skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All fluorescent bulbs are just a specific subtype of Arc lamps. In the 1970’s plenty of different gasses where being used in Arc Lights. For example in 1860, John Thomas Way used arc lamps operated in a mixture of air and mercury vapor which eventually evolved into mercury vapor lamps which where invented before Edison, but the first popular variation was invented in 1901.

Also a fairly thin sheet of glass blocks most of the UV, welding masks are thick and dark because welding produces a lot of light and you want significant eye protection from shards etc. Modern ARC lamps are bright specifically because we have incandescent bulbs when you want less light.
Native Elisp Compilation landing in Master soon
That's what they claim, but apps have already found to be lying on their "privacy nutrition labels" with seemingly zero consequences.
Around here, the gas used for cooking is natural gas, which is not toxic in the technical sense of the word, though one could theoretically suffocate from it.

I say "theoretically" because I can't recall hearing of a single instance of such a death, while deaths from e.g. carbon monoxide poisoning are far from uncommon.
Show HN: Super fast fuzzy-finder browser extension in reference documentation
A lot of big tech companies do compensate amazingly well according to this author (in other articles he wrote). Big tech companies expect SWEs to be problem solvers and to utilize their leverage.

Just paraphrasing/summarizing his perspective.

Assuming that to be true, I think you do get compensated relatively fairly.
Marion's Case
I (with 2-3 other people) run over 100 PB on Ceph clusters in production, supporting some critical functions of a Fortune 50 enterprise.

We use Ceph for block and object workloads (no CephFS). Most of our clusters are still on Luminous (v12) and Filestore (XFS), and only our newer clusters that are being built now are on Nautilus (v14) Bluestore. We plan on migrating to Bluestore this year (and likely next year).

I'm on-call basically all the time, but we'll have maybe 1 issue per year where we have to act immediately. Most failures that would happen on a Saturday can wait until Monday to be acted on.

The smallest cluster that we'll build is 6 nodes. Our largest cluster now is 120 nodes with 1920 OSDs. We might build a larger cluster this year.

Back in Ceph Hammer days, I had a 6-node cluster lose 3 nodes, one node at a time, over a course of a couple of days with zero downtime.

We deploy with Ansible, and have our own, very paranoid and opinionated playbook for doing a rolling cluster reboot or restart, that checks multiple things before moving on to the next node.
PaX's implementation of W^X (MPROTECT) is stricter - you can disallow any attempt to introduce new executable code, including writing to memory first and giving it executable status later.
Court rules grocery store’s inaccessible website isn’t an ADA violation
> Gottfried Leibniz suffered no small amount of flak for his conclusion that the reason the world looks the way it does is because it's already "the best of all possible worlds": you may think you see an improvement, but you lack divine understanding and therefore you don't see how it would actually make things worse.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_ain't_no_such_thing_as...
I remembered this quote from Grady Booch, at 13:00 in this video:

https://youtu.be/adiVOdztQ34

"These software artifacts we produce, are perhaps some of the most complex humans have ever created."
Yes? I did understand that - you were saying that being broke can lead one to do and think things that they'd normally consider crazy or irrational.

Are you thinking that I understood your statement to mean that being broke would permanently turn you into a loony? Maybe I generally consider "crazy" to be a temporary state or state of mind that anyone can get into or out of, and you generally consider "crazy" to be a permanent fixture of personality, dividing society into hard lines of people that are either "crazy" or "not-crazy"?
Like Matrix?
Did you watch and understand it? This presentation is nothing but a highly one-sided and subjective talk, which gladly bends the truth or leaves out crucial details to get a good laugh from the audience.

Take the whole part about "X terrible IPC" and slow startup time as an example. It's portrayed as if slow startup time is an inherent flaw of X due to blocking IPC calls. However he forgot to mention, that non-blocking calls had been there for years and big projects like Qt were using them exclusively instead of the blocking Xlib calls. Then he goes on to say that Chromium's startup time is so slow because at minimum it waits half a second for replies from the X server. So let's get some current numbers on a T420s for starting up Chromium and immediately closing it:

Weston + Chromium (Wayland mode): 731.3 ms ± 39.4 ms
Sway + Chromium (Wayland mode): 688.2 ms ± 22.7 ms
Sway + Chromium (XWayland): 667.2 ms ± 16.6 ms
X.org + i3 + Chromium: 661.3ms ± 17.2 ms

I was actually surprised to see how little difference there is, if there's any at all.

So either his numbers don't apply anymore and X.org is not a bottleneck anymore, or Wayland became a similar bottleneck, or his numbers never made sense in the first place, especially since he never bechmarked the Wayland part.

