skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago I helped a guy clean malware off his system. While looking through his configuration, I saw some oddly-named device drivers, and he insisted that they were part of his music hardware and could not be deleted. I told him to at least keep an eye on it.

A week later, he asked me again to clean malware off his system. I asked him how it got back on there, and he told me Microsoft called and said his system was infected, and thus began the tech-support scam. I said "Um, did you forget you already paid me to remove that shit? You just invited that guy to put it back!"

I looked at his config and more "drivers" with similar names appeared in the list that weren't there before. Finally he was convinced the other ones weren't part of his music hardware install and that I should delete them.

While doing this, he confided in me that he had just lost $1500, because a girl he met online from overseas was supposed to visit him, and whatever happened so she had to borrow money from him for the ticket. But gee golly, she never showed up. He was surprised, because she sounded so nice.

After that, I refused to do any more work on his computers. Although I did tell him if he continues to feel like throwing money around indiscriminately at every scam that shows up, I'll gladly quote him for fake services just to keep him happy and broke.

For the first time ever, he declined.
Haha Gunship was totally the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the headline. What a great game that was. :)
I agree. Google needs a formal, transparent process to dispute bans and investigate incidents. It hurts small publishers when their idiot machine learning algorithms issue bans with no recourse of action.

I once had a location-based file sharing website banned by Google -- all Chrome browsers would pop up a warning. It actually potentially could have been monetized but I lost all the users due to Google's unexplained ban.
The Original Hypertext Project
IIRC it was deliberate so that users wouldn't have to move off the home row. The User's Guide states this is the reasoning behind it.

> To move the focus between the two terminals, you can use the direction keys which you may know from the editor vi. However, in i3, your homerow is used for these keys (in vi, the keys are shifted to the left by one for compatibility with most keyboard layouts). Therefore, $mod+j is left, $mod+k is down, $mod+l is up and $mod+; is right.

https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html
Supposedly this fall in the US. That is according to people I've talked to on /r/starlink
If you switch workspaces on monitor A, whatever workspace you have on monitor B will not move.

So what you want is already supported. Just don't switch over to monitor B and switch it to a different workspace.
I strongly recommend keeping a local mirror of your dependencies... however, I've spent years maintaining such mirrors for fairly large projects (incl. Artifactory, Nexus, and one-off OSS setups like Docker registry server), and I think it's easy to underestimate how much work it is.

Whether you use expensive 'turnkey' solutions like Artifactory or keep things simple, there's just a surprising number of ways for a local mirror to go wrong, especially if you depend on it for any kind of third-party dependency compliance control.

Some repository mirrors will also become very large, which means that if you're e.g. running them in a cloud provider the bill can add up. Not really a problem on local hardware but the up-front cost of hardware can be substantial and a lot of startups have little to no in-house IT capability (e.g. the org I work with right now has reached hundreds of employees without having a single system administrator on staff, so as devops person I end up having to do the care and feeding of our recently purchased local hardware as well).

In general I think this is an important and often overlooked issue in modern tech businesses - it is amazing how many technology-centric firms like software startups get to appreciable size relying entirely on outside SaaS/PaaS providers with no real in-house IT operation. This reduces up-front and staffing cost but has a way of coming back to bite you when you hit a certain point. A conversation I've been in before, in reasonably large software outfits, is "we want actual real office phones now, but telephony-as-a-service is real expensive and the on-prem products use scary words like VLAN and QoS in their setup documentation". As someone with an IT rather than software background it's a little baffling to me how this happens, I feel like a combo sysadmin/network engineer would be an early hire. But here I am working for a company instead of running one...
Don't worry, he responded with this very data-driven explanation:

> Generally speaking, people like this have never actually dealt with large data sets
I haven’t researched this, but I imagine the reasoning goes something like this: Iceland has geothermal, and Norway has hydro. Both will need less storage than solar (perhaps none?).

