skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Another (no contradiction) way of looking at this is that Wikimedia infrastructure is radically different because Wikimedia is radically different.

They need it to be a certain way in order to operate. The limitations and advantages of how software gets made. Why it gets made. The way the software works. How and why product decisions were made over the last 2 decades. What resources they have/had available. It's all a totally different game. Not surprising that different soil and a different climate grow different plants.

One of Google's early coup d'etats, when they were a strategic step ahead of the boomers, was bankrolling gmail, youtube and such. Gmail offered free giant inboxes. They got all the customers. This cost billions (maybe 100s of millions), but storage costs go down every year while the value of ads/data/lock-in and such go up every year. Similar logic for youtube. (1) Buy a leading video-sharing site; (2)bankroll HD streaming because you have the deepest pockets (3) Own online free TV entirely.

That's who Google is, good or bad. How funding works. What products get built. What infrastructure is necessary, possible, affordable. All interlinked. Wikipedia & Google were founded at the same time. Within 5 years (circa 2006) Google was buying charters and fiefdoms. Wikimedia, meanwhile, was starting to take flak for raising 3 or 4 million in donations.

It's kinda crazy that Wikipedia is comparable in scale to FAANGs when you consider these disparities.
I've seen a growing number of anti-Signal posts and activism lately, mostly surrounding the (well-documented) design tradeoffs that Signal makes for usability and privacy (such as opting to use phone numbers for usernames, to avoid having to store contact lists/social graphs on Signal servers), or their famous decision not to federate/interoperate.

Perhaps it's just criticism growing in lockstep with Signal's overall growth and notoriety, and there aren't any concerted efforts to discredit Signal and sow doubt about using it because it's harder for the intelligence agencies to surveil. I'd like to live in that world.

I'm not sure that I do.
VFX Industry Is Rotoscoping with AI
Ask HN: Indepth Introduction to RDBMS (Or Postgres) Internals
I remember reading about B-Trees and B+ Trees in CS classes and how their structures allow good (amortized?) disk reads , making them good for indices.

But in the last ~10 years, storage technology has changed a lot and RDBMS like postgres have been pushing the limits of what was thought to be achievable using traditional databases.

While new fangled, distributed DBMS' are getting better, they have a lot of tradeoffs and it is very hard to understand what I am trading off for what advantages I get from something like say, CockroachDB.

The thing that I find frustrating is I still don't understand a lot about how RDBMS' work (table layout on disk/ssds, indices, joins).

Over my past 5+ or so years of work experience, I have learnt from first hand and my teams' experience that RDBMS are quite capable in the right hands if one knows what one is doing.

It is hard to understand tradeoffs, performance, guarantees in an Internet rife with "X is infinitely scalable" filler content (no blaming any db/product as marketing is as important as engg.), but as a developer, My long-term value is , in some ways, proportional to how well I know systems.

To that effect, can anyone recommend resources that offer in-depth explanations on DBMS' internals (indexing, table layouts in memory and on disk, how joins are processed, transactions ,etc) ?
can this be some sort of botnet checking whether a host is connected to the internet or not?
Mandate gun ownership. Military weapons. So those in crap states / areas that need to sucede can just fix the problem with their gov. This doesn’t increase or force taxation or allow some external entity legal authority in your country.
ReactOS denies those accusations. If it's true and proved, probably users should stop using it, but until it's proved, I don't think that it's an issue. Like you've got some software, you checked its license, it's open source reimplementation of Windows, sounds good. For example Valve uses wine to run games on Linux, it's pretty legit.
See how Aaron Schwartz got caught, if someone really wants to get you, even wireless is easy to trackdown if you physicaly visit the location.
Except that what you thought was stars are galaxies. Stars are things with exposure cross on it. Everything else is galaxy.

There are 4 or 5 stars in hubble ultra deep field and 10000 galaxies.
It's a real shame that Microsoft has seen fit to try to hide the ability to use the classic theme in Windows 8/10. There are ways to enable it again, but they tend to break on every update...

The classic Windows 2000 theme has just the perfect balance of looking good, being totally usable, and not being overtly flashy.
New-York-Drivers-License
Simple Framework to Document Microservices and a Bonus Tool
I didn't have time to look at the website/report behind the link but I am highly skeptical about the statement that "renewables are now EU's main source of electricity" : just look at https://www.electricitymap.org/map (which is based on realtime data)
> The toxic content is still there though, like a LeopardsAteMyFace post crowing about the death of Ron Wright, and as if to prove my point: "This thread has been locked due to extremely toxic and rude comments." Such as the top comment "...I'm really past playing nice with even the memory of these fucks...... Rot in hell, Ron."

Comment that you decided to quote contains no conservative hating just hate towards Ron, because of his behavior and others who behave in that way. Why would you even think that that was a conservative hating comment?
>How can you even teach these people about offensive words without mentioning them?