Edit: On GNOME Shell Chromium also starts slightly faster with X.org with 0.6 - 0.7s and > 0.7s in Wayland mode.

*updated benchmark results with the actual results from hyperfine (10 runs each)
Right now, that's not really the case though, as the satellite interlinks aren't operational yet. All your traffic goes through a base station relatively close to you, and continues over "regular" fiber around the world.
> I think defaulting to removing the days in 1752 is rather Anglo-centric.

The utility does use the locale. Since most people here probably have their locale set to en-US (or maybe en-GB/en-CA/etc.), they get the English conversion date. If you were to switch the locale to fr or es, you'd get the 1582 cutoff date. If you were to switch it to sv, you'd get Sweden's conversion date.
Things like containers, chroots, and UML only provide isolation to things that play nicely. Often all three are pretty easy to escape if you want to.
These types of articles give me the creeps. It’s fashionable now to dox people as long as they’re on the outside, presuming you can use enough “labels” to justify it, such as “nazi” etc.

American politics is now one big tribal crap show.
Did you know you can put a whole game inside of a push notification
The question is it it's checking "if(person.sex != male) { person.likes_cars = false }".
Thanks for this - I'm guilty of using prints when I'm debugging airflow scripts since I can't execute + debug locally.
Can fiber rollout actually be stalled even more?

But on a more serious note, with fiber you can supply a whole street with symmetric gigabit links pretty easily and for what is pretty much a one-time cost of laying the fibers. Upgrading the line to 25 GBit and up is done by only switching the receivers, once that becomes economically viable. Even if the satellites can handle multiple hundred gigabits (they can't), it would be impossible for them to compete with fiber in either bandwidth, price or latency.
As a small company, can you go to one of these patent trolls for protection? Maybe make a deal while you are still small and the fees are manageable. Go to them and say... "This is what we do. Do you have patents to protect us from lawsuits?"
Never! And Linux will go out of fashion soon anyway, as is the norm in IT.
This is why tracking is a problem that can only be solved at the legal level. Ultimately there's no reliable way for a machine to detect tracking given that any information collected for tracking can also be used for legitimate purposes.
That worked back then. Ten years ago, browsers were, compared to today, ridiculously simple and thus could easily be replaced. I wouldn't be surprised if today's Chrome had more LoC than Linux in 2010.

Also, the mobile platform might be a good indicator of what ordinary people are willing to put up with. Chrome doesn't support extensions there, so everybody and their uncle is browsing the web with the full ad experience. I've never seen a non-tech savvy person use Firefox, or just anything but chrome (or the system browser), on an Android device, which easily allows to install uBO. Yet on the desktop somehow even those people somehow learned to install uBO or ABP. It appears that "apparently you cannot do this on your phone" is an acceptable answer to most people.
The thing about graphical interfaces is that a lot of the lack of standardization is purely cosmetic. A context menu may have rounded corners, or a black background and so on but the user doesn't have worry about these differences.

Cosmetic differences in CLI applications are actually important to get them to work in the first place. dash vs double dash, equals sign or no equals sign. CLI parsing is completely nonstandardized. Each command reinvents parsing and is completely unpredictable.

The only way you could possibly solve this is by letting the shell parse CLI arguments and just pass them as a JSON like object to the application. The ship for that has sailed a long time ago.
Do they support free speech? Do they support your right to peaceably assemble?

Just another American tribe that sees itself as some sort of savior to the oppressed and who thinks their end justify their means.

2021 America craves the proud boys and antifa.
Would setting up 60 Starlink satellites in a line to transmit between the two help?
I was on a project where we used Agile. The team genuinely wanted to improve itself over time and we didn't have hard due dates. The thing was done when it was done.

Despite that, something felt really off. Requirements and scope kept popping out of nowhere. We tried moving onto something new yet requirements kept popping up from things we didn't consider.

The project was somewhat of a legacy refactor so it was easy to say "just redo X in system Y" but for some reason it didn't work out that way. I think this project could have used some the old waterfall paradigm where you did a lot of the requirements analysis up front.

Sure, you're not going to capture everything, but in this case I think it would have helped everyone involved if there was more foresight put into it up front instead of continually bumping things into the night and making stories for it.
> 5) this result: https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traff... . While it was from 2019 so needs to be updated, but upon first-run I was shocked at the results for FF here.

The article states:
"Firefox remains one of the chattiest browsers during a first run. At 117 requests, it lead the pack with individual requests. It should be noted, however, that this isn’t the browser itself making all of these calls, but another page that is present during startup."

