skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The system only works for writes when every node is online.

It's a tradeoff that is well worth the simplicity.

To have fault tolerance for writes never really works and it's very wasteful. Specially when the nodes can be very reliable and report downtime for you to fix the issue manually if a node goes down.

In 5 years of operation my home hosted cluster has better uptime than all cloud providers: AWS, GCP etc. for writes and 100% uptime for reads.

I have blogged about how to make a 100% write uptime database here: http://talk.binarytask.com/task?id=4662372011677848884

But my conclusion is that it's a waste of time.
Sprinkling in the website URI into the source code of the PRs was definitely a bold move. I get the logic behind why it was done but one website does not constitute as a standard. If DO_NOT_TRACK were to be standardised then adding a URI to the published standard would have been more obviously intended as a constructive comment. But when the URI is a hobbyist's personal website, as well intended as it was probably meant to be, I can completely sympathise with why maintainers were sceptical about the sincerity of the PRs.

That all said, there has to be a path for unknowns to contribute good ideas back FOSS and I do think this is actually a pretty good idea that deserves to gain attention.
Sneed isn't slang for "special needs" - its a reference to a throw away joke in The Simpsons. "Sneeds Feed and Seed, formerly Chucks" - the humour in the joke is s/eed/uck/g.

Its relevant in this context as the "joke" is the name is now "Sneeds Sneedacity, formerly Auds".

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sneeds-feed-and-seed
Once someone is dead, it's hard to call anything "even".
It might start an arms race of CV algo resistant graffiti, which should be interesting.
I still use my Windows Phone, no need to trash it.
ROTFL. Microsoft is interested in security ? Maybe they shall start with their own OS.
(Solar Winds, Wannacry, ransomware)
i'd like something like transfer.sh but without uploading files to a server. just relay.

if i wanted to upload files, i could just do that on my own webserver.

what i am looking for is:
download via browser
sharing from commandline or browser
shared file is availble as long as the share-process keeps running
(ideally also) self-hosted relay servers
IEDs are the more commonly used weapons, and they aren’t hard to make. I also have zero doubts that if the military actually started fighting the civilian populace, more powerful weapons would get introduced (possibly by other states, as with in Afghanistan.)
Bear in mind the boards, the culture, etc. shift over time and vary. Some boards might be semi-normal (it's still 4chan) while others are toxic. Hard to tell, but looks like the /pol/ group is somewhat behind this, which is the political snakepit of the site.
> This article isn’t about the temperature reaching 44 C for a single day.

Well this is the only actual data point it makes reference to, it links to a study which makes claims about 50 years in the future, which may contain some data, but that is thrice removed if it does.
What are the implications if you use an engine like Unity or Unreal, since you build upon an existing framework?
This seems a bit handwavy to me. It essentially boils down to "the effect size is too big" but doesn't give alternative explanations. Calling that a debunking is a stretch.
> On Feb 19, 2020, we, a group of physicians, veterinarians, epidemiologists, virologists, biologists, ecologists, and public health experts from around the world, joined together to express solidarity with our professional colleagues in China.1 Unsubstantiated allegations were being raised about the source of the COVID-19 outbreak and the integrity of our peers who were diligently working to learn more about the newly recognised virus, SARS-CoV-2, while struggling to care for the many patients admitted to hospital with severe illness in Wuhan and elsewhere in China.

This is such an odd way to discuss an issue of finding the truth. This first paragraph of the article seems to intentionally try to create a sense of sympathy for the Chinese scientists against whom “unsubstantiated allegations” were being leveled. Of course we should all feel bad for well-intentioned people being thrown into the controversy of the pandemic origins, but this is not about shielding people from difficult circumstances—this is about finding truth so that we can minimize the risk that this ever happens again.
Tracking should be opt-in, not opt-out. Period.
Ah thanks - been out of that world for a long time now.
I do not necessarily have a problem with social media websites setting their own moderation policies, but for a long time it has been clear that twitter's actions in India are far from politically neutral.

I also find it funny that Americans who have raised so much noise over last few years about Russians "hacking" their elections consider another country's government trying to limit or regulate an American company's attempts to influence domestic politics as an authoritarian attack on free speech.
The problem with aliasing is that it undermines the ability of users to refine their searches, especially in the case of Google with its unclear semantics for terms within quote marks.

I've switched to using DDG as my first search engine of choice because, while its ranking of sites initially is generally weaker than Google's, it gives me much more power to subsequently refine searches.
Testing is hard. And (very) expensive.
It might be worth checking her for jaundice
> This individual received hundreds of vile messages

This individual claims they received hundreds of vile messages. We can't confirm that.
Whole PCBs are mostly distributed in trays, from which they are picked and placed.
ElasticSearch was GPL (AGPL). It didn’t help them because what their business model needed was not just sharing back changes to source code but to actually disincentivize competition in the space of providing cloud SaaS for the product.

