skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not an unreasonable spot to be in, but it's going to change in the next year or so I think for most gaming stuff.

The Ivy Bridge stuff is a little on the pokey side now; my i5-3570K was in my HTPC until earlier this year when I replaced it with an i7-6700K. But a higher-end Ivy Bridge will still be OK for most games for a little while yet. And a 980Ti is still a great card; I upgraded to a 2070 Super because I needed Turing NVENC but the 980Ti was playing everything great at 1080p and most things very well at 1440p. As things start to target the PS5 and Xbox Series X as their lead platforms, however, I would expect that to change. The PS5 will field eight Zen 2 cores and that's going to be a significant step up. Modern game engines are already really happy with multicore systems (the 3900X in my desktop gets put to work by Doom Eternal) and this will only increase. Increases in expected throughput is going to put the 980Ti in a bad spot, too.

That said, Ivy Bridge and Haswell really have to take the crown for "longest-lived worthwhile CPUs". That HTPC (which was formerly my desktop, and had 32GB of RAM because of it) is now a NAS, and it's great. I wonder how long it'll last.
> How would you feel is someone was walking on busy car parking and checking if doors of the cars are open? It' what port scanning is, checking if the car has open door.

More like sending a "hi, can I enter?" signal to a self-driving taxi that has been left waiting in a public arena.

Don't put a server online with a public IP if you don't want to receive those signals. Don't send "hi yes you can enter!" responses when you get the query, if you don't want to let people in.
As with most interesting arguments, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

I don't doubt that MS would take advantage of market dominance again if it was achieved somehow, and I am sure they are making these plays with increasing their ecosystem in mind.

One interesting acquisition to look at is LinkedIn which they have really tightened the screws on to the point where everyone looking for employees or trying to find a job is made to pay. This is especially vile for the unemployed IMHO.

On the other hand, the eager monopolist of the day is really Amazon, and MS taking them on is a good thing for the ecosystem.

If there is competition MS seems to be playing a fair game. I hope it stays that way.
The Onion was way ahead (as usual): https://www.theonion.com/report-90-of-waking-hours-spent-sta...
> virtually every major ISP in America monetizes DNS lookups for their customers

For 95% of users, DoH just lets Google monetize the lookups, instead.
Just my personal experience: i definitely notice my eyesight getting worse and my eyes getting tired when I look at screens for a while. Worst are phones , then iPad , then laptop. TV causes me the least strain. I think it may have to do with the viewing distance or the background light.

When I don’t look at a screen for a few days while on vacation my eyesight gets much better.
You write as if these are bad things, but they're wonderful things. They're also the bread and butter of this site, so it's good that you see them here. Something would be wrong if you didn't.

Pure interest and sublime pointlessness are, of course, two of the classic hacker motivations.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23246221 is happily near the top of the front page as we speak.
The parts are recorded at separate times
Automated accessibility testing for Android - both static and dynamic accessibility issues, all automated with little to no setup: https://github.com/vontell/Bility (all open source too)
It’s a byproduct of the time travel feature, Its already there so why not display it?
Nah, just Flux in more blue light during the day. /s
Yes, it does, especially when reading in poor lighting and poor posture.

It turns out the best way to not damage an organ is to not use it...
I don't know about DeWalt, but for ryobi one+ systems, you can buy generic batteries online which are like 1/3rd the price of the Ryobi ones.
For a lot of jobs in the US, you have a pension where if you retire from the company after X years there (in this case 20 years), then they’ll pay you some fixed sum every month for the rest of your life. There isn’t a “retirement fund for her” that money has been paid into, but rather it’s a single on/off switch. This dates from the 50s-70s when staying at a single company your whole career was the norm. Nowadays, most companies offer a 401k retirement plan that you can take with you, but some older companies or government agencies still offer pensions.

As for the kids, I’d say that staying in one school district is a huge plus for them, but it varies depending on the kids and the school district.
What makes you think there are so few? Mercenaries are basically representing both America and Russia in Syria right now.
Some of the biggest factors for the average person that get disregarded are video cards and cooling. Modern CPUs absolutely need good cooling or they will throttle and create stutters and hiccups. A separate video card makes high res interfaces more fluid (4k hooked up to a monitor or TV) _and_ takes that heat off the CPU which is usually trying to boost and throttle inside a laptop or poorly cooled PC.
Hopefully the UX is better than the abysmal current UX for these lists.
So the app is vulnerable by default, yet the author is claiming this doesn't matter, because he instructs how to run it in a safe way?

