skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I used to think like that - until I analyzed all my PC builds over the last 12 years and realized with Intel changing sockets every generation the whole incremental upgrade thing was fond memories from the 80's, 90's and early 2000's. Once I realized incremental upgrades wasn't a hill worth dying on my choices increased and I've never been happier with the size/weight/speed/battery life that previous dogma prevented me from even evaluating.

Yep. I still have desktop machines and build another every 4 years or so. I used to upgrade machines, but it's just not realistic anymore. If I'm very lucky I'll manage to reuse the case and power supply, but even that's iffy. Stuff's changing too fast, including, as you mentioned, processor sockets. Memory, too. Man, I had some memory in the 2000s that lived through like 3 different machines. Not these days. If I upgraded video cards more often I guess I might manage to do that once per machine, but that'd be it.
Guess who is going to get pulled into court when someone's taxes get screwed up and the IRS comes after them?
I'm on 1.1.1.1 and well..... FB was down.
The CEO recently pointed out on Twitter that the primary purpose of the company blog was hiring, and that the company would write with that in mind. The post taught me something I didn’t already know, and left me more impressed than I was before with Cloudflare. Mission accomplished.
I'd recommend with simple projects like edge-grain cutting boards and moving up in complexity. I got started making cutting boards, signs, and drink coasters [1]. A cutting board is the kind of project that's easy to start off with, but has a high skill cap if you're trying to make something _very_ nice. Plus they make great gifts.

John Katz-Moses - YouTube channel [2] for learning traditional woodworking (cutting boards, joinery, frame making, etc). He's recently been getting into CNC.

Frank Howarth (also on YouTube [3]) - Resource for woodworking, commonly incorporating CNC with traditional woodworking methods.

Winston Moy (YouTube - [4]) - Go-to for learning how to use the Shapeoko line of routers, but the knowledge on his channel is applicable to any CNC platform. He has lots of parametric modeling tips-and-tricks as well. Lots of ideas for starter projects on a benchtop sized CNC.

I use a Shapeoko Pro for my work, but you can get started at a lower price-point by going with a used Shapeoko 3 to get your feet wet. The "Shapeoko and Nomad Users Group (Unofficial)" group on Facebook [5] has lots of projects, and is a good community for getting support with projects, and finding used machines for sale. There's also the X-Carve platform (that I'm not as familiar with, but they're pretty comparable feature and ability wise).

I'd recommend getting familiar with a parametric 3D modeling suite such as Fusion 360 (which does both CAD and CAM in the same package), which is what I use to generate toolpaths once I've created a reasonable looking topographic model in Blender.

My favorite resource for Fusion 360 is "Fusion 360 School" [6]. It has tons of little tips and tricks. The first videos in the channel are a primer on how to use the the software, assuming zero previous knowledge. 3D printing channels are also a good resource for Fusion 360 knowledge.

[1] - https://www.longtailwoodcraft.com/gallery.html

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXBNF-A7QlYT3tT-B9N4ElA

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/user/urbanTrash

[4] - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxdCeHBUOlcCWr6RM8acEog

[5] - https://www.facebook.com/groups/232744457133521

[6] - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU7QDqWAeIdCK5aNFXPgX2g
No, it's not, it's called "living with your means". But yes, hardship -- living in a place you'd rather not live in -- is the consequence of shutting the economy down. Life has tough choices, and complaining about those choices instead of making the best ones available is a good way to make terrible decisions.
Here's the GitHub repo of one of the projects mentioned in the article: https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes
Use `iptables-apply` instead.

iptables-apply reverts to previous config instead of flushing all the rules.
My own personal AWS S3 bucket
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/09/connectivity/backbone-...
M1 is dramatically better than the top tier AMD mobile offering.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Merciless-Apple-M1-Mac-mini-ta...
Open source can be paid.
Is not that they can’t, is that there’s no money in it for them, at least not yet.

