skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the wording in the article is over the top, I think it’s getting at a concept of a near stateless web-app unit that runs with some RAM, some sockets, stdout/stderr for logging, and a static set of files. In that sense the app needs only a few of the other parts of the OS, benefits from minimalism, while Kubernetes becomes much more interesting to the web app developer, hosting copies of this in some distributed manner across a cluster.

Certainly some parts of the world are trying to make this the future anyway, though there’s a lot of room for misgivings (being a distributed system is hell)
It actually is, the Subaru logo is the 7 sisters. It created the affinity for the brand. Market research identified it, and it has of course grown with marketing. It was something I looked into back in the 90’s when I noticed such a high correlation between the two.

I find it very difficult to believe that any car company in the 90’s targeted the market before they realized they were already winning it.
This is pretty much where I was coming from too, although better articulated. I do see value in the structure of responses, but if we have already done everything we need to then we should be able to respond to the audit formulaicly.

Though seeing the other comments that Vanta + audit being cheaper than audit alone is an interesting quality and may change the initial defensive rejection I have for receiving cold contact mail on non-public addresses (which means they also buy harvested data).
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I may be misunderstanding the free oxygen part, but if that's the case why doesn't that happen in our ocean?
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> By the way, they are both now available DRM-free.

Source?
Facebook quite possibly was more responsible because they're more popular. But they also appear to be a actively fighting the misinformation that these groups spread and thrive on.

Whereas Parler is the opposite: they practically celebrate how little they care about undermining democracy with misinformation.
Facebook bans accounts with fake info. They are pretty good at it too. I assume they simply use the contact info the scraped and look for your name in your friends contact lists.
Thanks. I didn’t know that. Wouldn’t larger organizations (if not medium sized ones or small ones) want to have that service anyway?
The private water utility company is a false equivocation. Government regulations view this as a natural resource and regulate it heavily. Privatization of natural resources often raises the specter or threat of cut-off as you suggest and is traditionally subject to government intervention.

I believe you are right - cutting communication channels of a sovereign state can be an act of war. But these are private channels. I don't think we are anywhere near classifying these platforms as public utilities, much less natural resources, at least in the United States.
Those types of schemes were very common in the post-war period. The UK government used to directly design and sell "utility furniture" for example

Also plenty of monopolies do exactly that at enormous scales, Bell System/Western Electric is a good example.
And iOS != IOS (Cisco).
I saved the image and cut out everything but the flowers. Then used this online tool https://www.imgonline.com.ua/eng/unique-colors-number.php
Yes, on the early models.

Flashing text is a feature of the video hardware, and on early Apple II models the cursor is just a space character with the Flash bit enabled.

You can turn on flashing text with the FLASH command. E.g.:

FLASH:?"HELLO WORLD"

Later models will produce the flashing cursor in software rather than hardware, so you can't inadvertently end up with multiple flashing cursors on screen.
Union sent their own ex-POWs to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtrafbat who were marched in front of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier_troops
People have different schedules, the goal of giving away most items is to make sure it gets to the person who needs it most. Letting a post sit for 24hrs gives everyone a chance to see it.

People comment about why they need it or will use it for in that time, then the poster can decide who to give it to after a fair amount of time.
Have we done better, or is snapd the best option for their needs as of today?
> "Teams could soon be a digital platform as important as the internet browser." - Satya Nadella

Every person reading this should be scared, because he's not wrong. Ever since the pandemic started, 90% of our B2B SaaS platform customers (current and prospects) have asked "do you have a Teams app". Its sudden; it was not like this a year ago. Its an "end the conversation" question for maybe half of them, similar to how not having SSO was/is an "end the conversation" issue in B2B.

Thankfully, Satya is only right in the domain of B2B. The web browser is critical software for any use-case, B2C and B2B; Teams will probably never breach B2C in a meaningful way.

Worth saying, developing apps for Teams is quite literally the most garbage-filled process we've ever been through. We've dealt with Google Play and Android, we've dealt with Apple and iOS; this is not an overstatement, Teams is a magnitude worse than both of those combined. At their core, most apps are just iframes for a website. But their reviewers actually give a shit about how your website looks. But, they give a shit in the typical Microsoft phone-it-in inconsistent half-assed way. It took us four months to get our app approved, and we're an official "Teams Partner" (whateverthehell that's worth, it means you get a contact at Microsoft who rotates every three weeks and is woefully undertrained and only capable of giving abstract, vague advice on getting through reviews). This wasn't "pandemic four months", this was "dozens of back and forths with a brick wall". We'd submit the package, they'd complain about a dozen things, we'd invest dozens of person-hours fixing half of them, dispute the other half, they'd cave, then come back with a half-dozen totally new things. Repeat. For. Four. Months. We'd model user experiences after their own apps; nope, against design guidelines. We'd build one Teams SSO flow; they'd deprecate the library. We'd make a change; their guidelines would change. It doesn't help that 80% of the devops tech they use to "help" with Teams app dev (App Studio being the big one) literally doesn't work. The VSCode plugin breaks all the time. The quality of the entire ecosystem is bad even by Microsoft standards, which are already so low they could win an olympic limbo tournament.

