skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s hard to evaluate whether prepping was (or is) right or wrong. Although the article identifies Covid as a turning point in mainstream acceptance of prepping, it’s still notable that even during Covid prepping wasn’t actually necessary. Despite the heavy supply chain disruption, the system did ultimately pull through. Also, Covid-useful items like masks, hand-sanitizer, dexamethasone and ventilators weren’t in the typical prepper inventory (but maybe social distancing was!).

So I think we must imagine a significantly more dire scenario than Covid against which to evaluate how worthwhile any given prepping activity is.

Also worth watching out for is the anti-society, extreme individualist fringe of prepping culture, which is not only an unproven mitigation against societal collapse, but might actually be one of the forces that causes it.
> Seize all foreign-owned land

According to Native Americans, we already did that.
> It's a democratic problem that 99% of all public discourse is subject to veto and policy from advertisers and payment processers, and the drive to maximize income from these.

The problem is in reverse. Cable news and then Twitter artificially created this idea that a public international town square was a good idea and then decided the need to fund it.

Really the Democratic problem is that over the past 30 or so years we’ve flipped the pyramid from focusing on local news and communication to focusing on national and international news and communication. And that is much more expensive to operate.
There's probably some effect from the "commitment device" aspect (implicit as it may be).
Not hyperbole. Without the black civil rights fight, Asians wouldnt be able to migrate to the US and become naturalized.

Black Americans arent just poor or racial minorities, they were systematically robbed of the vast majority of their "early US investor" wealth by the state for centuries. They dont and shouldnt fall into the same category of other "racial minorities" and white women when it comes to these programs.
dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33147270
And then there are Amigas.
And possibly a fairing half dropped onto a populated area from a different launch yesterday:

https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/1589289240776839168
Mine – The Future of Data Ownership
I have an office chair (not fancy, I got it for free to begin with) that got its upholstery roughed up in a move. If I sit on it, I'll get vinyl flakes all over me, which will get around the apartment, so I don't want it. I tried Craigslist. Do you think such an item would find a home on the other services you listed?
Location: Nigeria
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Technologies: React, Next, Nuxt, Typrscript, GraphQl, Node js,
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It looks like all of the greenhouse gas calculations were inaccurate. Vehicles do not account for 27% of the pollution, using very matter of fact statistics.

With COP27, the UN is sounding more like a charity scam with administrative fraud.

If the dry ink (history books) show the same scenario as 100 years ago, they have sayings for that already :p

The climate/environment has not changed all that much. Adverse regions are still adverse.
> a national water grid

Awful idea. Why should the wet parts of the country pump their water into deserts where people shouldn't be living/working in the first place? If people want to live in deserts, let them find their own water. No other region should be obliged to supplement their unsustainable desert lifestyle. Let nature take her course and depopulate those deserts in due time. If you want water, move to where the water is.
> Dealing with SSL certificate management could be an operational pain in the neck.

I don't know for WireGuard but generating the certificate for a new host to join the mesh in Nebula is one command

nebula-cert sign -name "newHost" -ip "192.168.100.1/24"
anyone can run their own instance and your dns verifies who you are.

hint hint, all media outlets.

you don't even need to use Mastodon. just put the underlying protocols (ActivityPub) in your CMS and assign internal users through your LDAP.
You’re right. Same for reddit. Maybe advertisers dgaf if there’s enough normal content to cancel it out.
Do you think you could eventually reproduce the glory of mid-2000s Google? At least for some large predefined subset of the internet?
Anecdotal to a certain degree: In our part of Cologne, Germany, you place things you want to share/get rid of outside your doorstep (even in duplexes and larger houses with lots of flats). People come by and take (mostly what needed), nearly zero vandalism. I found a lot of good things others did not need this way: A Coffeemachine, furniture for our living room, two printers and lots of mugs. I guess it works where it works ... and official people have the mentality to tolerate some unrestricted sharing. Also, the city has a web-app to send them a notice of "trash piles" - with tracking if and when the pile has been taken care of. Last, the city run recycling facilities are "free", you just have to drive your stuff to the place or you have a yearly number of times to get it taken from the streets (large objects like couches) for free, too.
We were so idealistic then.

