skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, there's still more people who die in fires in the US than in the EU, thanks mostly thanks to space heaters on 120v/15A circuits and absolutely zero retrofit requirements on anything (what do you mean I can have K&T and a Federal Pacific Panel that does not trip on overcurrent in my house with no GFCI/AFCI protection but every single new circuit I add needs to have those?). The US/Canada have gone too far into "new housing stock needs to be perfect" and not enough into "existing housing stock needs to be retrofitted", because not pissing off landlords and boomer homeowners is a main policy goal.
> Are hardware wallets that difficult and/or expensive?

The entire thing is obscenely difficult and completely inscrutable for the average human. The number of ways a naïve participant can lose their entire balance is staggering. Even the notion of a hardware wallet is something that 90%+ of people holding cryptocurrencies will either never hear about, never understand, or never opt to use due to actual or perceived complexity.

The average person is simply not qualified to hold onto substantial (to themselves) amounts of cryptocurrencies in any form. And as it turns out, all of the available evidence seems to indicate that most exchanges aren't qualified to do so either.
> Exactly what dialog?

M: I learned to hate you in the last ten years.

I: I never meant to hurt you.

M: I was a child! I was in love! It was wrong and you knew it!

I: You knew what you were doing.

M: Now I do! This is my place. Get out!

I: I did what I did. You don't have to be happy about it, but maybe we could help each other out now.

https://youtu.be/Q4PlXSw0BQo?t=118

It's ambiguous (since we don't know for sure how old Marion is during the events of Raiders), but "Marion was 16(ish)" is a perfectly valid reading.
https://archive.is/HxAlA
Can you saw more about this? I've never heard of anything like this and can't figure out if its genius or silly. Things I'm curious about:

* Are you working on a SAAS product or embedded/IoT project or hobby project?

* How do you aggregate the SQLite logs together from disparate machines? Seems like you probably can't use fluentbit/filebeat/etc.

* Where do you query these logs?

* How do you structure these logs? (timestamp, machine, message) or something with more columns?

* Are you able to capture stacktraces?

I _love_ the idea of leveraging SQLite for this kind of scenario and possibly skipping a lot of messy plumbing or pricy vendors, but I'm uncertain how this works.
Would have to do the signing server-side, predicated on the server checking the entire state to ensure validity. Such effort being put into preventing parameter-hacking would suggest there are serious vulnerabilities in that website. The URL is meant to be modified by the client.
It's a historical fact that got named after its most obvious feature. They were white people.
Fermat Factorization in the Wild
Don't get triggered. Nobody is talking about you or calling you a bad person.
And seeing what they left out that then went into Temple of Doom!
Why should a git client respect an http standard such as robots.txt?
I wonder if forcing people to use Microsoft Windows for banking is why Linux usage is so low in S. Korea compared to just about anywhere else?

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/south-korea

Multiple orders of magnitude less than most places.

(assuming the numbers in the link are valid)
I hear people say that, yet Sun Microsystems is the company which created the CDDL to be intentionally GPL-incompatible[1] and then made a filesystem which they licensed under the CDDL. Then they sold themselves to one of the worst tech companies. Not exactly the behaviour I would expect for an awesome company.

[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CDDL, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distrib...
> The film trivializes archeology, reduces conflict to violence, and tells a story that doesn't go anywhere or teach any lessons. It is nothing but two hours of empty and abrasive action sold with pretty visuals.

You're right on all counts. That doesn't make it poor entertainment. It might be poor entertainment for you but different people have different tastes.
The Ranger suggested an average one one hotel staffer a year would get themselves killed.

If there were say 60 staff in that hotel, that gives Park employees a half-life of around 40 years.

Don't stay in that industry too long! The demographics are terrible.
Portraying the 80ma number as anything other than what can happen in a freak accident is misleading and dishonest and is counterproductive if the goal is to get people to respect electricity because it is in contradiction to the lived experience of basically everybody.

