skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m trying to take a similar path with this project [1] though there’s no HA story for now and it’s not meant to be protocol-compatible.

The goal is to make it lightweight and simple to operate, yet very fast.

[1] https://github.com/dataptive/styx
Why England is dangerously exposed to new Covid-19 variants
what kind of alternative?

IMHO free distribution of apps is the only viable alternative.

Yes there will be scams and malwares but hey that's the price to pay to enter the Bazaar rather than the Church.
Those conservative views are alas alive and well everywhere worldwide today.
shouldn't be sending any.
need a pure Linux phone to deal with Google
All this was true and well known prior to the IPO, so I'm not sure why should it affect the price now and not earlier?
> not yet

You seem to be assuming it will be good to buy sometime...
I never heard of Novamin, but I used Sensodyne for years becase it tastes better.
Now I see the problem. You never experienced what the internet was like when it wasn't as ad-infested as it is now. It might be hard to comprehend, but people who were passionated about something and wanted to make a website about that paid for it out of their own pockets without focusing mainly on 'monetization', 'ad revenue', 'SEO' and similar garbage.
Unbelievable, isn't it?
Once I saw the deep fake video of Tom Cruise, I realized we are entering a new phase of the internet. One that will require a blockchain-based identity and trust graph. All content will have to be signed with a private key linked to a zero-knowledge proved biometric user account. Every node must have at least one path to a 'real account' otherwise users will learn to totally and completely dismiss it.
Yes but that has to be set out in advance in the agreement and cannot be unilaterally decided on the day (which is how I interpret OP's comment).
Hawaii, prepare to be attacked.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42677604
The issue is not that this is happening with Apple products, the issue is that it is happening everywhere. What do I purchase?

I want a device which puts my privacy first and one which my family members can operate too. Without me being on the line to teach them how.

We simply have too little competition in the phone OS market from my point of view. Also web-first phone are pretty rare.
From their About page: "The Babylon Bee is the world’s best satire site."
I agree. If I write my own framework which only does what the app needs it does a lot less and can easily be refactored if need be. Usually it isn't a framework at all, just some shared functions. I don't like have tons of unused functionality shipping with my app.
Whats an RX?
This is just a techbro(well, more like middle aged) story, full of all the usual ingredients:Narcissism, overestimation of their impact on society, virtue-signaling, extrapolating personal experiences to the whole society. Give me better a story about a Turkish butcher(including he calling names to the mom of his competition) any day of the week.
The trick that really opened my eyes was this:

$ telnet google.com 80
Trying 142.250.70.238...
Connected to google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Then adding a couple of headers - and realising that it really was just text. You can really tell the difference with young developers who've made that leap.
> K3s is a highly available, certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads in unattended, resource-constrained, remote locations or inside IoT appliances.

> [microk8s] Low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes,
for devs, cloud, clusters, workstations, Edge and IoT.

Microk8s started as an easy alternative to minikube for local dev.

k3s started as a simplified version of k8s for testing/experimenting on RPis, etc.

Today both seem to focus on IoT/"edge". Both do clustering and HA of the control plane though, so are in theory usable in production.

However, why would you use either of them in production? Yes, it's easier than vanilla k8s, but still has a lot of moving parts, and to top it off, it's a specific flavour by Rancher or Canonical of moving parts ( e.g. microk8s uses dqlite for storage instead of etcd). So you might stumble on specific to the platform edge cases, and you still have a big part of the k8s complexity to deal with ( in the case of microk8s it tries to abstract some of the complexity with wrappers, but when they fail, you're screwed).

> API will keep evolving but basic objects like deployments and statefulsets that you need for paas like experience are quite stable

Stable now, but Ingress was in beta for quite some time, and the when the beta API gets deprecated, you have to adapt.
BTW I do not mean there are no issues in the laptop/desktop OS market. But majority of people use the phone to store personal information now.
All of these statistics are too generalised to be useful.

People who fly in planes are generally not flying from every conceivable location on the globe to every other one in an even distribution and randomly using every type of plane available on every carrier. Neither are those driving cars driving from every possible destination to every other in every kind of vehicle etc.

Compare someone exclusively flying back and forth between one wealthy first world country to another on a Dreamliner run vs someone driving an 80's Ford Pinto regularly across treacherous mountain passes in the Andes.

Or the converse (use your imagination).

An important and useful statistic is that one particular, new model of aircraft is tremendously crashy considering the amount of time it's been in service.

