skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Individual houses are wired to one phase of that.

In many countries houses get wired to all three phases and the phases get split up afterwards, sometimes with a few 3-phase plugs available for high-power applications.
How you can't love that trsi inspired logo? <3
It might REALLY REALLY hurt though.

Still harder to do than it looks, and to your point, very difficult to actually die from. Not impossible, but very unlikely.
I always feel these arguments are a bit disingenuous. You would be extremely hard-pressed to tell "authentic" Feta cheese apart from "Feta-like" cheese produced in any number of places around the world.

These laws are not about protecting the consumer from inauthentic products. They're about protecting producers from competition. Exclusive ownership of famous culinary names like "Feta" and "Champagne" is valuable, and local producers throughout the EU want that edge and lobby to obtain it. Benefiting certain producers in this manner may be something that's worthwhile doing, but we should at least be honest about what the real goal of the policy is.
FWIW, the Thinkpad T14 Gen1 also accepts any USB voltage (or at least 5V and 20V) for charging. I did some experiments with phone chargers.
Loonie Toonie was a pretty entertaining name for one. I didn’t get it at first when I visited.
Can I ask why you think it won't work?
Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani unveils $10B green energy push
> However, the top post approaches religious dogma.

I don't deny it. Join the cult of Static Python. We have cookies! And lower stress levels!

I usually wrap that spiel with my caveat "this depends greatly on your neurotype, style, environment, and other things." I have ADHD and my brain struggles with keeping bits of state in memory, so having to remember the type of every variable without my IDE tracking it for me is a huge performance drain.

However, I would contend even if your neurotype supported that mental workflow... it isn't actually better. Humans on average can handle 7 +/- 2 "pieces" of information in focus. Why spend any of your precious half-dozen pieces of salient consciousness on something a machine is really good at doing?
I’ve never had to try and remove ads from macOS to the extent that I do with windows 10, it’s not devoid of advertising but not quite as bad
Good questions asked.

In the short term, breaking the App/Play Store duopol will be a good thing.

But what will happen after that?
I know so very little of systemd as it doesn't touch anything I do.

I can pattern match that https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11/0/ - "Structural and semantic deficiencies in the systemd architecture for real-world service management, a technical treatise" from six years ago (Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10370348 ) might be relevant.

Are those points reasonable? Dunno. If so, have they been addressed? No clue.
> 2) While downloading your qrcode for the first time after installing the app (onboarding), it ask your for e.g scanning your National ID and/or holding your phone in front of mirror to verify your face (similar like other banking app do). After verification only then generates offline qr code for you

So you can scan in the face of your vaccinated cousin to go with his QR code you downloaded; or the driver's license you stole off some poor sucker. Doesn't seems like all that great a security scheme to me.
USB C is a nightmare. Everyone has basically decided that following the spec isn't worth it and there's shit everywhere. The connector is terrible for laptops, I have to be incredibly careful not to bend the connector and the cables wear out surprisingly quickly from connect/disconnect cycles.
> Can you explain why this is a bad thing?

It's not. That's my point.

systemd does ask some good questions. E.g. I think the logfile situation needed a major shake-up in unix. Too many log file formats, in text, often completely unparsable (if you're lucky then a regex will work for 99.99% of log lines, but not all), and all unique. And the same mistakes being made over and over again. E.g. "oh, we don't log timezone", or even "meh, it's up to the user to parse the time with timezone correctly, even though things like 'MST' is not even unique".

But did systemd fix that? No. It's just that now I have logs in journalctl AND nginx, AND a bunch of other files. Thanks, standard number 15 that was supposed to unify it all. If you build it, they won't just come. Especially when the implementation is bad.

Believe it or not, the above is actually the pro-systemd argument.

Now, for what you describe: Yes. Exactly. I'm saying systemd DOESN'T do this. I'm saying this is a large successful part of Unix, that systemd ignored.

> A counter-example that comes to mind is when a package upgrade requires manual intervention due to file conflicts in /etc. That's what happens when the packager's default configuration interferes with the user's custom configuration.

Is that actually a problem? Maybe I've been spoiled by Debian, but with the combination of the upgrader showing the diff, and `foo.d` config directories, I've never had this problem in about 25 years of running Debian.

But I believe you if you say that others have this problem, and believe you when you say it's real. But how exactly is systemd fixing it? It doesn't resolve the conflict, if it works like you say where it's a per-file override. That sounds like breaking the system (usually in subtle ways) instead of hilighting the newly arrived inconsistency. That's just sweeping problems under the rug.

It's not enough to say vaguely that "this is different, so probably solves some problem, somehow. And it didn't cause me personally a problem, so fuck everyone else".
Swing generally looks like the native widgets set. And how is it outdated? It's not like GUI programming has changed much.
here's the secret. the first many minutes of cooking onions are just putting energy into breaking down vegetable matter. You can replace this part by microwaving the onions first, until they are soft. Then, squeeze out all the moisture, ideally with a press. This should take about 10 minutes (I have a high power microwave, so it's 5 minutes on high).

