skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats a pretty uncharitable take on what Poettering said. IMO hes right that in many cases you dont want to hold up booting on whether or not time has been synced. I dont want my desktop, or most servers to not boot if the network or NTP server is down.

He also suggests what they can add for people who want this behaviour.

Oh woe is me that systemd does not support my use case of an embedded system needing to verify disk image with accurate time before booting further, as the _default_.
PHP Supply Chain Attack Shows Open Source’s Virtues and Vices
Chartering the vastness of biomedical data
Have you considered some sort of conditional pledging system?

That was part of the original allure of Kickstarter: participants agreed to contribute money -- but they only had to pay it if the total pledged amount reached a certain threshold. That way, contributors got some assurance that they're not wasting their money and that any project they fund has some level of viability.

So maybe, in your case, you could ask the users to donate some amount of money -- but they wouldn't have to actually pay it unless you reached your $1,000 funding goal.
The first question you should ask yourself: do you like being a software engineer?
conferencing as in 'ComicCon' or 'Zoom'?
Can you give an example?
I would prefer something a bit more granular than changing my device's network configuration and sending all of its traffic through the same VPN. Just because I want to watch a movie through a server in another country doesn't mean that I also want my video chat app or stock trading app to take the same detour.

Since this is Mozilla, how about a Firefox extension that passes all Firefox traffic through a VPN, like Tor Browser does, but doesn't touch any other app? That would differentiate it from most of the other VPN offerings out there. Currently my go-to solution is to set up a local SOCKS proxy with an SSH tunnel and point Firefox at it. It's good enough for testing, but not all services work properly when accessed that way.
Yeah but it appears to be a bit more specialized and narrowly focused than a blog because a) it's apparently deleted after a few minutes or really hard to find after a short interval, and b) responses and reactions are shown only to that person and not the others who view ie. Also I don't know what makes this more true for the story than the feed: "stories actually engages followers/contacts with the content."
The virus most likely came from a bat via another animal, and that's highly unlikely to have happened in any of the countries you mentioned. And considering how China responded to the outbreak in Wuhan, it's absolutely certain they won't be forthcoming to disclose previous outbreaks if they find evidence about them ( like the US and some European countries did)
Junkiness and vulnerabilities go hand in hand.
I genuinely don't understand what is the incentive for using Mozilla VPN? I'm a Mozilla and Firefox fanboy, but this new product had me sceptical since the beginning. They literally bring nothing to the table except their brand name. They don't even do the server side, but just resell Mullvad's infrastructure with their brand.

I'm already a Mullvad customer, and if I were to switch to Mozilla VPN:

* It would not be available in my country (Germany) right away

* I would have to join a waitlist

* I would have to pay with my credit card, instead of cash-by-mail. (Great privacy improvement! /s)

* I would have to use Mozilla's GUI instead of the wg-quick CLI. (The use of wg-quick is documented by Mullvad in addition to Mullvad's GUI, but I haven't found any wg-quick documentation on Mozilla VPN)

All of this for the same infrastructure, the same service (number of devices, ...) at the same price. What the hell are you doing Mozilla?!
Love the native TS and JSX support. Will my Subl license carry over to Subl 4 or will I need to repurchase a new license to use this?
> Hairdressers and Cosmetologists contract HIV

This is because they’re gay and not because of the job.
I don't know what it is about "imposter syndrome" but it's clearly having a moment. People are quick to label things "imposter syndrome" these days.

Imposter syndrome is feeling like you are an imposter or fraud even though, objectively, your job performance is adequate.

If anything, the original poster is describing the opposite of imposter syndrome, because they cited specific objective criteria showing that their job performance is inadequate, and came to the realization that they need to improve despite their previous feeling of competence.

That's a great thing, IMO -- figuring out you need to improve before it becomes a problem with your peers/supervisors means that you can take action before it is forced on you. But it has nothing to do with imposter syndrome.
I read the top article, it’s good. The pertinent bit to my question seems to be, they do subsidise drivers. Apart from fixed costs, they have “driver incentives” to shape supply and demand. Ie give out cash to subsidise trips when needed.
I've used AWStats for years. It's not perfect, but it's preferable to the scummy alternatives proffered by the big boys.
I think a better heuristic when asking developers for an estimate to ask for a lower bound and a black swan upper bound. Most developers have a better sense for this than an exact time or story point estimate. Alas no product tools allow you to do this today.

As a dev, I'm so much more confident of saying .. umm this bug will take at least a couple hours to investigate/fix but could balloon up to 2 days to re-factor and fix depending on what I find.
FYI I don't know why but it doesn't seem to work on Firefox.

I can't look at it right now, but at first glance it looks like either the requests to "campaigns/search" fail / return empty or that they are discarded because you're not doing a preventDefault on form's submit.

