skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a happy pocketcasts user, but started also using Snipd for that very reason. https://www.snipd.com/
In reality it would be more accurate to call the vast majority of pro Brexit voters ill informed .. and to lay the blame for that on those in power that initiated the entire ill conceived referendum.

The post Brexit vote polling indicated that a great many people had no idea that this was a binding referendum rather than some "national poll of the feels", many were not at all clear on the actual pros and cons, they were swayed by emotive nationalistic propaganda that simplified the question down to "are you proud of your country or not" .. which was almost entirely orthogonal to the reality being voted on "do you want to be part of a free trade union or not" (simplified of course but more accurate).
There is a nice way to set fog to be two-tone - I'll play with that and see what I get. The default Summer mode has quite a distant fog, but the morning/evening weathers are a little mistier.
One should regard all one's emails as (at least potentially) public documents.
I don't quite see how you can safely transfer the power from orbit to the planet surface (or plane) though. You'll have to be shining down a high intensity laser beam that can lens and set fire to random things, blind anyone looking at it, etc. People go to jail just for pointing laser pointers at airplanes.
No. The "They" that did the fork only managed to do it because there was a majority consensus agreement to switch to the forked chain. If the majority refused to follow, there forked chain would have died or become a thing for the minority. Just like EthPOW vs ETH POS.

Seriously, why is it that every discussion about crypto has the same bullshit talking points? Do you guys have a list of "standard basic list of BS arguments that I will throw at the discussion just to see it sticks"? Is it ignorance? Is it malice?
My best friend’s wife is in the process of dying right now after qualifying for and self-choosing hospice following persistent and progressing medical issues. He was looking for graveyards yesterday while she continues to pass… I am one of his primary support structures and this is hard for me, too. I just want to be as normal as possible for/around him, to be a rock. But I have never been in this position for someone before and I don’t know what would be most helpful. If anyone has, or possessed the empathy and EQ to be truly attuned to an impossible situation like this, can you please reach me through my profile or respond to this comment? With gratitude in advance.
The author did a little write up here:
https://anslo.medium.com/slow-roads-tl-dr-a664ac6bce40

By the sounds of it they’re doing a very simple sim with raycast wheels and not using a rigidbody physics engine.
Here is my hope (and my belief): the ultimate end here is orbital rings [1]. To summarize the video, you can put copper cabling in orbit, run a current through it and keep things in place (relative to a point on Earth) with magnetic levitation.

The most important part of this is that you can have things in LEO that are fixed to Earth points. Why does this matter? No longer do you have to speed up to Mach 30 to reach orbital speeds. You could technically run a cable from 150km up and carry people and goods from Earth into LEO and back. This could revolutionize long-distance travel on Earth too.

It's estimated that a space-based power collector could create about ~7 times the energy of an Earth based collector due to less power loss from the atmosphere and night (to be clear, a solar collector in orbit would still occasionally be occluded by the Earth but it won't be half the time).

You can get power down to Earth in two ways: you can transmit it. This is actually viable but is not ideal. Alternatively, if you have an orbital ring, you can attach it to that and just run cables down to Earth. We use longer power transmission lines than that on Earth already.

All of this requires no new physics, no magical materials (eg space elevators do) and are just (admittedly massive) engineering projects. If you can get solar panels into orbit for <$10/kg payload costs and run cables down to Earth, you'll solve the variance issue with solar and create cheap power on a massive scale.

And none of this requires commercially viable fusion (which I'm not yet convinced will ever happen) or even the serious externalities of nuclear fission power.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E&t=62s
New version of “Cleanup”: An open source repo for wiping the hard disk in MDT
I would like to inform all interested people about the availability of a new version of cleanup (v.1.0.5).

Cleanup is a GUI-based C project (win32api exe) for cleaning up the primary hard disk as part of a Microsoft Deployment Toolkit-based operating system installation (Windows).

Since the release of the first version I could improve the small tool with the help of supporters.

Maybe it will help some of you with your own MDT distribution projects. Happy!
On the other hand, the 60s saw race riots and massive demonstrations against the Vietnam war. Plus the McCarthyism in the 40s and 50s.
Laurene Powell Jobs Is Curating a Steve Jobs “Archive”
I see iOS and android as fundamentally better than the Windows Phone. Windows Phone was an innovative idea and a breeze of fresh air, but was way too opinionated and only shined in some specific usage patterns. That’s why I think developers had such a hard time to adapt to it. If I had to choose a dead horse, I’d choose Palm’s WebOS as a more viable idea that was very poorly executed and way too early for the market.

> Google and Apple, on the other hand, did.

Both these companies bullied competition in other aspects than the OS in itself.

