skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This all sounds fine hypothetically, you might want to take a look around at the world for a while to see why it doesn't fit your model. Obviously your idea hasn't happened, and there's good reasons why this is the case that you could readily discover if you took a look at reality instead of your model of reality.
Using our oceans to fight climate change
There are legitimate reasons to believe that the United States Defense Department has in its possession one or more craft built by non-human intelligences, and has been covering this up for decades. This hearing is to allow witnesses to testify in an effort to move forward in our understanding of the truth to these claims.
Have you found electric car fires as easy to put out as ICE car fires?
So it's easy to cut off the oxygen supply to the fire?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Lunar_Research_S...

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

NASA's plan seems too shy and selfish in contrast
I was. I’m American.
I was just at the fire station in Netherlands last week for a tour and asked the very question.

Answer:
Electric cars are different from ICE cars in that the fire must be put off differently. We are trained to handle an EV fire by using a “blanket” method wherein a boxy containment zone will be erected to completely enclose the burning EV limiting ability of that chemical reaction to break out in a larger way. We have the tools, and the necessary practice for it, and treat it no different than a regular petrol car.
The article seems to be from today:

> Ship carrying 3,000 cars ablaze off Dutch coast, crew member dead

> July 26, 2023 3:04 PM UTC Updated 5 min ago

Edit: Oops. I see what you mean now. The article linked to HN is from February. The fire on the ship is from today.
It's so unnecessarily callous and such an unforced error. Why do this? Why accrue all of this bad PR for no reason?

Fuck Elmo. What a dick.
I like Quad9 because it has ECS support, so unlike CF/Google, I don't get sent to some wild endpoint half way across the world.

But I think it is time to move on.
The new UI is excellent. Feels sleek and modern.
You have no idea what child abuse actually is.
> show a popup urging users to download firefox, provide a link to download or page with more explanation. Tell that you detected that their current chrome has security and privacy risks and that you recommend to take action immediately. Average user is easily scared into action.

If I recall correctly, this was Google's approach with Chrome.
I for one look forward to the seeing how the first prosecution for fried chicken and grape soda possession goes.
> Hard to tell if this ferry is used by locals or is it only some touristy thing (for rented cars).

Both, it's the coastal norwegian route. However they're not car ferries, they're passenger ferries which can carry a few cars on the bottom deck. The standard payload is a few dozen cars but several hundred passengers.

The entire trip from end to end takes 6 days, but there are around 30 stops.
The worst thing about the enshittified Internet is that government sites used to have the old free spirit of the 'net, whereas now they are as bad or worse than the commercial crap.

For example, even in the late '90s you could still access the research reports on the DEA website. One of the more memorable ones was about the "Bay Area Organization" that their chemists determined was the source of virtually all LSD-25 sold in the North American market. Furthermore, the distribution network was found to travel with Grateful Dead shows. Another interesting observation in the report was that this organization was impossible to infiltrate, because unlike the narcotics traffickers who were money motivated, the Bay Area Organization appeared to be made up of true believers who wanted to share psychedelics for spiritual or mystical reasons rather than commercial gain. Needless to say this information isn't in any way surprising to anyone who was there, but that level of transparency from a three letter agency on the Internet is utterly unthinkable today.

I wouldn't be surprised if some former members of the "Bay Area Organization" read this site. If any of you are, I hope that you are writing memoirs and will please publish them at a time you find prudent.
As beautiful as it is, and for the all the problems dynamic linking causes, the edges on single static binary software are very, very sharp.
> Oh, I don't remember the website mentioning this. How does this work, and what are the implications?

You can read about it here (bottom): https://1sub.dev/about/how-it-works

It means that there is a supply/demand that influences what price the subscriptions can be sold for.
Developers have a limited number of "credits" that can be turned into subscriptions.
They can get more credits by making people subscribe through their links.
There is also a plan that the credits will be multiplied and grow with time in order to keep the prices on a sane level.
It has felt pretty odd to see Twitter evolve from the lightweight microblogging site it once was, to a political free-for-all, and then to some kind of Truth Social spinoff for geeks.
I commonly see the .1" pin headers (single or dual row) and sockets used for this.

https://www.te.com/usa-en/products/connectors/pcb-connectors...
So make sure the electric cars are loaded last.
Define forced. Federal employees and federal contractors were required to be vaccinated or lose their jobs and this was also repeated in several US states. Military members were also forced to vaccinate or face other than honorable discharge or NJP at a minimum.