Isn't this a straw man? Who has objected to teaching people learning English about the existence of the n-word?

We are having a discussion about this taboo word right now and no-one is stopping us.

The problem is the inference from "it may in some special circumstances be necessary to mention the n-word" to "anyone should be free to say the n-word at any time without anyone objecting".
Signal is end-to-end encrypted. The only thing the network surveillance would be able to determine is that you were connecting to Signal via an open Signal proxy, not the people you were talking to, or the content of your messages.
Fossil fuel pollution causes one in five deaths globally: study
This is false.

There was an issue when there was a leak of windows source code to the internet, and ReactOS effectively had to shut down development for months while all code was audited to make sure no helpful folks had used any of it to 'help' the project.

That's the only MS IP controversy they've been involved in (and I've been watching the project for waaaay too many years now)

(That issue answer reads like someone angry, and with an agenda. It also reads somewhat like the SCO/Linux thing a few years ago - there's no way anyone could write an OS like linux from scratch! It has to be stolen! Also the aforementioned shutdown/cleanup period kinda points to them taking this issue very seriously)
Thank you, that solved the problem (the refresh)
Exactly, according to NGO's people get lashed and jailed for online activities. After Signal has been blocked being detected could actually endanger peoples life.

https://freedomhouse.org/country/iran/freedom-net/2019
https://freedomhouse.org/country/iran/freedom-net/2020
Russia's plan is to use Linux whenever possible. I never heard about ReactOS used anywhere.

Security audit won't hurt, for sure.
BBC: Cyberpunk 2077 makers CD Projekt hit by ransomware hack
It's 2.4% for 1KB, but it's 10% for 1TB.

Also, things started to go downhill pretty early on: 1.44MB floppy disks were 1440KB where 1KB was 1024.
I know they won't care in the big picture, but if they actually do shut down the 3rd party APIs that will conclude my 10 year journey on reddit.
It may be a g suite setting/configuration as well.
>user's expectations for the web have grown astronomically

Have they? I don't see that in my user stories
You’re not going to stop wars, hard stop. An admirable goal but it will never happen. Rational minds are not the only ones on this planet. NK, China, these all still exist today despite the UN. The UN can cease to exist and nothing will change from our perspective.

Let’s take two examples. What’s goin on in Myanmar atm, they are supposed to sucede? From who? Who will tax them? Another example, let’s say hypothetically Texas decides the US is too liberal and sucedes. The liberal US will tax it at the liberal, starting a war. The US was even founded because of extreme taxation, which led to a war. Taxes = war. Give people away to defend themselves, then you’ll stop wars.
Hey dragonsh — you left a comment on my submission a while back about e-commerce data models and it inspired us to write a post about nosql and hybrid e-commerce data models. Here is the nosql one (https://resources.fabric.inc/blog/nosql-ecommerce-data-model). The hybrid one is coming soon. I will delete this comment soon as it is not relevant to this thread.
Moxie - and the Signal team - seems to have a real issue taking feedback from outside experts. See the way he has been completely dismissive of the IME vulnerability highlighted by Naomi Wu and others.

I remember back when it was TextSecure - I tried to raise some usability and security issues. First I was ignored, then dismissed, then - a few years later - they implemented some of the changes.

I still use Signal. But the way the project is run is, dare I say, arrogant and dismissive.
PS5 and Xbox scalping could be made illegal after UK console shortage
I used both. When time came to Play cyberpunk, I went for Stadia.

It runs a lot better (streaming quality, glitches, start-up times) are incredible.
Using Stadia in general is a polished (yet basic) experience.
In contrast Nvidia very much felt like a hack. Log-in in my steam account, seeing weird window glitches.

I see a lot of comments negative on stadia here,based on bias rather then actual experience.
Stadia is nothing short of tech star even with its downsides compare to the rest of the market.
Man, what a wonderful remark. Thank you.

Here is what I found : https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=147.3584&dec=53.5565&lay...

I wonder what kind of astronomical object it is. Given the color, the term red dwarf pop in my head, but I actually have no idea: given red shift, aren’t all sufficiently distant objects all red or bellow by the time they arrive at us?
Frontex is not looking for government customers, it's (another) government agency - it's the EU-wide European border and coast guard agency that is cooperating/coordinating with all the border control agencies of the individual states. So meeting with these border control agencies is, like, one of the tasks the government has explicitly assigned to them.
External money is, IMHO the biggest problem. When you seek investments, VC, public or otherwise, there is an expectation for the money to compound at a certain interest/multiple.

This expectations will mostly end up circumventing certain principles, because to keep with such expectations, firms will have to find various hacks and compromises. FB would not have achieved its growth for example, without providing advertisers with personal information of users.

