skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are already Craigslists and Freecycles and Gumtree (eBay lite) and Facebook groups and so on.

> "there should be some clear guidelines as to what is considered to be worth repairing"

Would you sketch some out? I think expecting the proverbial grandma with an old electronic device to read and understand and care about them before posting is going to be a dealbreaker.
Perhaps you could lobby for
BRT and bike infrastructure? Seems like transport is your main worry, and I'm just going to assume you are a car-dependent town.
Lufthansa bans AirTags in luggage as flyers shame it with location of lost bags
This is a neat solution! Though I wonder if this can carry over to terminal environments
I got to see this the other day!

In the archeological museum in Athens, they have the recovered pieces, and a number of videos and modern replicas to try and explain how it works. It was very cool to see something like that in real life - not only the mechanism representing a tremendous amount of skill and craftsmanship, but the knowledge of how to precisely measure out decades-long patterns of celestial movement and fit them all together. Things like figuring out a slight irregularity in the pattern of the moon, and then figuring out a way to put gears together to replicate the same irregularity - and creating a device that would have been usable centuries after their lifetimes (if it hadn't sunk to the bottom of the sea, of course!)

That said, the most exciting thing for me to see there was definitely the Linear B tablets, with some of the earliest texts on them that we can understand. All in all, a wonderful collection of artefacts.
> I thought the article was making fun of Gruber for having such strong feelings against those two fonts.

I wasn't making fun of Gruber, I was just exaggerating for comedic effect. Gruber himself seemed to like the post. I guess some people didn't find it funny, which is fine, but the OP seems to have gone overboard.
yeah, how dare other people have lives they need to schedule around, anyone other than this poster doing so is obviously a "dolt".

stupid dolts, not realizing who the real hero of the story is!

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Yes, Context is part of Anyhow. That's a legacy problem. Something like Anyhow should have been the base of almost all errors, but it came too late. If you get error handling wrong at the start of a new language, it's really hard to make changes, because the old format gets baked into everything.
I think you're just putting way too much thought into it: Any server will do just fine (you can always move later, but only if you feel really attached to a given community), and any well-established server really just blocks servers full of Nazis and anime child porn.
Not "monetisation" as in building a startup with the intent of cashing out at the end of the ride, this does not mean the whole thing needs to be non-profit. It is fine - nay, essential - to run at cost plus a bit for rainy days if the thing is to last longer than a few months. It is not the sort of thing which would be of interest for investors to buy themselves a share of.
"Self sufficiency and self reliance are just good skills to have regardless for the well being of your family. When did it become some type of negative epithet to call someone a 'prepper'?"

I think most people who prepare are not called preppers, nor think of themselves that way. During the cold War, there were all sorts of preparedness info being given out by rhe government. Some people made bunkers, I'd say most tried to have about a month's worth of food just on a natural rotation in the pantry.

I think specialization of labor and increasing wealth tends to wipe out a lot of self-reliance over generations. Why fix your own toilet if you make enough at your regular job; or work too many hours to get to it; or that you never saw your parents do that kind of work so you don't know what to even look up?
Island changes state every 6 months (Spain/France)
Craigslist responses for free stuff are wacky. Can you hold it for me? Can you deliver it for me? Say what.
There’s a lot of incredibly racist commentary now. The toxicity is at a whole other level at this point.
> Not that nuclear is evil on anything, but I don’t see how it will compete on price.

What's the timeframe until we get 100% renewable? until then, nuclear will be needed and won't have to compete on price.
I'm trying to get back into my chosen field, specifically in computational chemistry and drug design. It's rough sledding as they say, since I am an older candidate who is hardly up to speed on where things are now vs. circa 2005.

For the past 18 years - since I left academia - I've been bouncing around as a "data scientist," working in many fields but not what I really want to do and/or am actually good at doing.
We just need to float it. A new Venice of the North. Take that, Amsterdam!
Grasshopper and the squirrels? I heard the fable as the grasshopper and the ants.

