skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be talking about auto-tilers like xmonad. Those are the devil (joking, sorta). My favorite tiling window managers in order of preference would probably be exwm (emacs wm) -> stumpwm -> ratpoison -> i3.

These are manual tiling wms. So in exwm I can chose how to position and resize my windows any way I want. For example I can hit C-x 3 to split my screen in half vertically then C-x 2 to split one of the vertical splits horizontally. Now I have

+----------+-----------+
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+----------+-----------+

I can resize the vertical and horizontal splits, add or remove splits and cycle between the splits and the windows they display with regular emacs commands. The only thing you can't do is have windows overlap so you can only see part of their contents. i3 comes last in my preferences because it adds a bit more friction to this with it's concept of containers.

It seems to me like that covers 99% of use cases. I don't see very much value in being able to only see some of a window when it is being overlapped. Especially when if I need to see only a few lines of a window it would only be a few keystrokes away. Maybe C-o 2 C-x 3 C-x - C-x b window title which looks crazy but if you are a heavy emacs user with ace-window and ivy mode it's very natural.
Other thing worth mentioning is that for full time employee penalty for malpractice is up to 3 monthly salaries.

Contractors are liable with all assets/wealth.
https://www.ublockorigin.com

Just block it (and almost all other analytics) instead of opting out
Imagine the Novigrad chapter in Witcher 3, but 20× larger and in a futuristic setting instead. That's basically 1:1 Cyberpunk. And it's why I love Cyberpunk so much.
I always thought that Dick Costolo overpaid for Periscope when it was pre revenue as one of his last decisions before being (possibly) fired. It was wreckless and borderline shady. Mostly because they could have cloned it for much less and it didn’t get have any users or brand equity.
It has been years since I worked for an AAA game company, but at least at that time (and probably still) the pressure from publishers to release in time for Christmas season is beyond intense.

The revenue difference between selling at Christmas (even if reviews are awful) vs selling around Easter, the next available "good" retail holiday, is huge.

And since these days, patches are the standard - as in, release with known deficiencies and patch your way to "OK" - it is very likely that from an overall financial perspective, releasing now was the right answer.

If a game studio wants to maintain a very high level of quality, they have to be willing to lose a publisher by rejecting this. Unless that studio is already so well established that they are in demand, they just cannot afford to fight their publisher.
Despite trying many times and many different tiling wms, it doesn't solve any problem I'm having. Basically every window manager (and Windows) lets me easily put two windows side by side in different ways and have multi desktops. Beyond that my editors, IDEs, and terminals support both tiling and tabs "internally". Between all of that all my tiling needs are more than met.
The new image encoding AVIF can now save images upto 90% size
What distribution?
Are you talking about this case: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-bl... ?

If so, we seem to have a major disagreement about the definition of a "good job". The ICO, by its own admission, found that:

> The investigation found how the three CRAs were trading, enriching and enhancing people’s personal data without their knowledge. This processing resulted in products which were used by commercial organisations, political parties or charities to find new customers, identify the people most likely to be able to afford goods and services, and build profiles about people.

> The ICO found that significant ‘invisible’ processing took place, likely affecting millions of adults in the UK. It is ‘invisible’ because the individual is not aware that the organisation is collecting and using their personal data. This is against data protection law.

The ICO was clearly aware that a large-scale GDPR breach was being committed for profit for several years by a large company who should know better (and has the resources to comply should they want to), and the best they could muster is an "enforcement notice" as opposed to a fine?
Mailinator addresses (including its random domains) are somehow banned on ~90% of sites that I've recently tried it on.

Other, smaller anonymous mailboxes tend to work though. So it's a rare market that shows the opposite of "too big to fail".
Here’s a fun fact. If you read the Match Group annual reports, they’ll often say that their biggest US competitor is Facebook, Instagram and other social media sites.

...so duopoly??
Anecdotally, my father-in-law was chief of staff for a small city hospital and they had a rule about not scheduling afternoon surgeries on important days like anniversaries, birthdays, etc. Basically, if the surgery started going long, you didn't want the surgeon worrying about missing their spouses birthday, birthday with their kids or an anniversary.

It actually wasn't that many surgeries delayed, as the surgeon just juggled surgeries and consults/paperwork/insurance to fit.

If this is fairly standard practice, then an afternoon birthday surgery would be an emergency situation and, hence, more deadly. Given the paper said some surgeons take the day off entirely, any surgeon with that habit would be performing an emergency surgery.
Except Pi-Hole has some serious limitations as it only acts as a DNS server.

I haven't been able to block Youtube ads on my tv for example.
That's correct. aes-gcm (and by extension, aes and polyval) and chacha20poly1305 were audited.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/fa8a96/audit_of_the_r...
Blockchain technology, LIMS, and data integrity during the Covid-19 pandemic
Why is blockchain technology such an important topic?

