skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised no one is talking about the possible connection between his diet and his several strokes. Although I love the idea of quitting my desk job, leaving the city, and running a farm, this individual sounds and looks quite unhealthy and I wouldn't be surprised if

> two pieces of fish, an onion, an egg, baked beans and biscuits

every single day is a contributing factor. I'm all about simplifying life, but think we should remember that eating a varied diet is fairly important to well-being.
Always is.
`uname -m` is POSIX; `/proc/version` is not. And `uname -s` will tell you whether you're on a system that is likely to have `/proc/version`.
I wonder how that compares to the financial demographics of China? I had the impression they were bringing more citizens up into the lower-middle class, but I might have just uncritically accepted some spin.
I have this issue, but no ability to project mental images. Generally, I manage by ensuring everything has a place to be, then I only need to worry when something is not in the right place.

This is counter to my wife who can remember where most things are when placed somewhere random. We mostly manage, but she is the official house 'finder of things'.

Where I seem to have the most difficulty is entirely my domain - The garage. I put tools down mid work and spend a bunch of time finding them again moments later.
It wouldn't surprise me. In many genres, I'm not sure there is a huge difference in the product put out by traditional publishers vs. that put out by direct publishing.

I own a lot of books, and a sizable chunk is fiction. Maybe I'm just picking up the best, but it feels like the freely published ones have the same amount of advertising, editing, and type-checking as the traditionally published ones.

Which is to say - absolutely none. It feels like in many cases, traditional publishing has decided to play the same numbers-game as the self-publishers and have given up on adding quality after they receive the manuscript. Ironically this may be why they're receding under the waves. Commodities is a hard place to get rich.
The script uses the device time.
The page mentions it uses the local clock/time zone in the browser viewing the page.
I mean if it’s done in the right way and actually hosted by universities with high reputation: Oxford/Cambridge/Southampton (obvs not in Europe anymore but it illustrates my point) then I think it might be okay. Nothing wrong with making sure dns works in Europe if all other dns roots fail.

The implementation part will be tricky but not impossible. Heck ipv6 is still not rolled out and we actually need it. Do you think they will be able to do this faster?
The previous N generations of Exynos weren't good but this time will be different. Because AMD is magic sauce or something.
you just described supply and demand. supply is limited, recruiters poach, demand increases, salaries increase.
Yes, but you can create it during one part of the year and store it for other parts of the year. It is going to be a viable replacement for fossil fuels for northern climates long before nuclear fusion happens.
As someone who used to write contracts for a distribution company, this is correct. The distributor doesn't want to take on liability. For a self-released film, a producer takes on this risk- it's not a problem unless you get sued.
When I see articles like this from Red Hat, I get worried. Does that me they will stop including these commands in newer releases ? Already RCS is gone and I had to compile it on RHEL 8 at work.

If bc(1) and uname(1) dissapers then I will say RHEL isdefinitely heading straight to Windows land. These 2 commands are used a lot. Need to add a long list of numbers, nothing better than bc(1). Plus much easier to use than the pointy/clicky calculators out there.
> vacuum analyze after bulk insertion

Ugh, this is nightmare. I wish they would come up with a better system than forcing this on users.
Given that It's easier to search in quieter wavelengths like 0.7 and 93 GHz. But is there anything on Earth 1) transmitting unique signals 2) in that range with 3) the kind of power that would survive the rigors of the journey through hundreds of light years?

What is our interstellar beaming frequency? At what power? Why else would there be any signals between 0.7 and 93 that aren't -300dB down? Radio waves spread. And scatter.

You're going to travel in the mountains in a remote region of a planet with no ionosphere. You want to eat your meals while listening to music. Do you take a shortwave radio or an FM radio?

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. We're looking for the lost keys under the streetlight.
This is true, the creative arts have always been volatile as a career choice. And it's true that some of those artists become successful as a fluke or as an accident of their death.

But it's also true that many of the successful creatives intended to be successful, or at least tried very hard to be, and those were the seeds that set up for some kind of "big break." For example, in the case of Dan Brown, one of the most successful authors to date, he scheduled his own press tour, booked his own interviews, sent out press releases, etc. And his early books actually did pretty well, selling about 10,000 copies each because of his promotional efforts.

Of course he went on to sell millions of copies, but I don't think he would have accidentally become a best seller without developing a platform for his work with those early novels.
I don't think this is meant for such sites but I can def see a benefit for social, news, or other "addictive" sites that might be detrimental to people's mental health.

IOS, Android, and at least Macos have the ability to help users restrict the time they spend on an application, but doing so on the web is not as simple. In chrome I'm using "Intention" which is a nice extension that does something similar but for only the sites I've added to a list.

