skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly not bad. About 7 years of use on personal machine, single volume. It simpler than ZFS and allows cheap incremental backups with send/receive.

One year ago I built a RAID56 with 5 used 2TB drives from eBay. Risky move, but it went smoothly so far. It's only for home storage and important stuff is backuped off site anyway.
One Seagate drive died with lots a bad sectors. The replace command took really long even with the "-r" flag (don't read from replaced drive, in theory), so I ended up unplugging the drive and rebalancing from there.

I have high hopes for bcachefs. We have a real need for a modern FS with tiered caches. I backed the project but I don't have the skills or time to help.
Statins are medicines to control cholesterol
I've been writing a C-based deep learning library for the past year or so, which I've recently been trying to clean up to be a bit more presentable. It was pretty heavily inspired by Darknet, although it admittedly has far fewer features: https://github.com/siekmanj/sieknet
> The crazy thing is, even used inefficiently, the Cloud is still a very good value prop for a lot of businesses.

What is there to say? There are huge scale inefficiencies in maintaining a small datacenter.
What? No! Fucking hell. Speak to a nutritionist. You need carbs! They aren't bad when eaten in the correct amount and type. The body uses glycogen and glucose for energy, the problem isn't sugar, the problem is a lack of understanding by the public on the topics of exercise, food and health. I don't know about anyone else but all three school types (private, public, and charter) in America seem to neglect this type of information when teaching PE. We seem to treat PE as strictly a means to burn off excess energy for overactive adolescents instead of using this as an opportunity to understand the biological mechanisms involved in converting food to fuel. That is not to say that this information is not taught but it seems that its only ever taught as an extracurricular when a student picks up a sport such as football. Even then its almost treated like tribal knowledge passed down from the coach to the players.

All of this is further hampered by other factors as well such as the disappearing HomeEc curriculum, the general faddness of dieting in the press (this article being a good example) and a misconception on the behalf of the public on matters related to food consumption. There is almost a mysticism/dogma about how food works that seems to prevail over discourse related to nutrition these days. Furthermore, there is a return to quackery lately with things such as alkaline diets and such despite the fact that most of the foods that they suggest to eat, such as fruit, are often more acidic rather than basic. I blame this on MLMs trying to sell water to middle class retards too stupid to understand that they are being swindled. Sugar is not the Great Satan of food. It's simply people that are too ignorant to understand what they are eating will continue to make poor choices.
I, for the first time ever, uninstalled chrome/chromium from my computers. It pains me because I liked it overall, and firefox isn't happy with my 2009 laptops.

Maybe chrome devs mistake will be the air gap that creates a new leader from another group.
And how are the schools? The quality of life?

Like I said in another post, I just bought a 5 bedroom/3-1/2 bath house, 3000+ square foot house with a large office for $330K two years ago in the northern burbs of Atlanta where the school systems are ranked in the top 15% nationwide. It is the most affluent county in GA and one of the fastest growing in the nation. Three exits down the same size house is going for about $450K and you’re in one of the 10 most affluent cities in the nation -Johns Creek GA. (http://money.com/money/collection-post/4504851/richest-towns...)

Vs just sucking it up and doing your own hacking on the own time. Even if you write code all day at work, you should be doing some at home, because we need to keep up on the latest tech in a risk-tolerant environment (like personal projects that can fail with no loss). Companies can't afford to take on the project risk of leading edge/research level tech.

When I’m at home, I’m exercising, spending time with my wife and son, and just relaxing. If I can’t keep up with the latest tech at work, it’s time to change jobs.

Yes I will do work related side projects to learn a new to me technology, or proof of concepts with newer technology that aren’t on the critical path. I also work at small companies where I do get my hands dirty with everything from the front end to playing around with whatever I want to with a DEV AWS Account.

I don’t do “leading edge technology”. They are probably not widely marketable yet. I stay on the far end of “the slope of enlightenment” going to “Plateau of Productivity” of the Hype Cycle.

My resume is very buzzword compliant
> Ironically Firefox killed their extension API to be compatible with Chrome's extensions.

This is misleading. They deprecated the old API primarily to be able to do multi-process and get rid of XUL.
What if--And I'm just riffing here--what if America doesn't have nearly the cult of individualism that everybody seems to think it has?

What if America has a strong authoritarian inclination, as seen by its extreme focus on patriotism and patriarchal style of Christianity?

What if the "Uniquely American cult of individualism" is (a) Something Americans tell themselves in a "She doth protest too much" attempt to avoid facing an uncomfortable truth, and also...

What if the "Uniquely American cult of individualism" is (b) Propaganda that has been thundered by American Media, Advertising, Political Parties, and especially corporations who use it as a lever for avoiding regulation and oversight.

Such as with health care, where untold sums of money are spent every year explaining that Americans have more choice and want more choice and "control."

