skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is the conclusion I keep coming to also; anything we develop that makes mars habitable would do so infinitely more effectively and easily here on earth.

I guess that's not sexy

but there is a part of me that looks on this planet with fresh eyes when I learn more about the universe. What we have is astonishingly beautiful and we will miss it terribly if leaving became the only option.

So logically, emotionally, we shouldn't be looking at mars as longingly as we do.
Yglesias may be on to something here, but I think his concept of "math", although more that simple memorization of arithmetic facts, is too simplistic. We all have as many calculators in our pockets as we want. We should do a little memorization, then turn to why the adding, multiplication, etc, algorithms work and how we know that. Symbolic logic should be a large topic, as should statistics.
I think it's a dream that's basically held over from the days when technology used to solve problems and we imagined using it to advance humanity.
If you don't want to trust Bitwarden with your data, you can self-host a server yourself (either running the official server [1] or the compatible Vaultwarden [2]).

[1]: https://github.com/bitwarden/server

[2]: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
Then why are their economy and financial sectors sinking so fast? Can't they just order it corrected?
Not keepass, but you can self-host Bitwarden using `vaultwarden`, an open-source reimplementation of the server (the official server is also partially open source, but complex to install and run - this one is a simple binary you can run), which works with the official client apps.
the 'user story' presented:

- didn't identify the user
- did't identify why the user needs a more generic api
- what a more generic api would look like
...
etc

Granted, it was just a quick demonstrative HN post, not an actual user story being handed to an engineer -- but it was very much framed as a incredibly open ended task.

I personally have mixed feelings on user stories vs tasks when it comes to the backend. Most managerial folk I've dealt with have an aversion to using anything internal to the company as a 'user' -- taking 'customer' a bit too literally.

In the grand scheme of things, I don't care...I've reached an exhaustion point with pedantry around tickets. Is it clear what needs doing? Is it clear what done means? Great.
> It'll be quite a trick to be able to animate a dead planet to life if one can't keep a live planet from dying

Common refrain is about the folly of trying to fix human problems with technology. Earth is a human problem. We can fix it. But the politics are difficult. Mars is a technology problem. Our species is better at the latter than the former. In any case, the aims are far from competitive.
A few year ago I was syncing keepass over http (it's built in keepass) with a Apache httpd and webdav module.
Configuration was not really tricky and worked flawlessly.
I even managed to use a yubikey on sync request.
>I kept thinking that there's a fun game in here, but not with the current rules/deck.

Exactly what I thought as a preschooler.

We had a neighbor with another preschooler and they had a treasure trove of toys left over from his older brothers who were more than 10 years older.

But Mille Bornes was not one of the old ones, it was like new and nobody had ever gotten much use out of it.

This was why, and we quickly made up entirely new games using the cards in combination with a number of other rapidly emerging plastic playthings.
I agree if we’re considering the prior probability of lab leak vs. spillover, where priors can be informed by e.g. laboratory biosecurity track record and such.

However, what about the prior probability of a good-faith statement in presence of a strong conflict of interest? Having no ability to directly verify the truth, wouldn’t you require stronger evidence if you were to rely on that statement in your decision-making?
Well I'm reading between the lines a bit, but one of the WebAssembly high-level goals [1] is to "access browser functionality through the same Web APIs that are accessible to JavaScript" and "Once GC is supported, WebAssembly code would be able to reference and access JavaScript, DOM, and general WebIDL-defined objects."

[1] https://webassembly.org/docs/web/
Yeah but it has the advantage of everything being 100% sustainable from the beginning. All water and oxygen will need to be recycled, etc.
Reason #368 why I cover all cameras and disable mics by default, and only uncover/enable when in use.
> His main argument is difficulties during data migrations which he frequently encounters

He's just kicking bugs down the road. That's not engineering.
Python doesn't have anything remotely close to this problem, as you can't (reasonably) write Python for the browser.

JavaScript has this problem because it's actually a somewhat attainable goal.

The main problem is that once you run into a problem not explicitly solved for by whatever Node.js framework that's holding your hand, you're in deep trouble, very quickly, unless you have a more "classical" software development background.
KeePassXC is one of the best pieces of software out there. Does exactly what it needs to do, runs on every device I've ever owned, and has been independently audited for implementation weaknesses.

It's not just great FOSS software, it's just straight up great software.
How do UK and Israel startups handle their compliances?
Anyone here that has worked with UK or Israeli startups

I need some help regarding how they handle compliances

Do they use a tool or do it manually, Do they prioritise any compliances over others?

Compliances like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR & PCI DSS
I have a webcam for capturing pictures on my "desktop", so browser could use that. Not sure if it would be useful
Ivy Zelman's predictions are pretty interesting, but she admits that the way builders respond will have a large impact on what comes next.

