skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a mail carrier during the outbreak I was deemed essential and forced to work 6 days a week. The volume increased 3 or 4 fold since everyone was at home. I touched many thousands of packages and much more mail, it took me 3 years to catch the COVID and I got it from my brother's family at Thanksgiving.
> We don't call it making things up but any time you see the word "infer" you can go there.

If things are not presented correctly as being inferences, then that's the problem. I don't know if that's the case here, but there's a big difference between presenting your own imaginings as facts, and presenting them as theories.
The problem is that Reddit's own features for moderators are abysmal. I don't know what Reddit's 2.000 employees are doing all day, but people have lamented that for years now without much significant change - and then Reddit just shut down the public API, which made moderation work muuuch more difficult.
I love watching cooking videos. It's my number one go to, when I want to turn off my brain completely. But I never try to replicate recipes. I just pick up ideas.

I never ever cook from a recipe, either. Cooking is very much like programming. You have a goal (what you feel like eating that day), a framework (what you have laying around and your cooking skills) and you just execute something that approximates your goal. And just like programming you have to learn by doing.

Sometimes it is worth following recipes when you want to cook something new from a foreign cuisine, but I rarely do that. I cook almost exclusively European food, so I know instinctively how to combine the ingredients together to get the taste profile I am yearning for, and I also know how to cook each of the separate ingredients individually.

I really don't "get" people who seem to lack this cooking instinct. In my family there is nobody who doesn't know how to cook. My father rarely cooked when my mother was in good health, but once she fell ill, he picked it up at the ripe old age of 70, and is now able to cook pretty much everything. Baked savoury goods are his favourite.

If you don't know how to cook, you probably need to cancel your food delivery subscriptions and just force yourself to cook your own food. You'll pick it up amazingly quickly. I messed up quite a few times, but I don't remember ever having to throw food away. You always get something edible if you are creative enough.

A couple of weeks ago I had one of my worst disasters. I was attempting a Georgian savoury pie and my dough was a bit too highly hydrated and my filling a bit too warm due to my impatience, and I tried using a new technique for forming the pie instead of the usual one of sandwiching the filling between two pre-rolled layers of dough. The bottom of the pie tore apart and I was left with a mix of filling and raw dough. It seemed like a write-off, but I quickly added a bit more flour and mixed it all thoroughly together and baked it as a bread instead, and it turned out a bit dry but delicious.

Anyway, there is definitely value in cooking videos.
There are some young ones curious about the past games. Albeit a small subset. The nephews at least play a few with me when they're in town: Red Alert, Doom, old Quake mods, etc.

I've noticed that I myself cannot stand games significantly older than my own coming-of-age era. So anything less than VGA is hard for me to appreciate, despite an interest in learning about such things. Let's Plays and video reviews by more patient and tolerant players is how I appreciate them now.
It's almost as if a for-profit company is not a reliable place for things that are not done for profit. Weird.
So... you're adding more noise to the filename?

What?
Most museums display only a fraction of their holdings at any given time.
Landing page gets full marks for simple, but no marks for approachable.
Is this just an analog for wiimmfi?
> they're a big step up from standard switches if you're more used to laptops

In what way? I was contemplating a keyboard with mechanical low profile switches. One of the reasons was that I could easily remap the keys without having to buy new keycaps, since they all have the same profile, and for some reason, every manufacturer insists on their own home / en / pg up / pg dn layout (I'm looking exclusively at "75%" and similar layouts, which put those keys in a column).

But I'm hesitant because I've trained myself to not bottom out when I type with my regular mechanical keyboards, and my fingers enjoy the lack of abrupt stop at the bottom.
> this is a French thing, so the US did not want it

Given how common US things are in Europe, I'm surprised there isn't more of a trading war over things like this. Personally, I think the EU should penalise foreign all social media companies, and fund local start-ups to replaces them.
How to Add a Visual Label to Web Content
Transforming an Arcade Machine into a WFH-Friendly Grafana Dashboard
Exactly my thoughts.

I had a look at the channel and wondered why there was no true archival version provided by either:

1. The channel org itself via "Internet Archive" and/or torrents.

2. The community. It is trivial to create archival copies of youtube channels and most rare true archival footage on youtube will be mirrored elsewhere, even if "illegally".

(1) does not exist and (2) is non existent either, no one considers these encodes valuable enough to preserve, which does seem odd considering it is unique data.

Load up the videos, and you see a giant watermark, thus destroying any archival usage.

No one will fight for this channnel, no one will bother mirroring it, because every encode is ruined and flawed.