Or with guns, where again, untold sums of money are spent every year explaining that Americans want to enforce their own protection from crime.

What if the "Uniquely American cult of individualism" is no more real than the Marlborough Man?

I too am not saying these are the only explanations, but they seem like argument that are worth thinking about rather than taking a knee-jerk position in favour or against.
does anyone has a long technical read on the issue? how the fires start, why cutting the trees next to the line is not enough, etc.?
Not to mention there are social limitations to alcohol consumption. Eg. you wouldn't normally drink whisky on the bus or at work (unless you happen to be a character from "Mad Men"), but there aren't many times nor places where eating a chocolate bar is frowned upon.
I guess I just wish you guys would break down what you feel is unsubstantive "and/or flamebait". I feel like A LOT of assumptions about a fairly articulate comment are needed to make that conclusion. A quick re-reading I think that you made assumptions about who the spouse is, assumptions about Africa, or maybe misreading the black hole part when the context is Africa. Super meta vicariously offended someone expecting other people to be vicariously offended, while foundation directors and recipients in African countries aren't offended at all?

The real question being: was the comment inaccurate? Can we just discuss that? I know how Foundations and Donor Advised Funds make their decisions, people that aspire to support open source dont have the discretion.

Everytime I ask for clarity I just get immediately shadowbanned like "this guy questioned our authority thats the last straw"
My first exposure to the honor system was at Caltech. It worked very well there, and it was really nice to not have to obsessively lock your dorm room door every time you walk out.

I've since used the honor system in my business dealings, and it works well enough to allow me to continue with it.
Venezuela's UN-protected botanical gardens dying as water is cut off
Isn’t one of Brave’s main selling points that it itself is an ad blocker and doesn’t require a third party extension? Something about removing ads from pages before they even make http requests.
Wow, ok that means 30,000 definitely won't be an existential threat for them.
For some reason my laptop with a single-volume btrfs root-fs, would regularly have btrfs degrade into read-only mode.

Rendering my laptop and the running system inoperable without a hard reset.

I’ve had no such issues with ZFS, not even on the exact same hardware and Ubuntu-release.

Needless to say, I’m not using btrfs anymore.

Edit: for perspective, I’ve never had this btrfs issue on desktops or servers. Laptops only. Might be suspend/resume related?
It is a confluence of many independent factors that cut across culture, economics, history, political structure, and geography. This applies to almost every comparison of Europe and America.

A key difference is in the default definition of what "privacy" is relative to. In America, there is a strong notion of privacy from the government but a much weaker notion of privacy from companies. In Europe, it is the other way around. In the specific case of digital privacy, you are adding economic considerations to the equation which just reinforces the existing status quo on both sides since the America's tech industry is vastly larger than Europe's and therefore has much greater skin in the game.

The political dynamics are different because (1) Americans don't trust governments and especially the Federal government, for complex historical reasons and (2) the majority of legal authority to regulate, tax, etc resides with the individual States, not the Federal government, so relatively few things can be implemented "nationally" in the US. If you model individual States as "countries" conceptually, the political dynamics make a lot more sense.
Agreed, this is an excellent talk.

Main takeaway is to view the problem as debt which has to be paid off. Simply stopping new purchases will not pay off the debt.

Above point summarized here, timestamp 22:15 - https://youtu.be/QyQvfaW54NU?t=1335

We currently have a one trillion ton carbon debt. As a though experiment, for a starting solution to iterate upon, this can be "paid off" with 20 billion trees / year, for 50 years. It would take 9000 drones, 450 staff, $80 mil/year. And a total land area half the size of Brazil. Using current technology. Compare this with alternative approaches being thrown around with price tags of 1 trillion+.
Cobra / Viper in Golang, also goreleaser
My commute is 30-40 minutes a day on the three days a week I actually have to go into the office. Any job I work I make sure the “core hours” allow me to go into work after traffic dies down and leave before traffic picks up.

How do you think the other 80% of households survive that aren’t making the $130K that an average developer can make in any large city or if you’re a dual income earner with your spouse making about the average of a college educated worker of $50K - how do you think the other 90% of households make it?

But then again, I am also of the opinion that the school you go to doesn’t have as much bearing on your later success in life - as long as it safe and teaching the basics - your home environment.

I look at the top 20 students who went to my (relatively poor performing school) and we were all teacher’s kids or doctor’s kids. There are two doctors, a few teachers, one professor at an Ivey league school, and a lawyer or two.

