skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently it's not. I live in Finland and I've never had my internet connection cut off in a supermarket (or any other large building). This has happened to me sometimes in Southern Europe, though. I don't know if they boost the reception somehow in large buildings here or if the building materials are just somehow different.
That seems like a stretch, but worth investigating. ;-)
I'm happy to see news about RxDB. I really want them to do great but have the same concern with the inactivity of underlying tech. Both PouchDb and CouchDb have existed for ages and are such a great fit for modern web apps. They just lack the adoption and connection to newer frameworks.

An activily maintained SvelteKit/RxDB starterkit with built in auth might might get RxDB some new fans.
Thanks! Yes, absolutely that's the plan. We too _really_ want to search over everything and have it all stored locally (or remotely on user-controlled VPS). This was our original idea, but we decided we should launch something and hopefully get feedback or just meet other people who care about this problem space.

So yes, we want to search everything locally. For me personally I find Notion, Roam and _all_ chat apps to be particular pain points.

Email too, although I've found that email search often delivers what I'm looking for so the pain point is much lower.
If you're going to argue for aggressive funding, you should probably include fusion:

https://i.imgur.com/3vYLQmm.png
Kate Collateral Damage Is the New Netflix Game
Yes, a first version has been released, but it still needs a lot of ironing.
> Is tricking your adversary into trying to be competitive with stealth tech you yourself aren’t competitive with

What you are "tricking" them is that you are flying over their airspace and they can't do anything about it. Secret projects are kept indoors longer, testing schedules are delayed, effort is put into hairbrained stealth detection tech, etc.
Docker Desktop also includes a full Kubernetes distribution. It is actually the easiest way to get a local K8s cluster on Windows or Mac.

Docker desktop also includes Docker-compose (a way to chain multiple docker container together)

And of course the UI.

Podman is just replacing the basic docker CLI. I would say that podman replaces about 20% of what Docker desktop offers.
Apples entire dev relations team needs a complete overhaul. Pour money into big bounties - they have it! Then use that as justification for charging 30% IAP. Also maybe be nicer to Indy devs who help promote your platform.
What is the definition of maliciousness that you are thinking of?
I know, right? How did he fit Electron into 1Mbyte of RAM?
The images link in the article (https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/70sArtHiRes/70sArt/art.html) doesn't seem to exist anymore. A working URL seems to be https://space.nss.org/settlement/nasa/70sArtHiRes/70sArt/art...
Most OSes in high integrity computing are micro kernels already.

The Switch performance also doesn't seem to suffer from having a micro-kernel, specially if we look at their sales.

Finally, Linux has long been tainted with micro kernel like stuff, with type 1 hypervisors, userspace drivers like DPDK, Project Treble (userspace drivers with Android IPC), systemd, security critical applications like browsers moving back to UNIX process per task model, containers,...

In a hypervisors cloud based systems, doing microservices and serverless, with language runtimes that are hypervisor aware, who cares about monolith kernels?
It isn't intended as one.
Accuracy will depend on whether/to what degree SpaceX commits to providing a positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) service.

The technique used in the article is quite powerful and general, but it does have certain drawbacks too. One advantage is that it is relatively insensitive to errors in the ephemeris. The path we are exploring relies more heavily on the ephemeris, as you speculate; but these can be really quite excellent, even in the sub-meter range. Actually the bigger source of uncertainty for absolute positioning using non-Doppler techniques will probably be clock errors. For Doppler, integration time/time-to-first-fix is a sticking point, unless you have 8+ satellite signals, IIRC.

We think accuracy in the low single digit meters is not too much of a stretch (note that I am making a claim about a rather different technique than the one in the article... nothing worth doing is ever totally straightforward!).
> I was thrilled to see that ProtonVPN recently added openvpn over tcp as an option

They also support WireGuard though currently in beta.
One old story I remember is about how Lego have built their own virtual world platform and then spent enormous amount of developer time figuring out how to programmatically detect when a user-created content turned out to be shaped like a penis.
Workplace injuries.

Probably better to call it 'CIA Syndrome' as its common factor is that 99% of the victims work as 'spooks'.
There is the Anthem Veterans Memorial that projects an image on the ground on November 11th at 11:11 and at no time else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_Veterans_Memorial
Is there any reference to delve in the details of GIL, multithreading, multiprocessing, high performance computing on top of Python eco-system?. There are some interesting projects such nimba, Dask, etc, but the resources are a bit scattered.
Sometimes an issue gets fixed in a new release and nobody bothers to close the ticket, it may even go unnoticed altogether. Stalebot is just about the only way to get rid of that clutter. If the issue still applies, it can be reopened and maybe it will get some renewed attention.
I think Amazon is invested too.