Other more political thoughts are:

Southern Europe looks like Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece. Perhaps Iceland and Norway seem more politically stable?

And maybe this will mend some fences with Iceland after the UK seized it’s banks assets under the terrorism act (although that’s going back a little bit now).

Edit: Typo
> I would say the hero worship and the "win the popularity lottery" model for software success are two of the attributes of the industry I like the least.

Completely understandable. It's an unfortunate aspect of humanity in general: the need for God(s) to worship and follow, as well as the need to be part of a group.

If we can't change human nature at its core, we might as well leverage it for something good.
Somehow I read that host name as “I3MW” and thought it’sa site for the BMW i3 car.
Yeah, it really is about preference. FWIW, i3 allows you to opt out of tiling if you really want to. For me it's alt+shift+space, and the window pops out onto its own layer, and can then be manipulated with the mouse.
Six Reasons the Blanket Octopus Is My Favorite Cephalopod
Agreed that we definitely have a lot more work to do. We currently let people change functionality on these websites - such as blocking the newsfeed. I like your suggestion that we should not only hide it, but also replace it. We'll think about that more.
They also won't demand or even accept payment by apple card or bitcoin.
How many housing units have we lost this way?

We can certainly ask all kinds of questions about whether some forms of zoning are a good idea or not. Certainly many are outdated, illogical and/or counterproductive.

But the point is that everyone (whether they say so or not) acknowledged that at least some baseline of codified land use regulation -- a.k.a. "zoning" -- is necessary.

It's just a question of what kind -- and who should benefit.
While I do like documentaries, the focus on popularity is perverse. And it's easily gamed by fake stars/collaborators , news puff pieces, and cheering crowds.
At my previous company, we could switch our on call day with other people on the team. This mitigated the issue you're talking about. I never had an issue scheduling a switch with someone for the year I was on call there. That's just one specific company though, not sure if other teams allow this.
"it can be argued that polygraphs may have their place in a limited amount of employment situations as long as the lying/truthful results are thrown out as the test may work as a "placebo" for the interviewee to admit to serious skeletons in their closet."

If the test cannot distinguish between true and false, then any purported "skeleton" is as likely to be false as it is to be true.
Discord Is Spyware
If i clicked that link on my phone, i would have used up 10% of my data budget for the month.
> Google either doesn't care about intent, or their systems have consistently bad judgment.

Not to defend Google here but... how did you determine this? By seeing those < 0.01% of issues where it goes wrong? How did you determine the magnitude here and how do you know the systems aren't right in > 99.999999% cases?
30 minutes away from Microsoft main campus in Redmond WA, (and just a bit further away from Google/Amazon campus' in the area)

Best available internet is a 3mbit down, 1-if-you're-lucky-mbit up DSL connection from CenturyLink with latency that jumps into the 2.5+ second range when it rains hard. Which, fortunately it never does in the pacific northwest. :-D

And no, traditional satellite is a no-go, even if it was an affordable option. We have these things called "mountains" you see, and the satellites are only at certain spots in the sky, sadly occluded by a couple billion tons of rock and tree.

To reiterate, this is within commuting distance of "big tech" HQs.

Starlink can't come fast enough. Existing ISPs need to feel the pain of screwing their customers so bad for so long.
you mean the seconds before this?:

https://youtu.be/vFTg3-40Mfg?t=745

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-releases-60...

or for this launch?
Tattoos, someone's skin color or moles on people's facing at work doesn't bother me. Someone complaining about it would.

Sandals/shorts/barefeet? It's winter here but in those brief moments of summer please do that. Wearing a three piece suit means you won't be able to work as hard during the heat wave.
I think it's a personal decision. That said, with fame, once you attain it, you can't go back to the old.

Sure you can fade out of tech headlines, but there's still a whole set of baggage and residuals (web archives, ego, etc) that comes with all of that.
HDMI is fine for 4k 60hz if it supports HDMI2. Depends on the adapter. If you have an old-school MBP that still has an HDMI port, that port definitely can't do 4k 60hz.

