skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every business person with the money can hire a bunch of coders to do the actual work. So I don't think "software literacy" is or will be a thing.
Snaps suck for services because they auto-update and either restart daemons without warning or leave the running process in an undefined state.
Indeed, proxies can work around the problem. I made this for Macs, but you could run it on a Mac and connect from a Playbook, or set up Squid yourself on a Raspberry Pi. https://jonathanalland.com/legacy-mac-proxy.html
> The technological ludditism is exhausting.

That sounds funny given the facts about Flatpak.
Why do you want a new language for this?
Why does this read like an anti-opensource propaganda piece aimed at big business?
Datahike in ClojureScript with IndexedDB Support
i had just started a channel like this unaware of the whole concept :)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5SdRE9IQeZs7e1vepRvn4w
Endorphins are released for the body to be able to sleep. Exercise helps release, dopamine, endocannabinoids and more, which prop up the mood of the person. Endomorphins or endorphins are released for exact the same reason, doctors used always morphine, to numb down the pain of damage to the body from the excersise, or a surgical operation, or a bullet, and the patient is able to sleep.

For me happiness for this year is learning Rust.
It seems sufficient to acknowledge that virality is a property of ideas. We can then continue using a single term to reference the notion of an 'idea'.
Of course it would. Any phone shop would have both kinds but lots of places only sell USB. USB C should be a required standard.
Interesting writeup.

I encourage everyone interested in this space to check out the "axiomatic css" approach -- and its typographic scale -- from every-layout.dev:

https://every-layout.dev/rudiments/units/
I'm honestly a bit surprised to see this. As someone who was fairly active in the MAME cabinet scene back in ~2000 [1] and owned a 4-slot MVS cab for a while, I don't remember ever hearing about this.

Then again, it was in-arcade hardware in ~1999 and I was so focused on emulation stuff that it makes I didn't consider it. Probably got chalked up with all the other unplayable-in-MAME stuff at the time..

[1] My cabinet, sold a few years ago as I enjoyed building it more than playing it: https://nuxx.net/wiki_archive/A/MAME_Cabinet
lot of companies in EU (especially D/A/CH) also have absolutely no plans to continue WFH. Despite covid restrictions going to be an issue also long term, they have (1 year later) still no strategy that incorporates or improves efficiency in WFH organization and workflows. Instead they all look forward to going back to a time that no longer exists.
Is there a continental equivalent of SEP?
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And a cool thing, professors can get paid for the articles sometimes through their research grants and studying other things. High quality stuff here for students/professors/the curious.

Favourite article currently: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nonidentity-problem/
These statements like we “ experienced an issue during routine and scheduled maintenance work, which affected access to some files for some staff” really are an art form unto themselves.
Is this really a programming languages thing? Feels like more of a framework issue to me, that the OS should be set up to pass apps already opened file handles for a lot of use cases where apps currently browse the filesystem and just do whatever.

Thinking similar to how systemd works with sockets— specify it in the unit file rather than needing to be launched as root so you can create it yourself and pinky swear you'll downgrade yourself afterward.
That MBR reference reminds me of the time that OSX just point blank refused to update because I had a multi-boot setup. "It just works!"
Aaron R. Reynolds apparently had the obsession with hiding a signature in his code (like the AARD one being referred to here).

Other places where you stumble across the name include e.g. FAT32 which has a filesystem information sector[1] in the hidden region after the boot sector which includes similar signatures (AaRR and aArr, byte swapped to little endian of course).

[1] https://wiki.osdev.org/FAT32#FSInfo_Structure_.28FAT32_only....
Our biggest challenge? Lack of imagination: the scientists turning deserts green
So many happy memories of that place!

Like the time I went there in the early 90s as a teenager to get a book about this new html thing. It was so new they had just one book on the subject!
I agree, and, through this discussion, I see that you have a view that is distinct from that of the authors. I also agree that claiming masks were ineffective for the general public was a significant failure of science-based policy (it reminds me of the position that women could not catch HIV, which was ultimately a far more devastating failure of this sort.)
What an amazing find, thanks very much! Reminds me a little of Tori Amos.
Maybe now corona it is better, but a few years landlords could choose from several applicants. 12k was realistic asking price for foreigner with no credit history without waiting.
Yeah, I agree. I did not mean for someone from Czechia to take it personally. I am sorry about that and I will do better and be more considerate.

I am a dual US| EU (Croatian) citizen, who is culturally American. I live in Croatia. So, I hope you understand where I am coming from, even though I was wrong.

I also have type 1 diabetes (autoimmune and insulin dependent) which is a “metabolic disease”. It is more appropriate to say “type 2 diabetes” or “diabetes type 2” or “insulin-resistance”, rather than a metabolic disease.

