skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s interesting, there are a lot of little bugs in software today, but I think it’s easy to forget that common bugs used to be a lot worse.

In the 90s it was pretty common to have a kernel panic and hard crash, blue screen of death, etc. Data loss was common.

Folks who lived through that have such a strong compulsion to hit CMD-S every few minutes, that a lot of cloud software today offers a “save button” that actually doesn’t do anything because the document auto saves as you type anyway.

To some degree I think this may be related. Bugs that crash the computer are a little bit easier to detect (If only because the users come screaming at you) compared to bugs where the app scrolls incorrectly once every million scroll events.

Overall I would say that software has become much more complex and much more reliable at the expense of being more inscrutable. People are able to operate in a degraded condition now because software is capable of working that way, whereas in the past it would just fail completely.

Is that better? Maybe not by much, but I think most normal users would say software is easier to use and more reliable today compared to decades past.
I rsearched the ReMarkable 1 and 2. I ended up just getting a Rocketbook. It's very simple concept. "Paper" in the form of hard plastic. The pen it uses is the Pilot Frixion, which is an erasable pen. Hence you have a notebook to record notes for a while. If there's anything important I'll manually transfer it to my OneNote (I don't use Rocketbook's picture taking app).

Most notes I take only need to exist for a few weeks and then I erase...so transferring it to "long term storage" is rare.

I do have an iPad and note taking apps like Notability if I know something will need to go to "long term storage" but I find I use the Rocketbook more.
"but you can use separate services for video conferencing, calendars, emails, look at all these other organizations that are less convenient and doing it just fine"

yeah I'm aware. if you have a choice on a new organization, low budget but still able to access good, fast and cheap, use Gsuite.
Yes, in fact, it absolutely can be. It completely depends on the criminality of the information obtained.
The Drive has a series of detailed articles about this kind of missle:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31409/everything-we-kn...
> I think it’s interesting because the feature of the sprint you appear to like is that it completely removes small a agility.

Ideally, at the end of a sprint you'll have a concrete deliverable. Because this deliverable is concrete and not ongoing, the team should (theoretically) be able to switch entirely to a different project (or priority) afterward when business circumstances demand it.

That's where the "agility" comes in. If, on the other hand, the work is being produced as a continuous flow--without hard cut-offs--then there's no set point where the team can switch priorities without leaving behind a half-finished state.

Obviously, YMMV on how this all shakes out in practice.
Many of the countries were arguably better under the regional dictator. I'm sure the people of Iraq, Libya, etc. Are so glad that "peace" and "prosperity" were exported to them.
Sure, but what was the intent?

Did you crack a hash as some part of a computer contest?

Or were you helping someone crack the hash with the intent to get access to a US DoD government computer?

The way the law is apparently written, the first is not illegal. The second would be conspiracy.
1 - Because Russia is there and apart from a brief period of time at beginning of 90's in the rest three quarters of century US and Russia (Soviet or not) went to war with each other by proxies. Syria is just the latest proxy in that wrestling.

2 - Probably maintaining/honing the skills. "If you don't use it you lose it" it's a very old and very actual saying.

I got hit very hard by this one at beginning of my programming career. Went home for vacation after my 1st year at Uni and when came back 3 months later I got very surprised to find I lost my speed typing ability. Had to start from beginning and was very frustrating. Never let my guard down after that.
Six figure (albeit lower end of that, and without RSUs) SWE jobs exist in quantity all over the U.S. There isn't a single state where you shouldn't expect to be getting a six figure salary with no more than 5 years working experience as an SWE - and I think saying even 5 years is generous.
ECC ram is more expensive, yes.

But supporting ECC ram also adds more expense. To properly support it, BIOS engineers have to support and test it; motherboard makers have to support and test it.

I appreciate that AMD offers it for their consumer oriented processors, but because it's a best effort feature, and it's hard for an end user (or reviewer) to test, you never really know if you're going to get full support, or if the support is really just that you can use ECC ram, if you want to spend a little more for your ram, and get none of the benefits of ECC.

It certainly adds something to the cost (die space) of the memory controller, but I agree it's probably not much.
Starting to leave? Hasn't this been going on for a while now in California in general?
The media autoplay forced on (with settings that don't turn it off in mobile or desktop) make me miserable and seriously considering using something else that isn't Chrome.
> Firefox is a dead man walking.

Dramatic.

