skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understand, this change affects me personally in a negative way; it will prevent me from making Google Voice calls on my phone.

I use Google Voice with a US-based number that I registered while I lived in the US. I've since moved temporarily to Taiwan and switched to a Taiwanese SIM. Recently, my Google Voice prompted me to re-verify my US-based number (which I no longer have access to) and eventually disassociated it with my account when I didn't do so. So now I do not have a "real" US mobile phone number associated with my account. I cannot associate my Taiwanese number because the country code must match my Google Voice number.

The Google Voice app does not let you make phone calls if you do not have a real phone number registered in your account. I've been using the Hangouts Dialer app to make calls, which doesn't have this requirement. But, per this announcement, it is going away. So after this I'll have no economical way to make calls to the US on my phone (calling via the Taiwanese SIM is expensive). I think I'll work around the problem by associating one of my parents' numbers with my account (any number will do, it's mainly an anti-fraud measure), but it would be great if I didn't have to jump through that hoop.
Pantheon.io Wants to 10x Our Cost
I built a website for a friend a few years ago called chicagoganghistory.com and hosted it on Pantheon. During that time they increased hosting costs once from $25 to $40 which – okay – but today I learned they want to bump his website from $40 to $450 per month or about 4x the ad revenue. I'm noting this here because I'm curious what alternatives people might suggest for hosting a one-man WordPress site with traffic in the 70-80K range. Suggestions?
I also use this for a work project. My experience has been incredibly similar, particularly with the wall of skepticism I get from people regarding their opinions on notebooks. It's the main barrier I have in getting others on board. That presentation a few years ago hating on notebooks has really penetrated.
1. Black farmers won a billion dollar lawsuit against the Department of Agriculture a few years ago.

https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-farmers-to-receive-pay...

2. “Open Market” land is what children from farm families use to get started in farming, or expand their operations to support a family. Taking some of that off the market, or jacking up land prices, is not going to go over well in local rural communities. As in, really not well. Families will start selling to other families directly, bypassing the market.

If there is no pressure from the communities, i.e., the kids don’t want to come home to farm, then people will be happy for the land value bump, if taxes don’t go up too.

3. Would be nice if the lands purchased were in places with an established black agricultural community. Ease the transition into a rural lifestyle, and appropriate rebalancing for those States whose racial practices triggered the Black Diaspora.

4. Using the fact that the black community was preempted from participation in the land grabs in the 1800s to justify this land program is...morally ambiguous. The blacks didn’t get to benefit from the Federal actions against Native tribes, so give them some of that land in 2020. Not a great slogan.

5. For me, much less about “40 acres and a mule” justice (that way lies madness) than a great stabilizer for the US black community. The diaspora led the black community of the 1900s to get stuck in the urban centers they moved to. That move meant freedom from the civil rights abuses in the South, and a richer, better life in the cities.

But the life of the land became something they ran from, and didn’t have the connotation of a “better life” as it has had in the white community. The diaspora black community in the US is an overurbanized subculture as a result. Agriculture would be a great social stabilizer for that community. Purely my uneducated opinion...

5. Looking forward to the “Fresh Prince of Omaha” spinoff...
One of the things I really like about AMD Ryzen is that they don't reserve ECC just for server chips. It was a major factor in my desktop PC builds.
Depending on your field, making things work fast may be the difference between it not working, working at all, and willing to be adopted by other practitioners.
They just made it the default in fedora. It is likely not deprecated for unreleased RHEL versions
> lack access to the necessary educational institutions to ever catch up.

Correct. A lot of effort is needed to come up with policy to fix this, but although the US is the richest country in history, it's currently one of the weakest in policies.

> Our IP laws are stagnating our economic development

I haven't seen that, though copyright terms are too long and the cloud operators have done everything possible to strip musicians of royalties. (Virtually every Youtube musician's songs have been demonetized to the uploader, not to labels.)

Patreon is literally keeping the arts alive in the US. We'll see where that goes after a private equity firm bought them recently.

> Put a farmer in a factory assembly line is NBD.

Family farmers (and wives) in the US generally have city jobs to finance their farms. To not is perilous.

The interesting labor shortage is airplane mechanics. Corona layoffs, onerous FAA certification rules and very low apprentice pay are decimating that worker group.

> Under the right political structures this form of work ushers in a new human era. Under the current it stagnates our potential.

No policy, no results.