Hence why they and mongodb switched to a shared source license that is not Free software.
Have you seen PDM?

https://pdm.fming.dev/
It had this quality seemingly out of the gate, not after a period of selection. that’s part of the problem.
I'd claim that most (non-toy) Operating System written this century was *not* written in C.
> From my point of view what counts is actual kernel development. If you are going to develop kernel because it uses cool new language but you would not if it was still C, you are probably not the right person.

Why's that? C is a tedious language that makes you do so much manual bookkeeping, I don't think I'd ever write it again (if I needed C for some reason I'd write a program to generate it for me rather than doing it myself). I think any decent developer would be put off by C to some extent. Sure, the people who really want to make a kernel may put up with it, but an arbitrary enthusiasm barrier is not the way to attract good contributors.
> I've never read anything to make me think that Rust is a safer alternative than any of these options

What Rust focuses on is providing a scalable approach to a limited kind of formal verification - focusing purely on type- and memory-safety, not conformance to arbitrary specifications. The latter is of course being worked on, but type safety and memory safety are table stakes.
> for an actual manned mission so close to Sun you need a huge vessel, which would require proportionately gigantic sail.

It will be big, but a lot less so than you'd think. Solar sails need to be a huge proportion of the mass of the vessel they are moving if you are near earth. However, the thrust provided by the sail scales by 1/(distance to sun)². Near Mercury's perihelion, solar sails are stronger than they are near earth's orbit by a factor of ~10. But that's not where it ends. The plan calls for sundiving, or going <1 million km from the surface of the sun, where sails have tens of thousands of times the thrust they have near earth.

> While you can deal easily with heat by reflecting the light, you need to contend with a lot of shielding necessary to deal with solar winds that are much more stronger and frequent so close to the sun.

Solar wind is charged, which means it's just extra thrust with the right kind of sail.

> It might be possible to run a train of supply missions this way, I would have to check the math but I am too lazy today to do it:) IN general it does not matter a lot how long it takes for a supply mission to reach the planet

This would actually be a lot faster than going to Mercury with a traditional Hohmann transfer, assuming you leave earth with a burn towards Venus (you could also slowboat with the sail there, but that would probably take years). The route is circuitous, but the speeds would be much, much higher.
>but was subsequently removed

The given deletion reason was pretty funny, too: “Offensive; Derogatory naming. (short for "special need"; a person who
acts like a complete retard.)”[1]

‘Sneed’ is a joke from The Simpsons.[2]

[1]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2021-July...
[2]: https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/b/bb/Sneed's_feed_and...
As if human beings were any good in writing Rust code that passed borrow checker in low-level concurrent constructs that also need to be fast...
It does require an active choice/opt-in on the part of the data subject where your legal basis is consent.

It defines consent as “freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous” given by a “clear affirmative action.”

Pre-ticked boxes, for instance, are explicitly not allowed.
In defence of email, the tech marvel we couldn’t do without – Joanne McNeil
This one just says that any non-trivial consistent set of math doesn't contain the proof of its consistency. Where consistency means it doesn't contain proofs of falsehoods.

It doesn't seem like a bug to me. Just a way to ensure that any non-trivial math has no self sufficient bubbles. That no set of math is somehow better than others. That math is free and unlimited with it's choice of axioms and rules and no subset is better than others.
Additionally:

1. There wasn't a consensus, some scientists disagreed

2. A natural virus can leak from a lab

Also, a reminder that biosecurity incidents are common, there were about 17 in the last decade [0]. Just (natural) SARS-CoV-1 leaked from the lab 4 times [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
They are doing great on that area, around me when I see a tablet that isn't an iPad, it is most likely a 2-1.

Samsung S tablets seem to be the only ones still standing in what concerns Android.
Thomas Aquinas' works with English and original Latin presented in parallel
> It's a doomed concept.

Indeed, because it assumes developers who are doing opt-out tracking will respect this voluntarily.

I disagree with the poster above about Debian adopting this. They shouldn't adopt DO_NOT_TRACK, they should ban any package that does tracking by default from their repo; in distros that already keep non-free software out of the standard repository this wouldn't be that much of a leap. This seems necessary, as there's no sign that a "please don't track me?" flag will work better in the terminal than it does now in the browser.
Twitter loses immunity over user-generated content in India
I wasn't aware. Got it by an AUR deletion request for sneedacity fork saying that it is.
China demonstrates most powerful quantum computer
Yawn, everyone always uses this film as a "prime" example. I don't even think it's true. This film (like Borat) was clearly satirical and the real targets of the jokes quite obvious...

