skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you aware of the the Microbit?
It's used around the UK in schools - https://microbit.org/
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Green business: What is a Virtual Fax / eFax?
Join-ing any open WiFi network is now possible (OpenBSD)
It's a drop in the ocean though, I'm aware there's is a little of that but if you look at revenues you can say that without being too wrong. The in-house stuff is mostly a function designed to enable customers better more than a way to squeeze money out of it. It doesn't even crack the billion dollars (it's around 300M last time I checked).

But yeah, I should have known that given the crowd on hacker news I should have protected my statement from the "actually..." crowd.
Very happy to see mainstream support for cross-compile at the top of the list.
This isn't just a Linux problem. In Windows, the users /documents folder is polluted in exactly the same way these days.
TrailDB High Performance Database (Library) for Event Data
I don't like Web Apps, but there are a huge class of Apps that doesn't require a Native App to work. Services Sector which already has their Web Platform sorted out, and are only providing an "App" in the App Store. Paying for App Development is expensive, when majority of the functions in these Apps are exactly the same as online. Having PWA meant they could offer an "App" at a ( relatively speaking ) much lower cost.

Example, why would every Restaurant wants to have an Apps of its own?

That is of course assuming PWA for these kind of Apps work close to Native App in performance and usability. Time will tell.
Oh! Well there's my answer then, looking forward to reading that.
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I think fear of the unknown here is part of the problem.

The real answer is: "yes, but".

Yes, there's a strong ecosystem elsewhere, the raspbian project deserves _major_ kudos for supporting so many boards and so well, anything listed on their site is basically plug and play, sometimes linux has to be coaxed into doing SPI, but that's Linux itself.

"But" you should have learned how SBC's are working already. Pi's are not the first and last word in SBCs and it's wrong to hold them to that standard.

If you use RPI for it's intended purpose there's no reason you'd be in this position now; learning how GPIO pins work is one of the only things that will differ strongly on a PI vs something else.

Unless you're talking about third-party hardware being built for the platform?
There is hundreds: https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_864

And sub-$20 routers have been well supported for years (e.g. TP-Link TL-WR841)
You left it in farther down in the post, in case you wanted to edit it.
Except for the diss - which I felt was quite unnecessary - I don't think that's fair. There are people out there that definitely would have use of something like this if it existed.

Feels a bit on the small size for me, but if you spend a fair amount of time in crampes networking/gear closets, I can see how it would be useful.

I have worked in environments where I've had to lug around screens, RS232, RS485, CAN bus adapters, SD card readers, you name it. Have had to scrounge up extension cables to get power because there are no jacks within 20m, and the list goes on.

Yes you can use adapters and dongles, yes you get by, it's your job to make things work. But in certain kind of environments a machine in this vein is something that actually would make work more efficient, and much more fun.

While these environments might be getting more rare nowadays, they are not extinct by a long shot.
It's not just American sensibilities that are in play. When you allow people to upload pornographic material you have to deal with the risk that they'll upload illegal material (shit that's illegal in Europe too, it should be pointed out. And we could dive into a tangent to discuss the topic of ISP-level content blocking in America and the UK if you wish..)

If you're unable to effectively filter that stuff out the next pragmatic option is often to ban all pornographic content categorically. That's what happened to tumblr. For years they were an American company that allowed pornography, but they were unable to deal with the burden imposed by their users uploading illegal pornography.

If I had to guess, reddit is probably next. Does reddit check the ID of every user who decides to upload a nude of themselves? I doubt it. It's probably only a matter of time before reddit finds themselves in hot water too and decides to axe all their NSFW subreddits.
I don't personally find any developments in blockchains exciting, but I may also just be a bit of a luddite
hard to parse this statement, since the software itself is doing the lion share of making the router "good" (unless you mean wireless g/n support or something?)

i've used this project to put new life into a Buffalo router that's probably 10 years old and runs way cooler and more performant than the original firmware. same with an ASUS router that's probably 6 or 7 years old.
GDP requires transactions. You can overvalue anything until you sell it. Then the reality is made bare.
McKinsey Advised Purdue Pharma How to ‘Turbocharge’ Opioid Sales, Lawsuit Says
A reference to minimsft, a blog from within microsoft about its culture
I assumed that he was talking about the possible point groups in 2d (since his demo was a slide). In 2d lattices, the possible point groups are cyclic groups of order 2,3,4,6. Cyclic groups of order 5 cannot occur; one consequence is that regular pentagons cannot tile the plane. See

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

and

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

I should add that I know nothing about crystallography, and am relying on decades-old knowledge from the last abstract algebra class I took.
No they mean you don't 'peak interest', you 'pique interest'. What would 'peak your interest' even mean?
Sometimes restricting something can make it more powerful. Using a scalpel on everything would render it less useful when you needed it most.

