skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learning how to spend an abundance of time is something that TAKES time. If you take someone who is used to having their whole life structured for them by their job and other responsibilities and suddenly free up a bunch of time, of course they're going to struggle at first, even if money isn't an issue. This is one reason why newly retired people often have so much trouble adjusting.

But I can't help reading this whole article between the lines as "back to work wage slave!" Free time is good. Not being forced to waste your time for others is good. You just have to learn how to structure your life, and that's a muscle that atrophies when you're enslaved in the current economic system.
Have you seen the average teenage girl lately? They point cameras at themselves and others all the time, this would free their hands.

I don't know whether it will be a success, but I don't think the crowd that doesn't want a camera pointed at them is a majority. For the record, I don't want a camera pointed at me.
Just FYI, a cynic is someone who assumes people are selfish. A lot of people confuse it for pessimist.
Similarly almost every feature in V has some hacks or doesn't work outright. But authors of V don't have enough dignity to mention the in-progress/missing features on home page. And when somebody points them to their dishonesty, they block them on discord.
> I'm still not sure how to quickly reproduce the server automatically (scripts?)

I use Ansible. I'm not a DevOps person and found it very easy to get working. It just requires SSH.

I also use Docker locally, because it's convenient, even if I don't containerise my application.

I've tested Digital Ocean's managed Postgres and it seems to work well.

Welcome to hear what Appliku offers more than this, however.
yes, waste of money without. They are probably big enough to merrit permanent inspectors on the floor.

Lets give them a quota in attention points to point out - or be fired.
It remains extremely popular with chuds, who actually want our society to be nastier than it already is.
I feel awful for the people with religious or medical reasons they can't be vaccinated. I can't imagen having to potentially pick between a truly held religious belief and proving for a family.
Open Letter to the New York Times
It's still top-tier, but it's no longer something people aspire to as a life goal, just another big company that pays well, works on challenging projects, and has a good reputation on resumes. It's sort of like Microsoft in 1995, or Goldman Sachs in the financial industry, or McKinsey in consulting, or Proctor & Gamble or Coca-Cola in consumer marketing, or Boeing in aerospace.

When I started in 2009, "I work at Google" was something you could brag about at parties. Had a coworker get stopped by TSA and then told "I love what your employer does" before being waved through (that sentence sounds a lot more ominous in 2020 than 2009). I'd have people cold-email saying that it's their life's goal to get into Google and could I please share some tips about how I did it.

It's not like that anymore. My wife gets more party-cred by saying she works in climate change than I do at Google. Largely I shut up about it now, because there are people who will hate you for it. It's just a job - a high-paying, relatively cushy one, but not something where you can claim you're changing the world for the better like you could in the mid-00s.
I've grown used to thinking crypto = cryptocurrency. That's the nature of language.

A language (and its people) gets to vote for the use of a word based on the heuristic of popularity. It's something that has been going on for some time now.
"Physical activity and the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, severity and mortality" should fit into the title length limit if you want to de-mangle the title.
The Landlord’s Game: EULA Biss on the Anticapitalist Origins of Monopoly
In photography, 200mm is the focal length of the lens. f/X is the focal ratio, with X being some number/ So a 600mm f/4 lens means it's got a 600mm focal length and 600/4 = 150mm aperture diameter. The reason for this is that camera lenses have an "iris" that reduces the aperture; that blocks some light but increases the depth of field. This means that unlike a telescope a camera lens's aperture can vary, so it doesn't make much sense to specify the absolute aperture for most situations.

It's also because the focal ratio tends to be a more accurate way to estimate how bright an image will be than the absolute aperture. A 35mm f/4 lens will take an image with just about the same brightness (LV) as a 600mm f/4 lens, even though the 35mm f/4 is only 8.75mm in diameter compared to the 150mm diameter of the 600mm f/4. The shorter focal length means light gets gathered onto the sensor from a wider angle, which exactly compensates for the decreased diameter. Since photographers typically can't take hours-long exposures (or stack hundreds of photos to get the same effect) the way astronomers can, this system works better for photography.
What I don't get is why some companies with obviously large marketing budgets have so poorly translated websites. Most recent example I stumbled upon: 1password's German website. It sounds so horribly bad. Everything sounds like a word by word translation of English texts. "Halten Sie Ihre Familie online sicher" - wiebitte? Nobody speaks like that. 1Password immediately feels like a scam when I read those sentences.
For the TL;DR; folks

> “In our case, however, the attack was made possible by utilizing an integer overflow vulnerability that allowed reaching an unexpected state in HAProxy while parsing an HTTP request – specifically – in the logic that deals with Content-Length headers.”

> The vulnerability was fixed in HAProxy versions 2.0.25, 2.2.17, 2.3.14, and 2.4.4 by adding size checks for the name and value lengths.

