skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're looking at virtual memory and not resident memory. I've never had KDE take up 3.5GB of memory on a machine with 4GB, 8GB or 32GB of memory. Right now, kwin_x11 occupies 110MB of resident memory on my machine while claiming 3.4GB of virtual memory. Similarly, konsole occupies 54MB of resident memory and 928MB of virtual memory on my machine.

Virtual memory[1] is not at all the same thing as resident memory[2].

I've experienced similar amounts of memory usage to the stats in this article when it comes to KDE vs Xfce memory usage[3].

[1] https://linuxconfig.org/ps-output-difference-between-vsz-vs-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_set_size

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/23/bold-...
That patch will likely take weeks or months to reach end users
I know what problems it solves, what problems it creates and how very expensive it is to learn, operate, optimize and debug.

Its features do not justify its complexity and the cost of operating it.
I'm not seeing it, at least just from that. Can you point out the connection between exactly what Murray writes and the "limited and specific way" debacle?

Boris Johnson to skirt around law and violate treaty isn't exactly out of character.
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The software patent directive of 2005 was rejected at the request for multinationals (IBM, Philips, Microsoft, etc...) who pushed for a central patent instead.

Some other countries have ratified, some like Spain, Poland, Czech republic have stayed away for different reasons, like languages and higher costs of litigation for small companies.
This is a very good point. There is a huge difference between a Tor client chatting with a Tor hidden service, and a Tor client chatting with a clearnet service.

Furthermore, it's not as simple as 'see all of your decrypted network traffic'. Perhaps the Tor client is talking with the clearnet server over TLS 1.3. This presents much more difficulty for the malicious exit node.
Murray often claims to be reporting something he was told by an insider at the Foreign Office.

I'm not sure whether in general to believe him.

In this case I'm convinced, from what we know now, that he was telling the truth: that the government was planning, at the time the backstop was negotiated, for how to break it, and that this was unusual enough for Foreign Office legal advisers to be distinctly unhappy about it.

I don't think this demonstrates that every time he claims he's reporting insider information he's telling the truth. But it does weigh in the direction of treating him as a truth-teller.

It's the nearest thing we can get in this sort of situation to gaining confidence by verifying a theory's prediction experimentally.
Having the application run the same in dev as in production is one of the main selling features of a containerized environment.
Ask HN: Who wrote and published an eBook and is willing to share tips?
As a german i am quite sure they will ratify software patents. The very sad part is the people deciding this have absolutely no understanding what they are doing and that they open the box of pandora.

There is currently almost no invest money in european startups, and if everyone of these startups is liable for bogus software patents they will have absolutely no chance on getting big.
Next? Dams. There are about 84,000 dams in the USA, and most of them are approaching their projected end-of-life - a hundred years or so (most of them are of the earthen type, not the concrete kind.) And ... civil engineers are going into retirement and their workforce is not getting refilled, about a 20% reduction.

The common theme is that this was all done a century ago in a progressive push that was unaware of any environmental consequences or long-term maintenance needs. For example, the Columbia river (NW) was so dammed up for electric generation, it impacted salmon spawning. Today, USACE spends something like $5 million a year to make salmon elevators and in many places, literally truck them upriver so that commercial fishermen can later retrieve about $450k worth of salmon a year downriver.

And as it turns out, we didn't need that much electricity to begin with and the demand never materialized in time to capitalize on it (manufacturing). And unlike salmon, we can't truck electricity elsewhere.

Edit: since I'm a dam dork, here's a construction type breakdown I did five years ago. Edit 2: dam_type not related to year_built, summaries just placed next to each other.

count dam_type year_built count

70,278 Earth <1900 14,623
9,031 (Unknown) 1900-09 2165
1,446 RCC 1910-19 1964
1,215 Gravity 1920-29 2321
724 Concrete 1930-39 3930
455 Other 1940-49 4115
420 Rockfill 1950-59 11,517
201 Masonry 1960-69 18,717
136 Buttress 1970-79 12,910
103 Arch 1980-89 5189
58 Stone 1990-99 4393
51 Timber Crib 2000-09 2290
16 Multi-Arch

Only 847 of those dams are tailings dams, used for industrial processing. More than 0, but less than 84,000. Of those, none are listed as concrete (730 Earth, 61 Unknown, 43 Other, 13 Rockfill).
This was what I feared when I voted against the Unitary Patent. I really hope someone manages to prevent software from becoming patentable in Europe.
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The law itself makes sense in my opinion, but the way it was introduced makes the self declaration as being democratic a cheap farce.

I doubt the EU will survive in its current state. 10 years ago that would have made me sad. There are enthusiasts, but not enough to make it work.
Interesting hypothesis. I've also run across the idea that in arid regions, nutrients were built up over geological timescales, but after one introduces irrigated crops, get depleted over agricultural timescales.
This is great! One vertical you should consider exploring is accountants/tax preparers working with their clients, they would love this!

