skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"free lunch" is just untrue. Opensource and GPL does not work this way.

Also Redhat just cut support on one of its projects. Their business model is build on their reputation and long term support. Not best long term move.
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And their material UI is ugly.
I was in exactly one restaurant indoors during Covid in Germany, and they used lamitated QR codes on the table for an online menu, so it was in use here as well. But generally I agree, yes.
Will never happen.

One reason: Three Gorges Dam, specifically that Taiwan has vaguely threatened to strike it first, if they were ever invaded.

China could take Taiwan, easily. Likewise, Taiwan could cause 5M to 10M dead Chongers, easily.
Yeah blocks from unicode aren't exactly what I was expecting when I clicked through. Of course you can make a QR code with what are essentially big black and white pixels...
I feel confident about this with Alpine Linux. It doesn't have this sense of newness and bleeding edge. It is extremely stable and I have run upgrades on it for years without even a single issue. They release twice annually and the upgrade process is almost trivial. Keeping up with it is easy and a good practice for any organization.
Agreed. I would attribute this to self-interest. No politician wants to be the guy who voted to "take tools away from the law enforcement", for fear they'll be attacked in the next election cycle for "aiding terrorists and human traffickers".
Unfortunately, does anyone even takes the EU serious nowadays in tech?
The more I follow the European tech scene, the more disappointed I become. EU's biggest tech company aside of ARM is Spotify... Almost every second startup I read about in https://www.eu-startups.com/ is a fintech/budgeting app which is trying to "disrupt" banking.
Revolut is the biggest player, yet they are literally throwing money to achieve a miniscule growth, if you have a shitty product, your ad spend won't save you..

I feel like there is a need for a fundamental shift in mindset in Europe..
If only 2 tons of that 1400 tons hit the target, was it the bombs that were defective, or the accuracy of the planes?
>> I think I understand RHEL and I think I understand Fedora, but I never got the appeal of CentOS.

A lot of the appeal of RHEL is being the de facto industry standard. CentOS also gives you that, just without the support contract, which many organizations just replace with their own capable admins. People may want the stability but don't otherwise benefit from the pricing model.

What actually never made sense to me was Red Hat officially embracing the CentOS project. A free clone will inevitably happen because that's exactly what the GPL intended. Red Hat has made lots of money by adding incremental work to a large body of other people's work. They make their money delivering value to their customers who do value faster patches and support, but the source code must remain free for everyone else. I'm not really sure what anyone, Red Hat or the community, got out of CentOS current "official" status.
Ah, you're right, I forgot about being able to see grandma's face.
As a developer you should 1) have the fastest possible code / test cycle - i.e. it's worth overpaying for faster machines 2) treat performance as a feature and formally measure it across configurations
Whenever i read about any tech involving recipies i think of Gnutella, the architypal peer-to-peer filesharing scheme developed to facilitate the sharing of nutella recipies. I immediately looks for the alternative and honestly unintended use.
I don't think this has anything to do with the IBM acquisition of Red Hat, but this is something that's driven by Red Hat's management itself. They did a similar thing with JBoss application server (the community edition) which was extremely popular and used within the community and even in production. Red Hat offered (and still offers) an enteprise version of it (JBoss EAP). Few years back they slowly started diminishing the prominence of the community version. They first renamed it (to WildFly) since the "JBoss" name confuses users with their enterprise edition offering. Then they started adding confusion around usage of the community edition of the server (now named WildFly) and started sending out messages (which never were clarified) that WildFly "cannot" be used in production environments (no explanation of what production environment was). Answers to these questions typically directed users to JBoss EAP (the enterprise edition) where they could enroll in developer programs and use the JBoss EAP for free for development use and then pay for the same when they use that or deploy that in production. This effectively killed the entire JBoss (now WildFly) community (external contributions, user discussions and any such interactions). WildFly these days is just there as a community project for the sake of it. There's no real external involvement in it and it's mostly driven by Red Hat employees and only rarely see any discussion happening in the open in their mailing lists anymore (can't blame them when no one external to their own employed team participates anymore).

The thing though is, developers actually involved in this project had strong opposition to the way this was handled, but none of it was heard and the "decision was already done" by people who hardly had any role to play on the day to day community involvement with the project. I am pretty sure it was the same with this CentOS decision.
> The concept of a “visit” is key to this approach. Rather than count unique IP addresses, which would require storing state about what each visitor does, we can simply count the number of page views that come from a different site. This provides a perfectly usable metric that doesn’t compromise on privacy.

Say that again please? Is this tracking unique Referrer’s? What if a significant amount of traffic is direct?
can you explain this a bit more ? I'm not up to date on what cloudflare has been doing lately or in the past privacy wise
"semblance of basic humanity"... Obviously you have your own metric on that. The United States takes in more immigrants than any other nation and has done this for hundreds of years.
You just have hate within you and it shows.
Or on John Podesta?
It's true, the puzzle boards get repetitive, even with new mechanics added in every area. But the environmental puzzles are unlike any game I've played.

