skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the point of view of the Space Agency even though his ‘spot’ performance meets the grade he’s still an unacceptable risk as an astronaut - he might die during a mission potentially harming others - and if so all the resources spent on that mission and training would have been wasted.

In a sense it’s the external political struggle of whether a society allocates resources to everyone to maximise their personal potential, or focuses resources on a subset of talented individuals likely to give the best overall return.
Wow, this reminds me how "stone knives and bearskins" the old days were. "The IBM PC came with five expansion slots, and they were in high demand. You needed one for the hard drive controller, one for the floppy drive controller, one for the video card, one for the printer parallel port, one for the mouse. Oh no, you ran out of slots, and you haven’t even gotten to installing a network card or expansion RAM yet!"

Uphill, in the snow, both ways, etc, etc.
I'm not sure what state you're talking about, but I can say in 6 years of owning a Tesla, I've only had to wait for a Supercharger twice, maybe 3 times. I know there were long waits at some CA Superchargers 3-4 years ago, but I haven't seen them, largely in CO and on trips to NC.
Pigeon-to-pigeon connection establishment, I like it :)

I've never considered using WebRTC without STUN or TURN, but apparently it's quite possible, enabling LAN-only usage: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30742431/webrtc-on-isola...
I would try to detect the table and then try to detect the ball moving on the table.

Then crop the video a couple of secs from the first/last detection
Ironic that the woman who seems to be the driving force behind a smear campaign also complains that the man she's smearing “is writing poorly researched articles that are basically hit pieces on me.”

Feels like the standard 'I will be so objectionable and obnoxious that people will stop fighting me just so I'll go away' move.

Edit: slight discussion yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34133388
That’s actually a good point. I suppose the film might have some nostalgia appeal for specific groups of people decades from now. I suspect I’m going to dislike it even more, though.
The bees often don’t die immediately, and could very well return to the hive. Also, except in accidents, in nature this death generally happens at the hive, when eg a bear is eating it.
> No one in the US, for instance, has any excuse because it is all very very affordable

As another comment pointed out, median income in Pine Ridge is $4k per year.

I don’t think really any of your advice is compatible with that income level.
In every counrty, exept the US, criminals mostly come out of a prison as a better person. In no other country a prison is just to lock people away. In the US a prisoner is just a kind of perpetum mobile, a unlimited money machine.
I’m seeing a pretty significant amount of Elixir job listings these days even in areas where you used to see all Ruby or Python
Level 1 chargers do not work well in the winter, in cold climates
> 1Password: my favorite of the bunch so far, great UI and UX

Weird, I can't stand the 1Password UI/UX. I've used it at work for two years now, so I can get around ok at this point, but for a long time I struggled to find even basic functionality. Also the keyboard navigability is garbage.

> BitWarden: played around with this for a while, but didn't switch from 1Pass mostly because I am not willing to host something like this myself and it costs the same as 1Pass with less features and polish.

The SaaS Bitwarden offering is less expensive than 1Password at all tiers, plus there's a (functional) free tier.

I will say, 1Password does seem to be the most secure of the SaaS options. But this is just my vague impression -- I haven't looked into it closely, nor am I qualified to.
Yes, Neville Chamberlain did the first, Churchill and FDR did the second.
I use and generally recommend 1password. I've used it on every major mobile and desktop OS browser. (I've had some issues on Android, but it was not a standard Android OS.) The UX is generally nice.

First, they encrypt with the secret key AND the master password. This is the most important thing, and I was shocked to learn Lastpass doesn't do it.

Second, the master password runs through PBKDF2 with 100000 rounds, but a precursory Google search suggests the very earliest versions used around 10000. Lastpass's problem was a low 5000 rounds, and did not update the number of rounds. I don't know if 1password updates the number of rounds.

Third, they use a zero-knowledge proof protocol called "secure remote password". When I was sharp in cryptography, this is what made me choose 1password over the others. I don't understand all the details anymore, and I don't know if it is "post-quantum secure."

Fourth, the UX is nice and I can recommend it to anybody who is literate. (This is not a cynical take-- I don't know how good the UX is for someone who is not fluent in a language 1password uses.) (Also, 1password recently released "1password 8", a new UI. I have not tried it and cannot speak to it.)

Fifth, 1password's biggest (only?) controversy was moving to a subscription model. I actually prefer this. (I want devs to be paid in perpetuity to keep this secure! I assume 1password has security holes somewhere, and I want 1password to pay their folks to find them first.)

Unfortunately, the monthly price "billed annually" is $3/month, but it seems the true monthly price is hidden behind a signup wall. I feel comfortable assuming the price is less than $10 per month.

Sixth, and most importantly: If your payment lapses, you can still access all your passwords, but you no longer get sync. (But I have not tried this in practice.)

