skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The main issue is that people who say Trump is lying is mostly Trump's opposition.

There are a range of fact checkers who stake their reputation on trying the best they can to avoid bias, look at those sources and you will see this is not the case.

Also, the government already gets heavily involved in determining the truth without any ministry in the form of slander and liable trials.

One of the more controversial released calls was with Georgia Republican election officials trying to tell him that there was not fraud.
> Small reactors have lower power density than large ones, but the question of cost is far removed from that.

The question of cost is the one most closely related to the powerplant size! It's beyond my imagination how anybody in power engineering can babble something like that.

> have a standard decommissioning process.

And yes, you will have 10x*n times the commissionings, and decommissionings, and refuelings, and inspecions, and road closures, and building permits, and nuisance permits, and grid hookups, and turbines, and generators, and transformators, and fuel shipments...

> if you've found something in just 10 minutes with a highschool level education that proves they're all wasting their time and money, I'm sure they'ed love to hear it.

If somebody with highschool level education, and a pocket calculator busts the math of "thousands of experts working on and hundreds of millions of dollars" in a few minutes, then, those are very lousy experts not worth their millions of dollars.
This can jeopardize domestic tranquility, though. I like to focus entirely on cooking, then clean up in bulk after the meal. My wife likes to clean as she goes. We're both sure the other is wrong.
Same. I filled in Apples form. D&B called me back to verify some details. Took two or three days. Apple swallows the cost.
Nope, I did that on a college computer, with no one logged in. I'm pretty sure it was Windows NT (not 95).

Just messed around until I found that accidentally, and I was able to run commands.

It would have been around 18 years ago, something like that.
The private sector fails all the time. The problem is not government/private. The problem is large organisations with wrong incentives.
Is DevOps Very Tough? (2017)
Without knowing much about the site or where the items came from, you might be seeing a big founder effect based on the creator's interests (and, inevitably, the biases that likely builds into their network, etc.) But these things change.

Any effort to judge product quality is going to have some skew towards more expensive products--the stakes are just higher--but I think there's a risk here of conflating style, quality, durability, and price.

Most of us have probably had at least one ~expensive product marketed on quality that broke jaw-droppingly fast. We've probably all also bought some cheap utilitarian workhorse that lasted for decades.

Some of us care a lot about style and signalling, it's true, but I don't think many of the rest actually want to own crap?
This seems like a good guess
You're right, I didn't mean to justify this, just that it's been done before in a fitting way. I assume they'll borrow that implementation at some point.
copies=n was not intended to be used in place of mirroring - it was really intended for systems where mirroring wasn't an option. While the initial proposal didn't call it out explicitly, those that were "in the know" on the thread called this out as a feature to help with failures on laptops. For instance, this message on Sept 12, 2006:

Dick Davies wrote:
> The only real use I'd see would be for redundant copies
> on a single disk, but then why wouldn't I just add a disk?

Some systems have physical space for only a single drive - think most
laptops!

--
Darren J Moffat

It seems this thread has disappeared from the internet. If anyone is interested in zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org archives, I can probably convince gmail to turn it into an mbox and post it somewhere.

Edit: format. Sorry mobile users, I really need a block quote here.
Facebook is problematic, but Parler solves the wrong problems IMHO. Facebook is toxic because it creates big echo chambers for political (including religious) opinion which makes for a toxic society. Facebook was successful long before it became the cesspit it is today, so it’s possible for a social network to solve these problems and flourish. It wouldn’t be as successful as Facebook due to the inability of users to shout opinions at each other, but I think there’s a big enough niche to be exploited.
Google is building an internet

That is the scariest thing about this. Google already has an effective monopoly on information discovery via its search engine, and is rapidly approaching one with what software people use to view information on the Internet. It controls the "web standards" and can change them rapidly with little opposition. Websites that have no business being anything but browser-agnostic, yet are usable only in the latest version of its ever-churning browser (or its not-too-different clones), are already uncomfortably common. For a lot of people, Google is "the Internet".

I don't know what the solution is. But there's definitely a problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802366
transition phase that has lasted around what, 4 years already?
That's absolutely not the point. Scott Alexander from the Slate Star Codex is definitely not in favor of shutting down discussion from undesirables.
Indigenous Australians also have incredibly good eyesight, and are probably the people group best preserved in our deeper evolutionary past. See, for example, this article on their special military unit https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-08/prince-harry-may-stru....
About a decade ago (Oh no, it's never a good sign when you can legitimately start a story like that...) I was introduced to Jabber by a friend. I was complaining that I really wanted to talk to him about a certain topic, but that the topic was sensitive enough that I was paranoid about it being logged forever on some server somewhere.

He pointed out the OTR plugin, and it blew my mind that it was guaranteed that no one could possibly snoop our conversation.

