skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My startup is working on solutions to crop failure scenarios such as from a nuclear war.
Unfortunately we calculate there are probable outcomes where the only reasonable course of action is for one selected group to actually consume parts of the population in order to survive a nuclear winter.
And so we’re building an automated system to take a newly deceased human being and create as many wholesome and nutritious meals from the remains as possible, in a dignified manner. We’re also trying to figure out how the consumption could play out in an orderly fashion where the old and those with non communicable diseases (but are never the less dependent at a time where the burden is too great for society), can be respectfully consumed first, and then in order of value to a future society, with those scoring least being respectfully consumed first, and so on.

We are envisioning a type of sleeping capsule with a cover that seals the user from the elements and fallout materials, providing clean air, heat and water. These could be deployed quickly. As the starvation continues the capsules would, every other night, fairly, amongst those of an equal social value, reduce the oxygen during sleep for a painless and stress free passing, and then alert others in the prospect to convert the remains into new rations.

It’s out there, but we’re serious. Based on reasonable logic in a bad situation. Important, but nobody seems to care. When 5 billion people have nothing left to eat then they’ll care.
Discord is way better than Slack for B2C if you're reaching that demographic.

I'm running my start-up via Discord and it's grown to a 60,000-member community. Incredible engagement. Fantastic way to find customers and business use cases, too.

For "enterprise", we run a separate instance for staff with lots of useful Github, Clickup, and other integrations.
> Do you know why it's a resource hog? Is it the nature of Ruby (that appears to be what they use) vs php, or is it because it tries to be an SPA that has no pagination?

Ruby dev for 15 years here. Ruby is definitely slow, but in 2022 it's "tens of milliseconds to answer an HTTP request" slow.

They chose a javascript framework that turned out to be outrageously slow.
Shameless plug. I'm building this, a fun but curricular platform for games focused on mathematics grades 8 onwards. Please check https://pledu.co/trigo-shooter (no login needed). The game levels are designed to gradually expose you to one concept at a time. Currently live with 3 games on Trigonometry, Vectors, co-ordinate geometry. I am all ears for feedback!
When you are an undergrad, Wikipedia is magic. When pursuing a PhD you realise how much of wiki is not completely accurate.
There is 5GB limit for that offer. It's really low limit for any existing community. We end up asking for hosting sposorship from DigitalOcean and self-hosting Discourse there.

Yeah discourse SaaS owe us nothing, but their free offer is unfortunately very much useless for any existing community. And even with 50%-off 50$ is quite pricey for hobby non-profit open source project.
The brief status of Debian riscv porting – 2022/08/26
Funny enough I was just reading the book "In Plain Sight" [1] before I flipped over to hacker news. It's a book about the serious investigation into UAPs by various governments, and is heavily sourced, with often times a half dozen references per page, many official and declassified sources. It's hard to come out of reading it without being strongly convinced that these UAP are not of human or natural origin.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57734614

Edit: really curious if any of the downvoters could mention their rationale.
>You could use the same argument to advocate for recreational drugs

...and it would still be accurate.
> I think you are just paraphrasing his point, so don't take this as a shot in your direction, but anybody who remembers computers 20 years ago being faster either has some serious rose tinted glasses, or was not using computers 20 years ago... You can still use a text editor and vim at least is still pretty snappy.

This is a single analysis from a single person, but if you look at empiric data for latency in terminal text input, there is a pretty significant negative trend over time: https://danluu.com/input-lag/
Well, what you said applies even if you are paying for something, if the price is unsustainable for the service provider at scale.

The real question you have to ask is, "is my use of this service providing a sustainable benefit for the owner". If not, you can guarantee it will go away or change eventually. If it is, it's probably OK even if its free. For example, I don't expect Google search to go away, even though it's free.
Why wouldn’t you?
There's already a robust ecosystem around digital control of model locomotives. It's actually impressive that they managed to get to more or less unified industry-wide standard (DCC) -- locomotives can be addressed individually and told to go at specific speeds or blow horns/lights.

