skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love getting lost in a libraries, just randomly picking a book from the shelves. Which hasn't been possible for a while, because of COVID. The Archive has helped me a lot during the pandemic. I often go there just to read something on the Byte Magazine collection, or old manuals for mainframes, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, 6502 Assembly... romances, year books, games, etc.
Typically bug trackers are for tracking bugs; not having discussions about the direction of the project. In some open source projects feature requests in general are entirely off topic in the issue tracker (though I'm not sure if that's true for Gnome).
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>Prefer async/await over directly returning Task

This one seems questionable to me. I've never been bitten by any of the cons mentioned[1], and it's even noted that doing it this way does incur performance costs. I've learned over the years that if the code path is very prolific, it pays to avoid the async state machine.

I'm curious if others could expand on this one.

[1] https://github.com/davidfowl/AspNetCoreDiagnosticScenarios/b...
Of course. It's the "zoom" effect, not sure how else to call it.

Take mountain climbing. When looked from outside you imagine the mountain, the green, skies and what-not, but the actual task view is 90% gray rocks, 5% your calloused hands and 5% sky.
You’re comparing software and hardware. I can comfortably say that most stock 7 year old laptops would not do well running Windows 10.

But more to the point, it is a true rarity to find manufacturers that provide support that far out for their devices. If we’re bemoaning planned obsolescence, Apple is not the poster boy for it (in my opinion)
It makes little sense to lay cables in the water in the canal, since they're always doing construction, digging, and dredging in and around it.
Such bellyaching over a free service. Yes UX is important, Yes consistency is great. I cannot say however, whatsapp UX is great, nor can I say, matrix' rivals have been glitch free. so lets remember that.

Matrix is a great idea. Its looking like a great implementation, and in its time it will be mostly perfect. Its a work in progress.
I hope the Matrix Team keep up the great work.

Matrix' biggest issue is gonna be getting people to change over to use it from whatsapp, et al. There is a social comms app saturation happening. Resistance to use comes from people saying, I already use so many different apps, and no one I know is on matrix. Now THIS is hard to fix.
I didn't RTFM, but I imagine the difference would be between "sending my investment money to a trusted, independent broker to be put into index funds" and "personally trading stocks over which I have legislative responsibilities".
Particularly bad violations have been the Fed presidents making multimillion dollar trades with personal accounts, and Nancy Pelosi’s husband apparently directly trading on privileged information.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/16/fed-chief-powell-orders-ethi...

https://fortune.com/2021/07/08/house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-hu...
It's not whether they are useful for you, it's whether they are useful for anybody at all. If they did never and will never pay a dividend or have a buyback, then yes, they are a pyramid.

But it was just a matter of thinking a bit about it. Everybody knows what Bitcoin is useful for: cyber-extortion and evading capital restrictions. There are even good reasons for practicing the last one... With that in mind, BTC still behaves like a bubble, but proving it's actually one depends on a quite laborious process of comparing the volumes and estimating how they will evolve.
Off topic. Did anyone else's AI generated text radar go off on this article? Seems like too many fancy words.

I wonder how many media outlets use GPT-3 to help generate content.
>the company will either go out of business as people claim costs associated with the breach

This is the desired behavior.
They prevent the family of employees of companies that host contests and sweepstakes from participating, don’t they?
I was involved in a blockchain (DeFi) startup. All the blockchain companies are mostly a huge pyramid scheme. The company I worked for has a lot of big claims, raised millions, wanted to solve world hunger, prioritized partnership, marketing, while having no working implementation. Others in the eco system are the same.

The NFT scene is even more BS. It could destroyed uninformed people's life, just like gambling. However, this kind of gambling is public on the internet with little regulations.

