skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yah, "mask test" as used here is most certainly a dog whistle for people who believe in masks religiously and righteously fight "anti-maskers". in reality both of these opposing factions have fallen for mediopolitical misinformation (i.e., propaganda), including from the CDC.

but the passing criteria for a more rigorous mask test would be wearing one around non-household friends and family in tight quarters for prolonged periods of contact, and not wearing them in places where they do no good above and beyond distancing or environmental circumstances (like being outside or in low density/circulation areas indoors). an overwhelming majority of people fail this test, mostly because it defies our social instincts/conditioning promoting trust and closeness among the in-group and distrusting and distancing the out-group, but also because many have also fallen victim to pervasive and oft-repeated propaganda via social (and other) media.
By cultural barriers I mean culture of heavy drug and alcohol use, plus yelling, etc. isn’t acceptable to everyone.
> Personally I would trust readers to click on the article...

This is already contrary to all available evidence.
I've been experiencing Phantom Vibration all morning. Talk about distracting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_vibration_syndrome
I'm both an individual consumer and a professional working for a for-profit business in most computing circumstances at home. Same for my permanently working-from-home freelancer spouse.

My network gear and proxmox server and TrueNAS and Synology all run open-source software and all four of those support both personal and for-profit activities to different degrees.

The Plex container is clearly fully personal, but the Unifi controller and backups use cases are mixed, and the standalone Ubuntu container is fully for-profit, all running on a mixed Proxmox. Which ones get charged and which ones are free?
Very exciting & good.

I also have some pretty big fears though. It feels like we are building systems that are ever more resistant to users having any ability to introspect & explore & manipulate. It feels like the cloud-mainframe is expanding into the devices we own & carry with us.

The unwillingness of security keys to let their owning users copy keys off them seem like another example of that sort of "security must be absolute" mindset, that rejects that the user ought have control & capabilities & be able to do things on their own.

Uncertainty & fear are all over the place, but I feel like there still needs to be a balance, and we're engaging in absolutist securing. And that is closing a lot of very important doors. Security by default is ok, but we keep refusing alternate accessibilities under that moniker.
Maybe, but author says:

> On Linux servers it can be incredibly difficult for any process to succeed if the disk is full.

You won't feel too clever if you come to grow your LVM volume into the free space and it won't work because there's no free space on the filesystem! :)

(I don't actually know if this would fail or not - but the point is "rm spacer.img" is pretty much guaranteed not to fail).
Abrasive people are often abrasive with themselves first, and then rationalize that they aren’t expecting anything from others that they don’t already expect from themselves, and then some. They are just being “fair”.

Lighten up.
except in the few months following a major release (at least for me)
Agreed. I checked out the channels he mentioned. Some put out videos that are completely unwatchable. The first video that loads on Massimo Bottura's channel is a portrait-style recording of a livestream shot with a phone and covered in emojis, it's not designed for the format of youtube at all.

I would much rather watch someone like Adam Ragusea (https://youtu.be/SDpCzJw2xm4), who may not be as good as Bottura, but is much better at cooking than I am and can communicate information well and produces engaging videos.
One other option is increasing the reserved block count ( https://ma.ttias.be/change-reserved-blocks-ext3-ext4-filesys... ). This has the nice side effect of increasing the space available for critical daemons.

If you haven't customised this, in a pinch you can still lower it down a bit to buy some time.
Why wouldn't you store capacity ? In your API the user has to put in a var and pass it around, like in bare C.
The problem is a minor placement issue for the `@simd` macro: https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks/pull/317
rm /path/to/big.file is faster than looking up the commands to expand the LVM volume and grow the filesystem.
This is awesome - nice job!

Adding the ability to loop the gif back and forth would be great!
Interesting. I would try to notify myself when space is getting low. But I like the solution because of it's simplicity
Speculating the entire x86-64 instruction set in seconds with one weird trick
Turns out it is much, much, more tested than I remembered:

https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
If you don’t have monitoring to tell you when the disk is more than X% full, then you’re at risk for more failure scenarios than just a full disk (usually trivial to buy time by deleting old logs).
This trick has certainly saved me more times than I am willing to admit! I usually roll with: `fallocate -l 8G DELETE_IF_OUT_OF_SPACE.img`
In the early 2000s, Sun's patching support website, sunsolve, was a massive Apache/CGI empire. Perf. problems were rife and by early 2002 the whole thing was grinding to a halt under traffic.

