skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I really want in an encryption tool is something that I can throw on a thumb drive (portable), lets me encrypt a single file, which I can then decrypt when I get to another machine (windows mac or linux) with nothing more than a password. without having to install any additional software/drivers on that new machine, and without needing admin rights. I'd happily keep binaries for each OS on the drive as long as any one of them could decrypt the same file.

I'm not moving state secrets around, but it'd be nice to have certain files I carry with me protected in case I lose the drive, but still have them easily accessible on whatever machine I'm sitting in front of.
It can just be measured and reported, and the user can decide for themselves?
A bit of Ajax here and there is fine.

Look at how HN handles it when you upvote/unvote a comment.

Look at how old.reddit.com handles it when you click "load more comments" in a long thread.
"It's too late to be scared, the skeleton is already inside you"
Been on macOS since 10.3. In general, the .1 or .2 patches were solid, and if one release seemed like a stinker the next one tick-tocked its way into stability/quality pretty reliably, and staying on N-1 version while N was out was a pretty good choice if you wanted to keep your setup as-is without falling TOO far behind.

Also, Safari was really bad, early on. It was rendered unusable for me when a runaway bookmark sync problem with iCloud turned the default set of bookmarks into 30+ thousand copies.
> So the actual gotcha here is that there is no cohort for "feature flag B only", right?

And that, as you add more tests, user 00 will always get the test treatment for every test. If you're running a lot of tests which introduce experimental features or changes to workflows, user 00 is probably going to find the site a lot more chaotic and hard to understand than user FF, and that will skew your test results.
Not trying to troll, but assuming proficiency in python, when would someone prefer this to say Pandas (or Polars)?

I've written a lot of OLAP queries (wrote a materialization layer for MonetDb and Postgres years ago). I find Pandas so much easier to work with for semi complicated work.
I don’t think the claim in the article is true at all. A high mutation rate is definitely bad for the virus in the short term, which is why Molnupiravir has an effect on reducing disease in individuals. But, of course a high mutation rate also increased the likelihood that a more dangerous variant will be found.
There’s a really great book called Kleptopia by T. Burgis. It’s about how wealthy oligarchs use the Western legal and banking systems.

He points out that the US financial system is squeaky clean. Oligarchs wind up in prison because they think they can pull the crap in New York that they pull in London.

But outside the financial sector it’s the 100% opposite. Americas permissive corporate transparency lets assets vanish.

The best example: if you want to get a mortgage to buy a house you have submit to a financial strip search. But if you want to buy a house with bags of cash, you don’t even need to give your name.
Looks like TinyPilot was started in 2020, so it's really $0 => $850k in sales in less than 3-years with a significant hardware element. That's quite an accomplishment - congratulations!

Seems like the next big inflection point is getting off the single-shot hardware sales & adding an enterprise-style SaaS upsell. Software updates & cloud offerings seem like natural starting points. Needn't be anything fancy -- even if it's just an out-of-the-box wrapper around Tailscale. Add on SOC2 certification & SSO, and you'd easily be able to command enterprise pricing (e.g. extra $100-$300/yr/device).
QGIS is the swiss army knife of geospatial computing.

I use it daily, and frequently, for all sorts of work building a location API SaaS company. It's a sterling success of open source, on par with as impactful as Linux, for the geospatial world (IMO).
I don't know about you but seeing a big pile of skeletons in a basement mainly serves to confirm the ideas about death that I already had.

It's also kind of misleading because they're not complaining but dying is actually pretty awful unless you're really, really lucky.
This is true and I don’t have the answers. I think everyone should do their own journey. I wonder if there is evidence one way or another but I haven’t seen it.
> Nuclear is not forbidden.

What is this point replying to?

Anyway, over-regulation can make nuclear energy commercially unviable. It doesn't take a ban for nuclear to die.
Nevermind, I guess it's "ImageNet-1K trained models" on which ViT gets 79.9% and the 90% is only when pretraining with ImageNet-22K.

There are other non-attention based networks that get 90% too though: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.11696v3.pdf
I think you have misunderstood. He's talking about IDE support. IDEs absolutely must be able to understand incomplete or incorrect code otherwise code completion will be completely useless. You literally only need code completion when your code is incomplete. The clue's in the name.
I might be thinking of old.reddit.com. I know that the mobile version requires an email there but the desktop version asks for it, but if you click continue, it doesn't check if you've entered one.

That experimental part is interesting.
"Don’t become anyone’s smallest client"

What a great advice. Very well put - thanks!
> The answer to this is that if every plane crash created a 50-mile diameter exclusion zone that had to be kept off-limits for 50-100 years without extensive decontamination

Thing is, that's genuinely not what's needed.