> If you want privacy, use a FF fork called Librewolf

Thanks for the tip.
What's the up-to-date explanation for those tooth mods the article talks about as indicative of Mesoamerican heritage?
> they just need to stop trying to convince the Open Source community that they are somehow pragmatically equivalent to Open Source

But it is nearly functionally identical, that's the fact of the matter. It's open source with one tiny restriction that matters to nearly nobody. That sounds pragmatically equivalent to me, from the definitions of those words. I find your claim more dishonest than theirs on that basis. You're trying to say it's a far cry from open source, and that's just not the case.
Why does the ceo pay need to go down?
For the FSK modulation scheme that I use in wave-share, I manage to achieve 8-16 bytes / s for a reasonable in-room distances and regular surrounding noise. It depends also on the speakers / microphone quality, but overall if you want to have a reliable connection between air-gapped devices, the speed is nowhere near comparable to what modems can achieve. Or at least this is my experience.
If this isn't the canonical source, then improve the list by submitting issues and/or pull-requests! - https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws
Yeah this is also something I’d like to see
I have a feeling this is intentional. Facebook benefits from the current administration and likely wants it to continue, see their somewhat successful efforts at lobbying to get their competition banned.[0]

FB probably has the ability to sway the US elections to small but measurable degree, and I bet they intend to use that ability for their own gain. Oversight (even their own internal version) could put a damper on that, hence the delay.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-st...
I think a lot of it comes down to intentions and motivations. I see a lot of the YC / Techstars / accelerator copycats are motivated by honestly not-so-great intentions. Maybe they're run by a for-profit group. Maybe it's run by an outfit that wants to monetize in a different way. Or maybe it's run or supported by a government / quasi-government agency that's trying to spur economic development. Or perhaps it's being run by a social benefit group trying to grow economic activity for a given group or population. Or perhaps it's being run by a large company using startups as a way to further their own business development / marketing / community development.

What I see aren't true copycats. I see groups that are trying to replicate the outcomes without replicating the motivations. With the wrong motivations in place it's hard to see the outcomes come out either. Even if you have a PG or Jessica in place.
> This is blatantly false.

I was replying to "Assange and Wikileaks dumped the entire set of files". "The entire set of files" referring to the Cablegate documents, not the ones you're referring to here.

Wikileaks have already addressed the ones you're referring to in a letter to the AP: https://www.docdroid.net/Gi3unfx/letter-to-ap-fv-pdf

See also: https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-23-he-endan...
There are three things I find interesting about this "news" (in quotes because it's really kind of a collection of statements made by TSMC over the last 6 months concerning their efforts at a 2nm node)

First, their biggest competitor is Samsung, nobody cares what Intel is doing these days it seems. That has to feel weird for the folks over at Intel. But if you've lived through this change in leadership, keep it in mind when you see a company that is "so far of everyone it is impossible to catch up." Technology changes, companies can lose their lead when they fail to adapt.

Second, the geopolitical risks around semiconductors are off the charts. Taiwan, which is probably next in line to be annexed after Hong Kong would put TSMC solidly under the control of mainland China, and Samsung which lives in the shadow of a nuclear armed bully who has aspirations of greatness. Put "Neither Samsung nor TSMC can make chips for the US or its allies" into your scenario evaluation platform and see what that gets you. Not a happy place.

Third, 2nm really? That is so freakishly dense that if your phone doesn't light your pocket on fire from heat dissipation it will be able to achieve even more remarkable feats without having to go to "the network" for help. As a technologist it impresses me, as a guy who was awestruck by owning his own 8 bit computer in high school it simply amazes me.
Command-[/] for history navigation and command-{/} for switching tabs are macOS conventional keybindings that work almost anywhere there’s a concept of history or tabs.

they may work on Linux in an attempt to support Mac users.
What is the point of those color gradients in the photos? [1] Are they supposed to conceal the chip? If so, that didn't work very well. [2] Just make it completely black, people have failed often enough to properly redact information because they tried to do something fancy, something more visually pleasing. At least unless they did this intentionally, either because they wanted it to be visible but also wanted some deniability as an accident, or to mislead by embedding false information.

[1] https://payatu.com/static/images/remoteblogs/arun/emfi_blog/...

[2] http://www.unisoc.com/sc9863a
I think that's just an opinion. I was recently of the same opinion until I started wondering if, for some people, output is a result of inputs. More specifically, output that you are proud of (as opposed to, for example, a drawing that I could hash out right now that I would consider insignificant soon thereafter) requires a critical mass of some types of inputs.
Automated testing.
AMA with CEO and CTO of Shadow
> Funny how consumers tend to despise them though.

sure, and as an individual I behave the same way. I always want to solve my problem in the cheapest possible way. still, I can't help but notice that products with stable ongoing revenue tend to get much better support.

I think the clearest example is with games. most games get released with a pile of bugs. a bunch get fixed in a release day patch and then there are a few more patches over the next few months (when most of the sales happen). once the initial wave of sales subsides, you tend to be stuck with whatever bugs remain. cs:source had several game breaking bugs for years (defuse kit over bomb blocking defuse, defusing through walls, etc.) despite being one of the most popular FPS titles of its time. AFAIK, most of these still exist fifteen years later. csgo, which is monetized through microtransactions, gets bugs fixed almost as fast as they can be posted to reddit/youtube. microtransactions aren't quite the same as subscriptions, of course, but they generate revenue proportional to the current userbase, rather than the rate that people buy the game for the first time (which will inevitably dry up).
> I'll point out that many of these annoyances don't have equivalents on the command-line.

