skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until very recently, Firefox on Linux did not have GPU Acceleration or WebRender. With Firefox 80 and 81, they were added but both were not enabled by default. It may very well be the case that Firefox is not using your GPU.

Regarding mixed-DPI displays and scaling, I have not had issues with GNOME on Wayland.

Bluetooth Audio also works quite well for me, and it shows device names rather than addresses.

I will agree that GNOME tends to be slow to start apps after a while, although it is very quick on fresh installs. I am not sure why that is.
Scylla Enterprise [0] [1], which is a Cassandra-compatible NoSQL database, though I think that they were probably using the DynamoDB API shim to talk to it. The non-enterprise version is open source, but fewer features.

[0] https://www.scylladb.com/product/scylla-enterprise/

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/14/it-could-be-neve...
If you’re referring to the GitHub situation, the comment in question was made as the attack was ongoing.
My favorite passive-aggressive HN rhetorical move. (edit for clarity: I'm referring to dragging things as "legacy" as passive-aggressive, not the parent comment.)
How accurate can IP Geolocation get?
"Wellerman" is certainly the most popular, but there have been several! Lately I've been seeing people take up "Leave Her Johnny", "The Last Shanty", and even some labor songs like "Process Man"/"The Chemical Worker's Song"

It's been surprisingly fun watching the various takes blow up on TikTok.
It sounds like you have more experience with these things but what you are describing is not consistent with my experience.

It was totally acceptable to sip a drink. If I was empty and needed a refill I would simply take the shared container (650ml beer bottle, tea pot, etc.) and first refill someone or everyone’s drink, empty or not. Essentially the personal containers were bottomless.

I never felt an obligation to refill a specific person’s drink. But that situation never really came up because everyone eventually is the person initiating the refills.

It’s possible I was offending a lot of people. In fact it is likely. They were certainly generous enough to not say so however.
reMarkable 2 has pogo pins for the second USB at the left side, and that one supports a keyboard just fine.

Terminal and emacs aren't there out of the box, but can be added.

A really nice and quite hackable writing/reading device...
What snarky comments? I asked a question. You even quoted it. There is no reason to become aggressive.
I'd argue that many on the right now find them selves outcasts in the world of social media as they are now lumped in with Neo Nazis, insurrectionists and all sorts of other nasties.

I'd also argue that it's not so cut and dry that you can choose your political leanings so freely. It seems there may be evidence that we are influenced by our genetics https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-genes-of-left...

If this is the case it's not so different.
We just RDP into our in-office machines when we work from home.
TypeScript: Discriminated Unions & Polymorphism
Responses to catastrophic AGI risk (2018)
I'm not saying you're wrong, but making fewer bigger reactors doesn't seem right either.
As an extension developer, I am keen to put my extension on Safari however what is preventing me at this moment is dealing with Dun & Bradstreet to get a DUNS number. A DUNS number is required to sign up to the Apple Developer Program as a corporation. So far I have been pushed to 3 different departments by D&B who keep just hand-balling me to the next department without solving my issue, and this is taking on the order of months. I wish Apple would remove this requirement.
Drunken Whaler. Here it is as used in a trailer for the game: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rUtX8pFl6Wc

Two great action stealth games came out in 2012 that share many similarities (or perhaps, their Thief legacy): Dishonored and Mark of the Ninja. The latter is by far the best gameplay wise; Dishonored has unsurpassed world-building. Sometimes I idly think of just modding Dishonored's setting and visual design into Mark of the Ninja.

By the way, they are both now available DRM-free.
The elephant in the room is Facebook. There's lots of evidence they were the most directly responsible [1]. Parler wasn't bad for business but scapegoating it was good PR.

1. https://www.salon.com/2021/01/16/despite-parler-backlash-fac...
>the guy in the yellow shirt is Jason Tankersley

I believe you have a case of mistaken identity. This article identifies the man as Will Watson from Montgomery.

https://www.alreporter.com/2021/01/07/no-this-capitol-insurr...
Show HN: Yup-schema-faker: fake data generator for yup
SpaceX is already launching for less then 100 million. You don't need to close a larger part of the ocean for a bigger rocket.