It's weird because it does work on Chrome-based browsers.
Adversarial market research for enterprise software
Don't phrase the conversation like that. If you want to get better start there. Say you'd like to improve. That your first attempt here was rough and didn't work out but pairing up with a more experienced developer would give you some rails to keep you on the right path.

Either way. Keep your head up! Asking for help is the first step of an endless journey.
Slavic languages, and correspondingly their names, are common in dozens of countries besides Russia. You probably have a sizable minority of them in your own country.

The support letter is indeed more international and representative of the larger development community. I'd say this reflects well on rms, since he obviously has a wider support base. His opponents seem to represent a specific subculture that only exists in the West. If you're only surrounded by these types, then you might be the one in a bubble.
She is, but in the graphic it is written that the number being dialed is in the Pennsylvania.
We Need to Decentralize the Internet
Sorry, I was not trying to come off as pushy. Your comment made me think about why I pronounce it the way I do and I thought I would share :)
I would rather see more in the way of worker rights, higher living wages, improving the lives of the folks that work in their suppliers factories.
There Is No End of Science
AZ is perfectly safe. Do that and then do Pfizer when it's available.

Going to Russia seems a little extreme. If your personal situation is that dire you should be staying inside and not leaving the house.
Safari is the only modern browser without support for the date input type
I don't think I've come across coursework that's intended to level up coding ability itself (i.e. good software engineering/design) rather than teaching basic knowledge things. I'm curious if anyone has come across anything of that nature.
Regarding the final point, about whether there is a way to "quit the ant game", I think there may sort of be one in the future. The article doesn't account for the possibility of there being only one ant colony that has dominated the entire area, thus eliminating the competitive aspect of its evolution.

I think we are a long way off from even a world government in name, and if and when we first get there it will perhaps be like the wild west in that there is a loose sense of a government presence but much conflict is still settled locally. But if the centralized powers become strong enough, eventually they could effectively end war, with massive economic ramifications as that expense is diverted elsewhere. Obviously there would still be peacekeeping forces, but those would be a massive deescalation compared to the current state of the world.

The danger of this centralization, of course, is that all the eggs are then in one basket. Corruption of that society means corruption of all of humanity. But the cost-benefit of even enslavement under such a government may be worth it on the whole. It doesn't look like it when you're living in a place not ravaged by war, but a world dictator would be better than being in a country being bombed and mined (in both senses of the word) over and over again. And who knows, perhaps we could have a world government some day that is democratic, and our biggest battles will be protests and politics. Call me naive. :)
I can't find a single reason why Mozilla should be wasting resources on VPN when there are already plenty of companies on that grind.

I can't find any good reason for encouraging people to circumvent network controls, or throw more networking complexity into what was previously very simple for users.

The constant marketing of 'you need a vpn' is super counter productive for users because they have no idea what it even is, what it can break, or why they needed it in the first place. I've run into plenty of folks that said they use vpn because someone offered it to them for free, not because they needed it for any reason.

It's stupid shit like this that makes the development of their key software languish.
Hmm I'm not super familiar with python ecosystem though I know some python devs at my company also use sublime.

In the JS ecosystem there are quite a few project specific configs (prettier, eslint, nvm) that seem to be read in by sublime and accounted for fine from project to project (possibly requiring package level config in some cases).
I completely get that, but I was thinking from the point of view of the person who decided to put $200 into the joke.
> Essentially you become an expert in writing 100-200 lines of code that reads data from standard input and prints data to standard output. Useful for CP, not so much in the real world.

Skills from CP transfer very well to the current FAANG interview coding olympics. Add some soft skills and you can easily land a job where you can learn the rest of the things you're listing there, while getting paid. So I wouldn't say there's not much use in the real world.
That’s a great perspective to have! Thanks for sharing!
Piss off. I'll link amp if I want.
My attitude about this is, if it's not really the person's fault (ie. learning bad dev hygiene from bad teams) and they want to continue as an engineer then they should make an attempt.

There are of course people who at the end of the day just don't have a knack for this stuff, and in that case, I certainly agree.
Only in the aggregate. The site owner doesn't know who purchased what. Only Amazon (obviously) knows.

The site owner only sees that 35 people bought book X while 24 people bought book Y.
Missing a lot of costs for hotels, also missing the air travel which is the single largest contribution to emissions in this scenario.
It used to be the case that lexing was the hottest part of a compiler, because it had to touch every byte of source and subsequent phases did not have so much data to crunch. But that stopped being true in the 1990s as optimizing compilers became mainstream technology.
Well they were, it wasn't until 1942 that the first mass extermination camps were opened.