I hope more tech people speak about this instead of just ignoring them.
China declares all cryptocurrency transactions illegal
Yes. Basically. This item is available for a lab setting with many fancy options. Cost: 50.000 USD

If 10.000 units of a customized simple version are ordered, the cost is 500 USD, give or take a few hundred dollars. This was not my estimate, this was the quote given by a company.
>Moving beyond the question of individual disk reliability, btrfs-raid1 can only tolerate a single disk failure, no matter how large the total array is. The remaining copies of the blocks that were on a lost disk are distributed throughout the entire array—so losing any second disk loses you the array along with it. (This is in contrast to RAID10 arrays, which can survive any number of disk failures as long as no two are from the same mirror pair.)

This feels a little disingenuous to me. This is a distinctly RAID-1 problem. This doesn't feel like a BTRFS problem. Everyone knows RAID-1 = 1 drive loss.

>I don't have anything specific to say about btrfs-raid0, other than the fact that it's raid zero. Any failure of any disk loses all data on the array. This is not a storage system, it's a virtual woodchipper. Avoid.

If the previous paragraph felt disingenuous, this one feels downright malicious. Not only does BTRFS RAID-0 have no differences from normal RAID-0, but the blanket recommendation to avoid it makes no sense. There are many use cases for RAID-0, but the author is acting like this is some kind of problem with BTRFS.
Does it matter? Its basically just bitcoin that makes up almost all of PoW.
You want a streaming service where I could, say, upload a video file, then you pay (say) $5 to buy or rent it, and I get paid (say) $4?
hooray, finally some good news this week.

even aside from reducing the amount of financial stupidity in the world, bitcoin uses as much electricity as entire countries! to process 4 TRANSACTIONS PER SECOND:

https://www.blockchain.com/charts/transactions-per-second

what in the ever-loving fuck are we doing with ourselves.
We already have a definition for a politically exposed person.
‘This’ is a discussion about whether the EFF is worth supporting. I’m not sure that is what they are trying to promote.
Can you shift into it when moving and will it perform engine braking? Not sure the AT would survive that.
Datco announced in NPlay Southern Cone 2021 that it projects a 1,026 km submarine cable to Antarctica, through the Drake Pass

https://www.convergencialatina.com/News-Detail/324197-3-8-Da...
I'm based in Dublin city, currently trying to buy a home somewhere that lets me live as car-free an existence as possible.

I'm avoiding reclaimed land and low-lying areas (of which there is a lot in the city), because they're probably going to flood more regularly, and getting flooded is awful.

I'm not going to move to the countryside because (for my lifestyle at least) living in a fairly dense urban area is much more environmentally friendly than buying a one-off house in the countryside, driving everywhere, and getting stuff (water, electricity, online shopping etc) delivered relatively long distances out to me.

I don't have the time, energy, expertise or inclination to grow my own food on my own land, so it's much more efficient to let farmers do the farming, and just walk or cycle to the grocers and supermarkets to pick up what I need. Irish agriculture could be a lot greener as an industry, but that's a topic for another day.

Same goes for mains water versus finding patch of land with my own well in it. Economies of scale exist, and the environment will benefit from my using them.
All money is highly volatile, but the goverments and the military work hard to hide that. That's why we have the occasional bubble where banks lose everything we ever made.
I don’t think it’s “purposeful” as much as the fact that the fundamental fungibility of money makes it very hard to write legislation that covers a reasonable amount of loopholes. Or rather, while purposeful loopholes could exist, it’s very hard to prevent legislators trading stocks even if there were no deliberate loopholes.
No direct cable between US and Russia... e.g. linking up the Bering Strait. Anybody know the reason for this?
Outright banning trades will only obscure congressional trading (shell corps, friends/family, etc.)

I would prefer a public registry listing all congressional trades. I know this is legally available data, but very difficult to access.
You don't think an international megacorp with the 1.2 trillion dollar market cap, under investigation for possible action or inaction leading to the subversion of the democratic process, should have to answer to anyone?

You're not wrong - "might makes right" is certainly old-fashioned.
The majority of the article is about how the author spent significant time working on mature products, not just doing little green field apps. It sounds like they definitely know the difference between a proof of concept and an actual product.