>The problem is that the conditions that can lead to a deadly accident don't trigger any of our ape-brain fear response.

No. The problem here is that you are peddling fear to get the reaction you want out of people. Potential energy, electric or otherwise is potentially dangerous. Pretending like it's more dangerous than it is to scare people straight is bad. Just because reality doesn't scare people into behaving how you like doesn't entitle you to be dishonest.

>If you think any of the things you listed are fine and safe just because they don't result in "instant death" then I would say we have very different ideas about risk management.

If you think it's ok to just lie to people because you think the end goal is noble I don't care what your ideas are.
I'm siting here pondering how adding a second stairway to a building makes it economically unfeasible. What kinda crappy buildings are you making where the stairway is that substantial to the cost of the construction?

And in low rise buildings, there's usually a LOT of stairways lol. A typic suburban US apartment complex has a half dozen buildings, and each one has maybe 12 apartments and like 4 stairways.
Why is games development so expensive?
This one is my least favorite one of his, actually. The big problem is that it just didn't actually really work. Tom7 seems to start these projects only a couple weeks before sigbovik deadline (an incredible feat I marvel at regularly) so it is no surprise that some of them end up falling apart (harder drives with the cue carts failed too) but I really wish this one had worked.

The C Compiler that only emits the printable bytes is my favorite one by a mile. The executables can only jump forward and only by an offset between two modestly large numbers. This makes laying out the code in the executable a really interesting problem and relies on weird old behavior where the instruction pointer can wrap on overflow. Wild!
This is also true of Luke in Return of the Jedi. Luke does nothing to help destroy the death star and Vader and the emperor would have probably been killed when it was destroyed without Luke being there (okay, maybe they would have escaped but it doesn’t feel like Luke was super impactful)
If an apartment is on fire between yours and the stairwell and that fire extends to the hallway, then you’re dead, right? If there was a second stairwell on the opposite side then you’d still be able to escape.

I’m pretty sure sprinklers have been shown to massively increase fire safety.
PDFs here: https://sigbovik.org/
Expressive E Osmose
Simple drip-coffee makers still exist. A lot of other products that try to fill different needs also exist in the coffee segment.

For example, I have a coffee machine that uses ground coffee to make just a single cup instead of a whole pot, like a Keurig, but without the wasteful pods. Is this over-engineered? Maybe compared to a Mr. Coffree, but I it fills my needs without added pods.
> Society starts failing when the answer to every problem is call mommy and daddy (the police) and stops enforcing basic societal norms by

Complex societies seem to have a few basic options:

1 - Enforce social laws 'locally' without official government sanction; neighborhood heroes if you're polite, the mob if you're looking at the U.S. big cities in much of the 20th century. Behaviors change through fear.

2 - Enforce statutory laws via government punishment: fines or community service, imprisonment for repeat offenders, etc. Behaviors change through removing people from the society, or scaring them into fearing punishment.

3 - Don't enforce any laws. After all, shoplifting is a victimless crime. People need to eat and they need medicine. It's not against the law to be poor.

4 - Change societal norms through shaming and education. After all, people don't realize the impact they're having, if you finger wag and lecture to them, they will understand the bigger societal reason to be nice.

In cities like NYC, SF, Philly and Chicago I seem to be seeing all of these, with a de-emphasis on traditional #2, the government punishing people. We like to blame police for not showing up, but district attorneys are specifically avoiding to prosecute [1], so police aren't going to waste their times and risk themselves.

We have judges attempting diversion programs like making defendants write essays or attend some event where they can meet victims to gain empathy.

Then we have a huge number (according to voting patterns) of Millennial-age folks who are deeply against police, against incarceration ("the carceral system" as they refer to it) at any cost, both as they're viewed as historically racist.

What will happen now? Well as usual the middle class and poor will suffer - the rich will always have their deliveries, private security, and seclusion from the street thuggery we're pretending is inevitable and perhaps only started during the pandemic (an argument being made by our politicians).

