skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bay Area coastal fog has been found to contain high levels of mercury: https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/11/wilmers-mercury.html

> Mercury, a naturally occurring element, is released into the environment through a variety of natural processes and human activities, including mining and coal-fired power plants. "Mercury is a global pollutant," said Weiss-Penzias. "What's emitted in China can affect the United States just as much as what's emitted in the United States."

> As atmospheric mercury rains down on oceans, it is converted by anaerobic bacteria in deep waters to methylmercury, the most toxic form of mercury. Upwelling brings some methylmercury to the surface, where it is released back into the atmosphere and carried by fog. At high concentrations, methylmercury can cause neurological damage, including memory loss and reduced motor coordination, and it can decrease the viability of offspring.

> "Fog is a stabilizing medium for methylmercury," said Weiss-Penzias. "Fog drifts inland and rains down in microdroplets, collecting on vegetation and dripping to the ground, where the slow process of bioaccumulation begins."
Totally unrelated, but a Firefox extension called bypass paywalls clean is great for avoiding this
When I lived and worked in a major city, then the office was a 10 minute walk. No sweat. I’ve heard that can be an hour or two each way in sv or nyc. Takes a long day and makes it interminable. And forget any kind of green initiate with such a commute. And this was to an office that was an office, not a corral with lots of people.

Want culture or progress, mr employer?
> Any possibility for sync capability across systems?

It's a git repository. You can push it to a private github repo shared by your team. You could rsync. You could host the git repository on a flash drive and pass it around. Any method of syncing a git repository will work with password-store!

> this has risks for hardware/OS failure & online backup cracking

PGP is absolutely battle tested. You'd really have to screw the pooch on password selection to be subjected to a brute force offline attack. Even then, set your s2k-count setting for you PGP keys to something that takes 250ms or more and you'll make it impossible for even a state-level actor to brute force your keys.

For the ultra-ultra paranoid, users can keep PGP private keys on a hardware device like a Yubikey. This prevents the keys from ever being leaked (save local side channel attacks, but at the point your long screwed anyway).
Maybe they are suffering from floating point math too and rounding errors added up :D
What do you mean? My iPhone 7 is still up and running pretty well. It's even still supported.
They are, but not all nuke plant feature cooling towers. The problem here is for those without: they use water as a cooling fluid, but then just pour it back into the river instead of evaporating it. The advantage is that they don't consume/move the water, the inconvenient is that they can't spit out 40C water without hurting the river's ecosystem.
In Outlook you can "invite" a bunch of people but save the meeting as a draft. It will block out the time on your calendar but not send the meeting invite out. For meeting location, just put "TBD."
I still remember my horror when I saw the pain of something as simple as string concatenation in Objective-C. The community literally has to write special micros to make joining a string palatable [1]. I salute the brave souls who made OSX/iOS apps before Swift.

NSString *myString = @"Hello";
NSString *second = [myString stringByAppendingString:@" World"];

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/510269/shortcuts-in-obje...
This is kind of funny to me. I’m on an iPhone 8 from October 2017, so it’s just a hair shy of 5 years. I haven’t had a case or screen protector on it for at least the last 4 years. It still runs the latest iOS version. As someone who is concerned about waste, I just didn’t buy a new phone every 2 years, and it’s working out okay for me.
why such strong preference for postgres? (i could list a number of typical reasons but just curious why “thank god” such strong emotional response)
Have you tried maintaining nonstick pans?
Aren’t there Chinese navy vessels running around that patch of the South Pacific?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian

I have a feeling the professor will be able to raise the funds he needs for his expedition.
well the out of touch thing is not realizing that theyre broadcasting to their friends, its not about pretending that they’ll watch it at a future date

the interactivity is leaps and bounds higher and more fulfilling

I don’t record more than a couple 15 second videos, at an event, choosing to consciously “be present”, but from those broadcasts I get friends trying to find me there, I get introductions to their friends, I get dates from people that want to share in the energy at a future event, I get hookups - I sold an extra ticket at a festival by posting w/ the right hashtag and the girl was attractive and liked me and I hung out with her squad all day and into the morning

There was nothing unhappy about it

in a big crowd everyone is doing this at different intervals

even another commenter’s interpretation about “broadcasting that you’re having fun means youre not having fun” is way off the mark, its a beacon for other people to come be part of the fun. at least there is some self-awareness here about old man yelling at clouds.

people here are extrapolating reasons that are wildly incorrect, instead of just nonjudgementally asking people to get a wide variety of modern answers.
There was that time around 2002-2007 or so where the "HTPC" was a thing. You had HTPC PC cases that looked like something that would go beneath a TV, various forums talking about TV tuners like Hauppage, etc., CableCARDs, things like Windows XP Media Center Edition/MythTV, etc.