It just happened to be intern season. In walks some fresh-faced kid and installs mod_perl. Like magic, the entire website stands up, dusts itself off and starts working again. CPU load drops by two thirds. I think the senior engineers were kind of pissed but couldn't really say anything. I think the kid got a beer or two out of the whole thing. (And of course got an offer to stay.)
Good luck with this. I suggest lurking on indie hackers and you find a lot of people who won’t look super successful compared to say Uber or Facebook but have got businesses off the ground and make anywhere between enough to feed their family to a few million. It’s also amazing who’ll give you time if you reach out. I spoke to someone on the phone for tips who postered a successful micro business on HN you’ve probably heard of (sorry for being mysterious: I would feel bad if I “doxxed” them) but they were very helpful. So I think what you are doing will be easy in the sense of getting people to say yes. I think they’d love to talk to a woman because of how unrepresented women are in tech and startups.
Good luck!
I just checked and was able to set a time limit for Safari on both ios13.3 and 14.4.1. Type "safari" in the search box at the top of the list of categories that comes up when you go to set a new limit, pull the list down to reveal the search box if it doesn't show up at first.
That's also only a problem if your swap partition is mounted from a file on your filesystem, which is an exceedingly uncommon configuration.
Management by aggression, punishment, belittling, and disrespect is generally seen as a terrible fit for creative or knowledge professionals. Manage yourself how you would wish to be managed by a wonderful manager.
HN reduces my ability to focus even when it doesn't distract me.
In sales it's called lead generation.
They’re not hard to memorise. I never look them up.
CodeSandbox: Online Code Editor and IDE
I find that the mere presence of the phone is distracting. It's subtle and I didn't notice it until I physically started putting it in another room. I don't mindlessly pick it up and opening an app.
The six principles of lifestyle businesses
> When applied to autistic or neurodivergent individuals, however, PC norms work to disadvantage an already disadvantaged minority against groups that are both larger and often more economically and culturally free.

are you saying that the undergrads that Stallman harassed at MIT are more economically and culturally free than he is? Are you saying that we should give a pass to bad bosses who turn their subordinates lives' into a tower defense game?
It is not retroactive, but "from now on" with a grace period. Granting a free license will not be legal, except for individuals, charities, non-profit organisations and SME. You may think that this is wrong, because this has been a status quo and big corporations were doing a great PR to keep it that way, but this is extremely damaging to society.
"SE vendors are joining hands with Google to create a set of open-source, validated, and ready-to-use SE Applets."

Is this a Google specific program or part of AOSP ?

For security critical applications, there needs to be a vendor-neutral program build upon open standards. Can another OS vendor provision attestation keys ?

GlobalPlatform [0] has standardized the SE space, general adoption of APIs is the next step.

[0] https://globalplatform.org/
Don't sell yourself short, the cli args aren't easier either.
Ah right. Almost none of the GTK3 apps use the GPU though (but GTK4 does use it, so that's going to be relevant for GTK apps soon).
Sir David Attenborough Backs New Tech That Can Recycle All Plastics
It's amazing how often IT professionals complain about management completely misunderstanding the nature of their work while simultaneously advocating that a governing body even more removed from their situation will make everything so much better.
This is curious branding. In my language perception, the word "endless" is pretty much universally associated negatively. Even the girl in the stock photo seems to evoke "how long is this going to take?".
Also according to many people in and outside of the community. OSI or free software definitions are meant to give the contributor the same rights which they don't have for a "source available" license. Under a "source available" license ES would have never gained the same popularity nor commercial success. (Don't understand me wrong: ES can do what they want with their code but advertising it as "it is the same for most people" is untrue)
> Summed up in the following:
> Its time to upgrade your PC. Now. We don't care you're running a presentation. yeah We'll let you delay it... for now.

My roommate in college refused the Windows update request enough times that it just took the decision out of his hands and _told_ him it was rebooting...in the middle of a LAN Starcraft game we were having. (Hilariously, Starcraft also ran perfectly on my Wine/Ubuntu and had all sort of weird bugs and visual artifacts on his Vista/7)

I truly can't imagine how anyone can consider a system that reboots without your consent, no matter whether you're playing Starcraft or giving a presentation or launching nuclear warheads, to be appropriate for serious work. It seems like one of the very basic jobs of an OS to _not turn off while you might be doing something important_. Perhaps the answer is as simple as "there's a setting buried somewhere that all technically-literate Windows users change", but the default behavior is beyond insane.
as a vim user, how could I learn Emacs? I know of Evil mode, but how easy is it to have some stuff just like I have in vim (such as custom text objects, vim-surround, etc..).
Isn't that also just an elpa / melpa package though?
Even a swap file shouldn't matter, since it's still not sparse. The one exception is if you're on a system that dynamically adds and removes swap files - I believe darwin does that, and I think it might be possible to do on Linux(?) but I've not actually seen it done.
I’ve added it https://www.USMortality.com/historical
That just made my day!
Thirteen years later and it's less than three times as fast. This is just sad.
It seems that a lot of people didn't have backup plans either. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to rely on just one provider for something critical.
I have an empty leader on my hard drive so that I can recover if I accidentally nuke the front of it with dd while making a live usb. So it's not a bad idea, and it's super effective so far it hasn't been tested, and hopefully I never will need to.
Thanks for trying it out!