I think a better example of movies which "wouldn't be allowed today" is probably something like the Hangover, which just mines outdated stereotypes & slurs for laughs. Just a sign of society moving on really (as much as Todd Phillips likes to cry about it, I feel his inability to adapt to the comedy landscape is really just a failure of the imagination).
I thought the 21 / 22 Jump Street movie addressed this issue quite well it seems the shift took place sometime between the two releases
Well, every 0.01$ counts for these components as orders are in the millions or 10s of millions. Everything that can be cut gets cut. And now lead times count as well as there are shortages and some factories have many waifers of these low spec ones to sell.

I tried Zig on Linux and it is nice: any restricted embedded examples? I will try both Rust and zig when I get home to see if it could even work.
I don't remotely condone this but I do see how they'd want to punish someone for reneging on a social contract, thus making their efforts pointless, and since it's 4chan they went extremely disproportionate with the punishment.
I believe that to understand GPL and FSF philosophy, you have to look at software from the point of view of the end user, not programmers.

> There is some value to having windows itself, but the more valuable thing is the horde of programmers, and all the other resources behind it.

This is partly true. What's valuable is for code to do things for people. For that to happen, you need programmers who can make that code, and maintain it over time. The way companies make money on proprietary software is by controlling the intersection - they control the access to code and programmers who can work on it, so if you, as end user, want your computer to do something, you have to pay them. If you want the program to do something else, you have to pay them (or their partners, friends, subsidiaries) to make the modifications/extensions.

GPL exists to defeat this stranglehold. It does it in two ways. First, like permissive licenses, it ensures you can modify the code yourself, or commission some programmers to do that for you. Secondly, unlike permissive licenses, it ensures that you can't just turn around and lock down your improvements, preventing other end-users from doing to the improved version the same thing you just did to the base version. In this way, it ensures the money can only flow from users requesting work to programmers doing the work - it removes the ability to seek rent for the work already done. It removes control over users from the hands of companies and software developers.

Permissive licenses are obviously preferred by software industry, because they give more control to us, software developers, at the expense of end users.
I believe you refer to AGPLv3: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html

"It has one added requirement: if you run a modified program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the modified version running there."

Notably, the Canvas learning management system is licensed this way, and all of their JavaScript is unminified so you can download it from the server.
China c.bank office closes software maker over cryptocurrency trading
For what it's worth, the maximalist FSF position on linking is very unlikely to hold up in court, especially not after SCOTUS ruled in favor of Google in Google v. Oracle a few months back (which was not mere linking, but actual wholesale copying of header files).

Doesn't stop me from treating GPL software as a radioactive contaminant in practice.
Is there anything to support a claim of a 4chan raid? There are a less than 5 closed issues of a very tame nature.

This seems like an attempt to garner sympathy to make their fork the "offical new fork of Audacity"

[edit] Why is this comment being flagged - is asking for evidence bad now?
Fox’s New Channel Changes the Climate for Weather TV
Reminder the author of the "privacy fork" of Audacity worked to de-anonymize TOR and I2P traffic. Concerns expressed by users on the project's github page kept getting deleted.
This is a very strong condemnation of their efforts, and I'm skeptical that you're making this claim in good faith.
Air taxi startup Volocopter gains key production certification
> If you think this represents teenagers in their natural habitat

The internet? Yes? It's not _many_ teenagers, but there's always some who enjoy threatening others for laughs especially when there's no possible retribution. It's why online gaming with strangers always carries a risk of getting random abuse.

It's the adults who run websites that encourage this culture who should know better.
Ah, yep! Thank you.
Why would a user ever opt-in to something that has zero immediate benefit? And for authors, that would be the same as permanently disabling tracking, nobody would adopt it. It’s the worst possible scenario.

What we should work towards is privacy-conscious tracking, used sparingly only for monitoring critical pieces of the software and not all user actions. Flag/reject software that violates this. Then there is no need to opt-out for privacy concerns.
>This individual claims they received hundreds of vile messages
Right. Looks like he deleted a message from an individual asking him for proof. I kept the archive of that.
https://archive.is/9j5zn
For me, speed reading is trusting that the comments are correct.
I don't see why both solutions can't co-exist. If DO_NOT_TRACK suppresses the honest software (of which should be the majority you have installed anyway) then you have fewer applications left to manage manually / less network noise to identify and black.

Saying an imperfect solution is worthless is a little like throwing the baby out with the bath water.
A World Without Ice
I have gotten very far and I have considered all the things you mention.

Still my conclusion is to write everything from scratch and slowly but surely build something good.

You need to own your future, that requires responsibility and respect, without that your life is just slavery.

http://move.rupy.se/file/wheel.jpg
A nice story about AI systems that warns that you should very carefully choose the parameter you want to optimize.
Controversially id like them to collate what is being tracked and by who on the cmdline, a bit of naming and shaming (if warranted) might go a long way to making the need for this mute.