Both Thunderbolt 2 and Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) would be fine for supporting 4k 60hz. Whether it's over HDMI or DisplayPort ultimately doesn't matter, it's the adapter that'll matter more.
Indeed, and of course its all about the media. One could see how Gabarnmung is a very, very old library .. with distinct advantages.
Definitely agree with your sentiment; I probably only need Twitter for 10 minutes on most days. Yes - we are working on making it harder to ignore our extension when a person's being distracted. The key is really to build a good classifier of when a person's being productive or not on a distracting site. We currently let the user decide that when we intervene.
I'm not sure what exactly they're including in the operating costs. If they include salaries for researchers, meteorologists, programmers, etc. I could definitely see it hit a billion over 10 years. But then it would seem a bit misleading to call it a "billion pound" supercomputer.
Ask HN: Anxiety of learning Python and Devops (Kubernetes)?
When I go to industry events and meetups I meet a lot of younger devs and more senior people re-tooling their skills. They express frustration that it is not enough to simply update with python, but that you also have to have the devops mindset as well.

They feel like the workload is 2x or 3x because the responsibilities have expanded beyond code alone. The anxiety they express is that the goal posts keep moving, and they feel left behind.

Question to the group -- have you experienced this, or do you see it among your peers?
To be universally applicable it would have to support at least date, time, time zone and time zone database version (since time zone definitions keep changing). You would then have to define how each of these look in a backward- and forward-compatible manner and define what every combination of them means. For example, a time and time zone but no date or time zone database could mean that time of day in that time zone on any day, using the time zone database active at that date and time. Not saying it can't be done, but it's a big job.
>> cleaner, leaner, meaner tech stack!

What does that mean?

Sway is a great project, but I would be careful of using Wayland, as lots of minor issues came up last time I was using it ( death by a thousand papercuts ).

For example, if you rely on years of small x scripts ( xrandr, etc. ), be prepared to rewrite all of them for wayland.

Last time I used Sway/Wayland, I couldn't find a good alternative to redshift. While Gnome has it, I can't seem to just use this feature independently on other DEs.

Again, Sway is fantastic, and I fully support moving off to Wayland. But best case scenario Sway is a drop-in replacement. Most likely there will be some fiddling. Especially if you've been using i3 for years and have built a custom ecosystem around it.
I used to be a BMW driver and then have been driving a model S for 4 years. I would say I receive WAY more things from Tesla that I ever did from BMW. My car today is actually better than the one I bought 4 years back. I remember when I bought my X5, the map was outdated the minute I stepped out of the dealer lot and needed a $200 CD based upgrade. BMW never improved a single feature in 4 years of ownership. The voice recognition sucked, the driver assistant didn't improve beyond basics, acceleration, efficiency didn't change, no new infotainment features were added etc etc. The story is fluff, but Tesla provides so much more to its customers than traditional branda
Bernie is re-writing the theories about how elections are won
This would then be the old 30hz @ 4k version. Infos about the release of the 60Hz @ 4k version:

https://9to5mac.com/2019/08/08/new-apple-usb-c-digital-av-mu...
At my previous company, on call was an opt-in responsibility that came with extra pay. We had enough developers so not every developer had to do on call.
Top SD-WAN Performance Challenges
The object connections are described in json but the objects themselves are c++.
It's just one data point, but I'm well into the 99.9% level and I'm zero for three.
I think this article has important context for the discussion here.

The Man Who Made Spore Suckier https://v1.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/87123-The-Man-Who-...
Thanks; please continue giving us suggestions on how to improve.
Huge shoutout to all developers of i3, I absolutely love it! Since I started using it, the connection to my machine improved vastly. The precious pixel space of my X230 finally felt utilised fully!