The track just carries a fixed AC voltage overlaid with the digital signal.

I understand the problem is that it's not really amenable to bidirectional comms-- so returning video might need to go wireless.
As a moderate user of both, they seem almost indistinguishable to me. Slack probably has more integration with productivity tools and a better auditing/compliance story, but it’s not at all obvious to me that Discord couldn’t become a drop in replacement.
by disclosing it early you mean two weeks later
Surprisingly, yes.

The Romans were remarkably good at glassware. This was one of the things that caught me off-guard when visting museums dedicated to ancient Rome vs ancient Greece. You go from no glass at all to lots of glass. Of course, I would say "suddenly", but in reality that's something like 7 centuries.

In addition, there's no real limit to the development of glass technology. Silica and wood are abundant. Trial and error will get you a very long way. And pretty things generally sell for nice money so there is lots of incentive.
Not credible from the BlenderBot company.
Ask! Create an issue if there's a tracker or send a short email explaining what you want to do and see if they're open to the idea, have more questions, or aren't interested in supporting it. No need to overthink formalities (although a quick "thanks for xyz" never hurt anyone's feelings), just be polite and concise.
> After the election story turns out to be 100% true

Not entirely. The laptop was real, yes, but at the time Trumpists were claiming it had everything from evidence of Biden's conspiracy to steal the election to his child porn stash. This wasn't a story about Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, it was a story about his son that the Trumpists hoped would destroy his candidacy somehow.

Given how much deliberate disinformation and BS the Trump camp was putting out at the time (Sharpiegate? Dominion voting machines? Boxes full of fake ballots?) the reaction to the briefcase shouldn't surprise anyone. Of course, most of what was claimed about the briefcase was still false, because it was mostly an attempt at repeating the character assassination by proxy of the DNC email scandal. If you want to blame anyone, blame the messengers for crying wolf so often.
hack code, roll out app updates... you see where this is going?
This. Prestige is part of it, but considering that ACC has only a couple of North American routes and a handful of European routes, a flight to Heathrow is a huge win: it brings one-stop connectivity to most of the world. By contrast, a flight to Gatwick means a deeply unappealing cross-London transfer to make those connections.
I used to live at a place where the airport was serviced exclusively by the MD-80. That is possibly the worst aircraft I've ever experienced. The noise, the vibration, is just awful. You can't even hear the flight attendant ask if you would like something to drink.

Delta kept that plane around in passenger service far, far too long. It should have been banned from the skies long ago.

I rejoiced when I found out the MD-80 was retired due to reduced demand from COVID. Apparently some South American carriers still use it for passenger service, so I guess I'll just have to wait a few more decades before I can be fully safe from having to experience that misery.
Self plug, but here's a PAM module I made for using gpg for login: https://gitlab.com/rendaw/pamgpgr . I've been using it for a couple years for sudo I think (yubikey).

The code is fairly small so it can be an example for doing other PAM things too.
If you're into senseless cursed technology like I am, you can install OpenCore's OpenDuetPkg onto a flash drive and use it as an emulated EFI environment with drivers, to load rEFInd to boot off a NVMe drive installed into a mPCIe slot, on computers predating EFI, let alone NVMe. The general approach is to follow https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/installer-... on a Mac (the Windows instructions produce a "BOOT MISMATCH!" warning and a 3-second delay, and there are no Linux instructions, and I don't know how to properly format the disks on Linux, though BootInstall_ARCH.tool should be easily portable to Linux), but after following https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/installer-..., extract a rEFInd archive (not ISO) into EFI/OC/, and rename the correct architecture's .efi file to EFI/OC/OpenCore.efi.

