skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Clearly you weren’t around in the days when NFS was a thing.

I was and am. I currently help admin an HPC environment with several petabytes of NFS storage.

And the main problems I've experienced with NFS have generally been with Linux locking. I've had a lot less drama with Solaris and BSD NFS (though I did uncover two Solaris NFS server bugs over the years).

Whenever I have NFS issues I generally start with the assumption that there's a bug in the NFS client code.
Looks interesting, I checked out a couple but didn't see much in the way of response. Probably a chicken/egg issue. Nobody to chat with yet, so no reason to stay and chat, etc.
Hence one of the major reasons why the DoD pressured TSMC to open a 5nm fab in Arizona.
I was able to transfer a zfs pool from a linux server to a freebsd server with different hardware simply by moving the physical disks to the new server.

For me ZFS has been rock solid, even with power cuts during running vms(linux and windows) and a scrub.

I even managed to steal away enough ram from a server so that ZFS produced a stacktrace in dmesg, no data corruption, even on running vms.
... [crickets]

Welp, gonna delete your app now. Shame I didn't get to try it.
Does it beat ReCaptcha v3?
Have you considered submitting this to Show HN instead of Ask?

You can email hn@ycombinator.com and ask dang to change the title.
What Makes a Good Penetration Test?
> seems to want to put the USSR back together and I can’t see that stopping anytime soon

The USSR is dead and gone and no one in power in Russia wants it back, save for pensioners who had a better deal back then.

Putin wants the Russian Empire back, which held Poland, the Ukraine, most of the Baltics, etc.

Why be a Premier when you can be a Tzar?
Or within which, with which, yields a pleasant alliteration.
Fwiw, this isn't that tied to remote work IME: I've had 4PM beers occasionally at every tech job I've ever had. I'd usually do it while working, but at one it would always sparked a casual impromptu happy hour, which was also pretty fun.
How do you think it would go learning "backwards" from Elixir (which I'm currently learning w/ Phoenix for another purpose)? I've glimpsed through Reason/Bucklescript but never spent real time in them.
Misleading title "Apple didn't force in-app purchases on Wordpress"
Apple did force it but they say it was a mistake.
"Apple doesn't force in-app purchases on Wordpress anymore"
would be correct.
Were technical people informed that installing Fortnite outside of Google Play made their phones vulnerable?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/fortnites-android-vu...
The reason why most startups don't start this way is because many successful founders have an intuitive understanding for what the problem is and what the right solution should look like. And the reason why they are successful is because they are right.

The reason why unsuccessful startups fail is many, but for many they don't have product-market fit. The reason they don't have product-market fit is because they start with a solution and look for a problem. This analysis follows that same general track. Validate something. But validate WHAT? What if you just have nail in search of a hammer?

Validation is good but often it plays second fiddle to really understanding the problem domain and understanding how the solution is a good fit. Validation can only happen once you have that good sense of a fit.
Home Office hands IBM £7m deal to help build mega-database – without tender
Probably all of the above. The founder of TSMC was educated at Harvard/MIT/Stanford, and spent the first 25 years of his career working for Texas Instruments in Silicon Valley. He founded TSMC because the Taiwanese government gave him a large grant to found a nonprofit research institute in Taiwan. He was looking at the competitive landscape and realized that the one way Taiwan could capitalize on its biggest advantage (low labor costs of fairly educated labor, at the time) was to do only manufacturing and outsource the design, IP, and marketing to other countries that were better at it.
How was this achieved? I didn’t realize a Kindle supported HTTP proxys or installing root certs?
Last and possibly final beta release for DearPyGui
https://archive.vn/Uffvp
I tend to agree. The majority of my tools I want to have full access (as the user executing the command) to the filesystem. Being forced into only flatpak would be a nightmare.

But then there are a few apps that I would really like to have containerized. My browser is a big one. I also use Kdenlive and OBS for some things. Those would be great to have sandboxed.

I hope there's a future with both.
> Also, please do not rephrase this last sentence as "oh so since every software has bugs, then you obviously say that we shouldn't fix bugs, anyway other bugs will remain!".

That's exactly what I'm going to do. Point out that we can demand better even in the face of a lack of perfection.

There are two problems here with your stance.

1. The assumption that all bugs are created equal, and
2. The assumption that the truth isn't the overriding concern of science.

It's real easy to define the set of bugs that are unacceptable in science. Any bug that would render the results inaccurate is unacceptable.

The fact that some jackass web developer wrote a bug that deleted an entire database in no way obviates that responsibility of the scientists.
Splash Painting in Web
Ventoy makes making bootable USB drives easy
Imagine forcing everyone back to the office because you had kids and they're wearing you out
Google Photos allows unlimited storage

Until it doesn't. Or rather when Google no longer benefits from photos as a training corpus it will no longer have a business rationale for keeping old photos.

