skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You said “I prefer civilization”, implying it’s relevant to the conversation. If it’s not relevant, why say it?

I did write that. Why did you then reply with "Why do you assume that in order for a government to be legitimate, it must only satisfy you? " which is not what I wrote? You needed a strawman.

If you want to read into what I actually wrote things you want me to have written, why bother any discussion? Just argue with yourself.

>There’s really nowhere in the lower 48 that fits this description at this point.

Nonsense. If they're going some place with a trailer, they are not remote at all. There's places in the Pahsimeroi area (near Salmon ID) where I've camped often a month at a time over the past 50 years (and my father did this since the 1960s) where you can go a month and not see a soul. In ALL the years I've done this, I've not one ran into a Ranger or law enforcement person.

1/10th of all the area of the US is BLM land, and lots of it is so remote that rangers NEVER go there. 240+ million acres. Lots of it so remote humans so rarely go there.

I have a lot of relatives in the MT and ID regions, so I get that a lot of people out there believe they want yo do this, but I've yet to meet one that will do it completely.

The problem with the people that want to live in a trailer (i.e., near civilization) or live in a tent (not really tenable long term) is they stay close to civilization, so they can access the fruits of civilization. If someone really wanted to be out for good, there's plenty of crazy remote area you can wander into.

And, if someone really wanted to be remote from society, there's plenty of Canada you can simply wander into, no problem (done that too).

Every so often someone comes out of the woods after 20-30 years remote and tells the story. So it's certainly doable. Most people want to think they're remote yet have the ability to access fruits of civilization, like medicine, food, gadgets. So again, they actually prefer civilization, or they could move out.

>People are constantly trying to do this.

Yes, out of 330,000,000 Americans, perhaps 1 in 10,000 do it. As I said - most people prefer civilization.

>They can’t without being disrupted by government forces.

Except for the plenty of people whose story gets reported rarely who actually did it, then gave up.

Another angle is: plenty of people own enough land out west to simply go into the center of their property and never return to civilization. How many do it? Pretty much none.

Because nearly all people prefer civilization.

When you write "People are constantly trying to do this" - what fraction do you think this is?

1/1000? 1/100,000?

It's so tiny that as I wrote: the vast majority of people prefer civilization, and those that do try what you write routinely return to civilization when they get sick, break an arm, face their first hard winter, or get old.

So - what fraction of people do you claim would prefer to live withdrawn from civilization?
Same is unfortunately true for a lot of Eastern European music. There are thousands of great soviet recordings of various classical and folk pieces that have never been digitized. And the current atmosphere over there is not honed in on preserving art. A lot of the recordings are only available on 50-60 year old vinyls which are getting harder and harder to find in a decent condition. Been digitizing a lot of my favorites in my spare time.
Show HN: Firebuild – automatic accelerator for builds and just random commands
Hi,

Many years ago I have been wondering if long builds could be accelerated by just observing how the processes in the build behaved and caching and replaying the outputs of the well-behaving ones.

Apparently this can work and perform quite well! (... after a ton of work :-))
The tool we built is available on the link above for local testing and to be used as a GitHub Action.

Please give it a try and let us know what you think.
Only if you want career options. If you just want to develop for the web I would say stick to JavaScript.
masto, not masta
Add this to the list:

https://eherold.org/wappenliste/
That is what they were asking in the sentence before.

They forgot to say for how many microseconds can the chip sustain this speed.
My CPU is powered by nuclear energy
I get regularly blinded by transit buses and other tall vehicles, so I'm not sure what the 'government regulation' actually says about headlights.

Freight trucks are hit and miss, but generally not as bad as the suburban dad trucks, yes.
Why is inch/ft easier than cm/m? As long as we use base 10, it seems trivial that units that are based on it are easier to deal with. Don't you hate it when unit prices for the same type of product, say coffee, are sometimes printed in dollar per pound, other times in cents per oz? Multiplying by 16 in your head isn't exactly trivial. Then with cooking there is teaspoon, tablespoon, ounce, cup, quart, gallon... The fact that there are 12 inches in a foot, but 16 oz in a pound is just madness.
DCG owes creditors over $3B, considering $500M VC portfolio sale
The article links to an old draft of the paper (it seems that the results in 4.1 couldn't be replicated). The arxiv has a more recent one: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13345
It's less fun with bird flu.
Not sure how this generalises, but for video editing - less rendering, which is already fast for most workloads, but the actual tasks of editing, grading etc - CPUs are still nowhere near fast enough. You can easily bring a modern machine to its knees realtime editing 4K or 6K H264 / H265 video with grading at native resolution. Let alone 8K video. Dedicated pipelines for decompressing various video codecs on the fly (including ProRes) are part of the reason Macbook Pros sell so well for video tasks. Another is that you can run them unplugged without slowdown, which is incredibly useful for video editors (good luck editing on a train, plane or back seat of a cab with a windows laptop).

