skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that you would have no control over when the outage happens as you would have to wait around for a random lightning strike to initiate the chain reaction. This outage lasted a very short time. An attacker would likely want to take advantage of the power loss in some way, meaning control over the timing would be pretty important.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_spot_(computer_programming...
> I'm an STO on a topic, that means I write and communicate the known truth and our strategy and plans, I participate in discussions around that topic, I talk to customers about it, I read industry news and leverage my own experience in that topic. Others know me as that STO and reach out to me

This is extremely interesting. In your view, does this work with the concept of "full stack teams" where members tend not to develop significant expertise in any one area and tend to be jack-of-all-trades?
Since the Manifest v3 debacle, I grudgingly switched to Firefox, and... I reckon it's really great.

It's fast, it's developer tools are good, after a few customisations I was very happy.

After that small adjustment I'm right at home. I'm using Developer Edition.
What a horrible idea, privatizing USPS, especially if it's sold to Amazon. The stupidity is incredible. We're going to sell this to Amazon and leave it up to them to decide who gets and who doesn't get mail now? We're going to leave it up to them to deliver all our packages when they've proven they are incapable of delivering their own? This would essentially put us, at least some of us, in the pre pony express days. The incredible stupidity of privatizing such essential services is simply unbelievable.
Eh, it used to be pretty bad but the other year the people from the openbsd project wrote a new mail server with a trivially easy to understand config file (I wrote mine from scratch just a couple hours after finding it.)

If you’re already basically competent with the OS you’re using and have a machine with a decent connection that can be used for mail then it actually isn’t hard.
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You might enjoy my doodling at https://observablehq.com/@jrus/categorical
I think I more understood the ethos of where the author was coming from at the end:

“And by all means, we must not push everyone to use Big Mailer Corps“

which is totally fair. For the rest of the article though, it’s pretty clear that the author does admit caveats where any business would have to spend time & money figuring stuff out. And the fact is there is no real cabal of Big Email, it is such a commoditized industry. As a business you pay a pittance to protect downside risks, it’s a no-brainer.
Let's see... Postfix, Dovecot, SPF and OpenDKIM on the server-side, each of them with their own config.

Then you've got to set up your domain, and domain headers on your domain host. Oh, DMARC is also another thing.

Then, most ISPs will outright refuse to accept incoming mail from your IP address, since they've basically changed from blacklisting to whitelisting. So you've also got to relay your outgoing mail via your domain host.

And then spam rules. I took the recommended rules from the Debian/Postfix/something-something-sorbs.net website, and I rarely receive email from e.g. eBay, because they've been marked as sending spam. Often happens with gmail addresses, too.

Despite all this... I still run my own mail server, but hotdamn, you're calling this not hard?

EDIT: Oh, and nowdays you've also got to entangle your TLS certificates into the whole process somehow. I managed it, but don't ask me how, I'd need to read up on that.
Just now I came across an info table [0] for some game that should allow sorting by columns, but doesn't work on my Firefox, only Chrome. Yeah, its just some fan site for a game and thankfully doesn't happen that often to me, yet. But I feel like those many smaller sites, that I'd prefer to exist over all content centralized on a few giant platforms, are especially susceptible to not testing on many clients. And yes, I'll try to contact the author, but probably hadn't if not for this discussion today.

[0] https://oni-assistant.com/database/elements
The list in the Linux desktop world is honestly pretty long and could be extended at will. Some examples:
Wayland, GNOME 3, KDE Plasma, Nvidia drivers, PulseAudio, DBus
I've seen him several times over the years - firs time was '87, his "original" come back tour. I lived in Boston at the time, and the afternoon before the show I happened to be at the bar the show was being held. Iggy was sitting at the bar drinking water and talking to the bartender. I got a chat very briefly with him, but being in my early 20's at the time and a huge fan, I was too intimidated to really speak to him.
About 2 years later, I met him for real at a wealthy person's BBQ in Los Angeles. I got a chance to sit and speak with him, and Bowie, for hours. One of my highlights of my life.
She was in mad love in her 40's. Is it possible to have lust and love which is stronger in 40's than in 17 to 20 age ? . To be honest i am kind of relived that i can find some one to love and lust for in my teens.
I don't expect deference. I expect an experienced developer to be able to tell -- from talking with me, and from looking at open source work, and from asking my references -- that we are peers.

I'm happy to have real technical discussions and sketch out things, but I've seen enough negging "coding interviews" administered by smug people, and it seems to have little-to-nothing to do with legitimately assessing competence.

I'd also like to have an opportunity to get a sense of the people from talking with them. The FAANG coding theatre performance that undergrads now drill for doesn't tell me much about the team's personality, competence, and working style -- all it tells me is that apparently they are willing to play along with that dysfunctional one-sided game.
Your comment is perfet. Let me quote:

"OK, then why is everyone saying it’s hard ?
[...]