If the channel/org has the originals, consider talking to Internet Archive
I remember my friends and I getting stoned in high school and renting every Disney cartoon feature film. Since they were old releases they cost us $1 each. I think we spent $13 in total. We spent more on the pot and candy.
If the amount was big enough, there would be a phone call from the merchant to some call center.
Jester - Stardust Memories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLMhBE99byM
Use `spctl --status` to see the status of Gatekeeper.

If Gatekeeper is enabled, the binaries you're downloading must have been signed by a valid developer ID. IIRC binaries you compile yourself get whitelisted automatically.
> Dissolving is not a chemical reaction.

I see that that is the standard terminology (which I was not previously aware of), but setting the terminology this way makes about as much sense to me as saying that there is no difference, as far as the chemistry is concerned, between a measure of distilled water and a measure of strong acid.
Maybe you'll find some ideas here?

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/apples/apple-...
There are an infinite amount of impressive technical things that we could be talking about. I'd rather focus on the things that are providing value to most people. The only value that I see cryptocurrencies provide is to people in non-liberal countries, but even there it's just a matter of time for the governments to block these currencies. Cryptocurrencies are just a hack even there.

> Once the hivemind takes a position in social media, deeper technical discussions have no point. So even serious people in the space would just avoid it outside of some limited spaces.

What is the point exactly?
In a world of increasing rents, video-rental stores would have faced pressure regardless of the pandemic. And in some particularly high-rent locations, video rental moved from a store staffed with employees to automated kiosks already in the first decade of the new millennium.
Stan the Man Wawrinka is one of the most talented players in (relatively) recent tennis history, at his best he had moments of magic that were only approached by Federer. Glad that he got to win a few Grand Slams.

Also, too bad that Dimitrov didn't peak higher, but he gave it a go, so there's that.
> Also tue, the Nazis basically started WW2 to murder all the jews.

I don't think that's true. It's a stupid point to start a war. Where's the profit for Germany in that?

While it's also true that Nazi Germany explicitly set to murder all Russians. There're numerous official Nazi documents confirming that. Most of the population was determined to be killed directly or by causing hunger (by capturing the only lands suitable for agriculture in the South-West of USSR).

But since the West in general always considered and continue to consider Russians as subhumans, there's no mention of this fact in western books, movies and articles.
I'm of that vintage of credit card user that remembers this. I used to keep my counterfoils (I think that's what they were called) to reconcile what was remaining on my available credit. I seem to remember there was a printed list of that some merchants used to look up invalidated cards before electronic terminals replaced mechanical card swipe machines.
This concept really could have been better served by a different name. It's hard to take it seriously with this name.
Maybe don't quite say never: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Solar_Challenge

Meanwhile, for us mortals: There's something to be said for using solar panels to power aircon/heaters/utilities/etc while the car is stationary outdoors.
Honestly not much has changed. Some of the big subs that did their protests had their mods replaced, that's it.

I'm not on any of the big ('default') subs, all the smaller ones I'm on are operating the same as they ever did, with some doing a stupid one day a week protest. That's literally the only change.
> ...administratium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would have normally occurred in less than a second.

Let x = administartium slowdown effect = 4 days / 1 second

x = 4 days * 24 hours / day

x = 96 hours * 60 minutes / hour

x = 5760 minutes * 60 seconds / minute

x = 345600 seconds

Wrote this out to also convince myself, I am 35, did physics for 3 years in undergrad, and am apparently still bamboozled by orders of magnitude regularly. Completely unintuitive!

In fact, lemme do it in reverse, I'm shocked.

Given x = slowdown factor = 100B = 100_000_000_000

x = 100_000_000_000 seconds / (60 seconds / minute)

x = 1_666_666_666 / (60 minutes / hour)