Yes, nobody came with a gun and "forced" them to take it, but significant economic coercision meets my definition of force.
VMS was the superior operating system for an era that was rapidly coming to an end. I managed a VAX cluster for a bit in the mid-80s and VMS was really better than any of the Unixes for managing a time-shared system with lots of attached terminals. But that sort of system was already heading out the door - we had early Sun workstations already. What replaced it (powerful individual user workstations connected via ethernet) was much better served by a Unix OS than VMS.
This is not the only company servicing this route, this is a new company added to this route a few years ago, and the older company are still allowing electric cars according to the linked origin article at NRK. The route is also not a local one, running along most of the coast of the whole country, between the very north and pretty far south, so I don't really know if there is that much traffic only travelling a stop or two. Definitely a bunch of tourist traffic though.
Here is more detail about the mechanisms by which they could cause cancer: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30376922/

And yes, all bacon, by definition, is processed meat according to WHO's definition. Bacon is salt-cured meat and the WHO considers processed meat as "meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes".
Statistically, probably.
Elon Musk takes over x Twitter account without paying owner
While working on my side project, I needed to translate HTML to other languages. The free options were limited, but I found a cool solution by using Google Translate API within Google Sheets to create real APIs.
> But they do, and they will regardless. And until they stop, nothing will change. There's an oversupply of eager coders coding for free

There's no thriving market of OSS apps for iOS.

So the solution is simple. Charge some money from developer to allow distribution of his apps. This seem to kill open source attitude very well.
> Time to build a fresh web. Get me my hypercards!

A fresh web doesn't exempt you from the legal requirements unfortunately.

This year has seen the biggest state attacks by legislators on any electronic distribution of speech across most Western states for fifty years, and by and large the technology community has completely failed to even engage with that never mind stop it. We are all going to have to live with the consequences for decades.
There aren't.
Just give it time.

But also investigate whether maintaining a more structured routine is a better fit for you.

What I mean is that the feeling that you label guilt might be more nuanced. Partly guilt, partly psychological benefits from routines.

It took me a few years to realize that part of my makeup is that I want routine.

Part of that, I think, is I don't want to spend brain cycles trying not to get-away-with things.

YMMV. Good luck.
Generally your employer provides you a fixed set of say 1 - 3 options, each better but more expensive than the prior. Our insurance policies generally also include a deductible, an amount you have to pay out of pocket before coverage kicks in. For example $3,000 per year. The higher the monthly premium, the lower the deductible. The employer pays ~50% - 70% of the premium and the employee pays the rest with pre tax money. The cost increases as you add children and spouse to your policy. Spouse is generally a higher premium bump than kids.
Update: Kommo.com seems to be aligned with the idea to be message driven having integrations with WhatsApp and Telegram (among others).
> shaves off 300 bytes from the release binary

I wonder if it should be "kilobytes", 300 bytes are nothing considering that fs block size is usually 4KB.
> With the rate at which ICE cars randomly ignite, you'd think they would've banned electric cars already (self ignition for ICE engines is way higher than that of electric cars for some reason). Cars on boats, regardless of fuel type, is just incredibly risky.

ICE cars ignite randomly mostly when the engine is running, which is not the case on ferries. I'd bet self-ignition of ICE cars with stopped engine is more rare than self-ignition of stopped electric cars. And in most cases of ICE fires handheld fire extinguisher is enough to stop the flames...
Oh, I don't think "day 0" migration would ever be possible.. but with less breaking changes it could have taken 10 or 15 years instead 30+. And then no one would care about IPv4 shortages anymore for example.

The companies change stuff all the time - there is new software, there are new protocols, new hardware. For example, I remember setting up QoS/DSCP once because I _thought_ it might help with ssh sessions (it didn't). My current company routinely has cleanup/general improvement projects, to both improve network and keep network engineers happier. And given the amount of noise about IP shortage, we'd definitely consider IPv6 migration _if it only wasn't so damn expensive, time-wise_.
While I think that this is the shovel for their desired moat, I wonder how much it will actually catch on. Will smaller AI developers join? Will they be able to successfully influence policy to a degree that it brings back all the stupidity of early 2000s software export controls? Either way, this will exclusively be used to funnel more money to them, either by licensing, or by skewing the public view towards them being the only viable players.
Swup 4
So the people who put this UFO hearing together (mostly republicans) set this all up and timed it just to cover up Hunter saying hes guilty on tax charges? Riiight...
Free speech is the most fragile principle of liberty. It readily makes hypocrites out of most of its strongest defenders.
An average might come out to 5 hours a day for food but I’d bet that’s not evenly distributed and looks a lot more like extremely long days spent hunting or gathering while plants are in season separated by times of very little action while you are basically starving and rationing the food you have left.

Your second statement is literally the Malthusian hypothesis which has been proven wrong repeatedly.

