skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. I go through pain stalling detail to automate my laptop via Ansible. Spent many many weekends wasting time on small details that most people would not even bother to think about let alone burn hours working on it... but now, I have an environment that I can appreciate as magic. Although in the only person who sees the reveal, I’m happy that I get to be my own magician
And if for some reason you still really really want it to look more like a button, there's no need for a wrapper div. For example:

a {
display: inline-block;
padding: 4px;
background: lightgray;
border: 2px outset lightgray;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
border: 2px inset lightgray;
}
AFAIU 3com turned it around later, with their 100base-t card (3c95x??) generally being well regarded.

Back as a student when I moved into the dorms which had 100base-T, I did some googling (or maybe it was altavista'ing in those days, I can't remember) and it seemed the best regarded 100base-t cards for Linux were the Intel one and the 3com one. The 3com one was slightly cheaper at the local computer shop, so I got one of those.

(Somewhat later on there was a flood of very cheap DEC Tulip clones, and I got one of those too. Was happy with that one as well.)
XACE is basically an extension of SELinux into userspace for X11. Given that today Fedora/RHEL are the only distros that enable SELinux out of the box, such an approach would have been doomed to failure (or doomed to provide a product differentiator for RHEL in the best case) - not to mention the sheer joy and excitement that debugging SELinux AVC denials would produce for end users and desktop application developers.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/XDevConf/x-security-wal...

(Wayland's "buffer exchange and update models" won't provide security on their own without any improvement on the input side)
The Big Linux Gaming Survey Q2 2021
I do this too and it's amazing.

I also import common packages and classes that I use regularly, such as numpy, os, math, collections...
Just write your code with a decent seperation between your logic and vendor specific things.

Then if expressif can't deliver, it won't be too much work to switch platforms, especially if you're switching to a more capable platform.

Sure, you'll probably have to respin the PCB and spend a week of late nights porting software, but that's probably still comes out cheaper considering the low probability of expressif chips being unavailable.
There are plenty of other components in a bike besides the drivetrain where shimano doesn't dominate at all (frame, fork, shock, wheels, tyres, brakes, dropper posts, ...).
On MTBs SRAM has bigger market share even in the drivetrain compartment.
I would argue this is predicated on others not knowing your doing on the days leading to the delivery of the result.

This is fine for a magic trick, but I think the work example may be more difficult to realise if there is accountability. It'd be magic if you can deliver an extraordinary value per time unit spent.

I also think there is challenge and beauty in completing something which you consider tedious. There is opportunity for exercising self-restraint and speed of delivery.
Don't be sorry friend. You are correct and I hear your frustration, and while we're at it most SaaS is just as vile as advertising. I fear that this is the inevitable conclusion of unfettered capitalism and perhaps individual refusal to participate is one of the few ways we can begin to turn the helm on a world that worships unfettered greed.
Nit: subjects of harassment complaints
should really be "object of harassment complaints".

The subject would be the complainer (who), the object would be the harasser (whom).

Good that they got the headline right and the link to the source, just the first paragraph written by the Verge is misleading.
That makes sense. I am just scared if it will be enough if some people only avoid stuff and thus I wonder if there is more we can do. Something that has no natural limit. Something where we can always do a little more. In the end, there is just so much you can avoid.

I think that we can come up with active actions that will not interfere with the environment or where we are very certain that there won't be (net) negative effects.
An example might be convincing your loved ones to also avoid stuff. This is an action that does not manipulate the environment but it's something where we can do more of.

Other actions might be:

- donating money to organisations that have shown to be efficient at convincing others to avoid more. Not sure if something like this exists
- signing a petition for a carbon tax. So far, I have never seen that as well in Germany
- reading books on the topic to be more knowledgable when discussions arise
- discuss climate change with people in your life

What do you think?
> 6 minutes read.

Here is a browser extension idea: inject this disclaimer into the article by estimating it from the length. How can we achieve this without the ugly

Access your data for all websites
Access browser tabs

permissions?
I don't know if this is one we can buy our way out of. Not buying, seafood in particular, seems to be the most obvious solution at this stage. At least until more sustainable practices are more widespread and stocks have restored.

Plant based food companies are probably stocks to watch in coming years.
Rather meandering and over-verbose, this post never really seems to reach its point.
Programming language does not matter
Just because the patent system has some problems doesn’t mean it doesn’t have any value. These troll patents might contain a high number of ideas you might just casually come up with, but the actually valuable ones tend to be comprised of innovative ideas that usually require significant R&D investment to come up with. Without patents there’s very little incentive to invest in coming up with those ideas. A lot of the time the people who come up with the patent have no intention or capability to bring products to market, so unless you want 100% of research to be completely controlled by commercial interests, you probably want to have patents.