x = 27_777_777 hours / 24 hours / day

x = 1_157_407 days / 365 days / year

x = 3,170 years!
Remote Attestation is a WebAuthn first-class citizen
Study reveals how little things can reduce hip fractures
I would not say so. Just getting worst and less used. But, it is very far from extinction.
Lots of fixes and improvements in this one. Again, thanks to everyone for their feedback!
Sometimes back in 90ties, in Belarus, we had payphones that accepted prepaid payphone cards. I don't remember if you could reload them or you just bought one with credits already on them, but you certainly could change a few bytes on the card's chip memory to set credits about to any value you wanted. And the hardest part was actually finding contact board that matched chip's contacts layout, to wire it up to LPT port. But otherwise it was "plaintext" value you change in the hex editor.
I built a plane spotter for my son in minutes
Datahoarder here, the drives are relatively cheap, but the overall cost to do it right is expensive. I have a somewhat durable setup (about 370TiB raw, replica count 3, 5 node Ceph cluster). And just that before backups I work total cost to be about $1000CAD per usable TiB. I don't shuck drives though, that could probably bring it down to 800.
I think there is a key difference in magnitudes of ion concentration vs time. At this scale, a faster detector seems to be comparatively less trivial than a more sensitive one.
I used to be the one running those cards through the machine! We actually would call someone (credit card processor?) to give them the details and we'd get an auth code back that we wrote down.
Looks like there's FTP support also (based on the man page).
It's fine when you've read the man page at least once. If you just cowboy your way through every task, you'll never even be aware of what your tools can do. Which results in comments we've all seen: "I can't believe curl/Firefox/vim/readline/whatever can do something like that!" about something so trivial that every good poweruser/sysadmin has known it for decades (because it's in the man page).
Wikipedia tells us that dissolving occurs when differences in electrical charge across molecules of solvent (e.g., a molecule of water is famously negative around the oxygen and positive around the hydrogens) interact with differences in electrical charge across molecules of solute such that the molecules of solute get stripped out of the structure they were in and surrounded by molecules of solvent, held in place by what appears to be essentially an ionic bond between the solute and the solvent.

I'm not sure why that's not considered "chemistry".
Interesting query. Whilst it may be debatable what the ordering should be, there is a somewhat small set of objective correct results that should make the first page.
One thing I don’t really understand: if conference organizers accept (or invite or whatever) a keynote speaker, and the acceptance/invitation doesn’t reference any particular topic, then presumably they are actually saying they will give a keynote slot to the speaker to speak about whatever they like. And if the speaker gives a talk about something they’ve worked on but that doesn’t have any sort of consensus to become part of Rust, so what? It’s a keynote talk, not a merge request.

If the organizers wanted a talk about an actual accepted feature, surely the invitation should have said so.
That seems a bit harsh

https://curl.se/docs/releases.html
> Most mods know that there are dozens/hundreds of other similar volunteers ready to take their place

Not really. There are not.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy is a social link aggregator very similar to Reddit, powered by fediverse. Think of it like anyone can host an instance for their community, and all instances can interact with each other. For example check out the instance at https://beehaw.org/
I really dislike this community paradigm. The design, I actually prefer the good old forums like vBulletin or IPB. Discourse is a nice project, but I really don't dig this marriage between forum and Q&A.
Up into the 1960's lots of cars still had the ignition lock work similarly to the doors or (separately keyed) glove box, where the locking function was optional.

Normally you would unlock the ignition, remove the key, and then anyone could start and drive the car without needing a key.

You couldn't re-lock the ignition without the key like you can a door, but there was nothing like a universal habit of locking the car doors, and automatic locks were an extreme rarity so it was very common for many drivers to go without keys most of the time, and they rarely locked themselves out. Car theft was so much less prevalent, but if you did decide to park in a questionable location it really made you think "yikes, I'm gonna need a key for this".
You're right. It is qwerty but the columnar is what I meant would be a big obstacle
What about using docker swarm or even a single node docker swarm cluster? I think that could be a viable alternative for small stuff.
I can't even convince it to put the parameters in a function call in the correct order, despite repeatedly asking.
What happened "a couple of weeks ago"?
Maybe NFT purchasers have a different concept of ownership where they don't believe in exclusive rights to a physical thing? Along those lines, I think they'd be open to parting with their real title to their home to me for $20 in exchange for a portable NFT that they can enjoy anywhere else. Think of all that additional freedom from being tied to one location and on-going lifecycle maintenance costs. It's a win-win no-brainer. ;)
AppleWorks
How Accurate Were EPAs Predictions of climate change from 40 years ago?
I never said garlic was useful for common cold. Antibiotics aren't very useful against viral infections.
ksa keeps shuffling their toys around. try to keep track of the little ball, it is under one of these shells.

2011 - bin talal gets 300m in

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204791104577107...

early 2022 - bin talal rejects musk’s offer.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-tal...

2022 - he’s back as help funding musk’s purchase. second biggest investor.

https://www.thekashmirmonitor.net/who-is-prince-waleed-bin-t...

this guy sold twitter to himself. no, he isn’t sole owner, it is more complex than that, but bin talal helped fund a purchase that he rejected previously as one of the larger potential sellers.

and what about his links to power?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal...

bin talal is himself just a very expensive pawn. maybe that’s unkind, but calling him a queen might get one killed. bottom line, he ain’t the boss. but he likes to play one on tv.
Coincidentally Japan just indefinitely suspended sales of their famous SVCs due to the semiconductor shortage, and BART had issued a similar warning about shortages last year.
We had stored value card payment system in Uzbekistan somewhere from 2003-2005 to 2010-2012. But no-one ever called it "stored value card", basically, I learnt the word today :) Everyone just called it "offline cards", in contrast with "online cards" which required Internet to do transactions.