I knew that it was theoretically possible, but I can't overstate how important it is to package the crypto in a user-friendly way. Being able to get the session going in about 30 seconds was a killer feature.

But, more than that, it seemed to have an advantage over present-day Signal: I use Signal now, but I always feel a bit queasy about trusting it implicitly. I do trust it, but it's such a massive ecosystem now that it doesn't feel nearly as "transparent" as the OTR plugin did. The OTR plugin was like, if this is broken, there are many eyeballs that will know pretty quickly. Whereas Signal doesn't quite feel the same way.

I'm not entirely sure why, or if that feeling is just me. There's no reason to feel like an OTR plugin is inherently more secure. And yet, as evidenced by the article, it was rock solid for 18 years.
Thanks for the pointer to OPNSense!

I've been drag racing various operating systems after my little protectli box proved only capable of pushing 500Mbit/s using PFSense + FreeBSD. Even the usual TCP tuning tricks didn't help. Meanwhile every OS I've tried except OpenBSD proved able to saturate a dedicated one gigabit link in a VM under ESXi.

I will definitely try OPNsense next!
Many good inventions are like that.
> The main issue is that people who say Trump is lying is mostly Trump's opposition

A lot of Republican & trump supporters objected to his lies and issued public statements to that effect.

Also, it doesn't matter if the person is a trump hater, the thing that matters is the facts.

Stop the steal is the lie, because, in the numerous cases filed by trump, they have never produced any evidence.
I had exactly the same thought.

I suspect there is a personality difference in play where some people find themselves trying to analyse the music, so it acts as a distraction for them. Compared to them, I sink into the energy/rhythm of the music and it helps drown out other distracting noises.

It might also depend on one's playlist. Some people like having a TV on for background noise, but I would find that highly distracting. My playlist leans towards highly energetic music where there isn't much reliance on lyrics, such as technical death metal.
I thought you were going to say: JPMC, Black Rock, Goldman Sachs, etc. The vast bulk of it are crypto currency companies.

Instead it's basically $186 million from Square and $5 billion from a questionable Microstategery investment decision.

JPMC has trillions under management, seems like they would want to invest, right? Or are they worried that Tether is currently untethered to reality?
Load balancer or application level rate-limiting.

Cloudflare already deplatformed people: https://tech.co/news/cloudflare-removes-service-8chan-2019-0....
I learned that from Microsoft: all of their competitors products were, from their perspective, a legacy system off of which you were almost-by-definition migrating to a Microsoft replacement (and if you weren't, you de facto weren't their customer).
I can believe that the company who named resources sequentially, enforced no security validation for viewing posts/media, and didn't strip metadata from media uploads also didn't have engineers especially skilled in optimization.
We’ve added features the phones that help us out. We put the phone in “do not disturb” (or airplane mode).
What “these whippersnappers” need to hear is that it’s totally ok to use these settings. That nobody needs to contact them right now, getting back to someone within 24 hours is acceptable.
Even if you’re used to hearing from your close friends seconds after you text them: work needs to slow down and get more focused.
An antenna perhaps as long as a pair of headphone wires?
One of the reasons it's better suited to be a userscript is that there's so much friction to create an extension.
Headline next year:

NBB laptops found to have hardware back door, apparently installed by rogue worker who was NSA agent at factory.
It seems to me, from reading this comment, that there are literal "Nazis" on Y Combinator's Hacker News.
This is a tremendous overreaction on the part of the FCC. Do they really understand the hobby? They should, but seeing as how they turned over much of the monitoring of the ham bands over to volunteers a few years ago, but maybe they do not.

My understanding is that most of the planning for the Capitol assault was done on Facebook groups. Some of those who stormed the Capitol were using walkie-talkie software on their phones.

If the FCC has proof that hams were using amateur radio for the event then they should tell us.
Clearly they havn’t seen https://wonderfulloaf.org

Once you see cash as a broad p2p communication method it’s hard to imagine an Anarchist seeking to undo it as it allows people to collaborate over space and time in so many more ways than barter or physical gift economies.
That is entirely irrelevant to my point. Apple used its monopoly power to make its users buy an inferior product so that others would have no choice but to adapt. How many of those users, given the option, would choose to buy a machine with no Flash support or with only one type of port?

It is, by the way, absolutely not a clear advantage to get rid of old ports. USB C is about five years old. It is absolutely ludicrous to claim that any peripheral older than USB C is obsolete. That goes double for audio equipment. I have decades-old equipment that is still excellent by modern standards, but Apple has decided it's got to go because the 3.5mm headphone jack is unfashionable. If I were an Apple customer I would have no choice but to throw out all my electronics every few years or carry around a suitcase of adapters.
I mean.. so did medicine, buying stuff from the store, and social interaction. That doesn’t mean we stopped innovation when it went slightly awry.