But even as a customer, EV delivery is a big cost saver and competitive advantage for Amazon. They o Lu way they'd let them fail is if they could buy electric trucks cheaper elsewhere.
Would you trust the NSA’s thoughts on recommended algs given their chequered history?
Exactly - selling heroin to kids (outside of medicinal purposes) should be illegal. Whether it is a "company" (co-operating group of individuals) or an individual seems irrelevant.
(I think it meant) "If you visualize the monetary flow in the article publishing business, the "sickness" involved («pain») becomes visible: the energy waste becomes so apparent that it suggests replacing money directly with energy".

Concept that its author wanted to stress by crafting an energy consuming post.

(Joeberon, you never had to extensively decrypt the texts of theoretical philosophers of the latest centuries, had you ;) )
I don't disagree with your point, but one consideration is that GUIs are going to feel more familiar to most people, particularly non technically savvy people. Most people wont care about the objective efficiency of an interface - if it looks and feels like something they would use on their computer at home, they will feel more comfortable and adapt to it quicker. A TUI will be less familiar, more likely to be looked at as "old" and "clunky" (irrespective of its its merits) and thus people will adapt to it more slowly.

Obviously, "back in the day" TUIs were the only option, but computers were not as a prevalent back then, so there was no familiarity factor to leverage.
Way to build a SaaS web App for FREE
It's a fork[1], they've just not enabled telemetry by default I assume.

[1] Same folder in the original repo: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/platfor...
Or France.

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/us-secret-assistanc...
I can only imagine what a pain it would be to get InfoSec approval for such a tool, unless it's doing everything on-device.
I often think about this. We do clearly waste CPU cycles by the boatload these days, but what would the carbon footprint be like if we were still using these machines now? How does the power consumption compare? How would it compare if we were still using the protocols and languages of the past?

(I'm not an 'everything was better in the old days' kinda guy, but I do think about this just as a curiosity).
Yes, it can be hell. Especially when you find out you need to make a quick bank transfer so that the purchase will go through (There's a certain shop in Warsaw which has dead zone for cellular internet near the checkouts, I always need to double check before going to pay...)
The only way we can do that is by voting for political parties that have climate policies, or do a coup. Neither can be done by one person. Making sure software used by many use less energy, can be done by a single developer.
> Strange how this implies that the end-all-be-all of VPNs is IPsec

And no mention of poor configurations such as IKEv1, pre-shared keys and aggressive mode?

The NSA did like breaking IPSec VPN configurations according to documents exposed by Snowden
better than a list of stale issues?
Heh, ah yes windows. Definitely want to support this. Will be a bigger lift than Linux, but definitely something we'd like to support (we both have windows boxes too so there's a bit of skin in the game).

Regarding the GUI, good question. The GUI does _not_ need to be open. There's a background process that periodically copies new history from the various sqlite databases into the BrowserParrot db.

In Activity Monitor this process appears as "core." I know, terribly ambiguous name. It was originally named for the Clojure namespace where that bit of code lives, but renaming the process to make it more clear what's running is on our backlog.

Can also find the process via `lsof -i :44444`.
It was also well known that the reactor was unsafe. It was a cash grab by a corrupt government, something that would never happen today.

Which is why I hate when Chernobyl is mentioned as an example of poor nuclear safety.
Technically interesting, content controversial, overall good advertising for lisboa as a location for tech.
This will enable incompetent journalists to make even more outlandish claims about conflict of interest by politicians.

Like AP claiming the Florida governor had a conflict of interest by taking money from a hedge fund that had a <0.001% investment in a pharmaceutical company that he later advocated for through policy/speeches. By this logic, taking cash from a hedge fund gives you a conflict of interest in practically every industry and company in existence. [1]

Or Politifact claiming the former president had a conflict of interest in a pharmaceutical company by owning an index fund that happened to own it (the amount of second or third hand ownership was less than $1,500). [2]

[1] https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-coronav...

[2] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/09/facebook-p...
> For everything else...

Except for:

- Docker Compose (because podman-compose has a large amount of open issues https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/issues)
- Docker Swarm (since Docker provides a lightweight orchestrator out of the box), you'd need to use something like K3s or another Kubernetes distro
- anything that uses the Docker socket (/var/run/docker.sock), so you can forget about running anything like Portainer or any of the other tools out there
40% more?
Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
Once again, in my view, the so called "limitations" exposed here (hyphen and "long-ass lines") are just problems of imperfect clients; while I can understand the long rant about lack of inline links and italics and bold, the analysis of how limited a developer is in "expressing his creativity" in my view shows that the author has not understood that gemini is *user/information first*, so these limitations are there to convey information with a low signal-to-noise ratio, any "embellishment" is useless and not recommended on gemini

gemini is designed in these ways to make the content consumable everywhere, separate from its representation

The idea is to be able to read text anywhere, from an arduino to a 64qbit Qwave sunBreaze, where "reading" also includes blind and deaf people (via text to speech), people who do not care about the possible "text justification mania" that the author seems to care a lot about

Finally, I think that gemini together with small companion protocols and file formats (e.g. amb[1], uxntal/subleq) are fully compatible with permacomputing concepts and this, in my naive but very tired view of the current state of the internet, is enough to understand what is good and what is bad.

