skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I noticed that the two bugs they linked [1] [2]

This is misleading and in fact not even strictly true. They link three bugs, not two: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633459

This third bug was not due to Debian patches. And in fact the two Debian patch cases in the article were included to make the point that they can now catch issues caused by distribution patches, not to claim that most of the issues they find are caused in this way. Assuming on the basis of an article written to make a wholly different point that because 2/3 were the result of distribution patches that this must be a huge problem in general for Linux software development just shows your bias on this issue.

I like and use Arch Linux on my desktops. But I'd defend the choice by Debian to patch. Most of Debian's changes are intended to improve support for certain setups or introduce bug or security fixes that upstream hasn't backported. These are both good things. Furthermore, problems that are created tend to be caught while they're still in unstable or sid: if I'm not mistaken that's exactly what happened in these cases, which is the process working as intended. (Mozilla is certainly free to disregard bug reports from Debian users if they feel that Debian's patching process is simply causing too many problems.)
I posted that, specifically thats of pulls from Docker Desktop (so developers) and I said "of some images" its unevenly distributed, but about 9% overall from Desktop. Given that around half of Docker Desktop users are on Windows, it does mean adoption of M1 Macs is growing quite fast for developers.
I don't think this phenomenon is quite "over," nor do I think it will ever be. I actually got my current job because of a similar situation:

During high school, I worked two summers as a lifeguard and didn't really care for it. It was boring, hot, and didn't pay particularly well, especially for what we had to put up with (read: incompetent management and being sorely understaffed). There were days where we had so few staff that we had to get untrained gate staff/food&bev to run slide dispatch since that didn't require a lifeguard license, but I digress...

My senior year, I decided to do something different– tutor online for computer science and math. Pay was much better and I definitely enjoyed the work more. One of my returning clients was working on his Master's and was taking a class that was central to his major involving python scripting. He didn't know much Python, but found me online and I taught him the basics and we had a good relationship going.

After he finished his course, he was very happy with the work I had done, and he actually offered me a job! I've been working for his company for several months now and just recently converted into full time for the summer.

So, yes, the era of "wiz kids" might be over, but getting jobs that you might not technically be "qualified" on paper for through strange connections absolutely still happens.
Do you understand how a blockchain is secured? If it was the same thing then it would be the same thing, but it is clearly not.
It’s more than suburban areas bleed into each other less because you can’t walk between them - instead there’s some dense areas you drive between.
The latter. I don't care about buttcoins one way or another

> there's always going to be users

... that fit those predictable load patterns I mentioned.
Who would switch?
Anyone with a brain knows that piracy is an availability problem, nothing else. Make things available for a reasonable price with reasonable ways to watch and people will do it. Looking at you, HBO in non-USA
> Because Matrix basically has one decent server implementation and one decent client, both provided by the same company, and even that client is some godawful Element thing

This is a fair criticism, but IRC is decades old while Matrix is what, 3-5 years old? Give it time and choice of clients and servers will only improve.
I know very little about the Bay area, so I'm not saying you're wrong. But I don't understand how that evaluation could be accurately made during the pandemic.
If you don't want ads get Youtube Premium.
Didn’t sound like the model had that info, so I’d imagine it would select one based on physical attributes of the brand logo, not the “brand” itself.
Yup, that is the case - Gov. is slow to react with such poor funding. We tend to wait until our hand is forced, and support tons of legacy apps - if this was my own PC/network I would have been way ahead of this train wreck.
I'm inclined to think this was a labor of love, not profit.

There are people out there who quit their jobs to go backpacking on arduous trails for 5 months. It's long, hard work, but they do it for the other joys that come with the experience. And they do it all with the expectation of returning back to working life--not on cashing out. I don't see how what OP did is any different, other than it being a digital journey rather than a physical one.

Congrats, OP.
US government has given up. Everyone will be fucked when the collapse finally comes.
There's Cydia: https://cydia-app.com/

And if you have a Mac, you can build and install apps on your own device with Xcode. No Apple developer paid account required.

AltStore does something similar by signing IPA files with your personal key: https://altstore.io/.
I would believe that, because Dell XPS laptops are bad. (I'm in group full of laptop needs who check these things. Anecdotal and "scientifically".)

You are better of with a business or workstation laptop.
Some of it is immigration too: if you come from Paris or Berlin, you’re not going to want to move to Mountain View, given how ridiculously boring the peninsula is.
MSTR has raised billions in debt to buy bitcoin. If BTC falls below $10k its liabilities may exceed assets. It will be on the hook for billions of dollars and have no way to repay it but to raise more debt. Already, the last 4 or so btc MSTR purchases are underwater on more borrowed money. This is not sustainable.

