skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bud, I work on this stuff, I know all about Cavium and Mellanox firmware and it's issues, specifically with things like the math/integers used to determine packetflow which is used to charge customers having issues on specific versions that that have been internally patched. Do you think I just randomly typed this? It's even worse now that a huge chunk of their firmware teams have been lost in the shuffle of all of the competitors being bought and brought under one umbrella. Do you recall a bug on AWS years ago where they were incorrectly charging customers bandwidth usage? Everyone uses these types of nics, tons of PAAS/SAAS corps had that problem.

What an obnoxious, pedantic and naive response.

"And no, you definitely won't be in "much better place" by "ripping it off" because modern NICs have very complex firmware with hundreds (if not thousands) man/years spent implementing and optimizing it."

What do you think I just explained? I literally write this stuff. Modern nic firmware is still written in C and still has bugs. Do you seriously think drivers/firmware aren't going to have bugs? You just said yourself that they're high complexity. I can't believe I'm even needing to explain this. You've clearly never been a network engineer, do you have any idea how many bugs are in Juniper, Cisco, Palo, etc?

If you don't work on bare metal architecture/distributed systems, move along. This isn't sysadmin talk. Almost nothing used is stock, even k8s gets forked due to bugs. You can't resell PAAS with bugs that conflict with customer billing. NFLX isn't reselling bandwidth so they likely don't encounter these issues, they're using something like Cedexis to force their CDN providers at the edge to compete with one another down to the lowest cost/reliability and they're liable for things like this and can be sued/loss based on their contract. They (CDN customers) are acutely aware of when billing doesn't match up with realized BW usage. They'll drop the traffic to your CDN and split more of it over to a "better" CDN until those issues are mitigated - and while you're not getting that traffic you're not getting that customers exoected monthly payment... because now they're buying less bandwith from you because Cedexis tells them that you're less performant/reliable.

ANY large customer buying bandwidth from a CDN does this, none of this is specific to NFLX whom I know nothing about beyond.. "this is how reselling PAAS works."

I bet the next response is "no way NFLX uses a CDN".. LOL. They all do, my friend, HBO, paramount, disney, etc. They aren't in the biz of edge caching.
Can it run on a raspberry pi?
Wow. Nearly every comment here is from someone who doesn't see this as a problem. Suspicious. Manipulative much?

Incognito implies exactly that to the layman. Even with a warning about specifics. We had a sense that Google is acting in good conscious when incognito and it was the opposite, AND they have tried to hide it.

Google saved our incognito searches to our Google profiles. Period. They misrepresented a product they built and have earned these consequences.

It's not just Chrome incognito either. Google has acted shady time and time again with unfair business practices. Like YouTube, photos, mail, and drive account lockouts with no options to recover, because "we investigated our decision and we say we were correct. We're not going to tell you what you did wrong either, and you can't get your data back."

Google needs to pay for their misbehavior.
This is explained a bit further into the article:

> A nice feature of the lines function is that it automatically strips newline characters such as LF and CRLF so we no longer need to doline.rstrip().
who says I'm spending my crypto? I'm spending my Euros moved over to my Crypto account...
I might be inclined to agree somewhat, except for the situation described in the article.

It's one thing if somebody raised internal concerns about possible misconceptions and it was ultimately decided that it wasn't likely.

It's another issue when those concerns are important enough to reach the CEO of Google-sized company, and that CEO then decides not to do anything lest they attract any attention. This is particularly true when dealing with something like a privacy mode.
Funny how the anti Catholicism comments aren’t being banned for “inciting a religious flame war” like the comments on the nonsense Koran API were. Yet another example of Islamophilia. That said who takes the word of the Catholic Church seriously? One of the most corrupt and criminal organisations ever to exist. Just read Hitlers Pope by John Cornwell
Both Peterson and Smith’s content falls squarely into the tarpit of bullshit asymmetry: anything that they chose to mouth off on takes an asymmetrically large amount of effort to rebut. That’s not how I’d prefer to spend my time, and it’s not something I can reasonably ask any person to do.
You can absolutely disable them in the Pro and Home editions.
Yes Mr. Goxx has been crushing it lol. Love the name.
I agree with your point, but I also think more nuance is possible in structure.

For me, sync and async are good for different kinds of things. So I think a good distributed team needs to get at least decent at both and uses them when they fit. We all know the horror of a meeting that could have been a memo. But we also know the horror of the interminable email thread that should have been a quick discussion.
A gravestone missing for almost 150 years was being used to make fudge
Ask HN: As a solo developer, how can I find a solid accountant?
I am a solo developer with a SaaS product that makes a substantial amount of money ($500k+). I think it has gotten to the point where I could use more clever accounting to save money and leverage the income better.

