skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, so does this mean FreeBSD will work better on a raspberry pi without having to hack on your config files just to get it to recognize all available RAM? I’ve got FreeBSD running on a rpi4—took some doing. It would be nice to just slap an image on it and have it work.
> Tie your social status into it.

Good advice, thanks :).
Yes, grew up in Stuttgart but my parents are from the Berlin area so I didn't speak Swabian.
That's super cool!

What kind of algorithm is used to ensure different scans of the same picture return the same hash? At first glance it seems like a hard problem.
Well, then that company can expect to continue seeing middle fingers :)

Intel and AMD, the arch-rivals they are, coexist and collaborate on the kernel stack and Mesa. Even embedded companies join in (see Broadcom hiring Eric Anholt to make V3D a thing for the RPi4, even Qualcomm vaguely supporting Freedreno and Arm starting to show some kind of interest in Panfrost IIRC). Microsoft is in for virtualization and GL-on-D3D.

None of these vendors "owe anybody anything" yet they've joined the party. Turns out sharing is beneficial for everyone.
FWIU, DHS has funded [1] development of e.g W3C DID Decentralized Identifiers [2] and W3C Verifiable Credentials [3]:

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aw3.org+%22funded+by+t...

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

[3] https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/

Additional notes regarding credentials (certificates, badges, degrees, honorarial degrees, then-evaluated competencies) and capabilities models: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19813340

westurner/blockchain-credential-resources.md: https://gist.github.com/westurner/4345987bb29fca700f52163c33...

Value storage and transmission networks have developed standards and implementations for identity, authentication, and authorization. ILP (Interledger Protocol) RFC 15 specifies "ILP addresses" for [crypto] ledger account IDs: https://interledger.org/rfcs/0015-ilp-addresses/

From "Verifiable Credentials Use Cases" https://w3c.github.io/vc-use-cases/ :

> A verifiable claim is a qualification, achievement, quality, or piece of information about an entity's background such as a name, government ID, payment provider, home address, or university degree. Such a claim describes a quality or qualities, property or properties of an entity which establish its existence and uniqueness. The use cases outlined here are provided in order to make progress toward possible future standardization and interoperability of both low- and high-stakes claims with the goals of storing, transmitting, and receiving digitally verifiable proof of attributes such as qualifications and achievements. The use cases in this document focus on concrete scenarios that the technology defined by the group should address.

FWIU, the US Department of Education is studying or already working with https://blockcerts.org/ for educational credentials.

Here are the open sources of
blockchain-certificates/cert-issuer and blockchain-certificates/cert-verifier-js:
https://github.com/blockchain-certificates

Might a natural-born resident get a government ID card for passing a recycling and environmental sustainability quiz.
I keep chrome installed as a backup because some sites are just plain broken. But 99.9% of my browsing works fine, and so I've made FF my default browser on both personal and work machines, and have not looked back.

Chrome is just too hostile to its users. Between incognito mode tracking users around the web, this extension/API hoo-hah, among other things, I'm just not excited about it as a browser anymore.

You did a lot for us, Chrome, but it's time to loosen your grip on the browser market.
I ate Brandt Zwieback as a kid in Swabia, I even looked a little like the kid on the box!
Emailchemy looks like a pretty useful tool. I'll take a look!
I agree, but they stopped making them 25 years ago. This company is taking advantage of legacy laws. You couldn't replicate this business model today because it's already been outlawed.
Nice, never thought to try that. Makes sense though. Thanks!
What? I had to ubsubscribe that joke of a subreddit. It's full of dumb American politics, literally 'research proves gop votes are more likely poorer than..". Day in and out.

That whole place is as much as to do with science than your FB mum group.
There's very little serous discussion going on.
As a teen I liked republicans for some reason. Then I rallied around team blue for a while, now in my mid 30s I am calling for a violent global revolution against the billionaires, before they get a chance to establish mars/moon colonies.

