skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This last year I've been noticing things breaking on the Internet for me here and there. I'm a Firefox user. This really wasn't the case in most of the past decade.

This kinda reminded me of the late 00's. It was quite common that the odd government or enterprise website was IE6 only.

All hail the new IE6.
Check out fsarchiver, you can do hot backups and it has built in compression.
http://www.fsarchiver.org/live-backup/

Someone above mentioned Veeam, which I love for windows, but haven't really tested on Linux. It's free, but not open source.

I personally use rsync to btrfs, but it's not encrypted.
Interesting perspective. Thanks.
What I'm saying is that the only way you can get away with not having an "extremely disciplined SecOps team" is to depend on someone else's extremely disciplined SecOps team. Whether you link statically or dynamically is orthogonal.

> Every single company that I used to work for had an internal version of Linux that they approved for production.

I can't deny your experience, but meanwhile I've been seeing plenty of production systems running Debian and RHEL, and admins asking us to please use the system libraries for the software we deployed there.

> Internal release cycles are disconnected from external release cycles.

That seems to me like the opposite of what you'd want if you want to keep up with CVEs. If you dynamically link system libraries you can however split the process into two: the process of installing system security updates doesn't affect your software development process for as long as they don't introduce breaking changes. Linking statically, your release cycles are instead inherently tied to security updates.

> We had to do emergency patching for CVEs and bump the versions in every service.

What is that if not tying your internal release cycles to external release cycles? The only way it isn't is if you skip updates.

> This process do not depend on Debian's (or other FOSS vendor's) release cycles and the dependencies are explicit, therefore the vulnerability assessment is simpler (as opposed to go to every server and check which version is installed). Don't you think?

I don't know, going to every server to query which versions of all your software they are running seems similarly cumbersome. Of course, if you aren't entirely cowboying it you'll have automated the deployment process whether you're updating Debian packages or using some other means of deploying your service. Using Debian also doesn't make you dependent on their release cycles. If you feel like Debian isn't responding to a vulnerability in a timely manner, you can package your own version and install that.
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Experiments you should try at home
>LBTGQ

rolls eyes
You're absolutely right that my reply wasn't the friendlies way to go about things. I bit back to the original comment, and I shouldn't have done that.
> 76% of americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. Regardless of if you like it or not, a time will come when massive amounts of rents aren't paid. It can either fully immiserate the economy (most likely course of action), or it can be paused.

And not all of these 76% of Americans are going to lose their jobs. Many people will, many others will have benefits, some others will be able to tighten their belts to make it work. And we can also just give everyone $$$ to ease the transition..

> Can we please stop pretending that this zombie market we've propped up since 2008 works? If you like markets, then you shouldn't agree with the fact that the government can effectively be held hostage every decade or so due to "too big to fail."

My definition of not working here isn't about some people getting unfairly rich at the expense of others. Literally people won't be able to get basic stuff at all. Entire supply chains will collapse since they are based on credit. You can't buy and sell at scale - these all involve contracts and payments. Credit isn't just about lending money for interest.
Blaming capitalism seems weird. Capitalism is not the only economic system with just-in-time or globally-interdependent supply chains. And capitalism can't explain why our strategic government stockpiles were never replenished.

There's a tendancy to compare the results of a system to what a wise, common-sense person with 20/20 hindsight would do if they were in charge. But that's not how things work. People in a system often fall victim to all kinds of bad assumptions, often thinking that others are wholly or partially responsible for dealing with a particular risk.

It looks like the US was caught flat-footed. It's too early to say how resilient we are, though. And it's way too early to start trying to push specific political angles like the idea that some mythical-but-non-specific non-capitalist system would have served us better.
I really hate to be the downer here, but have you heard of Intel's Management Engine? :(
Yes, these kind of factors should be included in a proper evaluation. Monetary value usually only serves as an exchange medium in compensatory models, you can also use abstract utils instead.

My point was a bit different, that from the perspective of multi-attribute decision theory with standard additive models the trade-offs between various attributes only need to be consistent (~not violate axioms of additive models, if the model is supposed to be additive in the first place), but they can be based on any kind of value judgments.

Even if you use standard measures in health care like QUALYs and weigh this attribute in a way that was previously accepted, the attribute would traditionally only be evaluated within the normal health care budget, which doesn't apply here. It is not usually aggregated together with completely different attributes like economic costs over time, number of unemployed people over time, increase of homelessness, overall reduction of the quality of life for healthy people, and so on.