There is no natural entity that can keep growing exponentially forever, unless it is cancerous cells. And we all know what happens to a body infested with such cancerous cells.
> It's disheartening to explain this over and over again, but these frameworks are a-ok because user's expectations for the web have grown astronomically.

I'm pretty sure that this is not true. You can ship great webapps without any of that overcomplicated nonsense. We're using one such right now.
From Wikipedia [1]:

> ReactOS is a free and open-source operating system for amd64/i686 personal computers intended to be binary-compatible with computer programs and device drivers made for Windows Server 2003 and later versions of Windows. ReactOS has been noted as a potential open-source drop-in replacement for Windows and for its information on undocumented Windows APIs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS
In any professional artistic/creative activity, there is always a tension between artistic freedom and profits. It's up to each individual/company to position the cursor. It's the same with movies and music, the production can be more or less profit or artistic driven. The indie studio that has a surprise success is the same as a indie band, don't expect the same output after corporate take over. And yes sometimes planets are aligned and you get a masterpiece even in a profit driven production.
I imagine support@nosupportlinuxhosting.com is routed to /dev/null?
Private messages between Mensa forum members leaked
You're not wrong, I think most in this thread won't debate that user expectations are ever increasing. I think the issue is that the complexity doesn't scale with the perceived benefits and it feels totally out of whack right now. There's also a lot of cargo-culting going on with massively complicated tools like Gatsby being deployed to build blogs and static marketing pages.
Reddit is great for knowing what products to buy if you want upper middle class status symbols. If you're looking to spend money with little regard for efficiency of the dollar (i.e. buying someone a gift) it's fine. If you are accountable to yourself or others it is far from ideal.
> “No one will read this,” my advisees lament, often as I am reading their cover letter right in front of them. I know they mean that no one important will read it.

I think what they mean is "no one who is in a position to give me the job I want is going to read this", they clearly went to the author because they think his help will increase their chances of getting that job.

When writing a cover letter, which is quite common when doing direct applications in Switzerland, I never know who I'm addressing, and knowing your audience is a key factor when designing poignant communication.

Will it be a HR person? A tech lead? A team lead? Will they appreciate the ugly-but-hard-to configure LaTeX template I used, the hand-coded postscript to generate the symbols for the telephone and the letterbox? Will they know that if I write "C" in the list of programming languages, that does not mean I am proficient in C++? That a seemingly tangentially related job I am mentioning is actually solving the same problem, but in a different industry?

The result of this is that most cover letters I have written contain generic platitudes, to the point where I now have a makefile and just make minor adjustments like company names and addresses, plus some tweaking, before sending it out, with a reasonable success rate.

Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it is true that nobody is reading these.
Sure, I've added some detail, links, and sources to what I wrote above. Please let me know if you think I'm missing something or saying something unsupported. Happy to add more detail, clarify, or correct if I have anything wrong.
Are you saying that Digg wasn't a community?
> classic hallmarks of sockpuppets

I doubt it, the two main researchers behind it both have an extensive history of contributions on Github. The correct explanation is most likely the simplest: egos mixed with typical programmer idealism proved to be a Molotov cocktail that flared into drama.
With this, you really have to mind that camera quality on Zoom and WebEx is usually so terrible that you can't read anything smaller than what he put on his slide and in an illegible color(like red on brown), since the camera is the first thing those services degrade on bad connections/devices.

I would recommend creating a projector window in OBS, then sharing that via screen share, as that will force (slightly) better quality.
The Possible Xinjiang Coal Link in Tesla’s Bitcoin Binge
It's a closed source, proprietary app that has spyware disclosed in the TOS (section 6.4). The method of installation is mostly irrelevant in light of that.
> Developers are investing a lot of time into making their games literally addictive in the worst way possible, and not even remotely by making it fun - it's all about overpriced DLC, gambling and weird reward systems

I quit the games industry for similar reasons. I worked in a management position at Nintendo and couldn't see anywhere evident to step up, with very few options to even step horizontally.

All the potential step ups in the so-called extrinsic motivators of work (salary, reputation, nice places to work, etc) came from pay-to-win mobile studios and the like. I could never find the intrinsic motivation to go there - I felt it's not what I signed up for when I started to work in the industry.

To add, I don't think that all micropayment models are necessarily predatory. For example, Nintendo finally caved in to mobile gaming (it started under Iwata IIRC), and from what I hear (and have very briefly seen with their Fire Emblem mobile game) their microtransaction policy is pretty fair.

Hell, we had microtransactions when I was a kid with arcades. I feel a bit of pity about my former self and all the other kids spending all those quarters on fleeting moments of entertainment (the PC and home console were so much better value for money!), however I wouldn't call the whole affair exploitative.