Myst was neat for the time, but I don't think it holds up all that well 30 years later, without the nostalgia factor.
This hits close to home. Unfortunately, I don’t see this cultural shift happening. Our management sees the current remote setup as strictly temporary and can’t wait to herd us back to the open office as soon as they are legally allowed. Maybe moving the desks slightly further apart.
Anyone know how this compares to simpleanalytics.com? The data looks pretty similar.

I've been using Simpleanalytics, which is pretty good overall, but they keep messing with their site and breaking things...
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Which large companies aren't bad at web frontend? UX seems to always be far down on the list or priorities for modern websites.
Here is an excellent Violin => Soprano Sax transposition by Amy Dickson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoMPALIUxco
>I can’t imagine how people who earn far less than me can deal with it

Succinctly? [Under/un]treated mental illness due to the maladaptive coping skills needed to survive as a poor American. Poor people make sacrifices to live another day. Whether it's (healthy) food, exercise, healthcare (who can afford insulin or an epipen these days?), or their time. Some people pay the doctors to go to them, others pay for people to do the tediousstuff like cooking or cleaning or laundry or fighting the bank over a $40 overdraft fee that ate that weeks food budget.
My company fixed this by making us use under dimensioned VMs for development. Unfortunately it has not fixed the issue.
In Google play developer console there is simple table with list of apps and installs count. The cells are 34 levels deep in the DOM. Insane.
I never suggested raising rates.
Are you going to make a substantive claim or just throw around accusations with no foundation?
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Sad, but true. That said... the hiring pool tends to be biased towards people that others have passed on.
Remember, it's only a war crime if you lose...
> You want to parse things in the document? Now you need a whole different suite of tools from the usual tools you use. Your library that parses all the meta tags, identifies the content, &c. is now useless.

They're no less useless than for SPA's that render their content in JS. That's all this site is. If your web scraping suite can't handle content loaded from JS then you're already locked out of most of the web.

Same if you disable JS. Most of the web will be broken for you and it takes an annoying amount of effort enable the minimum necessary scripts.
Yikes, didn't realize they had the indecency to drink their own kool-aid. Angular, really? No wonder! Come to think of it, it's maybe been around a year since I last saw one of those tell-tale "page finishes loading to a blank page for 20 seconds before finally rendering" Angular sites
Even tho I'm septic about Cloudflare privacy-first policy, this sounds like a great alternative to "giving all your users data to Google".

Also, if your site is already behind CF, it's not like you give them much more information than they already have.
I've worked for many companies, small and large, corporate and startups. None of them had performance as a priority, or even considered at the product level. Any minimal performance optimization or win we had was because a developer cared enough for it.... but maybe I'm the only one and just had bad luck with the product managers/owners I had.
Just popping into say we love your behavior tree project, and are assessing it for some work projects. If we do we will definitely be sponsoring your work. Thanks for helping push the ROS ecosystem forward!!!
For big installations i do striped (sometimes mirrors) vdevs (2 disks) and on top of them Raidz2/3. Works fast as hell and reliable.
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I had my pitchforks out because I really like my raidz1 setup, but the arguments are very good for the mirror. When I set my pool up, I chose raidz1 because compared to mirroring, I still have 37.5% more space, which is huge if the budget is constrained. But if you feel paranoid and the raidz3 begin to sound good, that 12.5% extra space doesn't seem to worth the extra complexity over a much straightforward mirror.
Yes, we're just finalizing other case studies with more diverse data. The trend however is similar. Removing semantic redundancy from a dataset helps reduce annotation and storage/compute costs with little loss in accuracy.
> don’t be greedy. 50% storage efficiency is plenty.

LOL.
And of course, Google gives demerit points to websites that load slowly. (Or whatever they are called)
Because 10-years ago Atlassian products were a huge breathe of fresh air. Everything else was so much worse.

Come to think of it, that's how Google became so popular too.
I think what the commenter is mentioning is about the individuals. Remember, Nazi Germany instituted a draft and had conscription. Not every German soldier was a Nazi. You can mention the honor of the individuals themselves without praising the regime that lorded over them.
And yet quite a few Musk promises perpetually planned in the coming years will probably end up with that kind of timeframe too.
This is great! I cooked recipes generated by GPT-2 for Thanksgiving dinner this year and it was surprising how a recipe can look good on paper but then come out in a completely unexpected way. Wrote about the experience here if anyone wants to see the results: https://link.medium.com/DtHmAeBU4bb