Medicine works well enough with leeches, why would improve that.

There is a path to achieving similar adtech outcomes that are privacy focused, and that is what google is trying to accomplish. Why hate something that is trying to achieve what you want?
> Whereas there are a plethora of distributed schedulers which will happily run commands on any number of hosts.

If you have any specific suggestions, I am on the lookout. I checked out tools like airflow and dask but did not see what they added. Trying not to go full blown HPC cluster.
I find it to be the reverse. A tap on my wrist is actually less distracting because I don't have to grab and unlock my phone to see what it is. Its just a quick flick of my eyes down to see if its important. The watch also uses different taps for different kinds of messages so sometimes I know without even looking if I should bother.

Previously I would have pulled my phone out of my pocket to look every time it vibrated. Its also a super quick swipe and tap to turn on do not disturb mode on the watch so you get no notifications or calls (there is an exemption list too I think)
The most popular method in Venezuela right now is cash-dollars and then zelle transfers, and zelle is only available to those who have overseas bank accounts, everybody else is mostly screwed.

Bitcoin is very useful to those who understand it, but if it weren't so hard to understand to common people it would be an even greater success, it would be a practical option to those who have internet and smartphones, that's still a minority in the country, but not as much as zelle.

Despite that almost everyone have heard of bitcoin in venezuela, another big reason for the undeveloped potential of it is the black-mailing from local authorities to anyone they knew had bitcoins, mostly when price went up fast. There's fear in letting know authorities you have cryptocurrencies.

I'm not in Venezuela anymore, but I still use bitcoin on a monthly basis to send money across borders to my family.

And the security of it gives me a guarantee not offered by anything else, by far!!!. I won't get my money blocked, like it happened to me with a US bank account, for trying to spend all of my money at once (~2k$).

So theoretically a central authority should be able to offer all of that, but in practice, they're all made of human being's decisions, which rules change from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and susceptible to whims. In other words, unstable and not trustworthy. We have also lived what those central authorities can become

Once you've understand how truly secure money can be, it's hard to go back.
I really enjoyed AvE channel at first. I’d definitely recommend it to anyone interested in equipment tear downs.

He uses his own colorful language to describe things. If it’s not appealing to you (I eventually grew tired of it) I’d still suggest you look past it and watch a few dozen of his videos anyway.

Lots of good insight on the manufacturing industry/process that I haven’t seen anywhere else.
Same setup, except three laptops: personal, company-provided, client/project-provided.

You would think it would be unmanageable and you'd be right we're it not for Synergy (https://symless.com/synergy). I've got two laptops docked and connected to external monitors. Synergy lets me use just one keyboard and mouse for all three at the same time. Makes it feel like they're just three adjacent screens on one PC. But because they're not I can maintain strict separation between personal and work, and between internal/corporate and client data.

Then, like others have said, I have a fair amount of filtering on the network level.
>Its not illegal to have or consolidate market power AFAIK

Well using your previous example of Intel giving Dell volume discounts versus a small vendor, yes that in itself is legal. But don't forget AMD successfully sued Intel under antitrust laws for giving discounts to major vendors like Dell in exchange for preferential use of Intel chips over other competing chip makers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v....

This deal between Google and Facebook is strikingly similar. Google is giving preferential treatment to Facebook that it doesn't currently offer to other ad buyers and access to analytical data it also doesn't provide to other ad buyers in exchange for Facebook committing to spend a certain amount of money on Google ads. But more damning, according the article, "the two companies had predetermined that Facebook would win a fixed percentage of auctions that it bid on." This clearly gives Facebook an unfair competitive edge over other advertisers and amounts to quid pro quo, which is illegal, just like the Intel antitrust suit.
Keystone XL Oil Project Pledges Zero Carbon Emissions
Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets
I recommend getting a keyboard with hot-swappable switches, since you may want to change it up some day and instead of buying a whole new keyboard, you can just get different switches. You'll have to do some thinking about what is the ideal switch for you. Some people like super clicky switches that make it sound like you're firing a machine gun when typing. Others want something more quiet.
Oh man, I wish I had some of my old Apple ]]+ floppies! I spent weeks (an hour at a time) typing and porting the BASIC Star Trek game from one of the magazines into an Apple ][+ back in grade 5/6. Was quite the learning experience back in the 1980s. Being exposed to so much code was an excellent way to learn.
Stackoverflow: Basic Bitwise Operators, what's the difference?
best of luck to the lawyers who take the case up of suing someone for their opinion.
A ministry of truth is created when you have an organization that is deplatforming and/or censoring content. That is where we are right now; a small number of big tech companies are acting as a ministry of truth.

Due process is a mechanism to check the power of large organizations. It does not create a ministry of truth, it restrains it.