Wouldn't the squirrels just eat the grasshopper, instead of having philosophical debates with it? I mean, c'mon, you expect me to believe that an invertebrate and a mammal even share a common language!? Inconceivable!
I don't have ADHD as far as I know(which it seems is helpful to those folks), but I still use body doubling. My use of body doubling tends towards tasks that I have an negative emotional response or apprehension towards. For example, paying an unexpected bill, or making a difficult phone call, or writing an email to someone I don't like. You could say these situations are triggering in the sense that they trigger the fight or flight response and arranging to have someone in the same room during those tasks down regulates that response.
What a blast for the past! I still have a functioning Wintec GPS tracker which I bought in 2007.
One battery lasts for some days, I have multiple batteries…
It’s barely larger than a pack of matches.
Currently they sell
This model here https://www.win-tec.com.tw/portfolio-item/wbt202/, I have a WBT200.
this might explain my I miss being in the office to get work done, and really loathe the switch to 100% remote
Not sure why I got downvoted. If my assumption is wrong then I'd be really curious to hear from someone that knows better.
Why many GA aircraft still run 50 year old engine designs
100LL is still in use in 2022 and many have asked why. Despite significant interest from the aviation community as well as technical possibility, it’s no small task to navigate processes in the US.
This article turned up with a valuable proposition. Although I would still argue open source software itself is as political as it can get (Forked code has no value. Communities of people behind the code matters), but I do agree that such thing should have some kind of process. It should not be the personal FM radio for the editor-of-the-day.
You should join a server you think has a reasonable approach to moderating other servers. On any other service the administrator can also prevent you from seeing posts, this is not specific to Mastodon at all. For private messaging other standards exist, for example XMPP+OMEMO.
Were you never taught that it is wrong to steal? It's attitudes like this that make the collapse of civilization even possible. People who willingly, even eagerly, go feral and abandon their civility.

Taking by force, stealing from others, is a great way to dramatically shorten your life expectancy.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.
I think you're only half wrong here. The difference is that you can virtue signal to people inside of your own crowd without much consequence, but if you seek to offend them, they kick you out. There's definitely (a lot of) virtue signaling going on in the fediverse, for what it's worth. And I really don't see people on the left getting the same sort of kicks out of pissing people off that people on the right seem to enjoy. As you sort of pointed out, they're annoying in different ways. ;)
> In practice it's still a desert.

That's not true anymore: I am currently following over 100 academics and scientists who decided to migrate over the past week, they are very active and as a result my timeline is much more interesting and engaging than Twitter.

I have never seen such a big exodus in my 25+ years online, this is historic.
> The point of attribution and copyright is to create a creator/inventor-friendly environment.

They're building a class, but, beyond that, I'm not really confident there are any parties that feel like they've been harmed by what they're claiming is a violation. Microsoft didn't just copy repositories from GPL licensed code, but from other companies too. Why didn't these companies care?

It is a good counter point though, as Waymo has released datasets that can only be used under a license. While at the same time, GitHub did not initially use discretion for people who had agreed to their terms of service and were using their hosted repositories.

While I think the legal system might lean towards enforcing consent to use the data in certain circumstances, on the technical side, if it's really a generalization that is resulted from training, the initial data is meaningless in the final model. It could be argued that it did not harm this company economically because the model trained without the data would still have an almost equivalent financial impact.

> It’s okay to vote for or against that, but the potential systemic effect of that vote should also be kept in mind.

My position above was clear, I do not think the law should be changed yet. The systematic change is from someone stating a violation happening when I do not believe that it is a violation. This lawsuit could result in models like Stable Diffusion becoming illegal, which I view as incredibly harmful to the future of artificial intelligence research.
Yes, one absolutely could! In the eighties Amstrad sold their home computers as combo with colour "monitors" (really, TV sets w/o receiver). Monochrome monitors (sharp, due to lack of shadow mask) with long persistence phosphor and hence flicker-free were balsam for the eyes in comparison.

Mind, other home computers were typically connected to the families tv set at that time ...
The Norwegian pension fund already owns roughly 1% of many of the large tech giants, not sure what percentage would cause the US to start freaking out, especially as the EU is a close ally.

Meta Platforms Inc 1.01%

Twitter 0.89%

Alphabet Inc 0.85%

Apple Inc 0.84%

Amazon.com Inc 0.81%

reference: https://www.nbim.no/en/the-fund/investments/#/2021/investmen...
The premise to this section strikes me as begging the questiom:

All stock prices move based on supply and demand not theories and strategies.

Well, why do people demand a given stock? One word: dividends. This may seem obvious (or not!) But Robert Schiller in a MOOC some years back made this basic truth clear to me: if a company would hypothetically never pay a dividend, no investor would ever want it. Stocks do not need to trade in large volumes to bring people profit and be desirable. They just need to bring dividends, either now or in the future.
Use them sure, but don't use Google's CDN and leak your user's data to Google's servers. It's not difficult to self-host the WOFF2 fonts.
One way to approach answering this question is looking at history. Do individual people with a nice stockpile and contemporary weapons tend to survive the collapse of their civilizations (or even local, short-term famines for that matter)? I don't think so. For example, in Europe the social/physical structures that successfully faced these situations were walled cities & towns. Castles. Entire communities and decades of planning and construction.

IMO, no way this scales down to a single household - I'm chuckling right now picturing a knight and their family in a house-sized castle.

Another angle: if things get bad even just food wise, people who have nothing to lose will keep coming - starving people who will die unless they get to your resources.