Ironically it's billionaires who are the first to point this out. Just watch any Youtube interview between a mainstream host and a US billionaire - the topic always comes up as the #1 problem facing America.
As far as I know Intel doesn't support ecc on their consumer platforms. You need a xeon for that.
I think the parent comment was suggesting a common scaling limit for web severs is that inflight requests exhaust the host's memory capacity.
Why is the idea of futurism as an aesthetic reflected by ideas from 1985 instead of 2025?
USA just elected an ancient President and an ancient Speaker of the House, but we don’t respect them, so it’s not a Confucian country.
Though I'm sure that's true, a simple thermostat can be built without any electronic components at all, using only the simplest of analog mechanisms, so it's hard to see how it's relevant.
Division is still optional in ARM; their smallest core (Cortex-M0) does not have it. That makes perfect sense for that class of embedded core; to be honest, division by a variable is a very rare operation in embedded code (division by a constant is multiplication by the reciprocal, so that doesn't need a division instruction).
Any build script can do serious damage to the environment it runs in. Before docker, you'd have to create a new VM from time to time because the build agent had rotted away or died in an altercation with a bad build.

Docker in Docker in CI is like a lock on a door. It keeps honest people from being naughty, and is fairly efficient about it.

I don't think the question is "should I run CI in docker in docker," it's whose CI should I run in docker in docker. Me in my coworkers can share docker images. Customers or freeloaders cannot. So if that's in your problem domain, then you're right, it's a bad idea. But it isn't for most people.
why is it obvious?
I would argue that docker-compose.yml is every bit as bespoke as a systemd service file (so, "medium"; a custom schema embedded in yaml/INI).
Isn't ECC also slower than non-ECC DRAM? Also, I'm not aware of any overclockable Intel CPU/motherboard combos that even support ECC RAM.
The M1 Macs are impressively capable at video editing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxH3RabNWfE
I'm pretty sure that because Tor Browser ships w/ `privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing` set to `true` by default since 9.0 [1] (Oct. 22 2019 [2]), users can resize the windows now without affecting their fingerprint.

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31059
[2] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-90
I was an ardent supporter of Google Music. Their web app sucked. It literally took like 10 seconds just to show up! So many missing features and recommendation was worse than someone coded it up in weekend. I still stuck with them, keep paying them and keep suffering. Then they decided to migrate the damn thing to YouTube Music and everything became 10X worse overnight. Now somehow YouTube vides is same as my music! Simple features like proper playlist management were entirely missing. Obviously, lot of empire building is going on here.

So that was final nail in the coffin for Google Music. I moved everything to Spotify (thanks Soundiiz!) and realized what I was missing. I thought I would now unsubscribe and stop paying Google Music so someone up there will noice. Guess what? They had no way to unsubscribe for Google Music anymore because they rolled the whole thing to YouTube Premium. So upper management will never know that customer left in droves. The empire builders who are working in this part of Google are super smart but they only use their smartness in building empires.
But that's referring to privacy.resistFingerprinting (RFP), not adding randomness. RFP isn't really an option, at least for me, because it breaks too many sites.
Isn't exposing the host Docker daemon the security issue that people grouse about?
Multiplication is reasonably common. Once you have multiplication by a constant you get division by a constant for free, so that leaves division by a variable. That is a very rare operation in non-mathy code, and usually for math you'd end up with floating point division anyway which is a whole different ball game (good code anyway; people writing for modern CPUs will of course throw integer division and modulo around without second thought, but the vast majority of the time you can avoid those operations and run faster).
Incidence of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children: 2009–2018
This is true. I’ve had it happen a few times too. I try to keep an eye on disk usage and purge things if it gets too high.
> A lot of tech discussion these days is focused around scaling web app infrastructures to handle huge traffic.

It most cases this the wrong way of thinking. It isn't that its bad or wrong, but rather that it's dated and expensive. This is the 2000 era .bomb logic of get big fast and data is king. It's like thinking in terms of Facebook instead of BitTorrent. At this point if you are not already established or working on something extremely original you have probably missed your shot and crowded out from the incumbents.

Current programming paradigms indicate two paths forward of which one is substantially less expensive than the other: distribution and concurrency.

In the distribution model most of your costs are up front in the application. This is a service oriented approach but without a central service, rather a pool of nodes that intelligently communicate task, file, and event queues. The cost to scale is divested from the cost of application, which is the biggest difference between this approach and thinking in terms of huge traffic or server/data hoarding. Since the application is divested from cost to scale all that is required to compete with the large incumbents, at scale, is market penetration. Marketing is cheaper than a data center.

The concurrency model requires a central service but does not operate as a central server. Each connection/session is a parallel child processing unit, such as an event loop. This approach requires less costs up front since there is still a central connection point to manage, but there is still a cost to scale even though much of that cost is offloaded from data management to increased processing overhead.
Check, check, check. I only use ECC DRAM in my desktop these days and I monitor bit flips which on my 64GB desktop happen about once a month[1]. A similar rate on my FreeNAS device which also has ECC memory.

Like others, I was super happy when I could by a Ryzen chip at retail prices and get ECC rather than buying a Xeon sku which was an extra $300.

