skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if all passengers were alive at the time of a water landing, getting out of a plane is tricky in the best of conditions. Getting out of a damaged, rapidly sinking plane is very hard or maybe impossible.

Also, if you would get out of the plane, you are then in the middle of the indian ocean with just your life vest and the sharks. You get maybe 3 days, because the water is warm.

And nobody will find you if they don't know where they should be looking. An airplane life vest doesn't have an AIS transponder, only the life rafts/emergency slides do. If those weren't properly deployed, no chance of a vessel finding you. There are reports of shipwreck survivors about ships passing within a few hundred meters of them in calm seas, and failing to see them.
Lexus and Toyota are the most reliable used-car brands, Tesla third from bottom
You might have switched up your threads, SO's decline is over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41376770
> but to be a little more clear: data usage refers to up- and download.

Right, that was one possibility… my initial thought was that you meant HDD capacity.

But even with that clarification, how is an answerable question? Are you asking people to guess (Feynman Approximation?) how much internet traffic up+down that the average MacBook user has per-day compared to Windows or Linux users? Or did you mean something else?

My left eyebrow raised itself uncontrollably as I typed that out, in fact.
I imagine the study-ers started with something like "hmm, these people have parasites and are getting COVID, we should see how big an effect giving them antiparasite medications has" and then went from there. Or maybe "we're throwing everything at the wall with COVID, this thing was involved in Nobel Prizes, lets try it to". Something like that. Maybe other things I can't think of. Proving up effect sizes is valuable in itself.
I have a different explanation:

Diminishing returns.

A 100% successful StackOverflow SHOULD show a tapering off of questions. This is exactly what we should expect from perfect success. Now, I don't think perfect success is what we see, but a system where a question can be answered once and then re-read many times should absolutely not keep new question counts high, that would be a sign of a massive failure.

The view counts is harder to explain. I would guess it can be partially explained by search engines inlining stackoverflow answers into the search results so people DO get answers from SO, but don't actually go to the site.
I had to look it up, because this seems like a pretty unrealistic fear to me. What I fond:

> less than 1 in 1 million chance of being struck by lightning directly or indirectly

> One-third of all lightning injuries occur indoors.

I'm pretty terrible at statistics, but I think we can assume that there's a less than 1 in 3 million chance to be injured by lightning indoors.

But lightning related injuries indoors could also be from a window exploding after lightning hits a tree outside, or a fire related injury from a lightning strike to the house.

So what's the chance of being hit by lightning in the shower? And then being seriously injured?

Snopes lists 4 examples of people being hit by lightning in the shower, spread over 20 years. All of them with minor injuries. The chance of major injuries is also much lower than with a direct lightning strike.

So finally, is the 'safe to shower' thing useful? I'd say that making this is probably time that could've been spent on more useful safety related things.

Also, if it's just 'is it safe to shower?', it ignores tons of other dangers inside the house during thunder storms. Touching any tap, corded appliance, concrete wall or floor or being near an outlet is just as dangerous as being in the shower and none of those things are particularly dangerous in the grand scheme of things!
Thanks for the info. Their comments on hardware treadmills are reasonable. I'm not looking to chase the latest hardware, but I was still scared off by reviews claiming web video playback performance issues. I suppose I was hopping for the bumps to smooth out a bit.

I find it encouraging to hear that it's working for you. I'll probably take another look at making the switch when I have a moment. I'd much rather support an alternative platform if possible.
It is not https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34730942

> No! I just thought it was a cute name ("put things in a box"), and it wasn't a common repo name on GitHub.
"at scale" assumes a popular game - and you end up by giving as an example one of the most popular FPSes ever ! Please give an example of a game with, say, less than a million of copies sold / given away ? (And ideally, not an FPS, we all know these have specific extra challenges involved.)

And "at scale" pretty much means that matches are not competitive, because the sums required for entering a tournament game and given for winning it are going to be too small, won't they ?

P.S.: And for non-competitive games, I would expect that this cheating issue (among others) would be aggravated if you insist on playing with total strangers you will never see again (also part of the scale issue) - maybe just avoid that ?
Supernote was the alternative to the RM2, but the RM2 was bought by my workplace - I would have preferred the Supernote due to exactly these features. It's not just a fancy college block.

I think a new version of the A5 is coming out this or next year, but they're generally pretty expensive - almost as expensive as the Samsung Tab.
Yup an Involution.
There is a misconception that won't die, that nuclear can't do anything but baseload.
getting one of your people to become a debian developer is similar in difficulty to getting one of your people to become a senator or a citizen of switzerland
Wow, I bet Boston Dynamics and such are quite interested
Whenever I go on Discord the chats are so busy my message flies up off the screen in seconds - how does it work for you?
This sounds like a nightmare and very questionable in any serious work capacity. You are paying to breach your nda...
So where to go with such questions? I have one that I am not sure if it is a bug, a user issue or an android issue or a phone/hardware issue.
> well, i didn't post the full question - right?

