skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The response time of my simple notification system was nearly instantaneous, but OK google, I'll play your game. I put together something that used FCM and it can take 15 or 20 MINUTES to get even a "high priority" message from FCM.

Letting your phone actually sleep is the battery saving feature. Also, you get throttled for high volume so check that as well.

If you think your messages are so important to have a constant socket open then make a foreground service. You're abusing a system that is really not suited to your needs.
Another reminder that Oracle got a screaming deal for Sun at a net $5.6 billion in 2009. Either that or Salesforce has more money than brains.
Serviceability of an iMac in a short deadline environment that is running close to 24/7 with sustained graphic and 8K renders / conversions. It's just not the right tool for the job. If I worked on single track edit with long deadline client work, like at an agency, I think it would be fine for most basic media stuff.

I'm fairly positive the iMac Pro would melt though. Even if it didn't melt at first, the load it lived under would greatly reduce the lifespan of the machine.
Someone should probably tell VLC if GPL is disallowed, since they have been shipping across tvOS and iOS for years.
reCaptcha's not all bad guys, it's actually educational.

It's thanks to reCaptcha that I know what a 'crosswalk' is.
Startup rents bunkbeds in the Tendernob for $1,200 per month
Hands-on with Bethesda’s game streaming tech, Orion
Bufferbloat at the home router and lack of better queuing and ECN are the cause of that problem.
Circadian rhythm is 40-70% genetic. And there's an evolutionary advantage to not having everyone asleep at the same time. Early humans would have been safer at night with some people in the group awake.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40568997
X11 started using dark gray to mean 66% gray at some point in the 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/72919/what-are-the-...
Apple announces whatever they want whenever they please. e.g. Apple Music was announced at WWDC 2015, which has nothing at all to do with developers.
Can it be used to provision VMs entirely from docker, or does it have to be bare metal only?
I saw the todo item, but didn't realize it also included providing an executable for Windows and macOS. Thanks!
I work out of Indyhall. Philly's most popular coworking space. I'm using Philly Whisper right now.

We only use it because Comcast couldn't keep our connection working. We're literally on Market street two blocks from Independence Hall. Within 5 blocks is the Philadelphia Mint. Numerous Federal courts, etc. And we still can't get a reliable connection.

Philly Whisper still goes down occasionally. We've had it go down twice in the past 60 days. They are super responsive but at the end of the day the internet going down for hours is still money lost.

I have FIOS at home and I've only ever seen it go down at night and it's because of a router update.

Disclaimer: I used to work for Comcast. Would not recommend.
Some of both. You'll still want to self-promote, but Medium will recommend your article to other readers, and followers will be notified when you post new articles.
I feel like your first and third paragraphs directly contradict each other. What am I missing?
$500M a year isn’t enough to develop Firefox?
Define dead and public. If you say public is without peering then that is just the Tier 1s you need to pay money to in order to use.
Not OP but I would pay $5-10 per month without blinking an eye.
Sure, we could call it "flexible PTO" but nomenclature isn't the point. The comment originally was the person wanted a guaranteed 5 weeks, no more, no less. That is "fixed PTO". A high growth startup needs flexibility and thus "flexible PTO" policy helps. Some employees need just 1-2 week. Others 2-3 weeks. Yet other 3-4 weeks. Flexibility helps both employee and employer
How does Signal work around this, since it uses FCM and it is GPL licensed?
Can we talk about the auto play video in the middle of this for a “Smell DJ” box for a moment.

People keep on trying to make the Internet of Smells and the devices keep on being bought by absolutely nobody. Who funds these things? Who thinks there’s a market waiting to be tapped? I see some kind of scent-making box announced every four or five years and they all just fade without a trace.

This one can be controlled by Alexa. I doubt that’s gonna be the wrinkle that makes it a must-have.
I had Clear WiMax in a big metro for a few years and it was awful. Miserly speeds, lots of interference and congestion.

Modern wireless ISPs use a mesh of point-to-point directional radios operating on WiFi frequencies (see https://mikrotik.com/products/group/wireless-systems and https://www.ui.com/products/#airfiber for some popular products). These radios are much higher performance than WiMax (10 Gbit links are possible over short distances, 1 Gbit is normal over several miles) and suffer less interference because of directional antennas.

WISPs have been staging a quiet revolution across areas that don't see much competition. In San Francisco, known for atrocious bureaucracy preventing ISP competition, traditional fiber providers have been struggling to expand service for decades. Meanwhile, a local WISP called MonkeyBrains has quietly covered almost all of San Francisco and much of Oakland and Berkeley in their mesh, and is continuing to expand.
eGPU isn't an option. Nvidia if you're working with RAW becomes pretty critical and the support for that was greatly reduced with Mojave. RTX cards have been a gamechanger for most of the work we do.
It's probably best to get that from the horse's mouth:

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.en.html

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
Capitalists: let's use markets to efficiently allocate resources!