Google bullied makers through the Play Store+Play services bundling, forcing them to get rid of preinstalled third party stores and keep the Google search widget on the home screen and Google as the default search engine.

Apple bullied app makers by kicking any third party store, third party web engine, blocked third party content store and mail clients from getting default status. Apple’s top position as a music service comes from the iPod, but was also clearly cemented by locking out competition as the iPhone was the top selling smartphone. People are a lot more divided on where’s Apple’s fault, but at least I don’t see it as an issue of OS bundling the same way Microsoft crossed the line on OS bundling. Times have changed in this respect.
Is it basically btdig.com ?
Use Nim instead of Rust and C++. Shorter compile times.
Linux was the last to implement "events", they had IO completion ports and kqueue to learn from. They decided to implement something broken and document it as such, it was right in the man page. I find that astonishing. That reminds me, dnotify and inotify are probably still there. I'm bitter because I've had to port a clean kqueue event loop to Linux as a younger programmer and it was a dreadful experience.
Another point is that there must be some time scale at which the knowledge will diffuse out of the concentrated areas. We can’t turn on remote work and - snap! - suddenly the worlds rural areas are full of techies. It may take decades.

my company went full remote during the pandemic. I’d say 1/4 is outside Bay Area now, with most in mid size to large cities in USA. Give it another few years and I anticipate we’ll hire a larger fraction still each year remote, some on smaller towns etc.
That's interesting - the sea plane is set at a y position of 0 so I can't imagine how that could happen... You can press F3 to get a debug overlay showing your position, maybe you could verify that the Y value looks correct?

Autodrive is in the middle of the road because it was much easier to implement. I'll see if I can get around to letting you choose a more legal lane-follow option.
What made me switch from Gmail is stories of people losing their entire account overnight with no possible appeal process due to an algorithm deciding there was suspicious activity.
On Android you can just install Firefox for mobile and install uBlock Origin as usual.
I think it's crucial to point out that while this is 100% true, it wasn't Apple's idea. It was Sony's.

Apple co-designed the first PowerBook, the PB 100, with Sony.

Apple's original concept for a "laptop" was no-compromise, with the first active-matrix LCD... but it was the size of a small suitcase.

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook/specs/mac_porta...

It accommodated left-handed users (like me) with a relocatable trackball, something Asus hasn't thought of in the ZenBook Pro, or I might have considered one.

Sony took that design and turned it into this:

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook/specs/mac_power...

Relatively slim and light for the time, a relatively crappy passive-matrix display, but that meant it was usably slim and light and didn't need 5kg of lead-acid battery.

The history is mentioned here:
https://lowendmac.com/1991/powerbook-100/
My main firewalling issue is my new car, with a SIM card built-in somewhere, formally "just to being able to switch on AC/heating from remote, locate the car etc" but built-in with unknown level of real access from someone else computers. Next threats are not only from that: "smart grid" for charging (and discharging) cars will be another and so on.

The real issue is that without MANDATORY free software and open hw we have no real choice but trust someone else not only trusting for it's honesty but also for the quality of it's work in safety terms.

If a thief came in my home knowing I'm not there and steal something I have a good enough insurance, such kind of "safety issue" is already fixed. If someone attempt to penetrate my homeserver FOR THE PART I know of (i.e. the FLOSS OS/stuff it run) I can protect myself, I have offline backups etc. I have NO POSSIBLE PROTECTION for:

- State services, often handled by private subcontractors, for instance for taxes. Sure SO FAR I still have paper backups of anything, but in a future they will not be there;

- Smart devices capable of physically attacking something, like a self-driving car hitting a school groups on a trip stating I was in control, not in auto-pilot mode and that my control was fully effective to break/steer anyway, or a generic attack locking some cars in strategic places on the road networks paralyzing traffic for hours and so on.

Most people do not understand even the possibility and implications of such threats, BUT THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND and accept passively or even worse implement such systems should feel themselves guilty for crimes against humanity up front...
Why can't we mobilize for the ability to reliably communicate, AND avoid monopolistic privacy-eroding nonsense?
France abandoned their fast breeder effort because of serious technical and economic problems. There was no good prospect that anyone would want one, including France.

BTW, this shows that for all the talk, France doesn't see nuclear as the global solution to CO2 emissions. Nor does Japan (whose fast breeder program was even more a fiasco) or the US (where we abandoned fast breeders even earlier, after massive cost overruns.) Fast reactors are like ordinary nuclear, only with even more ludicrousness.