While 43,000 photos sounds like a lot and would have substantial heft as physical prints even at 4x6. As digital files they will fit on a $60 external spinning disk with room to spare. Even as RAW files.

But to me, a single print of a child's soccer game is going to have more impact than a thousand digital snapshots. Please, for the sake of the people you want to see your pictures, make some prints and put them in frames and hang them on a wall. They will last. Because physics hasn't changed. Good luck.
Actual bug and disclosure timeline: "Stealing local files using Safari Web Share API" https://blog.redteam.pl/2020/08/stealing-local-files-using-s...
> I activated airplane mode the second I unboxed the device and I never turned airplane mode off.

Same, however I had to connect my Kindle Oasis to the internet 1 time after purchase though, if i remember correct it was to download the dictionaries (for translation) i needed.
And i think there was a feature that was missing until i connected it to the internet once (i used a new/temporary account for that) but can't remember what feature that was though.
Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
It's to be fair, since Comcast is allowed to own content.
Great news. Windows used to come with Reader for this, but Microsoft killed it and said "Edge is the PDF viewer now."

Rather annoying to have the wrong web browser launching itself to view PDFs when Firefox does perfectly well at displaying them.
Firefox is my standard browser but it is completely unusable for printing anything; I always have to switch to Chrome to print.
A 26-layer convolutional neural network for human action recognition
Alcoholism causes birth defects? How?
It is, but I hate lugging around big books that I can't properly read in a hammock, after dark, ...

Being able to read on my phone or a featherlight e-reader is absolutely fantastic. Before that, easily more than half of my vacation luggage was books. I don't need to lug around a tome everywhere just so I can read on the subway. That's worth a lot to me.
Imagine forcing me to risk my life in a horrible commute through a stupid city just because you can't talk to me on the phone
> compared to the "hard" ones you get if you're on tor (or otherwise "shady" network)[.]

In my (limited) experience they serve you "hard" ones, and then continue serving you "hard" ones until you give up and go do something else.
Can they just give me an actual PDF viewer for the sole purpose of PDF viewing? Is it really the way forward? Bundling everything into a web browser? It feels like a giant security hole.
That contributes, but end of the day the supply chain for a sleepy little niche market will never account for the sudden demand of an event like COVID with widespread gym closures. There is no scenario where it makes sense for the market ro stockpile 10 years of workout equipment demand.

The secondary market is insane. People are selling rusty dumbbells for the price of copper ($3/lb) in my area. One pictured on Nextdoor had a circa 1985 Sears label on it.

If anything, COVID should be a wake-up call for the idiocy of modern manufacturing. In my business I'm having weird supply chain issues for stupid parts (think stamped metal), and I'm finding that having low-volume, custom manufacturing work done on-shore isn't as outrageously expensive as I thought it would be (I expected 300% more, paid 20%). Middlemen and Chinese manufacturers are making lots of margin on products that could be made anywhere.
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I don't know about anyone else but I have a negative perception of tech companies in the financial sector. Perhaps my perception is wrong, so I'm curious, how does the culture compare to one at Google or Facebook?
It's exactly because of this kind of stuff I replaced my kindle with a Kobo when it wore out.
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
I love that they destroy those myths, which have become a pox on beautiful, expressive writing. The "no split infinitive" nonsense-rule has a spectacularly shameful history.
Is this a rental building, or why is there no cable offering? Rural?
1.18 code freeze is upon us, it won't be long :)
I agree with your general contention that others may love the idea of indefinite work-from-home, but I don't think the poster was claiming work as the source of your life's human connections.

I read it as work without those connections lost meaning (for them). I can see that point - many of my best experiences doing difficult technical work have been with very tight knit teams that are difficult to maintain working remotely, let alone create.

Which isn't to say its-just-a-paycheck jobs are wrong in any sense, just that it's not enough for everyone.
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I think it will just offer alternative places where you might get attention that you otherwise wouldn't. Apple already has extremely restrictive and garbage discovery mechanisms on the App Store, and up until now has squashed all app-based attempts to make it better or provide an alternative discovery mechanism.

If alternatives were allowed to exist, those stores could be built with better discovery mechanisms or allow a smaller pond where you might be able to be the big fish.

As opposed to a vast ocean (App Store) where you've got to be damn lucky or have major connections to be anything more than a minnow as an independent.
Part of that control they're seeking includes ensuring a positive user experience.