But "excessively" is up to interpretation, and our interpretations disagree, and that's okay :)
The main issue I see is how they plan to fix this issue:

> Instead of guessing our location, relationships, or hidden desires behind our backs, they could ask questions and respect our answers.

You __really__ cannot respect what someone tells you about themselves. Machines can rely on the information people feed into social media because that's things the person is personally OK with sharing to anyone and everyone (or, at least, their friend group), but once they start asking specifically about relationships, (bad) habits, and embarrassing situations ("were you at <a bar> yesterday at 2 AM?"), people often lie to the machine to make them seem like a better person or boost their own morale.
There is no such thing as 100% with no side effects and will never be.
Being an introduction to the topic, they could have written what the letter stand for (D, B, E, J, H).
Because that sort of "well they are doing it!" garbage is always what justifies nuclear escalation. The answer is to negotiate them back to a reasonable position. The Russians make the same complaints; not without reason. If the response to violation is abandonment and escalation rather than negotiation how will things ever improve?
Arduino, esp8266, micro:bit?
I think this is the data you're looking for [1]. It actually runs somewhat counter to the parent comment's assertion. On average, wealthier people move to CA because they can afford to live here while poorer people leave because they can't afford to live here. However, you'd have to do some additional lookups based on the median incomes of where emigrants are moving to in order to draw a conclusion about whether they are better or worse off than the local population of their destination.

[1] https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/265
Glad it helped.
Why do programmers do this? What thought process leads to someone thinking this is a good idea?
Is that really true enough to be considered axiomatic, or is it just an expression of the tendency of technical people to assume the typical user is little smarter than a ham sandwich?

Using a small number of sites doesn't mean you don't know other sites exist. Consider the olden days of the web when discovery was, arguably, more difficult than today (the problem search engines emerged to solve.) Did people not comprehend that the web existed outside of Geocities or Yahoo? No, they still knew it was there. They may not have been able to find it, or cared to find it, but they still understood there was more "internet" out there.

Nowadays, meanwhile, almost every business has a website. Authors have websites. Political leaders, countries, movements and offices have websites. Celebrities have websites. Fandoms and communities have websites. Have you ever paid attention to just how many URLS you encounter outside of the silos, in real life, throughout the day? People are inundated with them. And, those silos tend to be content aggregators which let people post content from third party websites.

There may be some truth to the premise, but I suspect the extend is overstated in order to sell the narrative that the web is existentially under threat of corporate control and political censorship.
One thing I’ve been thinking about is that it would be nice to tag files with the program that created them. Aside from the clutter in my home directory, I have a lot of files that I have to guess as to where they originated from based on metadata like modification timestamps or permissions, but it would be nice to see something like “~/.config was created by some-tool”.
On the one hand this is annoying, on the other it’s great that you can just backup your home dir and have all your files and settings in one go.

Also this annoyance is easy to solve, just make one dir in home (my is called after my name) and put all your own files in there.
It’s a convenient place to store user data that works across platforms.
It's often worse on Windows, since dotfiles aren't hidden and meny dev tools assume they'll be running on *nix even when they support Windows. https://imgur.com/a/Im6G20B capture from my windows box of my $HOME.
Apple Is Fighting a Good Fight Against Facebook and Google
It's debatable. For hi-key, sitcom style full coverage lighting you've got to take the roof off the place and drop in a lighting grid, but with a high-end DSLR and good glass you can light a scene with candles, if that's the look you're going for. A lot of hi-end documentary interviews are shot with only natural light from a window.

When watching YouTube videos and Kickstarter videos where amateurs are trying to pass themselves off as pros, the most common and grievous error has nothing to do with the image, it's the sound that's all fucked up. Unplug the refrigerator and get a proper microphone! Digital cameras have come a long ways in 20 years, but onboard mics are still garbage.
As exciting as this is to see. It's hard for me to watch Portland change into a different city. I think the hardest aspect right now is the amount of trash that is being thrown aside in the roads, parks, and greenways. I was born and raised in this area and it's been tough for me to witness this beautiful city being treated that way. If you want to help clean up Portland, I strongly recommend volunteering with the SOLVE Organization.

I hope Portland will continue to be a beautiful city for my children to enjoy.
What bothers me about Apple [since 2013] is the showboating about environmentalism in their corporate marketing, but the complete disregard for such things in their designs.

Their designs since 2014 have been the least environmentally friendly out of any company; encouraging consumers to throw heavy metals into the ecosystem without the slightest hope of repair. The 2012 Mac Mini was the same chassis as the 2014 but the repairability level is next to nil. The same story is on the current line of MacBooks.