Correct, or am I oversimplifying/missing something?
The privatization of the military is one of the most corrupt and corrosive things our country has done in a while. I flew F-18s for the Navy and did a ground tour in Iraq with Special Forces. Look at the pay grades in 2020.[1] E3-E6 are making about $25-40k in salary. With some hazard pay and Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) and Subsistence (BAS), depending on where you live (if not in the barracks) maybe you are making $50k. A decade ago, the contractors who took none of the risks of going on ops and were just training Iraqis were clearing $1k a day. I also saw contract pilots clearing $20k+ a month. This pay differential is morale destroying and trains people to think in market terms regarding skills that shouldn’t have a market outside of government. Now we have private armies going on offensive operations (Venezuela). But this is what the owners of the contracting firms always wanted. Privatizing a military is dumb but I guess so is outsourcing your medical supply chain, an overabundance of short-term bottomlinism the past few decades.

1. https://militarybenefits.info/2020-military-pay-charts/
Screens haven't damaged your eyes for a long time. That was only true on the old CRT displays, which literally shot high frequency EM at your eyes.
I clicked on the link to "Cat's Cradle." That looks like a really cool book!
Identifies color issues, keyboard, and user interaction issues, etc... by building up a state diagram dependent on a user's simulated abilities. Generates a report based on WCAG 2.0 specs.
Right, we definitely would prefer the acceptance of open web technologies vs the shepherding into particular domains.

I mentioned in another comment, it’s nowhere near a stretch to see Typescript extended and compiled down to C#, where suddenly we are all on the .NET stack because we all got shepherded via Typescript. It can happen that fast.

Then we’ll forget what basic JavaScript is because we’re so used to scaffolding with .NET UI Kits and server apis. How vulnerable is the web community to this? Pretty vulnerable, a lot of us are tied into React or Angular or Vue, or even in more specific cases tied into a UI library like Material. Apologies for the narrow web centric perspective, I know there is a world outside of web :p

If I had to takeover with my stack, this is exactly how I’d do it.
To add more about why current browsers don't do this:

One is clearly that you need to communicate the requesting IP deep enough into the network stack to the point where you get the DNS response (if there is one), which means there's a fair bit of work to ensure this is done everywhere;

Another is it's known to break corporate websites (https://internal.bigcorp.com/ on a public IP expecting to be able to access private IPs on their intranet), and smaller browsers are reluctant to lose corporate users by changing long-standing behaviour;

Then there's the WebRTC question: if two users on the same local network start a WebRTC call, do we want all this traffic to go to via first point where the public IP is known? For the majority of users the answer is no. And as long as that's possible, there's a (very limited) means of local communication. (But if it's limited to only things that respond to the WebRTC handshake, we're already in a much better place!)
+1, and I wish more folks thought about Microsoft/Google/Amazon/etc this way. What we're seeing with Github, LinkedIn, Azure -- all the modernish MS moves -- feels more like the sleeping giant is waking up and _competing_, not like an 800-pound goliath throwing its weight around to extinguish competition. Github vs Gitlab is a _healthy_ competition, to the benefit of everyone (including MS and Gitlab!), same with Azure vs AWS vs GCP.

This is a _good_ state we're in, not a bad one.
The parent is referring to a pension plan, which is generally guaranteed income for life after a certain amount of service. If you leave or are fired prior to the service requirement, you could lose all or part of the pension. Just want to note in the US these are usually offered to public sector workers - e.g. teachers, firemen, police, military, civil servants. I don't know of a private company that still offers pensions.

Separately we have retirement savings programs (usually called a 401k) that are offered by private sector employers, often with a match. Employees can invest a percentage of their paycheck in the program, and companies will match that contribution to a certain level to incentivize savings. When you leave the company you can keep the account or roll it somewhere else. Unfortunately these contributions are capped by federal law at no more than $19,500 per year per person. There are tax benefits to the 401k - you can choose to pay tax on the contribution when you make it and pay no income tax on those funds in retirement, or not pay tax now and pay income tax in the future. This is a lot better than investing in a taxable brokerage account, because you get taxed on the income as well as the securities.
I am not sure if they are the "worst investors" or just "the ones left holding the bag at the end".

Lots of super smart VC people in the valley just exited a little bit sooner. That's quite literally the only difference. This whole investment ecosystem was built around this, gotta exit ASAP
Staying up till 9am on calls (or 3am in the "good times"), keeping up with an ever-changing set of processes, "meeting before/after the meeting"... that all doesn't sound like a blast to me, so I would probably move on too.

(BTW, is the Singapore complaining thing really a joke, or is it true? Hard to tell)
For my personal selling, I wouldn't trust the API's:-). However, I have a product that helps a particular retail vertical list their items for sale online. I imagine my clients wouldn't mind having their items automatically cross-posted to Facebook's shop as well. (So, if Facebook kills the API, it would kill a feature in my product, but not my whole product.) That's why I was wondering about the API. I'll probably need to do some reading and searching today when I get some time!
It depends on when you joined. Sometime after 9/11 college benefits in particular were beefed up.