Division of labour is a good thing. It really sucks having to do everything yourself poorly because you don’t have enough time to do it right.
I wasn't aware there was an objective 1-to-1 correlation between the complexity of music to its quality.
I appreciate the advice Simon! I don't think that you're under-estimating it, I think many (myself included) have a tendency to over-estimate it. I feel a decent amount of self-induced pressure for anything I think about writing to be really high quality - I see blogs like yours and the standard is set quite high! But I understand this is true of many creative activities: if you have good taste, then reaching the level of the work you admire is necessarily a lofty goal, and your early creative work is unlikely to meet it. But all of that is to say, the best course of action is still to Just Write. I hope I can take this advice to heart and start putting work out there! A 20-year blog begins with a single post :)
You’re right about the average, but that single summary statistic is too coarse. There’s probably much more great music being produced now than ever before, but there’s much much much more crappy music. And recommendation algorithms aren’t optimizing for quality.
I know EV fires are more difficult to put out, but apparently EVs are far far less likely to catch fire to begin with.

According to AutoinsuranceEZ study based on US government data, rates of fires per 100k cars:

Hybrid 3474.5
ICE 1529.9
EV 25.1

https://www.autoinsuranceez.com/gas-vs-electric-car-fires/
Lisp is the way
> It isn’t perfect but we are ahead of most others (Mastodon, Matrix). We have spent TWELVE YEARS building the free, permissionless open source platform for anyone to assemble and host their own community software with all the features of Facebook/Twitter/TikTok for their own community

Why are you using Github then?
I would think that Cloudflare is reputable enough that they would not state that claim without at least having some knowledge about it.
Culturally, everything in the U.S revolves around financial opportunism. When people are poor trapped in gig economy with three jobs, it becomes difficult to rationalize a zillion dollar military….that’s what religion is for, and that’s all this horseshit is
And if the "attester" decides that IceWeasel on Ubuntu (or Firefox with uBlock/uMatrix/NoScript) isn't "trustworthy," but (unmodified) Chrome is "trustworthy," you've just created vendor lock-in.

That's not a "nothingburger" IMHO.
The energy density is absurdly low.

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

Compare with this table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#In_chemical_rea...
Shame on all knowledgeable people that happily keep using Chrome and giving Google money. That make the web more centralized by giving more and more power to entities that benefit from this like CloudFlare.

HN is full of people that are indirectly helping to push these changes forward. You're preaching to the choir, and the choir is too lazy to switch browsers or learn how to configure a web server, so they just shrug and carry on.
Avoid resellers / 'cheap' registrars like NameCheap, GoDaddy.

DirectNIC. Based on Louisiana. Very professional. Been around forever.

Not the cheapest registrar, which is a feature, not a bug.

If your registrar is competing based on nothing but cost, it has to make up the money by cutting elsewhere.
I think that was a case of apple leading and everyone else following. They went with a water pistol in their font.
What are you talking about? Republicans control the House and set the scheduling, and this was scheduled weeks ago. Newsmax is showing only UFO hearings. Anyone who would have a political vendetta against the Bidens and could be talking about the Bidens, has decided that they should be talking about UFOs right now. Stop with the conspiracy theories, come on.
A low risk, low reward business model is a terrible business model. Looks like the competition will happily transport this forbidden cargo.
I have been trying to replicate this on Fifa for a long time now :|
Well, Teslas and other EVs have been coming to the US from China and to Europe and the middle east aboard freight ships. Other large Li-ion batteries have moved around the world too. If it was a serious concern, wouldn't the risk equally affect all these freight ships?
Probably someone just read about the Hindenburg...
Why would a republican controlled house committee run cover for the Bidens?
eh I've heard this for 20 years...
Sadly, yes. Unless you're an actual founder, this is about as good as it typically gets.
> If you can't monetize you can't put people on your software and it will suck (like most OSS software, for example).

I have worked on FLOSS software and I have worked on non-FLOSS software and I don't see most FLOSS software sucking in a way that non-FLOSS does not.

FLOSS has some advantages - as there is no compelling need to release new features which can drive up revenue and profit (or at least OKRs) for the next quarter, you don't get a constant need to release unneeded junk to try to squeeze the last dime out of consumers. You can actually spend time refactoring the code, or only releasing when it is properly architected.

Most of the servers and smartphones in the world are running on a FLOSS kernel. MacBook's OS derive from CSRG's BSD, and even some of Windows, like the Internet stack, derive from FLOSS. If it sucks so much, why do virtually all major operating systems derive fully, or at least partially, from it?
Dawn of Midi’s Dysnomia

https://dawnofmidi.bandcamp.com/album/dysnomia

Laurie Spiegel’s The Expanding Universe

https://lauriespiegel.bandcamp.com/album/the-expanding-unive...
> Is there protection against this?

No. People call these "their accounts", but they don't own them. They only exist as long as the company allows them to.
Where did our belief in scarcity come from?
Of course there were, especially regarding the chattel slavery we had in the US that was very much different than slavery in other parts of the world, and historically. They were also very much in the minority, and most people were at least indifferent to it.