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1password security whitepaper: https://1passwordstatic.com/files/security/1password-white-p...

1password security overview: https://support.1password.com/1password-security/

Secure Remote Password (SRP) overview: https://blog.1password.com/developers-how-we-use-srp-and-you...
Thank you for telling me it doesn't play on an iPad. Your implication that the landing page is useless does not make sense in the context that the video does not play.

I do not own any Apple products and so was not able to test on them.
If you have taken AstraZeneca, try and get some blood and hypertension tests done. Blood clots can be managed with anti-coagulants like rivaroxaban, your doctor will advice based on the tests.

Post AZ, mini strokes start occurring for some. Mini strokes are hard to notice if you aren't post 60. Many strokes don't kill, but they kill the life of you.

Based on the sample set of 1 personally known and 8 indirect.

In a world where Science has become like religion which can't be questioned; use Science and the limited data you have.
You can use it through custom collection which are available on Firefox for Android Nightly and Fennec
Photos are a good example of why a filesystem hierarchy is insufficiently expressive. You might want to search for pictures of me at parties, or pictures with me and my wife, or pictures from 1999, or pictures of LA, and the same photo might belong in all of those searches. No single category will ever be a good place for a photo.
I think their argument was that Webb wasn't exceptionally bigoted for his time, not that there weren't others less bigoted than him.
This is true for a lot of low-brow work because companies simply need people to grind through requirements for their bespoke CRUD apps and integrations. There's still a boat load of that kind of work to be done, but it's only a fraction of the work available.

There are plenty of places where that negative pressure exists though and there's higher standards of quality. I doubt anyone is skating by with hacky code in aviation or space, for instance. So what you're talking about isn't really an issue where it matters.
Ehm sorry but talking about "full control of our own data" in a paper written with Microsoft Word and presenting a mobile app is like talking about peace while empty a magazine aiming at someone else body.

Beside that to have our data, witch does not means privacy, does only means owning A COPY of our data in a fully locally usable form, we need home storage, desktops, home offline copies etc. We need to state a thing: to be Citizens in the digital world, as we need a home in the physical one we need a digital home that's OURS not rent from someone else. Witch means today having a home server for sharing purposes, with a static ip, enough upload, a domain name (or at least a subdomain) and so on.

WE CAN'T OWN anything on a mobile simply because the platform is managed/manageable from remote NOT under our control. We can't own anything on proprietary tools or services.

The dream have a name: classic internet. Witch means a network of interconnected hosts, where one of them is ours, down to the hw. A world of desktop computing where we both produce and consume, sharing between peers, the cloud at maximum reduced to "scalable cache/computing resources in the Plan 9 alike model" and so on. The rest is just marketing.
Why in the world would a sedan need a v8, that's the definition of excessive and only contributes to pollution and waste
I was going to come out and defend Oxford and the Oxford American (Oxford is a rich and active literary mecca, and the Oxford American is a notable literary journal), but learned more strange and confusing facts: the Oxford American has actually been based out of Arkansas for years now!
Kinda.

ICE fuels degrade rapidly after production and don’t store well for any length of time (gasoline in a gas tank can go bad in a month or so, less if not stored well. Diesel can get fungus if not specially treated to prevent it.).

Longer range, and ability to care more fuel is indeed great - due to fuel density. But if refineries are out or distribution networks are screwed, there is no way to effectively make more, and existing stocks go bad quickly. Strategy was often about capturing refineries and oil fields in WW2, as it was absolutely essential that fresh supplies be acquired or everything would grind to a standstill.

Current EVs are definitely city queens, but as battery tech improves (better energy density), that is likely to change.

And ICE vehicles definitely degrade in cold, quite significantly. Diesels won’t even start without special measures when it gets cold, and diesel fuel without anti gelling agents will solidify. Gasoline engines can choke and/or go fuel rich until the engine warms up, but even then, oils, coolants, etc. often need to be switched or more heavily maintained to avoid freezing.

It’s all trade offs.

Army’s won’t switch until at least 20 years after the civilian market I’d expect, out of tradition and long established supply chain habits rather than anything else, maybe even 50.

It does have advantages too, as you note, regarding density.
Good to know but i need FF sync
Russia is trying to get an ammonia pipeline from Toliati to Odessa restarted despite the war - is this why articles like this started popping up? Like we got a lot of hand-wringing around impending world hunger right before the grain deal allow Russia to export a lot of stolen Ukrainian grain.
Maybe the bee dying is just the side effect of what it's really trying to do. Maybe if the the bees stingers did not have barbs they would just annoy a bear a little and he would happly suffer a few stings to get the honey. But with barbs the stinger stays in the mammal and irritates the skin for longer periods of time. If course this means the bee has its stinger ripped off and dies but his stinger still causes damage and has deterent affect. Also I imagine a bee that did not die when stinging still stood a good chance of dying due to slap from hand or paw anyway. Or if a bear is raiding hive thoese bees are died anyway if they don't stop him so you might as well inflict maximum damage
37% makes sense. When you live in a moderate climate and minimally need heating, low capex and high opex makes sense.