I'd argue the entire command line is nothing but annoyances. Everything is completely non-obvious and often requires reading man pages that can contain a hundred options that may or may not be in alphabetical order.

The fact people have to write scripts to really function on the command line is telling.

My personal nightmare is exiting vim. If I make a mistake typing, I enter recording mode instead of exiting. This happens to me several times per day. And, no it's not a matter of being more diligent, it's the result of a disability.

The command line is powerful and I absolutely love it but it is a pit of rusty razor blades people keep throwing ropes over. :)
The problem with your view is that the purpose of most nonprofits, as revealed by their actual spending, is to act as a well-paying job for their administrators and a volunteer/exploitation scheme.

They aren’t really about the mission. This is as clear as it could be for Mozilla.
> for sexually harassing women.

You have to differentiate between claims made against him and what he did in reality.

Most of those claims seem to be fabricated and/or were even redacted by the sources, see:

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2016-08/jacob-appelbaum-rape-sexu...
My intent was to use the term hackathon as more of an analogy than description, as hackathons to me include:

- Working on a team to build a tech solution

- Finite time restrictions

- Limited resources

- "demo day" at the end

all of which are present in this project in the context of album creation

Though I do agree with the sentiment of trying to be deliberate & accurate with word choice when describing things
This is one reason why I take a lot of precautions w/r to covid. I’ve also heard of people suddenly developing diabetes or other chronic diseases. Fucking scary, this ain’t no flu.
One quick follow up after trying this a bit, is there an option to prioritize a given task within a “slot”?

Sometimes I think of things to do that should really be done before a few other items in the same day
I haven't progressed that much in my CMS, :-) still in-progress. It is not as simple as I think. In addition to the typical blog implementation, I also add extra features.

For example, I included multi-lingual functionality as I wanted google to give me better result when people searched the keyword in my city.

As I had never been satisfied with my design, I found a way how to safely separate content and layout /color/etc. Then I was curious if anyone visited the website, a simple analytics was built. Wait, I also wanted to know in real time of any visit, so I set mobile notification if anyone visited the page or clicked on specific button. This list keeps.... haven't mentioned about my form builder, dynamic popup, and chatbot.

Thanks for sharing the experience, I thought I was that unique.
Smolpxl: JavaScript library for writing little retro pixelated games
There is very little that has changed that isn’t backward compatible, though, and what there is has mostly been in areas that no sensible programmer should ever have relied on in more than toy programs anyway, like inherently unsafe functions or undefined behaviour. You probably have to go back to C99 prohibiting some things that used to be implicit and therefore to code written over two decades ago to find “real” exceptions to that. Compared to many “modern” languages, I’d say that’s still an excellent track record for longevity and compatibility.
Bravery doesn't apply when you don't have a choice.
How do you prevent process A from waiting on a receive from process B while process B waits on a receive from process A?
Game theory fans may want to try a game invented by John Nash (and others) called So Long Sucker aka F* You Buddy! Gameplay consists of making - and breaking - alliances between players.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long_Sucker
Yes, but let's not be naive. The forces which were opposing the Asad regime were actively supported by Gulf states with political backing from the US and Europe (and quite probably with some intelligence officers coordinating situation on the ground), which led to the hot civil war together with the failing of the Syrian government.
> most of the recent improvements to Firefox were initially prototyped and developed in the experimental Servo engine which was to my knowledge intended to eventually replace all of gecko. Most of the team for that has been let go.

This is not the case. Servo worked on big experimental moonshot projects. They had some major successes (Stylo, WebRender), but the rest of the Firefox team wasn't sitting around twiddling their thumbs. I don't think Servo ever made up more than a small fraction of the overall Firefox workforce. They had to pick and choose their projects. Note, for example, that Servo embeds SpiderMonkey instead of writing its own JS engine from scratch: https://github.com/servo/rust-mozjs

Don't worry! SpiderMonkey still has additional cool projects coming down the pipeline, none of which are dependent on Servo.
This is similar to the prevention paradox with COVID. We will never know what inaction would have brought.
Slot machines are on someone else's premises and (disclaimer: I've never been to a casino myself) are most likely under surveillance, so they'll probably void your winnings and ban you if you start doing something sketchy.

Devices that implement any restrictions against the end user like DRM or MDM, on the other hand, are in possession of the said user. I heard a saying that getting root privileges on a device you physically possess is only a matter of time and effort.