1 - See page four of https://www.manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Day-O... ("The Office will not prosecute the following charges...")
The engine is your primary heat source. Your primary heat source failing is the emergency. Thus the need for an emergency source as a backup. Or at least a bivy sack or some other way to not freeze.
BUND specifically states that they never opposed to construction of the Nord Stream pipeline, because they viewed natural gas as a good alternative to nuclear:

https://twitter.com/simonwakter/status/1498228873682690050
I tried Markdown->Hugo->Cloudflare pages route. If you need all bells and whistles of Wordpress you can generate static pages off a local wordpress installation[0] using a WP plugin[1] and host in Cloudflare pages

[0] https://localwp.com/

[1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/
Despite gloomy headlines, our planet is getting cleaner and healthier
(I think that) Flimsy ~= less likely to fall down in an earthquake. When I moved from Ireland to California I moved into a two storey (1940s?) apartment apparently constructed from drinking straws and toilet paper. But… a few weeks later the area was struck by a significant quake. Part of the freeway fell down. I was woken from sleep by the building swaying and creaking. But it didn’t fall down.

Try your Stockholm apartment in that.
isn't this the core idea behind Wolfram Hypergraph thing?

ref: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...
> I can guarantee that the author's simple $12 drip coffee maker from Amazon is going to the landfill well before that.

What makes you think you know this?
I was about to write a similar post, all companies using open ai will need more than a prompt as their competitive advantage. Or be caught in a race to the bottom. Microsoft needs open ai or risk this commoditize their business like msft did to ibm or component manufacturers did to dell.
Could start with a smaller encoding. Use single-length keys, or better yet use protocol buffers or even ASN1. That's similar to taking advantage of common key names.
While I have no doubt your machine can make much better coffee than a $12 plastic gizmo, the gizmo will probably outlast it. There's just less of it to fail.

Durability and excellence can often be orthogonal.

(Fellow coffe enthusiast and mechanical/product engineer here)
I used a metal filter with my Aeropress for six years. It's fine. The paper filters are an option, not a requirement.
I've had a lot of success with James Hoffman's method[1] for making coffee with a french press. Good coffee and with a larger french press you can make enough coffee at once for at least two people. You only need a french press and optionally a coffee grinder if you want to grind your own beans to get started.

It is a bit time consuming (10-15minutes) so it may not be great for making a quick cup before leaving the house in the morning though.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st571DYYTR8
That's great. Thanks!
Another reason to not base64 encode is that many URLs with base64 strings will break in iMessage do to strings randomly matching various keywords that iMessage looks for. I think ‘usd’ is one such substring to look out for.
Those are perfectly valid options of course, my rationale was that I don't use a mouse and I want to browse the web with one hand. With modern trackpads you can do everything besides opening links in new tabs with one hand, hence the extension.
In the same vein, I think the industry is ripe for "smart-less" TVs. Reduce the cost, and take all the smarts out of it. Don't even need wifi. Apple TV, roku, chromecast - enough good options out there that there's really no need for your TV to come built in with any apps or smart features.
Check out Ichi.city

https://ichi.city/
> Europe is behind on a lot of safety infrastructure compared to the US.

That's a rather sweeping statement.

> and for-profit zoning that has led to the current lack of mid-rise affordable housing.

Yes, it's a complicated issue with tons of causes, but what this site is saying is that the requirement for a second stairwell skews the economy of building mid-rises so much that they become unfeasible for developers (In Ontario) even if all the other factors were to be fixed. And so you're stuck with either high-rises or single-story buildings.
Maybe not the most important problem, but I've been thinking about the massive amount of paperwork that everyone is flooded with through life, at least in the US.

A few of my family members have had health issues since birth and the amount of paperwork my family has been constantly filling out for decades is extremely overwhelming. And this is all extra paperwork added to the normal amount coming from work, the bank, college, car insurance, etc. Even simple forms such as renewing your drivers license add up when there are tens or hundreds of other similar forms every year.