In fairness to big tech; they have been restrained thus far (at least as far as the current political issues are concerned), but the lack of due process is concerning because if the ministry of truth decides to become more aggressive, there is no mechanism to restrain it.
Randomise HTML elements (div names, classes, a random amount of empty divs in between).

That can be countered by adaptive element-matching algorithms.

Just like with cracking software, it's a cat-and-mouse game, and there are far more mice out there... mice who are willing to work completely for free just to fight back against you.
I have done some things to eliminate small context switches, as I found even those were a trigger to unfocus. I no longer use two monitors, I use i3 to manage windows so I don't have to move to my mouse, same reason I use vimium. I have all my tools inside the IDE and then a terminal sitting below it for all else.

When I have to do frontend implementations, switching between tabs and screens, I can work for much less time and I constsntly lose focus before essentially burning out for the day.
Man, Apple Watch was the worst. It would intrude into life to remind me to breathe.
But, the real issue with a watch is that it’s still a two handed device, except one hand is literally cuffed away from being useful. Combine that with the infrequency that it would actually work as a watch, by turning the screen on. I want back to a Cassio calculator watch and never look back.
The original proposal: https://gist.github.com/mgerdts/2eeb60421e46dcbc24b4ce5adc76...
Hey lazy question, so if you buy this and program it is it already FCC / CE certified for say 802.11a? And could you sell it like how companies sell RPis pre-packaged up with some software?
No, I won't.

I will still have data on rsync.net, b2, Tarsnap, borgbase, some even in Dropbox. Also, the weekly backup to my external hard disk.

That card is more like regular/scheduled backup sink (encrypted data) like those cloud destinations I mentioned above to help with laptop malfunctioning or just dumping some data on it quickly when I want to take it with me (that's rare though).
I Tried to Get a ‘Leftover Dose’ of the Vaccine Last Night
There is a competition for resources while listening to music. I think this was talked about in Code Complete, book I read 20 years ago.

Its just damn pleasurable to do!
Could the title please be changed to the title of the Wikipedia article, so that it is boring and nobody bothers to read it. That seems to be the intention behind this HN guideline:

"please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wrote a program that ran on that type of computer once. It was real-time log analysis. There was a lot of data coming in, and there was a need for a globally-consistent datastore for the results. Solution? Put it all in RAM. If the single replica crashes, you can just read all the inputs again.
Some extra capacity existed for that, and some other system already stored the raw logs to disk durably. The terabyte of in-memory data just made queries tolerable enough to run every few seconds and display in alert/chart form.

I didn't keep the system in this state for very long, but for version 1.0 it was just the thing -- idea to production in a short period of time. Eventually it did move to a more distributed system, as log volume (and usefulness) increased, and we had more time to deal with the details. It was mostly nice to not have to reprocess data after releases -- I could do them in the middle of the day without anyone caring.

My biggest worry when writing this was that 40Gbps of network bandwidth wouldn't be enough, but it was fine in the early stages. 40Gbps is a lot of data.

I'm not sure I'd say it's a great sign that you need a single beefy machine to run something, but it's a tradeoff worth considering. I found the distributed system version easier to operate, but it did constrain what sort of features you could add. I think we got it right, but it's easy to code yourself into a corner when you have encoded assumptions deep into the system. Best to avoid that until you're sure your assumptions are right.

Avery wrote up some details of the system: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190216 His idea, but I wrote most of the code ;)
Nice! I am using 1Password's 2FA, but, basically, it puts both the password and the second factor in one place, which turns 2FA into essentially 1FA!
> Modern society does ban literal witch hunts

There are literal, and I mean literal witch hunts going on in Western nations by the authorities, like Britain or the USA. Generally they use the word satanic.

They are far rarer than 40 or 100 years ago.

Obviously amongst the general population you also have things like Qanon and the Satanism within Pizzagate and in most developing countries they still exist at troubling numbers.

But I don't get your point, so no idea if that's OT
Picture a Canadian who's spent his career doing technical (equipment repair) work in mining and other heavy industry.

He has a pretty deep knowledge of many things though.
I listen to all sorts of music and it doesn't really change much. Realistically I tune out of the lyrics while I'm focused on something else anyway.
It's a christian thing - the highlighted letters are jesus' name, and there's a cross right in the middle.
The variable naming thing seems like total bullshit but when I find a song I like too much I find it can be distracting. When I'm feeling most productive I hardly notice the music thats playing.
Half the problem is people throwing around words like them and their without qualification. There were thousands of people with different views. Some were neonazis and some were terrorist. We all need to be more careful with our generalizations
Authy is a disaster. It damaged my data and I got locked out from many services. At some point the app's generate token is not accepted - I've never had such issues with Microsoft Authenticator or 1Password's 2FA.
I've found listening to brown noise actually makes me so much more productive than music.