You may need to talk more about your security if you want to pursue opportunities with them
The rolling upgrade cycle for software and games is running afoul of our assumptions about what you get when you pay for a product.

With RL, customers have lost Linux support and are now losing the ability to opt-out of the EGS.

But it's not the only example; Valve's own TF2 increased its minimum system requirements over its lifespan. They may not have stated as much, but the rolling updates eventually made the game unplayable on machines that could play it decently.

Hell, Oculus is going to require a Facebook account.

And so on, there's plenty of examples of game developers breaking a product their users paid for, and with no recourse for them.
How could it be a significant risk if it is the cause of very very few infections? I don't understand what you mean by this.

> In May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidelines to clarify that while COVID-19 spreads easily among speakers and sneezers in close encounters, touching a surface “isn’t thought to be the main way the virus spreads.” Other scientists have reached a more forceful conclusion. “Surface transmission of COVID-19 is not justified at all by the science,” Emanuel Goldman, a microbiology professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, told me. He also emphasized the primacy of airborne person-to-person transmission.

(july 27) https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hy...

"Hygiene theater", like "security theater", is focused on appearances rather than actual calculated risk.
Take a leave of absence from your current job. Apply for minimum-wage jobs and don't stop until you have landed such a job and worked at it for at least one full month, doing all you can to live off that minimum-wage income. This almost certainly will reset your expectations and help you feel much better about your current job.
Ah, yeah Apple and mice. The operating system where the shoulder buttons of my old but perfectly fine Logitech MX518 don't work and I have to jump through hoops to get them to simply make them take me back in a browser. Truly a masterpiece of engineering. /s

Apple's drivers for basic input devices are extremely bad. I couldn't believe it when I was first using a Mac. You need vendor drivers for everything.
But only in a "limited and specific" way, so that's okay [UK in-joke]

At least we're not the only country wanting to violate international agreements at present
Almost all smaller e-commerce websites don't have an app. They rely on their website + e-mail notifications.

Would they enable web notifications if it was universally available? Yes. Would they enable it just for Android users? Some do. Does this say something about the quality of PWA's? You tell me. You seem to be adamant that the web sucks, yet literally millions of companies are succesful on the web without accompanying apps.
interesting you bring this up as it shares many roots with the Afro-Cuban diasporic music associated with bata drumming
Project Aria (FB Glass):research project on the future of wearable AR
Serverless has its own complexity. Deploying a smaller, lightweight purpose built image, with no orchestration lock-in is the main benefit.
I use ddg for 95% of my searches. I sometimes go to google but I can’t say they’re necessarily better.
I’m not too concerned

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wouldn't the filter fabric get clogged over time?
A lot of international agreements seem to be geared towards rich countries paying off poor countries.
Example for wildfire detection using ML https://samsammurphy.users.earthengine.app/view/hotmap by https://twitter.com/samsammurphy His startup is http://www.earthscope.io/
This is why I always set 2 alarms on 2 different devices. It sucks, but I’ve been burned a few times now by an alarm not going off, for whatever reason.
> compositional and performance advantages

Compositional sure, but performance? Care to elaborate?
None of these corner-cases do anything for your arsonist analogy. Whatever else one thinks of the utility, it is not plausible that either it or its employees intended to start a fire.
The USG has threatened to prosecute both the NYT, WP and others in the past under both Democrat and Republican administrations. What has prevented it in the past has been the potential political fallout.

I imagine that Assange taking active steps to help gather the classified information instead of just publishing material gathered independently and leaked is what changed the math in this case.
Abbilona has recorded a lot of these sacred Afro-Cuban "liturgies"

https://sunlightsquare.bandcamp.com/album/masters-of-bat
> I'm just not so sure that if you accidentally knock over one domino and a cascading whole room full of dominoes falls that you should take the blame for the cascading effects.

Yes, you do and should take the blame under the eggshell skull doctrine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull). If the initial action was unlawful, then the perpetrator bears liability for the full set of consequences -- even if those consequences are more severe than normal based on unknown factors. Here, PG&E was clearly guilty of gross negligence in their maintenance, so they bear liability for the consequences.

Worse yet, this background situation wasn't previously unknown. The enhanced fire risk was widely understood, which would put PG&E under an even greater obligation to ensure their equipment was operated safely.
I guess it's OK if I take a picture during daytime and then alter it digitally to look as if it was taken at night.
To anyone as confused as I was reading this article:

Freedom Tower == One World Trade Center[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center
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Why is silicon valley getting more passive aggressive and hostile? Now dismissal dialogs day "maybe later" instead "no thanks", and product features are becoming non optional opt ins like this. Stop and think before you implement something like this and push back on your boss.
That is an astounding webpage. I haven't had even one ten thousandth as many problems with my Linux machines as he's had with OSX.
Sent by Putin or sent by rogue FSB agents?

