skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why, but Ubuntu still manages to make installing updates a 50/50 chance of breaking the NVIDIA GPU drivers, which then means I have to reinstall them in 800x600 where the "Software Updater" window doesn't fit on screen anymore.

Also, getting full USB3 support on Ubuntu is still a struggle. On Windows and Mac, the same USB camera "just works". On Linux, I need to learn how to download the kernel sources, checkout the correct branch, and recompile uvcvideo with different URB parameters, or else I get random disconnects.

And of course, "apt-get source" will produce the source code for the 4.x kernel that Ubuntu 18 had when I installed it, but they since upgraded it to 5.x so "apt source" is now utterly useless.

If I had to summarize my Linux experience:

"Pain only makes you stronger"
There are barely any jobs left where people don't work with software each day.
Code with Codespaces and Deploy with Qovery
Fruitiers.net will close by ePrivacy law
How Is a Programmer Like a Pathologist?
With Ubuntu 18, no. Updating it fails roughly as often as it works. And the error messages are obscure and confusing.

I didn't try Ubuntu 20 because it has known incompatibilities with software that I use.
The Freshman (2016)
I always assume that somewhere between a handful to many of the VPN operators are run by either clandestine government agencies or outright criminals. It’s a perfect place to intercept traffic, similar to how useful ANOM was to law enforcement when it was compromised earlier the year, it’s [1].

Edit: See also the CIA and Crypto AG [2]

1. https://www.reuters.com/world/how-an-informant-messaging-app...

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/02/12/cia-secr...
It seems the system is called cinavia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia

I specifically remember it refusing to play an mp4 of a spiderman movie.
Sadly, men get sterile if they start taking testosterone.
Probably the contractor gets to pay lower taxes than an employee.
Discord lol. If you want quality discussion you're not going to find it on reddit. Mostly the same regurgitated ideas said a thousand times on every post.
Yeah I'm pretty sure that this wasn't an easy decision for the Chinese government. Even in dictatorships you can't afford to piss off the population too much.
There is nothing that prevents you from staying out and using all other platforms app stores. There are plenty.
On the other other hand, standardisation on a very poor standard cost the global economy $large_number of billions in wasted time, poor performance, poor security and - let's not forget - incredibly high prices and low specs compared to existing alternatives.

Standardisation had already happened in the S100 space. What IBM introduced was mass marketing to businesses. The technology was incidental.

Apple already had a consumer dealer network, Amiga/Atari/Acorn had already made inroads, and there would have been a shake-out and consolidation.

Without the PC it's likely some other manufacturer - possibly even Compaq - would have jumped on S100 instead and commoditised it. Probably with 68k and maybe Concurrent CP/M and/or BSD. It only needed one company to make the marketing leap. So standardisation was likely inevitable.

Sales growth might have been slower, with more churn for consumer/gaming machines. But the technology would have started from a higher base.

And it wouldn't have been held back by the miserably poor design of Intel hardware and MS software, both of which regressed existing levels of tech by at least a decade.

The worst thing about the PC was that it established such low user expectations: slow, ugly, crippled machines that sort-of worked in a very limited way with poor security, stability, and reliability, and "standard" software products that were even worse.
Yeah... when you have a home-built PC with *nix unsupported hardware and invested lots of $$ you're still looking for a hard time. First, there's the hardware cost. I'm not throwing my Surface out, and I'm not throwing out my perfectly working desktop components either. But that aside...

Every time I read how the great unwashed should just contribute fixes already to benefit everyone, I despair. I write code. I build my own PCs and I have a rather good knowledge of how to debug, fix, optimise and otherwise maintain all my software and hardware.

I happen to also LIKE my software and hardware.

If I were to start digging through Github repositories and... whatever other unknown resources I don't know the search terms to even search for I'd probably shoot myself.

The point isn't that Windows is good. The point is that *nix assumes everyone's a *nix rocket surgeon and has nothing else in the world to do than spend days getting the blasted thing to deliver an equivalent level of productivity I get from my Microsoft setup.

As much as I acknowledge everyone's right to like what they like, and agree that *nix might offer one or two better things than Windoze there's just no way...
Cloud providers already do scanning. Which is fine - it's their hardware, and their service terms.

That is vastly different to a device purchased by a consumer, deciding to do something that the consumer has no control over, which may cause irreparable harm to the consumer in the case of a bug or false positive.
When it comes to fluids (and gases) the keyword you are looking for the the Navier-Stokes equation. In most cases gases and fluids can be handled essentially the same way.
There is pretty a good video introduction to Navier-Stokes here:
https://youtu.be/ERBVFcutl3M (part 1)
and
https://youtu.be/wtIhVwPruwY (part 2)

The big 'problem' with fluid dynamics is that from the equations it looks like a really simple problem. The Navier-Stokes equation is a couple of lines and you can explain it to a reasonably smart high school student who has taken calculus.