I'm doing it Benjamin Button style I guess.
> File's Drop implementation ignores the return code of fclose()

Yeah, and it bothers me that I can't call `close` and check for errors. All you need is something like this:

pub fn close(self) -> io::Result<()> {
let status = unsafe { libc::close(self.fd) };
mem::forget(self); // prevent drop and invalid double-close
match status {
0 => Ok(()),
_ => Err(io::Error::new(ErrorKind::Other)),
}
}

Note that this function takes `self` not `&mut self`, so it consumes the resource and prevents further use. Then `mem::forget` prevents `drop` from running.

See discussion at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/59567
> logical pixels backed by 2x/3x/… the physical pixels.

This is not fractional scaling. Fractional scaling has to be done by the application itself (even on Wayland).

> That's a driver-specific hack

It is not a hack. It is a solution and a very good one because DDX drivers can make use of vendor specific 2D acceleration and therefore achieve much better latency with the tearfree option on X11 than Wayland ever will where everything runs through the 3D pipeline by default.

> Any composited X11 desktop is slower than a Wayland one

If you enable Tearfree you don't need a compositor if the driver works properly. Of course X11 compositors with fancy blur effects have bad performance. I always turn them off.

> Go back to Windows 95 if you think that's acceptable :)

Why don't you switch to Android? Android already does everything that Wayland fans want and better.

> I'm sure pretty much all production Wayland compositors use the cursor layer.

I get severe mouse stuttering on high CPU or GPU load. A problem that was solved on X11 20 years ago. I have no idea what wlroots really does but it does it definitely wrong.

> Go back to Windows 95 if you think that's acceptable :)

The value of X11 is the ecosystem and platform it provides. If you want Linux with a compositor switch to Android. There you also have your sandboxing and whatnot. Don't turn the Linux Desktop into a Phone OS. As Desktop OS I genuinely prefer Windows 95 over Android.

> Apple computers didn't show imperfect frames since the early early 2000s PowerPC era.

Ever used OS X on those? They are barely usable because of severe lag and stuttering. But yeah the frames were so perfect that most people decided to switch back to MacOS 9 to do real work.
They said they're on iOS, where you can only use WebKit, and therefore extensions like uBO are not possible.
Yeah Nerves is an Elixir-based framework that targets IOT devices: https://nerves-project.org/

It's really neat.
It’s not that hard to understand...
Wayland is a protocol. If you have a few badly implemented browsers, is the web protocol bad?

Also, it is questionable at best to state that Wayland compositors doesn’t work. Gnome is quite stable and with pipewire everything just works. Sway is similarly a stable software.
The thing about Trump's tariffs is the rhetoric didn't match the way it was actually used (to the extent there was a strategy at all, it seemed like moving production from China to other low-wage countries was a bigger priority than protecting pay and working conditions in the US).
Every so often a patent troll story comes up on HN, and people like me bitch about how broken the system is and get group therapy from shouting into the wind on a web forum.

What can we actually do. How do we start fixing this problem?
Thanks! I’m glad you like it; at the time I didn’t think it was a big deal but it’s probably one of the most widely-read things I’ve written... (Tiny nit: I am not on the community team. I am on the core team though.)
Very cool. I was grumbling about the absence of a straightforward .PDF download, but there actually is one, if you click on the "Impression ou telechargement du fichieres" (sp?) button at the bottom of the online viewer window.

It's relatively large (336 MB), though, and much of the content is text that looks like it was handwritten in Elvish. The image of the title page shown at the openculture.com link has been color-corrected nicely, so the actual document looks significantly duller in comparison.
consider: 3d game engine + all gameplay constrained to a single plane + simple objects with entirely black faces and some kind of polygon edge glow effect.
Tax farming did for royalty in France. I wonder if patent farming can do anything similar for society.
I mean it depends on the job... you are not going to outcompete textile workers in South or Southeast Asia.
Its often more complicated than that.