In other words, you can totally take your phone apart as much as your tools and skills allow, but you'll get arrested if you try taking a slot machine apart.
The work of volunteer internet moderators is harder and more important than ever
Could the GeForce 3090 be fast enough to handle it?
Thanks! I did play quite some time with the frequencies to make the transmission pleasant for the ear :)
How would CRISPR prevent MS? Autoimmune diseases seem a poor fit.
A) there is no special treatment. Apple, Google, Amazon, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, TiVo, LG (WebOS), Roku, are all allowed to bundle an App Store and curate what goes on their platform.

Can I buy digital currency for use with Fortnite and not give Epic a cut?

B) can I install a third party program on Teslas to enable features that they lock out?

C) there is no difference technologically between a Nintendo switch and a phone. If Nintendo added a cellular chip to the Switch, does it mean it should have to open up development? Could Apple be required to open up iPads with cellular and not those that don’t have one? Since phones are “essential” and tablets and smart watches aren’t, does that mean Spotify complaining about not having the same access to features on watch as Apple has is an invalid complaint [1]?

Could Apple just call the iPhone the “Apple Switch w/cellular”? Or more on brand “iPad Nano w/cellular”?

> As a matter of fact - we have laws that inhibit car manufacturers from selling directly to customers. There's absolutely no reason why we can't have the same things for smart phone manufacturers

Now you are in favor of laws passed only protect local dealers. Those laws are the definition of “regulatory capture”. They don’t help consumers at all. It prevents Tesla from selling in many states. Why shouldn’t we be able to order a car online directly from the manufacturer?

[1] Apple addressed every single one of Spotify’s technical complaints - opened up Siri integration to third party music streaming providers, added the ability to stream from the Watch and download music locally Tessa ago and Spotify is just now updating their app.
I would have liked an intelligent, articulated reply. Unfortunately, you merely got down-voted, for no other reason that I can see than not parroting the extolling.
I don't care if it looks like a box or a goat. I'd expect an Automatic Breaking System to not hit it.
Question: Do you think this is the case for all blade grinders vs. burr grinders, or only some blade grinders being unable to produce consistency? Legit asking because you've got me wondering out loud if it is worth the upgrade at our house.

What I've noticed with our cheap blade grinder is that there is a set number of seconds I need to hold down the button to get a consistent grind - not too long or its powder, and not too little or it is still chunky beans. My own experience is that the bean quality is the single defining difference between a good cup and a not so good cup, and so long as I'm not going completely cheap on the coffee, a French press and an electric kettle start the morning right. But - you've got me questioning whether I could create greater consistency with a different grinder.
Yes! I basically commented something similar. Motivations matter even more than management.
FWIW [peachpie](https://www.peachpie.io/2020/09/peachpie-1-0-preview1.html) is a fairly complete PHP stack running on top of .NET core, leveraging the .NET runtime and jit. It can do things like host WordPress.

It fares pretty well in [techempower](https://www.peachpie.io/2018/06/performance-progress-report....).
I think fundamentally open source has to evolve to reflect the new realities of the cloud world, or it will cease to be relevant for commercial software. And maybe that's fine, maybe open source becomes something only used for non commercial software with no profit angle behind it. And some new thing closer to this timescale license will replace it in the for profit but still open domain.
One could also try ReactOS for such cases.
I did it by sticking a screwdriver where I shouldn't have and touching the flyback cap on an old (CRT) TV that was only recently unplugged. Luckily I wasn't well-grounded and the part of the screwdriver shunted the current turned to slag.
> there is universal agreement of Russia's involvement in 2016

I don't think there is. There's a lot of agreement that Russia (and others) tried to influence the 2016 election, but there's no agreement at all wrt how much influence they had. The same is true for Cambridge Analytica: widespread agreement that they did stuff, not quite as much agreement on how effective it was.
Way too broad of a definition. I clearly meant computing and how a person interacts with their devices as that was the discussion at hand.
I expect the war on mis-information to go about as well as the war on drugs has.
This seems to be a complex problem to solve. On one hand you don't want to lose access to the smartest minds, on the other you don't want your citizens to suffer from lower quality education because of it. But its also a very economic issue, in the sense that most foreign students pay handsomely to attend prestigious schools, so it makes short term economic sense to trade education for their wealth, meanwhile students at home must take on massive debt to compete economically to be of interest to the institutions.

I feel like this is more of an economic issue than an education issue at heart. I agree that in most cases the incoming talent is not undeniable, so there is little argument for favoring foreign students over domestic students besides an economic one. Somehow foreign students, universities acting as corporations, and global trade has created the mess of the current education system which includes our whole student loan fiasco which makes the younger generation quit before they even start. It seems that colleges have lost sight of being primarily a system to educate the next generation.

Its a similar issue to american businesses taking their jobs overseas, but instead american colleges have, in some sense, taken their education overseas.
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