At the same time that these companies don’t do anything about spam calls, they formed a consortium to push something called A2P-10DLC on services like Twilio, to force smaller businesses to pay more money for the privilege of texting their own customers. They say it’s for protecting the end users from spam, but clearly they don’t really care about that, instead they realized they were not getting a big enough piece of the pie of texting services and want to get more.
It was a federal trial.
Two studies [1],[2] suggest 40% and 25% of certain violent crimes have alcohol involved.It may be difficult to know whether these crimes would have happened without alcohol anyway. Nevertheless, even a slight reduction would certainly be appreciated by the victims and society.
And what about inventing other means of social grease?
[1] https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/ac.pdf
[2] https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/10report/chap01c.pdf
Through the temporary dissolution of ego and other defensive mental constructs, psychedelics can help rewire the brain and flip on some hiterto unknown inner switches. One of which is better self knowledge. It's not a path to be taken lightly or alone. But is has certainly opened up new worlds to those who dared to thread it.
Would those competitors not have the same moral obligations? Why hold Cloudflare to a higher standard?
The article indicated it was a federal trial. California laws would not be a factor.
Let the sheep have their facebook apps. Modern tech has also brought us strong open source tools. We have stronger encryption in any linux distro than any army had in the 90s. We have communication pathways (Tor) that defeat censorship. I can send an email today, encrypted then sent via Tor, that no government can censor, read or even detect that I have sent. I have a dongle that plugs into my phone that can decode aircraft transponders, or tune any station on a wide spectrum, that cost less than a fancy coffee. Tech has brought many wonderful tools to those of us willing to learn.
beyond reasonable doubt is not the standard in civil suits, internationally or not.

Any laws or contracts only have meaning if backed by some remedy and enforcement.

International "law" is essentially "might makes right", nothing else.
You said "internal links to OS-related information hosted on the web".

Changing to "OS-generated" is a completely different meaning.
Obligatory reminder that libre software need not be $0.
> And you have no problem with this?

It was only a problem when George W Bush wanted to do it. :-p
DEI = Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Survivorship bias is the privilege and luxury of the survivor and the successful.
It's a big share of the fun.
Some say, most do it just because of it.
So it depends by what modus operandi more grandchildren are produced, if I may use a biological term-
Beside, curiosity and smartness aren't mutually exclusive.
To the contrary there are a lot of curious smartasses out there.
And, what would you do with your curiosity without some smarts?
Testing your luck?
They work to stay on top of the pile. Working for impact, or for the business or customers is a career limiting decision several levels below CEO with a few exceptions, usually original founders. Everyone else gets filtered out.
> Software keeps retrying. We get hit by a massive flood of DNS traffic asking for http://facebook.com

If you aren’t using exponential backoff algorithms for your reconnect scheme - you should be!

I have a device in the field, only a few thousand total, but we saw issues when our shared cloud would go down and everyone hammered it to get back up.
Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
It's easy to feel blasé about the internet, but it's also played a huge role in making information easily accessible. I learned about electronics from online tutorials. Taught myself programming. Also learned a lot about home repairs and renovations. Made a lot of contacts, landed jobs, etc. I met my partner through a dating app. I would say the internet has brought a lot of positive things in my life so far. The open source movement we have today wouldn't really be possible in an offline world.

When it comes to all the toxic things that social media can bring, I think we're slowly learning about them as a society, and maybe that's a good thing? Maybe we can develop healthier forms of social media.

I'm sure a lot of people will disagree with me, but I think reddit is basically the anti-twitter, and is a lot less toxic as a result. On twitter you have a one-to-many broadcast system where one person can have hundreds of thousands and even millions of followers that basically encourages flamewars, short inflammatory comments. On reddit, you can get high karma, but everyone basically has an equal shot at writing a popular post, and negative comments tend to get downvoted. Clearly, some patterns lead to more or less toxic and hateful interactions. We should study and learn from them, and use that knowledge to design better social media platforms.
Predominance of antibody-resistant Covid variants in Bay Area breakthrough cases
"At one point, the Adafruit article says you need to "set the scsi options" and shows a cryptic code that pushes a hex number into a file on the disk image of your half-built machine. I skipped that. Not only do I not know what the hex number is or represents, the thing boots fine without that part."