SpaceX is actually building its own rocket launch facilities in South Texas. They are also already evaluating sea platforms.

Insurance rates for Falcon 9 are already very low, the lowest in the industry. If Starship can double or triple the flight rate insurance will go down by quite a bit. Also the costumers pay for insurance, its not part of the SpaceX price quoted here. In addition, government don't actually insure things like Artemis program.

> That USAF person in the back of the room with their finger on the destruct button.

That job doesn't exist anymore for SpaceX launches.

In fact, if you look at the total labour for launch, its going down considerably and it will continue to go down. Look at SpaceX operation in South Texas, an explicit goal of their whole design process is to make things cheaper and faster and that goes for operations as well.

Another example is the capsule retrieval operations. During Appollo damn near a whole battle fleet was sent, now its one ship and some available cost guard.

2 million $ per launch is quite extreme however there is absolutely no reason why it should cost over 100 million. Even with the Falcon 9 today, the second stage is actually large part of the cost and a fully reusable system would reduce that consderably. The fuel for Starship is actually cheaper then for the Falcon 9 as the Falcon 9 uses RP-1, helium and a couple other things Starship no longer has.

The steel construction should actually end less expensive then the Falcon 9 construction. This of course doesn't go for the full human capable Starship, but just the Cargo version of the rocket compared.

The Raptor rocket engine is more complex then Merlin and will likely be somewhat more expensive until it significantly overtakes it in production rate. However SpaceX has shown to be able to make engine quite cheaply and with reuse the per flight cost is trivial.

Please explain why Starship should cost (internal cost) more then 2x of Falcon 9.
Yeah, the only people that seem to criticise the 12" macbook are people who've never owned one. I still have my 2016 12" m5 and it is a fantastic little machine for people that need to be mobile.

In fact the other reason I got it was that the rest of the line (in Sept 2016) was not appealing at all. I had been set on a maxed out 13" pro, but hated the touchbar. I thought of the 12" as a stopgap until Apple realised the error of their ways.. turned out I would be waiting half a decade.
What's wrong with it? I'd totally believe it's a mess, but I'm curious what kind of mess. Specifically I'm wondering if it's "bad Go code" or the underlying AWS APIs (or both!)
Teams provides minimum viable EDiscovery unless you buy a separate service. Good luck reconstructing conversations without it!
+1. You can’t effectively hide away a mesh unless if it also handled versioning and service dependencies automatically.

I’ve seen several codebases now where the company decided to move to a full SOA-architecture without much effort put into maintaining stable, public interfaces at every service.

The goals defined sometimes are quite misguided, eg: “We’ve moved 80% of our services over to k8s”.

Okay. Goal achieved. Then I see engineers face issues over coordinating changes across several services. It’s very easy to fall into the trap of solving the problem of making sure coupled service deployments all happen at the same time. Rather than defining public interfaces and making the services be able to handle several versions.
Oh man that last one is right up there with the don’t tread on me lady getting treaded on in hilarity.
Frankly whenever I use iOS (these days mostly on an iPad, since I switched phones to Android a few years ago), I miss that I don't have root privileges and full filesystem access.

Everything you mention would be possible if those were given :-(
Second laptop.
I know it's expensive, but if your working from home, don't do it from your own computer. do it from a computer work provides.
Or at least, create a second account called work and do everything from that. Also make the theme, colors and everything you can different so there's a context shift between the two activities.
Targeted advertising through tracking is only good for “aggregators” that want infinite eye balls.

Any platforms that create content already have well targeted ads without tracking. e.g. HBO

Even on content aggregators, that target niche audiences like HN have well targeted ads without tracking. Jobs and of course Ycombinator listed everywhere.