My point is that it's easy to take our 2023 ethics and apply them to people in the 1700s but all that does is prove you don't have a proper context or frame of reference for history. It lets you conveniently ignore things in the most intellectually lazy way. I mean, look at my comment's parent and GP. In reverse order, a perfectly rational and reasonable point about how the framers drank a lot while writing a document that would found a new country (and perhaps the difference between how it affect those people vs. his family). And the knee-jerk, lazy, boring response of "yeah but SLAVES."
> Android's security model is okay, and Google knows it, so they just keep redesigning the UI without substantial API changes because the updates have to be coming out with each lap the planet makes around its star.

Google is a bit of a special case I think due to their culture of using big projects as a means of climbing the corporate ladder. The only thing that could ever possibly result from that is endless churn.

> Sure. But at some point it will reach the "secure enough" state, won't it?

Maybe, I’m too much of a layman in the field of infosec to be able to say.

> (Actually, macOS permissions work mostly transparently API-wise. Apps can request access explicitly so it better fits their particular UX, but the prompt would also pop up the first time the protected resource is accessed)

True, but it’s still problematic if e.g. the user accidentally denies access unknowingly, which will result in the app producing seemingly nonsensical errors. For a good user experience the app needs to be able to tell the user what the real problem is.
Meta-Transformers
This is just more anecdata, but I'm exclusively using Firefox on Android and have never had issues with The Guardian. In fact, at this very moment there is a Guardian article linked on the front page, and I've visited it without an issue.

I don't doubt your experience, but it's clearly not universal.
Thanks for sharing these instructions, I really appreciate it.
The article mentions they did offer some company merchandise… depending what that was I actually think that was nearly appropriate. Paying for it made no sense - it’s a private company and can do what it wants.

But in order not to be appearing as a roughshod callous company, giving a token of appreciation makes sense AND an actual paper card saying apology signed by musk. The token could be one of their old logo statues, its not like they need them anymore. That would have been reasonable.
The typical response to this subject from most of HN is to discount the possibility of legitimate UAP activity is:

1. Cynicism: "they're doing it for personal gain, it's all a lie."

2. Ridicule: "this is stupid, shut up."

3. Others I'm sure I'm missing.

Regardless, almost no one here is willing to treat this subject with good faith, only to discourage curiosity and encourage dismissive ridicule.
There is a cargo ship right now in the NL that apparently has ~3,000 cars on it - and its on fire. I wonder if it has many EVs on it.

Ah 25 Evs on it...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/one-dead-cargo-ship-fir...
While that's a very nice saying, and I appreciate you applying in this context, what you're basically saying is we can never ever assess any organization as strong whatsoever, since every organization that breaks up seems strong at some point.
If you have 50% of people having adblock then websites loosing 10% of traffic because of WEI probabilistically fail it still seems like win for big tech if they force user to their approved unmodified OS/browser.
https://vinepair.com/booze-news/sixteenth-century-beer-abv/

There is plenty of reason to believe these beers were not <1% alcohol as is often described. A 16th century English soldier receiving 7-8 pints a day of 2-5.5% beer is between 2.25 fl oz and 7 fl oz of pure alcohol - so between 4 - 11.5 “standard drinks” a day, assuming that was their only consumption.
I like how PR-Agent also works with large PRs with multiple files and it stayed focused on the most important code changes, while other tools simply didn't work when faced with large files.
You should differentiate between added sugar and naturally occurring sugar. It's OK to have fruit. It's not OK to have food loaded with artificial sweeteners or artificial sugars.

I run a small business that sells sports drinks and other healthy beverages aimed at athletes. Our drinks have a few grams of naturally occurring sugar, because some ingredients that are naturally hydrating also contain natural sugars. Nothing wrong with that, as opposed to a 16oz BigCorp (Gatorade, Powerade, Lucozade, Carabao, Body Armor, etc...) sports drink that has over 1oz of added artificial sugars. There's a MASSIVE difference. People don't realize that.
Hm, it's not that difficult in the end, at least on land.

First part is checking whether the battery pack is affected after all. Not all EV car fires lead to problems with the battery pack and sometimes you can just extinguish the fire like any other.

We check the battery by inspecting it with thermal cameras (remove any protection on the bottom of the car first - not easy). If the temperature of the pack rises after the initial fire has been put out, the battery pack seems to have a problem.

In that case, permanent cooling is the way to go. You will start doing this by sprinkling the battery with a hose to keep temperatures stable. At some point, you'll want to release the personell and need a more permanent solution.

That's where troughs come in to play. You will fill that up with water until you can completely submerge the battery pack in water. Either place the car in first or lift it in afterwards, that doesn't matter, it's just a handling thing. The car stays in there for several days until the chain reaction in the battery has stopped.

I can see how this might be somewhat more complicated on a ship in the middle of nowhere, but you wouldn't want to have a burnt-out non-EV car standing on your ship for an extended period of time, too. So you'll have to reach shore quickly anyway and get more help.