But my current job is also in the northern burbs where I live.
I would be more than happy to help find work for anyone who is unemployed due to being "overqualified."
You forget the part where the animal is brutally killed at the end. Organic, grass feed, factory farming, they all end the same for the animal.
Just out of curiosity, what would you expect ø to encode to?
Hi, I opened it up again. Someone has to be available to moderate it when its opened to the public :)

There is only one way to do this and that is through the meta tag <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2"> where 2 is the number of seconds to wait before refreshing.
Under capitalism, there are clearly no incentives to donate to anything. Maybe to tragedy of the commons kind of things like global warming, but even then you know that most of what you give ends up in NGO executives compensation and other employees payroll. Donating is only doable at Warren Buffet / Bill Gates levels of wealth.
> The idea that a company should just hire a programmer they don't otherwise need just so they can make some software work is asinine

Weren't you just saying the magic ingredient was "support"? Do you believe a first line help-desk is going to provide better support than a guy whose livelihood depends on it and you can call to your desk?

>That's like saying a home builder should hire a full time auto mechanic

In this specific case, it's more like fairly large transporters having their own mechanics, which they have, because it's cheaper, and better, and faster, and generally very convenient all round.
You got it. They sell a couple different depths of products, the more guaranteed it is the more cost. They do the research to make sure there arent any valid competing claims or partial claims to any property. They bundle that all up with an insurance package for if they are wrong.
This is a classic entry-level security mistake. You have to pick a work factor k and then do 2^k iterations of ROT13.
yes, but the topic is the price of egress.

i thought this was obvious to everybody: public clouds want to lock you in, so they make it very cheap and easy to get data in, but charge stupendous amounts for getting your data out.
The reactor near me (Seabrook Station) has cracks and deformation in the concrete. The structures affected are described as "operable but degraded and nonconforming."

This situation has been developing slowly for last decade though, and the reactor just got re-licensed.

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ops-experience/concre...
Gays also have a choice. The difference is there is no reason for a society to force them to choose the one specific option. The choice belongs to gays, not to a society.

When society thought that gays is bad for a society, it was definitely an equivalent example then. Now society is wiser and do not think that gays are bad for a society. So the analogy breaks now.
i'd contend that it's much worse. One (Docker) is a piece of software, one (Amazon) is a corporation with a motivated will.

They are two different problems. One is basically the problem of copy-paste/stackoverflow developers, the other is a walled garden problem that'll make itself worse over time.
A modern x86 CPU built out of TTL logic would be huge, slow and use lots of power. Comparing number of transistors:

- 6502: 3500 transistors[1]

- Intel Core i3: 382 million transistors,[2] or roughly 191 million transistors per core.

So a single core of a modern x86 processor built with TTL would have 55,000 times the number of chips of a TTL 6502. Most people wouldn't have the space, power or cooling capacity to run that.

Also, it would be much slower than a single chip x86 CPU, since it takes time for signals to travel between discrete chips, due to having to drive the capacitative loads of the I/O pins (and traverse a much larger distance). There's no way that TTL could run at gigahertz clock rates.

The only reason why a 6502 made of TTL can be faster than a real 6502 is that the 6502 was a very slow processor. Its clock speed was only 1 - 3 megahertz.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i3_micropro...
in an attempt to learn more about blender i just hosted a self-learning workshop a week ago. about 20 people showed up and together we explored what blender could do and how to work with it. no-one was an expert, and we didn't have anyone give a presentation. although one participant was a design teacher who had started to learn blender with his students. unpromted he stood up and shared what he had already learned about all the keyboard shortcuts. we had a great time and everyone learned something.
Possibly a better phrasing would be "An open source ecosystem is worth investing in to hedge against the risk of license and source changes by the vendor"
So basically you can forego all modern infrastructure and not pay anything, who knew?

I explicitly brought up wells and septic as an example of having to source your own resources, why is it any different for electricity?
I don't think this is correct as a general statement. Imagine if the walls were made of canvas fabric with appropriate amounts of slack, just as an example of a material that can easily bend.

You would need a cleverly designed frame, but
I'm sure there is something that would work. Perhaps many smaller segments joined together.
Sugar is not the only cause of obesity just as smoking is not the only cause of lung cancer...
The alternative I've enjoyed is Bazel.
The market rate for utility type services is not a fair rate because utilities breed natural monopolies. That’s why the universal service program exists in the first place.
That´s false, most people are overweight. It´s not that vegans/strict-vegetarians have a problem to get enough, its omnivore that have a problem with to much. The only diet that have a healthy BMI on average is vegans/strict-vegetarians.
> we can't grow corn in Manhattan

Subsidising farms is one thing. We do that directly and indirectly. As a result, we massively over-produce food.

Most farmland is owned by wealthy individuals and large companies. There are better ways to help the marginal farmer than paying for multi-million dollar lines to millionaires’ remote villas.
1808/1809 Mystery Eruption
Significant Changes in macOS 10.15 Catalina of Interest to Mac Admins
Organizations using ICS equipment could use this tool to find their own systems that are accessible to the internet. However, I would imagine that companies that are responsible enough to perform checks like these hopefully already have procedures in place to prevent issues like this.