You’re also ignoring what the patent is actually awarded for. The temporary monopoly is awarded in return for publicly disclosing your invention. Without patents you’d expect almost all commercial innovation to center around ideas that can be kept a trade secret, and to have a lot more budget devoted to protecting trade secrets. It would essentially be the exact opposite of what I expect you’d want to happen.
I can say, that is not true for me :-/

Since a few weeks I use two 4k displays with my work laptop running Windows 10 and I with 4k it seems that Chrome is quite a bit faster than Firefox on Windows. With the FullHD resolution I used before I never noticed a huge performance difference. I don't know what causes it and on my private PC (different hardware) running Linux I never experienced performance differences of that dimension, but currently I have fallen back to using Chrome on the work laptop :-(
From what I have read there is no direct evidence that an “abax” (Greek counting board) ever actually involved sand on a table; this claim has been repeated widely but seems to be an inference entirely based on etymological speculation.

The Darius vase shows a counting table with piles of tokens, but no indication of sand or people writing on an erasable surface (just some pre-established place markers for the pebbles to sit next to). https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Darius_v...

* * *

While we are here, it should be noted that counting boards with coin-like tokens (comparable to the Salamis tablet or Darius vase image) were the dominant way of doing calculations in Europe up until about 300–500 years ago, with written arithmetic using Hindu numerals gradually taking over. A few centuries later and a 3000+ year-old counting-board culture has been almost completely erased.
Understanding SPF, DKIM and Dmarc Protocols
This in a world where it was fashionable for celebrities to perform mock assassinations of the President.

You’re suggesting a world where a person’s thoughts can be used as evidence of their criminality. Perhaps there was more to this case, but this is what you write as convincing to you. Thoughts and words.

And the same people that would imprison a wrong-thinker of the opposing political tribe, are protesting against police mistreatment of chronic violent criminals. Somehow I’m unconvinced of your sincerity.

But I understand it. Thoughts are dangerous. Thoughts spread faster than any disease, and the infected can’t ever be cured. They start movements and religions and wars. When asked who was the most evil person ever, it’s never a mindless antisocial killer, it’s always a person who beguiled a nation to fall in love with their thoughts.

But I think this is a symptom of leisure. Perhaps you’ve never realized how little regard some people have for your life. There would be no speech, no argument, no justification, no anger, no reason, no ideology, no remorse, maybe just a little bit of amusement at how easy it was. And this is thousands of times more likely that any harm to come of some idiot lone wolf extremist of any ideology.
>> Again, it only takes one.

Let's assume as true (because we're speculating) that we are not among the first, and that some beasts already have situated themselves in the best possible position to take advantage of the future. Why, then, cannot we perceive them?
The city metaphor is evocative and new to me. I like it.

> Conversely, if we built our cities the way we build our software, you would need to enter the shop through the special garage, and exit through the roof to walk a wire to get to another custom made building from scrapped containers to do the checkout. And some of the windows are just painted on because they’re an MVP.
It's my pet theory that we have to go back 50 years and do waterfall right.

See http://bawiki.com/wiki/Waterfall.html
It's a little confusing - although the microwave heater is less efficient than resistive heating (96% compared with 100%?). Efficiency comes from microwaves ability to heat quickly so water can be heated on demand - but it doesn't say how much efficiency that will bring.
978 mg per 100 g, according to https://medcraveonline.com/MOJFPT/macro-and-micro-nutrients-...
I also gave a talk there, it's quite frightening to stand in the large auditorium with 1.000 people starting at you, I still remember having tremendous stage fright. The community is super friendly though and their organization is superb. I ended up speaking four times at the CCC so far, always a great experience.
Is any browser written in Golang?
Russian Orthodox Church is so orthodox that is still refuses to recognise this new calendar and uses Julian calendar. So Chrismas happens on Jan 7 and will soon move to Jan 8.
> Both QT and Gnash run on the framebuffer, there is no X server, so a regular VNC client will not work.

Tip with Qt: you can use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=vnc and the Qt app will be exposed over vnc (if you have the plug-in installed / linked ofc). Pretty useful for testing embedded hardware from your desktop (not for deployment though, as it will be the only way your app will be rendered)
I find there is a general assumption that quality means things will be more expansive, and take longer. To the contrary, I have often times found that a quality driven approach ultimately gets you to the goal faster and cheaper. However there are strong incentives to get ‘something’ working as quickly as possible at the expense of quality. That then sets expectations of the standards of quality that persist.
Nice, this looks like a simple and clear proof of concept!

In practice, the dependency on libnice, which depends on glib, can be a problem for embedded devices.

That's actually why I developped libjuice [0] as the default ICE backend of libdatachannel [1].

[0] https://github.com/paullouisageneau/libjuice

[1] https://github.com/paullouisageneau/libdatachannel
Blockchain: Reshaping Lives
Everyone knows blockchain is life-changing. They just don't know why..
Heh, which reminds me, it's my head-canon that the sofa in LtU&E is the same one that's in Dirk Gently and in City of Death. Given that it's flotsam in the space time continuum it seems perfectly reasonable :)
Makes sense.