It makes sense to avoid travelling on that aircraft, until it can be proven to have a flight-miles/crash ratio more in line with other models. (Which may take a number of years, or decades, especially if people are avoiding it...)
Yes!

Don't fonts provide some form of hinting as well, to improve rasterization accuracy on various display configurations?

Also, doesn't sub-pixel anti-aliassing break when using a rasterized source like the article suggests.

These are two arguments against it - pro vector.
Wow that would be cool
You can turn "location" off on Android just as you can turn "third party cookies" off on the Chrome browser. Google counts on 95% of users not doing that. Neither of these are perfect solutions but they do help a lot for minimal effort.

EDIT And this just in, more third party cookies:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres
Social media encourages dogpiling. "Engagement" measures shares, reactions and comments. Shares get more eyeballs on a post and "the algorithm" further promotes posts already garnering a lot of "engagement", creating a feedback loop. More eyeballs means more people commenting and a greater likelihood of repeating what has already been said, hence more dogpiling.

Early online communities were not only much more heavily moderated than even sites like reddit or HN are today, but they also usually had explicit rules prohibiting dogpiling because it made it impossible to have a discussion or actually explain to someone why what they said may have been deemed offensive, inappropriate or wrong.

If you spend more time "interacting" on social media, you probably encounter dogpiles more frequently and end up contributing to them more than someone who mostly just consumes social media and doesn't actively participate. This probably also means you face more of the resulting backlash, further polarizing your views of the "others".

This seems to generally lead to one of two outcomes: Either you quit, or you embrace the angry surface level discourse and turn lashing out at people online into a hobby. You can see this happen in real time on Twitter because the character limit rewards witty one-liners and comebacks over wordy nuance (even if people try to work around this with threads, but note this doesn't work well for replies and this still requires replying several times in a row and results in notification spam).
Something that is not discussed: to verify the signature you need a copy of Linus's public key, but how do you know you have his actual public key? If you downloaded the key from some server somewhere, and that server was compromised, it could fool you into thinking the signature is valid, which undermines the whole thing.

One way to know the key is valid is if you meet Linus himself and verify it first hand (like when you verify Whatsapp keys, which you do, right?). But not everyone can do that. PGP implements a "web of trust" security model. That means if someone you trust has signed Linus's key, you can verify his key via their signature. This extends beyond one hop; it's up to you how much you trust it based on its signatures.

This is in contrast to centralised systems like SSL/TLS where you have no choice but to trust entities like Microsoft, Google, Verisign etc.
It's also New Testament, but the "Riches" is capitalized in specific translation you're using, it's not capitalized in New King James, and neither in New International Version. I'd wager it's relatively modern addition.

To see if that point is actually in the sources, you would need to go into Greek, or look for a good historic analysis of Gospel of Matthews.

[edit]

Ten commandments come from oral tradition, but most probably were written down at least a few hundreds years earlier (500 or 600BC)
It doesn't work because it is unsustainable. This will never hold. There is no such thing as free money.

We should try to get (back) to the point where companies actually need to make a profit in order to survive.
> I want a device which puts my privacy first.

https://puri.sm/products

> and one which my family members can operate too. Without me being on the line to teach them how

I am afraid that it is always necessary, even with Apple devices. My relatives use Linux just fine after I explained a couple of things.
When writing a software system, you face engineering tradeoffs, such as, how performant or reliable the system must be, how easy it must be to configure, how well documented it must be, under what conditions it needs to work, and so on. Furthermore, different components might have different requirements.

I think main problem with frameworks is that the engineering tradeoffs involved are not clearly stated. Many frameworks aim to solve all of them, and just let you "configure it as you need", but that is foolish. It's like when a scientific theory tries to explain everything, it cannot provide any prediction, because it cannot generalize at all from the data, as every deviation needs to be explained somehow. In the same way, a "universal framework" is an empty shell that, while it can be configured to do anything you want, the configuration itself becomes the work you would have to do, to tie the specific things you want to do in your system together. However, now you're doing it in framework's DSL and not the same language in which you wrote the specific things. This is a trap that many frameworks seem to fall into.

So if the framework you use is too universal, it doesn't add much value, which has to come from dealing with product-specific problems. Some contrast frameworks with libraries, where it is much harder to fall into this trap. If you add a library to your system, you have a good reason, it has to provide some value to justify itself. But framework is by definition the thing on which everything is supposed to stand on, so it's much easier for a kind of inversion happening and instead of framework supporting your software, it's your program that supports the framework.