One seemingly low hanging fruit is the time waste of copying the same information over and over when filling out these forms. In 2023, you would think that this part would have been solved by now, but I don't know of any tools with this functionality. I wonder if the complexity of PDF files is one reason that no tools currently exist to solve this problem.

This is mostly a rant because I still cannot figure out any good solutions to this, nor am I actively working on it aside from thinking the problems through in my free time. New technology might be able to solve the problem of copying similar info between forms, but I wonder if it can only be solved at the government level. And I have no idea how to go about solving that because its not like all paperwork is bad; I can understand the need for it in most cases. I just feel like the action of filling out forms should not be such a overwhelmingly large stressor in modern life.

I would love to hear other people's opinions on this. I feel like if there could be any solution that allows average people to spend less time filling out and worrying about paperwork would be a massive benefit on our mental health.
would it be feasible to include the compression dictionary along w/ the data? And, maybe just send it once on the initial request and store it on the client?
> The operating system uses both capabilities and permissions.

No, that's still wrong.

The Android framework uses something that goes a little bit in the direction of capabilities.

But the Android framework / runtime runs (by now) on an OS (Linux) that is not capability safe.

> Regardless, this is all implementation details and for the user it is equivalent.

No, of course not.

On a capability secure OS your mouse driver can't read the disk or do network request. Even if you would find an exploit in the driver.

That's a completely different level of security!

It's a fact that there is still no capability secure OS out there in broad use. (Fuchsia could be the first that brings this concept into mainstream. But this will take time. Also Fuchsia isn't as strict as it could be, for different reasons).
Various aspects of query optimization like join planning and predicate selectivity estimation, e.g. as discussed in https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00728
I think the other params are custom too. There's probably other state not being stored in that URL. If users want to send charts to each other and have them show up the same, this actually seems like a reasonable way to do it.
Many years ago, my wife and I were driving from Phoenix to Flagstaff AZ USA on the I-70 expressway. We encountered a blizzard about halfway there. Driving conditions were bad, so we turned around and headed back to Phoenix. We're from a snowy climate, so understand the dynamics of driving in slippery, snowy conditions -- you need to a) stay away from other vehicles and b) not slide off the road.

Driving through the storm in darkness, we saw through heavy snowfall the lights of a vehicle that was obviously off the road. I immediately started to slow down and we were both watching the vehicle, which had its backup lights on, to see what it might do.

Just as we arrived near the vehicle, my wife called out and I narrowly avoided hitting someone who was standing in the middle of the freeway trying to prevent vehicles from going behind their car.

That's the closest I've ever come to killing someone with my car.
I did once and was told off for adding noise to the discussion by someone who didn't see the irony of their complaint also adding to the noise.
I rinse and re-use the aeropress filters. If I'm somewhat careful handling them I get 10 uses or more per filter.
> Out of all objectives that further Russian power, you have decided on the squashing new nuclear plants.

it's not like it's a team of five guys slogging away in the propaganda mines with pick axes. they can pursue a number of goals simultaneously, limited mostly by budget and probably other geopolitical concerns, rather than video game-esque restrictions on the total number of things they can propagandize about simultaneously.

> Why this and not some other objective? Why can't they sway the global opinion on Ukraine? Surely they are trying.

they've had a lot longer to work on nuclear than the current invasion.

they've also had plenty of success in the past with ukraine-related misinformation, see walter duranty.
I'm not sure why you're so determined to be outraged about something.
A cursory search says 3k Americans die in house fires, and 5k Europeans die in house fires per year, so probably EU had more fire deaths per capita. But it's hard to tell because EU doesn't have a FEMA equivalent collecting data on residential fire deaths.

https://www.usfa.fema.gov/statistics/residential-fires/

https://www.europeanfiresafetyalliance.org/our-focus/statist...
> I mean, there's still more people who die in fires in the US than in the EU

False - and it's not even close. Europe has almost a full order of magnitude more death from residential fires than the US - house fires caused 2,620 deaths over 5 years in the US [0] vs ~5000/yr in Europe [1].