Too bad so many air conditioners don’t have reversing valves. One day I want to install a window-shaker “the wrong way” and see how well it works as a heater.

As an alternative, one could put water containers in their freezer and throw the ice outside as it freezes as a rudimentary sneakernet liquid<-> solid phase change heat pump.
Synthetically-manufactured uniqely coded DNA that is sprayed onto perpetrators of a crime linking them from days to months to a location and/or property. An example of one of many companies in the space [1]. A search that opens up some rabbit holes [2].

More needs to be done in the space to develop it (there are several defeats I can think of as long as a perpetrator is aware such a system is in use), but it is still a promising channel to speed up investigation, indictment, prosecution, and sentencing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartWater

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=synthetic+DNA+forensic+prope...
Exactly. Nobody is going to be able to shovel that out by hand in that extreme cold. It was -30 with the wind here a couple days ago and it took my forever to shovel out the driveway because I had to frequently stop and go back inside to warm up. And that was just a small driveway with a few inches.
> your chances of never getting COVID if you remain unvaccinated are extremely low

That is right. And some get infected without suffering harm, as was known by early reports from the quarantined Diamond Princess boat. Passengers in a cabin with infected mates sometimes had no medical issues.

It is important to consider how certain groups such as children had nearly zero negative outcome from the virus while developing robust antibodies and this without the shots. For children the vaccine risks outweighed gains that may have been helpful to those in high risk categories (older compromised lung capacity obese).
Like http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontro... ?
I got all that. They're still going to look at statistics to decide how who to risk billions of dollars on a space mission.

This is no different than say insurance companies charging more for people under 25. You might be 19 and the safest driver in the world. Doesn't matter, the statistics say, people under 25 get in accidents. Same with all kinds of things.

It's not like a space program has infinity money and sends up a rocket to Saturn every day. So, they have to lower the risks and one of the ways they do that is by trying to select extremely healthy people to be astronauts. Sure, one person how's genes say they are unhealthy might happen to outlive everyone how's genes say they are healthy but that's not how it works. They're still going to use some form of selection by genes (health, body size, eye sight, hearing, etc...) so select people they feel give the mission the highest chance of success.

If you're blind, deaf, have missing or deformed limbs, a "bad" heart, etc... you aren't going to be selected.
You might as well also run Nix on macOS as well and extract out the common parts of your config (selection of CLI software, at least), right? I'd do that even if macOS was just a seldom-used 'backup OS'.
Wow, didn’t know that. You have to chose from options to save as PDF and then the choices will reflect saving as PDF.

I used to use the markup feature as a workaround.
Not yet no.
It's not about me enjoying myself; the guidelines are there to help ensure a civil discourse. For what it's worth, I was not downvoting, somebody else already did so before I saw your comment.

And for the last time, I was not equivocating. I've said that multiple times; there is no disagreement despite your insistence on pretending there is. The through-line is not that they are equal, it's that they are both public goods of varying degrees. You are reading too much into the comments and inserting arguments that are not there.
If you go through the rigmarole of setting up an AMO account, installing a pre-release version and then creating a curated list of add-ons and then changing a browser setting, sure!

Didn't you know that users are too dumb to be able to select add-ons to install themselves? This way, users are protected from themselves!
It's a spectrum. Most people understand that when they interact with a store, that store can and will use that data in pursuit of operating their business better.

Very few people are blanket against any and all use of data about customers, or against any and all forms of advertisement. But most people really don't like companies harvesting their data in order to sell to other advertisers. Most people are sick of every company realizing they can make a little more money by advertising anywhere they possibly can, so now we're in a reality where the $2000 TV you buy in the store has pop up ads built in, records what you watch, and the company (LG in my scenario) will sell that data and use it to advertise to you more effectively. If you want to opt out entirely, you have to completely disconnect the device from the network.

Privacy and personal data aside, advertisement has strongly changed the consumer world for the worst. Nearly everything when a microprocessor tries to gather salable data, and now that can be everything from your toilet to your blender. You can avoid smart devices for the most part, but it's almost impossible to buy a modern TV that doesn't try to do anything except display video and audio.
50 to 200 kettles? That’s wildly off.

A typical kitchen water-boiler uses 1.5kW. My EV, when charging at home, charges at 5kW.

If you have to do a fast charge because you’re on a road trip, you might choose to accelerate battery degradation by charging at 50-200kW, but that’s the rare and expensive exception to the rule.