The term blockchain concerns a digital record of transactions, consisting of individual documents, the so-called blocks, and the chain-linked together in a single list. The blockchain works as a blockchain is a peer-to-peer based topology that consists of ledger technology. This stores the data allows globally on thousands of servers and accesses them in near-real-time (IoT-technology). This fragmentation is the crucial distinction that makes it difficult for one user to control the network. This sophisticated technology has been developed to avoid any kind of identity falsification.
Nowadays, the safety of IoT-devices has been a rising question mark due to the pandemic of COVID-19. Blockchain technology is one of the increasing standards for verification, security, data sharing, and management of cross border transaction.
In laboratories, the topics of blockchain technology have also been increasing a lot when it comes to the safety of stored data. Some laboratory software solutions, like LIMS can be a solution to this problem. For example, [FP]-LIMS, designed by the German company for software development Fink & Partner GmbH, belongs to the upcoming standards for blockchain technology and data integrity. The software engineers at Fink & Partner’s are developing an interface to store the laboratory data into the blockchain as a hash through the standard tools Hyperledger Indy and Aries.
Yes, it seems like spoken languages can have a rather pronounced Ballmer Peak when you are learning them and are not very good at it. And the peak is much further out than with programming languages.
>Falsifying one’s own biases is much more fun...

Meaning... Looking for evidence AGAINST the very thing you've convinced yourself of.
> In the UK there’s no address registry where you declare your address

Can you vote in Glasgow's local elections if you live in Manchester?
For me it's the opposite. I find floating window manager like Windows, MacOS, Gnome, Kde really inefficient at managing screen space. Even more now that we have big screens.
Tilling window managers for me brings a few things:
* Almost never require to resize or position a window, the window manager optimise the layout for you. It removes the constant needs of organizing window
* Combine with workspaces and multiple monitors makes working with a lot of windows so much easier
* Finally, and this is the most important win for me, it is easy to manage everything with a keyboard. Even the few times I need to resize windows, it's such a pleasure to resize all the windows of the current workspace in one go with a simple keyboard shortcut.

It takes a bit of time to get used to it, especially since most tilling window manager I've used require a bit of customisation to bet to my taste but once I've been used to it, going back to clicking on menus, moving things around with a mouse or a touchpad is just not possible. I find this so inefficient, exhausting and, first and foremost, something that should be avoidable.
> but software is fundamentally deterministic.

That's true, but human behavior is also fundamentally deterministic, and those two observations are about equally useful.

> Note that this is rather different from physical, mechanical systems which can fail in all kinds of exciting and unpredictable ways due to physical wear and tear, things getting jammed in places, component failure, etc.

No it isn't. Those are deterministic too.
I don’t know, seems to me that most of the sites I see them in are US sites that say they have to get consent because of GDPR. When you browse from outside the UK, the sites don’t have the consent forms.
Surely that depends what the price right now is. As the cheapest paid version is $1/month, I don't really think doubling it to $2/month would be excessive.
If you mean cookie banners then no, they won't stop. UK data protections laws are going to be almost entirely unchanged come 1st Jan. Having said that this doesn't mean there will be no practical effects, as our status with regards to other EEA countries is changing so data transfer between EEA and the UK is affected. It also seems likely that UK data protection laws will start to diverge from EU data protection laws over time, though what this might look like in practice is anyones guess.
Nobody says you need to use lego camera.

Obviously, if a camera is defective and it prevents you from making shots you may want a more costly, reliable camera that will not fail on you when you need it.

But I can assume that at some point, when you add to the cost of a bike, you no longer buy reliability. You may even reduce reliability as components are getting lighter and more frail and difficult to replace/repair.
Really obnoxious pop-up ad that won't even go away when I click in the background.
I prefer language to notation because language means to me syntax and semantics, both are important to differentiate say Go and Java
"Anonymous Reviewer 2" stipulates that you include twenty citations to papers written by a single lab before your paper can be accepted for publication :^)
3D Mapping and Modeling Market worth $7.6B by 2025
>chip in

;)

I've also had zero crashes but I do notice quite a few minor bugs. They're a little annoying but I've still sunk 30 hours in. I also can't remember the last open world game that didn't have similar bugs.
This is just so true, and so depressing. We need to fight for standards internally now.
So at the end of the day it is yet another way for sites to track you.
Do you get confused by what Git commands to use?
You should take a look at PaperWM for Gnome. It combines functionality if i3 with Gnome aestetics. But it also makes tiling simpler, open windows are only side by side, but with several workspaces. It also uses "Win" key for everything so it is very convenient, and do not collide with other Linux mappings.
GDPR applies to any organisation operating within the EU, as well as any organisations outside of the EU which offer goods or services to customers or businesses in the EU.
I just find this extension insulting. I need less Google code running in my browser, not more.
> bought and paid for by Warner Brothers

