skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The customness of the hardware is partly relative. One had to guess the trajectory of the PC to bet on clones and their components. Of course at one point there was no question the non-x86 workstation used "custom" hardware vs. the kind of more open ecosystem of x86 PC components, however even in this situation doing custom is not even an absolute criteria for success or failure or even eventual economy of scale: case in point Apple. Now of course there is in-house design vs. OTS but while it was true that the first PCs used pre-existing chips, quickly some chips started to be developed specifically for PCs or at least with PC as the main target, by far. So it is also kind of "custom", just developed by multiple companies.

Now in retrospect some workstation vendors could maybe have survived a little more by switching to x86 PC like hardware except the window for doing the switch was astonishingly small and they would have transformed to either a random OS vendor, or a random PC hardware vendor, or even both (even if requiring their own hardware, their competition would have quickly been way more directly e.g. Linux or BSD on generic PCs, and eventually with e.g. CAD vendors switching to Windows it would not have helped either)

Or as a random hardware PC vendor, what is even the point compared to their initial positioning and what was a "workstation". This market is now taken mostly by chip vendors with more or less artificial market segmentation -- and then computer vendors using such chips but they do not define the platforms anymore and add far less value. It's kind or logical; well at least in retrospect, here too. A very few number of platforms had to remain because of both the network effect and the practicality of using and developing for them. And consumer hardware was bound to eventually get state of the art designs (mostly scaled with parallelism for pro hw + a few artificial market seg)

You can take the internal dev route (again: Apple) but you had to target the general public first to do that (so not appropriate for a WS vendor)

Ironically, we could argue that to survive "in a meaningful way", if I read that in yielding a legacy today that could influence the ws workload by providing them at least a part of the platform, the old-school Workstation vendors would have needed to pivot to more pure component makers (for PCs).
or 600000/year for a starter home
"Atlas Shrugged" is a polarizing book: people tend to either love it or hate it. And the people who love it love to tell other people how great it is, whereas many of the people who hate it just don't talk about it (because there's generally little need to talk about the badness of bad books).

I think a book list is more useful if it has some books in it that some love and some hate, rather than only books that no one minds very much. Maybe some of them will turn out to be ones I love.

(I happen not to be a Rand fan myself.)
How to score 79 in PTE Academic?
I didn't know what CNCF is.

https://www.cncf.io/

> Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) serves as the vendor-neutral home for many of the fastest-growing open source projects, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy.

Does erlang and OTP count by this definition?
Yup, like I mentioned, it's really its own beast, and all analogies will be flawed in some ways. But it also doesn't work quite like other taxes, at least in practice.
Windows 98 SE included its own kernel-based virtual machine system, which it used for multi-tasking DOS and “sandboxing” DOS drivers. (They had a global lock and full privileges, though, so it's not really much of a sandbox.)

This is one aspect of the Win9x series which is little-mentioned and little-understood, but IMHO actually represents a huge technical achievement in comparison to NT (which is more of a "traditional" OS design) --- it's really a hypervisor for DOS VMs with all hardware passed-through by default. A similar architecture wouldn't be seen on the PC until KVM, over a decade later.

Yes, you could log in as the system user by clicking “cancel” on the “enter your username and password” box.

Win9x being thoroughly a single-user OS, that login dialog was designed only for authenticating to the network.
thanks this looks good. I'll ask IT for permission.
Apple also has been doing this for photos uploaded to iCloud as they are not currently encrypted.
> Show the user that you care about their issue and can help them resolve it; project confidence; empathize

I did all of this, was good at my job, and there wasn't a language or cultural barrier. It was still hell.
I ended up with this in my .bashrc so I didn't have to keep remembering how to use comm each time:

justA() { comm -23 <(sort -u "$1") <(sort -u "$2"); }
justB() { comm -13 <(sort -u "$1") <(sort -u "$2"); }
bothAB() { comm -12 <(sort -u "$1") <(sort -u "$2"); }
I have in my head the rule of thumb that you can afford a house 3x your annual income (or a mortgage 28% of your monthly[1]).