And in the 'easy' case where you assume laminar flow and no turbulence it is pretty easy. The problem is when you introduce turbulence into the system then it becomes basically unsolvable and you are forced to rely on 'tricks' and approximations to make the problem computable. Most of the 'art' of CFD is picking the right tricks and approximations to solve the particular problem you have (the second 'art' is creating and a good mesh to run the solver on).
+1 plain old return error codes and the related modern status codes are the way to go. Lots of people say this is more work. I would your comment does a good job explaining why that work is immensely useful.
People tend to massively overestimate how much the extra muscle mass matters, and how much they burn during exercise, though, and it takes very little to overcompensate with a little extra food here and there.

I lift too, and for many years I wrote down everything I wrote, and weighed myself every morning. I could tell very precisely how much I burnt, and it tended to shock people on lifting forums who were certain they needed to down lots protein shakes to get enough calories.

At my peak lifting I wasn't huge, but I was around qualification levels for competitive powerlifting for my weight class at the time (I squatted about 200kg, benched 150kg), and exercised 5 days a week.

I burned about 2000kcal/day on average. I tested that many times when bulking or slimming down by seeing how much I needed to increase it or drop it down. And it changed a little as I added muscle, but much less than you might think.

I'd have people arguing with me on fitness forums that there was no way I was burning that little, and that I really needed 3000kcal/day or more, and then complain about why they were adding weight.

People in a more active job would burn more than that, and people with a more active life outside of work and the gym as well, but people are notoriously bad at estimating their activity levels and apply calorie level assumptions that are often many decades out of date and based on far more labour intensive daily lives. Basically the only way you'll know is to track and measure.
Thanks to Photoshop
A massive amount of energy is just used by the developing brains, so you are still using that as you watch a cartoon.

"The growing brain is likely the key energy sucker in little kids, says biological anthropologist Chris Kuzawa of Northwestern University. Kuzawa did not participate in this study, but in 2014 his team found that the brains of young children consume a stunning 43% of all energy used by the body."[1]

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/little-kids-burn-so-...
That would probably correlate with a sudden drop in VPN revenues
What no one will ever tell you about your smartphone battery
It slowly bleeds the countrie's economy dry. I witnessed the problem first hand when visiting Cuba: Rented a car and a driver for a private tour of Havanna and the driver was absolutely fluent in English. Like, better then me, close to native speaker, with only a slight accent. So I was complimenting him and asked, where he learned it. I was expecting something like really good language courses, because the typical Cuban would not be able to visit English-speaking countries. Turns out, the guy was a former high-level manager in the state-owned tourist company and basically responsible for marketing/sales in Europe. He decided to drive a car when he learned that the lady cleaning his office actually earned more than him. Obviously he became a great guide, to my benefit, but imagine the loss for the Cuban economy as a whole.

Edit: One more point: In Cuba you would typically tip with 1CUC, even for the most trivial of services. Someone pulls a chair onto the beach for you? One CUC. Cleaning of Hotel room? One CUC. Drinks brought by waiter? One CUC. And so on. The average monthly income is equivalent to about 30CUC. Assume you'd live as a programmer in the Bay Area, making some $120k and people start tipping $4k for pretty much everything. How long would you stay a developer?
Principles of Efficient Learning
Chinas whole Asia strategy is focused on keeping india confined. No wonder - a young population, india has potentially its future still ahead of them.
Been on that website for a decade, and being political was not its intention. It’s been established time and again that Reddit is not full free speech, they will ban (what they consider to be) harmful subreddits. That’s the expected outcome in Reddit. The only reason Chodi isn’t banned is because the admins probably don’t give a crap about Indian sub (just 60k members) and half the stuff written there is in broken illiterate hinglish anyway so they probably can’t even police that.
> Worst case I'm guilty of extreme snark.

That's a really bad worst case, far below the line the guidelines draw. Would you mind reviewing them (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart? We want thoughtful, curious conversation here, not snark and fulmination.

> People get defensive sometimes, so what?

The problem is that it evokes worse from others and leads to a degenerative spiral, ultimately to flamewars, and in the long run to the site burning itself to a crisp. Remember that this has traditionally been the fate of internet forums and HN was started as a conscious experiment in trying to avoid that (https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html). Scorched earth is not interesting (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

It's possible to learn not to provoke this kind of thing, and that's what we're asking users here to do. Of course one can't predict specifically how others will react, but one can definitely play the odds. Since the odds are roughly knowable in advance, we want users to post comments with a positive expected value, so to speak: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
It's never lupus
It was DOOM actually beside Commodore management.

