skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I met an older Australian woman that sailed around the world solo, and swore by the fake dog for scaring off opportunistic pirates. She didn’t carry a gun or other weapon. Just a cassette tape on repeat when anchored.
That's my understanding too, and I believe you're referring Greg Parker:

http://www.sealiesoftware.com/valgrind/
In other news, all these great artists start out as great artists, not vandals who practice spraying ‘ass’ on a wall 5000 times before they are good enough to make a great work of art.
Having dealt with a similar situation with an antisocial family, I would recommend just moving as soon as possible. It's not worth spending your time and energy on something which you can't change.

Let them chase everyone away and the local land and building owners will suffer. Eventually some knee caps will go missing thanks to someone even less reputable than the local mafia...
Dutch Universities ask incoming students to stay at home
In 2007, I joined the US Army infantry at the height of the Iraq war, two months after my 17th birthday. I had grown up brainwashed into the idea of military service being the single best thing a person can do, and wanted nothing more at that point than to get out of my small hometown.

As I was training with my unit for deployment, we were spending days on end practicing combat drills to storm buildings. This was the peak of the insurgency, so our mission was more or less kidnapping persons of interest and sending them off to Abu Ghraib. It was in that moment, practicing room clearing with automatic weapons, that I knew that this wasn't who I was. An entire (short) lifetime of being completely sure about my identity vanished in an instant. I knew that I had more to give to the world than this; being a tool of violent fascism.

I went AWOL shortly after. Spent months hitchhiking across the southwest. Eventually turned myself in and (miraculously) got out with an honorable discharge. But I learned the most important lesson in my life, which is that everything is meaningless once you lose your ethical standing. Nothing is more crucial than safeguarding your humanity.
I don't know who needs to know this, but if you pull xxd.c out of the vim codebase, you can compile it by itself without building vim. It doesn't depend on any other part of vim. I just vendored that one file and ditched the rest of vim.
War isn't mankind's invention - apes has been waging wars since forever

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
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From author, being in the data and startup ecosystem for some time now, have been trying to extract value from data, but the first step was always to get the infrastructure right and when I tried to do that, always got stuck in selecting the right tool for each step of Ingestion, storage, transformation and BI among 100's of available tools. And even after spending time and energy, chances of ending up choosing tools which are difficult to scale well with each other in a reliable and maintainable way are still very high !! This tool is an attempt to solve for this problem of getting started on extracting insights from data.
Building a Stripe Docs clone [video]
There's always a respite, except people are not morally comfortable with pirating or using extensive ad blocking, it seems, though the latter is far more common, of course. Honestly, I see no issue in making it so that I don't ever have to see an advertisement if it can be avoided, especially a targeted advertisement. Same goes for pirating a piece of media if the licensed version has DRM. I'll pay for it, sure, but I'll pirate a copy and read/watch that. I pay for my Spotify account and I have no ads, I can listen to whatever music I want, that's the kind of service that makes me happy.

I know that Spotify apparently has regional restrictions but I have not run into any of those yet, which might say something about my taste being narrow? Either way.
This is wonderful news to hear. Minimal is a fantastic theme once configured with it’s plugin.

The OS style theme options really do wonders for making it feel more native on macOS. It’s especially nice with dark mode enabled
Not sure I agree with this. The problem is I don’t know what I’ll need later until I need it… old messages from months or years ago that I never expected to need have saved me multiple times for a variety of reasons by now.

It’s also awkward to try to herd a conversation partner from chat to email at some arbitrary point when you think the conversation is veering in a direction where preservation is important.
Thanks :) Now let's see if people want to actually use it :D
Kurzgesagt was and still is the most eye opening for me personally.

Topics: life, the universe, and everything...

- Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell https://www.youtube.com/c/inanutshell
As someone who makes quite a few avatars for myself and friends, there is a flag for NSFW when publishing your avatars to VRChat's servers as well as ones for realistic violence, gore and such. I'm unaware of what impact these flags have for the use of said avatars though.

I have tested a fully SFW avatar with the NSFW flag checked in the past and I was able to use it just fine inside private and public lobbies so what we actually need here is a way for either world creators and/or lobby visibility settings to restrict what avatar flags are allowed within the current session of that lobby, as well as the ability for users to auto hide/show avatars with specific flags checked.

This wont be bullet proof as this relies heavily on user based trust (which VRChat have a long history of being against) and someone can very easily reverse what I did and mark a heavily NSFW avatar as SFWto bypass such filters, but it will be a good start for limiting exposure to these avatars.
Why would pirates be scared of a dog though? They could just shoot it.
The problem is clearly overpopulation. If there were 70M people worldwide, then pollution would largely be under control, and there would be enough space, natural resources and places with comfortable weather for people to not do wars and to not have to worry about climate so much.
> Perhaps I will write a docker2squash, so we can mount and run these images immediately after download.