I fear that in the coming months people will pick whatever weights suit their agenda and come up with various models of "costs" here and there, instead of arguing clearly for their position and the underlying value judgments. This is not a new problem, of course, and it is further aggravated by social pressures and institutional habits/self-interest.
Losing focus is itself a stateful change on a UI element caused by another UI element. It's just that the frontend platform like the browser or OS manages that shared state for you.
Curious. In this context, I hang out mostly with marine microbiologists. I do go to talks more broadly, but more research biology than medical. Aside from common use of "dead", the question has only come up twice-ish in many years, and both times it the group discussion was unanimous. Actually, it also came up in a talk earlier this year, again environmental microbiology, around a taxonomy of selective pressures? I fuzzily recall they chose a predicate of "capable of adaptive co-evolution". As you say, it rarely comes up, but I'm sensitized to the topic, and I've not previously seen suggestion of an alternate population of thought. Thanks! I wonder if it varies by field? And yes, even if I was a virologist, a blanket statement, especially in a sample-poor context, is just inviting failure by not being true for some unfamiliar subfield or culture.
Right.

As you can see I stated my beliefs as beliefs.
We are talking about MVPs here though...
AFAIK it's also done using CSS
That depends on the keyboard layout. On the Norwegian keyboard for example, ⌥⇧Q produces the degree symbol, whereas ⌥⇧8 produces U+007B LEFT CURLY BRACKET.
How will things be broken? Google is not removing the user agent, they're just freezing it. So all sites that currently depend on the user agent will continue to do just fine. New sites can use client hints instead, which are a much more effective replacement for user agent sniffing.

This solution very specifically places the burden on "techy nerds" and not users, so I'm not sure where you're coming from.
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What does it actually mean, then? I assumed it was a paid premium user or something.
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Environmental and labor.

It's perplexed me how one can be pro union rights, pro globalization, pro human rights and not a nationalist, all at the same time.

"Treating people fairly is important, we can't offer jobs that don't protect people. Encourage spending to be for foreign goods not blanked by those protections."
Harnessing machine learning to make managing your storage less of a chore (2019)
In the whole world, there are only two places that can reasonably claim to be taking a scientific approach to those aspects of this virus at this point: Iceland and the Faeroe Islands. Both have tested about 3% of their populations (that’s about 6X better than South Korea, 12X better than Italy, and 100X better than the US). Iceland is trying to test a representative population, although their testing is still skewed towards ill and exposed people. The Danes of the Faeroe Islands are tracing almost 100% of cases.

If we're really feeling our oats, let's beat the Faeroe Islands!
Likely, but it's been long enough that I don't remember.
Webcamoid (which can add special effects to video) has virtual camera support for MacOS but, due to driver signing requirements, it only works if you're willing to disable SIP.

https://webcamoid.github.io/
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Imagine this happening under normal circumstances. Now that they did it, the threshold will be lower to do it again next time, when they see it fit.

The future will show, whether it will be appropriate, when they do it next time.
I had initially thought that it was just a MacOS X app clone but however since trying it out I have found that it is actually better than the app was trying to replicate. I'm gonna port this to gentoo now, see you guys in ten years.
It would serve everyone well to start at that level. I write enterprise CRUD webapps, and learning these things helped me tremendously.

Unfortunately we now have a culture that views this type of knowledge acquisition as "gatekeeping"
Author here. At the last two companies I've worked at we really needed—and didn't have—a solution for spinning up throwaway Kubernetes clusters that we could, for example, easily and reliably test our deployment process in. Kind (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind) does a pretty good job of addressing that but requires setting up a bunch of infrastructure that needs to be maintained and doesn't easily work in a containerised CI environment. Krucible is an attempt at solving those problems by allowing you to spin up Kubernetes clusters via an API quickly and affordably.

Krucible is still in its early stages but I wanted to show it to the community and get feedback. Happy to answer any questions.
20% is not "most" and no we don't have the figures yet. 20% of Americans being unemployed isn't a good reason to freeze the entire economy such that effectively 100% of Americans are unemployed.
> It has nothing to do with China, these could have been made in the USA over the course of years...

This seems not true to me. Indeed, they could have been manufactured in the USA, as could essentially anything, yet the majority of manufacturing happens to have migrated to China over the past 20 or so years. Does it not seem reasonable, or at least possible, that the much lower cost of production in China had something to do with them being manufactured over there?
It does, as by voting you relinquish your rights to have your opinion being taken into account by delegating it to representatives.

Which means you consent to the decisions of the majority.
This is often why individuals in DR/BC and security (a CISO for example) leave a company. They do their jobs and come up with recommendations and other steps that need to be taken to implement best practices in this area. When these recommendations and steps aren't taken they don't want to be the one taking the blame if something goes wrong, and rightly so, they leave. It is not uncommon for an organization to do "theater" that makes it look like all the best practices are being followed when in reality it's just a pretty checklist that doesn't actually follow the intent. The only way to know if an organization is taking DR/BC seriously is if they're willing to literally kill a server or other infrastructure element of high-importance and see how effective the roll over is. There are lots of horror stories about organizations that did DR/BC only to find that one or more critical elements of their process were so flawed that it was impossible to get back to operational.
Written by someone who doesn't understand how the Federal Reserve works.
The state of Covid-19 testing
I'd like to add that most media professionals and journalists have no clue about manufacturing engineering and how difficult it is to produce something at mass scale.