In some sense, we believe we are already a platform oriented around user-generated content—the act of curating and annotating something is itself a medium of expression. But yes, ultimately we would like to allow users to create blocks that are not just URLs (e.g. free-form text, images, audio, and video).

For now, our focus is on nailing the use case of sharing and curating great resources, since we believe they are the critical component of any great knowledge base.
If you think about it, though none of these except Shadow are "small players naively competing with big business", it still kind of demonstrates the point. Google starts something that is ostensibly a good idea, demonstrates that there is some market, but flops the execution. I don't know what'll happen to Stadia, I'm hesitant to dismiss it just because "lol Google made another thing, surely they'll kill it in a year", but just skimming the news it does seem it'll go the way of Allo and Hangouts and Reader (And G+ ironically)...
Hamilton won't quit Formula One when going gets tough
It wasn't replaced with "nothing" because the problem is still there and needed to be handled. Since no better solution was given it was defaulted to the police. But the police are trained to handle criminals, so they end up treating homelessness like a crime.

This is what people talk about when they say defund the police. They want to downsize police to the point where they only deal with crime and use the freed up funds to run mental health centers, halfway houses, drug treatment centers, etc...
> A criticism of the Settings App as it stands today based on your usage of it a year ago

How do you know his/her opinion is based on year-old usage?
Have the same issue. Like I deleted Instagram on my phone but I’ll just use the web version. Also, I think Android’s digital well being let’s you restrict websites on the browser
In my experience, not having the opportunity/ability to access my phone has been the only solution that truly lets me disconnect and focus. I've been working on a locking wireless charger to keep your phone out of sight and access, I'm looking to launch soon on Indiegogo:
https://pausbox.com/
> Friendly reminder that you shouldn't spend time fine tuning your horizontal autoscaler in k8s

Oh, but most companies need this!

The biggest feat of microservices (which require ways to manage them, like k8s) was to provide the ability for companies to ship their organizational chart to production.

If you don't need to ship your org chart and you can focus on designing a product, then you can go a long way without overly complicating your architecture.
Careful how you create it. Several ways to create large files can make a sparse file, which I don't think removing will actually help later.
I feel "Focus" as a function of overwhelming want or overwhelming need is a better proposition than as a function of tips and tricks. I've had times when despite all the raging distractions I've got the work done because I was so invested in it and there have been times when despite being in a perfectly isolated, no distraction environment, I have failed to get the work done because there was no real urgent need for it to be done, intrinsic or otherwise.

I would say work on things based on constraints, that are beyond the artificial boundary of productivity tricks, like an overwhelming desire for action or an imminent deadline from an external enforcing agent; differentiate between want, want-to-want, and have-to-want; and mainly rest well, for energy management is key in working well.
Tomato potato. If you use LVM or anything like it to reserve space then in your failure situation you have to extend the lv, partition, and fs before the space becomes available. More work than just rm'ing the file.

I think the ideal ideal is tuning the reserved blocks in your filesystem.

xfs_io -x -c 'resblks ...
This phenomenom is at times called the green lumber fallacy: https://fs.blog/2016/11/green-lumber-fallacy/
A new study finds some eggs remain viable even after being eaten by waterfowl
I would presume that the peak would be closer to 1 std deviation above mean, since improvement usually means looking at things you can’t do but aren’t scared to try.

The woodworking videos I watch are often things I can’t do.
In my opinion those people are in privileged position - they already have money, they don't have to worry what they are going to eat if they don't do work and so on, so they show off. It's kind of like a rich person driving around in his or hers Lambo. They do this work for free and then there is less work for people who cannot work for free. Why would company hire anyone if they get free contributions.
My go to calculator is spotlight search on my mac. Pleased to announce that it gives 0 for this.
Good for you. That's not how my memory works. If I don't use a command regularly, I don't trust myself to remember it correctly. Even if I did though, that's a multi-step process, compared to the single command needed to remove a file.
I think I’ve tried basically every email client out there since Inbox shut down and haven’t found a satisfying replacement. I’ve found Twobird to be the closest though.
I learned this the hard way when I stuck some app containers down on a few RPis and mapped the folder of stateful stuff (including a SQLite database) to an NFS share on my NAS.

It's....not great.
You could do this on pretty much any site, given access to javascript. I remember doing this for facebook before I deleted my account ~6 years ago.

There are people on mastodon/pleroma who have scripts that automatically do that for posts older than 30 days, etc.

Snapchat and instagram stories are ephemeral, but those are different from traditional social media with posts.
> I was always under the assumption that they independently coined the word.