Also I read her paper on housing demographics and I'm personally not sure she compensates for all immigration sufficiently.
The movie was very clear that predators in this universe were not naturally violent.

It's at best on par with prejudice towards people from a country that previously invaded your own.
IOW, it's a weird SV bubble thing.

I get the idea that most developers in SV don't know C#/.Net, that happens everywhere. Some areas are java, some .net, some Ruby/Python.

What I was surprised about was this weird rationalization that C#/.Net was somehow dangerous to a startup. Not only is that not true, C#/.Net is going to be better for a startup long term due to the stability that comes with that ecosystem that you flat don't get in ruby, python, js, etc.

There is absolutely nothing outside of the hiring difficulty that would ever cause problems for a startup wrt to C#/.Net.
Why many AAA studios opt out STL
The fundamental problem with any of these p2p-hosting solutions is that most devices folks use these days are battery-powered. Any solution that requires a persistent connection or intermittent network wake-ups to achieve even semi-decent performance won't make it, and if you overcome that hurdle you still won't be able to count on most of the devices downloading content to also serve content. No-one's gonna sacrifice battery life to make the distributed Web dream happen.

They seem a lot more useful for internal infra of hosting providers, though for IPFS in particular I expect the performance isn't consistent enough to be a suitable solution for most of those use cases.
>So, now, to the Fermi paradox: where are they (the intelligent extraterrestrial life we should have met by now)? Stuck, perhaps, in a gravity well?

Why should we have met them by now? Even if they have a planet significantly smaller than earth, they still need to escape their star, and then spend years in space - without any breakdowns or hitting anything. There are only a handful of stars within 5 light years -that is 5 years at the speed of life (relativity gets interesting if you can actually get that fast), but realistically they can't get going that fast with rockets, so we are talking thousands of years to make the trip. Assuming they are very advanced they left when they first detected life on earth - a bit over 100 years ago radio signals from us would have reached them. Even if they are only 5 light years away it is impossible that we met them yet.

Once you look at some alien more than 10 light years we cannot really establish meaningful science communications as our advances mean anything we are interested in we probably figure out already. (we can still exchange culture) At 50-60 light years out, they can't even get a message back to us now that they know we are here. Once you get to a bit over 100 they don't know we are here yet no matter how sensitive their radios are.

In short there is no Fermi paradox: there might or might not be life out there, but they don't even know we are here, and it they couldn't reach us if they did.
> anything we develop that makes mars habitable would do so infinitely more effectively and easily here on earth

This experiment turns CO2 into oxygen and expels CO. How is that “infinitely more effective and eas[y] here on Earth”?
Pornhub it's almost every company for online under several names.
Far from dead. Porn industry made millions since forever, and all the new tech was in porn before the mainstream. Videoconference? First at porn sites? Online credit card usage? Porn users first. And so on.
Keepassxc and syncthing.

I sync two databases across Mac, linux, ipads, and android phones. One for work, one for personal.
I've been using KeePass on my windows PCs and Mac/IOS compatible versions on macs, iPads, and iPhones for years. I have my database on Dropbox so that all the Apple devices sync to the same file and a keep a local copy on my PC that is automatically updated from the Mac using WinSCP, a .bat file, and task scheduler. I have to do the copy thing because Dropbox reduced the number of devices that can access it directly to 3 several months ago for the free account. I even have it running on my work PC (sssshhhhhh!). Needless to say, I love it. It's features nicely fit my browsing style plus it's free.
I didn't realize that. That's a bummer. =/
Nope, didn't know about it. At first glance, it looks like the pypi package is for sending messages only. Since it's all open source, I guess it should not be too much work to get a slidge-zulip plugin working.

Feel free to open a ticket about it in slidge's todo.

https://todo.sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge

https://slidge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/tutorial.html
I can assure you that my American Express is marked as a credit card everywhere, even though it autopays itself automatically at the end of each month.
You can't do what you're describing with just HTML, but it's only a handful of lines of js to get a media stream from getUserMedia and pipe it into a video element. In fact, it's probably more HTML than js.
Actually a pity it doesn't work on the non-mobile; many of my computers have webcams now and it is kinda convenient to have this (and of course, you ought to always be able to bypass the camera as a user. really perhaps it should be part of the file picker itself but lol those things are so overloaded already)
I think it's mainly that Mars has an atmosphere, which helps shield it from radiation and asteroids, regulates the temperature, and creates weather like wind and even carbon-dioxide snow. The Moon basically doesn't have an atmosphere, which makes it a much harsher place to survive.