I still am, but it's harder to hold onto it.
Hopefully. Elon never felt like a racist to me plus he’s been my hero for a very long time so I hope I don’t have to start disliking him.
The prefrontal cortex mediates executive function and working memory. It sends signals into the center of the brain which in turn reciprocated through dopamine neurons. Methylphenidate blocks the reuptake and breakdown of dopamine by MAO. Amphetamine stimulates the receptors on the other brain cells dendritic surface that dopamine stimulates. The middle of the brain then tells the front which tasks to focus on, what items to keep in working memory, and which emotions and behaviors to suppress. Working memory. Executive function. Emotional regulation. Because of a faulty d2 receptor, adhd brains do not respond to dopamine stimulation like neurotypical ones. They in turn fail to sufficiently signal the front of the brain which controls this higher brain function. It is unfortunate that the disease is called attention deficit hyperactivity disorder because it takes focus away from task salience--keeping on track and holding the steps to accomplish complex behavior i.e. The front of the brain. It also results in time blindness or the inability to evoke future potentials against closer consequences resulting in playing vidya instead of doing homework because the consequences are improperly measured by the front of your brain. Stimulants increase dopamine and acetylcholine. Coaching helps maintain task salience. Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches ways to externalize your executive functions and life skills and requires medical therapy in order to be successful. It is best to regard this as executive function disorder and stay away from attention as attention is often misinterpreted or lacks proper context.
> Giving things away is a massive pain in the ass. Have you ever tried to sell things on Craigslist or Facebook? Or even give them away for free?

I admit I don't know the situation in other places, but where I live it's trivial to give things away for free, or to donate them. There are multiple non-profit second hand stores where you can quite literally just drop stuff off outside their door at any hour of the day. They'll access it and if it's fit for resale they'll put a small price on it and handle the rest.

I've seen examples of towns that have specific "free stuff" weeks where people put out things that aren't garbage and anyone can take them. I quite like the idea, because it means people know they won't have to root though actual garbage.
Doesn't work in Firefox.
This is stupid. Clearly, someone decided to call it "appeasement" just to be snarky and it just sticked. What is the purpose of playing dumb and arguing semantics of a purposly snarky choice of words?
Is there a specific routine of stretching you follow? Thanks
> No one uses these platforms.

nO oNe UsEs MaDtOdOn

I'm personally really tired of this trope, so instead of offering reasonable replies I'm just going to return the same spirit of ridicule back to you (despite HN guidelines, lol)
What's the alternative to driving a car? Walking 200 miles a day carrying 500kg of tools and equipment?

What's the alternative to eating meat? Eating beans shipped from halfway round the world?
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"
> But thankfully we don't live in a libertarian utopia where owning all the land means that you automatically run the world

Not a libertarian anymore, but this sentiment has nothing to do with libertarianism. You also can't recover something like water with taxes. It takes years to refill those aquifers if you begin overusing them.

Edit: Very disappointing to see reductive politics do so well on here. Keep in mind, Libertarians only have ever garnered 1.2% of the national vote. Your dishing is literally just a signal of your own shittiness.
I believe the extended overhanging curved tip is just the sign of a captive crow that is, sadly, not taking good care of its beak. Raven beaks are generally much broader.
Thanks for the link! That will help my selection process. Otherwise it’s not very systematized, I go off of book reviews, recommendations from friends, and lots of perusing in used/new book stores.

She points out another thing, which is cultures with oral traditions instead of written. For instance, I’ve purchased a few compilations of oral histories and folklore from Native Alaskan peoples, which were translated by anthropologists. It provides a good opportunity to think about how knowledge is interpreted between cultures.