[1] When I first built the system I was getting about 2 a week which I tracked down to a 'weak' ram stick. Replaced it (Corsair, and they replaced it for free) and now it's about one a month.
I think governments prefer redhat because they are consistent and they accept gobs of cash to promise security patches to software that are past their support window.
I don't think I have even seen memory use be a benchmark for server frameworks. When is that ever actually a problem? Wouldn't that mean hundreds of thousands of in flight requests?
So everything from pre Larry Lage era :). Definitely nothing from Pitchai's rein!
They have gitlab options as well.
I just called it a genoa; it might have been closer to a gennaker or not. It was disposable, not even a delivery sail. But it felt fine.

With the exception of the gybe, we felt in control but with Point Conception approaching we wanted to pull in and we thought Morro Bay was the best idea. With some more thought, experience and planning, we might have been able to sneak into San Luis Obispo Bay. I recall now that half the crew, the skipper included, were seasick.

These are the sort of questions you need to work through before you leave port, especially in seas. The Coast Pilot is a good resource.
80 Projects Down in 2020: What I've Learned
> You also get the random IOPs performance of a single drive per VDEV

This isn't strictly true. It is true for RAIDZ-n and for writing to a mirror, but ZFS can accelerate random reads with a mirror by distributing the read requests to the underlying disks.
Does the RAM publish the fault/correction count on any accessible register/counter? It would be great if we could just query that on existing systems and have the simple answer - does ECC do anything for us.

Quick search later - yes, you can: https://linux.die.net/man/1/edac-util

For all the discussion I've seen about this topic, I wish more people actually published their numbers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2pcIbyq-0

It was a hoax.
Seems like every knock off search engine/content farm site.
Sorry for the rant, but I hate this obsession with chopping off digits people have.

25.68% ± 40.42 is not the same as 26% ± 40. If I am later trying to make a model to get the best estimate of <stat> by looking at a bunch of other people's measurements I will get a more accurate answer if more digits are contained.

When someone presents a state like 26% without the ± it's at least excusable, since it's avoiding making people think that 25.68% was short hand for 26.68% ± (0.005 ± 0.005)%, but when we're including the ± there is no good reason to chop off digits.

I do like the comment someone else has about reporting this as a range instead of with a ± sign, i.e. "-14.74 to 66.1 percent".
Is there any use cases for high quality PRNG for anything other than encryption? The simplest 3 line LCG seem to fit in most cases.
Then switch to poetry, why break pip?

The dependency I referenced actually uses poetry, and the reason it's borked is because "poetry add pandas" back when 0.25.1 was current meant effectively adding "poetry==^0.25.1" to requirements.txt, even though the one line of actual code that uses pandas works on pretty much any version I've ever seen.
Ruby doesn't block other waiting threads on IO

https://yehudakatz.com/2010/08/14/threads-in-ruby-enough-alr...
Generally the longetivity space is full of scams, especially the ones that sell something that doesn't need FDA approval (the last similar thing was a cream company marketed by Peter Diamondis a month ago)
Part of the problem is also that lot of Google products are free. So there is no real way to measure bottom line impact when they mess with or kill things outright. Their current upper management is basically MBAs focused only on bottom line so birthing new free products and killing them is not something they care too much about. Birthing is driven by empire builders and killing is driven by Ruth Porat.
It gets a lot easier if you only allow self-hosted JS. Block any JS loaded from a domain other than the one you are actually visiting. If the site I am visiting cannot function properly from self-hosted JS, then I move right along. It has to be a webiste I'm really interested in for me to even consider allowing 3rd party JS.
I'd love to see Roblox supported on Linux. I think it would help add developer interest and get some unique perspectives and talents.
ECC implies error correcting. That implies more extra bits to store Hamming codes.

But you can have far fewer redundant bits if you only want to detect error s. (Parity). In the worst case the computer reboots. But you must foresee this because hardware can die for many reasons (power failures, component failures etc)
>But that's referring to privacy.resistFingerprinting (RFP), not adding randomness

having a randomized fingerprint is a fingerprint value in and of itself. That may leak more entropy bits if you have a fairly common hardware configuration

Also, regarding webaudio fingerprinting, afaik it's not a real threat.

https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/pull/2224#discussi...

https://github.com/w3cping/tracking-issues/issues/53#issueco...

>As I said, I can't use RFP, it breaks too many sites.

Weird. I only know a few sites that break with RFP on, and I don't use them frequently.
There was also Windows CE fir the ipaq handhelds. This led to the joke that MS was going to combine mobile, server, and desktop into Windows CEMENT
For one reason, they are terrible for the ecology. Wind turbines have been getting a lot of hate due to them killing 234k birds per year in the US. However cats kill 2.4b birds per year in the US.

https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/15195.jpeg
They’re extremely useful in JITs where they arise all the time.