As for safety, the person to listen to is Edward Teller. He famously and publicly (in 1967) brought up the safety issue I mentioned. Because of that safety issue, I seriously doubt if any heterogenous fast reactor (with conventional fuel elements) would be licensed in the West today. That leaves molten salt fast reactors, but no one has ever built on of those, and they'd have serious problems with neutron damage to reactor structural materials.
a better alternative to email is to use public key cryptography for authentication
You're right, you won't lose access to your emails, you'll lose access to your address, which really is the bit that I care more about - losing ability to log into sites and services is what really scares me about losing my email.

But now the important question - how does a web3 domain name solve the domain problem any better than just buying a domain, especially considering that "Permission to fail" is being touted as a web3 feature?
Great. The OIDBS is using a built-in MQTT client. So, if you want o benchmark your server, just run the `import` command like as shown in the quick start video:

```
MODELS_ROOT=CURRENT_OIDBS_DIR import DIR_TO_DATA_SOURCE -n nyct_lite -d
```

here,

CURRENT_OIDBS_DIR is a hacky ENV var, for finding the models, should be removed in the future.

-n: is for the built-in model name, only the OIDBS repsect two models: nyct_lite and nyct_strip, you can get the two model sources from the article

-d: is for importing data only without injecting schemas. This is common if you are benching against a MQTT broker or server as you said. In fact, with this opt enabled, you can import any data source iff the data source is CSV or JSON. The benchmark logic is just to read and send the message line by line. That is, the files in the nyct_lite and nyct_strip directory is can be any CSV or JSON format. And the files'name is not important, but the model name still to be one of above two. Because the code checks the name.

(Ok, OIDBS may let the model name to be optional for such case, I will record this issue. thanks!)

If you have any problem, you can ask details in the community. I will help you as possible.
Auto-drive could go slower and stay on it's lane for extra relaxation.

Currently I just kept wondering, that driving on a middle of a road with such a tight corners seemed like dangerous.
Would someone be kind, and explain what PPO, ENT, HMO means? Thank you in advance.
Oh, and I noticed that the tyres don't seem to respond to the steerangle changes immediately, instead it seems to slowly interpolate towards it. Not sure if it's cosmetic and does not represent the logical wheel state, but if it does then you might want to change it so that the steer-bar position directly sets the wheel angle, otherwise they'll end up being derivatives of derivatives making it extra sluggish.
Is this fully open-source, or just the clients? eg. can you use them with out any interaction with the pocket cast server, and subscribe to podcasts using open/other feeds?
Again, not the same thing. British people didn't lose it. Nobody took it away against the public's will. They voted in favour of getting rid of it.
Meetings are of course necessary. The problem is pointless meetings.
I've done some projects in python and JS. I just never felt confident in what was really going on. Reading K&R helped me connect a lot of dots.
Nice to see an article on environmental impacts but it seems to be missing the "approach" of simply using less energy.. For example:

1. Generating less logs & expiring them more quickly
2. Including fewer third-party SDKs
3. Using lower-resolution images & videos
4. Not encouraging people to buy unnecessary goods through marketing..
last i checked, mint (unlike LMDE) just expects you to do major version upgrades by reinstalling, which is pretty annoying.
Ask HN: Are .dj domains down?
Can't seem to access my site https://wfh.dj

Seems like all .dj domains are down

```
$ server git:(main) dig dj @1.1.1.1

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> dj @1.1.1.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 34975
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
; OPT=15: 00 16 61 74 20 64 65 6c 65 67 61 74 69 6f 6e 20 64 6a 2e ("..at delegation dj.")
; OPT=15: 00 17 33 37 2e 35 39 2e 31 30 36 2e 32 31 3a 35 33 20 72 63 6f 64 65 3d 53 45 52 56 46 41 49 4c 20 66 6f 72 20 64 6a 20 41 ("..37.59.106.21:53 rcode=SERVFAIL for dj A")
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dj. IN A

;; Query time: 492 msec
;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Oct 23 15:32:36 IDT 2022
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 99
```
Nigeria's stolen oil, the military and a man named Government
You are right, it was Sony.

But it was not based on the 170, as that launched in 1994, 3 years later.

I think the models that influenced it were the 140 and 170, both from 1991, and much chunkier than the 100.
> we truly change those incentives once and for all.

I don't understand how that would be possible.
It depends on the issue. Immigration has caused real problems among the lower earners and free movement prevented any curbs.

IMHO on this the EU put ideology before pragmatism in 2004 and the British government has also massively screwed up by being the only country (ok, also Ireland) not to put any restrictions when that was possible.

Then, obviously Merkel's open door policy in 2015 did not help at all...

Note that the result of the referendum was not binding. But it did not matter: democratically and politically you cannot organise such a referendum then ignore the result because you don't like it.
Ion canon ready...