Killing tracking kills the mega content aggregator industry (front page of Reddit, maybe Facebook feed, etc) but this is likely a good thing.
Interesting point; I didn't consider that.

A civilisation with advanced enough technology and (by our standards) infinite amounts of time and resources could indeed have groups of individuals seeking exactly that.

Still a far cry from founding galactic empires, but a reasonable motivation that I haven't really considered thus far.

Such reasons for expanding outwards would, however, match our observations (or specifically lack thereof) perfectly: groups that seek isolation or refuge from their parent civilisation likely wouldn't bother broadcasting their existence to everyone or build easily detectable solar system-scale mega-projects like Dyson Swarms.
I had to close the tab at "We also believe that privacy is a human right, and we're deeply committed to the privacy of every person who uses our products". This is a blatant lie.
That sounds like an emulator bug, almost certainly
> A good website will ask for 2FA again if a user tries to do something destructive (like change password, email, or disable 2FA). They wouldn’t be able to do those things.

The page mocking the login page where you need to answer the 2FA will simply phish your 2FA then, after a little delay pretending there's some lag, would say "wrong code, please try again". Now the person enters a second 2FA (which, due to the delay, would be different than the first one).

As I've just commented in a top-level comment: I've seen sites using a 72 hours delay before any destructive change can be made, coupled with the sending of an email containing a link allowing to unilaterally prevent the change.

I've also seen sites using two 2FA (TOTP style), one for login, one for any setup/destructive change. And there are sites using both techniques.

It's not 100% foolproof but it's better than "one 2FA phished and it's game over".
> If you see a wildly off base ad, it's likely not targeted, it's just part of an ad buy.

I usually see such ads them immediately after purchasing the item in question. It's almost as if the targeting models are, in an abstract sense, extremely over-fitted.

> Targeting only by the demographic of the publication is not so great because publishers usually only have a vague idea who their actual demographic is.

As far as I'm concerned, coarse granularity targeting is a feature, not a bug. I often discover legitimately interesting things I didn't know existed but are adjacent to my interests in venue-scoped advertisements.

Even if I didn't find targeted advertising morally objectionable (I do) I would still consider it functionally inferior to more coarse-grained venue/demographic/etc-based placement.

Targeted advertising doesn't help me discover new things, it tries to preempt purchases I'm already likely to make, and put them in front of me. I don't think that's actually very useful.
First part already started by ECB boss last week.
Sure. It's classic you're either with us or against us.
7 is an important number across many cultures which pops up again and again. So is 8 (Eightfold path, 8 days of Hanukka, 8 Beatitudes, 8 Gates of Heaven). So is 6 (6-pointed Star of David, 6 Days of creation, 6 Articles of Belief, 6 Ministries, 666). So is 5. So is 9... There are many more things to be counted than there are numbers to count them with. Saying everyone decided on 7 stars because they just all liked the number 7 doesn't pass the sniff test.
It uses arithmetic coding, I believe.

EDIT: wikipedia says it did but changed to use Huffman encoding due to patents? But those patents have expired.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25815229
The Germans hated the Russians (and generally anyone east of them). You had a 57% chance of dying if you were a soviet POW, compared to a 3.6% chance if you were British or American [0].

[0] - https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-perse...
...and LZ is such a simple algorithm - replacing repeated occurrences of a sequence with a shorter backreference - that I'm surprised it wasn't discovered sooner. Huffman wrote about his algorithm in the early 50s, but LZ only showed up in the late 70s.
Actually, It depends on more than that: the skill of Federal Detectives to find and get key people to co-operate, the skill of Federal Prosecutors to argue these cases convincingly in front of a judge/jury etc.

Lawmakers are required to pass reasonable laws and regulations, but these are often provide guidelines. Antitrust laws were written in response to specific issues with monopolization, and many Big Tech companies have managed to skirt around them by interpreting its provisions in specific ways.
I've often wondered the same thing, but about personal health information and educational information (HIPPA, FERPA). If you intercept that data and store it, transmit it or even just allow real time access to it are you suddenly on the hook for all that those laws require?
> you can't trick someone into a hardware token authentication.

