skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is excellent. It feels to me like Starlink sort of accidentally fell into this position. They built a global Internet for consumers, then discovered there's a lot of military applications. The Ukrainian adoption clearly accelerated things. But maybe that was the plan all along, space development has been a joint military project since the beginning.

I appreciated the specific reporting on Musk's threat to withdraw Starlink from Ukraine over funding. As the reporting notes, "SpaceX had initially covered some of the costs, with the United States and other allies also providing funding." Previously most press had reported it as if SpaceX was paying the full bill. It never has and still isn't. Unfortunately the reporting stops short of telling us what the current financial arrangement is, I imagine it's highly confidential.
Acetaldehyde (from consuming alcoholic beverages)(1) is a Group 1 carcinogen, along with things like Asbestos. Does it fix that?

[1] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/understanding-...
Go to the DIY solar and off grid subreddits and you’ll find a few. Some have mini wind and even hydro on small creeks.

I saw a discussion once on why EVs would be better in a prepper situation than gas cars. Not only are they more reliable but they can be charged from all kinds of sources including gas via a generator. Gas stations meanwhile would run out of gas pretty quick.

I wonder if you could carry enough panels in an EV to trek all over the country with several day or week long stops to set up your panels and charge in between. You’d need about 2kw for trickle charging. 20 thin 200W panels seems feasible.

Gun nut solarpunk preppers are definitely a thing that could exist.
Sure, the reasons why some creatures evolved this sort of behaviour could be different to others. I was specifically talking about Endopterygota.
The (main) problem with alcohol-free 'beer'/'wine'/etc. isn't the lack of drunkenness feeling?

Especially beer has improved a lot but it's not there yet, I don't see how developing synthetic 'alcohol' will help when we still can't remove, or make the drink without causing, real alcohol?

As for hormone shots to treat an already acquired hangover... It seems niche/less than ideal - I don't think many people would want that as a regular expected thing, 'I am going to drink heavily and then take a hormone shot in the morning' sort of thing? And isn't it a solved ('banana bag') problem? Or is it the idea that you could buy injectable hormones for home use whereas you can't (and probably shouldn't want to) self-cannulate at home, and that's the only way(?) banana bags can work (because it takes more than reasonably fits in a syringe? Needs to be administered at a more gradual flow?)?

Personally I hope we find a way to remove alcohol without impacting taste at all, and then you can buy either version of the same drinks. I'd probably still get both, I do acknowledge the alcohol plays some role in me enjoying the drinks, but I can imagine having say an alcoholic pint or two, then alcohol-free. Or an alcoholic gin & tonic followed by AF wine. But until it's as good...
This was not a really issue... as long as you had access to a shell on a reliable server to screen+irssi (or tmux+weechat if you felt fancy).
Removing Google Analytics from your site won't hurt your SEO ranking
What is fair?

Last I checked most Amazon engineers make 400k+.
Bumble launches a separate BFF app for friend friending
I thought so too until I got to interact with databases and Big Data tools written in Java. God, what a mess that requires so much upkeeping, more dependency problems than I remember from C++ and probably some orders of magnitude more resources than they should.
> 3% or even 2.5% ales

I am not familiar with those, can someone give some examples of these types of beers?
The hangover is an essential part of drinking. It's what stops you from starting all over again the next day / week.
Hindsight is 20/20!
I think you're right. I've always wondered why they don't water down GHB to be the equivalent of a low ABV drink. The only scary thing about GHB is its relative potency to volume. It's honestly a wonderful drug.
The title of the article says "Insect", the first few paragraphs are about lacewings, but the study being cited only looked at fruit flies. The study didn't test memory. It looked at neuron location and activation, which could indicate something about memory, but that's a journalistic leap.
I don't know about you but I feel that I'm drunk long before the hangover kicks in :)
Show HN: LoShark: the USB-Key form factor LoRa debugging tool, running Linux
More like

It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.
That link takes you to the site's home page. This link takes you to a page with the supplied title:

https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/united-kingdom-ma...
Should add MUDs, website guestbooks?
PRC did some things right. I won’t fault them for having an authoritarian phase. Taiwan and South Korea did too. So far they’ve done better than India. Although, perhaps, in ways that doomed them in the long run (one child policy)

But if you compare PRC with for instance Taiwan/ROC, it’s clear that China could have been much more powerful and influential than they are today if they hadn’t been so distracted by disastrous communist ideology/fantasy. They had a chance at becoming the number one superpower, but they blew it.
To me this signals the arrival of the point that all cloud lock in "paranoid dinosaurs" were warning about all these years.

Its all gonna get worse from here now that the market is settled. It was inevitable that they would have to start eating thier clients to keep the stock market happy.
This isn't inherent to IRC; some servers support sending history when you are back online:

* https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/blob/master/docs/USERGUIDE....