I haven't had much luck configuring OpenCore itself as an EFI bootloader, and having it find any of the USB/SATA/NVMe drives I have plugged in. I'm told you have to tailor the configuration carefully to the exact hardware you have since OpenCore is emulating a Mac-like EFI rather than generic PC, and that no generic configuration will work properly on all computers. I haven't tried using OpenCore for actual Hackintoshing.
Russia halted issuing biometric passports to citizens abroad
Integrating Stable Diffusion in Photoshop for Human/AI Collaboration
Well hey, one possible answer to the Fermi paradox is that there isn't one.
yea at this point it is about how well it is handled, and transparency of the incident. Currently I am seeing support staff on LP reddit complain about customers attitudes. I am done. moving my partner off LP, I was out to Bitwarden some time back but didnt have a reason to force her into a change, til now.
HPG 2022 Keynote: The Journey to Nanite – Brian Karis, Epic Games
>Galileo was famously a jerk but it's not really relevant.

I think it is relevant. It shows that Jerks have important information that shouldn't be censored. The difference here is, I'm not being a jerk. People just like to think that way when they're told they're wrong. Nobody likes being told that they're utterly wrong.

>You are not Galileo limning new celestial truths

Yeah I'm declaring an even simpler truth. That Owen is unlikely to become one of the greatest programmers in the world. It's quite unlikely and even for a minor statement like that I'm getting a warning.

>it's not that complicated.

Isn't this mean? I mean are you implying that this concept is so complicated that I can't comprehend it? I obviously have enough intelligence to understand your point, so by saying this you're insulting me. Now you're a jerk. That's my interpretation.

We both know I'm trying to push for less restrictive rules around speech. It's better to address that point rather then endlessly repeating "don't be a jerk.". And, honestly, I wasn't really even a jerk.

>being asked nicely not to be a jerk on a public forum is not like being excommunicated

Dang issues a warning first, then shadow bans next, that's how he operates. He has records and I just got marked. That's what happened here. It wasn't just "asking nicely."
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1529...
> “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room.“

> ~ Socrates

I wonder if we will have a generation without these doomsayers. Every generation there are claims that everything is falling apart and not as good as it used to be. Literally every single one. Yet society continues to advance and move forward regardless. Maybe it’s time we start ignoring the curmudgeons despite their successes when they were still relevant.

The kids are alright. Yes, even the ones who use TikTok.
It's very similar to Salesforce's Heroku move. They either just don't care about that sales funnel and they remove it completely or they will keep squeezing until they kill it.
I think there are a bunch of decent uses for that, like rich text editors (eg select text, hit ctrl-b, and the text is bolded).

There are also some sites that popup a small box above your selection with a share box. Straight to hell with those. Compulsive selectors go mad on those sites. That's you, medium.com.
I don't get this attitude. For an open source projects, especially ones not funded, properly utilizing free tools is key to success.
hacked two weeks ago is what I am seeing. and they are still using words like "probably okay" wherever I look for answers. I havent had an email update from LP since the word salad notification they sent out yday that told me absolutely nothing but vagueries.
Rare plants, and cultivating (not a pun) biological diversity.

For example, there are hundreds of varieties of tomato. There are wild tomatoes from the Andes Mountains to the Everglades. There are thousands of varieties of brassica (a huge genus of plants that includes bok choy, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kohlrabi, cabbage, rutabaga, and turnip, etc.)

I was just hearing from the proprietor of a seed company that many of the old guard are retiring and some are having trouble finding people to carry the torch.
I mean, Mary Poppins came to the house of an English banker in the early 1900s... I can't think of a worst neighborhood in terms of criminals...
For how political Wikipedia already is maybe this can only help?
Not all software should be or can be free. If you’re using a FREE product you should have zero expectation of service or reliance on that product.
An additional aspect of C that I really appreciate is that if something can be conceptually realized, it can be implemented in C. This is not the case with many other languages where you are often constrained by them - either accidentally or intentionally, for safety or other reasons. In most cases you will end up having to write a C shim to do the deed and make available libraries to the other language. C toys the rescue, again!
Javascript in those days was far slower and needed much more memory and power than native languages. Nothing in your link suggested otherwise.
The main competitor of your paid product cannot be your free product.
I mean that several of the largest witch trials in human history were Catholic, particularly in southern Germany. Witch trials were a regional phenomena, not a catholic or protestant one. There were many witch trials in protestant Scotland, but few in the protestant Netherlands. There were many witch trials in catholic Germany, but few in Spain. Attributing the witch trials to the protestant revolution itself is bad history.