As long as the site has a way to allow me to still browse the site or even give me 15m more or something and then fade to black again I'd welcome this from many sites.
I find I miss out on important ideas when listening at high speeds. Some podcasts I listen to more than once. I guess it depends on the content really
I realize that the linked thread explains that decreasing the log level wouldn't work because everything else would be affected—but couldn't someone combine decreasing the log level with using a different journal namespace?
This is an accurate summary, yes.
The latter, I suspect. I don't remember any note to it in R.W. Chapman's edition.
Geez, yes, absolutely. Python went from being my favorite language to being somewhere down there with Javascript, largely thanks to the ecosystem disaster async await brought on the language.
What kind of pianist are you? Classical? If so have you thought about an about turn to try the boogie woogie or ragtime. You might find it very liberating, and easier to find someone to play along with.
To be fair to linux, this time could actually be different with a market shift as big as this. The biggest reason(s) Windows wins consistently is backwards compatibility and a large suite of software/apps. Windows for ARM kills these advantages. If ARM is the future, the playing field is being leveled significantly.
Really? I think this might be known as spam.
Yeah. And if you're on IT support over phone/chat it's easier to ask them to write arch than something really strange and then ask them to find the right information in the mumbo jumbo it spits out.
They are "integral" only because shell is lacking those functions.

On some places tools are not there (docker image for example).

Some people complain about size of the dotNet runtime, but if you install all those tools bash "needs" for comfy usage, you can equally easy install dotNet.
RonDB have an interpreter that can execute a set of simple things. It is mostly used to push filtering, to push increments/decrements. There is also a pushdown join processor in it. It wouldn't be very hard to build more functionality into the interpreter. The interpreted programs is created by the NDB API and executed by the data owner. Thus the intermediate parts like transaction handler has no idea what it is passing along.
This is a case of bias against anything that smells of AI. Media blew this one: any Tesla owner could've told you that AutoPilot cannot be switched on in roads with no lane markings. The peak hysteria was when Consumer Reports showed users how to fool AutoPilot by a set of complex pre-planned steps, which would be considered sabotage in any industrial setting.
Claims of Microwave Attacks Are Scientifically Implausible
Maybe this is the case for books after all. None of our television shows or movies will make it this long.
I'm more interested in their new 360 laptops, those screens look amazing and 11gen Intel CPUs are tolerable from what I've seen, the iGPUs are decent enough to drive 5k monitor.

I would like an ARM option but I'm afraid nobody is getting close to M1 soon, going on the rest of the ARM ecosystem track record these will be considerably worse than X86. Unfortunately Apple isn't big on providing choices or canibalizing iOS market where they get a 30% cut of everything going on the device so I have to hope companies like Samsung get it right.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27108755.

It is only going to take us to a Trump flamewar, and a Trump flamewar isn't going to take us anywhere new.
I think the underlying problem is that the apps stop talking because the certificate validity check fails when traffic is proxied through your MITM. No MITM proxy can make that succeed, but if you can control the CA store that apps read, then you can create a certificate, add it to the trusted roots, use that cert to sign a certificate for someone else's website, and then when the app uses the system library to verify the validity of the certificate, it will appear valid, even though it's not. Without being able to hack the certificate verification, you can't MITM traffic between two devices you own. I think that's the complaint the grandparent has.

Apps can still pin certificates, of course. At that point, you have to exploit the app's other faulty assumptions like "I'm running the same code that the compiler produced" or "writing 0 to memory address 0x12344321 and then reading memory address 0x12344321 will result in reading 0", which are straightforward to make false. Though probably not on a stock iPhone.
> You can buy one retail

Best I can tell from the website, you can commission one via a "contact us with your enquiry" form but you can't buy one retail as such. Which is a shame because they look like fun.
Want to Raise Successful Kids? Science Says These 7 Habits Lead to Outcomes
You can't say it never works because your definition of "works" is completely off base.

The population is continuously growing. We must build housing as fast as it grows to just maintain parity, and even faster to reduce prices.

Saying building new houses doesn't work to lower prices is like being in a boat taking on water and after throwing a couple buckets of water overboard saying "bailing out water doesn't work" because there's still water in the boat.

Unless you ban immigration and babies, you have to build strictly faster than new people arrive. Wealthily people with multiple houses are not the driving problem behind housing shortages.
A “perfect coronal mass ejection” could be a nightmare
I left the gaming industry for robotics. I'm lucky in a number of ways (no college degree, no robotics background), but the salary and WLB is so much better here. My last job was FAANG level salary/bonuses, my current company is a bit smaller but maybe we'll get there at some point. Don't get me wrong - I _miss_ it. So much. I know it's Stockholm Syndrome, but the people in the industry are my people and I miss shipping games. The work is very interesting (not that my current job isn't). But my life outside of work has improved so much after leaving - I likely won't ever go back.