So it seems that the initial page is the thing making most of the network calls, and not the browser itself. Wouldn't this mean that we can simply disable the wi-fi/internet temporarily to load the browser initially, closing unnecessary tabs, and customizing it as we needed?

In general, this seems like a good practice for opening up apps in general, even though it's a minor inconvenience and we theoretically shouldn't have to do this. Anyway, I don't mind the telemetry if it will help and not be used against us.
Hedy – A Gradual Programming Language
> What is "door"?

A meeting room or a phone booth generally has a door :-)
تحميل تطبيق Adguard VPN لفتح المواقع والتطبيقات المحظورة رابط مباشر
Have you tried other shells like csh or tcsh?
> were
Curious about Ceph, what feature are you using it for? Would it make sense to serve big number of websites, stored on 20 servers, using single Ceph filesystem with some SSD cache? Or am I better off having just 20 independent servers?
I read that as "future versions of the antenna will be much improved", in price and performance.

I know Moore's Law is being repealed, but that's still how new types of electronics work, right?
I think you're listening to what they say they they do as opposed to what they actually do.

The Proud Boys have been declared a terrorist organization by the Canadian government.

This was specifically based on their role in organizing and planning for violence at at the Washington DC insurrection.

No matter what your feelings are about the Canadian government, that isn't something they'd do lightly.

While the prod boys official line "we just show up fight anti-fascists" is belied by their actions like "planning and participation in an attempt to violently overthrow the us government"

edit: Here's a reference for the claim WRT being declared an actual terrorist org https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2021/02/03/canada-...
6800XT are supported in the latest Kernet but 6700XT are, unfortunately, not.
No, I haven't.

My point on the other hand is that all that flapping in the fly.io article is too complex and completely unnecessary because that problem can be solved with a better, simpler solution which has existed far longer.
Measuring human capital: Learning matters more than schooling
Mental note: if I every go to Turkey, never go beyond the speed limit.
I use 4G as my primary Internet connection in Oslo, Norway. The apartment block where I live has a 100 years old copper line and DSL gives like 10 MBit/s with 100ms ping.

For about 90 USD/month one can get 60 MBit/s connection l both ways with ping bellow 20s. The connection is only throttled after 2 TB of data. But then you need a router and an antenna.

Or one can pay like 15 USD/month extra to upgrade the mobile subscription with 10 MBit/s connection and the throttling limit of 1TB. The ping is about 30.
I disagree because everything on antenna, cable, satellite television or radio is similarly “free” unless it is locked somehow (e.g. cable or satellite programming packages, pay-per-view television, different radio technology like SiriusXM, etc.).
Congrats on 1.0!

I recently started developing a game in my spare time, and discovered Ink, which has tremendously simplified development of conversations and managing conversational state.

I've found Ink to be quite flexible, If someone wanted to, they could manage their entire game state with Ink.

Live recompilation of my ink script in Unity will be very helpful!
It could also mean less retransmission, depending on how the MAC works. That would lower the average latency.
Fascinating, thank you! I hadn't thought of that, but that's the kind of audacious (even outrageous) thing that while extremely unlikely to happen, it could. I like the way you think!
I know that you're "just asking"[1] in bad faith, but just in case someone is mislead by your comment: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/grou....

From that link: In early February 2021, the Canadian government designated the Proud Boys as a terrorist entity, citing the role the group played in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

They are not only "far-right", but also "neo-fascist, chauvinist, and exclusively male white nationalist", as the Wikipedia entry begins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys.

[1]https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
> Because the people thought the government was trying to cheat them out of 11 days of their lives, there were riots in villages.

The following article goes into more detail on this point:

https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-calendar-riots-of-1752...

Edit: It sounds like it's disputed whether or not these riots actually happened.
I am not certain about this either. My experience has been that the newer posts on the new tab are frequently more interesting than the posts on the leaderboard.
What are the methods available today to determine if received vaccine are legit?

From the text of the article I've got the impression that instructions itself received with different batches (and by different parties) differ. But how country officials can check that vaccine they received is the one that they bought, short of starting using it and tracking the result.
True. But what if the virus was enhanced in a lab and then escaped? The enhancers and the guards would be liable.
Right? One guy bombing a datacenter isn't going to take down 70% of the internet. The headline is a baldfaced lie.
> A lot of people who I knew as sympathetic and calm before they took management roles turned into something I could code in one minute: namely a program that asks "how much is this going to take?" and if your answer is above N hours/days then they say "no, we're not doing it". And that's not because they are stupid or suddenly non-sympathetic. It's because their bosses optimize for those metrics and measure them (and their salary, and their bonuses, and even their vacation days) by the same metrics.