The system was called UzKart (do not confuse with UzCard, which is modern online successor of that system). On the day when salary was paid, you had to find an online ATM or internet-connected terminal in the shop, and "load" money to the card. Then, you could use the money on the card to pay in offline terminals. Balance could be checked directly in offline terminals, you had to ask the seller to print it.

Sellers had a special offline card, called "merchant's card". In the end of the day they loaded all the transactions from an offline terminal to a merchant's card, and then brought the card to an ATM or a connected terminal, to synchronize payments with the bank account.

If, for some reason, at the time of synchronization some payments failed to clear, payer's card was banned and they had an angry call from the bank.

When the system was introduced, internet connection was expensive and unreliable. It co-existed with online cards, but merchants strongly preferred to deal with offline cards. As soon as mobile internet become cheaper and more widespread, offline cards died because of the hassle with "loading" and "unloading" them.

More info on UzKart and UzCard can be found (in Russian) here https://gazeta.norma.uz/publish/doc/text97703_uzkart_ot_duet... and here https://uzcard.uz/ru/news/post/uzcard-bankovskaya-tranzaktsi...
I would use GNU Wget2 for this. It's supposed to be a wget successor.
> "To be pedantic, I think you mean good source of entropy, rather than random data. The raw ADC data is likely to have statistic (Gaussian) bias ..."

It might have. There are also various ways of affecting the spectrum of the noise generated by the transistor using electromagnetic and thermal influence. But can you can positively discern that output as absolutely biased or affected, and crucially would you be able to take actual advantage of it? I'm not really certain, but for this type of solution I'd still err on the side of it not being a feasible attack.
I don't know how it is for the rest of Europe but in Germany every big online shop and even most of the small ones offer free returns.
The wonderfull Cash-chip was embedded into Visa debit card issued by the bank. It also had "Valid in Sweden only" printed beside it, on an othervise internationally recognized debit-card.

I know of at least one person who had to spend the night in a detainment cell at JFK and then had to take a plane back to Sweden the next morning because the customs agent concluded that they didn't have any money for their stay in New York.
I have more streaming subscriptions than are probably justified by the amount I watch, can't be bothered to manage rotating, and buy some a la carte and I still pay probably half of what a cable TV only subscription would cost me. I give up live TV but that was something I rarely watched.

And it's not like cable TV carried everything, including movies, I wanted to watch anyway.
In React, you typically manage state changes manually using setState or hooks. While libraries like Redux can help with state management, React doesn't provide automatic two-way data binding out of the box like Svelte. Also no virtual DOM with Svelte. Why did I chose one over the other? I didn't. I just worked on various projects over the years and inherited code where someone else made this choice. Which is better? It's like the line from war games, the correct answer is not to play. Just don't use any JS framwork at all. Keep everything server side rendering and minimal JS code only when absolutely necessary.
Meh, Finnish doesn’t have noun genders, but due to phonological changes obscuring what was, centuries ago, a regular declension, it now has a large number of different noun classes that have to be memorized as such. These are so laborious for foreigners to learn that a Finnish language workbook like Harjoitus tekee mestarin can spend 300 pages just on drills of noun classes.
Xenforo is the state of the art in terms of forum software but it's not open source (it requires a rather pricey license fee).

For something on the free end, simple machine forums works on most shared hosts (and in terms of selfhost, it's just a PHP + MySQL stack) and should work for most communities. It doesn't require a lot of technical skill to configure/use, which can make it appealing if you don't want to micromanage mods - they'll be able to figure out the interface themselves.

Discourse is popular in tech communities, but I've always found the software to be rather unwieldy and inefficient. It's a ruby dinosaur with all the limitations and advantages that implies. It's also an application that basically demands the "ownership" of an entire server - the devs are explicitly against running other things on the same server that runs Discourse, which is a dealbreaker if you don't have a good budget.
If you're interested the Webb mirror, and the relationship between resolving ability, wavelength and mirror size I really recommend the deep dive Huygens optics did on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOpbXBppUEU

The guy makes his own lenses, and loves to explain what he does
I agree with your sentiment, but I do wonder what could replace reddit. It's true that the larger subreddits have been pretty terrible for years. However, reddit has often been the _only_ good source for useful and true user-sourced information. What vacuum should I buy? How can I get some old PS2 game to run on my steam deck? Can I disable the telematics system on a Toyota Tacoma? etc.

It's easy to see this sort of access to information disappearing, and it's also easy to imagine that even if it didn't die now, it would soon be destroyed by large-scale usage of AI. I think the internet very briefly put a lot of power in the hands of users, but the pendulum is swinging back hard.