Having used crash analytics to fix a production tool in the wild I would say _all_ tracking is not bad. But projects really need to be a little more up front about it.
Then don't install software by bad actors. /s

Seriously, your concern is true for any software you run. You install software--say AWS CLI--on trust. But maybe it also installs a non-CLI keylogger, right? You'd have to do some serious investigation to know.

The point, I think, is to have a standard to make it easier on the user to select the option across multiple applications.

It should, imo, be opt in instead of opt-out (defaults to DO_NOT_TRACK=1).
Water conducts heat better than air. At exactly 36C wet bulb poeple would be running a fever but a large body of water would cool them better than air at 36C.

However, 100% humidity is rare it’s normal for the actual temperature to be higher than the wet bulb temperature. So local large bodies of water might actually be significantly higher than 36C at the time.
>Today, saying that cow dung does not cure covid, can land you in jail because it goes against the government's narrative.

I overall agree with the point that many indian authorities have been using laws to punish dissent, but that is a little disingenuous. The specific context in that case was that those comments were made about the death of a BJP leader. So, those people were jailed for mocking the death of a politician, not for merely saying that cowdung does not cure covid.

I mean, the reality is bad enough as it is. There is no need to exaggerate.
According to your logic, boredom is an impossible concept. Movies aren't consumed the same way trees are.
It is important to point out that the Americans concerned about Russian hacking are often not the same Americans concerned with protecting free speech.
do you think it's possible to work at companies like amazon and google without a degree at all?
This seems poorly specified to me.

For example, it claims one of the banned things is 'automatic update phone-home'. However, for brew they are only trying to disable analyitics, brew will still "phone home checking for updates", and there is no way to disable that (at present).

Personally, I'd want to see something more fine-grained. Personally I want automatic updates (at least notifications that one is available), I can't imagine using a package manager that didn't provide that.
I didn’t say it was geography. American culture is mostly separate from Australian culture. As the US is a unified cultural element, it’s not surprising that a single standard had been established. The downsides of the lack of this are easy to observe: just look at the EU. No single unified language, no unified market, less economic power. Making a Netflix for America requires 1 language, while making a Netflix for the EU requires 29. China isn’t pushing Mandarin everywhere just for chauvinist “cultural superiority” reasons.

It ultimately comes down to politics and economics.
Would you need to compare it to the environmental impact of the lifestyles of the dozens / hundreds of human workers who would be staffing a traditional warehouse?
One of the things that doesn't get mentioned is that the compliant officer is legally responsible, if the content isn't taken down in a stipulated duration of time. Be jailed, if the company fails to act on any instance. That's a hard job to sell.
BeOS kernel was written in C, "It may come as a surprise to some BeOS developers that in our wonderful, buzzword-enabled, OO-powered OS, there is not a single line of C++ code in the kernel." (https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/Issue4-39....)

Windows NT kernel was all C apart from bits of the graphics layer - friction from that team's use of C++ is a theme in /Showstopper/.
I think it would easier to build a website with a more feature-rich <textarea> alternative, than it would be to push that clunky syntax onto end-users.

reStructuredText and AsciiDoc are already straddling the line between Markdown and full-featured markup languages. If you need more than this, then you should probably bite the bullet and just use LaTeX or some other markup.
HS Thompson did this
Not entitled? Correct. Not a loss? Incorrect.
Yep, I agree but we never could make that fit. When it fit, it was just compiled with a c++ compiler pretty much. But I have not met an experienced c++ embedded dev in my industries: all are c/asm because it is always the cheapest (and thus most underpowered) we can get away with given the consumption demands.
Also, what is special about American fridge-freezers or dishwashers?

Garbage disposal unit sounds like a questionable idea (more unnecessary things in waste water for the water treatment plant to sort out), and not compatible with the dominant paradigm here where we assume everyone sorts and recycles their biowaste, metals, glass, paper, plastic, and cardboard. For the small things now and then one does not intentionally throw into kitchen sink, I'd figure GBU is unnecessary if you have good plumbing in the first place. (I am soon 30-y.o., I have never encountered a plumbing problem anywhere I live.) Old houses built in 1960s / 1970s used to have garbage chutes, but I think they were deemed unhygienic?

Before the recent hot summers, air conditioning was not often needed except for handful of days in a year, but in our climate things that are needed, like three-layer glass windows, central heating, apartments without draft or cold but with uninterrupted hot water have been around for ages.
Typing game to help practice switching back and forth between Colemak and QWERTY
> It essentially boils down to "the effect size is too big" but doesn't give alternative explanations. Calling that a debunking is a stretch.

No, it isn't. The effect size claimed is a one hundred percent reduction in the judges' willingness to acquit. Pointing and laughing is a perfectly reasonable refutation of that. There's a reason the specific number is only ever cited by people pointing out that it's impossible.