It's not exactly a conspiracy theory that the FSB have historically enjoyed an unusually high level of autonomy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekism
I clicked update at bedtime thinking this would happen but then I forgot about it. This post has reminded me and I'm surprised that my alarm did actually go off this morning.
That was very interesting and informative read.

Actually that is my dream - to build an underground house. I'm very sensitive to external noise so I'm ready to bear with cons of underground structure.
For a more general document, read FFII submission to a public consultation:

https://ffii.org/ffii-oppose-the-third-attempt-to-impose-sof...
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Systemic fixes are needed. In the meantime you can improve your own experience (and hopefully others a bit too). When you hover over a recommendation, there's a menu icon to the right side (three vertical dots, gray). Clicking it opens menu with option to indicate "Not interested" and "Report". The former is supposed to train your own instance of recommendation algo, the later does the usual reporting.

According to the current scuttlebutt lore, Youtube makes a concerted effort to steer users towards authoritative sources (typically the big media brands), especially on spicier subjects. This is in response to the recent slew of articles accusing Youtube of user radicalization.
Politicians often attempt to smear an economy evenly across a polity. This may have worked in agricultural times, but in technological seems counterproductive. The mechanisms in this article would argue that transfer payments would be superior: allowing further growth in the growing areas, and subsidising the shrinking areas out of the resulting larger pie. However, that approach has its own detractors.
> The next startup I do will have a small parking lot full of cofounders

You don't think that devalues the title? It also seems like it would destroy any sort of hierarchy.
Good, It's been my default search engine for a few years now.
Exactly. The point is that the prosecutor has repeatedly brought up a specific event that Goetz witnessed. But when Goetz comes to testify, Goetz is not allowed to discuss that very same event.

The prosecutor is allowed to repeatedly quote Luke Harding's account of what Assange supposedly said, but Goetz isn't allowed to give his opinion - which is apparently very different from that of Harding. Harding's personal hatred of Assange is well known, and he published this false (and as-of-yet un-retracted) story [1] about Assange supposedly meeting with Manafort in the Ecuadorian embassy, so it's entirely plausible that Goetz' "memory" of what Assange said is more accurate than Harding's.

It's been pretty clear throughout this story that the judge is very unfavorable towards Assange. They're just going through the formalities, but we can all guess what the outcome will be - unless there's enough political pressure on the UK government to stop the extradition.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-hel...
Around here, they sell used railroad ties at places like Home depot & Lowe's... probably not a good idea.
If I have an idea for autonomous robotic cat toys and you are a brilliant marketer, but neither of us knows anything about cats, are we really going to get very far by just hiring some cat people?

I get that this actually happens a lot, but aren't companies more successful when their founders cover the core expertise needed to make smart business decisions?

Or is that wishful nerd-thinking on my part?
I'd point you to Oleg Kiselyov's page on Extensible Effects[0]. Here's a quote:

Thanks to the Freer monad construction and the representation of the continuation as an efficient sequence structure, extensible effects have good performance even for relatively short monad stacks, and algorithmically better performance than monad transformers for longer stacks.

Essentially the performance improvement comes when you need to handle a nested effect, with EE you can access the handler in amortized constant time (with a type-aligned queue), instead of propagating the request up the handlers.

[0] http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible/
Since DDG also sources their organic results from Bing, I wouldn't be surprised if there was also a contractual obligation that required DDG to use Bing ads to reduce the cost they pay for the search results.

Over the last few months I have been working on an alternative search engine. Maybe naively, I thought the most difficult part was going to be to convince people to use it, but the real challenge if figuring out a way to monetize the service in a way that maintains privacy and respects users. The more I go down this path, the more I realize the next big search engine will be one that provides better results AND comes up with a better way for monetization.

I wrote a little about it here [0] if anyone is interested.

[0] https://coil.com/p/runnaroo/Privacy-and-Search-Engine-Moneti...
DDG is good for scripting, but shit for compiled languages.

I have to use !g for programming.
I've had to switch to FastMail app with iOS 14, because Mail.app sends emails from the wrong alias – from an address other than what's selected in the From field. I thought I'd messed up, but no, Mail.app just doesn't work correctly. Befuddling.
> Mozilla

Agreed.

> KDE.

Agreed.

> Google and Apple.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire :-)
This is currently my go-to, has a pretty good update cadence and the team is pretty responsive to bugs. It's got the linking and tab search, but some of the UX stuff could be smoothed out a bit better (mostly the expandable right-bar).

Also like that it's just CSS for the theming - I'm kind of particular about my typography so I like that I can set it up the way I want it.

