skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server is by far the most mature of all GNU/Linux distributions. Their AutoYaST provisioning system with Kiwi imaging capability is conceptually identical to Solaris' JumpStart™️ with compressed Flash™️ archives and is technologically superior to Docker images because it is much more simpler, yet offers the same conceptual capability without the need for cgroups.

Their technical support is wonderful and they truly deserve to be the most deployed GNU/Linux distribution in the enterprise. I hope they succeed in stamping out redhat because they have a superior product with far more competent engineering and support.
Thanks. Will take a look at those.
I am not a recruiter but help with software/firmware interviews where I work. When interviewing someone, any and all signals are very useful. For someone fresh out of university, they can show me their student projects. But an experienced engineer, their contributions are usually property of their previous employer and can't be shown.

To me, being able to see an interviewee's code is like being able to see an artist's portfolio. Alternatively, if an interviewee can point to mailing lists, code repos, etc, for open source contributions, that also is very valuable.

Some other folks in the comments are saying they use Github, etc, as a dumping ground for projects. Still valuable. In my opinion, that means you're interested enough in the project to at least save the code. Plus, even quick and dirty code can have valuable information. Does this person understand, for example, the common idioms in C, C++, Python, etc? (Specific example, using malloc/free/printf correctly, new[]/delete[], not using for i in range(len(foo)). Simple stuff like that.)

Note a repo containing "this is code where I'm learning this language, this library, etc" won't have the best use of the language, obviously, but will be a good sign this person is learning something new. It's another signal.

Just my opinion.
You've genuinely never had to install any drivers or change any settings after installing Windows? I find this very hard to believe.
If this helps them innovate and roll out features faster, it is all good. Competition is catching up quickly.

I just hope they don’t go to mandatory annual fee model.
While I like that the article introduces a new concept from C++17, namely the `extract()` member, I think the article is misnamed: it only deals with weird & buggy behaviour that you get when incorrectly dealing with associative containers. This is not restricted to C++, though, and I would summarize the main message as:

"Take care when changing that over which you iterate"

That is something notably different than claiming that these are the 'Worst bugs' you could find...
Yep, with this unattended upgrade thing I can’t make fun of windows update anymore. It’s horrible.
Apache Kudu 1.9.0 Released (Hadoop, rapidly changing data)
> You should see my X62, the battery is so bad. I even bought a "brand new" battery and it last about 2 hours.

That's probably a fake or aged battery, or your power management is set up incorrectly. A X62 with a fresh battery lasts a lot longer than 2 hours.
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The biggest risk to the bull market is an Uber IPO
only if non-biodegradable
I am a fan of electric cars but why no one seems to care about SW and HW inside, especially for always-on, always-connected HW? I've heard they had to SSH into customers machines to fix something. And that one day they kept Kubernetes cluster insecure and let someone run mining on it. I won't trust the software - I need a device where I can at least set up the firewall. But an open firmware would be even better. But it won't happen because of how these industries work. That is a pity because it's up to you how you secure your home pc. But it's up to manufacturer to secure your connected devices and they are not always doing maximum. Over time, there will be many connected cars and IoT devices with outdated, broken, wrongly-configured firmware (look at routers nowadays). And don't tell me you can remotely control driving servos in such cars. Because if you can, a hacker can become a serial killer or a hitman soon...
Where do you see regular expressions in the code?

But I agree in general terms: changing data types should not be done lightly :-)
This is why I stopped wearing jeans. You can either buy $150 Japanese jeans or end up with cheap, shitty jeans that blow out in the crotch within a couple months. I ended up switching to "tactical pants"--specialty cargo pants that are designed for first responders and law enforcement--and aside from having an awkwardly-sized pocket designed for carrying a spare pistol magazine, they're amazing.
> It's almost like a dating profile.