I had this exact same thought recently when reflecting on my behavior in my new role as a "technical product owner". All of it was reflexive, as if I suddenly forgot all of the software engineering knowledge I accumulated over the years and became a deadline-driven cog.

I don't have a solution yet; I think it comes down to that I don't yet speak the same language that people I report to do, and thus I feel like I can't defend my position well enough. It comes with experience, I guess!
This info is solely based on podcasts focused on legally matters but I think it is very common for the FBI to stop by someone's home and have a talk with them about how thier online rhetoric and personal associations have put them on a list of people that they are keeping thier eye on. For many people, this is enough to convince them it's time to cool thier jets (again, this is my impression as a layman).

I think this happens far more often than "he has a barn full of fertilizer and diesel and now he's calling rental places to reserve a big panel truck so let's shut it down"...
And Jeff introduced a new character: Flannel Shirt Jeff! He's the one who does outdoor work.
It does. Kind of. For invalid URLs.
I can push 1Gpbs everywhere on the local net. I can pull 265Mbps and push 12Mbps from/to the internet, limited by the 250/10Mbps internet plan I bought.
There are plenty of electronic devices that are still valuable as a discrete object instead of an app that requires navigating your smartphone's ui to use (obviously).

The article gives one specific reason: "I've walked several miles in weather cold enough to become frost bitten in minutes, and I can't aford to take my gloves off to operate a touch screen."

The article mentions GPS specifically as not an important part of a smart cane. Other features need to be easier to access, or more dependable than a phone which might die because of all the other things draining its battery.
I wonder if you can schedule changes to this.
Our perceptions of some of the things we experience are deeply inaccurate
Multiple sclerosis is so depressing and formidable as a malady that medical science avoids it. One of the front line treatments is an elementary drug for psoriasis developed in the 1930s. At cost it's 4$/kg and from biogen 300$ a capsule.
When the police look like military, the people will look like the enemy.
When I read such articles I imagine SpaceX dropping their own rover in a few years that will autonomously drive around and gather more data in 30 days than NASA had in 30 years.

However, it will also manage to get stuck/kill itself within the 30 days ;-)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokkali_Rice

There are some rice varieties which can tolerate salinity , but not upto sea water levels.
The recent HN article about how our brains prefer additive solutions vs the subtractive also seems to point in the direction of ever increasing complexity.

Maybe the field of software can really mature only when looking for subtractive solutions become part of the computing culture.
And it has 2 motors for dynamic aiming
For your typical scaling org, I think data layers are often the main issue. Moving from a single postgres/mysql primary to something that isn't that represents the biggest hurdle.

Some companies are "lucky" and have either natural sharding keys for their primary business line, are an easily cacheable product, or can just scale reads on replicas. Others aren't, and that's where things get complicated.
> 40ms using satellites?

Starlink sats are low earth orbiting (about 250 miles away). The really high latency sats that people used to use were geosynchronous sats that are parked about 30,000 miles away, and the round trip delay between earth, bird, earth.
Is it scope creep or a change in problem domain?
Kaczynski is real, but time traveler Kaczynski is not. The radical environmentalists Im familiar with are focused on protecting forests, or (the more ambitious ones) want to destroy power infrastructure. Blowing up data centers would be kind of a half measure for e.g. the deep green resistance crowd - if you’re willing to die for it, might as well go for the throat

For a taste of unironic communism in 2021: https://www.pslweb.org/ Some good people, some bad people, all in the throes of some pretty terrible ideology. shrug

To be clear, not endorsing any of these ideological positions, just happen to be familiar with them owing to a misspent youth.
If you own a Mac, you can find the SQLite database of your messages at ~/Library/Messages/chat.db. Back it up regularly. If using a terminal, be sure to grant it Full Disk Access.
The difference between what mainstream agile is and what the original authors of the agile manifesto were trying to achieve is vast.

This talk from one of the authors is an amazing rebuttal of what agile has become and clarification of what it is supposed to be https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M
I have difficulties understanding why everyone's using Chrome-based browsers, when it's obvious how bad they are for privacy.
This article is extremely sensationalist.

Facebook pretty blatantly advertises based on interest. If a job ad for nurses were placed in a nursing magazine, it would be seen largely by women. That's because nurses are largely women, not because magazines are excluding men.

If you start from the fantasy position that women and men are the same, reality is going to seem extremely biased, I supposed.
You might want to experiment with Powershell. It runs on Linux.

You might not adopt it, but it can give perspective on the pros and cons that comes with Bash.
I may be wrong, but I believe there were some FBI files declassified about the event +/- a few years
I left off the next sentence specifically because it’s pure speculation on the point of the author who seems to have zero inside knowledge.