I don't see the line crossing 3 anywhere on that chart.

[1]Which translates to 4.2 on a 80/20 loan
Please do. That sounds super interesting.
End-to-end encryption prevents a third party from reading your content, but if you are getting your encryption software from the same people that are storing your encrypted data, the only thing stopping them from reading your data is corporate policy.

Which is fine, because I use iCloud and many other cloud services, but you have to acknowledge the fact.
I’m looking on google for more information but struggling to formulate a query that yields good results. What were the results of this directive? Does the government no longer use passwords?
Is Becky Chambers the Ultimate Hope for Science Fiction?
where is main... ha

Yeah I'm trying to work on something for visual code navigation and also project management just a brain fart but yeah.
You are right, since Firefox (and all other browsers) on iOS are somewhat Safari with a skin, maybe Firefox for iOS now can introduce extensions. At least the same "approved" extensions that now works on Firefox Android (more are coming).
Which is why we need "intelligent design" to "help" the virus jump over this combinatorial problem.

For example we can try spikes from different related viruses, or pick and choose various other tricks, like furin cleavage sites, for example like in this rejected 2018 EcoHealth coronavirus research DARPA grant proposal:

https://twitter.com/JamieMetzl/status/1439989291858513929
Police also watch for vehicles (via cell tower tracking) going from legal MJ States, going to not legal States, staying for 30 minutes, then driving back. Cop stops the vehicle after the MJ in trunk is replaced with cash. Cop plays "let's make a deal" on the side of the road.
Incidentally, the same dev also created Apollo[1]. IMO, it's the best mobile Reddit experience.

[1]: https://apolloapp.io/
Hey this is even better! Thanks
> why add more complexity to simple things?

I feel you haven't grasp yet, the actual difference between seemingly simple and truly simple things. Path to simplicity quite often is not that straightforward.

Try for example converting the example you're pointing at to javascript, just for comparison.
The standard mortgage in the US is a fixed rate 30 year mortgage. You can get lower rates for 10, 15, or 20 year mortgages. Also generally you pay an extra fee (PMI) monthly if you put less than 20% down. Adjustable rate loans and interest-only loans are still available but those are really not a good option unless you are not planning on staying in the home long.

There are some other options out there for veterans or first time buyers, but those are the normal options.
How do you calculate income generated in an hour of work without looking at revenue?
Show HN: Breame Python pkg for British to American English spellings and more
This article doesn’t do a great job of explaining what the supposed password-less future is. Based on Microsoft’s article[1] it seems like it will fully be reliant on your mobile phone and the authenticator app that you will have to install on it.

What happens when someone gets access to your phone?
What happens when you lose it?
Does the app on the phone have the same protections under the law as passwords[2].
Is this just 2fa without any passwords at all involved?

Just a few questions and doubts I could come up with in a small timespan.

[1] http://microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/09/15/the-passwordle...

[2] https://time.com/3558936/fingerprint-password-fifth-amendmen...
Covid-19 overtakes 1918 Spanish flu as deadliest disease in American history
> Fortunately we don't need to wonder what to do. WebAuthN is here now and has been ready for a couple years now.

i've only recently started paying attention to this space again, so forgive me if this is a silly question... but does the webauthn standard also include procedures for dealing with a lost, damaged or compromised authenticator device?
While I disagree, your gotcha won't work on someone who already lives in a third world country like me.
That con is why I've used Authotkey to bind notepad to win-N.
This isn’t it at all.

The blogs are in a race to the bottom in terms of quality because there is huge incentive to write for long-tail SEO rather than humans.

This is a lot closer to tragedy of the commons.
Housing Revolution: Factory-made housing should reduce construction costs
The only thing harder than "understanding bad code" is "explaining to your manager why you're going to need oodles of time to accomplish simple things because the code is bad."