Since when?
Worth mentioning here that the reply in question is dishonest, bad faith argument.

All that this person did was tell me I was wrong, then restate my exact point that the service went down due to hitting a capacity limit. Really the only difference between what they said and what I said was the lack of civility, and the additional assertion that Signal needed to be shutdown.
It isn't how the world works. For change there needs to a value proposition. Your entire proposition is it fits your personal views. Why do you expect others to change for your personal choices when you aren't willing to change for theirs?

You essentially have a personal disagreement with the practices of a specific company and want to inconvenience others who might not think the same way. It's arguably a selfish perspective, family members may be willing to bend to those demands for an individual. But to expect businesses to indulge every single individual preferences for how they wish to be contacted is impractical.
Maybe Overuse, Stories About Error Information Loss
I mean that's not really true - TCP allows a persistent connection so you could totally just keep the shopping cart for the duration of the time that the user is on the website and /not/ use a cookie.
Author seems to hang a lot of faith on rumor. Maybe some of those rumored things will happen, but it's pretty unlikely that all of them will happen. (I'd be OK if the touchbar vanished though!)

Apple just announced a magnetic feature for their phones called "MagSafe". What's the chance that the revived MacBook feature called "MagSafe" won't be something phone related? A charging region on the notebook seems hard to believe but stranger things have shipped.

The author is also quite dismissive of the 12" MacBook which for me was a breakthrough product. I traveled around the world with one in my bag, wrote a ton of code, and often had to check to see if it was in my bag, it was so light. I'd still be using it except it turned out one day not to be rainstorm-proof :-(.

As for the SD slot: I asked Jobs about this in the early 2000s (this was around when PCMCIA was phasing out) and he was dismissive for the same reason: "Oh, you have an SD card? Do you also use CF? And Memory Stick?" This was painful because indeed, I used all three.

The fact is the TB3 (USB4) ports are powerful enough that they can connect to almost anything a user has. I know everybody's milage varies, but for me that's more powerful than a dedicated port I only use occasionally (as FW400 was for me) or never (FW800 in my experience).
Amanda Gorman will be youngest inauguration poet
Our government's COVID statistics site[0] is a SPA. It doesn't need to be, it just shows tables and graphs, but these days any new page seems to needlessly be made as a sluggish SPA.

If you want to check hospital bed occupancy by state, it's 3 clicks, a 5 second spinner while it loads the results and shows the first 20 rows. It doesn't sound that bad, unless you refresh, in that case it throws you back at the landing page.

This should be a static site, but even if not, this is actually slower than a server-side rendered page. SPAs are not desktop-like when they constantly request server data, even if they hide it with slow animations and spinners.

[0] https://www.gits.igg.unam.mx/red-irag-dashboard/reviewHome
> Contrast this to the real experience of linking to a library: You reference the library from your IDE, build, and deploy. Done. That should be the gold standard for service mesh.

Uhhhh. If linking software is the gold standard for a service mesh, I think we're already there. If you're using the right tools and stack it's fine, but if you mess around and go lower-level you're in for a treat.
Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India (2019)
A distro-independent avenue for distribution could be important, but surely we can do better than snapd.
Civil rights pioneer Ruby Bridges on activism in the modern era
FWIW you can get a feel for the content right now - I can only assume Parker’s content is on par with thedonald.win, which is still up. Right now there is few literal calls to violence, but racism, conspiracy theories, and extremist views are the majority of the content.

Prior to the deplatforming that content likely was.. more violent.
Ha, they've flagged the entire post to hide the discussion.
Another reason it is a bit of a mess is because of the no breaking changes promise. They have to keep ugly or deprecated interfaces unchanged, even into Go 2, iirc.
Yeah, that's one reason I prefer verbal convos. Electron aside, how many people even keep their phone on the latest version? There's all sorts of ways to slip up with Signal, though now that I'm not violating COPPA by posting on the boards, I don't see a need to make a literal list of all of them.
I think of Elon Musk's emphasis on the machine that makes the machine is probably what we want to make nuclear plentiful and affordable.