Another reason is because it used to be hard a long time ago. People got traumatized by how hard it was to not screw up and never reevaluated the situation. Some people today genuinely discourage other people from running their mail server, citing the very real difficulties they faced over a decade ago, far before some of today’s tools even existed."
> Only 29% of women actually say they enjoy shopping

Strange, all women I know enjoys(some addicted) to shopping. Makes me wonder how many other things I am related to biased samples.

A mini gist of what I takeaway from this:

- women are conditioned to enjoy shopping but only minority of the whole enjoys it

- buying things are bad but those things create jobs(marketing, managing, sales, trasport etc.)

- shopping is sort of hollow happiness and wears off quickly

- someone launched a challenge involving buying no new cloths in October

- author advices to shop locally & physically & think about every expense

- or instead of shopping spend that money in experience

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The good news is that there is a redacted area in the image, so Trump probably didn't just snap and post ... evidence of some limit to the impulsiveness of the commander in chief.
Why would anybody be interested in this? Content that depends on ad revenu especially written for it, is not worth consumption. The idea of solving a non existing problem is the problem with AdBuddy (AKA Brave). The way to go is ad and tracking blockers and let advertisers find a way to get to users without exploiting their ignorance. I don’t care and don’t need to build a relationship or accommodate a publisher. This is not what the internet of for.
thanks for the reply

so if i wanted to prevent gaining fat, the best bet is to keep fat under 10% of carbs, then if eating carbs with say vegetables and (non fatty) meat or fish, i would not gain weight vs a carbs + fatty meat + other oils type of meal (even if calories were equal) ?
As a former resident of NYC there is always an angle for them to scam you. Tourist or not. Get loud and crazy and suddenly the driver found change, accepts CCs, etc.
> The amount of features and stuff they add to systemd is seriously impressive

That's exactly the problem, though. You don't want all that stuff in your privileged PID 1 process. Nor blowing up your prod servers and getting in your way to even examine log files afterwards.
> nobody of the anti-systemd folk was willing to pick up the work needed to maintain consolekit

Why would I want to start working on software I don't use or need? Why do systemd advocates always insist that every implementation must include the features they think are important? The entire point of designing for modularity is that different people have different requirements; operating systems cannot be "one size fits all".

> yet when logind came around, had lots of strong things to say.

Yes, we had strong things to say about software requiring logind, because it is a terrible (and poorly documented, at least at the time) design. If you want to use logind, go right ahead, that's your choice. We were (and are) only angry about software that we used to be able to use adding dependencies to logind (or other systemd components).

> And none of the alternatives seem to really get away from the bash script paradigm

That probably won't happen, because shell scripting is the easiest/simplest solution for certain types of problems. Some of us have tried a lot of variatio9ns, and keep returning to openrc/bash because it's easier and has fewer problems, at least in some situations. However, on a traditional system (or openrc) nothing is stopping you from replacing the bash init scripts with another language or replacing the entire init subsystem with something else (like upstart, s6, something new?). The complaint isn't that your should use my favorite tools (like bash) instead of systemd; it's that we should strive for modular software so we can all use the components that work best for our different needs,
Reads fine on iOS: Safari, Firefox Focus and Chrome. What browser and OS are you using?
This whole post is hard. It’s a perfect example of what it is trying to disprove...
Super interesting! Mind explaining what an Intra macroblock is?
I think the biggest pain in hosting your own mail server is getting your outbound mail delivered into the mailboxes of the large providers without being marked as spam. Especially if you don't actually send a lot of mail, so you can never really build up a good IP reputation.

That's why I generally recommend a hybrid setup: Host inbound mail completely by yourself so that you have full control, but ship off outbound mail to a trusted relay of a privacy oriented provider. For example https://posteo.de/en doesn't filter any outgoing messages by sender, so you can send mail from your own domains. Your local Postfix can DKIM sign your mail before sending them to Posteo and if you add include:posteo.de to your SPF record all your mail will be DKIM signed, SPF authenticated and coming from a reputable IP, so all your deliverability issues will be gone.
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You should be able to disable system packaged apps unless you are running an absolutely ancient version of Android. It's the same effect as uninstalling except it keeps the original package in storage in case you re-enable.

Firefox on Linux doesn't have GPU acceleration out of the box nor GPU video decoding (at all still?). Firefox on Android has it's own litany of issues (though to be fixed in their new version soon™).

Edge was actually pretty great on Windows but everywhere else it wasn't Edge and it's going away to come back as a Chromium clone shortly anyways.
> The truth is that left to manage their own business the USPS would be making huge profits and pouring them both into innovation and services as well as the US Treasury.