[0] https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/house-fire-stati...
[1] https://www.europeanfiresafetyalliance.org/our-focus/statist...
I was taught to immediately start swimming parallel to the beach. Some rip tides can take you very far away very quickly, enough that nobody would be able to get to you without a boat, and that is if they were looking at you. Best advice is to swim parallel to the beach, while remaining calm and swiming at a pace you can hold. Do not sprint-swim due to fear.
You can buy chocolate-covered espresso beans from Trader Joe's for a good bit less than a Keurig will cost.
I think it's embarrassing in the author's culture as well - but in some cultures, not repaying a loan you said you'd repay is the kind of action that warrants that kind of public embarrassment.
I feel the same way about a lot of non fiction, but not all.

First, there's entertaining/pop non-fiction, like, say, Malcom Gladwell's stuff, which has a lot of fluff but at least you enjoy the reading.

There are history books and memoirs that are just interesting - for example I've recently went through the entire series of Churchill's WWII memoirs, they're mostly awesome, though I did skip a couple of less interesting chapters. For these I prefer audiobooks while driving, which make it easier for me to focus.

Then there are CS books where you can pick and choose chapters and don't have to read the entire thing; they just go way deeper than blog posts, so if you want to REALLY know a subject, you better buy a book or two. I don't mean books like Clean Code or The Pragmatic Programmer, etc which I almost never read in their entirety and can be summarized in 10% of their length, but more deep guides to things like Information Retrieval, NLP, Database Internals, etc.
Seal it in metal and concrete -> done. You can now store it in any old warehouse. If you're really paranoid, put a sign "Warning: Dangerous Alligator!" on the door.

Half a billion per year is nothing compared to the damage we're preventing with climate change, is it?
base64 does not have the problem here, iMessage has. Frustrating.
Rhetoric, Convenience and Privacy: What we've learned from LastPass implosion?
The Implosion of LastPass is a Stark Reminder About the Importance of Due Diligence and the Influence of Effective Promotion.
Agreed. If we went on calling bad things by the predominant population which engages in negative practices, most people would object.
With respect, in case you or anyone else wasn't aware - this is an example of "survivorship bias": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias .
If the U.S. shared similar concern for environmental health a good portion of urban areas would be in exclusion zones from other sources of industrial contamination too. Instead we tolerate these people having elevated rates of diseases such as cancer or asthma and generally shortened lifespans, and let companies responsible go bankrupt with their executives absolved of all responsibilities while we spend time today scratching our head figuring out what to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund#/media/File:Superfun...
Read the OP; it's obvious based on the references to robots.txt, the User-Agent header, returning a 429 response, etc, that most (all?) of Google's requests are doing git clones over http(s).
> Part of the car-centric infrastructure is fire codes.

No, it's not. Cheap gas[0], giant freaking interstates, and public transit systems (when they are even present) that are very clearly built for the 'poors' are.

Another 3% to the per-square-foot-cost of building a multi-tenant building aren't the reason that Houston has 12 and 16-lane highways cutting right through the city, or why it takes an hour to travel by bus in Stockton a distance that you could travel in 10 minutes by car.

Fitting fire trucks is a problem for local, last-mile streets[1], not arterials, and availability of arterials (and lack of availability of alternatives) are what plays a large part in how people get around.

[0] Under $3.20/gallon in most of the country, compared to over $7/gallon in most of Europe. Not to mention the double-whammy of generally lower[2] European wages.

[1] Most American suburbs solve the width-of-last-mile-street problem by simply... Not having sidewalks. It's not like there's anywhere you can walk to from them...

[2] Okay, okay, yes, Western European take-home incomes for low-paying jobs tend to be higher than their American counterparts.