To me prepping to survive by yourself is a dumb fantasy and a waste of resources that would be much better spent building resilient communities.
> It is Russia's, and only Russia's, fault that Russia has territorial ambitions on Ukraine. Russia has no viable claim to any Ukrainian territory

I don't get the point of this. Are you looking for someone to place the blame on, or what? What is the point of throwing these arbitrary postulations in someone's face? Closing one's eyes and ears, and pretending that the cause-effect wasn't obvious serves what specifically?

> Even in Crimea, it is not clear that a majority of the population would have voted to become a part of Russia in a free & fair election.

It's wasn't clear in 1995 if they wanted to be dissolved into Ukraine[*]. And freshwater blockade for the most of the last decade clearly didn't bring any good sentiments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Crimea_(1992%E2%80...

> It's certainly clear that everywhere else in Ukraine, support for being a part of Russia extends no further than wherever Russian forces occupy.

Well, yeah, when you remove all the opposition, and then remove the voting rights from the people who didn't support your revolution, it certainly becomes "clear".
> ”Hinkley point C is guaranteed a price of £92 per megawatt hour (or 9.2p/kWh)”

It’s actually £92.50 in 2012 money, inflation adjusted.

Given current inflation, the strike price is likely to be well over £160/MWh when it comes online, now estimated to be 2027.

(Fun fact: Hinkley Point C is the most expensive power plant ever built, anywhere in the world)
My Life and Work by Samuel Crowther and Henry Ford (Originally Published: 1922)
The land is already being taxed? I suspect though the water (in this case) is not — or not effectively.
It’s not about skills, let’s take two people of equal training. A is living his life in a fortified location with a huge stoke pile of guns and tons of ammunition. B has a rifle, time, and the element of surprise.

Who do you think has better odds? How about if B has friends who also want what A has? Don’t get me wrong defensive positions are useful, they are simply less useful than groups of people working together. The best prep is a few supplies and a community of people ready and able to support each other think walled town not fortified nuclear bunkers unless you’re actually willing to live underground and have a lifetime of supplies at which point hiding is more effective than guns.
I love my SL66, but it’s so (relatively) big and heavy. My Leica MP is small and light enough that it never annoys me being around my neck.
OK, I read that over. It seems to be entirely estimates and "could be." No one's dug up a service line and said, "Yep, there's lead in that."

One GAO report says,

As we reported in 2017, based on the available data, the
majority of the 68,000 water systems subject to the Lead and Copper
Rule at the time of our review had not been required to replace lead
service lines and therefore were not required to conduct complete
inventories.

In other words, no one knows.

So while it's not false to say that "Lead pipes are still used in every US state" it's also not provably true. Right?

A good question would be, "why aren't they required to replace lead service lines?" This would be a health benefit beyond any possible doubt.
I have never given paypal my phone number, and can still log in with password.

(This August it would refuse to let me finish logging in without setting up a phone number. I discovered that getting a friend to send me a paypal requst for $1 would get around that requirement.)
def isThoughtLeader(person):
if person.is_wealthy == true:
obey()
Stop scamming people with your predatory bullshit. You should be ashamed of yourself. We are not your cash cow, fuck off.
The author of the comment is giving things away, not selling them.
Twitter does not have a technology problem - the prototype was famously put together with Ruby-on-Rails in a weekend. Most of the effort comes after that, with moderation and legal compliance. There is really no better reality check for those who delude themselves into writing a clone than this:

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...
Tracking Todo Comments in Code with SQL
The thing is, Mastodon isn't adding censorship: Anyone has numerous servers to choose from that will let them say whatever they want, but other people have the choice to go to servers which don't federate with the other one.

Free speech is the right to speak, not the right to force everyone to listen. The federation model codifies this.
And prices today?
Nobody I have ever met is against circumcision because it is a common practice amongst Jews. Everyone I know, including myself, is against it because it is a wholly unnecessary and irreversible procedure forced on a child before the child has the capacity to consent or object to the act. I assume you would be against the Islamic practice of female genital mutilation by cutting off a helpless child’s clitoris, despite the practitioners insistence that it is a hallmark of their culture, because it is barbaric. I just apply that same level of reasonableness to the male organ. And the number of centuries a people have been doing something has no bearing on the quality of the practice.

Edit, to add: I did not intend to imply that female genital mutilation was prevalent in Islam, only that it is done and justified amongst Muslims at a not-insignificant rate.
Genuinely curious - why is China doing uncontrolled reentry any different? As far as I understand it the vast majority of rockets have uncontrolled re-entry, save for spaceplanes, falcon 9, and more recently electron.
I moved from Michigan to Texas and my SAD nearly disappeared, through I still have some circadian issues when the sun rises too late for me to automatically wake up at an appropriate time for work/life. Or if it’s overcast for >3 days straight.

When I lived in Michigan the best help was:

- Getting an insanely bright halogen lamp in the center of my room. Bright enough to mimic the sun. This was not a normal “available in stores” 70-100W halogen, probably closer to 200-400W. Sometimes I would stand right under it, about 12” from the bulb, staring into it with my eyelids closed for 2-5 minutes.