It showed that software rendering on increasing faster Intel CPU's could outmatch the Amiga chipset which stagnated because

a) The original chip/OS architects left Commodore
b) It was too closely tied to the Motorola 68000 timing/bus architecture which did not match Intel.
Well, IBM needed some sort of a business model…
CSAM is just a very touchy subject (pun not intended) because people really loose their shit easily if you mismanage your words. It's kind of weird actually, no other crime can set people off so badly. And in the age of online witch hunting, well... I get why the author does it.
Sadly not, because like the original comment implies, a false positive on a given image might cause it to be uploaded to Apple for manual review.

So if Apple has a "1 in a trillion" 1e^-12 chance of flagging a person and they require (my guess) 3 hits to flag someone, then that would mean the chance of each single image being false positive is (1e^-12)^(1/3) = 1e^-4. So that means:

Expect 1 in 1000 images to be uploaded to Apple for potential human verification.
Isn't MADV_FREE supposed to do that?
I meant (said, not emphasised) on. As in writing code. If you write code, you are in my view a digital native. You will try to arrange the world so it can be iterated over. If you can't write code you are just a consumer.

If think we can extend this a little - my son is trying to make his own videos - at some point he or his peers will use digital cameras, sound, editing and probably the new "dynamic production" things like fortnites engine. This will transform tens or hundreds of thousands or millions of people from just consumers to producers in the same way blogs (and foss) did for newspapers.

It's hard to draw a distinct line, because someone skilled in video production might not write software - but I would say it is safer to draw the line at "writes code" and be fuzzy than anything else.
Cuba can still trade with the rest of the world like the EU, Russia, China and Canada.
Fruitiers.net is a non-profit French site connecting people interested in fruit culture for free interchange of scions of old rare fruit cultivars among amateurs (so they aren't lost).

Translated from french.

"Closure of the site.

In addition to other personal considerations, within the framework of a new European law called "ePrivacy" aimed at establishing on certain courier systems a systematic automated verification of all correspondence with a view to combating certain crimes and of which a second legislative section would target any supplier of messaging to be introduced, the current system for finalizing a free-text entry communication type transaction would have been required to evolve."

A verification-signaling by artificial intelligence would be appropriate, but the complexity to be developed by oneself requires an external third-party solution without necessarily controlling what happens to what is entrusted to it, even though the stated purpose is not questionable..."
A Common Lisp Library to Use Nvidia CUDA
I think even 2.5% sounds incredibly optimistic. Cuba's internet system is famously dysfunctional, for a long time the only form of access was to stand around a few overloaded public wifi points. Mobile data is available now, but prohibitively priced unless you're one of the moneyed elite.
What to consider before buying a new smartphone
Sure, but that doesn't make you software literate in the sense that the parent was talking about.

I'd say even as a software programmer you can be just a consumer. Most developers are.
Related (dupe?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28164221
Is there a guarantee that Apple will retain their monetary status, or even, money will be a leverage over governments in future?
Q: What standing does the UK have here, and assuming Facebook lose any appeals, could they actually force the sale?

(And I ask as someone in the UK; not trying to bash, genuinely curious about regulators and international issues)
Yeah because in the 20th century Power with a capital P was almost wholly based on digging and pumping carbon out of the ground.
Demonstration of reduced neoclassical energy transport in Wendelstein 7-X
> It's like working for a food company that claims to use organic, non-processed, fair-trade ingredients and in just a day deciding that you're going to switch to industrial farming sourcing and ultra-processed ingredients.

No it's not, it's more like in just a day they started including a chemical preservative amongst all the organic ingredients. All the good stuff is still there, it's just pointless now for people who want to eat pure organic food.

I agree with the sentiment though.
Rizin is basically the name of a fork of Radare2 disassembler after the community had particularly nasty "value" disagreements.
React Native JSI: Part 2 – Converting Native Modules to JSI Modules
Do We See Others Online as Human?
For me "measurement" implies known precision, and some straight-forwardness, simplicity and clear repeatability.

Estimation is on the other hand uses measurements as input and has no clear cut path forward. (you must assume some model)

"Chemistry is just applied physics" ("measurement is just estimating via proxy") might be technically correct, but distinction is still very real and usefull.
Abandoned a paragraph in due to an Unllunavoidable ad covering half the screen
Cannot agree more with you. Fingers crossed that "scientific process" is not influenced by political/economic agenda.
Afghanistan: How the Taliban gained ground so quickly
The well-known laundry symbols are trademarked apparently, and while there is a proposal to include them into Unicode, this might in fact be blocking it…

These are trademarked for other reasons than a company logo though, and I don't really see the point in including company logos (which might change or disappear tomorrow if they go bankrupt or are taken over by another company—and then what with the company logo in Unicode?).
Well of course, but that's not a good reason to prevent them from trading with the US.
> CSAM is beyond abhorrent, morally reprehensible and absolutely should be stopped. This is not in question.