Besides, the only difference between the two is whether it has customers, it’s not engineering milestone that makes a POC a product.
I guess he just really likes SQL. Can't blame him.
I don't think anyone is talking about banning lawmakers from investing in broad market indexes and the like. They're talking about banning buying and selling individual stocks because that opens the door to trading on non-public information they receive as government officials.

For the vast majority of people this kind of passive index based investing is actually what will lead to the best returns overall. So I don't think your conclusion that this sort of change would restrict public office to very wealthy people is correct.
> People who signed up early to the right blockchains will have priority access to certain software ecosystems and exclusive services which are only accessible to the richest among them (for example).

This seems even more like an anti-feature TBH. Imagine not being allowed to use the future equivalent of basic services because you were not "early enough". Sorry grandma, no wedding photos for you because you didn't buy these specific three coins out of the thousands started every month.
didn't know that! do you know if they use memory palaces? can you share info about 'em?
Not sure why you're so downvoted.
It's a way to move capital out of the country. Bad.

China is trying to prop up domestic stocks and investment. Crypto blunts that effort. Moreover, following or reclaiming the money is difficult, slow, and sometimes impossible. Very bad.

Crypto is probably something that the NSA can headshot and easily kill your cottage industry. Also bad, but to a much lesser degree than the capital flight.
I work in financial services (mostly) as a consultant. All of my trades, and those of my partner, are monitored. The SEC has a data science team (Market Abuse Unit's Analysis and Detection Center) that specifically looks for insider trading using market data and generates leads for their enforcement division. The goal is to not "solve", but to disincentivize the casual offender and punish harshly the determined when detected.

Humorously, my trades and capital market activities are more regulated than Congressional representatives who have direct access to MNPI (material non public information), which I do not have access to. As this NPR piece alludes to, we should fix that.
The Nancy Pelosi family office is one investment vehicle I’d like to invest in.
> static analysis which Apple obviously uses as part of its approval process

This analysis is a joke, it just scans strings inside binaries against the list of symbols corresponding to what Apple considers to be Private API. Gamed exploit can be uploaded to the App Store and binary will pass their analysis with flying colors
This is great because quite frankly wrangler dev is just terrible.

I've had nothing but problems with it.
"You guys are protesting incorrectly" is among the most useless things you could write. It's Kaepernick all over again but for the tech crowd.
Hard agree - the only thing bitcoin can reasonably be spent on for most folks is black market goods (usually drugs).

Which is really why bitcoin exists as thing today, in my opinion. It was a way to pay for drugs over the internet.

The rest of the pricing is purely speculation, and it hurts any real utility it might provide.
>Btrfs has had no real work done on it since then

changelog seems to refute this point entirely.

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Changelog

>anyone that is actually serious about data storage has moved to ZFS

sometimes data storage doesnt have to scale, and thats okay. there are still plenty of use cases for lvm/xfs/mdadm in environments that dont need Google levels of service. im "serious" about data storage and run raid10 btrfs.

>or has left POSIX filesystems entirely.

oh get off the cross. redhat intentionally threw backing into XFS to make it functional with Ceph. just because BTRFS has issues with RAID5 (arguably the worst RAID) doesnt mean the whole of POSIX storage has been relegated to the ash heap.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the "1GB ram per TB" is for the de-duplication table.

ZFS' memory cache (ARC) by default uses up to 50% of system ram and frees this under pressure. You can also set it lower.
This is what insider trading laws do already. It's not a perfectly solved problem but it is problem with an existing solution.
If Apple will not do the ethical thing then why should people try to help them? I say give Apple 30 days and then sell it to someone else. Let Apple live their own reality.
That's more a "we're free to claw back the prize if we discover you ignored it" rule than anything else effective.
I get why they invented this for flatpak (Even though it still could be done with processes and namespaces), but my original point was wondering why they did not originally use fork, exec and pipe.
>Apple have put pretty high standards on what people expect to work with all laptops nowadays

Linux too. I have a Dell XPS Developer edition with Ubuntu. When I close the lid, it simply goes to sleep and doesn't wake up again until I tell it to.
China is performing a sort of seppuku, will be interesting to watch.
> This problem looks unsolvable to me.