It's cryptic in the Adafruit article, but they are documented. Used to turn on/off support for FAST, WIDE, TAGGING, SYNCHRONOUS, some debugging flags, etc.

http://www.dba-oracle.com/disk_scsi_bus.htm
proves it both ways, does it not?

I mean, I agree that if Apple abandoned trying to control app delivery it would be a big deal. I just don't think a simple rule gets us there.
That’s a bit sad
This is a pretty good example of a propoganda post.
To map this to e-mail: if you receive an e-mail from me, and you delete it, but my e-mail infrastructure--the part on my end, not on your end--isn't sure I really sent it because the servers are flaking out and having tons of errors, and it retries the delivery, what would normally be an idempotent operation (because of how the e-mail you received twice will have the same message identifier) will cause the e-mail to re-appear... specifically because you have no record of having received it; and to make this even "cooler": if you use one of those dishonest "recall e-mail" features that people keep wishing existed (but not only can not should not), and the other side has already received both the e-mail and the recall, but the sender's SMTP server is still attempting to retry the messages, you will receive the e-mail, see it deleted, and then later see the e-mail again and see it deleted again. Is this really so hard to understanding? WhatsApp is nothing but an e2e event queue: it isn't a server that is storing data on your behalf... all of your messages are local to your phone, and with the exception of the shitty "delete for everyone" feature that WhatsApp implemented, your data is your data and the server knows nothing because it is just trying to deliver encrypted events on behalf of other people (who would, of course, own those queues, just like e-mail... but it is encrypted, so whatever weird mental model you have where this is somehow a bad thing terrifies me as to fix the weird issue you have would involve removing the encryption by adding permanent identifiers to queue objects that were visible to WhatsApp and then exposing to their server all of your otherwise-local message storage intentions).
Can't get holograms, let's use drones ha, pretty cool the orchestrating algorithm though however it works
Other than the task bar I think everything else is OK, the ui is cleaner and modern. My main issue is that it feels more like a reskin than an actual OS update. What really changed under the hood? No ones talking about that.
I know two DB bibles which explain how a DB engine actually works. It's much more interesting reading than another SQL manual. But it's not awfully practical if you have no particular interest in DB technology. And both are pretty dense.
* https://www.amazon.com/Database-Systems-Complete-Book-2nd/dp
* https://www.amazon.com/Database-System-Concepts-Abraham-Silb...

There's a very cool not-quite-alternativE:
https://leanpub.com/how-query-engines-work. It covers a fair chunk of DB technology but not storage. Definitely check out their repository at https://github.com/andygrove/how-query-engines-work/tree/mai... .

A companion to DDIA would be https://www.amazon.com/Database-Internals-Deep-Distributed-S... (especially its treatment of LSM trees which is harder to come by).
History is likely saved by Bing. It's just that your address is not saved with it (assuming things are as DDG says, which I'm not sure how much I'd believe that). So net/net - just use Tor, and disable everything there is to disable as far as cookies and other methods of tracking.
> hoping to stave off COVID-19, but in a few rare cases that move prompted liver failure

Ivermectin does not cause liver failure. There is no evidence of this.

The Tweet about the one patient does not say the patient is getting a liver transplant, and they are not sure why there was liver issues.

It can cause liver injury in a really small amount of cases, which should self correct. (I assume people do not think temporary liver injury <=> liver failure)

It's a very safe drug. That's why is so important. But media lies and vilification of a 3rd world drug I guess are more important.

> Among the “kit” drugs were the malaria pill hydroxychloroquine and the antiparasitic tablet ivermectin.