* https://docs.inspircd.org/3/modules/chanhistory/

* https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Channel_history
Wield some steel bars as stiffening ribs, they will harden servers for sure.
I don't think anyone believe otherwise. People still choose it because the feature set it provides addresses their needs and makes online chat, voice, and live streaming to friends a wonderful experience.

For 99.9% of users, they don't need to worry about Discord terminating their account or their friends' account. If Discord somehow fumbles this by randomly suspending peoples' accounts for no reason whatsoever, and on such a wide scale that everyone will know a friend affected by this, they'll quickly lose marketshare.
For a baseline configuration start with the CIS [1] or NIST [2] hardening benchmarks. Some may not apply to you so just document what was skipped in the event this is needed at a later time for assorted audits. There are public git repos that have scripts that attempt to automate some of the checks but they come and go with time and I do not know which of them are currently maintained. These baselines will also show you how to enable auditing within the OS to detect tampering attempts. These logs can also be relayed to centralized logging systems and/or Splunk or open source monitoring platforms depending on where you want to spend your resources in-house dev vs 3rd party applications. There are plenty of fringe and obscure things not covered by CIS and NIST but you will discover those as you go through the first baseline steps. Some of those things you can learn on security.stackexchange.com [3]. Lurk and search before asking questions there as they are very particular about well formed questions and they assume people are professionals that have already performed exhaustive research ahead of time. An example of this would be building extremely stripped down container images that only contain what is absolutely required for the application to function. Ensure that all hardening is automated, starts with dev then goes through QA, staging and production. Incentivize some customers in written agreements to help test the staging environment.

From a more advanced perspective avoid going down the whack-a-mole toolset paths such as fail2ban or having a SOC manually block things. Instead harden your applications to only permit requests that are expected and to default deny/drop anything not expected or give a friendly message to minimize customer support tickets. Build a bigger blue team than your red team and incentivize those teams battle it out in a dev environment. Ensure that dev, QA, staging and production are all configured identically.

Beyond hardening benchmarks one can hire 3rd party code auditors to review all of your code for vulnerabilities or vulnerable designs and implementations. Some of the vendors can also audit your network design. I've had good experiences with NCC [4] and they have many tools.

For systems that may be in the path of or have access to credit card information there are documents for PCI compliance which touches on compartmentalization and additional logging. Rather than linking to specs I would suggest hiring a PCI auditor and have them provide you with the best compliance documents and practices to follow since they will be auditing you against those requirements. I would suggest the same methodology for FEDRAMP government compliance as that is a very big topic and only applies if you are dealing with the federal government.

There is a lot more I left out but this question has resulted in many books being written over the years.

[1] - https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-benchmarks

[2] - https://ncp.nist.gov/repository

[3] - https://security.stackexchange.com/

[4] - https://research.nccgroup.com/
I assume:

1) we're talking about the legal situation, not what would be physically possible;

2) that it applies to citizens, not server location (otherwise affected companies wouldn't be saying they'll exit the UK market, they'd just serve UK users from a further away but friendlier 'edge')
It could be useful in a small company if you tie it in to how your software works with other software.

Even for things like support case generation for customers would be good... the customer interacts with the AI generating the ticket and gets the simple things like what you're running on and a more drilled down issue of the problem.

I get so many "I have problem, help" tickets with no information at all.
Musk installs a bright flashing X on top of the Twitter building
Existing instances get the new capabilities.

The first time you do `class A....end` you're defining the class. Instances when they are created keep a reference to that class - which itself is just another object, an instance of the class `Class` which just so happens to be assigned to the constant `A`. If you later say `class A... end` and redefine a method, or add something new, what you're actually doing is reopening the same class object to add or change its contents, so the reference to that class doesn't change and all the instances will get the new behaviour. If you redefine a method, calls to that method name will go to the new implementation.

So in that sense it works like you'd expect, I think. As I said, Ruby is very lispy - Matz lists Lisp as one of the inspirations, and I think I'm right in saying he even cribbed some implementation details from elisp early on.
In the show, Romulan Ale is also extremely strong; Worf nurses a hangover from it and says it "should be illegal" and LaForge replies "It is"; while in DS9 several of the human main cast infiltrated a Klingon event and had to take something to avoid dying from drinking so much Blood Wine.

(That said, I don't know if it's been canonically stated Blood Wine is ethanol based, so future writers might just decide that's because Blood Wine is based on methanol rather than ethanol, and the ABV is unsurprising…)
Interestingly, this usage in English is not unheard of, and it tracks. Whereas the opposite “thank you for letting me lend your bike” doesn’t work and in fact implies a different meaning involving an unstated third party.
Likewise! I'm trying not to drink much anymore. But I always want something cold and fizzy. So it's a switch between refrigerated carafes of water, seltzer, and zero-alcohol beers. Although I feel incentivized not to have even the zero-alcohol beers since it's still 60 calories. While the seltzers I find are 0.