Well, if you already have a rootfs tarball, I guess the bulk of the work is done. The tarball can be directly piped into tar2sqfs[1] or sqfstar[2].

[1] https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/squashfs-tools-ng/tar2s...

[2] https://manpages.debian.org/testing/squashfs-tools/sqfstar.1...
huh. TIL, that's pretty cool. guess I know what I'm doing next weekend..
I get it, it sucks, but since every car is going to support over the air updates in the coming years, it's unavoidable unless you want to drive an old ICE car.
Reading the paper [1] they used the period 1950-2012. All Atlantic hurricanes had female names until 1979, however, which means that if older hurricanes were more deadly then it will look like female-named hurricanes were more deadly.

And it does look likely that older hurricanes were more deadly. Looking at the deadliest 1950-2012 North Atlantic hurricanes in decreasing order of (international) death toll [2], we have Orlene (1974), Flora (1963), David (1979), Gordon (1994), and Janet (1955). You can also look at the paper's dataset [3] and see that three hurricanes killed >100 Americans before 1979, and only one after. Restricting their dataset to 1979+ (the period when both male and female names were used) I count 420 female-hurricane deaths and 452 male-hurricane deaths.

While this decrease in deaths may be related to their naming, I would guess it has more to do with worse forecasting and lower building standards. And will likely reverse over time as storms become more intense and more people live in hurricane-prone areas.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1402786111

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_deadliest_tropical...

[3] https://www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10.1073/pnas.1402786111/suppl...
Some people like the pressure of keeping a secret.
Thank you sir. Try it out sometime
Always Learning
My wife says it’s the S that went to France and came back fancy. Pretty much destroyed my attempt to sound authoritative after reading that article.
SimpleNote works very reliably for me (including sync across devices) and always loads quickly, including on mobile devices. I find the most important thing for note taking is just the ability to quickly get stuff out of my head and browser tabs, including only when mobile is available.

SimpleNote is missing organizational features (just has tags), but their search works well and it seems enough for personal use. Most of the new note taking apps are tackling organizational knowledge sharing and are bloated (slow and resource intensive) for the personal use case. I do use coda.io for organizing knowledge with tabular data.
For sure. I’d bring a gun, personally.
How is MADE doing, anyway? I went to some of the groundbreakings after TechShop folded, back when it was Emily and a handful of others holding the place together.

I would love to be part of MADE but it is just too far for me, now that I no longer work in the City.
I'd assume this was exploiting speaker cables as an antenna and effectively inducing a high volume artificial signal in them (preferably at the bounds high or low frequency), that then exceeded the speaker capacity?

Alternatively, I've heard that speaker electronics don't like dirty signals. Would be curious what options EEs would come up with there.
it's from (serif-like) handwriting really... it's easy to see that given people "describe" the as being scharfes of the entity `&szlig;`
go with what you know! easy to get distracted by shiny objects, stick with Twitter!
Considering what shenanigans uber did to fool govts around the world I wouldn't be surprised if some Tinder execs got into a private meeting and agreed to pay some 3rd party to create fake profiles for them. wouldn't exactly require extraordinary opsec to achieve
No. They have cameras.
For grown ups, get yourself a 110V MIG welder and just start sticking metal together. It is a surprisingly fun and accessible hobby with tremendous practical applications.
In some typefaces it becomes more obvious - see the first graphic on this page for a few examples that more closely resemble an 'et' ligature: https://creativepro.com/ampersand-history-usage/
That's very silly... So when you name you're daughter you go over the database of hurricanes, serial killers, etc. To avoid using that name ?!
Generally I agree. But I actually think tooling can matter. And in particular I had a very good experience with logseq in terms of importing source documents and then processing them down and integrating them. The main reason logseq works for that is because of the block references (I don't know if other systems have that, but that's what made logseq different and interesting as a tool for processing knowledge).

[Ultimately my problem with logseq is that as far as I know I can't run it through a browser self-hosted. Unfortunately that's what I need at work since I can't install anything and all the remote desktop things are blocked. I'm mostly an idiot about electron but I wish it functioned like X11 forwarding where you could install an app on a port and browse to it remotely.]
You have two choices:

1. Build an EMP generator

2. Move your family away from the mafia

Option 1 may be more fun, but I recommend you just get out of there. Life is too short.
You are entirely right of course, I didn't mean that it was a SpaceX-exclusive process or anything. It's just where I heard about it first and I would bet it is the most high-profile application currently in use. :)
Isn't that what Hulu subscribers did? They went to a company that dug a hole, stuck their heads inside, but now the hole inspectors have come and demanded that Hulu fill it in because nobody should be allowed to stick their head in a hole. As far as I'm aware, nobody's argued that Hulu has special characteristics that make it uniquely important to politics. The advocates' argument is simply that all platforms should have political advertising because politics is very important.
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I am aware of how some hacking is done but I've never had the interest to do it. Kind of interesting. Whether for good or bad.