You can live quite happily within a couple of miles of Chernobyl with a life expectancy difference much smaller than going from middle class to working class.

Fukushima today is even less dangerous, basically negligible danger unless you're on the plant grounds.
Totally agree from a practicality standpoint.

In regards to undue burden on companies:

> I work for a startup. We occasionally have to make hardware.

> What happens if we go tits up?

I think if you go tits up, it's the same situation as when a business goes bankrupt and leaves behind a contaminated site. But goods produced by small businesses and startups are marginal compared to those produced by big businesses. There should be strong incentives for businesses to manage the end of life for their goods, so they will attempt to recover those goods and see that they are recycled. That will also incentivize them to design products that can be recycled, and as profitably as possible.
My Chem major buddy said it was fine, but I'm not an accurate judge of that as someone who studied CS and PoliSci.
Doesn't postgres have a columnar option? If so, you could prob get better performance for your analytical interactions if you switched some tables to columnar.

Otherwise check out postgres scanner. https://github.com/duckdblabs/postgres_scanner

They have a blog entry about it too:
https://motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-two/
We are using Django+HTMX for internal applications.

Some random tips:

- Write a "Django context processor" to inspect requests for "Hx-Request" header, and set a "base_template" variable accordingly. This means that any template that {% extends base_template %} will react to being a full page or just a fragment and you don't even have to think about that in your view logic. Great for progressive enhancement.

- You can get reactive JS elements (for example, a d3.js viz that updates when new data comes in) in a few lines of inline JS by using MutationObserver, and "abusing" HTMX by using views that return JSON targeting a <script> element (`json_script` templatetag can also be used here). In summary, you tell your fancy JS element to render or update whenever a particular <script> element is mutated, and all of it is orchestrated by HTMX.
You’re going to be bullied for being trans everywhere anyway. That’s my kind of experience. If the meds can make that go away by transitioning early, yeah maybe.

Can kids make that decision ? I’m not sure.

I don’t want to invalidate anyone’s perspective or experience. I’m just not sure.
Do you have a preferred source for this? I went down a rabbit-hole of googling and trying to evaluate how reliable the sources were and got pretty lost. I found several articles claiming to use data from the US Federal Reserve with conflicting interpretations.
Trusted engineers get to take home prototypes. Usually also loaned a maxed out Mac Pro so they have something with enough memory to unpack MacOS's built in system process recording mode. (digging through a 5 minute recording of MacOS took ~~200GB of system memory to unpack and evaluate.)
Emotional Management (2021)
Sure, but they like to allow as many of them in as they legally can. Hence the questions.
isnt ajax fancy sending html over the wire? or is it just the non fancy way?
It's interesting how variable that is depending where you are. The area I live in Seattle will have people wave you through the stop sign if you're a pedestrian, has side walks on every street, and is grid based except where i5 runs through.
The moment I graduated and lost access to ArcGIS I got out QGIS and become ridiculously empowered. Yea Arc has Python APIs for some things but QGIS, while rough in the UI department, gives you powerful access to everything. And it plays so well with other things: check out my presentation on using QGIS in robotics (pdf) https://roscon.ros.org/2018/presentations/ROSCon2018_Unleash...
That's one nightmare :P. But also with software, because the factory firmware can't be changed! Luckily there's OTA but even that may not save you if it's part of the config file that doesn't change!
Apple avoids job cuts for now, because they're sitting on a big pile of cash
Did you watch the video linked on the highest rated post on this thread? The one from technology connections? It explains it all very well.

I am happy you have an open mind, but the fact that you are trying to tear the technology down when you apparently have no idea how it works or what it even is- hopefully you realize that it is also used for air conditioning, and is essentially just an air conditioner running in reverse... I hope this is a learning experience for you.

At the very least it gives me hope that those trying to tear down this technology are just ignorant, I had real suspicions that they were agents of the fossil fuel industry, or this was something Fox News and the like decided to target and is now being parroted.
The analysis in this article that "crappy beer" demand is increasing is wrong. The chart says that "An index of 50+ in a segment means volumes in that segment are expanding and an index below 50 indicates that volumes in that segment are contracting." The below premium segment went from 38 to 48, so volumes are still contracting, just slower than before. The import segment is the only one with increasing volume.
Beer prices have also skyrocketed (as mentioned in the article) which has further pushed the younger generation away from beer. Craft beer is the most approachable in my opinion as there are many styles or variants that "don't taste like beer", at least for my friend group in college it was easiest to get people into beer with fruited sours or barrel aged stouts.

In a strange way beer is headed toward becoming an elitist beverage given the cost.
The comment I was responding to was "WITHOUT ISSUE". A 30 km exclusion zone, even if temporary, is AN ISSUE.