I forget the details, but my dad retired from the service after 20 years.

I think he gets ~50% of his basic pay. I want to say it's inflation adjusted as well.

Their salaries are low, so it's not exactly an amazing retirement. In a low COL state with Social Security it could be helpful assuming you've got everything paid off already.

TriCare is a medical insurance component, but I don't know the details of how good it is. I think for us it was useful as it could sometimes be used as coinsurance, picking up what our other insurance did not. But I also vaguely recall having issues with it being accepted, though I was a kid and didn't pay much attention.

All in all, you're definitely not joining the military to get rich, especially as an enlisted man.
Nothing, per se. But they don't set up softlimits or message size limits by default, both of which you should definitely do... it's just that the values you put in are specific to your situation.
Interesting idea, sounds like a nightmare for insurance underwriters though, if according to the T&C hosts are to obtain insurance on their own? Merely curious: does anyone know any providers who would underwrite a policy that covers you in case a total stranger hurts themselves on your leg press?
> Port Scanning is Malicious

Though port scanning can be (and maybe even frequently is) done with malicious intent by looking for misconfigured/bugged servers, I disagree that it's inherently malicious. Port scanning is just about checking to see what services a host is offering you. It's like going to a random shop at a mall and asking what services they provide. Would asking about their services be malicious?

It feels like the reason asking about services is considered malicious is because shops frequently give out info to the public that they shouldn't have. It's like:

client: What services do you provide?

shop owner: Well, I can provide you with a list of all my clients along with their personal information they entrusted to me.

So, is the client being malicious for asking or is the shop owner the one that was in the wrong for mistakenly providing that info to the public?

I feel the only reason we don't blame the shop owner is because even though he's the one that mistakenly discloses private info, sometimes he's just following a script written by a random programmer unassociated with him. Maybe the response was a mistake on the programmers part, maybe it was a mistake in how the shop owner used the script (a configuration error). In the end, it's simpler to blame the client for asking out-of-the-box questions (after all, most clients just come in to ask if you're giving out flyers/pamphlets because that's what everybody does) and so they don't feel responsible for the response that results.

I can provide a shop that also offers things different than http(s) with open access to the public. It shouldn't be a crime/violation to ask me if I offer them.
Part of the allure of the job is that it's supposed to be about abstract values like honor, duty, loyalty, patriotism etc. and not about compensation. It can't be otherwise, because then you have to accept that the job is basically just about killing people in exchange for money.
Korea, the gulf war, arguably Afghanistan, the cold war.

What is honorable is certainly subjective though.
Vercel/Now disables public site with shady messaging and little to no warning
We had an account on Vercel and received an email Saturday night warning us to upgrade our plan:

"As a result, please upgrade to the Pro team plan or reduce your usage of the platform. If action is not taken, all deployments under your personal account will be disabled in 2 days time."

We tried finding a place to put in a credit card on Monday, but did not succeed as you have to contact sales to negotiate unknown pricing. On Tuesday, they took the whole site down. Apparently, when they say "deployments will be disabled", they mean that they will take the whole thing down. This is very unclear messaging.

Anybody else have a similar experience? How are companies like this getting $21M in funding?
Console GPU Power Compared: Ranking Systems by Flops
With some help from others, it is also extendable to other platforms like Web and iOS
> For a lot of jobs in the US, you have a pension where if you retire from the company after X years there (in this case 20 years), then they’ll pay you some fixed sum every month for the rest of your life.

Pensions are extremely rare outside of the public sector, and have been for about the length of the average working career.
the owls are not what they seem
You might find this entry on Swiss mercenaries interesting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_mercenaries

It was new information to me but supports your idea.
It's a real responsibility. The losses are real. I think the key thing is realizing that you don't find real fulfillment in doing what you want. You don't find it in financial success, or in travel.

And so you can wind up chasing more money or more travel or more time to do your thing, and never finding that it's enough to satisfy you, because what you're looking for isn't there. This trip won't be enough, and the next one won't either, because what you're hungry for isn't in a trip.

Children can help you learn that. If you have children and don't learn it, then you resent the children. "I didn't find what I was looking for, but I could have, if they didn't mess it up for me!"

But I'm not sure that I can explain this in a way that makes sense to someone who doesn't already kind of feel it...
I can't read both links due to paywall.
I was attacked by a huge owl recently. It drew blood, and really hurt. I can confirm it was entirely silent, in contrast to being attacked by a crow, which makes an almost-avoidable swooshing sound.
In old Japanese internet that kind of bitmap-to-click tools were called “dot-tre” or “dot tracer” after the name of an app in mid 2000s
Not sure why you bring up the new goalpost of "what's best for the USA" but "Americans are too special for general human behavior to apply" is some rarely used FUD from the 1800s.
This reminds me of the startup idea generator that spat out "airbnb for workouts". My reaction to the basic idea is the same I had for a startup I saw on Shark Tank (I think), which was airbnb for pools. And that reaction is: ewwww, no thanks.