Exactly, you did not. How I see it:

The problem with reading such complaints is that we always only hear one side. That's why posting what you actually asked is valuable information to be able to say whether your complaint is justified or not.

By default, a lot of people immediately side with and upvote the person writing the complaint, but that's actually bad - as I said, we only hear one side of the story that way, and in cases such as this one what was actually said/asked matters and without that piece of information any opinion one forms and comment votes one gives do not have a good basis to stand on.

Furthermore, when people write such complaints but don't see how from the reader's PoV is only biased half-information I wonder if their question showed a similar lack of how it looks like from the PoV of its readers.

You want me to side with you, but you withhold information that would let me evaluate if you are actually in the right.
RS codes can be done in N log N time for both encoding and erasure decoding, and sometimes achieving MDS is useful for attack resistance... e.g. that you can always decode with N blocks, vs with non-minimum distance codes you can have adversarial subsets that will fail to decode even when you have significantly more blocks than needed.. Larger word sizes for RS codes is also useful for list decoding even when the number of data blocks isn't that great.

And sure, list decoding is slow. But I think there are two distinct groups of applications for good instruction sets: one is where you're trying to make a fast thing like an 8-bit RS code or something "free" by having it run at near memory, wire, or disk speeds (or make it consume little power). but the other is where you're doing something legitimately slow, including things that are O(N^2) (or worse). In those cases sometimes a small constant factor makes a big difference between usable and very much not usable.
Yeah, it might read like that, but it also is how I feel. If I was running a crypto farm, or if I was doing security research, I would have different levels of concerns.

But, in fact, hosting a competitive gsmijg website, I did experience common brute force and and other types of attacks, but fail2ban did foil them for years :)

None of the attackers were ever sophisticated enough to come up with a successful attack (that I know of :))

The point is, should everything be do all the best practices as if they were equally likely to be attacked?

It’s like saying that everyone should also have a faraday cage house, and electrified fences, it is the best practice, after all.
In summary, while wearing a face mask might offer minimal benefits in terms of retaining some moisture around your nasal passages due to breath capture and reduced airflow exposure to dry cabin air, it does not effectively keep them moist during high altitude flights. The primary concern remains that airplane cabins are inherently dry environments that can lead to discomfort regardless of whether one wears a mask.

Thus, wearing a face mask will not effectively keep your nasal passages moist during a high altitude flight.
- Have a thin hypervisor kernel

- Have the user-facing OS be a VM managed by that hypervisor

- Have the game process run under a second sibling VM

The hypervisor can then mediate hardware access and guarantee nothing from VM A can access VM B nor the other way around.

IIRC WSL2 enables such a mode, both the Windows OS the user sees and the Linux VM run under Hyper-V as siblings VMs.

And Xbox One and up do EXACTLY the above: each game runs in its dedicated VM (I presume that's what "trivially" enables Quick Switch/Resume via pausing/shapshotting the VM) and apps run in another.

Tangent: I somewhat wish MS would allow WSL2 on Xbox.
Same here. I've been using "todo.txt" for years (decade?) now. It's hardly more than a very loosely defined format to present TODOs. Lot's of tools, apps, GUIs and whatnot developed around it.

The format is so easy that anything that can edit txt allows to manage it without hassle, so even if MyFavoriteTool is abandoned in a year, I can continue with my todo system. And synching a text file is a no-brainer too. I now just use dropbox. But used git, rsync and some more in the past.

The only downside I've constantly run against, is that I cannot "share" this with my spouse or colleagues. Guess "team" function could easily be invented, but so far no one has, that I know, and I'm not going to put that task on this todo.txt file either.
Some would, but it definitely is a bigger ask of people to have something injected into their bloodstream by a medical professional rather than to just spray something in their nose. I think it'd win over a substantial chunk of the vaccine-hesitant.
I'm working on https://mockoon.com an API mocking tool. I launched it here as a side-project 7 years ago, and I'm now full-time, trying to bootstrap a Saas platform.
I'm seeing some progress (I officially have some precious MRR!) but it's one hell of an emotional roller coaster...
Hillarious! Soon enough people will rebuild entire browsers with box shadows :)
It's possible for the pilot to depressurise the plane and use their dedicated oxygen system to breathe while everyone else on board will pass out after using their individual masks.

Doing so will give them 60-90 minutes of extra air, the passengers' masks don't last that long.
the dumbest thing is if the server refused STARTTLS or the client doesn't send STARTTLS you are supposed to still continue if you strictly follow the standard

I really hope no implementation actual does support this behavior without setting some really dangerous sounding settings (but I'm pretty sure some probably do).

at least they did standardize directly connecting with TLS by now (it not "that" long ago that while supported in practice it wasn't technically standard complaint)
We use a git repository full of markdown files for out team's documentation and it works really well for us.