Also we got access to GPT3 and it is remarkable how much better it is with just 2 example recipes compared to GPT2 fine tuned on hundreds of thousands of recipes.
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The benefit would be the manufacturing expertise they would gain. I believe he’s on the record saying mass production is a much harder problem than the type of technical challenges with building rockets.
I guess stuff like amp is good only to preach others. This garbage has been slow for ages. Also they keep throwing links to new stuff in their side bar without any rhyme or rhythm making navigation as annoying as possible.
Try this one: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/77z33rvyv1lz
It's HTML version of gmail and it loads instantly.
Xbox Expands Cloud Gaming to More Devices in 2021
Predictions about 2021 seems downright foolhardy. We did it anyway
I know. My mother was an immigrant to the US. I've also seen family members go broke and commit suicide after being unable to afford medical care that would otherwise would have been provided to them in more humane countries. Apologies if this colors my view of America's "humanity."
Stability. The software in CentOS is not the newest, but has been tested thoroughly.

Fedora is cutting edge, basically the testing release for the RHEL family. What is Fedora today will eventually become a RHEL/CentOS release down the road.

CentOS and RHEL are identical, but RHEL comes with support.
People from the US are visibly more sensitive to SJW causes and whatever other racial or gender perceived issues to the extent that they will actively condemn any other discourse that doesn't completely agree with the narrative that some (perceived) minory is some kind of victim.
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That sounds like a good idea in theory, but how does it work in practice? Asking as someone who's never tried it.

For example, most of what I do on my phone is saved to the cloud. That's why I can mostly migrate from one device to another without actually directly copying anything over. Contacts, photos (if you pay for e.g. Google One), user contents of virtually all apps, etc. Last time I did it, I actually moved over the call log, SMS history and maybe that's it? Can't remember.

So what benefit is there to using an alternate phone if you sign in to the same accounts? And if you don't sign in to the same accounts, then your alternate phone is more than just for travel. You're using it (or accounts associated with it) to plan your travel, for example. You've now got to have two parallel 'digital identities' continuously in use, which gets complicated fast.

My strategy for dealing with this is not to worry about it, but to only travel to countries where I don't have to worry about it. I'm not a journalist, a politician or an activist, so the list is quite large. The countries where I could get in trouble, I won't travel to anyway (because I don't want to be arrested for being a member of a cultural organization they deem 'extremist').
None of us here has anything actually illegal to hide IMO.

Political climate and affiliations change however. What was quite fine and protected by freedom of speech today can be declared illegal by an oppressive government tomorrow. In a situation like this you definitely don't want to have your personal data gathered as easily.
https://www.upturn.org/reports/2020/mass-extraction/

This is the mentioned report

https://www.cellebrite.com/en/ufed-ultimate/

With UFED you too can Fed
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No, how about you and the rest of them stop trying to turn the Internet into Google's personal playground.
Relevant to note though that with the Game Boy, at least originally anyway, developers knew exactly what screen was being played on, and occasionally used that knowledge to fake effects that wouldn't been possible on a CRT. See for example the space shooter ZAS which flickers between multiple layers to simulate blending and parallax scrolling, effects which weren't otherwise possible on such a limited system (and using a mechanism which wouldn't have yielded acceptable results on a CRT):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-qFeYK2l8&t=366s
That's true, i just wanted to point out that two of the given examples were blatantly false.
It's an example of the opposite.

'Boom' is a tiny little venture company that may or may not make actual commercial viability, in a niche sector.

Boom is not remotely trying to enter the market for real commercial traffic, which is essentially impossible for a regular private company.

There are no successful airline manufactures that exist without the expressed coordination of a national strategy.

Boeing is a 'strategic asset' - they are supported by massive military contracts and other industrial subsidies. They have Federal level support from the diplomatic corps and may involve themselves in foreign policy. Sales of aircraft may be tied to other mechanisms of statecraft.

Airbus - even more so, practically a creation of European governments.

To give an example of what happens when nations are not powerful, look at Bombardier in Canada - which was squeezed out of a more niche are of commercial aircraft by state actions.

Boeing complained to Donald Trump about 'unfair competition' - the US - against NAFTA treaty - imposed a 250% duty on Bombardier jets. To get around this, Bombardier had to drop their pants and do an ugly deal with Airbus. Eventually, this inability to flex material power in conjunction with other state assets ... and it's a flop for Canada, and a 'win' for a bigger entity backed by a more powerful state entity as the commercial aircraft business was sold off to Airbus.

If Canada had a huge domestic market, this probably would not be the case.

Edit: it's possible Boom eventually develops into a much bigger entity, maybe in 40 years, using their 'smaller, currently niche but growing industry' as an entry point. But taking on Boeing is tantamount to taking on Microsoft directly.
Really neat, simple game. Worked great on Firefox Android.

I play plenty of puzzle games, and I always wonder what the process of designing the problems is like. Do designers develop some notion of solvability, and quickly generate puzzles "in reverse", procedurally, or nearly so? Or do they start sketching an idea of a puzzle and then tweak it until it's solvable at just the right difficulty level, with lots of gameplay testing?