I could see a microwave power satellite being deployed despite obvious cost inefficiencies, specifically because of the ability to zap things (defensive, hopefully ).

It could also be helpful anywhere needing mobile short term power, eg forward operation bases.
Don't attribute to malice what could simply be ignorance. Right now, people need to pit in some serious time (upwards of 100 hours minimum) learning about true decentralized open technologies like bitcoin, so I think uninformed ignorance is far more likely than malice in almost all cases... unless the uninformed person stands to profit from his or her ignorance.

I'm not sure Ethereum is anywhere near as decentralized and bitcoin, because the Ethereum foundation and the large stakeholders (now that they have the miners the boot) appear to wield a huge amount of power.
I'm simultaneously irritated by the restrictions and concerned for the future. I am a contradiction.
> Earbuds are incredibly widely deployed [...] it doesn’t feel like they’ve been treated as a platform in a serious way.

That's because the earbuds are not a platform in themselves, you can't run stuff on just the earbuds. They are connected to something, which is the platform, and outputs audio from what the platform tells them to.

So unless we come up with earbuds that have built-in computers, they'll remain an accessory to platforms and won't become platforms themselves.
There is definitely a problem with music being used throughout a bulletin / during actual reporting. I guess there's a sliver of potentially acceptable use cases in long-form investigative reporting.

News programs having an introduction theme is perfectly acceptable though. If they play the theme as an ad-bumper I think that's fair enough, but the fact that the news has ads in it is concerning.
Who is paying the doctor if patient is not insured?

Unless doctor wants to work pro bono on his own time.
Absolutely not, we should be requiring more state transparency, not less.
AFAIK debian recently voted to include proprietary drivers in their installer by default. Don't know all the details off hand though
My dad worked as an engineer at Corning in the 80s and 90s. In addition to their general glass expertise (the museum is really incredible and I highly recommend it) Corning’s importance in the early days of the internet is pretty amazing and I think not as well known. They basically built all the earliest fiber optics cabling for communication networks. We lived in the town of Corning and had a fiber internet connection in our house that my dad was testing back then. They are a super cool company and I will always appreciate them as an example of one that does one thing, really well (glass) but managed to grow by finding more and more uses for their speciality.
Very good suggestion, considering the sniffer could be used by copyright claims lawyers.
Is inotify broken? What should be used instead of it to watch for filesystem events?
Trident is an anchor, symbol of Christianity, like cross or fish. The cross is the top part of an anchor, while the anchor itself is in the lower part. Anchor has such complex geometry because it weaved from wire. Similar anchors in full form can be found on some rare ancient Greek coins made in Khersones seaport (now Sevastopol). The anchor is similar to the symbol used by Rurik dynasty, so they liked it.
I did a back of the napkin calculation a while ago regarding how many car lengths you’d need to put in LEO to have an unbroken traffic jam in orbit and the result was surprisingly comparable to the number of cars we’re currently producing. If you were “simply” launching wire instead I’m sure you could get enough material up there in much fewer launches. I’m curious as to how you would construct such a loop since you’d need to station keep it somehow while it’s inoperable.
I really, really hope that there aren't any people who think the way you've outlined. Technology has empowered small groups or even single individuals to create things that have the potential to change the course of civilization, so I for sure hope those individuals think twice about the potential consequences of their actions. How would you feel about people releasing a $100 'build your own Covid-variant' kit?
For img you set one of width/height attributes on the image or the aspect ratio CSS property (for page stability during early loading, actual dimensions are preferred), then max-width: 100%; height: auto to scale according to horizontal
space, or max-height:100%; width:auto to scale according to vertical space.

The additional complexity of images is that you nearly always want to maintain the aspect ratio, whereas a p or a div can be a radically different shape depending on the amount of content and viewport size and only have issues at the extremes (like very long lines at 4k@1x, or one word per line at high zoom)
...And silent "snipers" are just a symptom of said illness of civilization.
Despite what a few naysayers have stated in the comments, the Rings of Power show does NOT diverge from Tolkien’s work. Forums have been flooded with trolls who have no knowledge of Tolkiens work outside of Jackson’s film trilogy.

For a detailed breakdown of each episode, check out the Rings & Realms shows on YT: https://m.youtube.com/c/RingsandRealms/featured
Tell me how decentralized services allow applications to be permissionless, censorship- and sybil-resistant without a blockchain. I will make both of us rich.
Physics are always a major headache - mine are pretty hacky and cut a lot of corners, such as ignoring trees or preventing the car from flipping. I only height-test the wheels, progress them independently, and then resolve the chassis position from that. It's not terribly physically accurate but it gets the job done, and is pretty cheap!
> There is no "they" to fork anything.

They literally forked it just last month!