I think what frameworkless movement wants is to have every product/system have its own framework, in the sense, the system's purpose determine what will the framework look like. I.e. your system is the one tying everything together (it just calls libraries for things), not some framework "alienated" from the problem you're trying to solve.

I am not sure I entirely agree but I think they have a point. I suspect it is possible to create a framework, but one has to be extremely aware of the interoperability requirements. Creating a framework is like creating an operating system, an environment where application programs run. And it's very good question, then, why use framework, as another layer from the operating system? Why not integrate with the OS itself? What does it bring to the table?
I wouldn't call this corruption, this sounds more like some one tried to fuck you over.
Completely agree. This has caused me endless frustration over the last... 20 years (wow, time flies).

Wondering, do fonts need to be adapted to support this? Is the property 'cap height' typically available in fonts? X-height is.
Backpropagation 101 (2020)
So, before we were being followed opportunistically by many advertisers, but no one had full information. Now Google is going to classify all of us for any company who wants to know. That's a net loss of privacy.

The flock system sounds like the Chinese social credit score. I'm wondering what things will be conditioned on FlockID. There are going to be elite flocks and worthless flocks. "Sorry, our services are available only to flock-3453 and flock-2234. Losers like flock-23232 need not come."
Because not many people care (yet). Of course font should always be defined in physical units (be it pt, inch or mm). Pixels are irelevant. When you are printing a text, you also don't care about how many pixels are being printed - your printed page will look the same on any printer, you can print a ruler. But somehow software industry has ignored this for decades. Why? I don't know. Probably inorance, bad cooperation amd lack of standards.
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It is my understanding that the stock price of IPOs is often inflated through different mechanisms - maybe another commenter who knows more than I do can explain what these are.

At any rate, if they really released at pricing levels determined by transparent and efficient markets we wouldn't see these pops, would we?
Spreadsheet is a software development paradigm
Definitely, if all one needs is command line.
People frown on (heavy) cars nowadays. Then there is some backlash to passenger jet flights that pump (near) tax free fuel. Private jets that basically do the same with less passengers. Now we have passenger space flight.

I'm not for "climate shaming" people into "green behavior". I'm all for a fair and square pollution taxes, that every polluter has to pay.

But this kind of news make even me frown...
> it’s much easier for people to vote with their wallets in their everyday life

Except if you deal with a mono-/duopoly.
I'm at the opposite conclusion to you.

You firstly say that improved life expectancy isn't due to science, then you say that two of the three main reasons for improved life expectancy are pandemics and childhood mortality.

Those two statements are inconsistent. Medical science is one of the main reasons why pandemics and childhood mortality are less of a problem. Germ theory of disease, vaccines, therapeutics, etc.

"we roughly always die at the same age."

The paper's data doesn't support this.

Figure 4 shows life expectancy among elite men conditional on surviving until 30 was 57-63 for the first few centuries in the sample - irrespective of whether it was a war/non-war period or a period with a specific plague.

Nowadays it is much higher than this (late 70s?) for a much larger cross section of people (not just elite individuals).
But the question is why the proper legal route isn't the civil system instead of getting law enforcement involved to arrest them.

In the US, I think a company's only route would be a lawsuit, if the only thing going on was game cheating and ToS violation. Though I could be wrong.
Google's pixel A line. There I saved everyone time
also happens on a friend's machine and reported now
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1702162
I thought the purpose was for ypur phone to be able to connect to the cell network, for example for (non-VoIP) calls. But, if your phone can connect, so can any other sim-enabled device.
> Deliveroo heavily depends on "self employed" couriers which quite likely courts will find are employees which the company needs to compensate accordingly

This issue has been raised in France but it turns out most couriers are "micro-entrepreneurs" and appear to be quite content with both the social benefits and the flexibility (as reported by Deliveroo and as independently assessed by the Sénat in 2020).

Anecdata, I had a couple of chats with some couriers and it seems to correlate with the Sénat finding. TBH I expected it to be otherwise.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliveroo#Rémunération_et_stat...
Sideloading also allows authoritarian regimes to add apps to your phone. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/02/chinese-border...
Unfortunately there is no money for Apple, or anyone, in putting your family safety and privacy first, since selling you out is far more profitable since most people don't care. By the time it gets bad enough for them to care, it will be too late to turn back.

