skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sending right now at home 7TB from my server to my NAS and it's taking aaages over my internal 1Gb/s ethernet network.

Am I right thinking that there are (still) no SOHO network switches that can handle faster speeds (at least 2Gb/s) that don't have active fans & don't get hot and that aren't super-expensive? The last time I checked, about 1 year ago, I didn't manage to find anything.
You're quite right. Thanks for pointing it out. Upvoted.

OK, here's what he said "but I find “deepthroat” as utterly disgusting".

There's no space for the fact that some women like that, or that even if they don't, adult film workers are doing a paid job. Not all oral sex involves choking or apparently being forced. But that's a blanket condemnation based on him being "disgusted" and ignoring the nonsexual violence in mainstream media.

He goes on "I really dont know what the solution can be for this other than curating what types of videos they could watch"

So back to curating sex videos but ignoring extreme graphic nonsexual violence?
You gotta redo the foreign key constraints in the same transaction that you rebuild the table
There is an entire industry of headhunters for stand-in for directors and senior staff.
Thoughts: A portable, POSIXy pal for putting your thoughts on the internet
I was gnashing my teeth over exactly this last night — 26 years on a Mac for me:

https://wincent.com/blog/grieving-for-apple
Maybe you should let the amateur devs at Facebook and Pinterest know how easy it is? After all, they developed this entire framework in Objective-C to address UI performance, and – shocker here – they consider 60fps a selling point there, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ngXakpE2x8

I guess you probably have better insight than the devs of two of the most popular native apps, though. Cheers!
> Sell something that sells. Sell what other people sell because that is what sells.

I haven't heard it phrased this way, but something about this strikes me as deeply profound and correct, and not just in this particular situation. The most successful companies I've ever worked at did the same thing -- selling something that other people sell, but just selling a better version of that.
They say they can predict sex 69% of the time, and use that as evidence to hypothesize that the differences between sexes aren't just cultural, they are probably biological too.

Not agreeing or disagreeing with the biological differences part, but I do think 69% seems pretty low to use as evidence for such a claim. Seems like cultural forces and gender stereotypes could probably explain enough of that difference.
Ah yes. The most accurate and impossible to forge form of identification, the Facebook page
> I think the typical HN commenter participates in a debate where the boundaries are narrowly and firmly defined by officialdom, and that any discussion outside of those boundaries will be treated as heresy.

On Hacker News, presenting speculative claims without evidence to back them is unpopular, yes. I have desire to put words in your mouth, but I felt that there wasn't all that many ways to interpret a downvoting ring and an exposé you say this points towards.

To respond to your additional edit: presenting your claims and telling me to search online for evidence to support it…is not helping your point, nor is it really what I meant when I asked for you to support your claims.
False alarm, it's been deleted 4 hours later. There isn't as much friction as it seemed like there could be.
Now Embraced by Mark Zuckerberg, Work from Home Was a Facebook No-No 2 Years Ago
right. compat for this still exists on solaris at least, as lib0@0: see the notes section at the bottom of [0].

[0] - https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/816-0210/6m6nb7md6/inde...
Then you filtered out an honest person.

Lets face it though, it is not that hard to jot down some notes for each company that you can review in a couple minutes in the car before the interview.
Is Every Speed Limit Too Low? (2014)
We have a PC in the living room for Spotify, random Internetting, homework of the kids, some games and so on.

It could have been a laptop with a connected screen and keyboard etc I guess, but a hp prodesk mini pc in the cupboard next to the small table looks much neater.
The font looks god awful on my screen. Changing everything to Roboto in the linked page made it 100x more pleasant to read.
How I learned to draw realistic portraits in 30 days
I live in a downtown condo. After I got fed up with 4-bay Synology - noise and proprietary everything, I copied all the data to a single 4TB WD passport and bought a fanless mini-itx on AliExpress and installed Ubuntu on it and few services, mainly in docker containers. I understand it is a shoddy setup so all important data has reserve copies and offsite backups but in terms of form factor - that was the right decision for me.
Meh? I currently Dev on a Jetson Nano, which is fine except I wish i had 8gb of ram, rather than 4.

Using a not GNOME DE made a lot of my problems go away.
Isn't this fairly common? I've now worked at several organizations where sensitive information was stored on air-gapped networks. Software updates or data were moved in and out using pre-approved external drives.

I tend to think this is good software dev practice anyway. You ought to be able to test everything on your testing servers, and if this doesn't adequately reproduce the production environment, it's a problem with your test system.
I've got two mini pcs as desktops for me and my wife; lets us put desktops in places with less desk space (we used to have back to back computers on a fairly deep desk). The old ones are doing MythTV duty in closed tv cabinets. Not fanless though.