What you have now is already "cooked" and ready for caramelization.

The folks who get a few brown spots on the exterior of the onion and the rest is still white: that's not caramelization.
>It's not possible to ask systemd about which parts are enabled and up to which extent. It always adds a discovery phase before starting to make changes in a system. If you don't do this discovery, you're probably in a wrestling party with systemd. If you do this discovery, it costs you time. Systemd SHALL provide a way to see how much of its enabled up to what extent.

It absolutely is possible to do this. It's the same as finding out if any service is enabled or not. Every view of a service includes it's state and whether or not it is enabled. So if you want to check an individual service, look at systemctl status $service, and if you want to look at all services: systemctl list-unit-files

And if you want to look at only the enabled ones, you do the Unix thing and "| grep enabled"

I don't see why systemd needs to hardcode a command for this.
Singapore’s surprising new plan to ‘live with Covid’ revealed
I have since relegated to totally disabling Windows update due to this. As a bonus, my PC stays the same way, goes to sleep and stays asleep as expected without new unexpected features clogging my desktop every month.
What interests you about this?
Http/3 is actually simple if you just look at that one and don’t include quic itself. It’s far easier than http/2 since the transport layer does the multiplexing, and just defines some simple header and body frames on top which are imho not harder to decode than looking for a `\r\n\r\n` in http 1. the main challenge is Header encoding via qpack which is mostly overwhelming someone with encoding options (Huffman, static tables, dynamic tables on another stream, etc…). But at least one can now opt out of supporting dynamic tables without losing interoperability
Leopoldina Professor Luckhaus on Corona and Vaccination
We got Starlink in Placerville California and it’s great.

Just make sure you place the dish in a location with zero obstructions.

50-180mbps down and 24-40ms latency. ~25mbps up.
Yet for him to change himself for the good, he at least has to come to terms with what he is, without so much dependence on how others see him.

Some parts of what make up the rut are seemingly necessary parts of life. You can at least accept and build from them.
I have fobd memories of Poundland, 99c and Home Bargains while living in the UK as a poor international student (poor meaning I lived with a scholarship from my country).
Reliance to Build 4 Giga Factories, Invest $10B in Clean Energy: Mukesh Ambani
ahh dollar tree, where we go for birthday party favors for little kids
A little bit of black fingernail polish could fix that
How long must one keep his IT infrastructure as cattle instead of pets to come to believe that such a thing like an „identical“ product exists? :p
In the real world almost nothing is fungible.
Additionally, even with white labelling there is value created (look at Xiaomi for an example).
There is always a space for tinkering. I took apart clocks and small appliances when I was 5. Eventually, my dad had me rebuilding carburetors using the kits because I wasn't strong enough to rebuild alternators yet.

Last month, I made Alexa-enabled "tea candle" lanterns by gutting WiFi bedside lights and using privacy paint on said lanterns. As diffusers, I reshaped the diffusers from the original lights. Where the circuit boards appear, I painted the back walls and PCBs matte black to hide them when the lights are on. I dremeled slots in the lantern bases for USB power.

What appears to be happening is the over-regulation of title combinations to collect more money by "solving" a professionalization problem that didn't need solving.

PE is good enough.
> it's also the only way their code is going to see widespread engagement

Wow, what a claim! I can see how this may have some anecdotal evidence behind it since programming has had such a strong English bias but it's conjecture to say that this is the only path. Not only does that claim lack evidence, it also lacks imagination. The future doesn't have to follow the same patterns of the past.

The technical constraints of ASCII have long been irrelevant and its only the cultural imposition that remains. While this has been the case the size and importance of computing has exploded everywhere (e.g. 4 billion people worldwide use the internet).

Can you really say with confidence that global "widespread engagement" is (and will always be) a desirable property for code projects? Is software produced in this way and at this global scale really likely to be better quality for everyone?
Isn't it time to just ditch "Stores" all together? We were way past that concept on the PC for decades, how on earth does it help to introduce it to desktop? Let ppl download there apks from the dev sources directly, and... oh wait... I'm just describing 'installing a program' as it has been for ages.
Maybe this will at least help normal users to wake up and wanting to escape their jails. (oh sorry, I forgot, it's for their own good! o7)
Give it a chance.

It may not replace every contract in every case but Ethereum in conjunction with Chainlink does address an increasing number of legacy contract use cases.

This is a nascent technology and per the article, major structural transformations such as this may play out over 30 or more years.