We finally made it through, and two of the primary engineers on the project put in their two weeks. I laughed and wished them well, and then I realized that this 1:1 with my boss that just popped up is likely him passing ownership of the project to me. At which point, I will also put in my two weeks. We have 11 engineers total; Teams single-handedly killed a quarter of our product development team. If you're ever asked to work on Teams; RUN (if you can). If you're ever asked to use Teams; RUN (if you can). It is deeply cursed; it is fundamentally, to its core, anti-user, anti-developer, and only benefits Microsoft and the so-called "Global AD Administrators". If Teams had existed in 1949, there'd be a page in the Geneva Conventions categorizing it as a Weapon of Mass Destruction and banning its use during wartime.
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what's weird is that how quickly comments are being flagged and removed in this thread for simply discussing the contents of the article.
This would be a strategy for managing fragmentation. The main ways filesystems manage this are defragmentation and not filling up the disk on the first place. For performance, given a choice of copies=2 or 50% usage, I'd take 50% usage.
> It's hard to see how the market can support so many small launch providers.

The small- and tiny-sat market is expected to grow by a factor of four compared to the previous decade [0].

Big launchers like Falcon 9 and especially Starship cannot easily service this market. Ride share has plenty of issues and projected launch costs of $2M for Starship are on the theoretical side of things right now.

SpaceX needs to set aside a considerable amount of their launch capabilities for internal purposes (i.e. Starlink) and with expected double-digit grow rates in the small-sat market, there's plenty of room for competition.

[0] https://smallsatnews.com/2020/07/24/an-analysis-of-prospects...
Literally just switched from Ubuntu to Debian to get away from snaps
A minor point: you can't really measure distances by the speed of light via Bluetooth, the protocol is too coarse-grained. Bluetooth distance measurements are usually done via signal strength. However, time-of-flight distance measurements can be done on an extension of wifi called 802.11v - this is how the Apple Watch proximity unlock works, for example.
What differences are there between rysolv and bountysource?
That gpu shortage is worrying me because I’m working on a game right now with a certain hardware requirement. By X date I have been anticipating that 50-55% of gamers will have Y gpu or better, based on previous years steam hardware survey data. Gamers are having some trouble getting the new cards though (not from lack of trying). Hopefully it won’t be an issue but it’s hard to say
They're saying it used to be that much, and now it's orders of magnitude less, thanks in part to those companies.
I push my extension to Firefox, Chrome, and Edge. Updates for me take less than five minutes to upload and appear within an hour or so.

Maybe it's because I don't have many users, or don't use any minification, or something else?

I'd like to publish for Safari but it's a much higher bar. Similar to the old Edge extensions which required Microsoft Store hoop jumping.
They should be donated to kids who want them ;)
So we can't even mention that Allies fought Nazis because somebody can suffer from mental anguish at hearing those very words?

Do you understand how totalitarianism starts? It begins with banning words.
Ask HN: What to do if you feel you have stuck with a current job
I'm working as a software engineer at a small company for around 2 years (my first job). It feels that I'm not progressing as an engineer and basically what I'm doing every day is working with legacy stuff or editing config files which is very monotonous. No challenging stuff or learning something new. Overall TC is way below the market (SF Bay Area).

I've been doing some leetcode in a free time but it feels that it's not enough.

I tried to apply to some random positions applying but got a rejection because I feel that my resume seems unattractive because what I'm doing is hardly applicable for software engineering; technologies I've been using either legacy or not popular.

Are there any ways how to get out of this situation?
10-ish years ago, I had a pool where my log device was irrecoverable. I just lose the last ~minute of writes, right? Nope; the pool wouldn't mount. I had to research the internals of zfs and create a dummy log device and rewrite the id the pool expected. I'm told this has been fixed.
I did search last year, before it was invented. Why am I supposed to search again in hopes one exists now?
My wife and I are moving into a smaller house in six weeks. We're trying to get rid of around half of our stuff and almost all of it has been going to the Buy Nothing group. It's been fantastic. So many things I'll say "just throw that out", my wife will say "Nope, someone will want it!" She posts it on the group, rolls a die to decide who among the replies gets it, puts it out on the front porch and it's gone the next day.