Since we've got a bit more desk space now, I'm planning to go a little bigger when the Ryzen 4000 desktop APUs come out.
True. It also has one quarter the population too.
Porn video quality increases a lot year to year. There are probably multiple lifetimes worth of 90s porn out there and I bet almost no one watches it now besides as a curiosity.

It's not just video quality either but style. I've noticed that a lot of modern porn tries to have an amateur aesthetic but with high technical proficiency. Compare that to old professional porn where they were still trying to go for some kind of "hollywood of porn" style.

I'm sure tastes will continue to change and this generation's porn will lack the novelty future generations crave.
Maybe. I did TripleByte, the usual process everyone is talking about. That led to 30 minute calls with a bunch of potential employers, then I selected 2-3 of them to do on-sites. The on-sites were single day technical whiteboarding sessions + lunch (taking 6-8 hours total, exhausting), then I got offers from those companies.

When I've gone to FAANG companies, I've gone through a lot more per company to receive an offer. Multiple visits to each campus, lunches, technical sessions, spanning potentially weeks or months. Overall I think TB saved a lot of time and I really enjoyed the process.

Of course, now they've really shot themselves in the foot.
When do you have to replace an EDFA?
Preselling good, since sending cash is a lot better signal of interest than handing over email, SMS, etc.

That said, you would need to have a quantifiable definition of done and likely be a good idea to account for absolute failure in case something comes up an “done” is never accomplished. Until it is “done” likely be good idea to escrow the funds, but then you run into issue like paying taxes, transaction fees, etc.
As a programmer, I could be interested because I want to work with the language they use, because I want to work more with databases in a practical setting, because I want to work in a small company (I doubt the 27th largest CRM vendor has more than say 200 customers) or simply because I want to try something different.
Good clarification, and exactly right!

Later I do walk back over the bytecode and remove the nops. But I have to update all JMP/CALL instructions to cope with the changed destination offsets. Not a hard job in my case, as there are only a couple of instructions which refer to byte-offsets.

(If I allowed "LD A,[BC]", or similar permuations I'd have a lot more work to do.)
Azure AD does, and was one of the first to adopt the new WebAuthN standard.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/auth...

You can also use it on a personal Microsoft account.
Oh, Jepsen and MongoDB again? Somebody get the popcorn!
>"The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda."

I thought this had been going on for some time; quite possibly since the early days of the Internet, and not just from America -- but from all nations...

>"Once developed, the software could allow US service personnel, working around the clock in one location, to respond to emerging online conversations with any number of co-ordinated messages, blogposts, chatroom posts and other interventions."

Again, it wouldn't surprise me if every single nation on the planet has this at this point in time; and if they don't, they will...

To understand this, think of it this way -- the lowest barrier to entry for something like this is a single person, paid for by one of the various governments, posting messages on behalf of a particular agenda.

The next version up is a more sophisticated automated system (which is still ridiculously cheap, given all of the $$$ that most governments have). Up from there we have AI/Machine Learning driven systems, but the cost (again, relative to governments' budgets) is still ridiculously cheap...

So, with all of that to gain, and no downside (well, other than spamming up the Internet and destroying intellectual thought and debate with comments that would make Billy Madison look like Albert Einstein: ("Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."))

But aside from that "minor drawback" <g>, to a government point of view, there is no downside, and the cost is so cheap (relative to the $$$ they have), so why not?

>"It also calls for "traffic mixing", blending the persona controllers' internet usage with the usage of people outside Centcom in a manner that must offer "excellent cover and powerful deniability"."

All I know is, if a user account, real or sockpuppet, man or AI -- tells me that 2 + 2 = 4 -- it's probably right.

Conversely, if it tells me that 2 + 2 = 5, it's probably wrong.

My point is, I don't believe things just because people say them, or even because a lot of people say them, whether those "people" are real people, paid agents, or AI...

It's called "Critical Thinking".

Perhaps every country's defense establishments -- should invest a few dollars of their tax base -- and teach it to their citizens...

The problem is, "Critical Thinking" -- doesn't have a catchy sounding militaristic title with "Operation" as the first word...

Create a fancy name like that, make it a "top secret" project, and I guarantee, due to the Streisand Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect), that you'll get everyone's attention!