I'm sure it depends on the puzzle mechanic, and this one seems particularly amenable to the procedural approach, being almost purely geometry-based.
About 43 million people in the US hold that debt collectively. That's an average of $23,000 per person. The median is likely much lower as many doctors, lawyers, and other post-grads have $100-300k in debt.

I don't think that it's an arduous sum at all. I came from a working class family and I had nearly twice that amount ~$40,000 when I got out of college in 2001. I set up a payment plan and paid it off with about 5-6% interest.
I’m sticking with DNS over dual server/client certificate.

My home LAN gateway is blocking DoH because the hassle of issuing enterprise-based intermediate CA is not worth the effort to do a Squid TLS transparent proxy so that one can “Pi-hole” to block stray DNS/domains.

This means my own set of authoritative DNS servers.
UAE's Ministry of Health Approves Chinese Covid Vaccine based on 86% efficacy
My understanding of it comes down to this:

Most people do not use secure passphrase to lock their phones, but use a PIN. Even an 8 digit PIN is only 10^8 guesses, which any modern desktop can crack. To solve this, Android/iOS make an extremely long salt, so that + your PIN is your passphrase. In addition, there is logic to deter brute force attacks (e.g. after 10 guesses wipe my device)

The attacks have to overcome both of those, but if they do, cracking the original secret (your PIN)
is easy.

The other method is attacking a "live" phone/laptop, as it has the unprotected key, and one just needs to exfiltrate it.

If you are truly concerned, DO NOT USE a trivial crackable PIN! Use a long password that is hard to crack by itself. Additionally, turn off your device if you think you are in a position where you have to surrender your electronics! That way the unprotected key is gone.

(As a side rant, I wish Android and iOS would allow you to have a "start up" password and a screen unlock password. You used to be able to do that on Android, but it was through root and not officially supported. But it would be nice because then you could have an easy to unlock screen password and a really difficult encryption password).
It forces you somehow de be concise. :)
Nothing really lucky has happened to me this year. There has been a ton of bad luck for me this year, which is mostly unrelated to covid. Including health issues, multiple legal issues, roof leak, car repairs, work performance seems lower, and a bad year for all of my hobbies (bees, garden, etc didn't do well).

The luckiest thing that happened was finding a couple pounds of grifola fondosa. It's pretty common around here, so it's not even that lucky.
N.B. Oxford have since published[0] a peer-reviewed study of phase 3 trial in The Lancet.

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
One reason is usually the person that decides for the company to use it never actually touches it.
>ARM is in the UK

Except that ARM has many offices outside the UK developing important IP. Their Mali Bifrost and Valhall GPU architectures are mainly developed in Scandinavia by former Falanx Microsystems of Norway, aquired by ARM in 2006, hence the norse naming.
Don't know how you work in a major tech company without having dozens of vendors...
How would anti-dumping principals be applied to f/oss? For a long time, Ubuntu's number one bug was the existance of Windows. If company A is releasing a product for free, with the stated aim of damaging company B's market share, how is that not dumping?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

"Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug which Ubuntu and other projects are meant to fix."
I find Github and Amazon's main site to be pretty reasonable in comparison.
Ah, sorry. It's been my career for the last ten years, so it's hardly "latest", but definitely still niche. Editing comment now.
What will be its key advantage over Google Analytics? Privacy and speed?
As always with RAID-style setups, there’s an inevitable trade off of cost vs capacity vs performance.

There’s still a place for RAIDZ/RAIDZ2, and in my opinion that place is storing bulk data that isn’t too heavily accessed or that needs to be stored with an eye towards keeping £/GB down.

Yes, mirrors are faster. Yes, mirrors are easier to expand. But across 12 4TB disks that is 24TB instead of 40TB with RAIDZ2 - and that’s a lot of capacity to lose if you’re on a budget.

The rebuild times in this post seem high to me, though. I replaced 7x 2TB disks (nearly full) in a raidz1 in a backup pool with larger drives in about 30 hours.
Firefox's HTTPS-only mode solves the first insecure request problem
Sorry, this is right. I should have said it’s just as capable or limited in SVG as a bare script tag in the same place.
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Ah, I had not followed the story that far.

At least Forrest Fenn's treasure has actual value, apparently (I would join with the naysayers if it did not.)
At one company we tried to do better than this. The bank login form version of the feature we shipped would be to send an XHR (well, in current year, a websocket message) per keystroke in the login form and preload the front-page data for all the users with the appropriate prefix once there are few enough of them. When the front-page request comes, the data should at least be in a memcached instance used by the relevant service, rather than in a DB owned by a different service.
But many do provide support "unofficially". And HK was already under "one country, two systems", while Taiwan is de facto independent even if the PRC claims it.