These kits had many drugs in them, fuck society is lame. Ivermectin is on Twitter so that's all we headline. It would be interesting to actually know more about these kits. But curiosity is not a HN thing.
Imagine if Google went down like this for 8 hours. No Gmail, Google Search, Google Maps, Google Drive, YouTube? I thought these companies were a little more fault tolerant.
Software archaeology: I wrote most of this program ~1970 in S/360 assembly language, using w24-bit addressing (&I used the high 8-bits for flags), ~45 years later, it was still getting occasional use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASSIST_(computing)

UNIX really got going on 16-bit PDP-11/20s with <64KB memory.

Software far outlasts hardware.
I am very interested to hear what kinds of health conditions arose from constantly working (both as a case study and as a thing I can do to avoid myself)
I can guess why this was posted but it probably has nothing to do with today's outage. Routing inside a datacenter is different from routing to the Internet. This post is probably more relevant: https://engineering.fb.com/2017/08/21/networking-traffic/ste...
Am also from that generation, but got into an IT career from the early 80s.

I understand where you're coming from. I'm increasingly the least-tech focused of my family/social circle, despite being the most heavily involved in the tech industry. In fact, I think my lack of bullishness in tech is due to the fact that I've been in the tech industry for 40 years. I know where the downsides lie.

However, don't let the current reality get you down. One thing that being in this industry has taught me is that nothing is completely fixed and permanent. To wit, the global monopolist who benefited the most from the network-effect lock-in used to be IBM. Then it was Microsoft. Now it's Facebook. In time, this too will change.

What wont change is the need for level-headed 'grey-beards' and those others who have lived sufficiently long in the tech space to have accumulated some level of wisdom, which they can then share with those that follow.
The scammers all forge local numbers into the call headers because phone infrastructure is traaaaaaaash.
> the IRS doesn't consider accidental mistakes as fraud. A case for intention has to be made before the IRS actually charges you with a crime.

It's relatively easy to screw up your taxes by misentering a number into the paid software as well. The various guarantees the paid software people offer don't cover this sort of situation. I don't think this is really a factor.
If we're going to invent new human rights, what about an employer's right to hire and fire individuals based off their suitability for a job? And if you don't think employers have that right, then do I not have the right to be a nurse as well, regardless of my qualifications?
The performance was near a military installation. They probably don't have a licensing scheme in place yet for commercial drone shows.
That's not what I've heard. The rumor is that AArch64 is as much Apple's as it is ARM's. That's why they're able to flaunt the normal restrictions of the architectural license: creating custom instructions, and not implementing parts of the ISA.
I don't know many people overseas (other than my relatives), but Guam and the US VI are free from my cell, Samoa is 7 cents/minute. (unless I use my home VOIP provider, then it's 2c/minute if I buy a block of 500 minutes).
TPM is to secure software and data from the user. You no longer own your computer.
If by that you mean that AI hype is fool's gold, yes.
New York Public Library: No More Late Fines, Ever
> We should consider that maybe Apple has been also optimizing software to be more performant.

They absolutely do. You can see it in all their bundled programs, too (except Xcode... sigh). Safari, Pages/Numbers/Keynote, Preview, Maps. All snappy and light on resources. None of them prone to slowing down unrelated things on your system. You can leave them open in the background for weeks and forget they're there.

There's also iOS and Android. Android's gotten better, but it's always needed more energy and faster hardware to approach iOS performance and UI responsiveness. The software's simply better, by that metric, anyway.