The issue with America is we have a lot of unnecessary death. It is not just obesity and type 2 diabetes, although that is a huge part of it. Our healthcare system is designed to create as much profit as possible, without having to improve the health of the people using it. We have no adequate public health infrastructure because of this huge profit seeking and we suffer because of a lack of regulation. This all causes unnecessary death.
I am guessing this comment is a reference to paternity leave lengths in some of the eastern part of the western world? :)

Ok fair enough, but not exactly the point I was making. Even once I was back "at the office" the fact that I could walk out between meetings and play with my son for 5 minutes is incredible. And yes some further pedantry is possible: some people have been all remote for years.

Nonetheless, for most people this is a very new situation and worth celebrating.
https://archive.is/Bio9R
> Also, I don't really see the point in hiring supposedly intelligent engineers and then cutting them out of the decision making process.

It is infeasible for literally everybody to be involved in a decision. So then the question is, how do you communicate a decision and when?

If you communicate "we are thinking about doing X" then this often causes problems with interpretation. People read these as big shifts in direction and experience whiplash or get overly excited and then disappointed when X doesn't happen. If you communicate "X is happening in 3 months" then the people negatively affected by X just get more stressed for more time even though they can take no action.

This can be different for different individuals. If somebody is especially bothered by not knowing things ahead of time you can adjust. But I find that if information isn't actionable then it is often in appropriate to share it way in advance of an actual change.
For Windows, there are the Win32 apps that you talk about, which aren't sandboxed.

And there are the modern applications from the Microsoft Store or self-distributed as msix/appx which are properly sandboxed.
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why not go out for a walk yourself? as somebody who spends a lot of time in nature it's hard to grasp how sitting more in front of a screen can improve the mood. or perhaps I got it wrong and OP isn't working in Tech and screen time actually means being not at work?

not judging what makes you happy (that would be stupid on many levels) but genuinely wondering if you don't need the endorphines and flowing juices of at least some form of physical movement (even just walking) to get the feeling you describe?
People have praised Qubes OS for its security in the past but I've never tried it.
Software ate the world. And now Apple is eating software.
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Not that I am aware of, probably because most centers of continental thought are in continental Europe (hence the name) and so are in French or German. I don’t speak those languages well enough to know if an equivalent encyclopedia exists, but I’d imagine a French encyclopedia of philosophy probably is quite continental in flavor.

I have the Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy but it’s just a book, not an online encyclopedia.

Otherwise, Wikipedia is actually not bad on most important continental thinkers.
> "The goal of the free and open nzyme project is to provide a complete platform that helps you to defend your wireless networks. Existing WiFi IDS systems fall short and can be easily spoofed, even by not very sophisticated attackers with commoditized attack platforms. Wireless networks open a huge attack vector and exploiting it is easy compared to alternative vectors.
In addition, nzyme ships with out-of-the-box bandit definitions that will detect many attack platforms the moment they are powered on and in range. For exampke, a WiFi Pineapple or Pwnagotchi will be detected immediately.
A nzyme tracker device can be used to physically locate the source of specific WiFi frames and play a big role in actively defending your perimeter."

Cool.
Sure, but still surprising on some level.
Yes! I can wholeheartedly recommend Tokyo Explorer as well. He's a talented photographer who started doing a lot of these walks during covid. He does both 4K walks and walking streams where he interacts with the audience.
What's with the images?
What does HM stand for?
If it's anything like on Android, where you just give it blank permission to access your entire storage, it would be useless. There are plenty of programs you might want to use that have no business having access to everything, that you can't or don't want to trust 100%, but it's easier for the developers just to ask for everything (or it's the only option).

The "ask for permission" model is broken.

Everything should be sandboxed without giving the application awareness of being sandboxed. If you want to give additional access to a program, it should be through an external interface only accessible to the user.
This doesn't add up. In a world with Lightning for iphones and USB C for everything else there's a smaller chance of having the correct cable than in a world with USB C for iphones and everything else. Enforce a standard and the problem goes away.

Just yesterday I had to connect my phone to a friend's USB connector in his car but couldn't because the only cable available were the freak that is one standard in one end and another in the other (IE. a standard iPhone cable with USB -> lightning).
Blah blah blockchain blah blah have an alternative compliance questionnaire list which companies outsource already mandatory for every software blah blah as a way to check maturity of the company.

I sometimes wonder if this is how industries end up not innovating or solving obvious problems for decades because they get strangled with bureaucracy which doesn't solve the original problem highlighted in his own example (vendor choosing to ignore to patch a vulnerability).
A.* assumes every column in A is functionally dependent on the A.id. This may be the case, but is a huge source of bugs I have seen related to MySQL, and would set my spidey sense off if I saw it in code. The problem is that older versions of MySQL allowed non-functionaly dependent columns in the select list and would randomly put one of the values in the result set (every other sane database at the time properly errored out). At this point, I would consider it bad practice to run MySQL in anything other than only full group by mode.