And it was not whites vs X, it was Aryans vs "subhuman" "races". Jews and Slavs are as white as "pure" Germans were, yet were considered subhuman and for extermination. And anti-Semitism in general was wildly popular in many parts of the world, including Europe and the US.
Instead of taking 2 years to close 600 issues, why not ship a release each month with just a handful addressed? I think plugin developers are more likely to keep their plugins maintained if it looks like Sublime Text is alive.

I'd much rather pay $50 a year for ~monthly releases than $70 every 2-3 years for one release and a few bug fixes.
10 years is way too long to stick with anything you dont like, i'd say jump ship and try something else.
True that. maybe I'll rephrase, was Rust specifically chosen to address memory concerns? I don't think it is too common in Android.
There was already good work previously on SARS-1 and MERS spike protiens for use in vaccines. This is what enabled the "in a weekend" speed.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28807998/
How to achieve smart home nirvana (or, home automation without subscription)
Germans hate "trust us" mentalities anyway. That's why Google Street View is exceedingly rare here.
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Devotional, dizzying, and revolutionary
I was ready to hate systemd after reading all the negative reactions over the years. Then it came to upgrade servers. Now, I appreciate that I never have to write an init script or cron job again.
The dragon book still has some gems but great might be pushing it these days
Come on, what was wrong with the previous title? It was more informative, and "Systemd 248" is technically not the original title either.
The word you're looking for is "substantive", not "substantial."

subtantive: important, serious, or related to real facts

substantial: of ample or considerable amount, quantity, size

IMHO, it is substantive to point out that a study produced an obvious result that everyone already knew to be true.
>> so that baseload power requirement should be less of an issue in the future.

An average energy load graph begs to differ. Solar is great for peak demand. Unless you can make cars to be able to charge at once at peak it is not going to work.

>> Density doesn't make sense to me

So how much % of land would you sacrifice for solar? And how often do you think we have to redo the work?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82042-5

https://greencoast.org/solar-panel-lifespan/
> Patrick Baillargeon, who is charge of purchasing Quebec's laboratory supplies, warns in a letter that Health Canada has not received any data to support the safety and efficacy of face masks containing graphene particles and therefore considers the risks associated with these medical devices unacceptable.

This makes it sound like the graphene is there on purpose?
If you're Chinese or Russian, ignore my comment. But if you're an American, you need a bit of perspective. Literally most countries on Earth do orders of magnitude of worse stuff on a daily basis than US. And literally no other country has an egalitarian setup where anyone can potentially succeed. The countries that are objectively better than US in terms of human rights for own citizens, are very few (Switzerland, Nordic countries, few others which are either small/or have homogeneous population). I am stunned when I read comments suggesting that US is as bad or Russia or China.
Ask HN: What are the best data science bootcamps?
I'd like to move into data science by taking a ~3 month bootcamp. Which bootcamps are most respected by employers? I have a PhD in Computer Science.
Oh, so normally NFTs don't actually contain the digital artwork, just a reference to it?

I assumed that the art itself would be stored into the blockchain, which would give it some form of permanence.
However I think being able to say "I (co-)wrote this" also plays a part - especially in Elvis' time, actual singer-songwriters were probably held in greater esteem than artists that were just "parroting" songs others wrote for them, so giving the impression that they were involved in writing the songs may have been important from that perspective too...
No argument there. Does she credit her songwriters? Is it well known that she doesn't write 100%? Or does that not matter to anyone because she's so awesome?
Do you mean then that English speakers write the name of every French city, including Paris and Strasbourg, as French speakers do and also pronounce them as French speakers would except for Paris and Strasbourg?

Edit: I had never thought about Strasbourg, really. I see now that the adoption of the French spelling in English is relatively recent and also Marseilles and Lyons used to be written differently.

Edit2: Dunkirk seems to be the main (only?) example where the French name is not used.
I see it slightly differently. It’s cheaters feel that even among other cheaters they feel they have a better shot and will avoid the meritocratic choice.

So it’s a bit of “why we can’t have nice things”. It’s not the system as much as people taking advantage of social permissivity for individual benefit.
Almost everyone I know uses the internet. What was the point of this stupid question?
I really hope it will fare better than NewBlue and BlueDroid...
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/09/14/the-rise-and-fall-o...
I remember one from Java ~20 years ago:

public final static string HTTP = "http";
public final static string COLON = ":";
public final static string SLASH = "/";
public final static string WWW = "www";

with code like

string url = HTTP + COLON + SLASH + SLASH + WWW ....

Ignore any Java issues - not used it much in ~15 years.

Edit: I asked the developer who had written this what it was achieving and he said it was best practise ;-)
The key gunpowder weapon I'm talking about here is the arquebus, which simultaneously incorporated three critically important innovations: the long barrel, the matchlock trigger [1], and the shoulder stock. The first weapons having all of these simultaneously starts to crop up around 1480-ish in Iberia. Effectively, these weapons are the earliest weapons that operate rather similarly to the modern military rifle.