I guess it's possible? I certainly hadn't heard of Habitat in 01992, or indeed until after I met Chip, and the correspondence with the Hindu concept is quite arresting. But then again, I never had a Commodore 64, and Neal Stephenson always loves to be plugged into everything that's trendy. Farmer and Morningstar gave a paper http://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html at The First International Conference on Cyberspace in 01990, which seems like the kind of thing you would maybe go to if you were writing a novel like Snow Crash in 01990. But they say Habitat (or rather Club Caribe) only had 15000 users at the time.

> (if you're familiar at all with TVTropes,

I love TVTropes! If we're talking about the cyberspace avatar trope rather than the use of the word "avatar" for it, you could maybe trace that back to Vinge's 01981 True Names, as mentioned in the talk I linked above.
Happens all of the time even with monitoring. Somebody enables debug monitoring and it fills up in 3 minutes.
I suspect the blog author did not understand this (based on the content) - as a Linode user myself, I just had a look at one of my VMs and they install with the regular 5% reserved space (ext4/Debian).
This got me today. Probably could be characterized as the classic case of: Company says a certain use case is unsupported, but tries hard to accommodate users who are stuck with the unsupported use case, so they hack up a decent work around under the hood. Then the technically unsupported use case blows up, so they then have to scramble to support it with a quick work around...for the workaround.

The workaround worked. I think at this point it makes me more likely to keep using Netlify. I love the product. And I think I love the support for unsupported un-recommended feature that they supported today.

Thanks Netlify Ops!
Afrofuturist on NFTs potential for underrepresented minority artists
Ah, the classic 'speed-up loop' approach: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop

About the blogpost itself:

The disk filled up, and that's one thing you don't want on a Linux server—or a Mac for that matter. When the disk is full nothing good happens.

I had this happen few times on a Mac and every time I was shocked that if disk gets full you cannot even delete a file and the only option is to do a full system reboot. I was also unable to save any open file, even to external disk and suffered minor data loss every time due to that.

What is the proper way of dealing with such issue on macOS? (or other systems, if they behave the same way)
It feels more elegant to do something like `touch /bigfile && chattr -c /bigfile && truncate --size 8G` to outright disable compression on that file
Wait, isn't this the calculator that doesn't know order of operations? When I used to teach math, I would tell my students to type in 1+2*3 in their calculator and if it didn't give 7 as the answer, they should throw it away. The Windows calculator was one of the ones that failed, if I remember correctly.
Dinosay has arrived on Fedora, Centos and Mageia
There is a nice video game that I played on the Wii called "Endless Ocean". The expression on the girl's face on this web page to me looks like "this is cool". So for me "Endless"="Wondrous"
It’s not really much more work. One command extra.
What mattered was that Google set a hard limit: do <x> to be in the carousel. I think that if they had done the exact same thing with a performance metric it would have unfolded very similarly because the key part was that it was a non-negotiable external mandate.

People might have had more room to negotiate on how to hit a performance target but the thing which would have mattered was a number in the webmasters tools console.
So far, my first stop to temporarily get more disk space was to reduce the size of the swapfile which on a lot of servers seems to be allotted >1x the requirement.

Will be switching to this hack! Perfect illustration of the KISS principle (Keep it simple, stupid).
I did not know this. Good solution.
Back in my early university days the disks always seemed to be full at inconvenient times on the shared Unix systems we used. Some students resorted to "reserving" disk space when available. Which of course made the overall situation even worse.
Same idea as this game development legend

https://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/02/coding-tricks-of-game-dev...

> he had put aside those two megabytes of memory early in the development cycle. He knew from experience that it was always impossible to cut content down to memory budgets, and that many projects had come close to failing because of it. So now, as a regular practice, he always put aside a nice block of memory to free up when it's really needed.
Or, and this is a controversial view, maybe some homeless people could be helped through cheaper access to cars. As part of my job I have recently sat through many days of cases at a local courthouse. In our rural area, judges are loathed to revoke a driver's license because they know that doing so renders a person effectively unemployable locally. If someone doesn't have access to a car, and therefore cannot find work, perhaps there is a place for giving them better access to a car.

(Anyone saying that the answer is better public transport, that isn't an option here. Rural area. Most work is in farms/oil fields/military. 24/7 bus service over thousands of square miles just isn't ever going to happen. No car or no cellphone = No work.)
Better social safety nets are also required. I have heard that it isn't uncommon for someone who's on the street to have mental health issues which are untreated by society. In the US this seems to have been the result of replacing one hell for the unfortunate (abusive mental 'health' jails) with an even greater hell of apathy (nothing at all).
First, it sounds like you're looking for squash - not rebase.

This is a false dichotomy. You can have it both ways - git just doesn't provide it both ways.

In Mercurial, you can squash commits so the history shows it as one commit, but you can still see the individual commits if you really want to. The history is never lost. I imagine Fossil does something similar.

Looking at this subthread: Wow! People really get triggered when it comes to Git.