[1] http://amb.osdn.io/

full disclosure: I really like this protocol and have developed a full unicode client for esp32
> One of the differences is that some systems of yore looked more rooted in the engineering mindset, whereas today some perceive a way overly "excessive" (in fact, simply wrongly headed) focus on the dumbest specimen (and not to help it but to celebrate it).

I think this is largely due to the increasing pervasiveness of computers. "Back in the day" the consumers of a software package were likely either very skilled people, or people who were paid to use the software as part of their job, and thus would receive training. Nowadays, there are many more types of computer user.
The unix date command does this.
>Wasted half the lab

I don't think it was entirely wasted time, though. You can't plan to teach that kind of lesson ("Look outside of your usual blinkered problem-solving-space"), it happens when it happens.

As this whole thread shows, most of us learn it during our careers at some point but you were lucky enough to learn it before you even started.
Most likely, that's already the case. This seems like a classic violation of non-electronics/photography zone.
interesting : I've often felt that this was the way to go.

But on the other end, when I stay up at night, get into the "flow", I really like that feeling that my time is not "bounded". ok, it's bounded because at some point I'll need to sleep, but you get the idea.

I have the feeling that working on a project in the morning before kids and wife get up in the morning would put additional stress (like "sh*t, I have only 30min left to solve this"). That would make the thing not nearly as enjoyable as in the evening.

How do you relate to this feeling ? Maybe those morning hours should be dedicated to tasks that have a highly predictable duration (working out / cleaning inbox / ...) and not to "discovery mode" (when you want to solve something but have no idea on how to do it).
SSL/TLS based ones will just be more interoperable and have fewer connectivity issues through intermediary network devices and access points.

But TLS has traditionally been a nightmare, crypto-wise, to say secure. POODLE, CRIME, BEAST et al.

At least WireGuard is either secure or off.
I didn't say python was bad. And I didn't say that it's impossible to share data between processes (I even mentioned some options).

My point was just that the GIL, while not a dealbreaker or anything, actually _does_ affect how a program is written. So it's implicitly noticeable in my day-to-day.
I don't have any concrete knowledge to say Starlink satellites rely on GPS, but based on what I know about satellites with thrusters and autonomous formation flying capabilities, they almost certainly have one or more GPS receivers onboard.

My understanding is that the SpaceX ground stations uplink the orbital parameters of other satellites and/or debris and it is mostly up to the satellites to avoid a collision. You need very precise onboard location knowledge for that. Also, I bet they are using GPS time to synchronize the fleet.

Of course you can still synchronize and maneuver the satellites manually from ground stations if necessary. And they probably do that when a satellite is misbehaving. But overall the Starlink operations concept is probably tailored to mostly automated operations.

So IMO they would definitely have big issues if GPS went away suddenly.
I'm sure I could design codes people would scan. Ideas "dog lost, scan to help". "win free iPad at Apple [Apple Logo] offical back to school give-away for education [QR]" "50% off Coke [QR]" etc... and just make up a domain "officialapplecontest.com", "couponsforcoke.com" etc..
Yes. If you’re paying for your lifestyle you can do what you want. If you can’t support yourself and you need someone else’s help, they make the rules.
With sufficiently high wages you can get people to change jobs to become truckers.

Problem here is that truckers are not working in vacuum, their wages come from the transport of goods. If the goods have low margins, wages of truckers cannot increase by much.
I had to clean the button switches every once in a while, and IIRC one of them failed on me completely.
You know, I'm always astonished to which length people go to defend Apple!

Apple makes a gadget that has an explicit mode for good samaritans to locate the original owner. This mode has a security flaw (lack of input validity checks, I thought we overcame this stuff last decade?) that opens up the good samaritan to abuse by means of phishing. And somehow you want to explain to me that that is not a problem?
Just because I can take a random car and drive into people doesn't mean a self-driving car having a bug that drives into people isn't an issue, to give an example of why your logic doesn't pass.
It's mostly your random good luck and other people's random bad luck. A lot of building design choices can result in severe signal attenuation in microwave range, and not all buildings will have internal femtocells to cover that - or femtocells that accept your SIM.