> And zero deaths in all history from all other civilian nuclear waste.

It's rare, but happens:

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

> September 30, 1999 Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

> Two of these workers died.

"Inadequately trained part-time workers prepared a uranyl nitrate solution containing about 16.6 kg (37 lb) of uranium, which exceeded the critical mass, into a precipitation tank at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura northeast of Tokyo, Japan. The tank was not designed to dissolve this type of solution and was not configured to prevent eventual criticality. Three workers were exposed to (neutron) radiation doses in excess of allowable limits. Two of these workers died. 116 other workers received lesser doses of 1 mSv or greater though not in excess of the allowable limit.[39][40][41][36]"
It's so fancy in fact that it sends xml
Russia is one of the biggest producers of nuclear power plants equipment.
I've actually visited this place! It was a very informative visit and had a great museum attached. I found a lot of it beautiful
There was a chip shortage for old machines, bigger fabrication sizes, and because car manufacturers and others stupidly canceled their contracts with chip makers, anticipating a downturn when instead there was a huge boom in demand.

Apple was largely unaffected by this because they are first in line for new fabrication processes, did not cancel their existing chip orders, and uses mostly modern fabs anyway, not bargain basement 40nm+ stuff.

The M1 and other 5nm and smaller chips largely kept pace with demand. It’s never been difficult to find a Mac throughout the pandemic.
Page transitions are much faster for me on Wikipedia than on AirBnB.

Whatever I click on AirBnB, I get a white screen, then some placeholders, then the placeholders one after the other get replaced by the actual content.

Whatever I click on Wikipedia - its just there instantly.
In my town craft 4 packs of beer cost 15 dollars, or about 4 dollars a beer. I have 1 a night, which easily brings my cost over 100 a month. I don’t consider myself an alcoholic.
It's not common over here to actually kick kids out once they turn 18, but it is common for parents to feel they no longer have any responsibility for the wellbeing of their adult cildren once they're able to physically/financially fend for themselves.

I guess my point was that the big 20+ year break in responsibility, which is initiated by the parents, will turn around and bite them in the arse when they themselves become dependent on their children.
Ehn, it's just Coors Light in a separate can. And I can confirm that due to unscientific experiments of mine while in college.

Same with Natty Light btw - that's just Bud Light.
>Power plant waste is different from weapons waste, and disposing of power plant waste has never been a real problem.

If power plant waste was handled as badly as weapons waste was historically, it would be a problem. That's all I am saying, really.
Thanks! Always nice to hear people who "grew up" play it. AC having server-side physics and actually making use of them led to lots of ridiculous and emergent gameplay. I don't know how many hours I just spend idling in towns jumping from rooftop to rooftop or seeing how high I could climb up massive structures. Everytime I try to play again though, the old "you can't go home again" hits too hard and I just quietly close it back up and go back to the nostalgia.

I was on the design team, so was directly responsible for a lot of the shadow invasion stuff (if you ever saw the big bad Bael'Zharon running around in the live events, that was me!) and other patches for the first 2 years of its lifespan.

Weirdly, I work on WoW now with my career having come full circle after having not worked on MMOs since the mid 2000s. :)
if it stays in a state where it cannot be reused (because the user no longer has the ability to unlock due to forgotten password, etc), then no matter how powerful it is, it will be a brick.
It's also the heaviest pinball game in the world. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Have you ever worked at a high profile company that laid off people? I have. Everything is good and the narrative is "We aren't like other companies" until it actually happens.

Its suboptimal to explicitly telegraph layoffs from an employee morale perspective. As leadership, its better to ask for forgiveness after the layoff than to ask for permission to lay off.

They may actually get through this without laying off, but its certainly not guaranteed just because the CEO says "no layoffs."
I hope you also heard that Germany exports electricity to France. The natural gas is mostly needed for heating and industrial processes and that cannot be simply replaced by nuclear electricity.
This is only conjecture, but could the increased legalization of cannabis in the United States lead to a change in alcohol sales?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/611714/marijuana-use-dur...
I don't think so (IntelliJ is way more popular).

I think Eclipse is mostly popular these days as a platform for companies offering custom tools. For example Team Center (which is awful btw). Honestly Eclipse was always pretty awful and I have yet to use any Eclipse based software upon which that awfulness didn't at least leave a mild stench.

Check out this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Eclipse-based_software
Yeah but it feels true, which is almost good enough.

It’s just like everyone who knows a recession is just around the corner. Hard to support with evidence but it’s the vibe du jour.
In deaths per KWh nuclear is king, with a thousandth of the deaths of gas and ten thousandth of coal. Until recently even solar was worse due to installers sometimes falling off roofs!