WebKit’s JIT uses them about as frequently as an AOT like llvm would emit a relocation, maybe more.
For a fault tolerant system, even if all your traffic could be handled by a single machine, you'd still want some amount of redundancy. So you'd at least have a second node.
If Microsoft missed the train on search business then Google missed the train on OS business. During Vista days Microsoft was extra-ordinarily vulnerable, people desperately looking for alternatives and some guy at Google decided that the Chrome must be our religion. Overnight priesthood of Chrome had build massive temples that no one outside of Google was interested. They were putting stupid Chrome OS on powerful laptops where hardware didn't get utilized or super under-powered laptops which you always find a scenario you can't use. Imagine if they had taken BSD, put on a great usable UX, an app store, auto sync to cloud and wide range of drivers then a strong alternative to OSX would have been born which would have given run for money to Microsoft.
this is amazing. thanks for making it. how long did it take you?
Thats a crowded, competitive space. He would risk losing what he has gained so far.
“The medium is the message” comes to mind here. I find decks mind-numbing, especially those heavy on graphic design and visual flair. I’ll take full sentences in connected paragraphs, thank you.
I use Brave, and this website says I have a randomized fingerprint which protect from tracking.
That response suggests you have no children, spouse, or loved ones serving in the US military or planning to serve in a combat function. Others may, and thus come to a different conclusion as to its meaninglessness (good Scrabble word). Doesn’t place the expansiveness of your worldview is a positive light...

And as a grammar Nazi aside, are there unreal actual problems, or real virtual problems (aside from virtual machines and the like)?
>though it can get a bit crazy when you see 5-6 big and aggressive dogs appear in your street every day because someone feeds them

Yeah, I got surrounded by a pack of 7 or 8 big dogs around dawn on the Golden Horn once. Was frantically swinging my backpack and screaming at them as they approached. After 30 seconds or so, a man noticed and threw some food to distract them so I could get away. They probably were just hoping I would feed them but it was still fucking terrifying. Felt like it activated some sort of primal fight-or-flight instinct passed down through millennia of humans being cornered by wolves.
Intel supports ECC on i3, but not i5-i7. At least that was the case for the Haswell generation; I haven't checked recently:

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/77495/i...
> > - Monitor support was typically bad and caused problems, connecting to monitor, multiple monitors, resolution issues on wake, etc.

> Only issue I had with this was one TV wouldn't take HDMI output at the same time as displaying to my laptop screen.

I just wanted to throw out some non-Linux issues I've hit in the past couple years.

I believe I had a MacbookPro 2015 and Apple's USB-C to HDMI I consistently had RGB noise patterns and it worked terribly. I switched to a third-party USB-C to DisplayPort and it worked great. I heard about similar issues online. Some talked about it being specific to hardware configuration (that series of MacbookPros) and others pointed to OS updates that triggered it.

I've had trouble with a Windows desktop and an Nvidia card with detecting which port was used to send video signal to on boot. I think it assumed the first HDMI port when I had the intention of using the DisplayPort. I think it got extra confused if the monitor was off on boot (it was trying to detect the signal?) I would often get the BIOS to show up on one output, then Windows may try and use a different one.
I have literally zero idea what app I'm supposed to use for texts/calls, and I'm on Google Fi... Is Fi about to be axed?
Yeah - but you dont need to post weekly content with patreons, you can get by with monthly given the subscription, and tbqh you can probably do bi-monthly with many types of subscribers - supporting instead of expecting content.

Also with 1000 subscribers you dont guarantee 1000 views, just potential views.
I use a Chrome extension called "Quick Javascript Switcher". If you click the icon in the bar, it switches JS off/on for the domain - using Chrome's built-in allow/block list for JS.

I honestly could not live without it. At this point I have pretty much every news and recipe site on the internet blocked. Visiting a new site, as soon as I hear my fan spinning up I reach for the "no-JS" button and the page suddenly becomes responsive again.

I'm not quite to the "no JS as default" level but I'm close.
i3-8100 cpus support ECC
Do I have to disclose my passwords or open my accounts for pmalerts to work?
If you can convince your circle to move to signal, they have a CLI tool.
To quote from the patent:

> The tilt sensor includes a transparent gas and a transparent viscous fluid in a spherical shell, a light emitting diode (LED) mounted at the top of the shell, and four photodetectors mounted at the bottom of the shell. As the tilt sensor is rotated the path of the light cone emanating from the LED and refracting at the gas/fluid interface is altered, thereby altering the intensity of light incident on the photodetectors. The magnitude of the light incident on the photodetectors is processed to provide the tilt angles. A thin transparent disk floats at the gas/fluid interface to damp surface waves caused by reorientation of the device.

This is crazy
Not to mention, storing credit card details in plaintext.
Kaniko :) no DIND weirdness or privileged containers necessary
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