Also, some buildings change over time in how they attenuate, especially freshly built ones where the walls are still "drying" can have close to 0 reception inside. When my parents built their current home, I had to keep an informal map of where the signal was strong enough to use GPRS (yay 7s ping in MUDs) and for voice we usually went outside.
The only native mammals in New Zealand are bats and marine mammals.
I don't understand why people care about the CPython GIL. For computationally intense stuff (numerics) running in the interpreter, the language is generally 60 times slower than PyPy and often 100 times slower than an equivalent C program. That means if you want performance, you would need to dodge Amdahl's law and have 60-100 processors for a hypothetical GIL-less CPython to match a single threaded program in PyPy or C.
> TFA makes it sound like no two Python programs can execute simultaneously on two different cores

It does not. It states that two python threads can’t execute bytecode simultanously, the implication is that that’s within a single process (which is the case) otherwise talking about threads makes no sense.

> I have the feeling what the TFA really means is something different. But I cannot really figure out what.

TFA means exactly what it says. Two threads can’t execute python bytecode in parallel, because there’s a big lock around the main interpreter loop (that is in essence what the GIL is). That is quite obviously within the confines of a single Python interpreter = runtime = process.
Despite the name and what the CCP wants, the South China Sea is not Chinese. The US maneuvers to keep it international waters, so do we Europeans.

The US has every tight to sail however it wants in international waters, so do the Chinese.
That department is essentially the red-headed stepchild. Think about it, what manager would want to be in charge of a team with no feature set timeline, milestones, etc? It's exactly like you said, having a functional and working team that gets the day to day bugs fixed, it doesn't gain any clout in the company. Instead, you need to be in the AI or hardware division, so you can be respected as a 'pioneer.'

It's all about values. Security and lets say, all submitted bugs fixed within 30 days...that would be a pioneering status for a company. Good luck getting approval for funding and staffing for that though in a company obsessed with those navel-gazing commercials about space travel and such...
What really changed in those 40 years? He is still doing the same job, with the same effectiveness. It's not really unexpected that the $/hr would remain the same. Honestly I am more surprised that it correlates that well to inflation.
You can write wonderful JS-based offline-first apps.
Hey Paul? Where’s Rob Slavis?
Or at least $10 billion?
I use Pouchdb local and Couchdb on server and it automagically keeps all clients in sync.
I think the point is that even if you grant this significant apparent limitation of the premise, it doesn't mean the whole thing is useless. (Nevertheless, the presentation is still incoherent, because it both welcomes and disparages data with multiple current states in semi-independent databases.)

Even if we have perfect and constant connections, you still obtain benefits by writing in this model: for instance, if you assume you have a constant and perfect network connection, you can connect a websocket to the server to ensure you always have the current data for each page and data type. Or, you could follow the offline first model and have a singe update/subscription system to mirror the database locally.

I'm very nervous about their presentation. It says "offline first" and "websites lie because they show you the current state of the data at the last time you had a network connection". If the latter is a problem, a lie, then you can't possible write offline first. You might write using a model that works equally well online and offline, but you necessarily accept forking data and multiple current representations if you allow a computer to show the data without being connected to the authoritative repository of that data.

I think the author has many good ideas, and might have a very good implementation of a very good set of ideas, but this intro page reads like the sort of thing that gets misinterpreted a dozen times and you end up with something worse than current interpretations of "premature optimisation is the root of all evil".
Last I read up, The number of ships had been reduced, so saying there is a capacity increase is news to me. Where did you hear of this?
See this for a good comparison

https://ourtechroom.com/tech/https-vs-ssh-in-git/
We don't want to because publishing in open access costs us $2000.
There also could be medical reasons for the removal of arms. That doesn't mean parents should be allowed to remove the arms of their children as they are born.
I use PouchDB. It works pretty well.
It changed demand. So some items increased in popularity.
Not just other squirrels. I have seen a magpie sitting on a wall waiting for a squirrel to finish burying its nut. Once the squirrel had finished, it descended to have a good poke around the burial area.
That swings to the other side of "you either die an MVP or build content moderation": people are not going to submit real ID for a random project. They've only just started implementing this on Youtube ""age verification"" because they were made to, and Facebook only did it as an arbitrary after-the-fact hammer. It causes all sorts of problems (what do you regard as valid? What about deadnames?).

Twitter and lots of other sites do phone number verification which is less onerous but far easier to spoof.

And of course the biggest, highest profile moderation challenge involves people whose identities are known but nonetheless are toxic to the community. Including the "final boss" of content moderation challenges, Donald Trump.
"Study aimed at collecting DNA from 10,000 people with autism and their families has drawn criticism for failing to consult the autism community."

...it sounds like they consulted / planned to consult at least 10,000 members of it.
One theory I have as to a contributing factor is that the streets are poorly maintained in enough of America that an SUV/Truck suspension is a noticeably comfier ride.