We've gotten a ton of stuff from the group as well. A big thing is, as someone else mentioned, stuff for children. For example in our group there's been a package of accessories going around for a 1 year old's birthday party. When our daughter turned 1 we got the package, threw her a birthday party, then passed it along to the next person. We've gotten lots of toys from the group, and when we find that our daughter doesn't care for a toy anymore we pass it back to the group.

The only problem with it of course is that it requires Facebook. I deleted my account a long time ago and have Facebook blocked from all my devices but my wife keeps it around largely for the Buy Nothing group. I wish there was a way to participate without Facebook.
If company A is producing a half-baked mediocre product and flooding the market to keep company B from gaining market share, is that a good thing? Top down this is a good thing since it shows GDP growth but in reality is it really progress? I think this is where capitalism falls short. Is the pace of innovation tied to economic growth? I think that’s a more interesting question.
But if they can get missile cost to $1-2m, which I believe is very realistic, would there still be any big economic benefit from recovery when the launch will still cost few megabucks?
The network throughput benchmark is pretty misleading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25816596
I hope people start singing these in bars when bars open again. I bet you could get a pub to join if you and a group of friends suddenly started singing these or other kinds of folk songs.
I found a local group and they denied me, I wasn't "hyper local" I guess you'd say.

They said they've been looking for a volunteer to run another group where I'm at (neighboring towns). They said you have to do a training. To run a facebook group? It makes me unsurprised they haven't found anyone.

There's a group for my county, as well, with only 2 members (I live in a pretty rural area), which I didn't try to join.
May I ask what your business model is or would be, since you require people to email you with specific information to beta test your product?
I'm been a part of my group for over a year and the sis the first I've heard about a book.
Also, what did you expect? If you don't like the group, why are you on it just to complain. It is optional to be there. But, I'm sure you were already reminded of that during your crucifixion.
> maybe on move 10 the player is blind to an attacking idea, but then on move 11 suddenly finds it...

What part of that is unrealistic? This happens constantly to human players, and not only at 1100...
I don’t know a resource to use, but I learned topology as starting with open sets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_set), and don’t even remember curves being part of topology (but it has been a while)

Maybe that helps you search?
I find the minimalism to become frustrating, when it involves burying things that were so easily accessed before. In windows you used to be able to right click the desktop to get to display settings.
Where are you from. In America there are loads of people with tons of “junk”, even lower class people. Lots of people buy something thinking they’ll use it but they don’t, or they grow out of it, etc.
In a subtractive colour model you typically have a fourth channel (CMYK) because simply mixing all three primary colours together still reflects too much light to get good contrast.

For E-ink the colours don't actually mix with each other, so some basic maths shows that you would have even worse contrast with only three colours in a subtractive model:

Each ink colour absorbs only a single RGB channel, eg. cyan absorbs red. This means that at each location on the display, 2/3 of the light is reflected even when CMY channels are all at their maximum.

I think E-ink is neither an additive nor a subtractive colour model: it can only produce colours that exist somewhere between the extreme primary colours, ie. it's more of an "interpolating" colour model.

The inks probably come in pairs: black/white, red/cyan, green/magenta, blue/yellow. This gives the expected eight primary colours. For each pair, you would be able to pick any mix, eg. 30% black, 70% white.

For the darkest black you would have 100% black, red, green and blue. For lightest white you would have 100% white, cyan, magenta and yellow.

(This would reflect (1/3) * 3/4 + 0/4 = 25%, and (2/3) * 3/4 + 1/4 = 75% of the light respectively assuming perfect inks and equal coverage for the channels, which is pretty decent contrast)
What do politics have to do with it?
https://go-acme.github.io/lego/ is exactly that. This is the client/library underneath traefik's batteries included version of let's encrypt certs.
Yes, other search engines can pay for access to Bing's results. DDG isn't just straight Bing results, though, it compiles results from a number of different sources (including their own), with Bing being the primary source.
So if your work can be surmised by your activity on teams then sure teams provides those metrics too your boss. If your work and your teams usage are not closely correlated then it does not.

Tbh this is not that concerning. Teams is a desktop application it could report computer usage by the minute. It could send a list of applications you use and how much, and probably your browser history (unless that's encrypted). Etc. It could be a lot worse.
I have a few “policies” that I think are uncommon.

1. I never lend money because I have found the obligation upon the person receiving the money leads to negative consequences for me as a lender (whether friend or acquaintance). Instead I decide whether or not to gift the amount (or part of it), and I tell the person to “pay it back to someone else in need when they are well off in the future” or similar reason. Saying no is hard, but saying no is easier than dealing with the consequences of a friend that can’t easily pay money back (or even worse someone needs reminding which completely sucks, or they just don’t pay it backf).