Another instance of this was visible in BeOS vs. Windows/Linux, back in the day. The difference was not subtle and was present even when running cross-platform programs, so it must have been BeOS itself (and its libraries, SDK, et c.) responsible for everything feeling way faster and more responsive.
The price the users pay to Facebook is their privacy and attention. What would a price cap for that look like?
Since Sibelius and Finale are two industry-leading (and very much competing) music notation software systems, this headline made me do a quadruple-take!

https://www.avid.com/sibelius

https://finalemusic.com

For those interested in (extremely entertaining) breakdowns of the Sibelius software and other offerings in this space from a UI/UX design perspective, I highly recommend Tantacrul's videos, which propelled him to becoming the head designer for MuseScore and Audacity. IMO, this and his Dorico video are must-watch crash-courses for any developer touching UX design, even outside of music! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI
130 millions damage payment to ONE person? Is that not an insanely ridiculous amount? Such things are unimaginable in Europe or elsewhere.
I use chocolatey + boxstarter these days, got a Gist that I can point it to to download everything and it’s all set up in like 20 min with no input from me.
Nice find! I might fiddle with it to see if it changes anything. The VM had no trouble booting without that step.
This is both sad and dangerous. A person I know has recently found out that their Coinbase wallet is empty. She has not used it in about four years or so and is disheartened. So disheartened that I am encouraging her by taking a few actions to recover her assets.
I'd prefer for the story to be battery failure tbh.
Hi, lead author here. Thanks for your kind words on the value of our work!

This work is definitely more on the practical or engineering side of things, and we believe it has significant research value as well. Our work echoes motivations from prior works, but the choice to target C++ and its limitations represents a fundamental difference compared to prior works that instead use uncommon/new languages with expanded feature sets. We believe that the synthesis of ideas from prior work, combined with our implementation strategy of co-opting existing language features, allows us to create a cohesive, C++-based system that is a novel contribution to the field.

Nevertheless, these types of "systems" papers are sometimes challenging to review, especially if reviewers are unfamiliar with systems research. The novelty comes from the act of building the system---it lets us see what "just works," see what doesn't (e.g., shader specialization in this case), and figure out solutions to the challenges that arise along the way.

I think Kayvon Fatahalian of Stanford University does a fantastic job of illustrating the value of systems papers here: https://graphics.stanford.edu/~kayvonf/notes/systemspaper/ and the structure of our paper is certainly influenced by this philosophy.
I think you had wrong expectation. I was 11 in 2000, when I got access to the internet behind my parents' back.

I was surrounded with shady people, learned the darkest of the dark of humanity very young and never had any utopia: people are monsters, women are always men, help is never truly free etc. Im not sure how it was before the internet, but clearly I never had a view of it as an utopia: it s a jungle.

Facebook and opinion sharing network in general are not very important: if people could be Nazi in 1940, Im not sure why you think it's different or even facebooks fault: they simply reflect what we are.

And nobody want decentralization of power really. People want power centralized closer to them.

For one, I think the internet became better and cleaner with time. Or it s me who get trapped a lot less.
Not sure about these drones, but on my toy drone I can absolutely cut the power and let the wind autorotate the rotors while it falls toward the ground. No need for a freewheel, since the unpowered electric motors spin freely (which isn't necessarily true for a helicopter's engine).

There's no collective so you can't "flare" for landing like a helicopter, but during autorotation the terminal velocity is still much lower than if the blades were fixed.

The drones in this video fall a lot slower though. This looks like controlled descent, not autorotation.
Absolutely, plus I have seen a bunch of people going mental about not being able to reach friends or family because WhatsApp is down, when WhatsApp uses the person's phone number as a means of addressing messages, just dial them and talk to them or send them a text... People can be a little dim sometimes and forget that the primary function of a phone IS communications, and not just a platform for running apps.
You're demonstrating my point.
Right. But doing the calculation is pretty hard for most people. Add that to the risk associated to making mistakes and most people will probably prefer paying a bit and have a “””guarantee””” that there are no mistakes. (I don’t disagree he. Just pointing it out.)
Language changes. It's the 2020s not 1980s.

Language may change, but language changes which cause 'damage' need to be resisted.

There's too much that's positively aligned with the word 'hacker' to let those who without clue ruin the word for everyone else.