Agreed. And the same holds for this subversion of user control of devices. It too is beyond abhorrent and morally reprehensible.
I think the slower pace indicates more effort and greater levels of integration of different concepts. The kind of creativity involved in reading is like paint-by-numbers, while writing is like actual painting. It takes much more than an order of magnitude more time to write fiction than to read it for me, because it's so much less structured.
> The official Cuban annual median salary in 2018 was approximately 9,300 pesos, or around $372.

To put this into perspective, a single bitcoin transaction currently costs $2.3.
It's in the article:

"These findings would support the view that the obesity epidemic is fuelled by excess food energy intake and not a decline in energy expenditure."
Use dnf updateinfo to read update changelogs
The point of VPNs is IMO that some people cannot choose which hotel they are staying at to use your analogy.

E.g. if you are traveling into certain countries etc.

Or you might wanna create the impression you are coming from somewhere else than you actually do for various reasons. E.g. let's say you want to consume media from a different country. Running your own VPN is practical if it is just about the tunnel, but it gets unwieldy if it is about having one in different countries or if it is about hiding your identity.
UN calls for moratorium on sale of surveillance tech like NSO Group's Pegasus
It's a little late to cross your fingers. We're mandating vaccination with leaky vaccines that are forcing immune escape and creating more variants...
I deleted my github account when M$ took over so I can't check. You're logged, you have declared a SSH key but they still don't provide the small code line to clone using SSH?
They focus on the wrong thing, in my opinion. What I took away from NVIDIA's announcement was:

NVIDIA is dog-fooding their Metaverse renderer and all the CGI sequences in the keynote were created using it. As someone considering to build a plugin for it, that's great news. If they use it themselves, you can be reasonably optimistic that it won't have any horrible usability bugs. Plus it now integrates with Blender.

So if I had to come up with a headline, it'd be:

"NVIDIA's Photorealistic Keynote Rendering Software now available for Free to Blender Users"
Apple was (is?) part of PRISM
But this is for mapped (or shared) memory. Not reserved memory I think.

No suitable to the OP's purpose: have reserved "optional" memory you could use for caching.
No. It was Microsoft buying 10% of Apple to keep it afloat. Otherwise they would have quite literally run out of money in about 90 days. They brought jobs back and took Microsoft money in August 1997 as a desperate effort after 18 months of consecutive losses and their lowest stock price ever in July. I bought stock when Jobs came back in 1997, one of my first investments. Sold it in 2000, and yeah I'm still lousy at this.

Microsoft was their "lender" of last resort https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/84258/date-1997-microsof...
blocking remote fonts in uBlock Origin has zero effect on Twitter, just tried, unless you mean something else, in that case please enlighten me how to have back left column with same font as before
In summers I would bathe in cold water until I was blue and then some. My parents said that they used to be worried by it, but they realised I was totally OK. They would keep an eye on me, but if I was out of the bath, pool, or ocean for a couple of minutes I would be right back to warm.

All I remember as a kid is being unusually warm in almost any cold conditions. Even now the cold doesn't bother me much, certainly less than my peers.

I'm sure metabolism isn't everything there, but it probably helps.
I turned 43 today. I probably exercise more than when I was 23 and I definitely eat much more carefully - no processed crap anymore, no alcohol, very little sugar. My insulin sensitivity seems to be almost perfect (at least the graphs produced by continuous glucometer say so).

I am still a bit worse off around my waist than I was twenty years ago. Not dramatically so, but at least 4 inches, perhaps 6. With lifestyle like that, I would have been absolutely lean in my early 20s. Something subtle must have changed within.
So this company claims they have developed and installed backdoors for Huawei and didn't get paid. Am I reading the same article?
DKIM signatures are required, if you want to exchange mail with Google. Consequently just about all mailservers nowadays append DKIM signatures.

A DKIM signature attests that some subset of the headers (typically including the From: header) are "authentic". The mailserver cannot attest the authenticity of the sender; it cannot attest more than it knows, which is that the logged-in account is allowed to send mail using that sender address. It can't attest who was using the account.

DKIM is a spam-prevention scheme. It doesn't provide non-repudiability.
I don't think IBM's vision included companies like Compaq and Dell coming along and undercutting their business.
The Maleconazo riots were less than 1000 people. Hardly earth-shattering in a country of 11 million. But unsurprisingly the US touts it as some kind of populist uprising when this sort of thing has been happening in Portland for 18 months.
If it's a whitelist or a blacklist is really just an implementation detail.

The key here is that the developer can choose to opt-in/out when uploading to the mac store (defaulting to opt-in), however older apps will be opt-out by default (as the developer didn't have this choice when they uploaded).
Aren't lower testosterone levels a result of lack of exercise and thus weight gain, instead of the cause of weight gain?
It was in previous macOS versions but from Big Sur I believe much of the file's contents no longer exist locally as separate files
The secretive, semi-illicit world of WhatsApp mango importing