But who watches TV or cable anymore? Not the young people.

BluRay had the dumb luck to be introduced right as the iPhone came out and redefined the consumer electronics landscape. PCs haven't been the forefront of how people entertain themselves since 2014ish unless you're a gamer with a gamer PC.

Me personally I'd rather just buy a $50 Bluray player from Walmart and be done with it.
So you're saying the rest of the world should be obliged to study SCOTUS reversing roe vs Wade when making their own abortion legislation?
Kitty is an amazing terminal if you are willing to spend some time to learn and customize it. Take a look at the screencast on its website, it is super powerful and will make your coworkers and friends jealous.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
Wait until you need a heap allocated resource counted mutex. Or have a struct that out lives it’s creator.

&mut Arc<Mutex<Option<Box<MyStruct>>>>
>This should be possible via a software setting, but it generally isn't. Instead you can use a dongle.

on ios it's available natively through the "optimized battery charging" option. On android with root you can use https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-root-4-0-battery-char...
> All of this was inspired by someone who replaced the rc scripts in their init system with a Makefile in order to allow processes to start in parallel while keeping the dependencies in the right order.

Any sufficiently complicated init system contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of systemd.
Of course I can. I never memorized the link to this thread but I know how to find it.
Some philosophical thoughts. The internet implements the innate quality of our consciousnesses to unite and act as one, and surveillance corresponds to omniscience when anyone can see and think with eyes and minds of others, seeing and knowing everything as a result. However, some among us are very grabby: their vision of omniscience is a one-side mirror type of surveillance and their vision of united consciousness is a hive-type central will ruling others.
Same here with Yakuake. It's always there
Head shaking can result in, or, be a symptom of group-think. It’s important for scientists to realize the importance of public relations due to funding.

If the public is interested in the origin of life, contemplating aliens or distant stars seem about as interesting, especially in regards to the Fermi paradox.
Not being able to use soap is a myth, and re-seasoning a pan hardly ever needs to be done unless you're seeing bare metal.

After a hard scrubbing, put it on the stovetop, drizzle a small amount of oil in there, and high heat for a minute. Push the oil around with a paper towel. Your pan won't rust.

Use a metal scrubber and you probably don't need to use soap in the first place.
If it's tougher than iron, why are they planning to use a magnet to retrieve it?
To be fair, if you're not going to Google it, you're probably more of a popular media reader anyway. There are no pictures in the paper to look at.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07224
Financial anonymity is _actually bad_. KYC and anti-money-laundering regulations and etc. are _actually good_. These positions are the result of thousands of years of human history and economic activity. Ignore them at your peril (shrug)
A perfect venue for this kinda thing was http://dorkbotsea.org/ now it looks like it might be https://seattlerobotics.org/
iPhones in general and the SE line in particular have excellent battery longevity, physical durability and long-term support e.g. security patches.
The word content has been mangled so much it merely means "audiovisual stimulus" now. No substance needs to be involved.
The issue is that I want to cook with far less fats, not enough for cast iron to be viable. On top of that, it's easy to get cast iron to leach with acids and in some cases the seasoning can also be toxic.
$1.5M ain’t much depending on your priors and how much you value the discovery of extraterrestrial tech.
I use Konsole when I use Plasma and urxvt when I use Xmonad. Konsole is a no-brainer, it comes with the desktop environment and I like the ctrl+/ctrl- shortcuts to change the font size.

urxvt is more customizable, when I feel like it (that's also the case for Xmonad, now that I think about it).
Agree xterm is a great terminal. It supports Unicode and all kinds of font and style configurations, uses few resources, and is really fast. Personally I found it to be the most responsive, better than (u)rxvt and st.
Get iPhone SE, put it in a good armor, 5 years of expected life, maybe more. Will probably need to replace the battery once.
Do we want no one contemplating the n>1 theory of life in the universe?
In the Netherlands (where I live) most stations have gates. When you check in with ov-chipkaart [1], 10 or 20 euro are debited until you check out and the fare is settled. However, you have 60 minutes to check out at the same station without being charged. Is that so difficult?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OV-chipkaart
Tilix: https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix
Wait. Can't you name ranges in Sheets??
> spying on the populace is bipartisan

Because of attitudes like this. Political nihilism never won any battles.
Some of ours are pretty heavy too. We also have some stainless steel pots and pans we use a lot and they're quite a bit lighter. But I should also mention we stopped using aluminum cookware back then too.
Asteroid mining seems like it would become a necessary endeavor once uranium becomes too expensive to extract on earth. I'd bet big that humanity can figure out profitable asteroid mining within the next 100 years!
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019arXiv190407224S/abstra...