Elect only people with no living relatives, and execute them after term's end.

I vaguely remember some fantasy novel I've read many decades ago with this premise... The Goblin tower?
All of this discussion is worthless without any transparency about the numbers (and I don't mean: FB's lost revenue). I'm still of the opinion that targeted advertising [0] (as opposed to context-aware advertising [1]) is a bunch of BS. So 80% of the traffic to Carousel came from FB, but how useful was it? Is there an actual drop in total visitors who spend money on products? And how is this across the market? Does this mean smaller companies are now getting a larger part of the interested people where as they couldn't pay for them before? Was FB anything more than a "pay us for traffic"-mafia?

Is there any win for the tracked people, or were they just getting served ads for inferior products from companies that spend more on advertising instead of quality? I really hate reading these pieces without this information. It's really useless.

[0]: Tracking and profiling based ads as FB offers

[1]: Just show me a laptop ad when I'm reading a review of laptops, or shows me the latest Trek MTB on an MTB site.
Mildly out of context question:
Has anyone tried those virtual memory palaces available for VR headsets?

I feel like this would either hack it and make it instant and available for all or fail miserably without helping memory.
Trampoline "users" fall as China declares gravity illegal
I believe you lack understanding of BTC monetary policy. I'm 100% sure you don't think you do though.

BTC is at the point where if you don't have time or want to research what it really is, and only want to believe talking heads and authority figures, no one is going to take the time to explain it to you.

Those days are over, people have moved on and are using it for utility, without permission, how they see fit, whether as a currency or store of value.

Nothing can prevent a BTC transfer to anyone, anywhere, and at anytime. That is why China 'banned' it.
Cold war?
On one hand they do us all a solid by removing FacePuke from our phones in a meaningful way. But then they ruin that by implementing the infrastructure of Surveillance on our phones under the guise of the CSAM stuff.

So was Apple removing FB simply because it sees value in its ability to be the sole arbiter of content/habits/data on your phone?
I used the Jelly 2 for a year and now I'm on the Titan Pocket.

The Jelly 2 was fun but the screen size was just too small to type on. I don't do much typing on my phone, but when I had to, it was very painful.

The Titan Pocket is OK. It's pretty much everything it claims to be. The only problem I have with it is that I can't get my various messaging and reminder apps (K-9, Slack, Teams) to stay alive in the background, so I'm not getting any notifications from them. I had the same problem with the Jelly 2, but turning off battery optimization for those apps fixed it, that's not working on Titan.

Unihertz phones are so cheap, it's fun to play with them for awhile. Ultimately, I think I'll end up back on a medium sized (thankfully it's trendy again to downsize screens), touchscreen-only device, with a 3.5mm jack, hopefully running Linux.
Money and status are different.
no.

They are digital certificates congratulating you for paying a higher price for a digital thing that has no utility other than being a diamond handed bag holder.

They know it is a scam, since that the only winners are the celebrities, influencers, meme creators. The collectors who keep buying NFTs however, have to wait and find another fool willing to buy it off of them for even higher.
Geopolitically, the region of former Yugoslavia is extremely valuable, historically as well as in the present. Sadly, I expect renewed trouble here in the upcomming decade
Of course they are. You're only buying one thing: artificial scarcity.
> Outright banning trades will only obscure congressional trading (shell corps, friends/family, etc.)

>I would prefer a public registry listing all congressional trades

Wouldn't your proposal obscure congressional trading as well, because they want to preserve their alpha by not publishing their trades?
Thank you! Haven’t played any Advance Wars but I will check out Wargroove.
We should also do away with the steak dinners, golf trips and other 'perks' that lobbyists/vendors give them in exchange for votes.
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How are you paying through the nose? i never click on ads so every ad service ive used for the last twenty years really has been free.
False.