But they inccessantly write about 3D printing for more buzzword invoked clicks.
They can, or they cannot. The media lying about the effectiveness of masks for several weeks was “right” in that it probably allowed hospitals to refresh their stockpiles before mass panic buying set in. But it was a lie nonetheless. Same with the “coronavirus is a virus, Purell is useless because it is antibacterial” meme. The media is burning its credibility in favor of noble lies — but at the end, will it be worth it?
Don't dramatize. You do get paid. You (potentially) get paid a few months later, and in the meantime, the Fed provides loans at effectively 0% interest.

Who would you rather have: a pile of debtors in your portfolio who have a 50/50 shot of going under in the next few weeks (where a lot of Americans and small businesses are today)? Or a pile of debtors who will pay you with 95% odds in 3 months, and in the meantime, a no-interest loan from the government to provide short-term liquidity until they do pay you?
They're not allowed to operate. In a more free market, masks would be available but at a higher price. Here's a shop that was required to stop selling masks because its price was too high: https://www.macombdaily.com/news/local/warren-company-accuse...
Hehe, good point.
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We should still do testing of sick people to support healthcare decisions as we are today. We should do more testing of exposed people for containment like in South Korea and Germany. But that doesn't help much with the broader governmental and societal decisions we need to make. We must do more. Embrace the "and." No more "or."

Since everything is moving so fast, just keep it bold and simple: Testing Race For COVID-19 Truth -- Test 30 Million People In 30 Days
With three simple steps you can create a decentralized mirror of your existing github project. All changes will be automatically propogated to the mirror version and the git services you depend on will be there when you need them.
This is a very rare (in terms of percent) outlier for now. But as the first big wave comes and health care systems are overloaded this will become normal. Even as young people's lives are saved by triaging and letting old people die. Hospitalization is required in almost 30% of cases of 20-54 year olds and 5% of that is critical.

If it takes abusing the properties of huge numbers to get younger people to wake up then do it. Because pretty soon this isn't going to be rare.
Seems they considered this issue and created a work-around:

>While removing the User-Agent completely was deemed problematic, as many sites still rely on them, Chrome will no longer update the browser version and will only include a unified version of the OS data.
I am not sure if using heavily microcoded CPU instructions qualifies as "bare metal programming."
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The description says that my repo is uploaded to the "decentralized service Skynet" -- But I can't seem to figure out how one would participate in hosting this service.
Does only Sia, the company, host nodes for Skynet?
Or is this a plot to increase the visibility of Siacoin?
Perhaps simply

> cross _visual_ design off your list and get back to working on the hard stuff
git is decentralized, but most git remotes are not. This is a decentralized git remote that gets the best of both worlds. It's a _decentralized_ "one true repo".
> every useD in the system

Funny typo, or perhaps not? Reminds me of Stallman talking about Facebook and switching out "users" with "useds".
I'm confused as to what you mean by "hit its limits", considering there's still a lot of room for improvement - just go anywhere that's not a major urban centre. Are we at a point where we can't possibly improve as the laws of physics won't allow it? I find that doubtful.
As a Mac user who has had to Switch my workstation machine to PC for performance anything that reduces my reliance on Apple hardware is a great thing.
She's back at home temporarily (broke up with a boyfriend that left her in a bad financial situation, moved back home to recuperate). She was planning to move out this summer and move in with friends who were buying a house, but buying a house may not be viable for them now due to a job at risk.

Someone once gave me a definition of family... "If you have to go there, they have to let you in".

On the flip side, I think we're all going to get exposed sooner or later, over the course of the next year or so. I'll just get exposed sooner than ideal.

On the plus side, she may be moving entirely to work from home in the near future, as they'll be closing inpatient services at her clinic. On the minus side, her brother just got a job at a grocery store after losing his retail job at the mall (mall closed), so now he's probably an even worse vector than she is.
How so? Why would that be gatekeeping?
Apple doesn't care if your app logs your usage to Google Analytics every 1000ms.

Besides, in the browser you have trivial tools like uBlock and the network tab. In native apps, you have to use mitmproxy just to see what the app is doing at all.
Then that's just my ignorance - I've never used Chrome OS, though I was heartened to see they were migrating to standard PWAs instead of proprietary parts.