Give how much BTC fell, by now he would have been better off just buying the google-amazon-facebook-tesla-microsoft portfolio instead. He was up up a lot but not anymore. And at the rate things are going insolvency cannot be ruled out anymore.
US government is asleep at the wheel.
Breasts shouldn't have more entropy than face. Perhaps the reason is due to the breasts being in the middle of the picture, so the face gets being compared to bottom rows more frequently?
>they have reserves equal to the amount issued

This is very misleading. They are backed by the very assets they buy using the tether they create! It's a perpetual motion machine, not reserves.
If a company is profitable it means it generates net revenues. The owners of the company have a claim on these revenues. This means if you own the stock of a profitable company you have a claim on all this income. The stock price is the price at which you can sell this claim in the market. The thing is you don't have to sell the stock at a higher price in order to profit from it. That's what makes it different.
See "Four Candles" https://youtu.be/OCbvCRkl_4U
s/stupidity/greed/

You know it's true.
Indeed, although I think it's a huge mistake to represent these failures as permanent, and bitterness as an immutable, defining characteristic of fierce, unsuccessful nerds. Not only have some of the greatest intellectuals overcome decades of repeated failure and mistakes, but we often only see one small part of their personality: the extremes that draw the most attention. This is even more true in the social media era where people are reduced to bite-sized summaries. Haters and successes. An incredibly reductive, childlike view of the business word, itself a tiny corner of humanity that gets all the attention because people love money.
>Is there a meaningful difference between them paying the influencers in USDT compared to paying them in USD?

Yes. You print USDT and pay someone then lie about not printing it.

For the love of god, don't hold any USDT. Its really convenient to exchange cryptos but don't be holding it when the cards fall.
Adam Savage just posted a video the other day about his favorite life experience that he didn't think he'd done if not for MythBusters. And it was? Getting to know an octopus! It's a great video, but I also learned something: It's "octopusses" not "octopi". But after watching this, I want to meet an octopus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-0bBTuLAR8
+1 to challenge of learning a language as an adult. I feel that once you get older, you aren't in as many situations where you don't know what you're doing. Partially because it sucks to not know what you're doing, so you avoid those situations, and partially because you simply get better at the things that you do over time.

It's been helpful for me to remember that for every expert, there was a time when they were the same level as you are.
Karen Figurski on Substack
For an alternative take on the doc: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=whb4unrhy44&t=189s
I've seen a very large number of split DIY keyboards, but not really any with a dome-like (shaped like the hand) 3d layout like the MS Natural Keyboard from the 90s/00s - before they too went quite flat.

(Thanks for the discord hint.)
It sounds exactly like a DikuMUD zone, where each place has an exit to another place in four cardinal directions plus up or down, but those exits do not need to be symmetrical. Loops, warps, multiple exits into the same place. The graph is not necessarily even connected as portals and triggers can teleport you into otherwise unreachable places.
And no sane person will propose using C for a new project. It's beyond irresponsible to use a language that's led to endless bugs and security flaws over time. Sure, if you're maintaining a C project, use C. But don't use it in new stuff. It's that bad. It really is. Sorry.

There's no reason to use C: it's not faster, or more convenient, or more amenable to library use than C++. C++ has every single advantage of C and then some. That's just a reality.

And yes, I can and will bash C.
People like to say Ponzi scheme, but that's got a specific meaning. Having secret hardware which can mine it faster is not it. Being worth more money than was put in is not it. (Otherwise almost every stock market ticker would be a Ponzi scheme)
I have similar memories of lilo. Kind, unassuming, and helpful. Me and some college friends had a small channel back in the early 2000s, and lilo would occasionally pop in and say hello. He was always nice. At the time I wasn't sure how he was able to spend so much time on IRC.
Writing bots from scratch in a new language is more fun when parsing is easy.
All human economic activity that uses electricity should be judged by the same standard then. I think the unstated premise of most of these arguments is that crypto provides no meaningful economic benefit to society, and thus the use of real resources (that sometimes produces pollution as a byproduct, depending on the source) is immoral.
It is actually up a lot in 2020-2021 including murders and other “real” crimes.

There of course is also an effect where people think all of Portland is on fire because they saw a protest on TV once. But also Portland has had twice as much gun violence this year than all of 2020, which seems like a problem someone should do something about.
ADHD for me. It became such a problem that I saught help from the nurse practitioner at my Uni and got a diagnosis (at 27)
Is Angular dying because of React?
The bible wasn’t written in English. What exactly is your point?
Wiktionary says "Marci", or "Mārcī" to be pedantic (I'm not sure how strict this is; when I was learning Latin in high school we weren't taught to care much about diacritics on vowels), for Latin: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Marcus#Latin and doesn't give an English plural: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Marcus#English

Note that Marcus is a second-declension (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Latin_second_declens...) noun, which is the class where a singular -us turns into plural -i (again, only a single one).