I worked on a team that interfaced directly with the semi-technical "Customer Account Managers" who did the technical setup for customers on our system. The system itself was pretty old, written by people who no longer worked at the company. There are often a number of things that are wrong with the system or don't scale, and every week there is a new issue that would bring down the system.

Without the right manager/PM, other teams would constantly blame my team for fucking up. But every time we tried to work on things that would improve system behavior, a new feature would take priority, or some other thing would blow up requiring the entire teams focus to fix it.

So even though we wanted to fix things, we were in this state where we couldn't put out fires long enough to fix the fundamental problems with the system.
That is a valid consideration; it can use the URL to override the Accept-Language header (and the document can also include links for other languages, if appropriate). Likewise, the URL can also be used to override the Accept header.
Lawsuit: Virginia police officers threatened man during stop
It even works well on firefox android which is arguably more important though I am not sure about that products future after the complete rewrite.
50% FBI 50% ATF
If you don't know about "workflow engines BPMN" you should search and read up on it. That's pretty much what you are building with your UI + AWS Step Functions. Might be a solution that already does all of that
Government employment and construction (buoyed by frequent government spending on infrastructure) are also major sources of employment outside the Tokyo metro area. Osaka and Kyoto also have fairly decent numbers of jobs, I think.
Maybe I'm misreading the criminal complaint but it seems like he says something like "If I had cancer I'd drive a truck into their data center and blow it up" and the FBI informants encouraged him and offered the bombs.
Their business model is not broken. Not yet. With hardware unlocking software like vgpu_unlock, we can break it.
This is interesting - I read that statement exactly like the person who made the post that you just responded to, and thought it to be the clearly obvious interpretation.

I would consider someone that has their rationality stripped (or "greatly hindered") to be irrational. I think "irrational" is a bit more passive than "crazy", but I would personally read those as mostly synonymous.

I wonder why we interpret the same sentence so differently - we may be reading between the lines in very different ways - like the "blue&black / gold&white" dress.
these are called workflow engines, BPMN.
My Vim Notes Setup
Even worse, it isn't even patched now, and now the bad guys are aware this exists, even if they don't know exactly how yet. And no reason to keep it quiet if they do figure it out - exploit away as long as you can cause they know it is going to be fixed relatively quickly.
Those manufacturing jobs that used to be in the town were non union as well.
The origin is interesting but hardly conclusive in stopping the next pandemic, which is only a matter of time anyway.

Instead, the significant economic and health costs could have been significantly mitigated by the response of governments. That’s going to be more important for preventing harm in the next pandemic. Even if it was a lab escape, how does shutting down the labs help for the future? They are also a defence against the next pandemic
Source?

As far as I know, the government may have tried, but the scientists themselves were not down with it.

This sort of culture of the openness of science is why the Chinese government distrusts scientists inherently. And also why Shi Zhengli has maintained an extremely consistent story with the pandemic despite the government's changing its story like 3 times. Also why they've since silenced her. They don't trust their own citizens, and definitely not their own scientists.
If the last patient had an infectious disease then yes, no mask is much better than a mask.

Breathing on me > contaminated infectious rag in the O.R.
Gimp is getting better tho.
Because slapping “white supremacy“ on something is more guaranteed to generate clicks. The news is not about discussion and information anymore, it’s about keeping the clicks going, and nothing drives the masses more than feeding into what they already believe.
What Is the Root of Evil?
Ugly: Yes

Wix: Yes

Book: Free

So not _too_ much peddling, at least.
Amazon warehouse workers have full health insurance.
I might agree in principle, but the results are objectively worse for developers and users.

They should have taken the time to make a new generation of SQL with improved syntax and ergonomics. Instead, we got something that requires complex boilerplate to do simple things with gaping flaws and almost completely devoid of features (all of this while still being built on top of sqlite).
I'm familiar with the experience - not directly from ADHD, but from my own issues. Trying desperately to keep on top of things, running as fast as you can just to stay in the same place. I'm not saying that "ADHD is easy, just don't be lazy lol", but that you may still be able to do a little better than yesterday if you practice the right skills. I'm in no position to hold someone with ADHD to baseline standards, but I would encourage anyone to just try to be a little better than yesterday, every day.