I wonder if there's room to use this software to provide direct feedback to the organizations and let them know without being prosecuted?
Given that the productivity per capita in France or Germany is maybe 10% lower than in the US, and that those are highly developed countries with centuries of industrial knowledge, you might want to adjust your definition of "tech company" a bit, because if those countries had no technology firms, they'd be quite a lot poorer.

The US has incredibly strong advantages in fields like the semi-conductor industry, but in transportation, pharmaceuticals and aerospace Europe is quite strong. And when you look at hidden champions and the integration of technology into small and medium sized firms, the US heartland has a big problem.
Prisoners have a human right to be able to read books.
Regarding battle lines- yikes. I'm curious to see if this will have any impact on how rural areas vote- it feels like there are enough issues that internet, as important as it is, or can be, it feels like Republicans have decided that it won't matter enough to change anything.

I'm honestly not sure where I am on the political spectrum of people I can actually vote for- it feels like nobody actually cares about who they represent.
You can make a good argument that policy in the US is set by urban elites that favor city people and values, and result in an impoverished rural population.

Then some minor subsidies are sent to those rural areas, that would have been quite wealthy had they been allowed to rule themselves.
I have been using Topics while my dad was subscribed to De Volkskranr you could read articles for the Trouw, de Volkskrant, AD, and Belgium newspapers etc. I thought it was a good deal.

Via my library I can use PressReader which offers a lot of worldwide newspapers for free. The Westminster council has access to it worth to check for yours!!
It's a democratic process yes but the country is still a constitutional and largely functional monarchy.

Democracy is an indicator of whether the people are represented but it is not the definition.

I think a better indication of whether a government represents its people is whether the government acts according to the people's wishes.

At one end of the spectrum is Switzerland, where the people can choose to directly override any government policy by referendum (or propose an action of their own).

At the other end of the spectrum is a government like North Korea, where the people have zero say.

Somewhere in the middle you see most Western democracies.
It's also like that in the Massachusetts countryside.
Agreed. These protocols are difficult to secure. However, it shouldn't be difficult to isolate devices from the internet. Isolation doesn't protect against inside attackers or an external use from causing trouble after getting into the network. It should be obvious these devices shouldn't have access to the internet.
It is funny, on the paper I should love this idea but as an app developer the last thing I want is more code coming through the OEMs.

Sadly Google is essential in keeping their shitty hacks at bay.
That makes no sense whatsoever for a business owner.
I was trying to come up with a reasonable solution this. I wouldn't trust any software solution in the OS that "disables" the camera because even if hacking of the device is not possible, some sort of settings-phising might be.

It seems that the only way to deal with this, would be to have a hardware switch that disables the camera, e.g. like iPhone's mute toggle.
That was cool to learn that Myst was a Hypercard deck frontended with beautiful graphics and music. My later to become wife loved the game.

I bought a non-Apple hypercardish environment that ran on Windows 3.1 . It was my 2d year of law school and one of my professors was a huge tech advocate and for 2 credits she let me develop an interactive Will generator to produce Forida-compliant wills with all the bells and whistles the new T&E statutes allowed at the time such as an accompanying document that didn't need all of the execution formalities to dispose of certain kinds of tangible personal property, so long as the document was referenced in a properly-executed Will.

I hope educational institutions are still encouraging young people today to leverage their nerdishness into non-nerdy careers if that's what they want. As for me I did my 15 years practicing law and I'm glad to be back letting my geek flag fly although for heaven's sake people, enough with the ageism. Yall be my age soon enough if you're fortunate.
Sure. But there are 300,000 obesity-related deaths per year. Obesity- and sugar-related issues are less likely to result in ER-type scenarios, but are nevertheless pervasive.
Mind-Controlled Drone
We want less dark patterns in software, not more
I feel like you missed the point of the analogy you were responding to, or you just wanted to shift the discussion to be about cars in cities. Either way I'm confused what your point is.
Yeah, I consider myself "full stack" because I actively learn different types of software development that are outside of my current role, which is web front-end and backend (mostly Go and Postgres). I am proficient in s variety of languages, platforms, etc (e.g I love messing with embedded devices), and prefer to advertise my flexibility over whatever area I feel I am best at.

I've met quite a few who are happy specializing and essentially restricting themselves to a couple of technologies. When they call themselves "full stack", I get a bit annoyed, since I feel it should mean more than that.

So yeah, if you give me a month, I'm sure I can become productive in any given stack, and given a year, I'll be mostly indistinguishable from a specialist.
I haven't seen it as a pejorative either, yet I would not refer to myself as a coder.

A good software engineer/developer has more than just code on their mind when getting something done. In fact, code is ideally the last thing you get around to.