How can I find a solid accountant (preferably someone that works remote, and has experience with SaaS businesses)?
Is he wrong?

Also, the Nevera has 4 wheels. Which means that the 2 000 hp it has are, mostly, BS. That much power can't be delivered to the tires. Not unless they have custom, street illegal, tires.
I used to feel pretty bad that I never made time for reading when my kids were tiny. In retrospect, it’s totally fine. I doubt you need the reinforcement, I only wish I realized how reasonable it is not to have time for things (even things you care about) when parenting is turned to 11.
You wrote: "the stack is not free."

Which is even more vague (and broad) than what I was talking about. Given that we are talking about converting recursive algorithms into iterative versions that nevertheless use a stack datastructure, the comparison between the machine stack (used for recursion) and a program-defined stack is a perfectly appropriate criteria to evaluate your vague statement. I gave specific microarchitectural reasons why I predict the machine stack will be faster and you responded (a fairly reasonable response) that we should measure. So please do. I'm not the one making broad claims so the burden of proof still lies on you.
No-bullshit no-security-claims-they-can't-satisfy email provider: https://mailbox.org/en/
> Perhaps both should be killed off in favor of a JSON-based format.

As long as XML has DTD and Schema, it will be superior to JSON
> It is reasonable to assume that you won't be tracked by Google when you're incognito in Google's browser.

Given the existing functionality of incognito mode, what would you call its set of features that it provides? Is it a naming / branding issue?

I believe it should be possible to provide these set of features (or browser operating mode) without going to the extent of not being tracked by Google (the company and its services), even though the ability to do the latter seamlessly would be beneficial.
90% of the meetings that are landed on my calendar don't even have so much as a unique subject or a one-line description of what the meeting is about. Most usually, the scheduling party reuses an old invitation, so any information in the invite body isn't accurate anyway.

They're usually sent to me sometime after midnight, EST, for a meeting at 9 AM. When I did go to the office it wouldn't be uncommon to hit some traffic and arrive to find out you've already missed a meeting you didn't know about. If you did make it in, you were immediately ambushed with an angry customer who doesn't understand timezones or business hours.
but as always Google decision to not allow extension on chrome is detrimental to people like us. Thankfully at least we can load 10-15 extensions on Firefox especially ublock origin.
That's the new text that was introduced a month or so ago. I'm not sure what the older version(s) said.
I don't have crippling Anxiety, but Anxiety is crippling me
From the outside in, people think that I've got it going on. I grew up poor, and I was an awkward shy kid, and - a few decades later - by any measure I am living the American dream. With hard work I put myself through college at night, survived divorce, lay-off, and more.

When I was 18 almost as a joke I started a little FUN project that ended up as a mildly successful company with a small exit. Then I follow the college-job route, here and there thinkering with entrepreneurship, but while I was not longer socially shy/awkward my ventures often were relinquished to lists, or just acquiring a domain (at one point I owned >200 domains), or building a sucky web site, or filing a provisional patent, but I was "marketing shy", I never put myself out there, or at times I hid behind some excuse that I know now they were lame AF: "I need 20 million dollars in VC to make it happen".

Plot twist, once I got a meeting with a VC I blew it off with an excuse.

Even at work as a VP I have the "failure to launch" syndrome, I promise projects and then I don't follow through because I get stuck somewhere where my Anxiety cripples me (often when some deliverable involves managing other people).

Nobody believes me, not even my therapist. Let alone my dozens of ex-girlfirends; but here I am. Planing planning planning and never seeing a venture through. Insecurity, impostor's syndrome, lack of self-esteem... I got it all.

I am my own worst enemy.

I need to get through my own BS.

Any pointers? Leads? Books (I've read so many)?

Or should I just be my own life/accountability coach and kich my own derriere? Should I just move to a crappy little dark place and deprive myself of food and any pleasures/necessities (become hungry by choice) and have my ventures be the ones providing my income, and not my job/savings?
The 2019 nipah conference was December 09-10. The first COVID patients with symptoms had only entered the hospital the previous day and the epidemic was still unrecognized. Why was anyone talking about a vaccine for a disease no one knew existed at an unrelated virus conference? Can you source anything to that effect?
Did someone say factory-produced? I love the classical animations too, but you are aware of this right?: https://youtu.be/hjmaOj3_sKk

:^)
New Study Finds the Human Metabolism Has Four Stages
I agree that labeling should be simple and easy to understand, but people aren't going to understand "non-caching". They don't know what a cache is, other than that websites keep telling them to clear it. "Local self-clean" tells me absolutely nothing, other than that I can maybe use it to blow dust out of my PC.

Google needed a name that fits on a button, translates easily and is recognisable. That's why we're using "browsers" instead of "HTML5 user agents", why we use "windows" instead of "top level control elements" and "sleep mode" instead of "ACPI power state S3". Using technically correct terms for the general public is exactly why people prefer dumbed down smartphones over complex traditional software.