E-Waste is the largest and most harmful stream of consumer waste an Apple is leading the way. It doesn't matter how many of your data centers are running on solar panels if all of that energy is being used to destroy the environment.
What worries me is the effect economic growth has had on the environment. Over the last 50 years we've killed most of the vertebrata animals on the planet and most of the fish in the oceans, plastic particles are in the water and food supply and cause serious harm to human and animal health, and global climate change is looking serious in the next 10 years. We have no real basis or knowledge of how to maintain a global economy without poisoning the planet. To fix it will take global cooperation on a scale that's never been shown to be possible.

On the upside I don't worry about saving for retirement because I don't think that I (or a great many many people) will live through the coming cataclysm to see it.
In a way a users settings are ‘personal files’, so it can be argued they go in home.
agreed, Itanium investment should have gone to the Alpha.

Itanium was really good at raw performance as long as you could write hand tuned math kernels or kept working with the compiler team to optimize code for your kernel. Took me a while, but I got 97% efficiency with single core DGEMM.
For example a CTO could say unilaterally "no, we won't help build the great search firewall for China".

That would be absurd, as such decision has no technical merit.
There are ways for us "end-users" to get a hold of LTSC. First download the demo from microsoft then go to ebay to buy a key from some shady guy for 14$. Seems to work for me :P
The four-day work week gets a plug from Davos experts
The first machine I ever had root on was a PA-RISC K250 running HP/UX 10.20. Good times. I particularly miss PA-RISC: it was a pretty clean instruction set with good performance, and HP never got their money's worth out of Itanic. There's a C8000 in my collection with dual PA-8900s in it.
If visuals of sex became more commonplace and less arousing, won't it make real sex less enjoyable?

This is a testable hypothesis. We have a wide variety of cultures on Earth, from highly wrapped-up to those where almost complete nudity is seen as a norm. We could research and compare. It doesn't even take traveling away from the Western civilization; just compare the US and, say, Germany, with their vastly different sensitivity to depicted or real-life nudity.
Frankly, this is the kind of email that makes me reach out to them over some other means of communication to tell them that I've received a suspicious email which makes me believe their email server has been hacked.

At least two of these questions are risky (if not outright illegal) to ask almost everywhere in the civilized world. Worse: there are countries where the phone number, address and the information on a passport may be enough to convince a bank that you've "signed" a sponsorship deal with an NGO, agreeing to deposit a (small) sum of money from an account with a known IBAN account every month.

If this is real and legit, whoever is managing the hiring process there has screwed up big time...
Strongest by what metric? If your measure doesn’t take into account political risks, demographic issues, climate change etc, then I question how ‘strong’ we can call it.
Linksys starting signing their updates.

I tried updating my EA6350, but gave up (couldn't figure out TFTP). Which was Linksys's plan all along.
I use DD-WRT. How does OpenWRT compare to it?
Jordan Peterson: It’s ideology vs. science in psychology’s war on boys and men
Gossip was a powerful tool for the powerless in Ancient Greece
No problem! Just remember to create PR/drop suggestions (if any) after you are done with the tutorial.
Considering the "diversity" makeup of most tech companies is still pretty much unchanged despite a focus on hiring from more sources, this (a) isn't true, and (b) you're bigoted.
This is a scam. Don't do this.
> We are no longer in control of our home directories.

I can axe my home folder and rebuild it with `nixos-rebuild switch`, it's pretty minimal.
Well, perhaps the IBAN is officially not considered secret, but it's still pretty sensitive - one bank had to disable a new feature in their app that allowed people who knew your phone number to obtain your IBAN: https://nos.nl/artikel/2268664-abn-schakelt-nieuwe-functie-t...
I think the GP is referring to the “peaks” spelling which should have been spelled “piques”.
> I know of an ad network that will let me run ads on Libr

Be careful of depending on a single company for your income
What does “native binary” mean?
Yep! This is my favorite trick. I just make home /home/$USER/.home and have my she'll rc start me in /home/$USER - works a treat!
they actually don’t. you can do the math. people actually usually have a steep income drop off when their initial grant runs out
This is like adding road capacity. If you want cheap and plentiful housing or free flowing traffic at all hours, you're going to have to build ahead of demand. If you're building to satisfy demand, you're not likely to get ahead of demand, but you may be able to build to keep up, so it doesn't get worse, or so it gets worse slower.

For San Francisco, the rate of new unit construction was always too little, but in the 2008 housing crisis, construction stopped and was slow to restart; that would have been a great time to get ahead of demand -- labor and materials were less expensive (because construction was slowed everywhere), but there was risk that the prices would stay low, and difficulties with construction financing.
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My early career involved compiling a lot of software that would have been better run on Linux or some BSD variant for AIX. I can confirm that building stuff like a custom Apache stack on AIX (don’t ask) was like pulling teeth using XLC.

I’m not really old enough to be an actual grey beard, but I got just enough hands-on experience with late-period Big Commercial Unix to feel like I at least swept floors and fetched coffee in the exclusive club. Cool, even if it was frustrating at times.