I just can't imagine ever using such a thing. Of course, I'm not a gym user in general so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
This story proves how you can do it if you have a "little" money. Given that he was the highest profile prisoner in the country it's still hard to go to an airport or fishing port and corrupt your way out alone. An old businessman isn't a special operative or spy.
It's worth noting this is the 16th time [0] this article has been submitted to HN.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I don't want to pile on, as quite a few people have already commented under this comment, but I would really like to know why you feel the compiler is "grumpy". Others and I have spent a lot of time trying to make the diagnostics clear, understandable, friendly and actionable. If there are cases we are failing at doing that, I would be more than happy to hear about them!

I hope it's not the tone, but rather how nitpicky the language feels, but the target is for most of the seemingly pedantic or arbitrary restrictions to give you guidance on what needs to be done instead.
Might want to mention this is a video article, no text seems to be available on this page.
FYI a fun little weekend project might be to set up network-wide ad/nsfw blocking with pihole and a Raspberry Pi. Mine cost about $40, maybe 2 hours to configure how I want it. My work laptop has a nsfw filter while my the rest of my devices have more intense ad blocking, and of course all block malware domains. You need a router that supports a custom dns setting though, and static internal IPs if you want per-device rules.

The main reason to do this it to block ads on smart TVs, etc. though, not for your use case.
Google, for all its current problems, _has_ made organization of the worlds knowledge vastly better than it was before they showed up.

I could be wrong but just surrounding the field of software development, there's probably already more relevant information on the internet than I could possibly consume in my life.
What are public companies if not people?

It seems to me what you're complaining about is less about Microsoft and more about capitalism and greed in general.
Approximately once per week I observe a comment on HN saying approximately "search doesn't work anymore." Why is this? Why do I only observe such complaints here?
There are young people all over the world who would go to the US right now, if they could get a visa, because they will have better opportunities there, and because they genuinely love the US culture.

The only culture that is liable to die from lack of children is a culture that could not survive in the free.
Think about all the privatized "special operations" missions that the public isn't even aware of...
You can now write your own resource providers [0], which seems similar to TF. It's pretty decent. The only issue is you can't easily migrate from a custom provider to an official one once they release it (without deleting and recreating the resource), which can be a dealbreaker.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/now-exten...
cd/m^2, not cd/cm^2

I don't understand. Monitors are intended to be set to the same brightness as the ambient environment. 300cd/cm^2 is max, not average.

Of course shining a monitor in your face at maximum brightness is bad, just like staring at a light bulb all day is bad.
When you say "this is squarely a Debian issue", do you mean "in his opinion", or that you agree?
We ended up just putting up the site on S3 and CloudFront and unsurprisingly it's much faster to load now (Vercel also claims "blazing fast sites") and we're probably paying a couple dollars a month at worst.
Color receives FDA authorization for Covid-19 test tech that speeds up results
Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring a Customer Support and Business Operations Manager
Construct a standalone COVID19 contact tracing device with a Raspberry Pi
I met a guy at NewSpace several years ago and we were talking about the role of the US military in space exploration. I was expressing my wariness of a militarized space force, the possibility of us ending up under a military junta, etc, but he was less worried. He kept making the point that mercenaries were the norm in the past and that the US military actually has an incredible record for never seizing control. He chalked it up to the fact that our military traditions and honor are deeply intertwined with civilian rule, and didn't think our soldiers would easily abandon that.
Dreaded Terminated Google Play Developer Account
How We Built SELinux Support for Kubernetes in Gravity 7.0
Epigenetic CHaracterization and Observation (Echo)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22809199
To connect to arbitrary IPs and ports to send home the results of the calculations.
Highly recommend. It’s a good intro book to Vonnegut, the other being Slaughterhouse 5. Or maybe those are just my favorites!

Very effective mixes of comedy and tragedy, prose that borders on poetry at times, very imaginative concepts. He’s able to walk you over that threshold of disbelief almost before you even realize it.
Love the landing page. Can I ask what tools/frameworks you used or just straight up tailwind and desgin skills?
How much of that time was caring for your eye health so you don't go blind early?
I hope you are right, it took no time for Typescript to catch on, and got ordained in Deno.
Exposure Notification API launches to support public health agencies
Remote managers can learn from open-source communities – Quartz at Work
Maybe add a reference to how ElasticSearch (or some other new-pop tech) catches heck for the same?