Disillusionment with the way things are going is the reason I've kinda decided to step away from tech. I will miss the income, but I won't miss the dystopian hellscape. I'm buying a farm. Gonna raise chickens. Will automate as much of it as I can with non-cloud FLOSS and my own code and sweat. I will not try to grow it to billions, I will prioritize my time.
> You can always read the actual implementation in your IDE

Doesn't Rail's use of metaprogramming mean that often there isn't a simple static implementation of a method in the source code that you can go and find?
That is one example that was interpreted by you to be valid for all other cases?
Seeing your other comments I think you highly trust the medical system.
Never trust blindly my friend.
Haters gonna hate, I predict a TSLA.
I'd be happy to pay for a browser with my interests at heart at this point. Maybe this is an improvement but it's a problem that doesn't need to exist.
Flatpak/snap are other part of the same puzzle.

Think of them as the "app" part similar to mobile OSes; fedora silverblue/rpm-ostree/systemd-extensions as the "system" part.
Yeah, despite not as free as common linux distributions (can Android even be considered Linux at all?), it is the better choice in these kind of situations.
You learn a lot in situations like this about being helpful with the customer without being judgey. Get them back on their feet with a smile when they thought they were screwed keeps a lot of contracts around.

I like this paragraph. It says a lot for what divides the long term contractors with a full pipeline and those who don't. It would be a neat topic to blog on if you ever have the time.
And somehow this is a "tech company".

The real winners in this scam are the founders, VCs and Amazon (Who will eventually acquire them) and some of the employees (Not riders). As expected the general public who got in late always lose even when the big investors warned them they would sell very early. Some did and some backed out altogether.

I don't know how one could fall for this ad in the UK [0] and actually become a very late 'retail investor' in Deliveroo's IPO day in which not only the share allocation isn't guaranteed, you are now locked in to waiting until the general public can trade it.

If a retail investor who bought into this pump and dump sells on the day of trading, it is at a loss. Ignore the initial hype entirely, wait for it to die down and probably buy it low.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/ylLwtE8
No good support from the underlying processors, which meant that no one really used this, because even if you had support for this, you had a high performance cost.

That led to users wanting to find other methods to make this work.

And in general, the path has been either to avoid shared memory entirely (negating the need for tx memory) or using lock free algorithms (which won't worked with tx memory).

It is a great idea, in theory, but it proved impractical in practice.
Sounds about right. They take around 30% of restaurant revenue and many riders make less than £2/hr. Additionally, Uber have just been told to start paying drivers minimum wage (shock, horror!) so it's only a matter of time before Deliveroo riders are paid minimum wage too.

Basically, you reap what you sow. This is, hopefully, the start of the pushback against gig economy companies that provide little to no actual value in the public marketplace.
Yes, it's a double-edged knife, but let's keep in mind that the government actually has enough power to spy its citizens without tampering the devices, with the social networks, cell locations...
You may not be aware, but recently Uber drivers have been recognised as actual employees in UK by the court.
You don't have stone walls. And you haven't spent the last year working in a study that's located between two APs, where clients flip now and again and Zoom would tear down the connection.

Of course you could say: Does the house have to be designed that way? Do the APs have to be located where they are, is it really necessary to have that stone wall, is it necessary to put the study in the place where it is, is it necessary to have that noise insulation around the elevator? None of that is necessary, but some Mikrotik hardware was much cheaper than getting rid of a stone wall and more pleasant than having to hear it when the neighbours use the elevators.
One glaring issue I see, is the 12 years part. And I don't mean in the simple banging-head-against-wall versus know-when-to-quit sense. Even if the sunk cost was zero, once decades start passing, even the slowest and most bureaucratic dinosaur will be able to catch up with you. In my opinion he needed to move on to some new adjacent product or aspect of the market where he could have an advantage again. Not just piling on features that those competitors could do too.
as long as they are only growing in your mouth, thats still a solution.

Now, having teeth grow om your body randomly, thats a horror movie
I second that. I feel like I have less and less choice. I can either accept all systemd provides or switch to some fringe distro.

I switched from Windows to Linux 20 years ago to have more choice.
> The article is mostly about switching two fonts with the expectation that the visual size of the characters remains consistent. That expectation fails because the em size is arbitrary with respect to the visible caps-height.

It would fail with caps-height, too, as other visible measures of characters (not just abstract ones like em) have no guaranteed consistent relationship to caps-height, so, as such, there's no guarantee that fonts with the same caps-height have the same “visual size”, or even visual vertical size, since cap height doesn't i close descender and ascender height.