- Embracing the cold and enjoying it. This meant not wearing a jacket sometimes and just going out in a t-shirt for 5-30 minutes, even if it was 20 degrees F outside. Finding outdoor activities which I truly enjoy and developing them into my life. Focusing on thriving rather than surviving.

- Where I lived was overcast most days, especially in the winter. We could go a whole week without the sun being visible. I made a rule to drop anything I was doing and go out and stare into the sun (with eyelids closed) anytime the sun was shining. No emergency was too important to skip this.

- Moving to even snowier areas. Being forced to shovel your driveway 1-2x every day is a great way to get the outdoor exercise needed to love the winter.
Haven: Host your own private blog
Glad you like it! Devdocs includes Mozilla’s docs, for JS, CSS, DOM, SVG, and others. (But my ranking algorithm doesn’t understand that “mdn” is a synonym for “developers.mozilla.org” so it’s hard to surface them explicitly.)

Thanks for the feature request—I don’t have any frontend JS set up yet that I could easily add this to, but I can see how this could be useful and I’ll put it on my list.
Alternate take, its all just a product of energy and materials extraction being super cheap so money basically becomes a representative of human attention/effort. its very hard to change as the behavior is permeated everywhere. IMO a better approach would be to provide guardrails against poor disposal for non-easily biodegradable stuff like plastics. especially the once we let go in ocean.

the big eye-opener for me was when I learned that plastics can take as much as 5000 years to fully decompose. that means the single use bag I use to pickup my food from restaurant will last as much as the entire human civilization in nature for my 10 minute convinience.
"Also, if shift hits the fan, communities that are able to band together and work together will more likely do way better."

I'm not sure if you're just using prepper in a derogatory way, or general way. If people aren't practicing some self reliance before an event happens, then it's unlikely they can contribute to the group survival.
Farewell, Helm Shutting Down
As someone who lives in an area commonly threatened by hurricanes I don't know where this exclusivity between "Prepper" and "Community member" came from. I'm all for being the friendly neighbor willing to contribute when a disaster strikes, but I also don't understand how that conflates with having a generator and a few days of non-perishables stashed in a closet somewhere. Especially considering you'll just be more useful overall when you having functioning tools
Here's how this is playing out.

* We need a way to serve image files.

* I create an organization account, add an S3 bucket.

* We serve images as our application grows.

* Fast forward a few months, get an email saying, we're at 85% of free-tier limit.

* I invite my boss to the Organization, and make her the financial contact.

* Neither I, nor my boss, have been able to figure out where, or how, to enter a credit card number.

* We continue to get monthly 85% limit emails. Following the link in the email leads nowhere where we could enter the payment info.

* What a completely insane and stupidly opaque UI. Take our money! How?

* Will probably move to a service that's better organized. We're just serving image files, a few hundred per day.

We have both tried and are unable to figure out how to tie payment info to our AWS organization.
Predictions: Mastodon becomes platform for technically minded center left. Tribel Social becomes lower brow left version of Parler.
Twitter loses customers to aforementioned platforms but survives.
Very cool. I wish there was a “join now” group rather than scheduling?
You should read the article and how that very topic and what "free speech" even means is discussed
The content moderation policy hasn’t changed. I mean, I guess some far right folk think Elon’s their man. They’re sorely mistaken (as can be seen by the outrage/despair of Nazis when Elon said he’s talking with ADL representatives).
Digg to Reddit comes to mind, but the quality of new material in Mastodon eclipses Twitter.
Well now information is so accessible that with access to those chemicals you would have degenerate kids blowing up schools instead of just shooting them up.
To add context, in greta’s climate book there’s a whole narrative on how the climate and sustainability crisis is a consequence of the current global economic model that incentivizes consumption and growth, so people that are on their way to the financial district and therefore probably work to support that model would be considered enemies of the planet by those activists. Their mode of transportation would be immaterial to that.

They’re not in favor of communism either by the way, they want the global economic system reformed to become sustainable and they consider the job of doing that a responsibility of the powers that be.
Unless you need Arial's specific font characteristics in your stack, please just fall back to sans-serif. I hate these 'system font stacks' that don't fallback to my system because some schmuck thought it would be a good idea to put Ubuntu and Arial in these stacks instead of actually falling back to to the user agent or OS.
iOS 16.2 Could Be Massive – Here’s Why
Instances will be run by small groups of people motivated by personal or political reasons.
For a loonnggg time I thought of developing something like this. I have an entire bookmark section of developer documentation, all of them with their special search and organization. If only there was one search (a good search engine) for all of them! Great work!
That’s when real verified accounts gain value but since now anybody can be verified, it is going to become a problem.
I disagree, relative time is awesome.