But Jesus is fourth declension (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Latin_fourth_declens...), so if it has a plural, then in Latin it's something more like Jesūs (or, again, Jesus without the diacritic; I believe it only marks lengthening of the vowel, no change of the quality of the sound). But https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jesus#Latin says that while it's fourth declension, it's also "highly irregular", and "singular only". It would seem plausible to me that the question never arose in Latin practice, because multiple people called Jesus could always be described as "multiple people called Jesus", and multiple instances of the Jesus would be an unspeakable heresy.

As for English, well. Though I was pedantic above, I should also note that I know that language is what people make it. If the vast majority of English speakers decide that the plural of Jesus is "Jesuseseses", then that's what it is, in English. Even if "just" a certain community decides on a certain usage, then that usage is what the plural is -- at least in that community's variant of English.

Having established that, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jesus#English lists "Jesuses or Jesi" for the given name and "Jesuses or Jesusses or Jesi or Jesii" for the noun denoting the Christian savior. The variants with i-s hurt my eyes (pun not intended, but I'll take it), and as I explained above, have no roots in Latin (or the Ancient Greek that Latin got it from) but try to look Latin while showing deep misunderstandings of how Latin works, so I would advise against them -- they don't make you look smart or learned. "Marci" seems fine in this regard, but again "Marcii" is not. (Interestingly, a bunch of the Wiktionary quotations for "Jesi" are of the form "Jesuses (Jesi?)", i.e., cases where the author was questioning themselves on this point, which is kind of weak for a dictionary.)

I would say that since -s is the dominant way of forming plurals in English, "Jesuses" and "Marcuses" are the most natural choices, inasmuch as forming plurals of given names can ever sound natural. But I'm not the English police (nor even a native speaker). Only the don't-randomly-double-i-because-you-think-that's-Latin police :-)
While we're talking about IRC/former freenode, what where your favorite freenode channels?
I think this is just the nature of the "buffet of information" we currently enjoy. As in a restaurant, if you keep eating, no matter how good the food might be, you'll get sick of it eventually.

You don't have to read them all. At some point (after much learning and preparation of course) we all have to decide to be our own guide; to trust our own intuition and primary research to know what's best for us.

Each of us have incredibly unique backgrounds, experiences, goals, and values. Until we start to take action on the things that we really want to achieve, articles like these will eventually come to sound like the same tired platitudes. Check out Emerson's essay Self-Reliance if this resonates with you. (And yes I recognize the irony :) of my comment.)
But Gmail is already a web app, and only supports a tiny subset of modern HTML and CSS. The limitation is of course arbitrary, it could in theory support any modern standards. But HTML mail is so quirky and full of hacks, that they probably have to do it that way to preserve compatibility. Apple's Mail app is one of the few modern mail clients that can render modern HTML/CSS
I would say it depends on the laughter.

Playful laughter indeed means "not going at someones throat"

(unless very psychopathic behavior)
Part of the problem – as AdGuard concedes in the post – is that Easy List (which AdGuard and many other ad blockers use) is a woefully inefficient rule list with over 50,000 entries. Many of which are out of date, redundant and not optimised for performance.

This leads to excessive memory use and performance slowdowns and is one of the reasons why there is a 50,000 rule limit in the Safari Content Blocking API.

As a developer of an alternate ad blocker[1] for the iPhone, iPad and Mac you can deliver a full featured, quality ad blocker with less than 5,000 core rules. This provides a faster and more efficient ad blocking experience.

As they note however, YouTube ad blocking is a more difficult problem to solve, but can be done cleanly on macOS. At least at the moment it can't be done 100% on iOS without Apple rolling out some additional features to Safari on that platform.

[1] https://www.magiclasso.co/
Legitimate question: how useful is Google trends for understanding interest in a subject for other languages, or in regions where Google's presence is limited (e.g. China)?

This seems like a really poor data point when also considering that it shows relative rather than absolute interest in a term so we can't compare countries.
I wonder if the TFP takes into account digital production or intellectual property? It seems based on GDP but do these measurements reasonably account for how much of our effort is in digital spaces? The referenced decrease coincides with the advent of computing, which has made everyone more productive, not less.
Great article.
That would make it easier for people with money to move in.

The best way to ensure fair and equitable housing is to constrain the supply as much as possible.

We don’t need to worry though, the zoning and planning departments will definitely SF from the tyranny of new housing units.
This is not a conspiracy theory, it's history. You basically described the whole process yourself. But it's not just oil, it's everything the empire needs.

> Outside of Oil, there's really no reason for any nation to transact in USD or to keep reserves other than for what makes sense to them.