Mars also has more gravity than the Moon, has a day-night cycle, and has subsurface water, all of which would likely be very important to a long-term human colony.
This is a site that shows the camera feed full screen and inverts in with css

https://nega.radioac.dev/

I hacked it together in half an hour to give people a way to look at the uninverted version of my inverted analogue photos with their phones at exhibitions. most people were more excited to play with it on their phone than by the photos I took days making. :'(

[edit oops this javascript ]
I also use KeePassXC for several years now and think it is better (hey, it has dark mode!) however it doesn't support plugins so it might not be a viable solution for everyone.

I love KeePass for many reasons but one of the killer features for me is notes and encrypted attachments. It's also one of the reasons why I won't switch to applications like Bitwarden.
Not necessarily. RCE may start with being able to run ‘something’ that has restrictions such as “can’t inject code that has zero bytes in it” or “injected code can only be X bytes long”.

In such cases, having another vulnerability available may be the easiest way to get rid of those restrictions.

Also, the second vulnerability may be complementary. For example, the first may get you onto the machine, but not out of the sandbox, while the second won’t get you on the machine, but will get you out of the sandbox.

In this case, I think the go linker won’t include the never-called vulnerable function in the executable (it only would if the vulnerability checker were smarter than the linker in detecting never-called code. That’s theoretically possible, but highly unlikely)
Yes! From the interesting answers I think "scroogling" was used as a synonym for "screwing" or "gaslighting". I've never seen it used outside of the Microsoft ad campaign, so it's interesting to see it in the wild.

> scroogling
>It's human nature, if you are already predisposed to a suspicion, then the subject of that suspicion does something shady, this only confirms your suspicion.

Which is why the presumption of innocence is central to most modern judicial systems and is widely recognized as a human right. Why should we throw out that principal in this specific instance?
You might also need active cooling to be able to pump enough juice through your electromagnets to get the desired force.
This is like people claiming music theory is unnecessary. Jazz, for example, is rooted in music theory. It goes beyond it in very specific ways, but with the actual work put in to understand why.

Understanding the Hero's Journey (or the Story Circle, or the 7-Point Story Structure), and why it works is a critical foundation for moving beyond it.

Understand the Jolly Good Suggestion of Demeter before you code something that violates it. You have to understand the rules to the depth of "why" before your knowledge is deep enough to legitimately go beyond the rules.

Find the box first. Until you do that, you can't think outside of it.
> of course the science will change in the middle of new viral outbreak

No. Science very very rarely changes. The confidence in the possible explanations is what changes. They communicated low confidence information with high confidence. The trust was destroyed with, what appeared to be, a concerted effort to silence those that accurately communicated the low confidence, or presented other equally possible, and far too often eventually-correct, understandings. I think this covers all the other points, above.
There's evidence that it was neither. Blood tests of athletes that competed in the Wuhan Military games in October 2019 point to the virus circulating earlier. The timeline that much of the conversation rests on feels kind of weak.
That just makes it worse. I'm a paying customer right now. VC + focus on business means the consumer stuff dies or gets neglected to the point that it should die. All resources get moved to the high-growth parts of the business once VC enters a company. Bitwarden will not be the first to get VC to change its operating principles.
How is KeepassDX? It's on F-Droid.
Send a tree and see how it fairs... Totally different requirements.
This kind of thinking leads to a dystopian future where all of us are slaves to one giant almighty company. We already got surprisingly close to it with the power Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon have. Imagine the founders of these companies would have thought like this. How big would Microsoft be today?

Why not build a society where everybody is building their own business, and we connect them all together? Why does Google have to build their own browser? Why does Tesla have to build their own GPUs and Amazon their own datacenters?
I don't limit my screen time, although I do plenty of things away from the screen. I guess I'm fortunate -- I've never had any headache or discomfort from looking at a screen, even for 18 hours per day.

I have gotten discomfort from sitting too long, but I resolved that by setting a timer and taking a short (<5 minute) walk every hour.
The thing I don't get is: I have to imagine that no matter how badly we screw up Earth, any technologies that we build to allow us to survive on Mars could just as well be used to make Earth "livable" again for less cost. Worst-case, it's pretty much the same thing without a rocket launch.

I mean I do get the idea of defense against a cataclysmic event like an asteroid strike or wide-scale nuclear war but... That seems to be the only realistic reason to want to colonize Mars.
Related announcement that’s quite interesting IMHO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32738555
We're being nickel and dimed and upsold on high-end workstations for something that another poster in this thread already established was cheap... right up until Broadcom bought the company that made the cheap alternative chip.

It's so fucking American, isn't it? If you can't beat someone with your technical superiority, buy them out.
> What do they thing is the number one reason most people won't start their own business?

That's obvious: the number one reason most people won't start their own business is that most new businesses fail. So most people won't try it, since they expect they will fail and don't want to go through trying and failing. Only people who are outliers, often extreme outliers, in their tolerance for failure or their belief that they are exceptional and won't fail (or most likely both) will try it.
> We haven't built a completely self contained, perpetually self reliant colony in some place like Death Valley or the Arctic?