I never had any issues with i3. Cannot recommend it enough!
I suspect a lot of the appeal is to people who prefer to keep their hands on the keyboard as much as possible. Being able to precisely position a window on the screen is possible to do without touching the mouse, but in practice doing so is very clumsy. By removing the "freedom" to precisely position windows and replacing it with a limited number of slots a window can go into, a tiling manager is more keyboard-friendly -- it's much easier to express "put this window in the upper right corner of the screen" in a few keystrokes than it is to express "put this window at these precise X and Y coordinates."

Combine that with multiple desktops, which can also be switched between with a couple of keystrokes, and you get an environment that's very easy to "drive" without taking your hands off the keyboard.
Here's my theory about the recent influx of UFO footages coming from high places. US military was working on advanced drones. Nothing fancy, think current best tech, add 15 years and billion in r&d, that kind of stuff. Then when it was ready for test they flew it secretly before their own pilots and waited for reports. And waited. And waited some more. Silence. They disabled stealth, added flashlights, nothing. Military pilots didn't reported it. Maybe Venus. Or moonlight bouncing off swamp gas, but not UFO. Why?

In past decades whenever military pilot reported UFO they were laughed at, sent to psychologist, evaluated, sent behind the desk. Other pilots knew and when they saw something really weird they have kept it for themselves.

Then the higher ups panicked. If they don't report our drones, they will not report Chinese or Russian drones either. We have hundreds and thousands of eyes in the sky but they will not report because they are afraid to speak.

So they came up with a campaign. They started to publish official UFO footage and started more openly talk about it to show pilots that it is now ok to talk about UFO. Don't be afraid pilots, if you see something strange jus tell us, we take it seriously now.

There are no aliens. Videos you saw are created or modified to look legit, and officially supported or confirmed. Goal is to encourage pilots to report possible Chinese drones.
Indeed, though it should at least go through destruction without undesirable side-effects. In the article, however, Herb Sutter appears to be arguing for something stronger:

Q: Does “but unspecified” mean the only safe operation on a moved-from object is to call its destructor?

A: No.

...

Q: What about objects that aren’t safe to be used normally after being moved from?

A: They are buggy...
We all love GEB, but please don't post links to pirated copies here. Thanks.
> Because I noticed I was accepting a lot of things from them that I would never have from BMW or Audi.

Could you elaborate a bit, please? I'd like to know what I'd miss if I chose Tesla.
This was my first thought as well. Since this is a fictional story of how the volcano came to be, it seems like all we can know from it is that they were there at one of the multiple times when it erupted. The most recent was apparently around 8,000 years ago.
Mithril's author moved to react long time ago.
I was at a company off-site where we were supposed to be inventing the future of our company. I streamed it on my phone while listening to the lecturer blather on. The CEO, sitting next to me, got quite excited when the rockets both landed :)
Don't you have to destroy the target object, before you move into it?
The built-in snapping only works for two windows per screen though. If you want 3 or more, you're stuck with the mouse.
Billionaire invests $10B dollars to virtue signal and control the behavior of the poor, while not changing his lifestyle at all. 165M dollar environmentally excessive mansion, private jets, and a rocket program that dumps carbon into the air.

I’ll be impressed when billionaires actually make sacrifices themselves, rather than just write checks.

Checks are important, but let’s be real about these people.
Soviet Calculators History (1998)
Just a loose thought. It would be awesome to have a desktop app with minimal settings that would learn your habits and adapt to them. Something that will not block access but assist you with cutting your time spent on unnecessary tasks. Essentially, something that you already build, but without browser extensions and working on all system apps.

Sensing if you spend time on browsing newsfeed or administrating Facebook pages, and distinguish between these different activities. Did you work for the last two hours in VS Code, and now you are browsing newsfeed? IRC? RSS? Anything other than working? In this case, it will automatically switch you over to the last used app, and inform the user about spending too much time using FB or anything other on nonsense. Automatically filtering every system notification, showing you the most important ones. Not using the computer for more than 30 minutes after 6 pm? It will let you do anything you want but notify about other activities, for example, 4 hours on Netflix, and it's almost 12am? Then it will tell you, that for the last four days you slept at that time. And ask if you want to spend more time on those activities or gradually turndown brightness of your screen, and put your computer to sleep... :)
They say it's a simple tension mechanism, nothing fancy. The attachment of the satellite stack is not even within the camera's FoV.