1. Anti-user mechanisms (SafetyNet) annoy users.

2. Even though SafetyNet may not be as annoying as something like UAC, it still has deep reaching effects[1] since now the standards are proprietary and nobody can make an actual good UI alternative to the garbage dog-slow banking app.

The irony is your stale rhetoric only applies the other way: Users who were saved by "risk analysis" and firewall type systems don't know they were saved and don't care.

1. I assume this attestation is checked on the app's server - I assume Google signs their attestation that your device is "good" and this is verifiable by the server of the banking app. Otherwise the in app checks could just be nopped.
It would be helpful to know if your Airpods and MacBook Air were still under warranty when you reported these problems. I believe the warranty period is one year from the date of purchase.
Is water torture better than death?
Fabricated demand, Person A purchases NFT_1, Person A as Person B buys NFT_1 from Person A. Person C thinks NFT_1 is worth at least what Person A paid for it and buys it, hoping to make a profit.
Cynically I feel like we’re maybe expecting a lot here. Privacy (and I’d assume security, given it’s a necessity to achieve that) was a well-timed marketing drive at Apple, but that was months ago. You can’t expect them to support these minor features forever!

Besides, why focus on something as superficial as keeping your private data safe when the new iPhone now comes in a gorgeous pink finish. And with Ceramic Shield and the lightning-fast A15 chip? It’s truly the best iPhone they’ve ever made.

These puppies sell themselves without all that expensive privacy talk.

Honestly their attitude to the bug bounty makes me wonder if there’s not a small group of engineers that keep screaming about this problem just to have the door closed behind them and a “lol nerds” giggle heard from the execs on the other side of the door.
We learn as a society to elevate those with training to positions of authority with a system of checks and balances from others with knowledge to moderate any instability.

We're already doing this, there's just a segment of society that doesn't seem to understand that skepticism isn't the same thing as critical thinking.

It would be ridiculous for the Bar Association or medical boards to be directly elected by the general populace, so they have a credentialed population with training and at least a modicum of specialization in the field.
> try using a pen or touch as a meaningfully usable interface

Have you tried doing that on windows? No a pen is not supposed to be used for scrolling on a pc, it's not a smartphone: https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Windows10-Community/issues/17

I have seen windows ads on pro/enterprise on the lock screen even.
Source for Bernie Sanders?
Fortunately it seems their rabid community of fans are dedicated and clever enough to provide custom ROMs once the company ditches their older devices. Still not a great substitute for actual software support.

In today's market, I genuinely prefer a little Bluetooth keyboard with a dock for propping up a tablet or phone. If I need it, it's way better than the membrane garbage on these things, and if I don't need it, it isn't unnecessarily bulking up the phone in my pocket.
Potential idea to somehow have 51% of the programs on github be malicious to taint copilot?
Time flies fast when you’re having fun.
Not always, but wrongful civil forfeiture is just one of many possible ways to steal. In other cases using the court system will be possible. With bitcoin, it is never possible.
True but it is complicated by the fact that code signing is generally enforced for executable segments. (JIT compilation entitlements are generally not available to apps beyond Apple's own MobileSafari builds)
This is an american-centric view of the law; elsewhere in the world (including europe) judges don't reach silly decisions because a law was imperfectly drafted.
Honestly, pay them more. In every major country, if they're running orgs that have multi-hundred-billion-dollar budgets per year, and you have a few hundred of these people, you can pay them well-enough that sneaking around isn't really profitable.

It would not be unreasonable to allocate 0.1% of your budget to compensating the people who control the budget, in exchange for them abandoning their conflict-of-interest positions.
You may have heard the rumour that GTK/GNOME developers make software for simpleton users that don't exist. But you've just run into a power user feature that you don't understand.

Now, what do you think will happen if the GTK/GNOME developers get rid of that "bizarre textbox" so it doesn't get in your way? Yes, they'll get a torrent of abuse for "removing the last power user feature" or something. :-)