I remember being told "why would you want to do that?" when I told a gamedev friend I wanted to join the industry. I didn't get what he meant then, but now I do. If some young programmer wanted to get in now...well - I wouldn't dissuade them - it's a great way to get a lot of experience and work on cool stuff - but go in eyes wide open. Maybe have an exit plan. Off the top of my head I know a dozen excellent developers I worked with in the past who have left games for greener pastures (most of them robotics - the 3D math experience and ability to work with large codebases carry over well).
From the article, one use case they explicitly call out is code signing verification.

Parties like Apple use x509/PKI certificates for code signing. A third-party application COULD use this trust DB for code signing verification. If an application is signed with a (root) cert trusted by this DB, it is allowed.

Mozilla is saying woah: we only validate CA's TLS Server and S/MIME requirements (for CAs in our root DB). They don't validate that an arbitrary CA in their root DB has proper code signing certificate issuance procedures. So this theoretically application is in the wrong and they consider it a high severity vulnerability.

But I agree, there's an open question about _who_ is using the DB this way.
I think about this all the time when it comes to archeological finds. How do we know this wasn't one of their worst works?
RonDB Community is GPL v2 and there is no limitations to its use. Our business model is to provide the managed service of operating RonDB and providing support for that.
There's always going to be a decline in sales when new friction is added to a process. But, as people get used to the process those sales come back. The idea that nothing can change because it will hurt sales is short sighted. It leads to a stagnated system where competition will beat you out of existence.

PSD2 is a process that's system wide and needed so if things need to change this is the best way to do it where everyone takes the hit together as a way to move forward.
I used bc today. Very useful util.
Useless article.
Both examples ( arm laptop and tags) was literally already done by Samsung ..

Samsung was also earlier with the smartwatch for example. What else in the past 10 years? Earbuds!

Note: iPad and IPhone was earlier, but that's already more than 10 years ago. Where the first tablet was way ahead of it's time: 1989 with the GRiDPad 1900.
I second this sentiment. I did my BSc Soft. Eng. between 1999 and 2004. At the time I wanted so bad to get into game development. Being myself from a third world country there was no clear path to that. More or less at the same time, the infamous "EA Spouses" scandal broke, and after giving a good look at the industry I decided against it.

17 years later, I don't regret my decision at all. I'm at the top of my career, earning a USD salary, (around $150k USD) living in my third world country with great benefits and developing exciting things (fintech, crypto, etc). I still sometimes doodle around with Unity some weekends, for entertainment purposes
I actually mostly agree with Poettering here that it's kind of a hack and that the ideal is to collect everything and filter afterwards. You can't get back stuff you exclude by mistake.

Programs should be logging because there's some value in the information being sent to the log. If it annoys everyone and serves no purpose, the program needs fixing.
I'd say that's sort of beside the point. Sure it looks hideous, but it's also brain dead. Comparing against a hard coded password works for some things, but highly sensitive information in a scripting language really isn't one of them. If you wrote that beautifully it'd be just as stupid.
Every single one of these commands are used on a daily basis. And “reverse Polish notation” is most definitely not politically incorrect.

Shame on RedHat for this article.
I have used Mongo and it is a total nightmare, a bit of the reasons are in your text. Its supposedly only good with Atlas which is a managed service.

I haven't tried Atlas myself (and why would I? - I try and avoid lock in) but since Postgres supports json column types which has been my go to instead of Mongo & it has been an absolute breeze. Especially since it can be indexed and scanned with postgres sql.
I find that's a vital realization to have. It's also more than a bit sad: anybody from ANY political angle who's desperate enough will sink to this level. That said, there's some political angles that I see a lot of this from.

Nazis lie, is the way I frame it to myself. I try to recognize the tells, the techniques that are being used, the pivoting and debating attitude, the historical precedents, if possible the escalation as masks are dropped and the ideological payload is hinted at or delivered. There's always a payload. Everything else is the game.

Nazis lie. I'm interested in identifying them, not debating them. If I can identify them, I can identify their payload and odds are it's something I'm going to want to walk away from, and I'll do just that.
They copy each other but make minor errors in each copy. The fitter copies survive. That's called "evolution by natural selection."
People often wonder this about psychedelia art. But is it even possible? The alphabet one, for example. It takes awhile to draw the stationary design behind any of those letters, let alone an animated sequence that transitions to the next one. Surely the mind of someone hallucinating would have moved on to many other fleeting visions before even finishing the letter A.
So the effects of PSD2 I've noticed:

1. My bank now _requires_ SMS 2fa, for many actions like logging in, viewing transaction history > 1 month, or making purchases online.