Benefits include:

* It's really simple for people to use and update.

* Everyone can keep a copy locally on their own machines in case they're stuck without access to the GitHub/GitLab instance

* People are much happier removing out of date information from it as they can always find in the history again if they need it

* Branches in documentation can be really useful when you're making big changes (or an individual wants to add personal comments to their local copy)
Very interesting indeed, score one more for server side generation.
.NET/C#'s competitor JVM/Kotlin does provide a UI framework (Jetbrains Compose) that runs on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and the web.

That's what you have to compare against, and .NET/C# falls flat.
Yes there were. Still are, I suppose. Scott Alexander had a great round up back in 2021: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-y...
It's not that simple. The more data points there are, the stricter the rules can get. A user having an average data upload of 500MB/week would be flagged at 50 MB in 5 minutes. I expect that the system self-adapts until it flags at least some users and I expect those flagged are not the technologically challenged users that browse anywhere and click anything, but the most competent users that perform "weird" actions such as ping, ftp, open the command prompt, etc.
Technology does change though and a decent number of questions I see on SO should have different answers now than when the official answer was accepted. Answers tapering off is true but I think is also due to it being difficult to get new, different answers to old questions.
I'm excited that they push Iced [1], a Rust-based cross-platform UI framework. Probably not the Rust framework which I would've betted on as the most promising one, but with the broad support and larger adoption I hope it will catapult it into the mainstream, we really need a good UI library that's not a web renderer. I was also quite excited about GPUI [2] but there seems to be very little activity in the repo for now (hard to judge though, I imagine they're just busy hacking on the editor).

I wanted to write a desktop app with Rust for a while and considered Tauri, Flutter (via rust-flutter-bridge) or a native framework like Iced, I think with the larger adoption it might make sense to go with Iced, though it's probably still much more experimental than frameworks like Flutter.

1: https://iced.rs/
2: https://www.gpui.rs/
AFAIK, the main reason why people don't use these "secret chats" in Telegram is that the history stays on one device. It doesn't have to go to the cloud, but you can synchronise it with already linked devices by sharing your keys. As if it was deliberately made inconvenient to use, "encryption brings limitations, it's easier to upload everything to our cloud, trust us".
The first demo doesn't work for me in Firefox, either.
i'm just stating an observation and connect it to a recent experience - that's all - i'm not asking you to be the judge in a court case. if you can't relate to the issue i describe, then just down vote and move on with your life.
It is coherent enough if you aren't so habituated to mental gymnastics. I stopped trying to convince people online a while ago. Stopped reading when I started seeing what I assume to be WHO statistics. We live in different realities and the pandemic has made us make our peace with it. So there is no discussion to be had. I'll be at the CryFreedomGhetto. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/2--HYvLmrqk
In addition to the technical details mentioned there is also the "social" part:
Having Anticheat lets the company show they are doing "something" against cheating and keeps law abiding players from installing cheats.
I think this is a very complex subject and no one, in good faith, can claim that heavy moderation is either awesome or terrible.
Most likely Ebay. Amazon is built around a bait and switch tactic. If you buy anything directly from Amazon, the risk of a scam is minimal, this is the bait. However, the switch tactic is that they made it increasingly hard to order directly from Amazon by co-mingling and progressively decreasing the UI distinctions between items sold by third party sellers and Amazon. When it turns out that the article is popular and profitable, Amazon will introduce a "Amazon Basics" version of the product, where the product is branded in such a way, that it is obvious that only Amazon can sell it.

The core distinction between Ebay and Amazon is that on Ebay each shop+product combination is its own listing and the seller reputation is put up front, with the buy button below the seller information. Meanwhile on Amazon there are product listings, with multiple sellers providing the same product and the seller name being put below the buy button. There is no obvious indication that you are buying from a third party seller on Amazon, whereas on Ebay you can only buy from third parties, so expectations adjust accordingly.
I use a special Telegram chat for Todo lists, this way I can share it with my assistant, and I can use speech to text to add items.
Super agree here, I went through countless software solutions but just few months ago I decided to buy a small paper notebook and a pen. It feels really damn different. Almost something magical clicks when you engrave those cellulose sheets with ink giving more mechanical attention to every letter, word and sentence, instead of hammering it down on a keyboard. Noticed that I'm really much more attached to the manual kind of writing, and I value and follow the paper more than files. Maybe because they are real and tangible after all.
This [1] is the best I could find with a quick search, admittedly far from ideal, but it has some numbers to start with and might help to locate better data.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/it-safe-take-show...
Has "queer" become a slur? Even as a part of the "LGBTQ+" moniker?
> As a Canadian who is in the process of immigrating to the US

Curious choice of words.