That's a good description!
This is going to cause you pain if the tree you're "deleting" is on a different filesystem to ~ and too big...
>very carefully inspect the power supply

How are you gonna do that? Run a stress test on it for two years? If it's working now doesn't mean cheap caps won't blow the night after.
Time Machine.
Even simpler:

alias del="mv -t ~/.Trash/"
The “pleasing heft” the article mentions is a sign that you have soda-lime glass instead of borosilicate. A few years ago after having a 2-cup soda-lime Pyrex measuring cup explode I order the equivalent from Arcuisine in borosilicate and I was amazed at how much lighter it was.
Understanding Stir/Shaken (Industry Response to Robocalls)
Maybe make it transparent and have some UV led's inside to kill microbes. Occasionally make it grip an air blower to remove dust. And at the end of the day put it in a dishwasher!
I posted our family's very similar situation above. The S.Korean gov was quite reasonable about it. I have to wonder if there's things being left unsaid.
What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance
Sorry, but candidly, this just reads as a bunch of lame excuses to continue a blatant cycle of abuse.

Nothing in my professional 15 year career has come anywhere remotely close to the brutal, absurd reality of what I’ve seen graduate/PhD students go through.

I think academia is nearing a kind of crisis akin to what the the Catholic Church is going through with rampant sex abuse. Diminishing, unimpressive returns in output (aside from a few bright areas), and dark secrets continually being covered up/brushed aside.

Academia needs to do some serious soul searching.
But do you actually look at them? I have my GitHub profile in my resume, but I’ve never once been asked about anything on there, nor has a recruiter let on that they had looked at it.
Last? https://www.icij.org
So the fix is to remove the item and reinsert it into the structure while iterating over it. Doesn't this mean that it could very well happen that you'll end up iterating over the same item more than once in a rather random fashion?
Newton's biggest discoveries were back at his home while his University was closed due to the plague. I wouldn't say that thinking at the family estate to wait out the plague is a chill day job. In that era, many scientists were wealthy aristocrats, e.g. Antoine Lavoisier.
Would be nice if filesystems were garbage collected, though. I don't see a fundamental reason why rm couldn't be undoable the second after you issue it.
This got me thinking:

> Existing general-purpose SMT solvers lack native supportfor reasoning efficiently about such [..]

What is the usual level of reuse and building 3rd party abstractions, when applying solvers? Is there a good web site to look if I want to find some domain specific solver libraries?
Who claimed it was news
BSI-Schrift 7164: Liste der zugelassenen IT-Sicherheitsprodukte und -systeme
Actually Huawei is doing research in micro-kernel based OSes.

https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/microkernel_e...

https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/hardware_software_co_...

How much it relates to this news, no idea.
By tolerance, you mean heat rating? The truly telling parameter would be CoE, coefficient of thermal expansion, which would be 33 for borosilicate and about 90 for soda lime glass. That’s probably considered too technical be specified on a consumer kitchen box, though.
Another point that contributes to academia as "perfect storm", in addition to the points mentioned before, is that in many countries the chances of having a career are slim for the median student.

Not everyone can gain a top position in any field. But in most industries, there are plenty of positions where you can make meaningful contributions. We know that most humans need to feel useful for mental health.

In academia, there are increasingly few viable career paths where you are not required to beat out everyone. The further you progress, the harder it becomes to switch to industry. Implied in this is that the further you go, the more risk you must be willing to take, and the more stress you are under.

In my country, the system for selecting professors is not very meritocratic. Older professors frequently would not have an ounce of success if they were required to prove themselves in the current situation.

In addition, there are very few positions to do research below a professor level, and these positions are precarious and do not offer a lot of options for meaningful contribution.

This places extreme stress on graduate students - in addition to everything being said here. As you progress in your PhD, you are either at the very top, or you have to fear that your career will go nowhere. Remember, this is a group of people that already selected on wanting to do research, seeing research as their goal in life.

This is a systemic pressure of extreme magnitude. If you fail, which is statistically likely, then you will be in a (comparatively) bad position to go after other careers. In addition, you are most likely a person who does not care primarily about money and wealth. Thus, options for a meaningful life decline as risk increases.