I've been in this industry for a couple of decades and I'd consider sacrificing a limb if the latter could somehow become easy.
Thanks, I set up my custom doma8n a few hours ago. Very cool new iCloud+ feature.
Amazon would get even less revenue if you bought your books somewhere else, like https://bookshop.org/ or directly from an independent book store.
2020 may be an outlier, but it means that we're not really concerned about "small" 2% losses right now.

The big dip from last year came and went. These 2% movements don't even hold a candle to what happened last year.

Maybe if you're a new investor who started investing this year, it'd be scary. But frankly, the stock market has been incredibly scary for 5 years now, at least. Flash crashes, COVID19, VIX going crazy, weird hedge funds disappearing overnight (Archegos Capital), etc. etc.

At no time was the story the "stock market". The story was Archegos capital, or COVID19 spreading around the world, or... whatever.
There are tools for this, don't go alone (block telemetry via hosts file):
https://github.com/builtbybel/privatezilla
I think you're in a tiny minority but I'd love to hear more about how it impedes you.
OpenSSL 3.0 released; relicensed to Apache-2.0
In my professional life, I've come to understand the difference between a developer and a user is the degree to which they can think about a problem riggeriously. Most users work at a very high level, a developer helps them break problems down and think about things concretely.
unfair in what way? There is no mention that the people getting out of paying their contracts were poor in the article. Even if they were, what should be done about it? Should people creating smart phones not be compensated for the work that they do? Or the employees of companies involved with delivering telecom services? What is "fair" in your mind? Engineers, manufacturers and customer service people being paid below market rate to deliver premium products like smartphones to people without capital? What's wrong with people purchasing devices in their price range? There are smartphones on the market unlocked for $60.
She needs to immediately rescind the mask mandate, the vaccine pass mandate, apologize and then remove herself from office.

Fucking cock-sucking slut.
In comes me the anti-virus/hacking salesman
That's what drugs are for, no?!
Fair enough. I was looking in the triangle between Asheville, Nashville, and Atlanta. The few homes i was like "I will buy this now if i can get good internets" did not play out for me. I'm looking for an excess of land though, to indulge my many hobbies, so that is certainly constraining my options. It's okay though, I'm in no rush. Once Starlink is rolled out en masse I'm sure the equation will drastically change for me.

Also, FWIW, I meant more rural areas than just "red states". Even in solidly republican states there is a fairly prominent urban/rural divide.
Board and card games get a lot of joy from using the web. There's a lot of silent giants in that space such as PlayOK
Can anyone explain what the cause of the steep cliff drop in the first graph that occurred between 1953 and 1959 might have been? Would this be the postwar suburban building boom driving down prices? Something else?
You're not wrong, per se, but to a very reasonable approximation, that doesn't matter. CICO is much closer to being "true" than not.

If someone wants to lose weight, a simple (though not necessarily easy to execute) plan is to calculate their rough current TDEE, then eat those amount of calories minus 300 or so, and if they're not losing weight, do 200 calories less than that. Rinse and repeat.

If someone follows the above protocol, and we take as a given they stick to it, do you agree that they'd lose weight?

In practice, other diets can be easier to adhere to, for various reasons:

1. Eating at a caloric deficit makes you hungry, which makes it harder to not overeat.

2. People are bad at counting calories, so might get wrong numbers.

3. It's not fun to count calories, so people might not do it.

In many ways, something like keto that works for a lot of people without the annoyance of counting calories, can be much better for many people.