2. I try to share costs approximately based upon ratios of disposable income, where possible. Some friends have $20 disposable after a week’s work, when I might have orders of magnitude more. Socially, this is a complicated manoeuvre, but it means I can pay for things we might like to do together, even though a friend might have radically different levels of income (or spare time). When that scheme won’t work for some tit-for-tat people, missing out on some things is the only option left (either we do something cheap, or they can’t be involved).

3. I don’ t get started with rounds of drinks - the social pressures are unfair on some and I dislike the obligation to drink to excess.

4. I sometimes offer drinks or dinner or whatever if someone can accept a freebie - I never do this when I would feel unwillingly obliged. I hardly ever buy someone a drink if they ask for it, as I don’t want to encourage that dynamic.
> what if ... prices went up

Apologies. I omitted one of the most potent reforms floated by Sen Mark Warner (IIRC) and others: sharply curtailing freemium and ad supported biz models. Facepalm slap. Were I to compile reform proposals, I'd avoid such silly errors.

> jobs were lost

Which jobs are we talking about? Do you anticipant greater job loses than precipitated by Amazon thus far, or by WalMart before them? In your taxonomy, are gig workers included? In which case they are employees, not contractors. So should we start treating them as employees?

--

I'm often reminded by Winston Churchill's wisdom advocating the rebuilding of their damaged Parliament exactly as before:

We shape the buildings that then shape us.

Markets, economies, society, beliefs are human things, made by humans, to benefit humans.

We can build the society we want, if only we found the courage.
Is there a citation for the "most" here? I understand this is true in some cases, but I've never used an ISP that does carrier grade NAT. I'm on Spectrum cable now, which is not exactly known for being a good ISP, and I have my own address.
> this is how the Apple Watch proximity unlock works, for example.

I wonder — do you know if the proximity unlock only detect the relative distance between the computer and AP and compare that to the distance between the watch and AP? Or is it between the watch and computer?

The former would make sense to me, because my proximity unlock doesn’t always work immediately and it would make sense if it was because my watch and computer were connected to two different APs in my house (because one of the other hasn’t switched to the closest AP yet).
Yeah, when I read "rifle unit" I translated it into penal battalion.
Ask HN: What do you guys think of 'The Dissident'?
Just saw Bryan Fogel's new documentary. Scary stuff. Loved Bryan's first documentary as well -- Icarus. Any movie recommendations on these lines?
> Matrix operations are ubiquitous across heavy-weight computation, including stress analysis, physics simulation, machine learning, video and sound processing, compression, ray-tracing.. why would Apple limit their market?

Apple offers frameworks that accelerate the relevant operations, and has over time shown an ongoing willingness to limit their market, even when that’s seen as unpalatable or unprofitable or unhelpful to themselves or their users. I assume that the frameworks offering acceleration will expand their uses somewhat over time. I expect those frameworks to be the only compelling solution for having portable matrix acceleration across the complete spectrum of Apple Silicon hardware revisions over time, especially if Apple revises their undocumented operations and updates their frameworks annually (which they can easily do, since each year’s hardware release already demands the latest macOS to boot at all).
> I push my extension to Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.

Do you automated this or are there manual steps?

> Updates for me take less than five minutes to upload and appear within an hour or so.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/faq/#faq-listing-...

"Review times vary; some reviews complete in a few hours, others take many days, and in some cases a review can take several weeks.
... If your item's status says "pending review" for more than three weeks, you should contact support."

Reviews are meant to take longer if you ask for e.g. permission to all URLs (which a large number of popular extensions need to because of lack of permission granularity). Maybe your extension isn't impacted here? There's no guarantee the next update won't get trapped in the review queue either, which is not going to be fun when a critical fix is pending.
The App Store URL the parent provided works fine, so I'd guess you hit a temporary hiccup or a have a networking issue on your end.
WebExtension was started by Mozilla, and is based on Chrome's extension API. Google has no incentive to support the project.
> E-ink is one of those techs that only advanced when large batches of patents expire.

I don't really understand how this is true. If I google, I don't see any evidence that any patent or block of patents is blocking the "tech". Could you specify which specific patent is blocking?

> tied up the tech stack in so many patents, NDA's, and exorbitant prices that no one wants to touch it.

But... you do realize there's lots of startups that enter the bistable display space? eg: ClearInk. https://www.clearinkdisplays.com/ They even use the exact same underlying principle which is electrophoresis.

If you go to any display conference you'll easily see that most of what you're saying comes across as highly inaccurate or even ridiculous.
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If you only want to hold the lock for a portion of a function, pull that part out into its own function. Makes the code much easier to reason about. I consider .Unlock() without defer to be a code smell in nearly all cases.
If this launcher can put a metric ton into orbit, why does Virgin Galactic and the White Knight launch platform, which can only boost 100kg to orbit, need to exist at all?