The success or failure is determined by many factors our of your control. Like your advisor's behavior, how the network is utilized, if you are lucky to work on a hot subject, if your contribution is recognized and so forth. The locus of control is far out of your reach, more so than in other industries.
And if you fail, all the options you set for yourself in your life vanish.

It doesn't take a lot of thought to realize this has an extreme effect on the psyche of graduate students. It's more than publish or perish. It's publish or face the void.
Sorta related there’s a book called “Descartes Error”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes%27_Error

https://www.ianwelsh.net/review-of-descartes-error-by-antoni...
Even if it was an unused battery it might have been old and degraded. One of the problems with replacing batteries in older devices is that if the battery isn't produced anymore the replacements will not have full capacity either.
For what it's worth, I still use a circa 2011 T420 for my work PC (decent spec for the time with i7 and 8GB RAM) which will probably be around or under your price. Great ThinkPad keyboard (non-chiclet), and instead of following the company upgrade cycle I opted for an SSD and new battery.

A lot of corporates off-load perfectly good laptops (as 'company property' they've often been taken care of reasonably well, or just left on a desk, or kept in a cupboard as backups) as part of their procurement cycle. Find such a reseller and you'll likely not only have a cheap laptop, but one with years more life in it too.
So if all your friends starts killing would you start as well? I believe you have free will, your imagination, a brain and you can assess for yourself what actions you eant to perform.
Conjecturally, every irrational algebraic number has this property, but I don't think it has been shown for any individually.
Nobody is going to do this, because good components are a competitive advantage. I can’t see any good manufacturer wanting their good {trackpad, keyboard, case} either being put in a computer that undercuts them or being forced to dumb down their computer to fit the “lowest common denominator”.
It usually is: http://extundelete.sourceforge.net
Maybe because Pixelbook is on its way out.

In any case I do agree, only 2-1 and laptops are viable propositions for coding on the go.
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"As developers, we’re also more likely to have eye issues."

What leads you to believe this?
This would be fun as an experiment to see how quickly it fills up the drive, but probably utterly useless in production. A lot of stuff is creating and deleting files all the time, e.g. logrotate.
I move to /tmp and it gets deleted on next reboot.
Cool tip about the polarization.

As far as visual ID, I don’t know about the borosilicate that was used for a kitchenware, but borosilicate can appear green, colorless or slightly yellowish. It depends on the formulation and impurities in the batch – for instance, iron causes the green color. This varies between Kimax and Pyrex and Duran used for labware and art.

One could also distinguish this glass by using the index of refractivity. Glass will disappear when put into liquid with the right refraction. You can make a formula with a refractive index that matches a known glass and then compare. I’d post links but I’m on a very slow connection.
Slightly off topic; but on fans I recently got a totally fanless mini-pc (zotac) loaded it up with 16gb of ram and a tb ssd and the utter silence in my office is amazing. Since switching off apple (I used the fanless 'macbook' models for a while) I'd normally work with headphones, but I've found the difference to be noticeable.

FWIW it runs OpenBSD and is currently at 52C.. When doing a heavy compile or something it can get up to about 80. Mounted to the back of a monitor, can't even see it.

10/10 would recommend.
Few days ago WaPo claimed that cheollima civil defense was responsible for the attack on the North Korean embassy in Madrid, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-sha...

Didn't take long for them to get their own cryptotokens going.
The salary comment does seem out of place compared to all the issues about the advisor/student relationship. But, as an independent axis, money can reduce stress. The easiest example is a shorter commute and more reliable transportation.
Just don't get the ?40 series, it's the series without physical trackpad buttons. You can put the ?50 trackpad in it, but that's more hassle and doesn't work in Windows well without extra reflashing.