Since its inception, private mode has shown a screen that describes what it does or doesn't do whenever you open it. Had Google omitted that, and directed private mode directly to the user's home page, then perhaps I'd agree with you. In this case, I believe Google did the best they could to balance a technically correct explanation with something that's understandable by normal people and children.

You can't blame everything on "the user shouldn't have to know better". An automatic gearbox won't put itself into reverse when you want it, but it's still called automatic. A juicer won't turn a spoon into metal juice. A vacuum cleaner won't work in a vacuum. All of this is perfectly logical if you're used to the context things are used in, but that context obviously doesn't need to be part of most products' naming.

Misunderstanding naming and terminology is a sign that things need better explanations, but not the basis for a lawsuit in my opinion.
Land is unique among resources (as is labor).

I don't necessarily have issue with someone renting out their second property, but I am starting to think the societal problems with large scale rental operations and the disappearance of land ownership as an achievable goal for so many, outweighs the right of large scale landlords to exist.
A place to start looking would be Tutanota. How they measure up in all respects is unclear to me, but they seem to be genuinely trying to be as private as they can.
Governments are too powerful, and with any sort of centralized resource there's little to no hope of its not being in some sort of agreement with a government (or governments). The only alternative I can think of (vaguely) is some kind decentralized mechanism in the vein of how torrents, tor, blockchain (IDK what else) work.
Begs the question at what point does ownership change. Can I trace batman but change his hair color? what about just his face? or just his mouth? Can I cut and paste a bunch of superheroes together and claim it as my own? etc
I was comparing Kubernetes to self-managed VMs, not Heroku. Heroku absolutely makes a lot of sense in many cases (small teams, simple use cases, etc).
Is 1/10 workers a blip?

This article has the number at 16% https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-gov-kathy-hochul-declares-s...
This would be a lot less of an issue if Mozilla let you install addons that weren't signed on the stable channel. Or at least had a way to add a custom signing CA.
As a Canadian, it's super frustrating to see that now Meng is free, the Canadians we're freed, even though they weren't supposed to be related at all, so clearly China bullied us in their fight with the US. One spent their time in a $14M mansion in Vancouver with an ankle bracelet, and the others in prison with the lights on 24/7 and god knows what other horrible things.
> I strongly believe platforms should be forced to allow interoperability

At what level of API with what level of SLA?

> and it should be illegal to prevent or frustrate access from other clients or services.

Many existing APIs that are intended to allow access are extremely frustrating and poorly designed and implemented. Obviously this is true for products and services as well.

It seems very hard to imagine how you could mandate good quality design and implementation of APIs.
100% agreed. Kubernetes/DevOps is huge cognitive load, way over-engineered for an average project. Kubernetes should not come into picture unless you can afford a full-time DevOps person for your team. If you can’t then you are not big enough or haven’t solved a real problem yet.
The model is to get absolutely free fuel which would otherwise be wasted, at the source, and using the most insignificant transportation infrastructure & costs, turn it into a thing of value that can be beamed out using the wireless infrastructure already in place.

Every thing else cannot cost zero except for the fuel (which is what it should be since it is actually waste being recycled) so there must be no tax either on that in order to even have a chance.

You can assume the coin will be what generates tax revenue instead.

Regardless, the business might fail, but even a thin margin might still allow the most respectable scaleup when the raw fuel itself is truly free.

It might require a lot of mining installations to dim some of the brighter flares, but there should be no net increase in CO2 emission from the portion of that waste natural gas running through generators rather than the flares.

Alternatively it could also be expected that the CO2 from generators would be more physically feasible to capture without emisssion, and the coin might be lucrative enough to pay for it. It would be great if the business performance allowed for this to be one of the highest expenses and still yield adequate returns. And capture technology ideally should be able to be brought within reach in advance of it becoming cost-effective under non-free energy models.

In a free energy economy you should be able to afford to be as environmentally responsible as possible.

No doubt it would be very interesting to compare to solar and hydro mining.
Cool, thanks. I'll check it out.

I've mostly been keeping an eye out on the aircooled VW conversions (or that EV 1968 Mustang on youtube).

It'll really get interesting when you see more from-scratch cars that don't have the ICE history built in. There are a lot of changes that could be made in design. If the government didn't love to get in your business so much, maybe there could be a world of street-legal EV karts.
At least in the US, we can’t seem to build any large projects of any kind. I just don’t see nuclear happening here.
Taskwarrior [1].

Brilliant utility. Surprising amount of well thought out features. Very flexible.

The C++ source code seems well organized on first glance.

[1] https://taskwarrior.org/docs/
Also credit cards are an extraordinarily expensive way to send fifty cents.