I worked with Firefox OS back when Mozilla was seeding dev kits to software companies. It was a great concept but really seemed marred by bad hardware and then organizational paralysis. IMO this is one of the greatest missed opportunities of the last decade - an (actually) FOSS alternative to Android and iOS. No one else making attempts in this space right now has close to the same engineering experience as Mozilla.

For Safari, Apple adding any PWA features came off as them rolling their eyes, sighing loudly and then putting out a half-assed attempt to deliver years-old standards. And rather than switch to a unified extension architecture like Chrome and Firefox (which they were very close to in previous versions), they've gutted extension support to the point where you need can only bundle very limited extensions with compiled MacOS apps distributed on the App Store.

I don't really understand what Apple is even playing at by offering features but not taking them seriously. But I just don't think the LSO expiry move is _that_ user hostile in the scheme of things.
The idea that led to the above link is as follows:

"Someone has probably written an open-source UEFI/EFI shell by now... Something like that might be interesting for interacting with my laptop's UEFI at a lower level..."

It turns out someone did.

In this case, TianoCore/EDK2's shell (but I'm sure there are others):

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/UDK2018/ShellBinPkg/U...

Related:

CHIPSEC: Platform Security Assessment Framework:

https://github.com/chipsec/chipsec

Getting started with bare-metal assembly:

https://johv.dk/blog/bare-metal-assembly-tutorial.html

Linux* UEFI Validation Project (LUV):

https://01.org/linux-uefi-validation
It doesn't matter if the plans still exist, if the people who know where to find them are gone.
It may be inevitable either way. 100 years ago life expectancy was 46 years. Today it is well into the 70's. Before that, for most of human history that rate was much lower. Up until now, for the past 80 years (post antibiotics) the human race has been really lucky, but perhaps nature is deciding something different. I hope not, but I do wonder.
By using a jump to conclusions map. Ya know the guy who invented the pet rock did made a million dollars.
Also, since you're here, if I find any good tips on Homenauts.com that would be suitable for the bite-sized social media I'm aiming for, would you mind if I ripped them off? I can certainly find ways to give credit if needed. (Although this is a bit of a pain on Instagram since individual posts can't directly have links.)
The speed is categorically different, as is the reach.
I'd love for a hotlist or even prize for programmers doing awesome stuff like this. Off the top of my head, Andrew, Andreas Kling of Serenity OS, whoever ffwff is (https://github.com/ffwff/), Niko Matsakis of Rust, and so on. It'd be very awesome to have a roundtable with some of these people. They could discuss different approaches to design, their own histories and plans for the future. I loved reading Coders at Work, but I felt that there was a missed opportunity by not having the subjects interact with each other. So many of them had similar and very dissimilar ideas/approaches, which would have made for a wonderful discussion.

If someone could do the same but for a younger generation, I think it'd be very valuable.
Yeah. I feel like the U.S. is always in the spotlight for criticism, but there are an awful lot of mistakes to go around. People just don't handle crises well.
In addition to pjmlp's list, Steam is pushing toward this for Linux games (and one could argue that Steam has been this for as long as it's been available on Linux, given that it maintains its own runtime specifically so that games don't have to take distro-specific quirks into account).

Beyond containers / isolated runtime environments, the parent comment is correct about games (specifically of the console variety) being historically nearly-always statically-linked never-updated monoliths (which is how I interpreted that comment). "Patching" a game after-the-fact was effectively unheard of until around the time of the PS3 / Xbox 360 / Wii (when Internet connectivity became more of a norm for game consoles), with the sole exception of perhaps releasing a new edition of it entirely (which would have little to no impact on the copies already sold).
> but writing and therefore blogging for the most intellectually sophisticated

Oh boy
GP did not mix up anything. Some of those finite formulas also will be too long to be written within the constraints of this universe. The pigeonhole principle applies just as much to finite formulas as it does to finite strings of decimal digits.
Well that one runs on a separate (albeit embedded) CPU.
A good(?) history of LambdaMOO's creation:

https://undark.org/2018/07/20/wilo-evans-broad-band/
Nobody is willing to trade this functionality. You are going to just have to take this as a given.

People aren't going to stop wanting to use computers in their own language just because you are upset about font rendering. It is just not happening, and there is no point in discussing it.
People might accuse you of using a Slippery Slope fallacy, but in reality they're just establishing a precedent. And the justification will get weaker each time.
The most important question is will the US learn from it's mistakes and actually improve it's preparedness and healthcare and public services, or will everything be re-built brick for brick in the same way the serves the rich and keeps the poor down?
I think it might come from auto body shop terminology. We would remove layers of paint or rust and get down to the "bare metal" for prep work. That "down to the bare metal" phrase was very commonly used.

That is to say "no layers" or "right on the substrate".

Just a guess though.