See here:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/group-by-handling.ht...

And here:
https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/05/13/solve-query-failures...
And just like blockchain, the reason it gets forced into every field is VCs.

"We are going to challenge existing players in $market" gets you nothing, "We are going to disrupt $market with blockchain/ML" gets you a eight-digit seed round.
Compared to what? California is not exactly known as tax heaven.
It was probably easier to do this than port the editor to iPad/Android.
LOL. It's so easy to troll Linux users. Anonymous websites are a neat way to do it.
Just out of curiosity: whereabouts in the Himalayas are you located? We've been looking for nice places off the beaten path and are always looking for inspiration.
I currently have a full time job. There is the option of reducing to 80%, but that comes with the respective salary cut. I'm wondering if it's worth it, also the increased productivity is not accounted for from a financial perspective.
> People hardly understand Applications. You want to ask them if they can write on X folder? On the OS? Good luck!

Well this is how it works in OSX (“Would you like to grant this application permissions to this folder?”), so I guess the answer is “yes - that’s exactly what Apple do”.
> Do we have any hard data here? Or is this just an anecdote?

55% according to the Emacs survey 2020 (obviously, take it with a pinch of self-selection bias due to the survey being self selecting).

[1] https://emacssurvey.org/2020/
At least on first reading, I find this unpersuasive. He correctly lists a variety of problems. But he doesn't explain how his proposed solution, listing all the components of a technological product, would make a practical difference. Creating a list is valuable only if people a) read the list, b) recognize problems, and c) do something based on that.

And for some of the examples he gives, it seems pretty obvious to me that an SBOM wouldn't help. The Equifax breach, for example. They knew [1] that they needed to upgrade Apache Struts. Somebody was supposed to make the upgrade. They just didn't do it. Who would an SBOM help here? Since it's a consumer-facing website, the only people who weren't informed were consumers. So is he proposing to make public the SBOM for every website? I'm not sure that on balance that helps security.

[1] https://www.csoonline.com/article/3444488/equifax-data-breac...
IMO we need a new runtime OS/system library for it. People have commented here that LD_PRELOAD wouldn't work so I suppose we need a software with which you can force a program to only see the libc.so you want it to see -- as a start.

Bringing in a new programming language might be valuable for it in the future but at least off the top of my head I can't see why can't this model be adapted relatively easily in most languages today.
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People are very, very bad when it comes to proactively mitigating low probability disasters. It is not that it is complicated, although you might underestimate the challenge of having a decent and updated backup that can be restored to the layman inundated with a deluge of commercial offerings trying to outdo each other on interface obtuseness.

We seem to instinctively err on the side of avoiding any short term cost, no matter how potentially grave the consequences in the future if the probability of those becomes low or obfuscated.

You can see this not just in backups, but in lifestyle choices, business decisions, construction, natural resources, financial speculation ...

Any situation where you can say "it does not happen often, but if it does the results will be catastrophic", you can bet that the risks will be unhedged.
If we jail people with money at all, that could work too. Any money should be instantly traded for a good or service, putting someone to work etc. Suppose I get a paycheck for 1000, that money should go straight to the things i need or to someone else that needs it. That would be the perfect economy. Anyone with money should be JAILED. Spend it or lose it!
You're right I did misspeak about the definition of a impeller/turbine.

Never is a strong word though and there are such things as turbine pumps which are not true turbines[0]. As far as I can tell they've never been used for engine applications.

Regarding pumps they operate on a fluid, of which air is definitely classed as. [1]

[0] https://www.globalspec.com/learnmore/flow_transfer_control/p...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump
Well the consumer grade stuff generally has higher clocks so things may be faster.

I think a lot of Devs have had the surprise that their laptop has higher single core performance than a server.

I don't know to what extent but space is certainly a premium. For a unit of rack space you want to maximise the cores and memory.

With a server grade multi socket CPU, you're also likely to pair it with at least 512gb of ram.

Consumer CPUs have a much lower limit. Though Threadripper is a bit higher.

There's also the availability side of things. How many CPUs can you get to populate your datacenter?

Will it be easy to order 500 consumer CPUs if you're not a retailer? Intel/AMD do want to steer their enterprise customers to higher volume parts.
I have found that engaging in stressful situations that force me to control the stress translates all across my life. Training Jiu-Jitsu for example forced me to control stress while being physically attacked by another person. It makes work stresses seem minor in comparison, and has made me better equipped to recognize a stressful situation and control my response.
I do SUP and paragliding but didn’t knew about wing foiling. I did a quick google search and know you got me hooked. I think it will be my next sports learning activity.. Thanks man!
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OK I see where we disagree I think.

You (and the author) think this transformation is over, I think it's just starting.