Also nominal capitalists: let's dictate labor schedules so that everyone has no choice but to simultaneously compete for available transport.
I don't log in to Google Captcha sites anymore, unless I absolutely have to.

Their discrimination against FF users has been fairly evident over the past year or so.

It's amazing how my identification abilities improve exponentially by using Chrome instead of Firefox.
It looks like the user missed one fire hydrant in the middle left square. If you look closely there is a tiny fire hydrant in that picture.
They haven't been removing GPL code actively, they decided not to take the risk of using GPL version 3 software, so they've let the respective versions of bash, rsync etc. linger at their last released GPL version 2 releases.

E.g. Git is on GPL version 2 still (and probably forever), and Apple continues to update that in a relatively timely fashion.
Implementing a resumable exception system in Go
I've seen that behavior using chrome on linux when using public wifi networks.
Child malnutrition rates in India are worse than in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, actually: https://www.deccanherald.com/state/top-karnataka-stories/mal...

Impressive GDP growth aside, persistent malnutrition suggests that for huge chunks of the Indian population (a shocking _seventy_ percent of women are anemic), something's not working. Who cares what GDP growth is? What's it really measuring if people still aren't getting enough to eat?
There are three types of night owls:

- Normals or larks that are currently functioning as night owls because of caffeine, late blue light exposure, lack of sunlight exposure, et cetera

- Night owls made much worse because of caffeine etc.

- Unaffected night owls who think they are normal. 11PM-7AM sleep is now considered normal.

The article refers to the second category. I was the first.
They were small stands, just said STRAWBERRIES or ORANGES :)
This doesn't make sense to me. Making reCaptcha work worse in FF without telling user that if he/she used Chrome it would be better. Only few tech savvy people (hn readers), will eventually realize that. And it doesn't make them to switch to Chrome (or does it?). They'll just be angry.

And btw I hate reCaptcha. Is it really only option to fight with spam? When I see it on sites, like dhl parcel tracking, I get mad. I always ask why? Can they just block suspicious traffic, or at least not display captcha on first attempt.
It's definitely a daunting task, and I've been in that position once and I think it was a pivotal role in my career. I was hired as the only android engineer on a project that had churned 3 devs already, each with their own code style, and they all built layers on top of one another. It's hard to be in the position where a full re-write would be simpler technically, but impossible politically. My strategy was to basically refactor layer by layer, bringing the codebase back to a mostly working state in between modules. Over the course of 6 months I basically re-wrote the whole app and reduced the LOC by 50% while taking our crash rate from ~10 percent to < 1 percent. It was painful, but I'm no longer overwhelmed or overly annoyed by legacy code filled with cruft. It really is possible to chip away at it piece by piece and end up in a great position, and knowing how to pull that off is what separates the good from the great. Theres no perfect codebase, and having the skills to continually refactor and improve while delivering features is key.
> What’s your contingency plan?

So you could rephrase(?) it as, "always own your platform"! Where "own" means to take ownership of one's choices and have a contingency plan, so one is not in the extremely embarrassing position of trying to blame one's bad business decisions on one's provider's business decisions (valid or not).
It's a stock deal, and Salesforce seems a bit stretched in valuation, so I'm sure the deal isn't going to end up being this high.
>If you're a developer, please consider replacing reCAPTCHA on your site with an alternative

I second this (for the same reasons that you cite), and it's fresh in my mind as I just recently began reimplementing authentication for my personal CMS. reCAPTCHA is not a nice thing to do to your users. And I also don't want to feed The Beast.
Wow, that's the most unreasonable take I think I've ever seen.

Also, Firefox doesn't come with Widevine. You have to click yes to download the module the first time you visit a page that uses it.
It seems neither the article nor study seem to focus on particular ingredients, though with the information they had access to, maybe this was not possible. Two different supplements in any category, like weight loss, can have wildly different ingredients and thus completely separate safety profiles.

I know how a supplement containing Yohimbine made me feel one time and I'm curious if extremely strong stimulants like this are part of the danger. I would have preferred to see if there were commonalities between the ones that caused more adverse events, such as: inaccurate dosages, contamination, certain ingredients, etc.

It just seems like the conclusion is, yes, some supplements can be dangerous for various reasons. Does that really tell us anything we didn't already know?
This answer would require to explain the whole free software ideology. If you want to know more, just type Richard Stallman on Youtube to see one of his talks.

Or you can go to the free software foundation: https://www.fsf.org/

EDIT: the moment I posted this I wasn't aware someone had already replied
> A dynamic IP that changes when I refresh DHCP on the edge router is free.