What’s hard about national events is that historically power generation hasn’t been good at load following. If you know you’re going to charge 2 million EVs every night, there’s very little load following needed, it’s a steady load.

It’s still a lot more energy than current grids can supply, so there’s no doubt that more production and transmission is needed, but the engineering to achieve this is not some radical departure from current techniques.
The article mentions drifts as tall as houses. Even if you could get a shovel or snowblower under that, where do you put the snow? That's a ton of work!
Were you able to view the video?
This is horrifying.

And I thought Uber & others were bad (I still do, but didn't expect worse)...
Industrialized humans have a historically abysmal track record of ham-fistedly “optimizing” ecosystems.

Any manual intervention into an ecosystem generally requires establishing an indefinite commitment to more manual maintenance.

Who determines what “optimal” means? Who implements the optimization? Who pays for it? What happens in a few decades when people lose political interest in the project? Which creatures do we optimize for? Why are we doing this at all? How have similar projects fared in the past?

I can tell you haven’t seriously studied ecology from the way you are approaching this question, so I’m not too worried. But consider questions like those as you ponder this scenario.
Crow Tech Slaps
This comment is peak HN contrarianism.

“How come they didn’t prepare better for a brutal winter”

Is the new
“Dropbox will never work”
> It's unfortunate that modified copies "may not be distributed without prior consent of the author", killing any possibility of a "neoxv" fork.

Well, just look at what happened to xsnow.
I installed Slackware 15.0 and my config automatically starts xsnow. I wanted to see why it hasn't started, only to discover a configuration window under my xterm, without borders or titlebar.

My next reaction was: removepkg xsnow, fetch xsnow-1.42, xmkmf, make, make install.
I would like to know how I can live in the countryside without a car
Ah, I love 165. I've never seen it utilized even in downtown areas and I generally recommend it if you are in a congested area and are fine with the performance on 20MHz.
Those benchmarks are with Python 3.10 - the big recent speedups are in 3.11, with more to come

> The Python 3.11 release announcement cites 10~60% improvements over Python 3.10 and a 1.22x speed-up for its standard benchmark suite.
But can I (again) open said PDF inside Firefox? Last I checked, the ability to open local files had been removed -which was maddening.
Out of all companies you choose Slack, the only one that I actually think deserves an insane valuation. So many products that are just Slack integrations and that companies fully rely on. Have you worked at a big company and seen what happens when Slack goes down?
No, they aren't judging the future, they are judging the present. Many developers are using language models to assist them today so it is worth checking if that actually helps them or not. When we are in the future we can start judging future language models, but until then we can only test what we have now.
Cool feature, although I note with some irony that once I have the PDF downloaded, I still have to then use Google's Drive PDF reader or some other tool to open it.

Maybe work on a full stack PDF renderer like the desktop version has, Mozilla?
I agree that those companies are in “a healthy position”, but there are massive risks to their operations:

AMZN: IIRC, AWS is the majority of their profit. This is web infrastructure; all the negative PE ratio startups and gig economy companies going under will hurt AWS. They have similar risks to GOOG (see below).

MSFT: Does anyone have a clue how MSFT is making money? The last few Windows updates have been free, and I would guess they are buttressed by Office 365. How they convince IT departments to adopt this buggy, slow, expensive software, is beyond my comprehension. What’s the sales pitch? “Hey, have you ever wished you could pay every month for Office? It will have similar functionality to Office from 20 years ago, and you can pay us every single month!”

On second thought, their Azure services probably have similar profitability and risks to AWS; maybe that’s what is keeping them afloat.

AAPL: At least Apple produced physical products, but we have seen their products, e.g the iPhone 14, hurt by supply chain issues and lower demand in the face of a recision and high inflation. They’re not innovating; the iPhone 14 was mocked for being the same as the previous model. If frugal consumers go by the wayside, who is driving profits? The (now-laid-off) tech employees who make enough to afford their luxury products? Maybe some, but less than at present.

Apple has made efforts to grow their SaaS revenue the last few years and that is prone to risks from lower consumer demand. A budget-minded consumer will not be paying for all the Apple services when they are hurt by layoffs.

GOOG: Ah, my favorite. Let’s set aside the legion of small companies they bought to fuel growth and decrease competition, e.g. Nest, Fitbit, Waze, YouTube, etc. Corporate Alphabet is producing the majority of profit by ad revenue. What happens when demand for advertising decreases due to lower consumer demand? They’re also trying to enter the cloud space, but are far behind AWS and Azure.

There are also broad risks facing tech company. The main ones which come to mind are data privacy and other regulations, anti-trust actions.

If future events do not favor big tech, those companies could have a long way to fall.