Quite. People need to remember that they aren't permitted to set prices on their most important ("market dominant") products or even determine the days they work. The monopoly they get from being the USPS is the one nobody would ever want: having to deliver first class mail anywhere in the United States at a price they aren't allowed to set themselves.
Half tongue-in-cheek but would you rather give up email than fighting back while it's still not all proprietized?
Italian pizzas are almost 2x the size though. So with sides they even out.
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Sounds like a pretty awesome place to work. Imagine if more companies invested responsibly in their employees.
1. you cannot not use them - the init binary doesn't gracefully degrade in the absence of the services provided by these APIs

2. the APIs are very complex and convoluted, with deep state maintained throughout the message exchanges; so complex it's effectively impossible to redo them without basically implementing everything exactly the same way

the fact that some binaries communicate through APIs doesn't mean the system is modular, if the "modules" of the system cannot be used independently for other purposes
Interesting parallel in biology: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory
Previously it was talked about that Elixir would create a telemetry library and then Phoenix (and other libraries like Ecto, etc.) would use it.

And the end goal was to have a Phoenix web UI that would come out of the box that you could goto and see a bunch of really useful things about your server's health, the BEAM but more importantly app specific things like DB query times and all of those interesting stats you would want to see. The beauty of it was you would get all of this for free / nearly free in terms of the work you had to do as an app developer.

Did all of that get scratched for OpenTelemetry? Do you happen to know of a timeline when end users could expect to see the benefits of this new standard in Elixir apps?

The official website at https://opentelemetry.io/ doesn't show Elixir as being a supported language.
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devops and no certs.
My smartwatch seems to run fine with it.
Yeah but it's somewhat laggy compared to chrome's.
There are products that digitize pen and paper right? [1] And then there probably are products that would be able to make your handwriting searchable.

If not, you could make your own machine learning algo. as a side project and teach it to recognize your handwriting. I suppose that's a lot of work though :P

[1]. E.g. See the section "Hybrid Tools" at this link: https://zapier.com/blog/digital-and-paper-note-taking-system...
Little off topic..

I'm trying to help a friend in media industry. His requirement is ability to identify different voice in a movie and have the output time stamped - Ex. Voice A: 00.00.00sec - 00.05.30sec, Voice B: 00.05.31 - 00.06.30, etc.

It would be very helpful if anyone can point to any tools that exists that can do that (open source or otherwise).
Greenland isn't not for sale it simply cannot be sold by Denmark.

One would have to ask the people of Greenland.
The problem was that these features came a little later after many of the stateless features were in there. Now we're talking about the stateful stuff being stable for many years, so all the arguments against it are usually old or uninformed.
Firefox still uses OpenGL to draw the window to the screen and also uses transparency in those windows, unfortunately neither of those things play nice with the scaled windows in MacOS.

They are in the process of converting their code to use Core Animation instead of OpenGL to draw to the screen, which will help tremendously with the power consumption issue, so help is on the way.

As a temporary workaround until all those changes land, you can have Firefox opt out of using scaled windows on a retina Mac by getting info on the Firefox app and then checking ”Open in Low Resolution” on the get info panel.

Transparency in Firefox can be turned off by going to about:config, and setting gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque to true.
Firefox is a dumpster fire on Mac. No pinch to zoom? Whatever. Scrolling issues? Whatever. Lighting up my CPU to the point it's noticeably warm on idle? Not cool. Having 60% of the battery life as Chrome and 50% of Safari? Unacceptable.

Simply idling Firefox on my Mac would use almost the same amount of battery as actively browsing Safari. I love Firefox on my home Linux desktop, but that's as far as my love goes at the moment.
Came to say this, happy that someone else did. It changed my life. I now have a graveyard of weird ergonomic devices and wrist arm braces, and can happily code all day on my laptop keyboard in any position. A few years ago I couldn’t write 2 lines without excruciating pain.
Has anyone used Knoppix lately? It has so much pointless junk in it, I do not see the argument against systemd.
Come on, you're sucking all the fun out of it. Also, 2013.
Note that the 2015 MBPs are a great buy - you can upgrade the SSD yourself using a $10 adapter:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/upgrading-2013-2014-mac...

Grabbed a used 13" model with 16 GB RAM, and put in a 1 TB drive myself. Couldn't be happier upgrading from a 2010 edition

If they release new models with fixed keyboards next year, I might upgrade and shell out for the SSD and RAM upgrades.
Women are attacked in Western cultures for their shopping habits by their families/spouses for the overall level of spend they make. It might be enough of a taboo subject in their minds that in a poll they may be more likely to rate their enjoyment lower than it actually is.
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Some people get better jobs from a degree. Some people don't finish. Some people make more money. Some people wind up with more debt. Some people perceive a social benefit from a degree. Some people gain psychological satisfaction. Some people find intellectual fulfillment.