The payload:

"
Based on the CNEOS catalog of bolide events, we identify the ∼0.45m meteor detected at 2014-01-08 17:05:34 UTC as originating from an unbound hyperbolic orbit with 99.999\% confidence. The U.S. Department of Defense has since verified that "the velocity estimate reported to NASA is sufficiently accurate to indicate an interstellar trajectory... Its high LSR speed implies a possible origin from the deep interior of a planetary system or a star in the thick disk of the Milky Way galaxy."
"
I made a comparison between the two, so hopefully you can infer that.
>are those proprietary drivers and kernel bits all getting patched after the official support ends?

proprietary drivers/blobs: no way in hell

kernel: since the kernel is GPL, you can theoretically patch it yourself but it's a massive undertaking.
I don't what to be that hipster guy needlessly advocating for cast iron, but why don't you use that pan for eggs?

I don't properly season my pan, and while my eggs don't slide off like they would on nonstick, they usually come off in one piece, albumen and all.

I clean my pan with a stiff bristled brush, no soap.
The seasoning of pans is also a cancer risk in some cases. The seasoning is basically a polymer you're bodging together from random organic chemicals in your food.
Before Snowden people with a clue about the possibility of pervasive surveillance were derided as wearing tinfoil hats. Now we have pervasive use of TLS which makes it harder to pick data off of any random wire.
I'm being hyperbolic and trying to add levity. My broader point is that I've experienced -- first-hand -- that some people don't respect "Focus Time" as a legit reason to miss _their_ meeting and inconvenience them to find a different time. They might not schedule over it, but they'll slack and ask you if you can join anyway, creating more speed bumps and awkward conversations. People generally don't slack you to ask "Can you miss your Vendor Review to come to our Marketing Brainstorm?" You don't have to go full-on deceptive and make up fake meeting names -- that was a bit of humor -- someone else on this thread suggested "Unavailable," which is probably equally effective.
Me too, but mostly out of laziness and because its good enough once you change the color scheme, disable the menu bar and reduce font size slightly. Also set a very large scrollback buffer.
> writers who are way out of their depths and horribly wrong about what they are writing (e.g., Jared Diamond).

Could you elaborate a bit?

Myself I found his books quite compelling. I'm of course not an anthropologist, historian etc. so I may be missing something big.
Startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned
Tricking AI Image Recognition – Computerphile
I suppose because they didn't say it was less magnetic than iron?
Me too, although as far as I can tell it's unmaintained at the moment.
My Samsung S9 is chugging along just fine besides a diminished battery and screen burnin from reddit.
Yeah I thought it was obvious that I meant that as far as I could tell they didn’t have the information yet, but I’m interested to see what unfolds. Anyone reading my statement to mean that they should already be reporting the motive is projecting something, IMHO.
Ctrl+Shift+vErtical
Ctrl+Shift+hOrizontal

I just run Terminator in a window maximized and the above shortcuts and Ctrl+D when necessary are more than enough.
st as well. Works decent, is small.
> I see how little I saw before.

I have a similar feeling when I focus on drawing for animation. Suddenly you see all the detail, color, and beauty in a tiny insignificant flower growing around a parking lot that most people don’t even notice is there.
I use plain xterm as well. With 6x13 aka 'fixed' bitmap font.

Clean, simple, fast. I don't want background images, or transparency, or beautifully rendered fonts: I want to be able to clearly distinguish characters with minimum mental/visual effort, and pack as many of them into the available screen real-estate as I can see.

I also turn off color highlighting, which I don't find useful (in a shell).

My prompt is a simple '> ': no directory, no git, no venv -- I don't need to have that in my face all day long.

Years ago, I also chose an unusual color scheme: yellow text and dark blue background. This is based on the observation that human visual acuity peaks in the yellow/orange, and troughs in the blue, and so yellow on blue takes the least effort to see.
Art Twitter is angry that they’re about to lose their jobs… oh wait
Same was said about the B-2 stealth bomber program: its cost was so high that a popular conspiracy story was that much of the funds go to something really advanced and thus not even spoken of publicly.
I'm using an iPhone 5S right now and will be upgrading to an iPhone SE this week as it's getting kinda difficult to get all the apps there.
But GCP, specifically? Isn't it a perpetual also-ran to AWS and Azure?
> I would have thought "jira" was two syllables

It is in fact two syllables.

Fun fact: Gojira is the combination of 'Go' of 'Gorilla' and 'jira' of 'kujira' (whale). It is said, kujira comes from the combination of old Japanese 'ku' (black) and 'shira' (white) aka 'black white' after the coloration of killer whales. So at some level Jira derives from the word "white". I could probably trace back the roots for shira a bit, but I need to get some work done.
I too choose this guys dumbly leaded comment

(Lead makes you dumb)
They have those. They're iPhones. I'm using an iPhone 8+. My wife is using my old iPhone 5s. I changed the battery on the 5s but that's it.
At some point I got hooked to kde konsole because it allows you to hide everything: hide the scroll bar, hide the menu, hide the tabs. Nothing but window decoration & a terminal.