Eventually I’d like to create some kind of web app to track my progress.
Ben Thompson put well why “Twitter, more than any social network, is sui generis:

First, the service emerged at a time and place where a text-based network was cutting edge…

Second, Twitter grew up in an environment where it was normal to publicly broadcast whatever it was you had to say…

Third, because Twitter was first, it became ground zero for everyone who was textual and had something to say, even if those folks had diametrically opposing viewpoints on everything from Donald Trump to LeBron James.”

https://stratechery.com/2022/musks-twitter-blue-a-twitter-su...
I think Gab is running on a mastodon fork as well.
I bought a small Toshiba EM925A5A-BS microwave, which was top ranked by The Wirecutter at the time.

Two years later, the light begins flickering. Now it just doesn't come on at all.

I google up how to replace the lightbulb. Turns out, you can't and this issue is common amongst owners of these microwaves. It's amazing they can't spend the extra dollar or two in components and make the bulb replaceable. I imagine a lot of these Toshiba microwaves are in dumps now.

I'd have a hard time trying to give this thing away with a defective light. I'll probably be stuck with it finally stops working altogether, and then it will end up in a landfill.
A long time ago in my university days we implemented blowfish encryption on an FPGA using Galois fields.
It's a delight to use it, opens in a few milliseconds, has everything I need, you can't and don't need to configure it much. It just works. No distractions.
Increasingly appealing year after year. Machine learning can improve faster than you can.
aren't there any "gravitational rivers" from that asteroids one could use to slowly have the mining cargos float to an area close to earth ?
How do you accomplish that sort of pricing scheme with free markets? You need government regulated markets to accomplish this.
What's the community of academics? I haven't joined Twitter specifically because I think it's a horrible medium for communicating science or meeting with academics. Can you point me there?
> I know my eating meat is wrong and bad for the world.

It's not if you're buying locally-sourced meat.

It's better than growing stuff in Africa and shipping it across in refrigerated containers using as much fuel every day as about 20,000 cars would.
I genuinely hope they won't do that. Imo, they should at least put it behind a toggle in settings, so that i can keep using the "hey siri" trigger phrase.

I much prefer the "hey siri" and "ok google" triggers, as opposed to Amazon's "alexa" trigger. The latter approach makes it difficult to talk about it or even use that word without unintentionally triggering the device. Meanwhile, I had exactly zero unintentional triggers with Google Assistant or Siri.

And yes, I know that Amazon's echo devices allow in settings to switch to one of the other 5 or so trigger words, like "echo" or "computer". But they all suffer from the same issue of making it difficult to use those words in a conversation without accidentally triggering the device.
Could you share the name of the server?
I'd also recommend watching this interview NOCLIP recently did with Tarn where he talks specifically about the Steam release...
https://youtu.be/VAhHkJQ3KgY?t=1199
> America is not buying up bits of land elsewhere.

What I always said about the Bush wars. For the cost of those wars, we could have bought all of rural Canada.
You're presenting it as if there was something intrinsically better or more efficient about streaming, but the millions of people could also be matched in pairs or small groups. There would be a bit more friction, but also more personal touch.

Objectively, I think they're fairly similar. It really does come down whether you value even participation or the chance to participate in a lottery that will may propel a few individuals to stardom (and leave a lot more disappointed) more, which is ultimately subjective.
Then why draw them facing left instead of facing out like the smiley face?

Should all of those be drawn in different orientations?

Literally all you need is a single mirroring. Left and right. That's enough so your characters don't spend half their time moonwalking. It looks ridiculous.
Just a small note, you can't really choose wrong because you can participate across the fediverse, with other "servers", and even non-mastodon federated social media. However if it irks one to join a specific community, there does exist general purpose instances.
In the hospital after my son was born, my wife and I were coached on breast feeding by the staff. The coaching was overall helpful; however, one of the recommendations was to avoid pacifiers. We endured two nights of crying in the hospital and a few more at home before giving in to the pacifier. It was a game changer, we slept well after that.