Thankfully, they reverted to physical buttons in ?50 series and later.
Soft Landing Linux on a million floppy disks?
For printers and external accessories, maybe? My experience with laptops has always been that every built-in component works with no configuration, which isn’t true for Linux. However, I haven’t bought a Windows laptop for quite a while, so maybe this situation is no longer true?
>> Third, the professors themselves are under extreme pressure. Everybody knows this.

I dont' think everyone appreciates this, actually. But, if it's bad for your mental health to go through the pressure of a PhD for three or four years- how much worse can it be to keep this up for the next 40 years or so, as a professor? And now you are under even more pressure because you're responsible for your students' careers also.

This is my biggest doubt about continuing in academia after I finish my PhD (if I do). I realised that my advisor is always on a tight budget - on everything: funding, time, attention, interest... Do I really want to put myself in that position?
Q&A: Crypto-guru Bruce Schneier on teaching tech to lawmakers, plus privacy fail
I use a spade my father purchased when he was a young man. It's end is rounded from use but it is still the strongest digging tool I have. He was born in 1930. The metal is corroded and the wooden handle is heavy but I just feels so good to work with. I've considered replacing it but everytime I pick a new one up in a store it just feels like a child's toy.
As someone doing interviews, most of the github profiles I’ve seen have a bunch of forked repos with little to no added code. I don’t understand why people include a link to that.

A couple of times I’ve seen real code and it certainly didn’t hurt.
Now let's delete them after roughtly 30 days:

alias del="mv -t ~/.Trash/ ; find ~/.Trash/ -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;"
Or to buy a proper brand.
Fileless UAC Bypass in Windows Store Binary
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/b1z4bo/fileless_uac...
Something about IR Optimization – Bart Wiegmans
Richard Adeney, long time flautist with the LPO has some amusing anecdotes about Celibadache in his (RAs) autobiography ('Flute'). "In the intervals of his chaotic concerts, he'd drink a bottle of sea water (from Boots, the chemist) and then vomit; after the concert he'd always visit the nearest fish and chip shop and wolf down three portions of fish and chips".
> A standard form-factor means components would be re-usable between upgrades

We don't even have to go that far. Just ensuring that laptops can be serviced by their own users would go a long way to reduce e-waste. i.e. not soldering RAM chips to the motherboard, making it feasible to remove every single part (not gluing the keyboard to the MB for example), etc... instead of pursuing an ever thinner laptop design, which has practically no use.
My Wranglers bought at K-Mart have held up well.
...and then how do you delete it from that specific place when you are sure you want it gone? A new syscall?

In seriousness tho, if you're ever wondering why such and such thing is not builtin into the kernel read up on separation of policy and mechanism eg:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_mechanism_and_...
RIP Walnut Crunch
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Moving Back to Lighttpd
Encryption is all about thoroughness and due diligence, which aren't a priority for malware developers. When doing any real implementation, there are many minor, innocuous things that can be (ab)used to break your secrecy. It's like a test where you do 999 things right and get one thing wrong, then you fail.
Lenovo/Thinkpad + Kali sounds like a match made in heaven. May I ask what wifi chipset is on board? 'lspci | grep Network' should show it. The product page just says a/b/g/n which isn't terribly useful.
You use kali as a daily driver? Wow.

Do you use a non-root account?
docker0 is just a regular Linux bridge and there's absolutely nothing special about it.

I've always assumed that powertop was mis-reporting power usage for those decidedly non-physical interfaces.

Therefore, the author's reported decrease in power usage surprises me. Can anyone reproduce/explain this?
Indeed, and cast iron pans are specifically employed by vegans for the dietary iron they provide.
This is another example that shows that Bash (and similar shells) should not be used for scripting.

It's great for the command line, but for scripting there are much better, cleaner, faster and safer alternatives.
Bypassing MaxScale's Firewall and Masking Rules (MariaDB)
This was really well made and fun to play! Thanks for making it!