All that said, DaVinci Resolve which is increasingly taking over from Premiere for many commercial editors, is more GPU than CPU bound. Lots of sales of the current fastest GPU Nvidia's RTX 4090 to this market.
So basically a desktop app that runs in a desktop app on a desktop?
It seems likely (>40%) the mindset necessary to invent interstellar travel would necessitate that kind of curiosity. Though among humans, that curiosity is of course not evenly distributed and often absent from the key decision makers.
A decade ago I paid $10,000 a year for one kid, and I was super lucky to even find anyone at all. That was the price for just some lady running a daycare out of her basement in the country. I don't want to know what it is now, in a city.
And yet, metric system is not 100% used even in metric countries. TVs, monitors, speaker sizes, car rims and tyres, plumbing pipes, guitar scale length, etc are stuck in inches and used like that in the whole world.

If 24" monitor sounds ok and you have no idea how big 61cm display is then it's safe to say we're also creatures of habbit and it's nothing specific to US.
This. The U.S. measurement systems work pretty well! And, we use metric where metric works well. The U.S. systems are sized to daily life and are based on 12 or powers of 2, which you could argue are more fundamental bases of measurement than 10. I never hear people argue for a 10 hour day.
> Let's hope FireFox starts to support the File System Access API soon.

File System Access considered harmful, will not be implemented: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

Note: in true Google fashion Chrome team implemented and released at least three different APIs all having something to do with files.

Status of File System Access? "not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track." https://wicg.github.io/file-system-access/ Shipped in Chrome, of course.
Why guns? I understand drugs since it's such small scales (does the Imperial system even have a good way of expressing those?)

Edit: I know you joked, but now I wonder if NASA used metric or imperial system back then
Is your reddit username the same as this one? I want to see the ring and how long it takes reddit to solve it.
Define “super easy”. Last time I checked geothermal installation was quite expensive due to having to move a lot of earth for those “few pipes”
I've traveled to a few places where it's impossible to buy a data plan that doesn't include free unlimited WhatsApp messages. I don't really know why this was true, but it made using any other messaging app a non-starter.

My assumption was that Meta was lobbying companies to bundle free WhatsApp data to increase their user base, but I'm not finding any proof. Does anyone else have an explanation?
Why are people doing this 30+ years to late? Imagine having this as kids.
Perhaps this could be used to create more privacy focused apps where your data stays local and works offline. I'm not sure about the persistence though, like if you clear the cache does it wipe out the local database?
lots of sunk costs. No real interest.
I quite like this one:

https://youtu.be/bAdqazixuRY

AUTOMATICA - Robots Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford

More industrial robot arm choreography and creative film making, but with some fun mindless destruction too.

(And if you like that, another one of his I like is tghis: https://youtu.be/Q3oItpVa9fs )
We can make excuses all day long. A simple query of the database/table would have produced an error. Sure, the FAA does some complex stuff, but the tech I see in airplanes looks ancient. I'm willing to bet most of the FAA complexity comes from budget (lack thereof) and old computer systems.
Isn't that the same one that he was replying to?
I disagree with you. You should fire the engineer strategically. Firing the engineer right away does have risk. But there is a great risk long term if the person is in the team and making the team toxic which will repel engineers with better character and better fit.

In a long run, it will benefit team and organisation if the person is fired. I have seen companies shutdown due to the toxicity induced by engineers like first hand. I have also been part of the interview where I was super excited about the product the org was building but rejected the offer after meeting the team due to the toxicity.
Yeah let's stop here, you say people think Linux can run "general-purpose apps" but a raspi cant. Just stop try to prove your right...by moving the goalposts.

Arduino is a Micro-controller, Raspberrypi is a SBC -> Single board computer.

>>and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers

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

>>Raspberry Pi (/paɪ/) is a series of small single-board computers (SBCs)

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

And no, don't start with your "but normal people blabla"...because "normal" people go to wikipedia to learn something ;)
I figured it was a cheap form of protectionism. While it makes it harder for exporters it also makes it harder for importers. It helps maintain a separate local tooling and consumable pipeline which helps with war fighting, it probably also makes money for donors. I think the sheer scale of Chinas exports can and has easily overcome that hurdle so the protectionist aspect is now much less relevant.
It depends on the setup. Some radiators are meant to sit in the corner, heating air, which then circulates around the room like in baseboard heating. Wood stoves are generally in the middle of the room and "visible" to everything, allowing them to radiate more. Radiator colour can make a big difference too. A black radiator will radiate more than a white one. Wood stoves are generally dull grey/black. Radiators are often white/shiny.
I think your guide and HardeningKitty type solutions are good for non-targeted attacks and for your average user.