Any beer recommendations? I haven't tried much outside of the locally-supplied zero-alcohol Heineken and Corona.
Sure. But they didn’t have a model that understood f=ma or inverse square distance gravity. They didn’t have a causal model. So they couldn’t use techniques of predicting planetary motion to predict projectiles motion. Galileo and Newton tied it all together.
I don't think it would be legal either since VPNs require encryption, too. Maybe some kind of proxy?
Me too. Love android UI more actually, the screens more, and the fast charging more, but a few things such as the photos/videos are what drew me to finally get a 13 pro max. I still use android on a wifi only phone and tablet and enjoy it but iphone is nice for daily driver and because the photos i can take and battery life post charge when full seems to be longer.
Am I wrong?
No it's the other people that are wrong
So synthesized ethanol will be the same in every respect as purified naturally sourced ethanol except perhaps down to the balance of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen isotopes.

But yes startrek was/awesome regardless.
That is like California Games for the C64. If a damaged sector is not found on the disc it makes it harder to play. It saves the counter on disc and keeps increasing.
I think you hit the nail on the head there. I’ve only worked in startups and consistently I’ve worked with “senior”-titled engineers who were absolutely brilliant. Typically with less than a decade of experience.

But yeah there’s definitely no cruising at the wheel when you’re in a small, fast-moving organization. In my experience it’s helped me level up very quickly.
I am well aware it isn't "an app". I was using IRC in about 1997 and stopped in about 2017 because other options that were better suited to my needs, and had the people I wanted to talk to, arose.

The second part of your response isn't helping you move towards the end state you want. If anything, it's going the other way. Product empathy isn't optional--ask yourself: why would I write or fund an IRC client when I have things that work for me already? Like, this is the Linux-on-the-desktop advocacy all over again. "Your thing doesn't work for me because of X [usually literally X on Linux, but you get the idea], but Y does." "Well, expend time or money to fix X!" Why? You're the one who likes X. You're advocating for it. Why would I fix the thing you like when the thing I use already works?

Take the sibling response to yours--I learned something new in seeing https://thelounge.chat, and while I don't want to run software to deal with chat, that was a cool thing to see. I learned something! I'll remember it later!

Contrast that to "do it yourself".
>But dismissing or ignoring them as a source to cherry-pick best practices is shortsighted.

No truer statement about humanity has been spoken
It reminds me a bit of when a new class of exploit is discovered, like in the early Internet when buffer overflows became popular. You have a period where the exploit gets abused widely until countermeasures are developed and deployed.

In this case it seems to be out of context use of cultural critique as a way to throw off the opponent and change the subject. If the debate were actually about these topics that would be another story.

This one must be more popular in academic settings. Online the most popular exploit I see is the “Gish gallop.”

I only regard debate as having much value when both sides are debating in good faith. Use of thought stopping tactics reduces the whole thing to a mere sophistry contest with no value beyond testing how powerful the LLM is between each debater’s ears.
I really like Full Sail Session IPA, every time I visit the US I get some. Germany is really lacking behind this hole development, the beer is just very poor these days here.
One year into Python and I still don’t know what is the universal way to have a reproducible environment across machine. Poetry, Conda, Pip, ugh. All have problems that I don’t know how to deal with
I never debated, but it was explained to me that a key aspect was talking as fast as you can to introduce as much argumentation to your point as possible (newspaper scoring, kind of).

"I guess misdirection from deconstructionistism would be an entertaining alternate tactic. Yes you have introduced 122 points in your favor, but alas the very foundation of your arguments is undermined by my simple deconstruction."

The world/life is insane. It is far too large to understand, and even if you did, so unpredictable to be predicted anyway. Thus logical argumentation is subject to nihilistic nullification by a sufficiently skilled / pedantic debater?
I like drinking a beer or two sometimes during the week. It’s tasty, cool and calming. Alcohol free beer is great for that.

However most alcohol free beers don’t taste nice. Takes a bit of shopping around to find a brand that doesn’t taste like Ovomaltine.
No, the "photons" here are not created by that phenomenon but rather by accelerating electrons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larmor_formula
agreed. And at least android tends to allow things with hacks, where apple if it can't be done, it can't be done, it's not possible from being done.
FWIW, someone identified the issue, and next Monday's update (https://matrix.org/blog/2023/07/postponing-libera-chat-depor...) may include a fix
Whoa, I had never heard of this before but there seems to be something to this.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/07/10/327854051/al...
I can't imagine a mechanism where that's plausible, but it wouldn't be the first time I felt that way and was shown something surprising. He probably just built up a tolerance.
You shouldn't assume the effects you get match those of other people. People experience different effects because of differences in brain/body chemistry and genetics. People that get "asian flush" for instance process alcohol in a way that results in more toxic metabolites thus making alcohol literally more poisonous and less enjoyable for them.