If you are genuinely curious I would suggest reading up on the details of how Chainlink works [1]. As you can see these are not trivial challenges and the solutions often require a bit of effort to understand. (Not claiming to be an expert, just an interested student)

[1] https://chain.link/solutions
Honestly, all those rules about caring for cast iron are kind of nonsense. I clean mine with dish detergent all the time. I'll oil a pan before storing if it doesn't get used often, but for frequently used pans, the cooking process is enough to keep them seasoned.
Yes, but that’s how memory works (which is why it’s so fallible). There aren’t any memories that are stored like a video file.
Yesterday most of Canada, today Uk.
Crypto adoption, but I reverse chronological order./s
What is the US waiting for? Can't be long now.
It's also common in the US for neighborhoods to have 240V 3 phase, and for a neighborhood to have a common neutral. Each house gets the neutral and 2 of the hots. Hot to neutral gives 120V, hot to hot gives 208V. (240*sin(120 degrees))

The result is that the high voltage appliances need to support both 240V and 208V. Most appliances just design for 240V and test to ensure they don't break at 208V, and just give reduced power at 208V. Which is often fine, but a 208V stovetop is a pretty miserable experience.
>"trivial to implement" if you don't need encryption. Which you kinda do most of the time. Not everything runs in the design constraints of an 8bit micro.

What? Encryption is a completely different step from framing and message semantics.

>It would also be nice if you'd at least pretend to engage with the arguments in the paper, instead of making up imagined reasons.

This is just absolutely silly and stupid. HTTP3 is not tied to the encryption used. I suggest you review your understanding before contributing more.
Any tips for getting started? Should I do lessons? How can I motivate myself to practice when I could just be browsing reddit?
Tangled is that which measurably interacts with something else for any practical purposes at the current level of analysis. If there's a function A that does not call function B (and vice versa), they are not tangled. They are separate (assuming the functions are pure, no global shared state, etc).

Now we can go down the physics rabbit hole and start arguing that everything is tangled at some level but I don't think that's useful for a discussion at this level of analysis.

I think we can stick to the definition that if function A does not call function B, they are completely separate for the purpose of this discussion.
The Adulterer in the Room
I get that making things understandable to non-techie users is good, but even on pages talking about the server (even on the install guide and the github readme for the server: https://github.com/snikket-im/snikket-server) you don't mention XMPP.

> it does not (and should not) define everything Snikket is to end users.

Does that mean that interop with XMPP is not a feature one should depend on? Is Snikket a XMPP app, a XMPP service, a XMPP fork or is it not XMPP at all despite being based on XMPP software?
yes it is, look at the numbers. 26 percent from europe, 27 percent from "non white" Middle east mainly, would be 28-29 percent but I am not including potential mizrahim from USA/Canada, even though many are probably persian/iraqi origin.
I like the anime girl that's included on every page. He explains Rubi the mascot here: https://rubenerd.com/about/#mascot
Rather than a messaging app could you build encyrpted messaging as a mobile keyboard that works over any existing messaging service, even SMS for example? Like PGP for email but implemented as a software keyboard input device?
As a US user, I've accessed my old account via VPN to remove funds a couple months ago without issue. I was unable to access binance without VPN though (the original binance not the US specific new one).
I'd guess its essier to manage caching.
Well, whoever googled him would conclude they should really avoid him. He could have missed a lot of great job, business and personal relations opportunities during the period Google was saying he was a serial killer.
I brought down production for a project — by running the deployment CI pipeline for already deployed commit. A couple of minutes later, production was thoroughly dead.

Turned out that my coworker had set up the CI process to use a PHP-based zero downtime deployment scheme where each release was deployed into a folder with the commit hash as name and then a symlink was updated to point the web root to this new release folder.

But, critically, he also configured CI to delete old releases at the end of the deployment pipeline - by removing all release folders older than three days. And by re-deploying a commit older than three days, after uploading the code and updating the symlink, the release‘s folder was considered old and deleted at the end of the pipeline, leaving the webserver with an empty directory as web root.
Windows 10 still respects the Group Policy on Windows Update . If you’re on Home edition, there’s a powershell script that can enable gpedit for you.
Moving the goalposts. The parent was asking about telemetry specifically.
Intergrating Mumble with Mattermost would be amazing. Then I'd be able to convince people to switch.
Why would you add an additional risk if you can just avoid it to begin with?

I think pointing to "we don't know" as if it's equal to "it does not matter" is not good policy. A better one is "better safe than sorry" from my point of view.

As someone who has had a (university clinic, lab values supported) heavy metal poisoning diagnosis, I had positive effects of chelation (DMPS, DMSA, some ALA) long after the clinical case was closed, i.e. for measured excretion values way below where a treatment would be started (at the start it was high). My doctor (a researcher mostly) supported me continuing to take them, but he was clear that we had left the area supported by clinical studies. Because now we were in an area where studies were just too hard or even impossible, which didn't mean it was all gone and that the chelators were useless.