Why not 'emigrating' to the US?
Why wouldn't it keep nasal passages moist? If I wear a mask very long, the environment under it becomes a relative sauna.
alrighty ^
I've replied in a thread, and what I've replied to above was about the enterprise tax and that it's surely cheaper to do your own, not if the original article is about enterprise or not.
fail2ban is dangerous imho. First, it will only block high-frequency maliciousness. If an attacker knows to stay below the default ban frequencies, or change endpoints often enough, they will have free reign. Second, fail2ban is a DoS risk, attackers can spoof connections from an IP they want to switch off. Third, fail2ban relies on parsing of textual logs. This is vulnerable to all kinds of injection attacks (there have been some CVEs to that end) where an attacker injects patterns that the fail2ban heuristics will latch on to, and wildly ban stuff.

So you should not rely on fail2ban to keep you safe from anything, and you are introducing DoS risks. Very bad tradeoff imho, making it only good as a last resort.
Exactly! I don't know where to go either. Once upon a time, SO was the place, but they stopped that with site policy changes around 2012 or so. A lot more became off-topic, and I found that the value I got from it declined right from that time.

The view count sharply dropping off around 2013 mirrors (to me) the increasingly more narrowly defined scope of the site's acceptable content than what it was when it started.
This got me thinking. Anyone tried using SD or similar to create graphics for the old classic text adventure games?
> becoming more and more difficult to ask a simple question on the internet

i know people here like to hate on discord servers, but this is one thing they shine at, it's easy to drop in and just ask a damn simple question to people that are online, in real time
I wear masks on planes for this reason, also with goggle-style glasses. Through inadvertent A/B testing, I have some support that they are effective. I also use eye and nose moisturizers rather than just rely on covering up. I used to catch a bug every time I flew but have now mostly eliminated that.
But then the income would drop and his yacht may be found capsized!!
CBMC is a model checker though right, not a symbolic execution engine? Or do you feel for all intents and purposes there is no difference?
The hidden unsafety in the pr_ macros (here under the heading Bonus Point for no unsafe) was interesting. I wonder if there's anything the compiler could do to detect this kind surprise-unsafety happening, for example a no-unsafe assertion in a source file.

Also, why doesn't the compiler know by default that the stack allocated struct is "MaybeUninit"?
I agree that they teeter the line, but hard disagree that they’re ineffective. They’re ineffective if you run your own servers and vet your own community because you don’t need them, but that’s not how most popular games are being played these days whether you like it or not. Fall guys was fundamentally broken, they added easy anti cheat and the problem disappeared pretty much.
Signal uses phone numbers as identifiers. Due to KYC laws phone numbers are closely bound to real-world identities.

If the police is able to unlock one person's phone, even if that person used self-deleting messages, they immediately know the identity of every other person that person chatted with.

Signal might as well have used your SSN as your account ID, that would have been just as private.

Luckily Signal has finally started fixing that in the past few weeks.
Author here! Lizzie Stark's Leaving Mundania (2012) is a good introduction to more mainstream American larping. There's also Michael Cramer's Medieval Fantasy as Performance (2009) about the Society for Creative Anachronism, which isn't larping but shares many characteristics.
> safely achieving an altitude of 7,120 feet (2,100 meters) and speeds up to 238 knots (273 mph)

Mach 0.4 and less than cruising altitude. That said, its J85 engines are big-boy military turbojets. Given Boom plans “a total of 10-20 flights…before reaching supersonic speeds” [1] that puts earliest supersonic flight around early 2025 [a].

[1] https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/xb1-prepares-for-first-supe...

[a] 5 months between 1 and 2 and half the time between each succeeding flight until 2x a week steady to 10
> Signal already supports groups up to 1000 people iirc,

Which is where the practicality fails. This is why Telegram is the only app that works in large protests, unlike Signal.

Time and again, Telegram proves that the lack of E2EE actually becomes its strength, as proven by the protestors in Myanmar, Hong Kong, Iran and more countries: https://x.com/Pinboard/status/1474096410383421452

I'm not really against E2EE, but many of us fail to see how E2EE can hurt the usability of the app sometimes, and in cases where it is needed the most too.

Many Telegram groups have thousands of people, which is impossible to do on Signal at the moment. WhatsApp copied Telegram's features, large groups with topics and channels too!

> I'm not sure exactly what [2] refers too but nevertheless I have some doubts that would cause a blocker

1 and 2 are related. You can quickly login on Telegram and have your chats sync instantly, instead of waiting for manual backups or devices to sync. The devices run independently.

> But, I'd argue, is not impossible

I too don't think it's impossible. It's just computationally expensive and comes with limitations for now.

Durov does not want to use the Signal protocol either because he's been approached by the US agencies multiple times to include certain algorithms or libraries inside Telegram, not to mention that Signal itself is funded by the government.

Matrix could be better but it leaks tons of data, has been hacked multiple times in the past too.