Oh and my terminal window is slightly transparent. There is a sweet spot where I can still read e.g. this text through the terminal (if need be) while not getting annoyed by the transparency.

That plus I still have all the abilities of a "fancy" terminal emulator: tabs, large scroll window, hyperlink klicking, ....
Probably not already. Current AI is fast enough to read, watch, and listen to the entirety of human communication and media, but dumb enough that despite consuming a significant fraction of everything humans have put on the internet, they still only operate at the level of someone with medium-stage Alzheimer's (based on my experience caring for a relative with that).

(Of course, that does suggest we're merely an algorithmic breakthrough from something genuinely transformative).
You should email them so they can fix it asap
> if the Snowden leaks couldn't get the ball moving to rein them in, what can?

Things happened. Encryption went mainstream, particularly in tech. Some minor but meaningful limits on dragnet surveillance were passed.

Privacy has a problem of political nihilism. I worked on initiatives years ago. Simply getting people to show up to town halls led to endless bullshit about how America is hopelessly corrupt and why should they bother with a meaningless measure. Then the guys pushing a chicken farming bill show up and they all have flags and some are in costumes and they offer to petition and join the phone banks in her next campaign should she back the bill… Is there any reason for an elected to entertain the former?
Yeah, I did this too. It's not that surprising considering that typically end-users only interact with phony targets (all, clean, install, etc).
Alacritty, because the config is simple YAML and it can display with zero window embellishments or other UI. It's great for tiling window managers in particular.

The font rendering is great and you can adjust padding, margin, etc. to tweak readability for your tastes. I'm a fan of plain background with good contrast color, larger than normal font, and a clean one character wide padding around the terminal. It feels a lot like a web browser display. I hate terminals that go for the smallest possible font and super dense output.
Formal WASM: WASM 2.0 and Beyond
ha! I was gonna mention that movie here but I don't know what to make of this. This professor seems legitimately convinced its possible but who will believe him?
Would you quit a job three months in?
Hi. Not sure if HN is the right place to ask this but would you quit a job three months in? The job per se is not too bad but the immediate bosses are insufferable.

Put another way if I was past the 2 year watermark I wouldn't even wonder. I'd just start looking but getting out so soon I'm afraid it's going to tank my chances.
It's not like 1984 at all. You're missing the important half of the equation. No one's (at an aggregate level) getting Room 101ed from it.
The megaflood is not very hard to imagine. If I recall correctly the town of Ross in Marin County California got 29 inches of rain in the month of January 1993. The Sierra Nevada got much more in places. Highway 88 up to Carson Pass was like a canyon in places with 15 foot walls of snow on either side.

California does not normally get a huge amount of rain even in the winter, but when it does the storms are massive.
It must feel liberating to view the world in such black and white terms
Using this table for reference and the fact that proper smartcards like banking cards and SIM cards are secure I'm pretty confident calling modern CA systems secure too. If some providers don't have one of those, then it's probably because it's not worth it for them to switch or upgrade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_access#Digital_sys...

EDIT: More than that, some recent ones even solved so called 'card sharing' which is basically using a legitimate card to transmit control words over network to many users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_sharing
iPhone, and self control

My iPhone is 4 years old now and works just fine.
gpt3, write an articles about why people shouldn't work from home:

Although working from home has its perks, there are several reasons why it’s not the best idea. First, working from home can be very isolating. You can miss out on important office camaraderie and water cooler talk. Second, it can be difficult to stay focused when you’re working in your PJs. Without a set schedule or routine, it’s easy to get sidetracked by laundry, dishes, and other household chores. Third, working from home can make it harder to “switch off” at the end of the day. When your work and home life are in the same place, it can be hard to leave work at the office. Lastly, working from home can put a strain on your personal relationships. If you’re constantly working, your partner or family can start to feel like they’re taking a backseat to your job.
You’d be surprised!

I have a lot of vintage hardware, and run a NetBSD server primarily as a way to boot it up over the network in either its original operating system or to run NetBSD. For example, I have some Sun-3 and Sun-4 (pre-SPARCstation) systems on which I’ll run both NetBSD and SunOS, some VAX and HP hardware where I’ll use netbooted NetBSD to image internal or attached disks, etc.
I used the terminal in gVim (:terminal). It's pretty close to xterm in terms of responsiveness, supports Unicode, and lets you avoid a multiplexer like GNU screen or tmux. Fallback is good old xterm (always have a fallback).
My OnePlus 5T (2017) is still alive and kicking. No unnecessary glass, rear fingerprint sensor, 3.5mm jack. It has an unlocked bootloader. I am running LineageOS and the last software update was three days ago. Honestly this sounds more like a you problem.