Regarding the stocks: anything that you are thinking of in particular? Might be a great, immediate way to have an impact, too.
Judge Albright's popularity among patent trolls: an unsustainable situation
Minimalism is the other one I'm looking at, for past decade or so. Not as far along as I'd like yet in terms of stuff, but consumption is way down. Clothes, equipment, etc. Making things work for longer, DIY repairs, primarily buying used goods.

But the system is totally geared against all this. If someone or a group could reverse even parts of consumer culture it'd be a potentially huge win for the planet. And for people's sanity.
00:30am UK time, no love for European emberistas :(
Yeah and you can ask Cloudfront to add some geodata as well (with headers such as CloudFront-Viewer-Country, etc)
The TeX tuneup of 2021 [pdf]
> Ads are obvious, they have to be for users to see them.

I'm not so sure about that: https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/g...

(See also: "native ads".)
Tiny C++ windows HTTPS library, no dependencies
WinINet wrapper - tiny windows HTTPS library, no dependencies
Thank you. I was not aware.
Have you seen the die images of the ESP32? Basically the entire die area is SRAM. SRAM eats a ton of space, and with a bigger die area you have a much higher likelihood per part that you will have a defect and have to scrap the entire chip.
This is wonderful. Thanks for the effort doing it.
Going against the grain literally gets you ridiculed, mocked, harassed, called an idiot and if you are in the medical industry... probably gets you on the blacklist.

"The blacklist"? Which one is that?
The Hijacking of Democracy: The Role of Political Parties in Iraq
Now, one thing buried near the end of the article and something which I have seem very little discussion here about: The patents in question are from 1995. So why are the patents valid until 2027 and 2030, since patents, these days, are only valid for 20 years after filing.

These particular patents are a kind of submarine patent based on a particular abuse of the patent system: Someone files a patent, which means they get a monopoly on an idea. But they delay the granting of the patent. This way, they can wait until the idea they came up with is being used in some form by large companies before the patent gets granted, then they have 17 years when they can sue anyone and everyone who implements their idea from 1995.

Now, as it turns out, in 1995 the patent office changed their practice to stop this very particular type of abuse: Patents, starting in mid-1995, are valid for 20 years from date they were filed, not 17 years after the patent was granted.

However, this particular company, back in 1995, filed a large number of patents right just before that practice was changed, then delayed the patents in the Google lawsuit being granted until 2010 or 2013, allowing them to have a monopoly on a 1981 or 1995 idea from 2010 until 2027, or 2013 until 2030.

What needs to be done, in this particular case, is have congress pass a law saying that, for any and all patents filed in 1995 or sooner, every single one of those patents are now expired (or better yet, retroactively expire them in 2015, i.e. 20 years after 1995).

Barring an act of congress, maybe when this case is appealed, higher courts will give us a precedent which invalidates those old 1995 patents still being enforced here in 2021.
Inaction has a much bigger impact than action in its effect. The most positive effect one can have is being poor or living like one, living in a 3rd world country. Homeless people are truly heroes compared to all people in this thread for instance.
Thanks for inspiring peek into your life. The essential point for me is that you have lots of interests (rock climbing, surfing, sailing, playing with the kids, etc).

To mangle a well known phrase: You program to live, not live to program. I like your style. Cheers!
>they are killing people

how so?
I know this comes with experience but imagining how to scale or how to actually implement it is daunting. Obviously not everyone is going to have to need, but there's just so many tools and so many things to keep in mind to scale. What would you reckon is the best way to learn how to scale? Possibly one step at a time.
Indeed. There's an entire genre of board game called 18xx because the games tend to be named for the year in which railways were built or opened somewhere and most places got one in the 19th century. They're all games about getting rich while building some (alternates history version of) a particular piece of railway network, e.g. 1830 is about the Eastern United States. There is always some need for players to build and run railways but often the winner isn't somebody who was successful at actually doing that since the score is money.
Doesn’t remastering also hurt the studio musicians who recorded the originals? Or do they only get a session fee and no residual at all from future sales?

Couldn’t the new owners continue to sell the original masters through iTunes and whatnot, just at a discount to remaster?

Personally, I don’t like re-recorded music as I think the authenticity of the original recording is of some value to me. It’s good the author prefers the new version, but that’s a different album that what I originally heard.

I would love to know how the deal was projected and how each side calculated present value. Also interesting to know what Swift offered and why BigMachine turned down her deal.