Usual story with C "secure" software.
Debug Symbols for Binaries with Nix
I don't agree with your interpretation of what this passage really means, i.e., what its message implies and what is essential vs. accidental.

The Fed is the ultimate "middleman."

Anyway, I do not think the philosophical underpinnings of bitcoin are reducible to Satoshi's words. Even if it were, that would not be interesting to talk about. I don't want to have a pedantic conversation like this.

There is a higher authority than Satoshi on what bitcoin is about, and that higher authority is the truth about what bitcoin is and is not good for. And that has been the case since day 1. Nobody who got involved in bitcoin early on professed any allegiance to Satoshi or "his" vision (or even worse, certain paragraphs in the whitepaper...). Bitcoiners' allegiance is to the best possible thing that bitcoin can be. Which means thinking primarily about root causes and fundamentals, not primarily about paying for coffee.
ETH is not fungible to $ in large amounts.

People who have a lot of ETH buy weird fake stuff with it because they can't just liquidate it into fiat money to buy real things. If they do, the value of ETH will crash. So instead, they engage in speculative pump and dumps while waiting for a chance to cash out.
There are multiple ways in which Google Mail while behaving incorrectly still be usable. But a theorem is not only useless if it is incorrect, it is dangerous.
Many of these people are heavily traumatized. Charles Manson for example was mistreated by his mother and in prison. If there were better child protective services and a more humane prison system in place, he might never have done what he did.

Most people doing evil things are in part doing these evil things as a result of their circumstances. By changing their circumstances through social programs you reduce violence and make everyone happier as a result.

You can argue that blaming violence on circumstances ignores people's own responsibility, but I believe that better social and medical programs are still worth it because they attack the part of the root cause society can influence most easily.
Search for "radiation" and "radiance" in the book's bibliography:

https://impacts.to/bibliography.pdf
Quoted from the OHA guidance

>While a police officer may have some medical training, or may even
be a licensed health care provider, it is likely not a fundamental part of their job to
provide direct or indirect medical care in a healthcare setting.

This seems like a strange reason to cite; every arrest is hands-on, and even a speeding ticket requires personal contact.

Aside, I'd like to mention the mayor of Portland is also it's police chief. Maybe for some reason the police in Portland would like to keep wearing masks?
Not being Google is just one of many criteria.
How would NFTs enable money laundering?
> but vaccine hesitancy — particularly among white Republicans

This sort of quip really makes me distrust NPR.

White people are more vaccinated than blacks or Latinos, but the journalist couldn't help but try to throw in a dunk on their favorite bogeyman.

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/percent-of-total-p...
Why would you risk side effects (which are really low, but do exist) if you already have antibodies? Is argue you do "lose something" if you get a vaccine after having recovered from covid.
"pills such as the lice medication ivermectin, the antimalarial chloroquine and popular antibiotic azithromycin as well as anticoagulants, painkillers and a set of vitamins"

They seem to be using a variety of unproven stuff.
Art as a whole is already a commonly used laundering scheme, so I don't see this being much different.
I've always felt that a popup with an error code should have a "search the web for this code" button.
Its related, but not identical. "Right to repair" in the sense that the FTC is talking about now is largely about manufacturers restricting usage of third-party repair services or parts - so think of it more in terms of Facebook/Ray-Ban allowing independent repair shops to swap your cracked camera lens, or an individual who can source the parts being allowed to perform the work themselves without buying a service contract: things which the manufacturer may currently choose to prevent via terms of use, or which they might have required you to buy a service contract to do.

You making a modification to your glasses to hide an LED isn't a repair... at least in the terms the FTC is using at present.
You will buy it, Mr. O'Brien [1]. Or are you really against the party which was like a mother [2] to you ?

[1]George Orwell - 1984

[2] Pink Floyd - Mother
Microsoft gives up predicting when its US offices will fully reopen
Good. There is no better use of state power than ensuring public health. Supreme Court resolved this in 1905 w/r/t smallpox.
> "While universal policy would be nice, it is both impractical to write and easy to avoid."

rather, every law should scale with (economic and political) power, to create fairer markets, better representation, and more equitability, as conglomerates of any sort should be designed to benefit the public at large, not the principals only. for instance, fines for corporate malfeasance should be much higher proportionally than for small businesses (who have little/no market power). some laws try to approximate this with step functions, often a single cutoff (like "greater than 50 employees"), but those practically invite evasion (e.g., by creating 50-employee subsidiaries).
> ...what essentially is a code review for a very large change request with extremely convoluted code to be vetted bug free by only a handful of experts?