Side note I was watching briefly some John Hammond videos and the way they obfuscate/package say powershell command in a word doc image is pretty insane. I've heard of some other wilder ones like the Apple gif overflow attack.
I don't understand why that's disturbing. It's the consequence of interfering with your brain's ability to form memories. That could be disturbing, but only if you ignore the fact your brain is always in a state of constant memory pruning anyway. Being blackout drunk or drugged is only changing your percent of discarded memory from something like 95% to 100%.
"They’re mostly a reskin of Safari": Every browser on iOS is has to use Safari, it's the only browser engine allowed on iOS and iPadOS.

There's a lot of garbage, and even plain malware, on the app store, despite Apple's claims about security and privacy.

I do wonder why all those different "private browsers" were created in the first place. They must see some gap in Apples marketing claims of privacy, or they see an opportunity in some users distrust of Apple.
>it's the disrespectful attitude, tactless delivery, and/or assumptions about the nature of a religious experience.

What on earth are you reading to get this? The parent is a concise statement of fact:

You don't have to be drunk or high to have hallucinations.

How is that anything like you describe? How is it "tactless" and "disrespectful"? How does it assume anything? Try applying the most charitable view to the comments.
Author's site w/ comment thread: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/07/in...
Not really, but I did have an experience that has probably had a significant effect on how I think about the nature of human experience. I would call it an experience of prolonged yet subjectively instantaneous non-being. I was about 15 years old and was having my first surgery. I remember them putting a mask on my face then counting. The next instant I vomited. But it turned out that happened 5 hours later in the recovery room. The transition from one moment to the next was like flipping a light switch. I've had a number of other surgeries since and I've never had quite the same experience. There seems to have been something special about the circumstances that bypassed the usual period of slow groggy waking up that one typically gets with anesthesia or when waking from sleep.

How has this affected my thinking ? Well for one thing it showed me that non-existence was nothing to be afraid of. I also realized that the experience would have been the same whether it had lasted for 5 hours or for 5 billion years. That is one of several factors that has made me skeptical of the idea that death is followed by an eternity of non-existence, even under the hypothesis that materialism is true. If that is the case then the instant of one's death would be subjectively identical with the end of the universe, and I'm not convinced the universe has an end.
Do you think this club is using wireless speakers...?
Anyone who has had vestibular disturbances will tell you it's a living hell. I think the mechanism is pretty good, but I also suspect it's not far removed from asking the ethics committee to let them attatch nipple clamps with low voltage shocks: It will elucidate a signal, but my goodness...

(I am sure they will settle down, and its for a greater good, but this is one of those 'this may hurt a little' moments)
Wise people appear to never be quite sure about what they say, so they rarely incur huge changes in people life, but dumb people have such a limited map of reality that everything is crystal clear and therefore they are the ones people pay attention to.

A good nutritionists would never say such nonsense but that varies on how we definite "good".
1) Find a local electrical engineer (EE).

2) Ask them this question.

They'll give you all the answers you might want in about 15 minutes. EEs love speaker design.
I can see Consul feeling enterprise-y. If you want to distribute SQLite without downtime then you need to move the primary around and that requires leader election. We have Consul already running at Fly.io but I feel like a lot of folks have either Consul or etcd running for some part of their system out there so the idea was to be able to attach onto that.
To scare off pirates at sea, I'd play Jaws Music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb8t3Lt8iJw
“everything contributes 'just a tiny fraction' when broken down by industry and by country.”

Well, we can determine globally that heating and electricity generation are responsible for 25% of greenhouse emissions.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...

Out of curiosity, how is 40% of global electricity generated?

Out of curiosity, what’s the worst possible fossil fuel one could use?
In the 90s/00s it was often referred to as 'miukumauku' in Finnish, roughly translates as 'meowmeow', as in the sound a cat makes, since it somewhat looks like a sleeping cat.
I like the speed and simplicity of XMPP with OMEMO, but you're right that apps and servers may not all be up to date. IMO, if a server doesn't support the latest IM and Mobile compliance suites[1], the admin responsible is negligent, though. You should just be able to install Conversations and have an encrypted chat with anyone (I recognize that this is not, in practice, the case).