But in terms of the underlying mechanics, it's still a calorie deficit that is producing those results, which might give more flexibility to people who do want to count calories. (E.g. for me, counting calories was way better than any other "diet" I tried - I could keep eating what I wanted, so was able to be very flexible with my "diet" while still losing weight).
Debian with KDE

It's a major distro with excellent security support, it's completely non-commercial, and KDE has a traditional GUI layout with all the optional trimmings (snap to window edges, thumbnail previews in taskbar etc)
Coronaviruses are RNA viruses, so there's only a single copy of the genetic material, vs DNA with two copies. The result of RNA viruses is that they typically mutate at a much higher rate than DNA viruses. There are viruses that mutate faster than Coronaviruses, though.
The app can be configured to require a PIN/fingerprint to authenticate you. The 2 factors become control of the phone and your fingerprint.
Why did you do alignment via jig? I've done this kind of manual configuration in the past when I needed to align two independently-controlled axes to each other (a pick & place handing off an object to another pick & place) , but for registration of a single axis, I'd normally use a "home" sensor.
That's pretty cool to know. The Tata Nano is likely a fair bit lighter though, to the extent that when 4 adults were sitting in it, you really felt it.
>So, perhaps unsurprisingly, if you've had the virus and then received a vaccine, it appears that you have a very high level of immunity

Why would someone get vaccinated post infection?
You can often retroactively activate Cobra for 60 days.

https://www.insure.com/health-insurance/cobra-tips.html#:~:t....
> Why are the rich getting tremendously rich? Because the Federal Reserve has printed money at an astonishing rate, which inflates asset prices. Who owns the most assets? The rich do.

This is exacerbated by capital gains and dividends being taxed at a lower rate; if the gains due to asset inflation were being taxed at 37% instead of 15%, then at least all this money printing would help balance the budget a bit...
> The best passwords are truly random strings that are unmemorable

Let's not fool ourselves: those are no longer passwords. A password in the "things that you know" sense of Two Factor must be memorable for it to meet that definition. Which is not that this is bad advice, as it remains great advice: if you must use "passwords" at least use random garbage passwords that you cannot possibly remember and store them somewhere safe such as a Password Manager.

What it does point out is that passwords are broken and have been for some time now. Those of us with the wherewithal to use random garbage backed by password managers have already been living in the "passwordless future". Certainly it is a different "passwordless" than what Microsoft has done, but it is in base principle the exact same thing: using a "something you have" factor (password manager). Certainly a number of specifics differ and in theory if you've bothered to setup your own you are more likely to be using a (unique) strong "pass phrase" as a master key and at least keeping it "something you know by-proxy".

I appreciate the stance that Microsoft's "passwordless" requires you to give Microsoft more control than other options, but I think we need to be very clear that "passwordless" is the goal whether it is "passwordless" via tools such as password manager or "passwordless" via device hardware keys and biometrics engines. Passwords in the traditional sense of "secret you have memorized" have never really worked well and we should get rid of them. (And they were broken long before the bad password policies that Microsoft helped enable that required constant password rotation.)
For more robust immunity, many people do this.
Also, I block MS telemetry hosts on my router's dns server: https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/blob/master/d...
Powering API Governance with Spectral
Agreed. Two comments:

1. I’ve had some luck using the “I have to clean the work site before I can assess the situation” analogy.

2. I’ve learned to refactor bad code as an effort to learning it, even if the refactor is not going to be pushed into the codebase. For me this is the best way, by far, to figure out messy code.
AD exists as it does today because they were able to meet the USGs definition of a distinct crypto module in the 90s, and it’s too popular to break by policy.
Not if you need to import anything, since you can inflate your currency all you want, but the world will deflate it relative to other currencies.
There's the basic hygiene of writing code: naming things, adding the right amount of comments, letting the compiler do the optimizing whenever possible.

However, I find that writing reusable, highly modularized code sometimes comes at the expense of readability. In the olden days I wrote what I would call horizontally layered code with relatively clear path of execution but that leads to highly interdependent modules. Object oriented code or code that uses lots of dynamic resolution of call sites makes code reading much harder. Multi-threading, at least the traditional kind, adds more trouble to figure out what happens when just by looking at the code.