Makes me want to create a game for CSP where the goal is to "make it right" (some concurrent condition) rather than "make it crash" (buggy usage of primitives).
I got a discounted pair of selvedge jeans from American Eagle for $30 (I think retail was $75). Amazon is also said to have good selvedge denim products. I don't understand how you're ripping your crotch after only a few months of usage: that's never happened to me.
I'm writing that from Ubuntu. It's good to have a little self derision.
Generating User-Friendly Random IDs (2017)
Well, my experience in the industry was that I changed five jobs in six years because in order for my work to be valued as highly as it was really worth, I had to sell it to someone new every year.

What is really brutal in academia is the competition to get your research published and appreciated (by being cited and reused by others). This doesn't happen automatically. The pressure to find something useful to contribute cannot be compared to the pressures in the industry where you basically just have to keep your boss happy if you want to stay in the money. It's a bit like an artistic career, really. You're constantly trying to hit the top 10.

And remember that academics are always required to do something genuinely new, not just "Uber for ice cream, but with AI".
Fused silica, aka quartz, is also employed widely in the cannabis industry. Cannabis concentrates are typically vaporized, or dab, from quartz ‘bangers’ or ‘nails’. Google Quave Club Banger or Joel Halen for more info.
Ostensibly, you put your code on Github for others to read, use, and maybe even contribute to. If you have a project that you didn't care enough to write cleanly, or even document in the most bare minimum of ways (a helpful README to contextualize the code) then why are you even putting it online? It's just going to reflect poorly upon you. If all your Github repos are as described above, people are going to (rightly) assume that's how you treat all of your projects, even those you are paid for.
Technology: From Copycats to Innovators
Richard Adeney, long time flautist with the London Symphony Orchestra has some amusing anecdotes about Celibadache in his autobiography ('Flute')."He was a jolly young man and his concerts were full of surprises. In the intervals of his chaotic concerts, he'd drink a bottle of sea water (bought from Boots the chemist), vomit and the after the concert he always went to the nearest fish and chip shop and wolf down three portions of fish and chips". Adeney's opinion (not being in the audience) was that he was 'a truly awful conductor' but maybe he was from the point of view of an instrumentalist under his baton.
I habitually shift+delete too, but I won't say I've never made a mistake.

It's much less hazardous doing this when everything is in source control, though. :)
Ha! I remember the thrill of having a roll of quarters at Buck a Draft night.
You could call lead crystal (aka crystal, which people often think is something other than glass) transparent lead by the same token. It’s 40 to 60% lead oxide by weight.
Wow. This comment is deep. People who call themselves managers, read that last sentence 20x. This is what we need to do, can you?
Thanks for this. I have been experimenting with it and it's nice to have someone else do all of the finding-out for me so that I can get down to business.
Underground rocks are not static. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saprolite
Or use a snapshotting filesystem, so you can simply go back in time if you mess up.
If you spend most of your time in emacs, and like to delete/move files in dired, you can use

(setq delete-by-moving-to-trash t)

to achieve the same effect.
I like this idea. I'm wondering how much extra time and effort you put into this. Loading up the containers to bring to the store, bringing the containers into the store, filling the containers, cleaning the containers, etc.
It was my first exposure to linux; the 1994 version.
The market SuSE is in is not "server or desktop installs", it is "support contracts/subscriptions for server or desktop installs", and they have to have a non-negligible share of that market, given that Wikipedia claims they have 1400 employees, which is more than 10% of Red Hat's number.

There is some more data in this article:
https://fosspost.org/analytics/insights-on-redhat-suse-the-m...

Interestingly it claims 750 employees for SuSE in 2016; perhaps the business entity sold today includes some departments that were elsewhere in the org-chart in 2016?
I don't know if this works outside the UK, but last year BBC Radio 4 did a wonderful documentary on Joybubbles – one of the first phreakers. Great way to spend 28 minutes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hlnjq
When microwaves were fairly novel, contemporary cookbooks and magazines acted as if future Americans would be cooking all foods in the microwave. From what I recall, my mother cooking pork roast in the microwave did not last very long.