But indeed, games as close-ended artistic works are a fairly small part of the market now, and if that's your jam, you may need to prepare yourself to navigate a niche rather than an entire industry.
And with expectations come new jobs, no matter how well automation delivers. Robots and software aren't gonna make us jobless because expectations will fill up and overflow any volume of possibilities.
Well n = 1 and the UK rather than the EU, but yesterday I saw a job description on the gov.uk website that required a 'personal statement' in addition to a CV and said that it would be crucial to the hiring decision.

Thinking generically, a cover letter makes sense for posts where written communication is an essential skill. It's an actual test of free form text writing by the candidate.
It would succeed the same way Quora does. Much less open, much less universal, much more user hostile, with an almost agressive way to deal with unlogged user.

In terms of financial and organisational success it would probably largely beat what it is now. It terms of benefit to humanity, it would be much worse.

Company + for profit + laws means access to information has to be much more tailored to the laws of each place. "Let's remove tianamen's article or lose your chinese license" kind of things.

I'm for one am glad for the current wikipedia we have, despite it's numerous flaws. I still donate every year, although I wish Wales could stop having it spend its money the same a startup or FAANG does.
Hypothetically, if Bill Maher had refused to apologies he would have been on the fast track to being identified as a member of the alt-right.

It is difficult to assess what "far-right grow[th]" means in a context where far right is defined as a position relative to the beliefs of the far left. It isn't clear who is changing their opinions.

In a sense, given that this would have been unremarkable in the 50s, presumably the only thing the modern far-right has been doing is shrinking.
That's literally the definition of "no support"...

Aka you're on your own...
That may be true in isolated cases but I don't think that wide-scale adoption of these technologies is some form of mass hysteria. I think it is because they solve real problems. I am not really a fan of the modern JS ecosystem for a variety of reasons but building stuff in React seems infinitely easier to me than writing plain HTML/CSS. I'm sure if you cut your teeth writing HTML/CSS (I didn't, have mostly been a backend developer) then you don't need to fancy new tools, but I hear an echo of "why does anyone need a garbage collector?" or "why use C when you can just write in assembler?" in these sorts of comments.
Yes? To some people just that fact would be revealing of needing to use Signal, it could be used in prosecution. Especially in the case where most people would not be using it at the moment.

Revealing the fact that one uses Signal can be an issue on itself.
The law firm evidently don't like honest reviews, if they don't like reviews don't have a trust pilot page.

Disgusting behaviour, I hope they lose more than just a few clients because of this.
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but also:

- Where are you located, and under what jurisdiction do you fall?
> Why would you even think that that was a conservative hating comment?

The hate in that comment wasn't directed only at Ron: "people like this", "these fucks". The comment doesn't specify who "these fucks" are, but the sub generally directs hate toward conservatives, so that's a reasonable assumption.

> because of his behavior and others who behave in that way

Others who behave in what way? The post I linked contains only a tweet from him criticizing the hypocrisy of allowing big stores to remain open while closing small businesses. Is that hate-worthy?

Surely not, so I assume you're referring to something else. Please be specific.
It was by one "I am very smart. Nobody can be as smart as me" Microsoft programmer. Who completely dismissed this explanation https://youtu.be/2D9ExVc0G10
I suppose "development target" might be more apt. The whole purpose is to be able to write software for other people with minimal messing about with the kindle to see that it works.

So, for example, if you had an inclination to write various pieces of software that turn a kindle into a wall mounted device, this would be the meat of your pipeline. I could write a home automation panel, then later, a weather display, etc. The prior work means I can push those things and make sure they function well before releasing them to the public.

It's needed because it wouldn't be easy to replicate the Kindle environment on a normal PC. It uses old custom kernels, a very limited subset of userspace utilities, has an unusual display, etc.
Also see here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMgVKCsG_7z1jpdHDR_TwUw for development of HyperBlock, a hyperbolic Minecraft.
We can call whatever we want Lisp. And everyone does. McCarthy, wisely, didn't want people to bicker over this. But it would be a reasonable assumption that by Lisp, one meant Common Lisp.

I'm not sure what you're getting at with exit(2). The CL standard does not include an exit function, because it would be limiting. For example the meaning of exit for an operating system is unclear. But most implementations include a simple exit function. You can do what exit does, more simply in CL than in C, using unwind-protect. You can use the FFI built in to every implementation to write an exit that exactly duplicates what the C stdlib exit(3) and _exit(2). With a very small set of macros, it is portable to all CL implementations. You can even execute the processor abort instruction if it has one. But of course you can't do that portably. But exit written in C is not actually portable, but only looks that way due to a bunch macros.
Good thing too because otherwise these retro hipster devs would block every new feature with the excuse "Its not possible to do that without reloading the page in raw html"
What an irresponsible business model.

It's not the "no support" part that concerns me, is that they've pocketed the customers money until there was a major problem, then just shut down, customers be damned.

Sounds like someone placed a server in their basement, added cPanel and a PayPal link and totally ignored whatever happened to that server.

I guess you get what you pay for.