I sync to a private repo and use an (albeit hacky) combination of GitJournal (for creating new .md files in a /mobile folder) and SpeckEditor (for editing files in the repo) on mobile.
I feel like with this music it's hard to separate the dance, song, and religious context. Have you experienced trance states in the sense that practioners do with Orishas embodying participants, or do you mean something else by "trance?"

I think it's also interesting you indicate listeners, rather than the drummers getting into that state - my memories of learning bata drumming are largely of going into a hyper-focused state that I wouldn't describe as trancelike, but also very different than the mindset I was in playing something like orchestral music.
> If a US CIA agent went rogue do you think they'd tell us all about it? C'mon.

Yes? "CIA agent goes rogue and kills Ronald McDonald" is bad PR for the US and the CIA in particular, of course they would emphasize that the agent was not acting under their orders. Organizations like Bellingcat (Who Murray calls warmongering propagandists by the way) make it increasingly difficult to get away with secrecy, people will find out so you have to separate yourself from the controversy.
Laughable nonsense and misleading title.
The updated driver suggests additional software to use all features of the hardware he plunged in. This usually is because Microsoft does not want to auto install the full version of third party "drivers" so you only get a minimal version of the driver without extensive settings and all that. No one wants windows to download a 300MB Electron app if you plug in a mouse you may only temporary use. But its fair to notify the user about the existence of said app.
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if it's really an issue of copyright (I don't know this myself but just going with the theory) then it would probably depend on how closely your digital alterations match the actual lighting. If you did it to match/copy the copyrighted lighting, by looking at the actual lighting (in person with your laptop, from a picture, from memory), it would violate copyright just as much. If I re-type the words of a copyrighted text, it doesn't mean I haven't violated copyright.
I agree with you with the caveat that I think it is important for two things: equity, and expected work.

If I'm a co-founder I am going to work day and night on our problem space, the tech, whatever my role is. I'm going to be thinking about it during dinner. I'm going to wake up early and stay up late and work on it during lunch breaks if I'm still an employee somewhere. I'm willing and expecting to work for $0 cash comp for months or years, or until we get investment. I'm also going to expect an equal share of equity to my other co-founders, and expect them to work more-or-less a "fair" amount when you compare our different equity stakes. I also expect to know what their equity stake is. Ballpark I would look for a floor of 25% equity before pulling out a pool for early employees.

If I'm an early employee, I will probably work more than 40 but I'm certainly not working 80-90. When I'm not working, I'm not working. You're probably not getting my cell phone number. You're going to have to pay me something, and the first time a check bounces or a direct deposit is missed I'm gone. But I'm also going to be happy with a lot less equity than 25%.
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I too like banging but i find myself banging less and less these days because she knows exactly what i want and gives it good the first time.
Good point. And my comment didn't add much but it's too late for me to delete it.
> Unfortunately the migration is done by disabling your existing alarm and showing a button to open the Health app to set it up again.

I think this is wrong. My alarm worked fine this morning. Knowing what we know about how people behave in their sleep, it seems likely that they might have just turned their alarm off at the right time without fully waking up. I've done that in the past.
Substituting an issue that is inarguably trivial does not produce an equivalent argument.
Oh I've been doing that... but it's a lot of tedious manual work (5!!! clicks per recommendation)
Management is never paid for being on call in my experience. It's just expected that you can be called any time for any reason.
I'm afraid this, too, is because it works. I don't have a specific example at hand but multiple times I've seen people say something like "youtube kept recommending me this so I finally watched it".
> For XDC2020 there is Microsoft as one of the silver sponsors for the event.

Good for organizers. Dev conferences in Poland are not exactly a gold mine.
With von der Leyen being president, I am pretty sure we make the wrong decision. Yes, some Europeans might think she looks sympathetic, especially those that don't know her well because of language barriers. That she is on the position is testament to the democratic dysfunction of the Union.

Officially she is in a conservative party, which eastern European countries liked very much.

If we want to take democracy seriously, we would need a common language or at least a common media landscape. We could just use US media of course. They have the opposite problem that everyone understands what they are saying.
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I doubt it's criminal but probably against Steam's terms of service. Who probably require not having a third party account as a condition to play a game bought on Steam.
Oculus Quest works with stock USB cable. Even via a passive, copper, extender to make it longer.

Oculus desktop software gives you a yellow mark, but games still work.
Many european airlines announced a no questions asked refund policy on 737 Max tickets. Even Ryanair who initially rejected the idea, latter made a U-turn under pressure from concerned passengers: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/ryanair...

The refund would be made at gate level, since the plane allocations are made in the last minute.

It's certainly a factor behind the hundreds of MAX orders that were canceled thus far. Fitch lowered it's delivery estimate from 700 to 75 MAX planes for 2020.
I like the psytrance you created. Saved for later.