But you don't know who had it before you, what Google thinks of it ("known Spammer", "legitimate User") etc, so that's not going to help in this case.
As a consumer, though, it sure is a lot nicer to not have so many random webshops.
cow is orthogonal to overcommit
Or these companies will have to put R&D money into safe, single-use decompose-able plastic bottles. There will be a huge market incentive to do so.

The benefit being we don't end up with oceans and landfills filled with the bloody things.

Thankfully our public spaces are rapidly adopting water bottle refill stations.

Plastic is brilliant, but it's meant to last a long time. Dirt-cheap single-use water bottles was never the design. It's an abuse.
This seems… very dystopian. Would we be okay with e.g. landlords placing cameras in the bathrooms of apartments for rent unless the tenant paid an extra fee? What if it were framed as a discount and targeted low-income housing?

Why should we allow our privacy to be commoditized, instead of enshrining it as a basic human right?
reCAPTCHA also just doesn't work in the most populous country in the world. translate.google.cn does, but Google's reCAPTCHA does not. This is a big pain point. Thanks for the link to turingtest, I will certainly test it.
> ...on AWS.

OK, but it's trivial to move hosts, it's much harder to move from a content platform.
But Firebase is not a "kernel", "window system", it is just third-party proprietary library (not essential part of Android as I understand).
|Comfortable

|Not drinking too much

|Regular exercise at the gym, 3 days a week

|Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries

|At ease

|Eating well, no more microwaved diners and saturated fats

|A patient better driver, a safer car
Apples and oranges. AdGuard is a third party app that runs at the system level. Not the same thing.
Email is the worst as you can't easily send to 3rd party conversation or attachments etc nor can non CC-ed person silently follow it. I use emails only to send people link to forums, docs, apps etc. and almost never to explain something - anything that needs explaining should be documented on central place so anybody can see it and follow it even 5 years from now.

Forums should be the norm. They do not have all those IM/email problems. They are searchable, URLable, public or private, do not require client infrastructure and so on.
Dear developers, if you want to avoid most of the bots use only HTTP/2 and only TLS v1.3. Don't support lower protocols than these ones and your bot problem will decrease greatly. Even GoogleBot won't be able to crawl your web site.
This is exactly what you would encounter if you access Google services using TOR. It's actually even more frustrating than this.
The base just says “8 core”. How many cores are per per processor?

But the point remains - with the specs that he quoted, unless he thinks that upgrading to 96GB of RAM and matching the core count is going to be more than $4000. What point is he trying to prove?
Why Electric Buses Haven't Taken over the World–Yet
I once accidentally spawned a five-person department at a Fortune 50 company because I threw together a Django app that integrated with Active Directory and dynamically displayed a few reports that were relevant to the logged-in user's role in the organization.

I was in Corporate Strategy, and one of the C-level execs saw it. They realized that I could add new reports in a few days by myself instead of going through IT, and within a year they'd hired a new manager to run my little group and three others developers - who weren't technically developers, because we weren't part of IT.

For another ~3 years, the company's primary reporting tool for front-line operations employees lived on a repurposed desktop being used as a server that was plugged in under my desk. We did get a nice, beefy SQL Server and a decent UPS, so it wasn't a complete shoestring project.

I left shortly after IT discovered they'd been cut out of the loop on a critical business process and demanded that the whole system be rewritten in C#.
>Countries do not need a rationale for taxes as long as they stay consistent in their law

Legally speaking, sure.

Morally speaking, it's not so clear. Wars have been started because the rulers subscribed too heavily to your line of reasoning. Being taxed into oblivion is generally considered a damn good reason to kick out the current government, peacefully at first but violently if necessary. While I don't think Britain and France are anywhere near a breaking point with respect to taxes it's worth remembering that a breaking point exists.
In my experience it was about 3-4 weeks of forcing 100% use before vim became more effective than regular text editing, but a lot of the pain was gone after ~1.5 weeks.

Then you know it for life. Unquestionably worth it.
FWIW I encountered the same problem this weekend. On a fresh Firefox profile (no prior browsing activity), reCAPTCHA just wouldn't let me log in to a website! Out of curiosity, I wanted to see how long they deny me -- well over ten minutes before I gave up in shock and horror.

It felt like staring into the soul of evil.
Raytheon, United Technologies Merger Will Create A New Aerospace Giant
They should be feasible to implement within a building, between buildings on the same street, and probably between geographically diverse sites of multi billion dollar companies that spend 30%+ of their labor hours on site-spanning meetings.
Not being at the top is simply a scaling problem, not an opportunity problem.
As far as I know, the 10x developer comes from a throwaway comment in a small sample paper on comparing people's implementation of toy problem. There ends its actual basis in reality.
Be careful, as you legitimize a practice that has been very secretive and dishonest in tech, and in many cases should be considered criminal.

I suggest that we're tremendously outclassed in understanding how this all works, and how to find angles or "evil" in it.