Advice will come from people with beliefs that may differ from your own. Additionally, what works for some may not work for others.

Here’s my advice. If your baby is crying and you’re not sleeping, make a change.

P.S. Before trying the pacifier, we ruled out hunger as the cause for crying by supplementing with formula.
Flew Newark to Portland on UA 1337 the other day. If only that flight took 0.1337 sec...
"SHTF: Survival Tips and Stories from Bosnian War Survivors" (2021)

https://www.primalsurvivor.net/shtf-survival-tips-and-storie...

- Supplies Will Run Out. Skills Won’t.

- You Will Eat Anything

- Dirty Water Will Kill You

- You Will Be Bored Out of Your Mind

- Don’t Get Pregnant

- Get a Bike

- Live Near Reusable Resources

- You Will Get to Know Your Neighbors Better than Ever

- Don’t Count on the Authorities

- There is No Point in Fighting If You’ve Lost Your Humanity
There's several places where you can see the UK's power generation live. Right this second we're running on 31% wind power. We're just rolling into peak power usage times so probably different when you click the link.

https://grid.iamkate.com/
Same. My median week is less than 40 hrs. But I have occasions of flow state or critical problems that I just can’t let go (not to mention lots of shower cycles spent thinking about work), and I think it’s been good for my career.
Rules of thumb for function arguments ordering in Clojure
True, the Americans of western Kansas have managed to drain the aquifers there right down to zero.
All bugs aren't created equal. Malware users are vastly more likely to consume existing malware than create it and malware creators have an easier time creating code to attack known issues that have been fixed than finding unknown issues. Today's fix is a blueprint to attack people running yesterdays software.

Ergo you are most likely to be attacked using exploits that are both known and fixed because you are running old unpatched software compared to new bugs in recently released software.

In addition recently released browsers are great but your browser also relies on security features from your OS. I don't agree that its sufficient to run the most recently released browser on your old OS. Your up to date OS complete with new bugs is by far the best choice.
As a Gen Z, TIL "put on blast" is not just a normal common phrase
Janky!?! It’s awesome
Reminds me "Ocean of Dreams" meme map https://imgur.com/gallery/Hkr5jgW
XP's architecture had to be replaced or it would have held things back. Vista may not have been as ambitious as Longhorn but it was an improvement. Not saying every major release was justified, only that we couldn't have stayed on XP forever. Or at least not without sacrificing some improvements and innovation.

Windows 11 though seems entirely arbitrary, especially since TPM requirements appear inconsistent and capricious.
Here's a hot take: nobody anywhere should be able to purchase land they're not allowed to live on.
They moved from the Apache Licence 2.0 to a non-Free licence, I don't think they ever used the AGPL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch#Licensing_change...
Elon Musk's New Interview with Ron Baron [video]
Building a Fantasy Game Console
Do the certs expire? What does the rotation process involve?
I recently took a 4 year old space heater (in the form factor of a small wood burning stove with a fireplace effect) to be repaired. I guessed that the thermal fuse had blown and the blower was dirty.

It cost $45 (CAD) to have it opened and another $95 to complete the repairs, which is very close to the cost I paid for the device in the first place. Not that I'm complaining. The guy said he completely disassembled and cleaned the blower motor in addition to replacing the fuse. I wouldn't be surprised if it lasts even longer now. Plus I do like the way it looks and fits in my office.

My point is that I understand why there are few repair shops. When North American labour costs for repairs end up being the same price as buying a replacement off the shelf, no wonder people throw away working and nearly working devices.

Perhaps I could have repaired it myself. I don't know. I'm pretty nervous about the idea of fiddling with 120 volt devices with zero training.
I overwrite all fonts with the system default. It is glorious, uniform reading experience.
> colour "monitors" (really, TV sets w/o receiver).

What do you think a colour monitor is?
Unsure if you missed pasting the link, or you're being ironic...
You could still invest in securities (worldwide perhaps) or you could invest in future expense reduction instead.