> I'm not a Catholic, you can't goad me into taking a side. I'm observing from outside.

I'm not christian either.
it's better in all ways including export and backup solutions
Don't mistake me for a religious person. I think it's the bane of mankind. My point is that despite this, trying to ban it is counter productive.
coredumpctl and gdb aren't very useful at debugging out-of-memory situations. I've had better luck running plasmashell under heaptrack (koute likes to advertise bytehound but it hasn't worked on the programs I tried it on, though I've never reported the bugs). Unfortunately heaptrack usually just indicates that allocations are coming from the QV4 JS engine (since plasmashell, like GNOME Shell, is written substantially in JS), rather than giving me a C++ stack trace. You can try heaptrack on GNOME Shell as well, but you may not have much better luck considering that shell extensions are written in JS (it's possible you'll get a usefully-sized C++ stack trace telling you what resource the JS code is leaking).
> using the credentials they gave you, and almost certainly uses TLS also

Ah yes, doh.
The one that sticks out in my mind is the one with the guy that bought a motorcycle helmet with fake safety certifications off Amazon and got in a serious accident. I can't find any articles about it, but, IIRC, the lawsuit was decided in favor of Amazon, so maybe it's been scrubbed from the internet.

Fake, unsafe stuff is rampant:

1. (Paywall) https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-has-ceded-control-of-its...

2. https://www.npr.org/2018/09/16/647377213/fake-bike-helmets-c...

3. https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/tech/amazon-fake-kids-product...
According to the commit message, yes.
> but anybody who remembers computers 20 years ago being faster either has some serious rose tinted glasses, or was not using computers 20 years ago.

Or they're using something like the grade book in Canvas, a very popular LMS, and finding that it is in fact slower than GeoCalc on a C-64.
I can imagine it's not been analysed so we're all assuming it's just "impossible".

Sometimes you just need to do the boring work so it's done. The Linux kernel is one of the most important pieces of software on the planet - limiting it's performance and safety due to C's string handling legacy is madness.
How is this different from https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html?
I'm not religious anymore but this feel applicable:

> Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. - Matthew 7:5

(Sorry, I grew up on KJV, it what I remember and what sounds right in my head)
It does not. Attention is a limited good, not capital. Capital is capital.
My experience is that discord is basically just a vector for scammers to directly message me.
Don't forget the original USENIX paper: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix99/full_papers/mi...
I found that my Discourse instance consistently took ~250 milliseconds to display the forum post list (according to the little box at the top left corner). After getting annoyed with Discourse, I went back to Invision Forum and I see about ~95 ms for the same thing, including sending the response to my browser.
Isn’t that one of the very things that make these things insecure? Bitwarden doesn’t do anything until I explicitly ask it to.
> Later sail warships mostly didn't use triangular sails either.

Presumably the whole "fabric is ferociously expensive" problem.
I had a CTO who told me that "anytime someone says something will be simple because it uses XML, just repeat what they said and use the word text instead of XML. Then tell me if it sounds smart."
I wish we used Discord for work.
It’s superior to Slack, MS Teams and googles chat thing by far.
Or just use Docbook and the standard, open pipelines for publication to print and web.
My position is that the problem lies with the listener, not the speaker. I looked up Joseph H. Manson. At a glace that looks like exactly what OP was talking about.
anybody used this? i still have found 0 software that beats the ease of use, discoverability, simplicity, power and overall ux of Capcut and that's mobile. tbh i'd prefer desktop if i could find it so this could be cool.
Element [0] is the main/most popular client. FluffyChat [1] is also good. They both have web, Android, iOS, and desktop (Electron) apps. There are at least a dozen other clients but those are the only two I've tried so far.