Chrome and Firefox don't really prioritize efficiency anyway, but they're particularly bad in that category under macOS, and that would transfer to iOS versions as well. That's a problem for Apple, because users aren't going to attribute their phone getting hot and draining batteries quickly to their choice of browser, they're going to attribute it to the phone.

If Apple were to allow third-party web engines, they'd likely have to institute an approval process that includes rigorous testing of energy usage, resource consumption, etc and reject engines that don't meet the bar.
At some point Captcha's will be easier to solve with software than by people. Hopefully by then we can retire them completely. The onus for proving that a visitor is not a bot should be on the server side, not on the humans.
You can do the same thing in English but it's pretty obnoxious.
I went through "Running Lean" by Ash Maurya after reading Lean Startup, and it's a lot more practical and full of examples that can be applied in your own business. Only thing is that it's more oriented at consumer startups, so for B2B SaaS I'd recommend "The Startup Owner's Manual" by Steve Blank.
I don't see a fight between AWS and ARM as a realistic scenario. In The Great British Bake-Off, Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood were competing against neither the contestants nor the baking challenges. Their involvement was defining the scoring rubric and selecting the winners.

Similarly, AWS is in competition with nobody in this context. AWS just influences the competitive landscape and chooses who wins by awarding contracts.
This is very cool to see. GitPod has a nice paid offering where they can whitebox Gitpod and host the workspaces for you, which is useful for companies that want to provide an IDE environment for their custom software or tooling without having to do a lot of the work themselves. The product is great - it's a very solid competitor, and surprisingly compatible product to, VSCode.

I wasn't sold on working in the browser at first but it has a lot of advantages, especially if you like to switch between computers from time to time. You can even host small services for yourself on their hardware, i.e. development-mode web servers, so it's easy to use as a place for rapid prototyping and so forth.
Your wage on the labor market is not your value as a human. Maybe it's time you leave your nice part of America and live among people who won't make you feel like you're part of a rat race but value you for who you are.
There are also widely available acid-tests for silver. There are also electrical-conductivity, thermal-conductivity tests (both gold and silver are superior electrical and thermal conductors), and weight / density tests.

They all can be defeated one-at-a-time. Gold can have tungsten drilled into it for example (beating acid tests and weight tests), but that won't beat the thermal conductivity test because tungsten won't transfer the heat out as quickly.

> Silver has the added downside that it tarnishes easily.

And gold doesn't retain its shape. The solution to "tarnishing" issues (or in the case of gold: losing their shape), is to use 90% coins instead of 100% coins. The 10% alloy will be sufficient to reduce tarnishing, add structural stability, or whatever.

For example, a 1oz American Gold coin weighs 1.09 Oz.
Call me crazy but I wish we brought back the thing chrome did where each website was a separate "window" or "app" in android. It made switching between tabs so easy (you just use the native app switching functionality). For every other browser it ranges between awkward and super awkward (the new FF is on the super awkward side).

Plus windows nicely garbage collect themselves as I open more tabs and apps. As it is now my broswer just collects old tabs until I manually press the "close all" button. If I want them back that is what the history feature is for.
For those in the commonwealth, HCF seems to be the preferred term than GCD, I wonder what is the basis for this difference..
People should not be complaining then about their $25k salaries, either. Because there are way too many people on this planet who do not have even that. (And, oh, by the way, one could be sent off to war only to die there after plenty of suffering.)
Page location and page turn in there for syncing across devices, that's fine - ask the user 'sync across devices', if they say yes, not a problem. if they say no, don't send the data. Data that is stored would be something like 'currentlocation[$bookid] = $location'. Storing historical information (user was at location 1219 at 2020-01-06-05:12:41) is not required for that function.

Philosophy should always be store the minimum amount of data to provide the function that the user wants.

IP address is transitory and shouldn't be kept longer than needed for the tcp session, maybe it sticks in firewall logs, but that shouldn't be used for anything other than security.

goodread account details would only apply if you connect to goodread, I'm not sure what the benefit of that is, but I could see that 'user abc123 read this book' is useful data - again ask if you can send the data.
How do you know? Have you seen their W2 forms? A lot of people are also full of shit, especially when it comes to things like compensation. How do you know "levels.fyi" is accurate? AFAIK they base their information on self-reported anecdotes too. How do they correct for bias?

The only organizations I would trust to give accurate salary averages are payroll companies, who can properly do a uniform sample, and I don't think they publish their data for free.

Personally knowing someone that makes $X does not necessarily mean that $X is an average or normal compensation.
The key difference is consequence.

Tell Facebook no, they may kick you of.

Tell the government no. You go to jail. Say no to that and you get shot.

The moment it’s okay for government to control speech, you have China.