Also, it could be somewhat similar to what we get with class-action settlements that are just a minor cost of doing business to let the wrongdoer off the hook, while paying some middleperson to facilitate that.
The EGPUs do give pretty decent real world performance (although they are expensive).

https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04...
> I've always been a "night owl" and I could come in at 10 or 11 and work until 6-7 if I wanted to

That's not much of a night owl. My preference would be to work until 1 or 2am, then sleep until 10 or 11.

The middle of the night is also peaceful and beautiful.
Would it be possible to build a Firefox plugin that creates and isolates the requisite cookies to allow reputation to be built, but at least partially maintains privacy?

I was thinking maybe something that has 10 difference Google sessions, and shards them depending on the website, deciding which to send to the Captcha. You'd build reputation at 1/10th the speed, but you'd still potentially build it. Or, one that allows you to create a random Gmail account and then use that as your identity across the different sites. Perfect privacy would be hard, but improved privacy should be doable.

Alternatively, getting something like blinded identity tokens widely used would be good.
To provide compensation for the websites use of their free, and effective, service designed to combat bots?
Yeah, about the only bit there that gets me is the printing. But I'd be a happy camper if more webpages could be effectively used with `curl <url> | less`.

I also realize that it's difficult to make the kinds of social media inspired experiences™ that most consumers expect nowadays without some curl-breaking beast like React or Vue, and that most websites nowadays see themselves as an entertainment medium more often than they do a simple conduit for the transfer of information. I am beginning to think that that, too, speaks to what RMS is on about.
Why visit a website, when you could do it yourself?

#!/bin/bash

read -p "How many digits? " numlen

head /dev/urandom | LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9' | fold -w $numlen | head -n 1
I mentioned how many hours a low paid 1099 contractor in Atlanta would have to work to pay for this. If I were a 1099 contractor, this would be a business expense - therefore pretax.
You absolutely can do this - this is how the Nvidia shim driver works after all.

What you can't do is write code which depends on GPL, then distribute it with those GPL components and insist the resulting package is not GPL.

In fact, it's not so much 'dependent than derivative. GPL is a copyright license, and copyright restrictions can only only flow to derivative works.
The real problem is the web color uses the same name, but not the same color. X11 'gray' is rather light (#BEBEBE / 75%), where the W3C 'gray' is significantly darker (#808080 / 50%). (X11 also had a 'web gray' that matched this!)

The X11 'dark gray' at 66% (rather like the W3C 'silver') thus made sense in its color set, though not when imported into a different set.

You might say, "this means X11 only had very light grays", and from a named perspective this seems to be true. I'm not certain if this is due to UI fashion or a physical artefact of the monitors. But in any case, if you wanted darker shades in X11, you could use 'grayNN', from grey0 (black) on up to grey100 (white).
I'm in Morocco on vacation right now and as I boarded my Air France flight from Washington D.C. two days ago all the passengers had to get their photos taken before boarding. Total invasion of privacy, absolutely ridiculous violation of the 4th Amendment.

Looks like American "social credit" (the Chinese system you are referring to) has nearly arrived under the auspice of security and "counter-terrorism."

Fuck VeriScan and others that are collecting data on people, it is morally abhorrent and will certainly be abused.
The best of both worlds is having a REPL, just like the Xerox PARC and ETHZ workstations did.

My first startup was an heavy Tcl shop, thanks to it I learned never again to depend on languages without support for JIT/AOT on their canonical implementations.

My team was responsible for writing FFI wrappers.
Forgive me if I'm missing something but this appears to just backup files so it would be fine for source code (should be in version control and safe already) and static assets (like user uploads) but doesn't appear to address things like DB backups which I feel like is the number 1 thing lost if you lose access to your host (followed by user uploads). The problem with DB backups is you can't just backup the data directory (like /var/lib/mysql) unless you've shutdown the DB or you can do a dump (mysqldump) but backing that up hourly is not a good solution IMHO. I guess you could have a replica that you shut down at the top of the hour, backup the data directory, then start back up but all if this is to say this post is not a silver bullet to "Automatically backup a Linux VPS".

This is NOT a knock against the author, I just wanted to point out that "backups" are much more complicated than "copy files elsewhere". For DB's I'd probably consider running a replica on 1 or more other clouds. IDK the logistics of replication over the internet but I know for work we do replication from our datacenter down to our local servers and that's over a relatively slow connection so I assume it's possible to do it from cloud-to-cloud.
I think the hard truth is that offering privacy at a premium will still detract total net revenue. Nobody really cares about a single person's search history. It's the conclusions you can extract from hundreds of millions of peoples' histories that makes data collection so powerful. The more people you allow to opt out from that collection, the less powerful your ad network becomes and the less big money spenders you will catch as a result. One big money spender can easily spend as much as ten thousand individuals with a single campaign. It's just not likely that there will be enough people willing to pay compared to giving them the services for free in exchange for their data.