For me, the biggest blocker on XMPP is that OMEMO and multiple devices don't seem to get along. Matrix solves this with cross-signing, but I don't believe the OMEMO XEP addresses the problem in any way.

I think Moxie's article is directly a response to XMPP. But on the other hand, Matrix has managed to have both federation and rapid evolution, so he's just empirically wrong.

[1]: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0459.html
> Their main complaints are 1) Lack of good clients, driven by a mostly closed ecosystem 2) Lack of good federation which brings down the whole network occasionally.

Those might be security adjacent, but i'm not sure i would call them core security concerns.
This site already works well without JS and CSS. Tested with Firefox + uMatrix.
War games and movies mostly focus on the soldiers. But they are a really small part of the people involved in it.

Being exposed to this faux imagery of war messes with people's perception of war. This is especially true for people from countries that have not experienced war on their own territory in centuries and only see it on TV.

Obligatory mention of the game "This War of Mine" where the protagonists are civilians. I could not bring myself to try it, I would probably lose sleep over it.

Unfortunately, being a male in a conscription country, I do not have the luxury of choosing whether to take part in it or not (well I could choose a prison sentence instead). If our neighbors get belligerent, I will be called to arms. Last time I checked, there is a seat in an armored vehicle with my name on it.
I’ve seen many ads on paid Spotify. Large banners advertising podcasts on opening the app, a “podcasts to look at” row in the home page. They’re thankfully less frequent as of late, though.
Because insurance requires reporting for coverage?

In small towns and cities all around the world, people don't report crimes for a variety of reasons. It's not clear why that would be more true in NYC than elsewhere.
> "Minecraft is not a hard game to clone and even make better."

And … https://veloren.net/ … Bam! Someone's aready done it. ;)

(There are countless other examples, but none I've seen yet are quite as extensive and featureful as Veloren.)
Possibly the manufacturer makes special batteries for certain regions, not entirely unlike rails, maybe Samsung batteries for the UK are set to 29° max. /s

Yes, it doesn't seem like in countries that have 40° every year in summer, like (say) Italy, Greece, Spain or northern Africa that phenomenon is widespread, and on the other hand, presumably millions of people from the UK travel to these countries in summer and bring with them their phones without similar consequences.
The medium and advanced method would become ineffective if civilian GPS was to be authenticated. (cryptographically signed, not encrypted)

It seems that progress is being made:
https://insidegnss.com/what-is-navigation-message-authentica...
“reality” is an interesting term for the Party Line.
Location gives information on financial information.

The information on when you are playing gives information on your job situation.

The kinds of games give insight into personality.

And so on, if you combine with data from other sources (what else happens on the IP address around the same time?) you can get quite a lot.
You probably want to do that when you are young and healthy.
Right, looking at it that way just leaves it without any job to do, with nothing to explain. At that point it's just wishing.
It can be a huge pain if you don't have a source of known alloy pieces, though. When you don't know what material you have finding the middle ground between something that's barely held together and blowing holes in it can be surprisingly difficult as an amateur.
In English:

https://nos-nl.translate.goog/artikel/2438234-universiteiten...
"engage in symmetric warfare" - what a pretentious expression.
Toys with similar functionality to the Strange Change exist today, only they're made from polymers that expand upon absorbing water. Some are packaged in literal capsules - the pharmaceutical kind.

https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/05p85hp
I would have used it! :)
Japanese companies are also stereotypically drowning in bureaucracy and have strict adherence to hierarchy. Maybe it was a manager that got annoyed and had an underling do it?
Predictive analytics: the concept and the main principles
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Predictive analytics outlines the contour of future events using data. Advanced, sophisticated systems use historical data to identify patterns, and then use those patterns to give people an idea of what might happen.
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Yes, but it didn't when I used it.
A valuable life lesson though. I've followed coding standards that I don't entirely agree with¹²³, but breaking them would cause more discomfort for the larger project than the minor irritation keeping them would cause me. I'm sure the feeling is common in other career areas too, particularly professional writing.

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[1] Not using extra space to line up similar parts of similar lines when grouped together, for instance, I find it makes things easier to read and alter afterwards

[2] Some codebases absolutely hate one-line if statements, it must be in a block even if only one statement is inside the conditional and the brackets must each be on their own line. I get that for more complex code it breaks things up visually in a way that is helpful, but stretching out 20..30 characters over four lines, artificially lengthening a function significantly if it happens multiple times…

[3] One FOSS project I once submitted a patch for insisted on absolutely no inline comments – all explanation had to be in the comment block at the head of the function declaration. It almost discouraged commenting, and I like to comment liberally.