Main problem is that targeted attacks are rife in the software industry. Even small startups get frequently targeted by competitors.

In order to defend against the targeted attacks you need to plug hundreds of holes in the Windows, some of these can be plugged by HardeningKitty but to truly secure it:

- You need to figure out which services you can disable without crashing the OS and keep them at a minimum. This entirely depends on how you use OS and which type of software is installed at the endpoints.

- Use stuff like Windows Application Guard, disable lolbas as much as possible (https://lolbas-project.github.io/).

- Secure the WSL itself.

- Windows opens ports according to it's own mind. Only way to unplug these open ports is to add another hardware firewall separate from the endpoint itself. So you can't even trust the inbuilt firewall of Windows.

- Windows is a very dynamic OS and each update can result in more open holes or might just automatically discard previously applied settings. Thus, you need to keep monitoring this 24/7.

- Windows registry has a very large amount of paths for malware persistence. This amount is far beyond malware persistence paths on Linux. Unfortunately, Windows Defender doesn't care much about this, so you need to monitor this yourself.

And this is just the beginning, even if you plug all this stuff, you might get attacked by zero days. Monitoring all that will also require SIEM solutions on top of it. Most of the SIEM solutions are just focused on compliance. Building a SIEM solution for real security instead of compliance is also a very hard task.
What I mean is that it's calibrated for humans, at least dumb ones like me.

0F, it's cold and the wind chill makes it miserable. 0C? That's 32F, which is technically freezing but I can still work on my cars outside in that weather.

100F, sweaty, hot, chugging water if you're outside. 100C? GG, you're dead.
I was just in Vegas and the Flamingo didn't even have their birds out in display because of avian flu. The different bird species (including flamingos, natch) are all quarantined from each other somewhere else.
In 1821, Secretary of State and the future president, John Quincy Adams released a report on weights and measures to congress. He had labored over the report obsessively for more than 3 years as he was absolutely fascinated by the metric system.

Adams expected the report to catch fire and result in the adoption of the metric system. In actuality, it was a dud, and congress did nothing about it. His wife however noted in her diary “Thank God we hear no more of Weights and Measures.”

Society not caring about this issue is nearly as old as the country itself. But I can imagine John Quincy Adams, if alive today, would probably be just the type of person posting an “Ask HN” question on the US adoption of the metric system.
What about the economy? the economy was much worse in living memory and people had more kids. The economy cannot possibly be it.
Also, something I didn't know for a long time. There are exactly 180 degrees F between freezing and boiling by design. Half a circle. That's pretty cool!
I had recently been looking at ToolJet to build an internal app for my printing company-- essentially I'm looking for something to use as a filemaker type system. I want to make job tickets for print jobs, essentially just searchable text with a thumbnail image preview (or two or three) representative of the contents of the job and then details on media and print settings. All of this is fairly straightforward except for the image part. Ideally I'd be able to drag and drop a thumbnail into the "file upload" widget and have it appear in the "image" widget, but this is where I'm getting stuck. I realize it is possible to store image files in a SQL database, but I'm not sure if this is my best option.

I'm very much a "no-code" or "low-code" target, as i'm not a programmer, but i know my way around a linux terminal, and I host some docker instances in which i've interacted with sql databases before. But I feel like if a tool like this is going to catch on with anyone less competent than someone fluent in at least one programming language, I'm a pretty good test case for what that could look like--

Honestly I wish there were a more traditional forum, I'm really not a fan of the current trend to have all discussion on a slack/discord channel where the information isn't threaded by topic, and is constantly at risk of being lost forever if the slack subscription stops being paid past 10,000 recent posts...

*edit: formatting
I have had 1 kid and am having serious cold feet about having another even though I initially wanted to. Not only the sleepless nights, but thinking of all the vacations and iPhones I would have to buy, where almost every cost would be 2x just by default. Then comes the crowning glory or coup de grace, paying the college education.

Cheaper by the dozen? Not by half!
It's not flaws in the browser; it's flaws in the design of HTML and CSS (i.e. "Oops nobody realized that a real right bastard could bend the static rendering tools to make this happen; well that's a problem"). I'm having difficulty sourcing the details right now, unfortunately; I believe the issue was that non-JavaScript HTML combined with CSS lets you frame-in the target site's login page but situated in such a way that the user thinks they're doing something else, and their clicks and keyboard input go into another page's content / security domain. Breaking this attack requires the framed-in site to be able to use JavaScript to detect that they were framed-in and break out.

