone affected by this vulnerability got PWNed?
> some use "Esszet" as the name of the character

I believe the actual name is Eszett.
Well, people who get their content removed probably care about the network being decentralized.
The Moon's "atmosphere" is (practically) frictionless, so if you build this thing with a similarly-frictionless bearing (e.g. really strong magnets) it could theoretically spin near-indefinitely.

Whether that's actually achievable (while still allowing people and supplies and water and oxygen and such to enter and exit) is of course another question.
> English does not contain diacritics.

Tell it to the New Yorker, where orthography like coöperate is required by official policy.

As they would no doubt also be happy to explain, the diacritic there is not correctly referred to as an umlaut, as "umlaut" refers to the difference in pronunciation between e.g. German "u" and German "ü", while the diacritic in coöperate doesn't change the pronunciation of any letter but instead exists to indicate to the reader that the two letter Os are to be pronounced separately rather than interpreted as a digraph (as in "troop").

It is somewhat interesting to note that modern English speakers often feel that a mark for this purpose is needed, even though formally the orthography doesn't call for it - but they are much more likely to write "re-emerge" than to write "reëmerge".
You might wanna read the article. It argues the very point you are making.