I kinda feel like this question answers itself. On the other hand, I can't imagine this quagmire lasting another century, but the machine-assisted proof ecosystem hasn't reached adolescence yet.
As these things go, it's the lowest risk play I'm aware of. You can use it in a fairly specific area, like for example over a melting ice sheet. If you stop actively using it, the droplets precipitate out after a week or two, and everything goes back to the way it was. The biggest drawback, in fact, is that it is not permanent.
> Considering that American-owned slaves were treated much crueler on average than Ancient slave populations

What?
From NYT: "Ms. Psaki said that there would be some disability and religious exemptions for some"
Because we know that natural immunity only lasts 6 months and vaccination immunity lasts like 8 months (for Pfizer at least. Moderna probably a little bit longer, unsure how much longer though).

Either way, you need a round to re-up your immune system. A lot of these Delta cases are "breakthroughs", in vaccinated populations... or reinfections (ie: in already infected populations)

For example: South Dakota was something like 50% infected + 50% vaccinated (Roughly 75% with some kind of immunity), and SD still had a huge Delta-spike in July/August.

It has been shown that the effects of vaccination + naturally getting the virus leads to the strongest immune response. The current levels of vaccination are insufficient to prevent spread (see July/August spike).

With the big winter rush coming in just a few months, now is the time to prepare (just like in 2020, the virus seemed to have retreated between September and November. But come December, I expect it to come roaring back unless we up our collective immunities).
The article didn’t really mention exemptions, are you assuming no exemptions for medical / religious reasons or are you saying this from a clearer source?
> When did APIs start?

> APIs have been around for a while. For instance, the painful Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) used APIs in the early 2000s, but they really started getting interesting when representational state transfer (REST) came along. REST, which used the ubiquitous HTTP protocol, was lightweight and fun to work with.

Umm, yes, there were no APIs before the 2000s. Even ignoring non-web APIs there were plenty of pre-SOAP attempts at APIs on the web. XML-RPC was created in 1998 and is the direct predecessor to SOAP.

It feels like the author of this post has no historical perspective on the technology he is trying to explain, and if he skipped all the "What is an API" preamble that would be fine, but with it there it feels like an attempt at sounding like an authority that backfired.

I tried to see who this "Jesse Menning" is, but the author link goes to a twitter page for "Jeremy Menning" that hasn't seen use in 10 years. I'm not sure I should really put much trust in a blog post by an author that doesn't even know his own Twitter handle.
Empirically, proofs with bugs get ironed out into proofs with less bugs, and the results almost always end up standing. Why mathematical proof seems to be as good as it is at avoiding proving false statements is a matter of contention, but practically speaking it works. There's very little incentive to computer check proofs because, as a practical matter, mathematics is not plagued with false "theorems."

Computing, on the other hand, is plagued with broken programs, and formal methods are still a very specialized area, even though the potential benefits are much greater in computing than mathematics.
Exactly, this post was such a lovely gesture and the HN team know there is an account for them if they want one (gotta say thanks, afterall, we did launch with a SHOW HN post!)
I think it's acceptable to not want an organisation to be able to relicense your software under arbitrary terms, which the GPL does allow the FSF to do.

The GPL 3 is a pretty benign improvement on the GPL 2 (though I know Linus objects to the Tivo clause). I don't think anyone who was happy with their software being used under the terms of GPL 2 would be unhappy with it being used under the terms of the GPL 3 additionally, rather than exclusively.

But let's imagine the next version of GPL 4 was "Additionally the authors may at their discretion use it under the terms of the CC-BY-SA license". Nothing wrong with it as a license, but that's a bigger leap in terms of license changes.

It's not hypothetical that they could exercise that kind of power - they _did_ with the GFDL with the "wikipedia can relicense as CC-BY-SA" clause in GFDL 1.3.

I think most people would agree that that was a responsible use of that power. but I can understand those that don't want to extend the trust that all future uses will be responsible.
I don't really understand this fuss about Django, coming from PHP, in terms of web enabling products, python stuff look like toys
Regardless of where you stand with this policy, you gotta give it some Kudos:

It's a very efficient way to cleanse your entire bureaucracy of doubters.

I can't think of another example where a democratic republic, which by definition includes a spectrum of opinions, has its whole bureaucratic hierarchy re-aligned with the ruling party's platform.

Maybe this is due to the fact, that this is inherently undemocratic?
"Truly held" false belief is still false, and no justification for undermining public health, or being a parasite on other's contributions to it.

As the MAGA fascist Q-cultists are so fond of chanting, f--k their feelings.
The original matrix had a distinct tint to it. Green. The real world was blue.