Prior to gunpowder weapons, the primary infantry weapons are going to be some variant of pike or a warbow or crossbow (if you're an archer). Earlier hand-held gunpowder weapons than the arquebus exist, but they are more unwieldy weapons and as a result don't supplant the dominant infantry weapons. But when arquebuses show up, armies change fast. By about 1520, every European army is using them. I don't have firm stats on the rest of the world, but by the early 1600s, pretty much every conflict--including indigenous peoples attempting to resist European colonizers--involves both sides using gunpowder weapons. Pikes weren't rendered obsolete until the development of the bayonet in the 17th century, but the infantry units needed to mix pikemen and arquebusiers to be competitive, basically modern combined-arms doctrine but happening 500 years ago.

[1] In this case, a "match" is a burning piece of rope that is used to ignite the primer. The key innovation here is that a mechanism is used to hold the match so that it can be inserted into the primer by moving a trigger.
Craig Wright is a pathological liar.
That's probably a major reason. But, Rust is also just a really nice language that's very pleasant to use.
This doesn't sound particularly evil to me and seems perfectly in line with the Russian government's intention of reducing its reliance on American tech companies (by nudging consumers in the direction of their domestic alternatives).

IMO, doing this would be a good idea for Europe, too. To some degree laws like the browser choice thing already go in this direction, but they still mostly present American alternatives.
I think some of the recently IPOed tech stocks must be viewed in this light. For example, Deliveroo is basically a platform for skimming off of a market which until recently was mostly people working off books often without the correct insurance. They have undoubtedly unlocked some value in the system by allowing us to order from places which didn't previously provide that service (e.g McDonalds). But whether this justifies a £7bn valuation, I'm not convinced.

I think so far investors have been lucky with some of the tech companies which have IPOed and then proven that they do have the potential to generate a profit. I don't think it will take too many of these unicorns to IPO and fail before the blood bath in the "tech" industry begins.
CDC says the vaccines prevent you from getting the deadly symptoms. Why would a kid take it when they dont get the bad symptoms anyway? This is unscientific. Prove me wrong.
Are you sure you’re just not used to the way things are done at bigger companies? When you work in a small team or by yourself on small projects, you might not encounter the opportunity to fully flesh out solid architecture and coding practices because it’s not in the budget.

I imagine after a little while working in a different environment, you’d adapt to the new way just as you had adapted before.
As a previous customer, who is very interested in being a customer again in the future, I can find no mention of Discord on the website, no development activity since Oct 2019.

Even if I could find it, distributing releases via a chat room feels a bit 90s. I'd expect to just get auto-updates through the auto-update mechanism in Sublime Text.
Thanks for the heads up, I'll take a look. EDIT: Should be fixed now, thanks again.
When money used to have a firm link to the real world, when it was lost (like when gold coins sunk to the bottom of the sea or were stolen by pirates) it was really lost.

Certainly it can been seen as a "feature" of the current fiat currency regime that your lost/stolen money can be "recovered". But it can also been seen as a "crippling fault" when this "feature" can be so easily exploited by those running the system.
For context: The word "gymnasium" outside of Germany refers to a place where you do sports, inside of Germany it describes the "highest" out of the three typical types of secondary schools.
> they all seem to be doing fine off donations.

They may be doing fine, but I bet that, for most, donations aren't their only source of income and they probably have another job.
A lot of the issues issues (like latency, the fact that every microphone has different characteristics, that bad networks are a thing, that people get disturbed all the time when they are at home or in their office) are independent on the exact software you use.

From my point of view it has some obvious advantages, like no need to travel. But it is not a satisfying replacement by a long shot.
Modern AI cannot recognize the kind of A that Hofstadter wrote about in that essay.

Hofstadter identifies novelty typefaces where A has none of the characteristics that you might associate with the letter. Often A is not a triangle, sure, but sometimes it has no upper bar, no left stroke, no right stroke. Sometimes the bars are defined by a transition from negative to positive space.

Sometimes A is made of 20 strokes, or a pattern of dots, or an open eye where the half-circular upper lid defines the triangle and the pupil is the bar. A neural network trained on conventional As would not conclude that any of these are an A.

These shapes wouldn't necessarily read as A in isolation. Sometimes they only read correctly when you're looking at text using a whole typeface defined on the same principles.

Modern AI still cannot recognize that kind of A even though a human easily can. There are ways to make an A that require a human to understand an idea of "letterness" that's different than anything they've seen before.

I'd recommend reading the original essay. The illustrations make this clear in a way my description can't.
Apple is pretty bad at regulating "free" apps. There are so many apps pretend to be free only the first screen you will see is ask you for a subscription or exit. I have tried to report an app like this, and gone nowhere. I feel that AppStore is taking money over protecting people nowadays.