Call it "Operation Free Your Mind" or something like that...<g>
They killed the feature altogether.

https://www.bankofamerica.com/security-center/accounts-cards...
On that note, back in 2015 I found a nice gentlemen in Los Angeles who was a Prius enthusiast who would drive over to Phoenix/AZ and buy used ones, drive them over to LA and privately re-sell them. The Prius I bought from him (2005 model) is still being driven by my father five years later.
https://archive.md/uyP7B
There's also the issue of losing all your data if you enabled Secure-Boot (which is default) and the T2 chip failed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dwqxsDHkKQ
The Jepsen analysis : https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6
Super interested in this setup! Is it possible to provide some links?
If the firm is fast and produces reliable platforms at the cost the client is looking for then their clients couldn’t care less whether it’s Django (sigh) or Lambdas.
One important difference to note is that people do this in the privacy of their homes all the time, and we certainly will not be banning that. The only thing you would be banning is having a camera pointed at it. The other vices are not illegal only if you record yourself doing it, even child porn.
Jean Yang made a great analogy here: https://twitter.com/jeanqasaur/status/1262833050473259009

> Programming languages researchers are like fashion designers and "research languages" like Haskell and Idris are like runway looks. Nobody expects people to go around snakes on their bodies. They're pushing the boundaries of art and science and showing what's possible.

And just like in fashion, the runway looks eventually change what people are wearing. Rust’s memory management would never exist in its current form if Cyclone hadn’t already shown it was possible.
If the ship-mounted laser is powerful enough to take down a drone, it's already delivering way, way more power at a distance than the cutter shown in the video does at a few inches.
Couldn’t figure out how to add virtual monitors
Wouldn't be the first time HN/automoderation/mods have removed 'critical to YC business interests'. Happened to me with the Thalmic Myo, when I open source forced them to open their platform. HackADay also notes that HN autohid my article.

https://hackaday.com/2014/11/18/thalmic-labs-shuts-down-free...

HaD wasn't hidden.. Thalmic was.

Dang has usually responded with noncommital responses like they never do that. But further requests for being transparent has fallen on deaf ears.

edit: and -1'ed. Is this because "my content sucks"? Is it because of 'offtopic'? Or is it a mod?

Considering karma here determines rights, rate limiting, mod-down, flagging, and more - these points do matter here. And of course the larger issue here is lack of transparency. In fact, with removal of mod scores, the site has gone down in transparency.
Google Messages preparing end-to-end encryption for RCS messages
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One of the great things one can learn from SQLite is the degree to which they unit (and integration) test their source code. It's honestly the best unit test document I have read in my career to date: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html.
Nicely done - it instantly reminded me of that feeling of deep dreading when coming across a latex document so it looks like this is fairly spot on :)

Not sure what it is, perhaps PTSD from uni but something about latex docs bring on really bad feelings...
In my startup, we began with a monolithic back-end where we could refine our product and prove market fit. At first, this was indeed fast to develop and simple.

The company grew and the product saw heavier use. The original monolithic server became slow and problematic. Hosting cost became very high. Separate teams ran into conflicts while working on the server.

So we have incrementally switched to an FaaS-centric architecture, similar to the one in the article. The new design makes it easier to get excellent stability, performance, cost and observability. Now that the development team is a little bigger, FaaS/microservice design makes it easier for the teams to work without blocking each other. I’m sure that same benefits could be achieved in a traditional monolithic server with careful design and control of the development process, but it seems easier and quicker to accomplish with FaaS.

Indeed, a simple REST API sometimes requires dozens of handlers. One might worry that this is complicated because each handler is somehow running in a separate container... but that’s really the cloud provider’s problem. Execution is very finely segmented, while logical division of the code-base is generally free to follow natural domain divisions. It’s pure benefit to us: endpoints have excellent isolation. We have excellent control for behavior in overload scenarios.

FaaS handlers tend to be simpler than each action in the former monolithic server. With simplicity, it’s easier for us to ensure handlers follow a common set of best practices. With simplicity, consistency, and fine-grained isolation it is easier to reason about the performance and capacity of the system. While there are scenarios where FaaS is prohibitively expensive, our use stays within its sweet spot and is significantly less expensive than running the previous monolithic server.