This was...normal. Vivid, colourful even. It didn't feel like the matrix
So "we'll pay you with EXPOSURE"?
I wonder if these will be as popular as the Facebook Fone.
GhostBSD 21.09.06 returns to FreeBSD init from OpenRC
I believe that’s what the article said too. Where do you see him conflating this?
I guess the point is that Youtube has a powerful market position but not an unassailable one. They can lose market share and pissing off a large percent of there content creators seems like a good way of doing that
Marketplace for Redeemable NFTs
I've been thinking a lot about a marketplace where makers can create NFTs for an upcoming drop (creating a market of its own that the maker can benefit from) and then NFT holders can "redeem" their NFTs to receive the physical good.

from initial research it looks like Zora started out this way but then pivoted to purely digital goods.

is anyone interested in this? I think it could be pretty huge if done right (think sneakerheads, early versions of albums, lots of possibilities.)

feedback welcome!
Indeed, we have an elaborate government system designed to give businesses a thousand ways to reduce their tax liability, none of which include simply paying employees more money.
A printed version costs about $150 to produce, which includes $15 that goes to the illustrators. Translating to other languages would be a technical challenge. I didn't coin the term Cambrian Radiation; you can find the phrase referenced by biologists many times throughout the book's bibliography:

https://impacts.to/bibliography.pdf
Yeah, I follow a person on IG that does bread baking stories and the rig she uses is quite a clunky setup as she doesn't even want to touch the phone while baking due to her hands being covered in dough.
It'll also indirectly purge the fed of people who think celebrities and YouTube are more trustworthy sources of health advice than actual doctors.
I only recently discovered Matt Levine's writing, and I love it. He makes complex topics understandable and (to my mind, anyway) has an excellent sense of humor to boot.
The delays are happening at every interface. The port of LA/LB is the busiest port in north America and has dozens and dozens of container ships anchored off the coast waiting to unload. Even if they unloaded the ships today they couldn't move the containers off the terminal holding facilities since freight rail and freight trucking is at capacity. This is why caltrans has been desperate to widen freeways leading to the port and link the 710 in Pasadena, and to expand the alameda freight rail corridor. Freeway widening doesn't help commute times any but it leads to more trucks per hour leaving the port due to the increased throughput, which is only going to get busier over the next century.
If she's in a swimsuit/leggings with a protein powder or some CBD oil in the forefront of the photo saying "thanks to @companyname" in the caption... it's an ad.
Changed above from https://habr.com/ru/company/yandex/blog/577040/. Thanks!
Xiaomi will offer 4 years of software support for its smartphones
http://web.archive.org/web/20210909125816/https://blog.qrato...
> You seem to be redefining the "built to last" to encapsulate backward compat, which is an odd definition, but let's go with it.

What other definition there is? A protocol that has absolutely no backward compatibility, not even with itself, and by design, is "built to last"? Or that a protocol that is frequently rewriting its core algorithms in its base specs is "built to last" ?

> That's not an aspect of HTTPS the spec, it's an aspect of the arms race in network security.

It is an aspect of the spec. There is literally no HTTPS without SSL/TLS. If there was, you could have an argument there, but: the very definition of HTTPS is "HTTP + SSL".

Really, there is no color. Ethernet, IP, HTTP still allow an unmodified client from 25 years ago to work with practically full functionality. HTTPS does not. Whether this is because HTTPS has more ambitious goals (which it obviously has), or whether the designers were smoking something better, or because computer security requires an arms race (that's another debate), the effective result is that HTTPS is not built to last.

Everything you build on top of it will require continuous rearchitecturing every couple of years. And I'm not talking about changing some certificates or the like. I am talking spec changes. I'm talking most of the algorithms having changed significantly.

Or maybe TLS 1.3 will be the good one this time. Who knows.
I've done a few open source things, mostly bugfixes or minor enhancements. Most of those I was being paid by my employer for, and it was either something I wanted available more widely and it was worth going through the process or it was a pain to manage patches so it saved me time to get it accepted upstream.

Either way, I don't get paid a royalty for work for hire from my past employers, so I don't expect a royalty from anyone else. And I've not worked on a project basis either; so I'm getting paid for having my butt in the seat and anything that happens afterwards is a happy accident.

I've open sourced some personal stuff too, although I don't know that anyone has looked at it. That stuff is usually more like nobody should need to write this again. Not much commercial market for a PPPoE client that can handoff to a standby machine anyway, but maybe it will be useful for someone, some day.

I've got another project in the works, but it's mostly a bit of glue around other people's open source code. If I wasn't retired, I'd try to get an employer to pay me to write it (and it would get done faster!), but I can't see why anyone would pay for just the software. Consulting on the software, sure; but then again, if you were to rely on it, you'd probably want to cultivate in-house expertise to reduce dependency on outside help.
I’m sure if you worked in a crypto firm you’d learn very quickly compared to on your own
I'm just glad my device doesn't factory reset when I forget to plop it on the charging dock after class. Although my Zire 21 did a good job of making me a backup junkie so I could recover easily from those charging accidents.
lightdm patch means version is upgraded to 21.09.08:

https://ghostbsd.org/ghostbsd_21.09.08_iso_now_available
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