E.g, early payment of mortgage, purchasing necessities in advance, etc.

There are things like Ibonds also.
> I'm beginning to feel like everyone else but me seems to consider this the most newsworthy event of the year

Probably just your filter bubble. Things like the Pakistan Floods[0] were truly horrific and barely graced the front pages. Like, really horrible, devastating things happen[1] in the world and because it's not tech-news, us geeks don't notice. By all means, continue to read Slashdot, Hackernews, but pay attention to world news. My personal go-tos are Associated Press, Reuters, BBC World News, and a local news site for my area.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Pakistan_floods

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
I don't think that would have worked. Even the cheapest vodkas can be made into pretty good-tasting drinks by adding fruit juice.
At the end of the day, it's how much lead is in the water coming out of your taps, right?
I feel like most people I know on the left have essentially abandoned social media as inherently unproductive and instead gather in local group chats which can only be found by being active in a community. So the only people who will really be hanging around are probably techno optimists
Mastodon is too fragmented to work... well. For example; this tweet: https://twitter.com/joinmastodon/status/1585756076305444864.

Would you really host your email on a server that some dude in rural Canada runs in his spare time? I don't think so. Not just for reliability reasons, but for privacy reasons as well.
Both of my parents are chemists. My brothers and I never had a chemistry set. There was plenty to learn about chemistry, and science, just doing regular household things, outdoors, etc.
I don't mean to excuse every such decision, certainly not Windows 11. Rather I just don't think it's realistic to expect any major OS version to be eternal and hardened, unless it's a niche use.
If you're thinking of the video I'm thinking of, where the blond woman with a ponytail is in an incredibly nimble stunt plane and it looks like she's doing exactly that, slamming the stick one way or the other [0], I think that illustrates my point even better: when she does it, acrobatics result because she's an amazing pilot of that plane; if I was sitting and did it, I'd be splattered on the ground as quickly as it took to fall from the sky.

Doing the things that skilled people do doesn't get the same results if you're not also skilled in the same way.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hNkg9mf18Y
Signal to roll out Snapchat-like “stories” feature
> jigsaw puzzles

Wait, how do they check these over? Do they solve them to make sure that a quarter of the pieces aren't missing. Do they count the pieces in a 5000pc puzzle?
Eugen is playing almost all roles singlehandedly and last said he was making around 35k a year. "I do software development, devops, accounting, customer support, project management, product design, public relations, and moderation for 36K per year..."

please help fund the project to ensure further stability.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109260715240000670
I am :)

Indeed the aspect of looking at the route and pondering an approach was very enjoyable.

Thanks for the encouraging words.
Even just a verifiable time stamp would be a big win.
Is there any space nowadays for tech that is essentially free of politicized rhetoric? I really don't care about democracy or decentralization on my social media platform. When I first discovered Tumblr, MySpace, LiveJournal, Xanga, AIM, and Twitter I didn't care about any of their techno-political underpinnings.
Tbh, I hate most of these fonts (especially thin ones) and acid, blurry, pastel, dark, bright, washed, monochrome, contrast colors. I wish there was an accessibility standard for sighted fullcolor people so I could use everything without constant irritation.

Design and typography are two top things for that syndrome where most unimportant details get maximal attention. For me sites with “cool design” usually correlate with “I read it thoroughly and still have no fucking idea what it is about, ctrl-w”. Maybe you should have prioritized texts over fonts.
My favorite was; write a function that determines the number of games necessary to be played in a single elimination tournament with N participants. It’s interesting to watch how many go off into recursion land when they get into the mind set of solving these Leet Code puzzles.
And Sia distributed storage network https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/-/blob/master/modules/er...
My favorite part of that site is when the section "How does Mine make money?" (under "Transparency") has a broken link for the "privacy promise" that points to https://mine-b2c.webflow.io/transparency# (currently 404s)