I think this business stuff of music is a distraction and it’s sad to hear about artists spending time and attention re-recording original stuff rather than working on new art. There’s a response tweet about how Mick Jagger and Keith Richards re-record sync requests so they can get more money. It’s a shame because they could be doing more productive things rather than trying to maximize their millions. Although it’s understandable because most people give the choice of “money” or “more money” choose more.
Does the old adage "80% of all software projects fail" still hold?
The QT version compiles as a desktop app as well. It uses an HTTP api to the coffee machine. Normally only localhost, but for development I can tunnel that port over ssh, so from my desktop I can use "actual" hardware. Same with Flash/Gnash, ssh tunnel and a local instance (recently made a snap for that: https://raymii.org/s/blog/Ive_packaged_up_Gnash_as_a_Snap_fo...).

But thanks for the tip, I'm going to try that and see how it works. Maybe even get the old machine running the new UI via vnc.
Buses use the road at the same rate as semi truck. And the capacity makes it impractical in all metropolitan area. When a train line is down and replaced by buses during peak hour in paris, fun begins.
early mechanical sympathy
FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13 – OSnews
TLDR: Complex systems are complicated to build
Xiaomi InkPalm 5 Mini e-reader available soon
I prefer not to disclose that.
How come the cheap providers do so much better than the large providers?

Is that a fair comparison?
Site is down for maintenance, so:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210115182707/https://www.lifee...
Like the chippy?
can confirm this on two 24 node / 100TB / 132 OSD clusters and ~2 years.
I don't have the background behind all of those and I'm sure not everything is rainbows and butterflies (especially Firefox for Android has some iffy stuff, I think), but for a couple of your points...

> 1) Enabled by default all of your website DNS requests going to Cloudflare with a "promise" this information is not being used or sold. We all know how solid this promise has been for other large tech companies. All under the promotion that DoH protects you from your own ISP.

AIUI, this is only in the US, where for practically everybody the alternative is indeed that they're going through your ISP, with a promise that the information is being used and sold. Kind of a rock and a hard place situation.

> 4) "Recommended extensions" enabled by default. Got a nag for a recommended extension after few days of browsing. So FF must be scanning your browsing history in order for this to work?

To clarify, it's not the extensions themselves that are enabled, but the recommendations, right? If so, yes, Firefox is analysing your usage, but that is your local Firefox install, i.e. the thing that already has and uses your full browser history. AFAIK the rules for when to recommend what are the same for everyone and run just on your computer.
Ok, I see, you're just saying the NPE is justified, and not the rest of the patent troll system.
TLS Mastery
They both use the word “lazy” to make their quotes memorable. But that’s it. They’re not actually describing real life laziness.
I was waiting for the Marxist analysis.

(Ruin the gag by expaining it, I doubled back at the end and only the saw Jacobian not equal Jacobin : https://jacobinmag.com/ )
Ceph and XFS actually for the longest time had an issue locking up the kernel. Ceph works fine, until it doesn't. I used gluster and Ceph for a while in production. I faintly remember Gluster supposedly being more performant for small writes, but it was an absolutely pain to deal with. Ceph is a bit better and ran stable until it didn't.

One of the issues is that the officially recommended way to install it seems to be rook-ceph with kubernetes. But rook has had so many issues, many of them fixed, but somehow it seems that all kubernetes "cloudnative" released software has some quirks which you just have to accept as part of the solution(this is from someone who's oftentimes pushing for kubernetes based solutions). But I also tend to recommend clients to just spend 15k to buy a TrueNAS or something similar with iSCSI and NFS.

EDIT: the XFS issue was a hung task issue that was added to the 5.6 kernel "recently". Meaning it not in Ubuntu 20.04 either.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
> At least, building a new project within a company should be easier than starting from scratch, but my hunch is that many companies fail that test.

This observation seems both true and important.
Just like most large scale software.
> Upon install, FF installs a scheduled service that runs daily. From what I've found out, that service is sending back to Mozilla what your default browser is on YOUR PC (why is that their business). This scheduled service remains on your PC even after uninstalling Firefox and continues to run daily.

This is shocking to me. More information, if anyone is not aware yet: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/mozapps/defa....

> The Default Browser Agent is a Windows-only scheduled task which runs in the background to collect and submit data about the browser that the user has set as their OS default (that is, the browser that will be invoked by the operating system to open web links that the user clicks on in other programs).
> must not start up a new Cold Way

At least for now, the powers at be seem content just continuing the existing one.
The article missed the entire point that the LGV Sud-Est branches out not to small cities, but to the beach and the French Alps.
I doubt Cincinnati or Knoxville are as attractive as Grau-du-Roi or Megève.
Tools like this are cutting off the branch they are sitting on. If you block all the ads on an ad-supported website, how will it survive?
Fred Brooks was right:

"Brooks insists that there is no one silver bullet -- "there is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude [tenfold] improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity."

The argument relies on the distinction between accidental complexity and essential complexity, similar to the way Amdahl's law relies on the distinction between "strictly serial" and "parallelizable"."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month