I'm guessing it's just a vibration issue.
Student-founder conducting research on problems people face in crypto
I’m part of the Create-X program at Georgia Tech. I’m conducting research to identify problems people face with crypto and products/services people use in crypto.
I’d really appreciate it if you could take this 2-minute survey: https://cryptoresearch1.typeform.com/to/Ao9z1g

Your responses will help me figure out what the biggest problems are that consumers face with crypto today. I will analyze the response data and summarize my findings in a research article, which I’ll post here.

I’ve posted similar surveys on Reddit back several months ago, received >400 responses, and wrote this Crypto Investor Behavior research article: https://ryzecrypto.com/resource/ryze-research-crypto-investor-behavior_5d9b7a3f7feda85616e7c3ad (Please don’t read the article before taking the survey, as it may create response bias).
Thanks in advance for your time!
There's an x86 version here:

http://www.pp4s.co.uk/main/tu-trans-comp-jc-intro.html

64-bit is almost entirely a superset of 32-bit, so that will at least get you started.
Thank you.

A major reason is in crypto, people can already leverage 100x, and thus people who would normally use options for leverage no longer need it.
Soda on the other hand can be easily overconsumed and delivers empty calories that aren't balanced at the next meal. Soda is in the group of foods, usually ultra-processed, that are responsible for the obesity epidemic. And it's being advertised to children mostly, who don't have much self control, with obesity and diabetes rates in children climbing year after year.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think soda is toxic or evil or that it should be taxed or banned. But in the context of a worldwide obesity trend, I would ban the commercials for it, or at least the ones targeting children.

I understand that buying soda keeps people employed. But it's also the perfect example of what's wrong in the current society.

Maybe we can find more worthwhile pursuits than selling sugared water.
For anyone here who loves i3, but has always had trouble getting full integration to work on their laptop ( sleep, screen brightness, etc. ), check out the Regolith project[0]

It's a curation of several tools combined with i3 that gives a pretty fantastic gnome/i3 experience. Similar to spacemacs and emacs.

[0] https://regolith-linux.org/
Ah, my apologies! Thanks for clearing this up!
Putting Starlink launches on different screens and letting them run synchronized from the time that the video cuts off:
the confirmation of tension rod release and payload separation and the video coming back happens almost at the same time.

Today: https://youtu.be/8xeX62mLcf8?t=1489

January, 29th: https://youtu.be/1KmBDCiL7MU?t=4414

January, 6th: https://youtu.be/HwyXo6T7jC4?t=4390

November, 11th: https://youtu.be/pIDuv0Ta0XQ?t=4549

May, 25th: https://youtu.be/riBaVeDTEWI?t=4579
Stacking in that case refers to stacking in the z-direction, ie. a normal 'floating' window manager
How to escape the greatest serial killer of startup founders
Most chan-style image boards are honest about the file formats they use, no pretending about webms being gifs.
Could micro-credentials compete with traditional degrees?
Probably not in that case -- though I did not make it clear, I was comenting on the last paragraph of meddlepal's comment.
The basics haven't changed. In some ways, technology has gone backwards over time, in many cases adding more complexity for no real gain. It's good to start from simplicity.
In this example no because of pointer. Where is the allocation for int* data located? It's not inside the object. You can think easily of the state of 'a' after calling move_into.

But maybe with int data[32] as a data member this is harder to reason about.

This is a way to illustrate move semantics and confusion behind what happens to the 'moved from' object.
seems like selection bias. we’ve no idea how much has been lost. or whether or not the oral historians of X thousand years ago would be satisfied with how their tales have made it down the ages.