Stripe charges 2.9% plus 30 cents per successful transaction.

So your fee on a fifty cent micropayment would be 63%.

The lightning network would be free or perhaps one sat, which would be 0.08% of a fifty cent transaction.
Unrelated to your core point but your ISP blocks ntp servers? Wtf? Either some part of the story is missing or that ISP is insane, blocking a piece of core internet infrastructure for which there is, I would guess, no reason.
I think any of the following would be acceptable:

* Chrome sends a signal to google.com around not tracking in incognito mode (Chrome already does all sorts of magic on Google sites, this would be a small addition)

* Incognito mode has a clear warning that Google specifically will keep tracking you

* Chrome loses all Google branding
Extremely tedious (IMO), but totally possible if I for some reason wanted to. I've often had a long tweet (it's often an effective customer support avenue, but the character limit isn't conducive to conveying detail..) but as GP says, it's just a case of writing what you want and then whittling it down with a bit of rewording/rephrasing/abbreviation.

Thousands consecutively would 'just' take thousands of times longer, it'd be O(n), I just don't have any desire to do that, it's not fun for me.
Science is a methodology, not a destination. So of course your opinion is not science, but it can align with the current state of scientific findigs, or not. In the case of climate change, my opinion aligns with the current state of science. I would rather not believe in it, because the implications of climate change are rather unpleasant. I also do not think e.g. Margaret Thatcher was a strong believer of whatever ideology are you talking about, but she tought climate change is real enough, and that was 30 years ago.

In the last 15 or so years I have read hundreds (probably well over 1000) science papers about various topics. Those in climate change seem to me to be scientific enough compared with other fields.

Also racism and feminism are very far from main topics of my life, maybe because I am from a different part of the world and also left most social networks. But the climate change seems to be still happening around here.
> What is the issue exactly?

The OP has too much time on their hands. :)

You can play this whack-a-mole game indefinitely. If you have SSH open to the Internet, expect that others will try to connect 24/7.
What are some secure alternatives? I changed from gmail to protonmail a year ago thinking it was better.
Choosing fo rewrite software because of a license does not have to be "religious". There are very real reasons why license matters. Especially when it comes to GPLv3 and companies who hold patents.

This is one of the reasons why Google Android, and probably many others, are using Toybox for their userland. Because it's distributed under a BSD license.
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Maybe I’m misunderstanding substack, but isn’t that more or less what it’s for? I know it offers features for making money off of subscriptions, I just generally think of it as a place where writers are expressly attempting to make money.
I think I’ve read more that sugar and processed foods correlate with obesity and depression more than cholesterol? Explains maybe some of the folks here posting turn around when going carnivore, not likely to eat a lot of sugars or processed foods. There’s lots of ways to be a vegan, not all of them are healthy
If you're really concerned about someone stealing your e-mail don't store it on a server! I download all my e-mails to my laptop using Thunderbird, where I store them in an encrypted filesystem. I make daily encrypted backups of the e-mails which I store in the cloud, the encryption key never leaves my device. I keep 3 months of e-mails available online so I can search through them on my phone (which is an acceptable risk for me). IMHO services like Protonmail offer very little additional protection over that.

Few people remember this today but downloading e-mails was the norm in the early 2000s and before. You would only keep a few weeks or months of e-mails on the server and then either delete or download them, as providers didn't offer very generous storage quotas. It was only with the introduction of GMail that this changed because Google offered "unlimited" storage (since they wanted people to store all their e-mails online so they could mine them).

BTW Protonmail doesn't need to inject extra JS into your client and wait for you to login in to decrypt your e-mails, they receive them all in cleartext and they send out e-mails for you in cleartext so they can simply log them without any modifications to the client code.
i think tutanota has a better reputation, but email should be thought of as generally pwned
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When I Degoogled myself I went with Fastmail mostly because (at the time) ProtonMail wanted my left kidney for a sane mail quota.

Haven't regretted the decision since. Spent a while building up email filters and that's about it.
One that isn't thrown into gmail's spam folder?

I wish I were smart enough to self-host.
>factory-produced crap.

Wait until you find out how hand-drawn animation is made.
Yes, this kind of thing just shouldn't happen after the "sudden global outage of all add-ons [incl. privacy ones]", followed "no, no, don't worry guys, we forced out a fix via a secret backdoor!"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823701
I guess that's the big debate around GitHub Copilot and open source code, especially GPL (but also others).
This is right up there with the poodle in the microwave. Everybody knew that “incognito mode” was an euphemism for “porn mode”.
> At what level of API with what level of SLA?

Could be dependent on the size of the company/userbase. E.g. Facebook (>100M users) should implement full API, while a small company inventing new social software (<100k users) should only implement minimum API.