There's also an awful lot of people, as the parent said, who don't have ADHD but still struggle with {focus, attention, willpower} from just not having used it. Those people should definitely be trying to focus harder and shouldn't be led down the path of "focus is innate/unchangeable".
The anti web app people don't like the inconsistency either, everything except basic HTML rendering and form submission should require a permission prompt.
Without divulging details, a riffle force has zero risk and can be easily mastered in a day.

The exact mechanics of a force are the point of the post. Also given your handle, I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or not.
Take a look at what the guys from Tartine in San Franscisco or Ken's Artisan Bakery in Portland are doing, lots of interesting grains, natural fermentation, etc. Here's an example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1452114307/ref=redir_mobile_deskto...

I'm not sure about rye, I think 100% rye might be a flavor lots of people don't like, so it's usually mixed in with wheat. Sourdough is everywhere here, although I have to admit a lot of it tastes too sour for me.

The other thing I suspect is happening is that the German guild system keeps experimenters from trying out new and unusual things since it's hard to even open a bakery without going through all the proper training. Here in the US the quality is much more variable but any hipster with a new idea can try out if people will like their products.
Wasn’t the 3c509 the cheap one that offloaded processing to the cpu?

One of my first professional IT gigs was helping with a big rollout of HP desktops. We had a lot of problems because of these cards and bay network hub/switches that were mutually incompatible for auto detect.

The other fun part of that gig was the VAR upgraded memory on devices, and that generation of HP was very finicky about certain memory specs.

Good times in retrospect!
Nice, but still one worry: A bug, or an attacker, sends outbound traffic through the roof, and newbie's fun experiment ends in a huge bill. More than one such story on HN recently (AWS).

Skimming the pricing docs just now, I don't see protection against bandwidth overage:

https://fly.io/docs/about/
Oh man I was expecting a much higher difference.
Something to consider:

737 MAX crash rate is 3.08 per million.

Vs 0.1 for the other 737 models, so it's about 30X less safe.

http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm
Dream – Tidy Web Framework for OCaml and ReasonML
There are legitimate studies that demonstrate that masks combined with proper mask usage is at least somewhat effective at preventing disease transmission.

See some of my previous posts for those.
It's absolutely mainstream on all sides to try to silence people you disagree with, and it always has been. Republicans tried to silence Nike and the NFL over Colin Kaepernick, Democrats tried to silence companies for doing business with the apartheid regime in South Africa, Republicans are trying to silence Coke and Delta for their support of voting rights, civil rights era people tried to silence racist bus companies, evangelicals are constantly trying to silence all manner of businesses all the time. It's a long-standing American tradition at this point.
Can't tell if you are being sarcastic.
DMX had issues, but he was a talented performer who produced art (music) that was relevent to many in the age group who read HN.
If that isn't you and therefore you don't understand it, you are free to not click or comment.
Think carefully about who you vote for. Get involved in the process- like anything unless you actually really care and have the means or can turn it into your means most likely you will move onto something else...
So Google said, "lets just include SQLite" and Mozilla pushed back and said that isn't a spec. Which is correct.

Who does the work?
I think I am and simultaneously am not a quantum software engineer
I would wager the other factor favoring manufacturing jobs is that in warehouse work, the injuries tend to be less likely to attract OSHA attention.

People being carried out of a factory missing a limb are more noticeable than people who stop coming to work because their backs simply can’t sustain the work any longer.
SOAX – Data scrapping made easy with soax-com
I can see it cut both ways.

I won’t argue that my way is the only correct way because I’m certain it’s not.

Something I didn’t make clear in the very brief description I gave was that, yes, capturing context of what was there is important.