I think that's why patterns are important: if we give things names people broadly agree on it's much easier to piece together how different parts of the code should interact.
I can see this being an issue for embedded systems that were set up before Let’s Encrypt added their new root authority. Some of these embedded systems won’t have an automatic way to update their trust anchors like browsers and operating systems typically do and so 30 September 2021 will be their Y2K date. RIP oh ye IOT toaster!
If you have a fingerprint or can hack it, it basically will let you into the phone and into the auth app.
Agreed, but it never should have been this complex in the first place :)
I'd be curious to hear what you find subjective in the above, or what you think the motives are!
Oh man. Definitely. It was upon reading this story years ago that I realized just how magical translations of stories could be. Lem's humor is so precise and dependent on wordplay and the puns are non-stop. I have no idea how Kandel (the translator) was able to bridge the gap between two languages that are so different. The English language results are as sharp and precise as anything anything an English speaker might come up with. Possibly better in some instances.
One of the relies makes sense to me:
it's because the win10 search bar is also a web search and this is intended functionality, normal for search bars. they send a new request every time you type a character i assume for predictive search and fast results. you can also see this in bing for sure.
Hydrogen is relatively inconventient/difficult to handle except when transported via pipeline.

There appear to be no dense long range pipeline networks (for hydrogen) connecting multiple countries (yet).

Pipeline networks for natural gas aren't designed to safely transport pure (or high concentrations of) hydrogen, so over a certain concentration hydrogen would have to be converted into synthetic natural gas. The latter conversion appears to not yet be deployed at very large scales.

Seems to me that the reason why there is no large scale hydrogen generation yet (though there are medium-large/industrial scale projects now), is simply that until now large scale wasn't economically feasible. With hydrogen strategies and more pressure from a price on CO2 on their way we'll definitely see more of it soon.
Because China is an excellent example of how unfettered pro-free-trade policies focused only on transitory economic benefits, can lead to the downfall of a superpower — that arc of history is not yet complete, but the rest of the world is at now clearly at considerably greater risk of Chinese CCP hegemony both in Asia-Pacific and globally than we all would be had the focus not been so myopically focused on "free trade uber alles".

In general, and in principle, I'm in favor of free trade - it is the ideal situation.

Among societies with relatively equal capabilities and regulatory environments, and compatible governments (democracy vs authoritarian), free trade should be the default setting.

But, free trade, aside from the massive strategic risks, is also a very convenient way for businesses to externalize their costs. Required to actually provide benefits like minimum wage to your workers? Required to not pollute the town you live it? Need to 'recycle' plastics that can't actually be economically recycled? Why bother, those cost too much! Just export the problems to some other poor nation where you can use slave labor, pollute all you want and just dump the 'recycling' as trash, and complain about Free Trade Restrictions... Nevermind that we create new countries with competitive CO2 emissions, vast polluted wastelands, slave labor, and that our labor force is now directly competing with theirs.

Of course it looks like there's a benefit to us. And of course the economists you sponsor can produce studies showing how beneficial it is. That does not mean that it is true, especially in the long term.

Yes Free Trade in general is a great ideal. That does not mean that it is an unalloyed good in every situation.
I'm excited for the future of ClickHouse! I'm hopeful that this move will help smooth out the rough-edges of ClickHouse, mainly around clustering.
1.6 million people with 540,000 new cars registered each year, and 12000 cars retired. This looks very much like people retiring cars anyway (getting too old to drive, etc) and getting a free transit pass as a bonus. It’s nice but with no measurable impact on car ownership. If Barcelona is truly worried about congestion, then there are options like congestion taxes that London has used in its most touristy areas in order to try to decrease vehicle traffic there. But if you want people to give up car ownership entirely, a lot more than some free tickets for public transport in a select number of zones will be needed, as people already have the option of using public transport, and it is not so expensive relative to the cost of car ownership that reducing the costs a bit will change the equation for a lot of people.