This, however, is fundamentally wrong, and smacks of naive libertarianism. In a "rational" universe, where gravity of a feather falling to earth is frictionless and I trade my two eggs for your bottle of wine, maybe, sure. In the real world, no. The reason is violence. We won the war and we got to set the rules which benefited us at the expense of others. This is undeniable.

Other nations transact and hold reserves in dollars, and occasionally Euros, because of the system of force I described earlier. This why the IMF exists. Everything else is ideology.

China's Belt and Road initiative is their own alternative to the IMF. They are able to do this because they have a military force which they believe is now capable of standing up to the United States, by which I mean they will be able to impose their violence rather than ours.
My guess is Frontier is going to end up a private company when they come out of bankruptcy, just like their doppelganger Windstream did. I also expect there will end up being a merger between those two or one of them and Lumen (CenturyLink). These primarily rural ISPs all have the same difficulties in maintaining and upgrading service in their low density coverage areas.

I'm not sure if merging is the answer for them to succeed, but the talk in this space has been very much in that direction. What remains to be seen is how much of an impact Starlink will have on their customers. In a way in might be helpful, allowing them to rid themselves of their most expensive to service customers. But if Starlink becomes popular in small towns rather than just rural areas, that could eat into the easier to service and profit from customer base of these companies.
Indian data suggests runaway Covid infections as deaths hit daily record
"Nearly two-thirds of people tested in India have shown exposure to COVID-19, a chain of private laboratories said on Wednesday"
Could you post more details about what broke, why and how you fixed it? I'm curious.

I've been using Arch for years and I never experienced any breakage. I update it every month or so and it's still stable even after these huge updates. There's nothing for me to do other than merge .pacnew files.
Thanks for sharing it!

> INS is unusable

What about Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert? Or Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V can handle all the cases?
There are many churches in full communion with Rome that are not Roman[1].

[1] https://canonlawmadeeasy.com/2007/09/20/are-they-really-cath...
Just letterbox them.
> It's just not bad for the reasons that people think it's bad.

Yes, it is. You’ve glossed over some very important issues and dismissed them. If I told you I grew wings and could fly, you don’t need evidence that it’s not true. There is enough information about other rules of the universe to suggest that probability of this is zero. The same is true for Tether.

An insignificant offshore bank has not suddenly become the beneficial owner of 3% of one of the most important markets in the largest financial sector in the world. And they certainly haven’t accumulated 1% in a matter of weeks as they would purport. This would cause monumental moves in systemically important markets (the GFC catalyst was commercial paper markets locking up…)
Why element 115 in particular?
Coindesk has a breakdown [1]. Treasury bills make up 2.94% of their cash/cash equivalent balances, which in turn make up 75.85% of their balance sheet. It's mostly in commercial paper. As the Coindesk article points out, it's hard to say what the credit rating or liquidity of the commercial paper is.

Compare to the capital ratios of your average bank, though.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/tether-first-reserve-composition-re...
If we go down that road, however, sites can make ads completely indistinguishable from desired content. Same domain, same stream, no easily marked container. All of the imperative adblocking tech in the world, short of queuing everything through a neural engine post render, can block what is possible.

So there has always been a detente between adblockers and publishers, presuming the former hit a small enough set of users that it was just ignored. It seems that is no longer the case.
It's a tough one... do you bow to convention or do you forge a new path.

I remember for years thinking that conventions on motorcycles SUCKED. One thing that bothered me was that using the back brake on a motorcycle required your foot, which seemed to me like trying to do surgery with a mallet. The gearshift was to a lesser degree inaccurate with your foot. Thing is, every motorcycle follows the convention, so you would have to figure out your own system, then modify every motorcycle you used to use it.

I was heartened when I heard of a pro roadracer who use a thumb-brake for the rear brake. :)
>Just coming out of beta

Thanks for the info on Amazon. I guess I will have to check it out again when they announce it is out of beta.
> Yeah, sorry, the openjdk situation sucks. It's an "extra" package, which means the maintainer is a community member rather than being part of the Arch core group.

This is incorrect. Packages in both core and extra are maintained by the core Arch developers. You're probably thinking of the community repository, which is maintained by a group called Trusted Users. These are still heavily vetted, it's not just anyone from the community. Or maybe you're thinking of the AUR, which is a completely untrusted repository of build scripts, which anyone can submit to.

In this case, the issue is that anthraxx, one of the Arch developers [1], has not updated many of their packages in some time. I don't know if a reason is known, but you might find something in the mailing list links someone else has posted.

[1] https://archlinux.org/people/developers/
Have you tried self hosted adguard? It's very performant and can use any of the lists you can use with pihole: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

Switched a few years ago and it's great!
I think that that issue is secondary to the fact that the island of stability has predicted half-lives in the range of a year or two. So in order to look for that spectrum we have to have supernovae that have happened very recently and close enough for us to make out the spectrum in what remains.