That said - the two projects I worked in where we did this were filled with bad bugs (a separate and problematic issue).

Nothing really replaces spending time with users. That’s what I tend to opt for - figuring out what sucks in their experience and iterate on that.
Also, solid.js
Yes absolutly. There is evidence that masks do work if combined with proper usage.

The evidence shows that changing masks frequently combined with using medical grade material is effective.

The current mask recommendations for the USA though... is folk science akin to using leeches or trepanation.

And no one demands any scientific rigour they just follow along blindly trusting whoever is on the T.V.
Isn’t his podcast still free? I already have a paid account so I honestly don’t know.
Unfortunately, we probably will never know because we can't perform any credible investigation. China will never allow that.
Me too, I love the blog, but I don't think I've seen any writer more consistently reach the front page. Feels like some sort of hack (I am not insulating any type of unfair play here.)
You need to keep logging in
I would agree but then there's always that other American that says "Americans overdo it, try my bread made from only three ingredients."

As to pizza: American pizza is a totally different thing, good but not like Italian. However, you can find Italian style pizza like you describe in most US cities now, often made with imported mozzarella and tomatoes.

"Clean Label" is actually a massive trend now in food production because people are being told that fewer ingredients are better and if you can't pronounce it it's probably bad for you."
He wrote Tricks of the Mind and that was a great book. One piece that has stuck with me for ~15 years now is the 20 word series that I can recite forward or backward after spending 5 minutes visualizing them in a "linked list". For example, telephone - sausage - monkey. Vividly imagine dialing a payphone with a sausage. Next up, sausage monkey. Vividly, using all your senses imagine a monkey flinging sausages to the point of absurdity where he's swimming through sausages.

You just created a mental linked list that you can traverse from either direction, and that you'll remember for as long as you want to. Push it to the extremes, build up your method of loci to arbitrary lengths, build your memory palaces and become Hannibal Lecter.
Thanks, I am saving this quote to motivate myself :)
Yes, you don't do a postmortem after an incident?

It's just so strange that people are parading around saying "so what?".

We don't want to learn from a mistake?
what's your suggestion? total elimination? how does that help people? changes to correct issues? what changes?
If a new account can never used to establish your identity for other purposes, there's no problem opening such an account without government identifying you.
I've wondered that too.

How can we realistically boycott the companies that abuse patents? I suppose I could stop using Apple products, but most current software jobs require some form of smartphone for authentication, so I need an iPhone or Android phone, thus supporting Google or Samsung or LG or one of the other big megacorps that abuse the American patent system.

I feel like the only thing that could conceivably happen is to fight fire with fire, and start suing these companies and challenging these patents to a point where it's so expensive for them that they lobby congress to regulate it better. Even still, I have doubts that that would even work, since it's still probably more profitable for them to keep all their ridiculous patents than the loss in legal fees.
> None of it changes the fact that Wayland was either intentionally or unintentionally designed to exclude extremely common software use cases

The wayland protocol is multi-layered, with the core being deliberately only used for displaying content in recrangles properly. That’s it.
But it also allows for querying the capabilities of the compositor with versioning, making extensions possible. There was a recent Show HN submission with this site: https://wayland.app/protocols/

The not-yet-core extensions doesn’t create fragmentation, actually there is a decent cooperation behind the 3-4 major compositor “backends” on everything, and ultimately they all settle on the same thing. Also, it’s a bit generous to say that fragmentation is somehow the fault of Wayland, when it has always been a problem in linux desktops.

Also, why do you think adding screen recording into wayland would have been great? It is a complex problem with audio syncing, not-necessarily display-related programs accessing streams and the like, so it seems relevant only on a surface level. Pipewire is the good layer to handle it. And prebaking some API without pipewire being ready would have been just stupid. It is/will be supported everywhere (there is a portal frontend already for gnome, sway and I believe plasma as well).
Gotta stay ionized.