E.g. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...

I really do not understand why almost no one bothers to spend a couple of minutes looking up the actual numbers and analysis that people have been doing for decades... its universal in all subjects, not just nuclear.
What is the Year Zero stuff?
I'm talking about tech like LiveView, Hotwire, LiveWire, Blazor, etc. They use JS (in some cases with websockets) behind the scenes to send small bits of html which are patched into the DOM. The win here is that you can write all your business logic on the server and don't need an intermediary API for your frontapp to talk to your backend app, you just send HTML.

If you're building an where you are going to open up an API, there is a little less benefit, but I've worked on projects in recent years where the API exists solely to be consumed by one client.
Glitching a write instruction is a little dangerous. But if you have many chips to try or can live with an incomplete, possibly corrupted dump, feel free to do it.
The conclusion makes sense though I'm not sure it being a question of a kind of stoicism. From personal experience, if you have money, costs go up, and you get angry you're spending more, but you can afford it so you suck it up and pay (ironically, a bit stoic).

If you literally don't have the money, you have no choice but to change your behavior, so you go without.
Webforms has an UpdatePanel control sending partial HTML (and even additional JavaScript) to web pages.
Stone Spheres of Costa Rica
So many metal album covers in this.
Kosmos 2499 a secret Russian satellite breaks apart
Yeah, unfortunate. I also toy with the idea of buying one, only to find the price ever increasing.
I think in total these big organizations and super wealthy people destroy innovation. They produce some cool things but at the expense of suppressing a lot of things smaller players would produce.
I am focusing on the incorrect part. Let's say that you are adding some source code in the middle:

...

def add(x: Int, y: Int) = x + y

...

let x = ad|> I am using |> to denote the cursor location

...

I agree that where the |> is that the IDE should be able to autocomplete `add` for you. What I am saying is that it shouldn't process anything below the let statement because the code is broken there. Many IDEs and compilers will continue processing the file after the first error so that they can report all of the findings. That is what I am suggesting they not do.
How would one choose not to be a member of that public?
Hence Apples large number of lawyers and legal analysts ensuring they can hold their phone/store monopoly thereby bloating the number of staff they have.
1) It's not great to tie up emergency resources without good reason.

2) It can get you angry, threatening call-backs from the authorities.

3) It can make annoyed and/or on-guard (because there might be an actual emergency of unknown nature) cops show up at your door—and if it happens more than once, there may be legal consequences in play, and possibly even the first time if they're in an especially foul mood.

Consider that a young kid might well dial it over and over not even realizing the call's going through (if they don't know what it looks like when the call's been answered, and are used to speaker-phone mode and video calls and aren't used to putting the phone to their ear, which is true for a lot of young kids these days).

It's probably fine for most 7+ year olds, but PBS Kids has a ton of content targeted much younger, and even kids 4-5 years old can usually learn to use the app pretty quickly.

There's a faq on the 911.gov site advising parents to take the batteries out of phones they give to young kids, for this exact reason. It also advises that, if you accidentally call the number, you stay on the line to explain what happened so it's not mistaken for a real call, rather than hanging up—young kids are highly likely not do to this, and to instead hang up or just leave the line open without saying anything.
Well, formulated negatively, it can be said that the Church historically discouraged/forbade cremation because it has been employed by people to mock and deny the doctrine of the Resurrection.

More practically, it is a practice which unnecessarily damages the sacred bodily remains and prevents them from future veneration. So it's much more difficult, if someone should become a saint, to distribute relics of a cremated body rather than bones and significant, identifiable parts of a buried/exhumed body.

It's not like God won't find a way to resurrect bodies that have been dismembered, burned, disintegrated, destroyed, or what have you. He's God, it's no big deal. Glorified bodies are understood to be spiritual, otherworldly, and beyond our imagination, but there's also been a lot of work to describe what they're like and how they work.

Cremation also led to abhorrent practices such as scattering ashes, or keeping them on a mantle, and in modern times, turning them into personal jewelry or launching them into space. The Church didn't like that stuff either. Personally speaking, my dear uncle's cremains are on my cousin's mantle and essentially inaccessible to me, since we're not on speaking terms. I'd really like to visit my uncle's grave, but he doesn't have one!

So even today, the Church forbids cremation if it's for the wrong reasons. But it's tolerated widely because it's often cheaper and expedient.
Complement this article with the one on NYT about beer ads during the Super Bowl this weekend: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/business/media/beer-ads-s...
How are alcohol and weed alternatives to each other at all?

Maybe every now and then you hear about people who don't smoke weed anymore because it makes them anxious or people who don't drink anymore because they "hate alcoholics", but I think they're firmly in the minority.