A downside of FaaS is that it quickly became impossible to run the entire system on a developer laptop. We really need to run things on the cloud infrastructure for any kind of integration test. So far, it has been hard for us to provide developers or test infrastructure with independent Integration test sandboxes. Vendor lock-in is a problem: it will be hard for us to change cloud providers if ours becomes problematic.
Connected to a TV for "home theatre" or Steam link; or moderate amounts of always-on storage.
Yes Krita, pressure etc all work properly. You can check the wiki and the troubleshooting steps will apply all Linux not just Arch.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wacom_tablet
If you want to program inside a container you could use something like yazz pilot which is designed to do exactly that https://github.com/zubairq/pilot
In the book, lexing and parsing is done from scratch. I think tools like Flex and Bison are very handy, but for the book, my focus is on learning value.
Yes, it is achieved to a certain extent but what I am envisioning is a platform that is a way to gel together online and offline but is recognised world over. There are already efforts in this direction but that has not taken flight yet.
So you are claiming that there are only two companies that have successfully run a business on AWS?

The reason for managed cloud is the same reason for using any other vendor. To let you focus on your core competencies that give you a competitive advantage. Do you also think companies shouldn’t use Github, Microsoft, Workday, Oracle, SalesForce, Atlassian, etc.?

Do you know how much infrastructure you can buy for the fully allocated code of one employee?

Maybe they know something that you don’t know...

Seeing that even Amazon admits that only 5% of Enterprise workloads are on any cloud provider, who is arguing that it is always the right choice?

I command a higher than (local) market salary for an individual contributor in no small part because of my expertise when it comes to AWS, but I’m the first person to tell someone who asks me for advice when it doesn’t make sense to bother with the complexity and cost of a cloud provider and just use a colo, VPS, or just use AWS Lightsail (AWS’s answer to companies like Linode).
For what it's worth, I canceled/deleted my account this morning. Took me about 30 seconds to do thanks to this link and about 2 hours later I got an email that it was deleted.

No government ID required.
Here’s my experience with that:

April estimates 5 hours of work but spends 12 on it. She justifies her overage by communicating with the PM and letting them know ahead of time the task is worse off than they thought. But to do it right she will need to go over, by roughly 5 more hours. Song the way she is taking notes of what she’s doing and then screenshots and justifications at the end to explain the work.

Bob estimates 5 hours and takes 12. He doesn’t communicate, the work isn’t finished to spec or even partially to spec, he can’t justify his time and argues that roadblocks kept him from finishing.

The latter is the person I regularly deal with and I only know one “April”.
I noticed two big omissions:

1. No automatic numbering (and no automatic table of contents generation).

2. Latex will indent the first line of each paragraph (except the first one in a run). This is the reason why it gets away with very little padding between paragraphs.

Having written my share of Latex, I have always wondered why people are focusing on math and formulas. That is the least of what Latex brings to the table. Most documents have no need for formulas but are massively underserved in the "proper typesetting" department.

I remember hacking a Latex CSS many years ago when CSS was only half as powerful as it is now. I had to use some Javascript for the table of contents generation though.

Personally, I find the Computer Modern font the least attractive thing about TeX. I always substitute either Times Roman if the size of the resulting PDF is important, or Linux Libertine or so if not.
Yes. This was in Sunnyvale. There is a lot of RV living in Mt. View. For a while Google sanctioned living in an RV in their parking lot for their employees, but they seem to have clamped down on that.

The cops started to ticket people on El Camino too, but I think they stopped doing that during the lockdown.
I used to do that on my blog. Example: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/team_building.html

Stopped doing it as I got negative feedback about it being annoying. I never tracked how many tweets I get out of it though. So if you aim for popularity (unlike me) it might still be worth it.

It was one of the big reasons I used RestructuredText as markup language for my static website generator. It is extensible enough to make these tweet-blocks with just:

.. tweetable :: Psychological Safety is THE core factor for Great Teams says Google
check this out for browsers
https://github.com/sql-js/sql.js
Well tested.
Unfortunately, not an entertaining showdown - too one-sided.
I'm paying $50/mo for 1Gb in the US. I thought I was doing well
YOU are not in a position to determine what will or will not undermine me at my employer or my business partners. You can still fix this. Make it opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users. Simple.
My recollection is that Computer Modern didn't look very good on old laser printers, as their resolution just wasn't high enough to handle the detail of the glyphs. It was crafted for digital phototypesetting systems with a resolution of 1200dpi or more, and 300dpi laser printers couldn't do it justice.
I'm sorry, but not providing any actual evidence to support your claim, then saying it's "common sense", "stupidly obvious and self evident", then calling anyone who even argues the point an addict or arguing in poor faith checks about every box in the "how to make it hard for people to actually continue a discussion with you in good faith" list.
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No that is not common.
Usually I mouseover and see where the link would take me. If it's something like micr0soft.co, it raises some red flags. For something like a targeted phishing email, it's even more reasonable to be concerned about things like browser 0 days