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

It's one of those situations where "This was mis-designed with insufficient eye towards how right bastards could use it, but the cat is out of the bag. We can't change the spec because it'll break legitimate uses of this technology, so this is the best option we have." Similar to how images were naively scoped to be embeddable from any web domain and then people invented pixel bugs, but you can't change the security model around image loading without breaking vast swathes of the existing web.
Why is rendering video (likely for entertainment) not a waste of power, where playing video games (entertainment) is?
Anyone is in a position to "extinguish" Mastodon, as it is a uniquely terrible service trying desperately to solve a problem almost nobody actually has.
My go-to library in python for this is:

https://pypi.org/project/pytest-regressions/

It's a bit different in that it'll save the expected to a different file... IMHO that's usually nicer because the test result is usually big and having it separated makes more sense.

When rerunning it's possible to run pytest with '--force-regen' and then check the git diff to see if all the changes were expected.
If you ever look up building a CGI website with Ruby, you will end up on obscure Japanese websites with retro front-ends
because building the infrastructure takes N period of time and X cost.

possible the infrastructure won't be complete before prices go down.
possible that prices will go down before you recoup the costs.

On the other hand, depending where you live and local rules, it is easy to have a few layer chickens for eggs. Having 4 or 5 chickens can mean 3 eggs a day which can keep you supplied. Costs would be a coop, food, water, and chicks. Layer feed where I live is 18 bucks for 50 lbs which can last for quite a while with that small number of chickens.
It is interesting that in all the talks with my friends that have a Tesla and have tried other driver assist features from other companies. Is that Tesla is only one we are worried about phantom braking aka a false positive and as such we keep the foot near the gas instead of the brakes.

I’ve also developed a reaction to reach for the stalk with my other hand and disable it at the same time so I’m no longer fighting it.
3D printing reaches new heights with two-story home
> the outliers will always be able to argue that their system

Isn't that exactly the point. Why must people to adapt to the system, rather than have the system adapt to the people?

Metric system is a technocratic system. It has technocratic benefits. I value that a lot less than people, who, oh what a coincidence!, are already on the metric system.
Heat pumps come in two main flavors. They can be like a forced air system, where they heat/cool air in an air handler and blow warm/cool air all over the house. Or they can be ductless heat pumps, where there is a head unit inside the house that uses coolant lines to move heat back and forth between the exterior unit. The head unit blows warm/cool air, but they can only blow so far. You can add multiple head units and get extra zones, but that can get more expensive
> But I find day2day use of measurements in inch/ft, e.g. in home renovation and architecture, way way easier than metric system.

I’m gonna make an educated guess that you grew up using imperial units. There’s nothing more “natural” to imperial units. An inch is as arbitrary as a centimeter and a foot as arbitrary as a meter. You can eyeball them all equally accurately, but the imperials are gonna kick your ass when you’re converting.
This is where most General category folks have the pet peeve with the government.

Gen folks won't mind if govt spends, gives them scholarship, exclusive tuitions to the deprived ones BEFORE such exams BUT let them compete with the same starting and finish line.

India is run by populist measures with an unending eye on the next elections. (This is irrespective of governments or whichever party is ruling.)

> So what is it?
Read about the mindboggling misuse of SC/ST act and you will have your answer. It is so highly misused that Supreme Court of India had to intervene and dilute it but govt under immense pressure had to pass an ordinance within a week of that judgement to negate it.
This sounds like my experience with Django... After 5 years I still haven't mastered it and it still continuous make me think why is this so complicated.
I can imagine a family not using imperial, but I can't picture anywhere in the 50 states that uses metric for day to day stuff like drivers licenses and road signs. Are you in one of the territories maybe? What do the road signs look like there? What is printed on your driver's license for your height and weight?
Are you surprised you can be guilty of an accident when you have not hit anyone?
> I admittedly find it a little bit confusing how many people here assign complete blame to exactly one participant.

I'd say there is only one car which did a clearly illegal action (sudden lane change followed by brake checking), so the guilt is 100% on them.

It's also true that the car behind probably could've been more assertive in braking harder to avoid reaching the Tesla (I wish there was a dashcam to see it from a better angle). But they didn't do anything illegal per se.

Also, that second car driver might've been worried of braking too hard to avoid getting themselves rear ended, which is a legitimate concern when having to break hard in traffic. Of course in the end they got rear ended anyway, but couldn't have known that prior to it happening.
And also the hedonic treadmill. Living standards have risen dramatically, with people unwilling to give even superfluous things up. Housing square meters per capita have quadrupled since the baby boom for instance.
And the European Union https://social.network.europa.eu/about
I think this kinds of research is just pants.

When you ask people these kind of vague aspiration goals. The answers don't change.

Same reason everyone rates Schindler's list 5/5 on Netflix and never watches it. (Paraquoting Reed Hastings).

The biggest factor imo is that these days people have better things to do than have kids. Mostly work at jobs they hate.

Similarly everyone prefers to watch an Adam Sandler movie they say they hate and not Schindler's list.