I like the idea of being able to move the parts of a reactor from the factory to a site for assembly.

But honestly, the idea of a container-scale / portable reactor gives me the heebie jeebies. An operational reactor that can be easily moved is something that will go wrong, someday, somehow.
The internet at first only had traction by HN types, and we had the same hope for it.
Thanks,

In addition to that, now I noticed that in the blog post:

> I recommend the open source Bit Warden.
A password manager stores your passwords. But it also stores the web address of site’s login page. If you visit githud, the password manager won’t prompt you to use the login details for github
Worth pointing out that the political spectrum isn’t a line with democrats on one extreme and republicans on the other, it stretches much further on either side and probably has more dimensions. I’d put myself much further left than the establishment democrat platform.

But your main point is right, that things like memes often serve to push people away if you’re not already in the in-group.

Edited to add a space
> Indeed, a Parler executive told me that of the thirteen people arrested as of Monday for the breach at the Capitol, none appear to be active users of Parler.

Presumably, this was of the first 13 people to be charged in US District Court (when about 40 others were charged in D.C. Superior Court). And maybe it's true of those 13, though “a Parler executive told me...none appear” seems to be below the threshold of factual information that a responsible journalist would rest any conclusion on besides “that’s what Parler is advancing as a PR position”.

But clearly there were plenty of people there with active Parler accounts, even if they haven't yet been arrested:
https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/?utm_s...
Why is it not ethical to post Carrie Olesen's name? The article says she's taking "personal responsibility" for the situation, does it not? How can you take responsibility if nobody knows who you are?

I, for one, applaud Carrie Olesen's personal responsibility in admitting to siding with Nazis and firing a Jew.
This has likely been asked and answered before, but why not write something like this in something that can be statically compiled like go? Isn’t the whole thing just a couple of web requests and cert operations?
> It's easy to imagine how many of these will be electronic waste in not that many years.

I'm pretty in favour of requiring some level of "the user can run whatever they want, supported but at their own risk" for every (reasonable) device for exactly that reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tigosmIryU Prof. Martin Sweatman says that the paintings in Göbekli Tepe depicts the fall of a meteorite that caused the younger dryas cooling/ice age. now this calamity occured much earlier than the construction of Göbekli Tepe - but he infers that the paintings refer to the constellation of the stars at the time when the meteorite came down. Another example of palaeoastronomy in action. fascinating...
> After a short time in hospital, in late March 1945 seven of the escapees were sent to serve in the rifle unit, five of them died in action over the following weeks.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire!
As a slavic person, it depends.

Money? Yes must be settled.

Drinks? Preferably settled the same night (more rounds). If not settled the same night, it goes into the infinite pool of “drinks on you next time we meet” where nobody keeps track.

Favors? "Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me."
It's not wasting energy, it's consuming previously wasted energy. In fact it puts a floor under energy prices so that it rather than wasting energy that you can't get to consumers you can instead use it to mine bitcoin.

Nic Carter has a good piece on this: https://www.coindesk.com/the-last-word-on-bitcoins-energy-co...
That’s a reasonable one, thanks.
No it says in the article that some people started using facebook for it because it was the prevalent thing at the time but anything can be used.
Wow, of all the standards why something proprietary like snaps?

How about flatpak? Or anything out open?
> What kind of editors is he using, anyway?

He's using his own editor:

https://github.com/bisqwit/that_editor
I have found it almost pointless to try listing stuff for less than $50 because you get loads of non committal people messaging you and then not picking up the item. I tend to just list stuff for a price and then accept any counter offer requested. Filters out the hoarders and selects only the ones who actually want it.
Actually stockfish crushed leela in recent TCEC. It seems that the new neural network of stockfish had a huge effect on the performances. Something like a 130 ELO improvement.