I guess that is the thing: we’ve settled into a monoculture that makes me deeply uncomfortable. NeXT won the desktop, but there’s only implementation. And Linux won the server. But in the meantime, I feel like only OpenBSD is credibly providing public infrastructure that everyone uses.

I kind of worry that we’re heading toward a world in which nobody really understands the guts of the systems that sit underneath modern cloud / containerized services. Furthermore, because that stuff isn’t as exciting as the Javascript framework de jure, the amount of innovation happening in the lower layers is nonexistent.
From the hyperbola wiki Installation page [1]

"Since Hyperbola removed entire systemd support, we suggest you read about OpenRC which is our main default init system."

So one reason for having a look would be to see what OpenRC is all about.

Interesting distribution model: the iso is a dual architecture netboot image weighing in at CD-ROM size. You boot and (presumably) choose 64 or 32bit Intel as appropriate. Then do the Arch linux style install. I have a Thinkpad x61s with an atheros wifi card for which there are free/libre drivers so I'll try an installation in a bit.

Arch-style install coupled with command line system where you add Xorg and software implies aimed at a knowledgeable target group.

[1] https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:guide:installatio...

You have to scroll down about 2/3 of the page. No automatically generated section list is apparent.
Glad it helped and thanks for the suggestions - will take them into account!
So you're running everything under `/home/Epskampie/Epskampie` ?
Interesting. I've been an AIX dweeb since 3.2.5 and it's actually my favourite proprietary Unix mostly because it's so ornery. I still have a POWER6 running it that handles most of my web and mail tasks.

In fact, I tend to develop on it since if it works on AIX it will be portable enough to work other places. That said, I like xlc performance but I despise its weird command line options. I mostly just use gcc on AIX also.

I do prefer smit to things like HP-UX sam, but I'm accustomed to IBM overengineering. ;)
Why doesn’t 23 and Me test the whole gene? I can’t imagine it’s because they are ignorant. Is it cost or do they not have all the gene info due to how they acquire the sample or something else?
Checkout https://datasette.readthedocs.io
I always thought that the whole filtering bubble would allow for customizinng your world to what you want to see.
Like a prudish men/woman can go to a nude beach, and not see a naked person, because the glasses paint over.
And we even have the technology for that by now.
The problem is, that is not even what that demographic wants.
They want to control what others think, others feel and how others live there lifes.
I think the mouse-based gameplay of Ultima Underworld could work surprisingly well on mobile or tablet, given that it has a much slower pace than 3D shooters.

OTOH, the thumb would obscure part of the screen. One could fix that by using a scheme similar to how the DS port of Mario 64 worked: wherever you tap-and-hold is the center of a simulated analog joystick, and the strength of the movement depends on how far away you move from the center of this point.

The rest of the UI would also need some modifications obviously (given the lack of a right click mouse button).

Still, I wonder if a slightly updated port would be successful.
Aside from framing, the reason the footage looks is well-controlled lighting and good camera mounting. Any camera will take a good photo outdoors in sunlight, but indoors it's all about how the scene is lit.

SLRs have enormous sensors. The largest common sensor size in computer vision is 1". That's smaller than micro 4/3. APS-C and full frame are huge. Big sensor means more photons, which means less noisy images. Combine that with a big ol' lens and a good processor and you get nice well-exposed images without any effort.

People are disappointed by phone images because they take snaps indoors or in low light, and their pictures come out grainy and noisy. In the iPad Pro advert the scenes are lit so brightly that the sensitivity of the sensor is basically meaningless.
I just meant economics since the article is about the global economy.

I agree there is a large amount of division and political risk in the US.

Edit: but still we are far from the world ending.
> "There’s also plenty of anti-semitism"

If it's anything like that Jeremy Corbyn scandal, I'd say it's just a tad bit overblown..
It is safe. Everybody does it, there is .gitconfig, .ssh etc so one more would not hurt.

Until there is 500 dotfiles, some long forgotten.
That is the exact problem that the standard I talk about was designed to solve (apart from the clutter in the home directory).
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Except isn't there a specific directory for such things now in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME? Or is this not standard at all? Either way, $HOME/.config makes perfect sense to me!
They probably broke their lease by moving out, and the landlord sued them for it. Fighting requires court dates, legal fees, and time that people who are barely holding down jobs often don’t have. It’s easy to lose bullshit cases that any rational person can see shouldn’t be lost.
The one gap that smartphones still have is depth of field versatility, which is a function contingent on focal depth and it's impossible to build into tiny cameras.

Having said that, depth of field versatility is only one tool, and often it's a hindrance rather than a help (e.g. we're trying to find the hyperfocal depth and maximize depth of field). For a wide gamut of photography realms such as landscape photography, city life, etc, it is absolutely true that a modern smartphone can compete with any SLR and create perfect results.
what a fucking joke. jeez some people have zero scruples