Hang on I remember mass protests by the artists themselves in favour of that law?
You can configure borders and install a status bar with more powerful theming features such as polybar, which will make i3 quite pretty in a minimalist way, but it will never be anything fancy if that's what you're looking for.
My keyboard volume keys up and down are working. But I did nothing about this in i3. I think this is related to the system. About my status bar when I click on the volume, I open "alsamixer" in a terminal. I also have, wifi, network, dropbox as tray icons. Wifi and Lan icons come from the package networkmanager.
Bill Gates has a podcast recently talking about this: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Podcast/Is-it-too-late-to-stop-cl...

Also, the book "Ministry For The Future" is an SF take pulling together ideas people have on climate change. The actual prose may make you throw the book at the wall.

You can, if you wish, push information forward. For example, having free interfaces to solar panels, cheap sun following controls, software to control car charging for cheap times, software to use a car as a 'peak load' battery, data modelling to show Hawaii why tourism is better with only electrics, software to create micro cargo ships with solar power, cleaning up the automated kite power generators that were open sourced, and the like.

You have more power than you expect.
MyLitBag – Virtual PDF Binder for Lawyers
MyLitBag is an IOS-based Ipad digital binder app that allows users to replace and share their physical binders of Legal documents with secure, password protected virtual litigation binders of PDF documents and case files. Designed by and for a litigator’s use, MyLitBag provides the same attributes & functionalities as creating and using a physical binder, such as PDF document markup, PDF document annotation, flipping between tabs in a binder, and flagging important pages for immediate reference, and it adds functionality with active internal “See” and “Nota Bene” reference links. Comes with free copies of the Federal Rules of Evidence and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for you to use.
> I don’t know, seems to me that most of the sites I see them in are US sites that say they have to get consent because of GDPR.

If they're asking about cookies for GDPR then that's a mistake on the part of those sites. You can read about the details of PECR here https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/what-are-...

Of course under GDPR they may need to get permission for other forms of data processing (signing you up to a marketing mailing list, for example), but the rash of cookie permissions banners are because of PECR and similar legislation in other EU countries.
It seems the blurriness can be removed by disabling film grain and another setting, also framerate improves drastically if you reduce "cascading shadows." I'm curious if you've done that or if you haven't and it improves things. I haven't bought the game yet, expecting bugs.
Scale is a fantastic book on the hidden order of complex systems
You can build rollbacks out of rollforwards, although it certainly isn't particularly fun. You patch an update to version N version code so that it's higher than N+1 and roll out the N+2 labelled N.
Depends on the distro. Grokking the Arch Linux workflow around PKGBUILD and using `makepkg -si` is pretty easy. Debian makes it a bit tricker, but still manageable.
It's easy to charge less when you do not develop any software and use software developed by Purism. This is not an entirely fair price in my view. $10 donation to developers per purchase does not cut it. Also, higher specs definitely must be more expensive.
Hi - I'll see if I can get it to disappear on background click (will check Bootstrap docs now).

In the meantime clicking the [x] or pressing [esc] will make it go away and not return!

edit: Done! I moved the popup further down the page too. Thank you for the feedback.
I think the golden age of the US lasted between the beginning of the 30's until the end of the 70's and especially that period was a time of higher taxes for the rich and a rapidly growing middle class. With the current lack of well paying middle class jobs together with high barriers for studying for the jobs that do poor people don't really have a chance to emancipate like they did until the 80's: work hard, earn enough money to send your kids to university and see them doing better than you did.
They do. Most IDEs behave like tiling WMs.
Bought a notebook from a popular non-Chinese manufacturer that is currently delayed in Shanghai for some days now.

If the device finally arrives it will be brought up in a very tight containment network and every tcp packet it sends will be scrutinized excessively, even if that particular device wouldn't be used for a lot of things.

That said, western governments do the same. It would have been smarter not to do it in every conceivable way. For user security, for diplomatic standing, for certifying the intelligence community isn't actively undermining the values it is supposed to defend. So what result did they get in return for all that? A huge waste of taxpayer money, lies about domestic policies and agency abuse, compromised network security and totalitarian whistleblower prosecution.

No, western governments cannot call China out on their practices because they would do the exact same things. Weak sauce.
I'm probably going to sound silly now but I do this when doing any technical work I deem important or critical enough, point and say outloud what it's for or what state it should be in or in the imperative what to do to it... it does work, it somehow catches silly mistakes compared to keeping everything in your mind, and also gives you confidence because it works like a checklist.