2. My bank has killed their mobile web page in favour of their app. The desktop web page still works, but if you try visit it with a mobile UA you still get told to use the app.

3. Not 100% sure this is PSD2 related, but my bank have made their password policies less... dumb. It used to be max 8 chars, case insensitive, anything longer was silently truncated. In addition, the signup form used to allow alphanumeric characters, but the change password form only allowed alphabetical.

4. Presumably because of 1, they now no longer randomly decline transactions to smaller vendors. They used to then send you a text asking you to phone the fraud department to clear it. The first couple of times, I thought the text _was_ the fraud.

Now it's entirely possible my bank have just misinterpreted what's required of them, their prior actions show they aren't the most technically competent, but that's not what they were chosen for.
I never expected to find bc on such a list.

It's actually a simple programming language with user defined functions, conditionals, loops, etc.
This is a good tool to use when dealing with health insurance in the United States. You should at minimum keep an Excel spreadsheet of date, whom you talked to, which department they are from, purpose of the call, follow up actions, etc.

But, with the way insurance has been going in the US lately, you better be recording and transcribing that call. Usually, if the call line is recorded (basically all US health insurance companies do this) you can legally record the phone call without permission from the other party.

I personally have an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier with AI tools for speech-to-text, person identification, and transcribing, which I use for important phone calls. I use my own AI tools and devices for privacy reasons.
“Almost everyone, even a long time ago, had handheld calculators at their disposal.”

Can't pipe the input and output of a handheld calculator.

“The only date I could find in the man pages is 2006”

`bc` was in 6th edition Unix, so 1974 or 1975.
The pricing on this transcription is very high ($12/hr) for automated transcription. Compare to existing solutions like Descript, Rev, Otter.ai - what makes it so much better?
Plenty of dumb phones available at the shopping malls over here.

Besides the UX of the Internet is not the same as the phone and these are the kind of users that end up with the browser full of extensions trying to make pesky dialogues go away.
Still validating with md5, in 2021?

DragonflyBSD distinguishes itself by supporting a variant of the Apollo Aegis, and later Domainix, practice of expanding environment variable names in symbolic link text.

Of course it is more clumsy than in Aegis, for the sake of compatibility with other BSDs and systems that might, by long odds, happen to have what look like environment variable references in their symbolic links, but aren't.
Perhaps they're referring to things Apple does that don't involve "doing it well", such as removing headphone jacks or USB power adapters, or adding the iPhone notch.

Samsung marketing team had field days on each of these moves, then the following release cycle their products did the same.
This isn't a new trick. Some US Gov sites have hours of operation. From memory the IRS has one, and recently I noticed one of the gov sites for LA had "hours" for some parts, so I could only do forms when they were open.
A remark for JavaScript developers: for injecting its content into the body, this script creates a dummy div (it has no attributes and is targeted by no styles), sets its innerHTML, then appends it to the body. That dummy div is actually unnecessary: Element.insertAdjacentHTML lets you achieve the same effect without it:

document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', '<div class="nightnight">…</div>');

Browser support is universal. (Firefox was last to the game, getting it in Firefox 8, 9½ years ago. IE introduced it, in version 4.)

I have more remarks I could make, but I’ll leave it at that one. It’s the most interesting.
This begs the question, "who fact-checks the fact-checkers?" If the institutional "fact-checkers" & institutional opinion is incorrect, as it has been many times in the past, then the heavy-handed "correcting" of the critics is counter-productive to accurate & representative public discourse.

IMO, a more useful approach is to bring forward all novel perspectives on a topic and let people make up their own minds. Many people don't like being told what to think & distrust the notion of "authoritative sources". However, full disclosure of knowledge & reasoned arguments demonstrates a good-faith account of a particular issue. Institutions having to resort to "correcting the record", especially when the title begins with "No, ..." & the predictable comparison to the flat-earthers, only sows more distrust in the institutions. The refutation by strawman may make the proponents of the institutional narrative feel more self-righteous & confident, but only insults & strengthens resolves to resist such narrative from opponents of the institutional narrative.
> When you see the CEO of tech companies talk in private or to one another, the way that they frame their view of the world is fascinatingly opposed to the world depicted in a Corporate Memphis illustration

I see a CEO who won’t squirrel away over details that are irrelevant to making money, isn't married to a company as their baby, and has in particular let go of the design process and given it to designers or design firms because that CEO doesn't actually care. And that’s perfect.

I think of companies as short expeditions to the New World to get the gold, return, and everybody disbands and never talks to each other again. Imagine if Columbus instead told the Queen of Spain that he wanted frills on the sails of the Nina, and that the typography needed changing. Would be absurd. Same for companies.

This view of reality has been a highly effective for me.