For hosting, I believe the flagship host is Element Matrix Services [2]. It's made by the same organization that leads development (it is all FOSS) of Element and the reference server Synapse.

You can also self-host. Synapse is pretty slow and memory-hungry (it's written in Python), but for a small group it still fits pretty comfortably on a $5 DigitalOcean VPS. That's what I'm doing. It took less than an afternoon to set up (`apt install synapse` and then setting some config, mainly—there are a bunch of good guides online) and has been happily running ever since. Matrix is federated, so as long as you set up federation properly, you can seamlessly message anyone on any federated Matrix server. (Federation is opt-in.)

There's also Dendrite and Conduit, Matrix servers written in Go and Rust respectively, which are much leaner and faster. Both are still in beta and missing some features, but are definitely usable.

If you want to mess around with bots, I've had a lot of fun with both the Matrix Rust SDK [3] and JavaScript bot SDK [4]. Both are quite easy to get started with, and as of a few months ago both support E2EE pretty painlessly too (not totally pain-free though lol), which is cool.

Overall, the ecosystem is still maturing imo, but I've been using self-hosted Synapse and Element "in production"—it's me and my girlfriend's primary method of communication—for over a year now with only some minor UX hiccups (mostly issues decrypting E2EE messages in Element). I definitely encourage giving it a shot as long as you're willing to tolerate a few remaining growing pains.

[0]: https://fluffychat.im/

[1]: https://element.io/get-started

[2]: https://element.io/matrix-services

[3]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk

[4]: https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-bot-sdk
Copying industry from other countries is not the same as developing one itself. Japan's military in WW2 was pretty lightly armed, and the rest of the country was not terribly prosperous. Nothing like the postwar prosperity Japan enjoyed.
I have a full rack, all cooled, runs pretty quiet. It all just comes down to design. If you just stick in old random enterprise gear, you'll have a bad time.
But part of the point of the article is that nuclear is unnecessarily expensive. And I would guess if we had put as many resources into R&D for nuclear fission as we had into wind and solar, nuclear would be a lot more economical today.
Or KeePass/KeePassXC which requires no hosting and is also free.
If the developers themselves don’t “ship” changes to any copy of their repository outside of their own privately accessible space, the (perceived from their perspective) problem is solved.
Privacy violations like this are not something that Debian will take sitting down. Firstly its the sort of thing you can get in GDPR trouble for. Secondly we already do a lot of things to reduce privacy violations, for eg we already add patches to make Mozilla's telemetry opt-in, we already patch lots of offline documentation to remove privacy issues etc, but there are of course many more issues to fix.

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues
This is brilliant and a welcome repost.

As a developer with superannuated eyes and a penchant for side-by-side diffs, I am disappointed to see that the supplemental deep abyss contains “80 columns”. Damn kids with their memes and 5pt fonts shakes fist!
Wait, what? So they convert from DOCX to PDF after you upload? But you have to upload DOCX? This sounds like the worst of both worlds.
Building nuclear plants requires that the government remove legal and regulatory hurdles that stifle them, like endless lawsuits.
That might all be true but it distracts from the original point - the FBI helped suppress information about a candidate prior to a Presidential election under the claim it was “disinformation” but had no evidence it was. They just said "it looks like Russian disinformation".

That should worry anyone no matter who you voted for.

Sure, the Trump side may be guilty of twisting it into something it's not, but I'm pretty sure "let's have the FBI suppress true stories to stop them from being twisted for political gain" is a terrible way to address it.
Much of the time using a flashlight is superfluous, or even counter-productive, if it's not pitch black, unless you have very poor night vision. Your eyes will never adjust to the dark and you will end up seeing less.