Having armed government agents showing up at a house because they don’t “agree” with the official stance is a dictatorship.
Woah, I never seen something like this done with bash and command line utilities. Thanks for sharing, made me find xdotool which is exactly what I neede to replace SikuliX. I can't comment on the project since I didn't test it but wow, only this example https://bitbucket.org/Pirates-of-Silicon-Hills/voightkampff/... made me think why didn't OP use a scripting language and went with Bash? (Python?)
Don't get me wrong, the Bash level is strong with this one :)
It's funny that people gang up on Epic Game Store exclusives when Steam has been doing exclusives for over a decade. Not only Valve games, but almost every AAA game that isn't made by Ubisoft or EA is basically just a code to unlock the game on Steam. You need to run all the updates through Steam, microtransactions through Steam, start the game each time by Steam. You can't live without Steam for most AAA games.
Lyft Motion Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles
FWIW, ChromeOS has been built with PGO for many years. This is catch-up for the mac toolchain.
It is normally used as marketing term. There are other alternatives that don't stink of bullshit like such as allow.

TBH in the example given the above should simply be:

> A language for building reliable and efficient software.
> How much of a chance do you have if you don't have missiles, but your enemy still has some? Isn't it better to just retreat?

It probably depends on the situation and what you do. IIRC, missiles lose effectiveness at the kinds of short ranges where you'd use guns. In some situations, running might put you in a more vulnerable situation while closing to a gunfight might even things up.
Almost all hardware and all software (especially software as a service) should be considered potentially hostile.
>I truly wish the Kindle had more competition.

I have a kobo and libgen. They are pretty good alternatives imo.
You make a claim that could not possibly be proven one way or the other. Therefore it is a meaningless claim.
There isn't a "translate button" - the selection of the word i the button for define/translate/wiki. You swipe between the three cards.

I like this, as a user. I don't want MORE buttons to tap through when I'm trying to define or translate a word. Especially since the Kindle eink screen and UI is not the most responsive.
> There is no physical reason why the moon fits precisely within the diameter of the sun

This ought to fit nicely into some version of the anthropic principle. That either pensive critters like us specifically or life in more general terms for a variety of subtle reasons depend on just such a match of ratios.
The current generation is going to get rid of it.

The subsequent generations may show some interest. And in their time it will either be scarce and perhaps of some value, or still abundant and cheap from the previous generations' lack of interest.
An international Telecom operator used Logpickr Process Explorer 360 to analyze the behavior of two different teams producing the same services.

They discovered that one team spontaneously parallelized tasks, and effortlessly gained time and availability, improving the overall process time.

By generalizing this best practice, the company gained 30% time on the service delivery, compared to the previous organization.
From what I understand, Terraform's k8s provider doesn't abstract k8s details. You still have to deal with the same complexity.

(Disclosure: I work for Pramati - the parent company behind Hyscale)
Imagine framing someone else's personal experiences and preferences as an exaggerated death wish for yourself.
As someone who doesn't have kids, I sympathize. One should recognize, on the flip side, that civilization doesn't keep going without kids :)!
I know a guy who works at Jane Street; he was formerly one of the brightest undergrads at Caltech. He turned down an offer to do a PhD at Berkeley to take the Jane Street offer, IIRC. He is pretty idealistic and has an interesting philosophy about working in finance: he thinks moving money around isn't that societally valuable, but he donates 10-15% of his income to charity each year (I think he picks charities using the GiveWell/effective altruism methodology). In his view, the value of his lifetime charitable contributions exceeds the impact he could hope to have in pretty much any other field of endeavor, so the job is completely worth it.
Who has a better story to tell

Epic “we want to sell useless virtual goods with 0 marginal cost” or

BaseCamp - “we run a small business, pay our employees well, always sought to be profitable instead of VC funding, etc.”

Everybody eats up the small business angle. Besides DHH is a lot less slimy than anyone who Epic parades out.

If they started a GoFundMe, I would donate to their legal defense. What Epic wants will probably never happen. What BaseCamp wants - just basically to be treated like Netflix and the other “reader apps” is much more realistic and it’s fair to the actual indy developers of cross platform useful apps who could do their own marketing.
Is it the same exact area burning every time?
I used to struggle with this. It seemed like the first few steps of anything I could do would never measure up to these accomplishments that I saw from others.

Then I realized that even being willing to take those steps is extraordinary -- because it's not that common. Being willing to try and fail is extraordinary. Doing hard work without a guaranteed outcome is extraordinary. Realizing that you've been doing something ineffective and you need to change is extraordinary.

And if you consistently do at least some of those, then one day you may hit those extraordinary results when you least expect it. Even if you don't, you have had extraordinary experiences along the way. That's worth something.
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