That's because we have no methods - apart from large-number statistics based studies which only tell you something about populations but don't help any one concrete individual because there is no way to tell which part of the large-number based statistics an individual belongs to - to say for sure what is going on. And when you get a population level result, such as "there is no safe level of lead exposure", you still don't have anything for individuals, such statistics only support big policies but not individual treatments.

Of course the jury is still out - like it is for pretty much all long term low level effects of anything, especially in the messy real world. Even if you performed an unethical study and found an effect of one thing by careful exposure of some people to something you still would not know the effect of many things. I once read a study (PubMed), a standard LD (lethal dose) toxicity study of heavy metals on rats, with mercury and lead, where when they were done with each individually they tried combining those two metals. Toxicity shot up through the roof, a tiny fraction of the amount needed to kill half the rats now was enough to kill almost all of them.
I've met him. His desk was a couple meters away from mine while I was working on Google Wave, and he was working on early versions of Go. Over 6 months or so I had a lot of little interactions with him. He's an interesting guy. He's quiet and hard working, but he has some great stories. And lots of strong opinions that he's spent a long time thinking about.

I agree with the GP. Calling someone you've never met "a massive prick" with no evidence is rude and pretentious. Especially given how much he's contributed to computing.

He is a bit of a contrarian - but so what? All the interesting people are. There's a lot of daylight between someone being "a bit of a contrarian" and being "a massive prick". One does not imply the other.

You don't have to like Go. I sure don't. But have some respect for the people who have poured their lives and souls into making computing what it is today. Our industry wouldn't exist without them.
Hi, I can confirm that Sims3 and Sims4 mods work fine under Wine. My suggestion is to teach your children to always read instructions and install the mods one at a time and test. It is easy to install something incorrectly and crash your game.
In the US, the 1996 telecoms act setup similar, but weaker, requirements for incumbent local (telephone) exchange carriers. But a series of regulatory and court decisions ended up with almost all of that being vacated. Basically cable worked to get excluded because they were 'new', and then telco worked to get excluded because it wasn't fair to make them do it when cable didn't have to, and the regulator said between cable, telco, power line (hah!) and radio (hah, but slightly less hah) users had choices and everything was fine.

And the key weakneses were that the companies weren't restrucured, so retail could charge less than wholesale rates and corporate accounting would sort it out, that makes it really hard to compete; and even bigger was that access was only on a space avaialable basis, and new facilities (namely DSL remote terminals) were purpose built to provide desirable products to end users while minimizing space such that there was no requirement to provide competitive access since there was no space.

From accross the pond, OpenReach seems like a big success, and what we could have had, but didn't end up with.
I've rarely ever seen any discussion of Windows Telemetry actually discuss how it violates their privacy.

Is it not possible that the telemetry exists only to collect data on how to improve software? Do we know it's being used for advertising?
Substack Shutdown a newsletter which promoted a paid product in it
installing applications from "wild" sources leads to possible virus injectiins etc. I sleep better knowing my parents won't br able to simply install things.

I like Android, where the default is the play store, but i can sideload or use f-droid as well.
> For example the absurdly large UK plugs with integral fuses date to first (or was it postwar? I forget) surge of electrification which,for expediency’s sake was often point-to-point (like “party line” phones) so local devices needed protection.

It was during WWII, and it was less expediency and more efficiency and saving on copper. Ring circuit can deliver more power to more surface with less copper.

The UK used to use standard radial topologies before WWII, this is also allowed by modern building code, and very high power devices (>3kW) generally have their own "radial" circuit.
Substack VP Comms response - https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1408898776597733376?...
There was a very good article about this a few years ago, after this Slate piece (this Slate piece was referenced). It was titled something like "Since when did caramelizing onions come to mean browning?" I wish I could find it.

Same general issue, although they documented this shift in meaning of "caramelized onions" and how it affects dishes. I remember it well because if how long it took to do and how different carmelized onions are from browned sauteed onions.
I’d love to have a hole in my mattress and sleep face down with no pillow. It’s so comfortable but can’t find a way to breathe.
On the one hand, I'm also somewhat disappointed.

On the other hand, Veracode's central product is a scanner. I cannot even begin to imagine how to consistently evaluate the boring, manual, operational parts of a security program in the context of open source libraries.

How does one assess the security training and operations of a library developed and maintained by three people?
The is from May; prices have fallen quite a bit off peaks I hear and some speculators are now trapped under big loads ordered 2 months ago now being delivered.

There's "we bought a sawmill!" ads here in the rural lands now for fresh sawn green pine and oak; which isn't "lumber" yet in any useful sense. I've seen porches being built that won't last the summer.
somebody didn't read the article
Have you met humans? Most status-symbols are all about the brand name, identical products made by other people don't count.

And im ok with that. If someone makes a shitty knock-off,i dont think the original manufacturer should get the blame.
People say the same about Germany, frequently on HN. Terrible broadband speeds and lack of competition.