Holds true for other substances as well. My brother absolutely loves weed and finds it relaxing but I cannot use even a small amount without crippling levels of anxiety. Meanwhile anything that works on GABA (alcohol included) completely removes anxiety for me in a way that's so enjoyable I have to be careful with the whole class of substances. Because of a genetic quirk modafinil has little to no effect if I take it but I use prescribed amphetamines 3-5 days a week. Human bodies are complicated!
Londoner here. These beers exist and are part of the historic English beer tradition but are few and far between in city pubs these days. Pubs have started to stock Radlers like Schofferhoffer which is my go to, or a half pint (284ml/~10oz) of a strong beer like IPA.
If you use Cloudflare's tunnel (or similar), you don't even need a publicly routable address.
The ratio of assets to liabilities has to be greater than one, and generally quite a bit greater for regulators to be happy.
In a way, I do.

Which is why I use self-hosted Gitlab ;)
I can't fit any more Pi's in my desk drawer.
"The speed feels more on the order of Python, though."

What part of "interpreted" did you not understand?
You realize there’s an incredibly obvious selection bias in your sample?
Didn't David Nutt suggest this several years back? I seem to recall hearing he was really trying to make a go of it too.
But my proposal was satirical. :)
I don't think you are really arguing against what the parent poster was saying. That is, I interpreted the parent commenter as saying that journals require that submissions at the very least be in a clear, understandable, "your paper must be at least verifiable (or falsifiable)" format, not that they actually attempt to reproduce the results.
there is truth in fiction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate_(series)

https://www.ea.com/games/syndicate
Thank you for linking this--this is cool! I'm not in a place where I want to run software to solve the problem of chat, but this looks like a really good One Of Those for those so inclined, and I'm going to keep it in my back pocket for the future.
I used to love the eyezmaze games and for about a year or so, I would eagerly await the next instalment in the series. Recently I learned that the developer has cancer and his wife seems to have left him. I think his Twitter also went silent a while ago. Very sad, considering how much joy these games brought me and certainly countless others in the mid-2000s.

Edit: it wasn’t cancer but a heart defect of some sort.
I've been taking zbiotic before drinking. It's a probiotic that eats the Acetaldehyde. It works surprisingly well!
I have been on the hunt for the past year in the mid-atlantic area of the US looking for <4% beers. The closest I've come is a German grapefruit beer (Schöfferhofer), but it doesn't really have that beer taste. Most US 'light' beers are around 4-4.2%.

Moosehead for example makes a Moosehead Light for the states at 4%, but they also offer Cracked Canoe which is only 3.2% but not sold in the states (available in the Canada, UK and Costa Rica of all places where I tried it).
It's important to distinguish this from the encryption provisions of the bill. This part of the bill is distinct and means that social sites will need to verify ages of users and fill in lots of forms while they're at it.
thank you for your response, it is indeed quite interesting.

i don't have the time to write a detailed replay right now, but i hope to do so later. you are welcome to contact me at the address in my profile in case i get distracted and forget.
Light is how we “see”
Thanks for hosting a service to help host the logs in a public manner.

As far as logs hosting though, this only works for as long as you're willing to host though. It seems unlikely that Discord will disappear overnight -- or if this was a risk, I'd assume they'd be acquired with a large userbase.

I've written IRC and Discord bots and don't think Discord bots aren't much more difficult. One of the best strengths of writing a Discord bot is that if your bot goes down, you can query and fetch lost history fairly easily. This isn't doable in IRC unless you put a bouncer in front of your bot or the server is set up to feed clients with history.
I love the idea of the nasal naltrexone. Naltrexone has been known for years to reduce the number of drinks consumed (by blocking opioid receptors).

I wish we could figure out a better system for accessing medications like this — like perhaps allowing pharmacists to prescribe low risk medicines in more states.
> Well - I'm not blaming the user, but that's how it's on any federated service.

There it is! It’s absolutely fixable, and pretending it’s some defect inherent to federation is just lazy. If you want to see federated content discovery done right, I’d say the best right now is Lemmy — it’s trivial to see all posts across all instances, sorted by votes, or even other algorithms.
Perhaps better is decentralized twitter (Nostr). Your account doesn't live on a server and you send events to multiple servers if you want to. If one server goes down, it hardly impacts you.
> how can the conductor conduct when one of the ends is just hanging in the air?

At frequencies where the wire radiates, you can't model a wire as an open resistor. You need to model it as a bunch of Rs, Ls and Cs, and there you will see the current flow.
One of the linked fixes is: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/13ec425b721c9594...

It seems like it was trivial to make it happen atomically.

There just wasn't a need to before since them not being atomic isn't an issue, unless you have a poor configuration like someone pointing sidekiq at a stale database server (sorry, a replica), which I see as the primary issue here.