Others don't. Predictions are hard. Especially about the future.

For online degrees, Western Governor's University is a public university with relatively low tuition and a long track record of not-for-profit online college education. It was designed to solve the problem of educational access not increasing revenues.

https://www.wgu.edu/

Good luck.
If you’re getting TSV files from an external source and are interested in just some aggregate results, you’ll get better performance by computing the smaller results and storing these than if you first import, then process, then delete the data in a SQL db. Also you don’t have to store the data twice.
People do not run their own mail server for the same reason people ( including the author of that guide ) do not host jquery and bootstrap on their own servers -- it is not that it is hard, it is that not running their own mail server or not hosting their own jquery and bootstrap code is easier.
In order to help you, a surgeon has to cut you and damage you. There's a huge amount of trust you have to place in the surgeon, the staff, the hospital, the equipment manufacturers, etc. Even if it all goes well, it can take weeks to years to fully recover from a major surgery. I know people who likely have PTSD from getting a good outcome. I cannot imagine if it went sideways. How would you trust that hospital, or any hospital?
This. Even running your own IRC, while not "hard", is a PITA enough that companies will shell out a chunk of change to have someone else do it for them. And, they may even get better features as a result.
The image for an MPEG compressed video is splitted in 16x16 blocks. For each frame (excluding the 1st of course), the compressing algorithm tries to to matchthat particular block with a block in the previous frame (it searches the previous frame to see where there are the fewest differences). If it can do it it only encodes the differences and the position in the previous frame; this is called an inter(predicted) block. If however it can't match that block with the previous frame then it needs to re-encode from scrach; that's the intra macroblock. As you can understand after a shot cut there will be much more intra macroblocks.

There are some more info in the wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroblock and also there's a nice article explaining some of the magics of H264 compression: https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/
The post didn’t really say much about React. Most intro blog post about Redux would give you the same amount of info in just the first half.
AWS offer this for $1.44ph
The thing I've always worried about is that to my knowledge there's no ACK for outbound mail.

The potential impact of one email I send not being received is absolutely enormous to the extent that certain mails I'd pay a decent amount of money to ensure delivery, probably more than an actual postage stamp.
I can't bring myself to trust this browser. There is a repo out there but it's not the whole browser and it's extremely out of date compared to the app. Free things based on open source code that aren't open source themselves give me the heebie jeebies without a clear reason why.

Also the browser itself tends to be a version or two behind which isn't particularly comforting either.
As a (mostly) full-time firefox user, I commonly find that sites have bugs and some are unusable in FF. What I find fascinating is that every time I mention this on HN or elsewhere, somebody also chimes in with this "doesn't happen to me" message and demands to know which sites.

Every damn time.
I will pick up a new Kindle as soon as they release a Type-C version, that will probably last a while as my current Kindle has that is getting flaky page turn buttons (basic 2013 edition)
I feel like I'm reading half of an argument here. Is this a response to something? Who in the world works for free when they're doing contract work?
I disagree about it not being a good fit. Even if you run one application per host (and if we're honest, it will always be more when we find flaws). You still get the benefits of very predictable deployments, failovers, lifecycle management, etc.
I'm one of them :/

The haveibeenpwned description says password hashes are md5, which sucks. But phpBB has used bcrypt by default since version 3.1 (2014)... I wonder if all the hashes are md5 or only those for older accounts?

https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#XKCD
Ask HN: Focus on projects vs. competitive coding to land a job as a fresher?
I have mostly been focussing on building real-world software projects, contributing to OSS and doing internships as a CS student. But I have come to notice that all the companies that are recruiting students from my college tend to attribute more importance to competitive coding questions (DS and algorithms) and aptitude tests (English, Math and trick questions).

I have also seen stuff on the internet like https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en

How important are the roles of OSS projects and competitive coding when it comes to landing a job as a fresher?
That's it, there's good new and good old. That's something we need to know. Very often a new version of a product is not better. Just made shinier and with now less expensive parts that may or may not be as good as the first gen.
Ask HN: Desktop PC
We always have those "which laptop" threads, but I'm more interested in a desktop PC right now.

My last n ones were self-built. It's economic, but I'd love to get a professionally designed system next.

For example, my power supply has always been way over the top, because "I wanted to be on the safe side".

What do you get nowadays?

I'd love a fast SSD, 16 GB RAM (32, if affordable, ECC preferred, but not willing to spend double). An i5 or AMD equivalent would be fine. Linux-friendly. Mostly developing, including some Docker containers. Graphics... not much. Being able to play X-COM 2 would be enough.

There seem to be lots and lots of reviews for laptops, but very little for desktops.

Are business lines from HP, Lenovo or Dell sensible, or just not practical for a dev?
To write and debug code?