Or even just the suburbs. Being able to simply manufacture on demand a self-contained and functioning society is _extremely_ hard, even if we're trying to do it in pleasant environment where we don't have to deal with almost any environmental hazards. If we were able to do it successfully, allowing people to just sign up and have the government create a super-productive "Scienceville" wherever it wanted to in the country would be a huge game changer.

But Mars colonies are probably so far off that a lot of the difficulties are easy to ignore. NASA seems to do something similar to what a lot of tech companies do, where they tease tech seems to be just around the corner, but which they know actual implementation is very far away (remember Amazon drone delivery?).
TBH, this sounds a great deal like the visible division of professionalism in a lot of tech capacities. I wonder if the A/B divide isn’t at least partly due to the relatively binary nature of the perceived attributes of decisions, or the branching / diverging consequences of same…
The first transistor was about the size of a Raspberry Pi but I think your point still stands.
> If they were so "terrible" and "out of place" users would reject them, and they don't.

You are acting like users have a choice. For example: Microsoft Teams is an abomination of an app. It's slow, clunky, eats memory like there is no tomorrow and feels totally out of place on macOS. Still it's a huge commercial succes and I use it every day, even though as a user I absolutely hate it. I simply have to use it because my employer chose it as the company collaboration tool. And they didn't choose it because of it's incredible UX, they chose it because we already have an Office365 subscription and it was included in that, so we already paid for it anyway.

Some Electron apps have been huge commercial successes despite their terrible UX.
>Many countries have done this — do you have any examples of one of them becoming more entrepreneurial? Because I don’t think we can just assume it to be true.

Also needed is a consistent explanation that explains all the other countries doing this which have nonetheless failed to become more entrepreneurial.
Kotaku has been going downhill for years now, but yeah, it's pretty bizarre they haven't even updated the staff page
I mean it’s a webpage with html. I would like to know it’s producing the right html.

Not necessarily the content, but that the correct content is where you want it.
Now that you criticized Bitwarden for accepting the funding, please explain how is your approach different. Are you really not interested in monetization of your own product, and developing it only for the benefit of your users, without any economic incentive from your side?
You might be unsurprised to know that alternatives exist. Generally SMS/email auth or hardware token auth. (Less secure and more unwieldy respectively, but there are still surprisingly many dumbphone users with a lot of money.)
The problem I see a lot in people who have a hard time debugging is continuing to assume all of their base assumptions in the face of a bug. You've hit the bug because of assumptions, so ask yourself: which one of those assumptions, when changed or challenged could produce the outcome you're observing? Sometimes those assumptions are as basic as "I typed everything correctly" but other times they're more nuanced like "I assumed this library only throws when getting a transport error not an HTTP error code". IMO, it's a muscle you exercise. You build understanding in your problem space and get more skilled at identifying likely culprits for bugs. Early on though? It's a lot of asking, seeking and brute forcing.

Also, print statements or use a debugger to confirm assumptions. (I'll be honest, I rarely bring out a debugger unless a print based workflow is time consuming enough to justify remembering everything about the debugger).
Fraud rates on credit cards in the US is 10.25 cents per $100

Fraud rates on credit cards in the EU are 3.6 cents per 100 euro

The difference is 6.65 cents/100 which is 0.0665%

So, it isn't fraud losses that explain the difference in processing rates between the US and EU

(numbers from 2019)

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/cardfraud/html/ecb.cardfraudre...

https://nilsonreport.com/upload/content_promo/NilsonReport_I...
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I am afraid that my free tier plan data will go away. As for the self-hosting option, I am concerned that I don't have enough infrastructure to ensure the safety of my data. I wish their backend supports cheaper static store like object storage instead of full-featured database.
Yeah, doing crime on IPFS is a really bad idea. I talked with Juan Benet about this in maybe 2016 or so, and he said it's a feature, which is fair enough.

Privacy is very much not the goal of IPFS, and never has been. Not only is it obvious who is hosting any given file, but if you listen actively you can usually see who is downloading any given file as well.
I could have been more clear with my language -- "not ideal" doesn't mean that it was unpleasant (actually not awful hot-reload loop).

It was more-so that it's technical infeasible, given with Excel exposes to you as an extension developer. Aka, the gates the add to their ecosystem make it pretty much impossible, which is another one of the reasons we're open source!

Will clarify my language around this going forward!
My comment was only about "fake meat"
I miss my old Honda Insight. One of the first hybrids, it had a manual transmission and got 70 mpg commuting at 70 mph.
That’s false. Horses doing heavy work can’t survive on grazing alone, but they are perfectly fine when left alone in good pasture. Thus the phrase “put out to pasture,” old animals where often given something of a retirement where they where left to take care of themselves rather than simply be killed.