Known as pointing and calling in transport AFAIK.
You went from SaaS to job, while many are trying to do the opposite. I’m interested to know whether you kept them going and why you didn’t go full time on them?
This website is pretty cool sometimes.
Yes, which is not all websites. And it's not just offering goods and services but having a large customer base. It was specifically designed not to apply to small companies in other countries. For example, if you're a local newspaper website in Ohio, then GDPR does not apply to you. And it only applies to EU cizitens, it's just that it's so hard to realise who is a EU ciziten when they're within the EU that it's easier to just apply the same measures to everyone.
Anyone that's truly on the fence already knows what to do, they've seen it happen with all three Witcher games. Wait two years, then buy them for $40, or wait for a GOG sale and get the Game of the Year Edition for $20.

I pre-ordered Cyberpunk 2077 because I like this setting much more than the setting of The Witcher. Don't regret it.
German here: I always try to take a day off. Not as a rule in general, just a personal preference.
Looking for Exemplars of Code Reviews?
Do people get better from watching good code reviews? Are there videos of some excellent code reviews available? Any recommendations?
Well when bitcoin first started, i didn't have any transaction fees. Afterwards the protocol changed, forks did happen, and confusion ensued. However some programs start to emerge, about incentivizing social media users to post good content[1]. And of course open source developers should be incentivized by their users to fix the bugs, implement popular features that theirs users want etc. So some things start to happen, well mainstream adoption is a little bit far, but it will happen eventually.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/social-media-platforms-for-cr...
Malaysian official who renamed stadium denies title is his name backwards
Thanks for bringing back fond memories of playing Far Cry 2 LAN multiplayer in run-down internet cafes back in middle/high school. :)

In case you haven't played Far Cry 2 before, here's [1] a great video that showcases the aesthetic choices and art direction behind the game, and how they all fit together. Also [2] showcases the amount of detail that went into making FC2, that isn't always found in more modern games.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx4eSkMBx-U

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCeEvQ68jY8
Ambient Field Recordings from Forests around the globe
In my little world, I don't need more than perhaps a few windows at attention simultaneously, and working out how to space them when it does happen is pretty breezy. The physical metaphor of dragging stuff works for me, too, and—while the Vim folks might ridicule me—I think the computer mouse is actually quite excellent and fills in the gaps quicker than remembering keyboard shortcuts for some things. Also really great for when I'm drunk, because I'm not in the mood to play spy games with the desktop when I just want the window to go over there. I can afford the calories my arm burns in the drag-n-drop process.
while on topic of window adjusting shortcuts

I got way too used to Win+arrow keys for moving and resizing windows, inluding in multiple monitor setups. Any Linux WM that replicates these shortcuts?

Using Win+arrow I can minimize, maximize, make window stick to left or right half of screen or any of corners and move between desktops.
As a total monoglot who regrets not learning languages properly when he was a kid, this still seems pretty obvious to me that at least I don't read code in the way I read natural language, or maths.

However it's always good to have intuitions like this confirmed or refuted by actual investigation, and putting them on a more solid footing within the broader context.

My personal experience of reading code has always felt more like looking at a mechanical mechanism, or perhaps solving a paper maze where you see the whole thing at once but can focus on parts as well. It isn't something I look at one line at a time, I read it in structural blocks, almost a breadth-first reading. I see the if/else statement and structure before I see any of the details of each branch. It's a deeply non-linear process of going up and down levels of abstraction where necessary, and ignoring details at lower levels that are irrelevant to the task at hand.
Could you find some details on this?

Also, "even a shitty job is better than no job" might lead to people campaigning for that law if that means they get to work on LotR in their home country. Of course this is not really a viable strategy long term.
Video of the newer RoboScan v4 in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRDomN48SOs
I think that you are too harsh. I don't know their other papers but the fact that they demonstrate such a cheap way to break the airgap has real world implications. You don't have to be an international spy agency with custom hardware listening to side channel noise, anybody with a WiFi card and the right know how can do it. This is significant, killing the WiFi card on your device is not enough to deter exfiltration even by the least sophisticated attackers.

Yes, the attack is unidirectional, but that is not without value. Time and time again, the airgap has been breached from the outside, from stuxnet to various cryptocurrency heists. Security is about layers and there are many applications where the gap must me breached bidirectionally - this is an example of breaching one of those layers, indeed, the weaker inside-to-outside layer. You might also intentionally run untrusted code on an airgap, that could report back information about the environment or tests you perform on it.

So, yes, predictable and not a danger by itself, but not without value and possibly a key component of an elaborated real world attack.
Well, I do. So there's at least one of us.

Then again, I grew up having my birthday in the "herfstvakantie" and the habit kind of stuck :-)
You can run gnome settings daemon “behind” i3 with i3-gnome and regolith. It will handle the media keys, locking, auto mount etc.
At least non-Suite sites figured that out a while ago. I think you need to change your language in 3 different places though.