IIRCC self publishing is still at 5%-10%. How does book publishing work today, 13 and 30 years after kindle and the wordwideweb were digitised publishing? A writer sits around wondering who they need to shag to get a publishing deal. If they're lucky, they get a publishing deal, like in 1988. Then Amazon sells it.

This is not an accurate summary no. Today an author doesn't need a publishing deal to get in front of millions of readers in a way they most definitely did in 1988. They can set up a web page and sell their book themselves (and many are doing so). Just to pick one example, this book is self-published[1] and has its own website, on Amazon - Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. There are certainly problems, Amazon is a predatory monopoly which will suck the margins out of any successful seller on its platform, but the entire industry is being shaken and self-publishing is growing in importance. Many of the old publishers see this coming but have no idea what to do about it, they're either watching their business slowly die or moving online selling curated content and leaving books behind.

To pick another example, video, channels like youtube and twitch have lead to the rise of internet celebrities not chosen by any producer or channel, but who set up their own stall and sell themselves. Gaming channels like steam or mobile have led to a boom in indie game studios and small games. There are certainly excesses and mistakes involved in that, but it is an entirely new mode of production enabled by the internet, and again I think it's in its infancy. It's not a fad which is going away - broadcast TV itself is going away and being replaced by a more interactive mode, it just doesn't know it yet.

So I don't agree the information revolution is over, it's only just beginning and will probably take about 50 more years at least to play out fully. We only just started carrying powerful internet connected computers in our pockets about a decade ago; the implications of that alone are far-reaching.

[0] http://momtestbook.com
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Some VCs want to see you have a good team that works together, and some combination of good ideas and work history that makes it seem like your startup will take off even if you have to pivot and give up your current prototype.

Others are having a midlife crisis and want to be your new rich dad, or they want a cult leader who makes them feel smart and throws cool insider parties. In this case it helps to be a white guy or at least Elizabeth Holmes.

One would hope YC is the first since we’re on their website, but having read pg’s essays and noticed his advice for startups is half post hoc fallacies (“use Lisp because I did”) and half is unethical (“don’t hire women or people with accents to get culture fit”) I dunno.
Maybe the answer is Lamborghini. They used to have Ferrari like unreliability till VW bought them. Now they seem to combine Italian design flair with German reliability.
> I wonder if there will come a cloud provider that solely uses consumer grade compute, local storage, and internal networking, with some kick ass network connectivity and steal the cloud provider show?!

Forget consumer grade: even normal Dell/HP/Supermicro stuff is a PITA to run at datacenter scale. Most major cloud providers roll their own machines for a reason.

I'm guessing any hardware savings would be evaporated by increased labor, power, and footprint costs, likely making you more expensive than other providers.
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AARD code was aimed at taking out DR DOS, it wasn't the only thing they did to take out other companies.

Stac electronics made some software (Stacker) which compressed your files on the fly, it was very popular in the early 90s, as it could massively increase the amount of non-program space you had on your 40MB hard drive, if 30M was used for applicaitons/OS and 10M for documents, it would give you another 20-40MB of space, tripping or more the free space you had.

The program sold for something like $100-200 a copy, but as a 40M hard drive was nearer $1k this was a bargain. Stac Electronics was valued as $12/share at the time.

Microsoft saw this, and wanted it. So they sent in their lawyers to make Stac electronics an offer they couldn't refuse. License Stacker to Microsoft and get paid $0.00 down, and $0.00 per copy.

Stac refused the generous microsoft offer, so Microsoft copied {or bought from another company which had copied} their technology (infringing Stac's patents) and bundled it with Dos 6, something called "DoubleSpace" (it was also a buggy implementation).

Drive compression was important at this time. Gates wore a t-shirt with "We came, we saw, we doubled" on at the Dos 6 launch - it's amazing to think now, but 30 years ago every byte counted, Stac's software saved people a fortune in hardware costs, and the killer feature of dos 6 was compression.

Stac's share price collapsed from $12 to $3 practically overnight.

Microsoft were sued, and they lost. They had to pay about $5 per copy of Dos that had been sold to Stac. Dos 6.21 was released which removed Doublespace, and 6.22 reimplemented the technology as 'drivespace'. This eventually came down a little during appeals when the companies settled out of court (there was a more minor case against Stac for using trade secrets), Stac got about $90m in the end.

Either way, Stac was dead. They fought Microsoft, and despite winning the battle, they lost the war. Stac dissolved in 2002.
Ask HN: Windows VPN recommendations like linode?
Linode has a significant cost advantage over AWS for small to medium businesses.

Can anyone recommend hosting for Windows that's similar? I need to host a bunch of asp.net and SQL server sites.
My dog. He kept me company and we were always happy to be with each other.
>Justin Sun is good at promoting.

In less PC-ridden times, this would just have been:

"Justin Sun is a bald-faced liar."