skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? They're nothing alike. One has normal, logical options like selecting sound effects and output devices. The other has useless things like how much the media keys adjust the volume by and whether to entirely disable sound on the system, and is littered with technical jargon like 'undefined' and 'boolean'.
AFAIK nothing requires generic code to be compiled inline in C++.

Heck with explicit template instantiation the generic code may not even be in the same translation unit as the calling code. At that point it'd require link time optimization to inline it.
WSL runs a standard Linux side by side with windows. There are no “Windows part” overlapping with it. A way to think about it is that you have two system that share devices and file systems.
Recently I acquired a used Intel Broadwell system. It's got 128MB L4 cache, which was one of it's product differentiators at the time. Since then, Intel has left out L4 cache from it's CPU designs, citing lack of overall performance benefit. Obviously there must have been some benefit in order for L4 cache to have been included in the first place. I'd like to learn more about how other software projects leveraged that L4 cache specifically, if at all.
The TOTTP and HOTP standards are all public. There are a number of implementations of it like Google Authenticator and saas pass. You can even share the Authenticator codes with teams with saas pass.
it runs a modified kernel in a VM and it makes some basic things like mounting suck and IO slooow
I don't understand why people are fighting so hard to avoid this vaccine.
Your time is the furthest thing from free (reimagining the way we look at FOMO)
The wiki has pretty good coverage of managing vscode extensions: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code#Managing_extensio...
That’s good to know. I hope they really nail it!
No it's not easier because my employees will quit
What other statistical techniques can predict future outcomes while controlling for confounders?
We all should.

I'm generally very "pacifist" (not that this is violence, but I don't like attacking people in any sense of the word) and "live-and-let-live" on principle, but I also follow the "reverse golden rule" - i.e. I assume others are following the golden rule. Therefore:

Bullies deserve to be bullied (and, yes, let's call out this behaviour by what it is - bullying).
You don’t always have to be entertained
How can one know when a choice does or does not principally depend on one’s state?

If someone elects to have wheat toast rather than sourdough toast at breakfast, can they really know why they made that choice? It seems like an infinite regress to me.
Your math is wrong, see the birthday paradox. But still, unlikely.
I keep going to the NixOS website to understand what NixOS is.

it says it's an "OS". I've been in the computer thing for a long time and in my experience, an "OS" is the thing that runs when your machine first boots up. From this it follows that you can't run an "OS" without rebooting a machine (or running it in a VM, or whatever).

Yet I go to nixos.org, click "Learn" (let's assume I'm the supposed "non technical user") click "install nix".

And what we see is two lines of shell that seems to be starting some kind of daemon. I just ran that locally, and it even states, it's going to move things around and start a daemon:

- set up the "default profile" by creating some Nix-related files in
/root
- back up /etc/bashrc to /etc/bashrc.backup-before-nix
- update /etc/bashrc to include some Nix configuration
- back up /etc/zshrc to /etc/zshrc.backup-before-nix
- update /etc/zshrc to include some Nix configuration
- load and start a service (at /etc/systemd/system/nix-daemon.service
and /etc/systemd/system/nix-daemon.socket) for nix-daemon

is nixos an "OS"? Can I install it on a machine with no pre-existing OS booting from a USB stick? would be great if their docs could explain if nixos is an "OS" or some kind of runtime modification of linux / OSX. (Edit: wikipediaing / googling, it looks like you can in fact install it from an ISO, and that Nix is basically a linux distribution. I guess it has some kind of installer that can "morph" an existing distro into nix? their site should be less cagey about basic details like this).

I think if the NixOS site / docs could do a better job, or any job at all, of answering this question it would make it more clear what exactly it is because I only have a vague idea that it's a package manager that rides on top of existing OSes, which is great, but the site doesn't make it look like that.
PETA: Ubisoft: Racist and Speciesist
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar, let alone (god help us) race war. We're trying to avoid that here, for what should be obvious reasons if you've read the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Another satire, in narrative podcast format, spoken by author Zadie Smith. Wonderfully subtle.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/19-the-new-yorker-the-writers...
While I do use Firefox on mobile, I'm talking about the desktop version, like most people do.

The latest rendering improvements are showing great results, and hardware acceleration on Linux is now on part with Windows, so it's fantastic to use on a modern laptop.
Offshore accounts aren’t for evading taxes. They’re for evading laws altogether
Exactly. My personal catalog of "fast fail" heuristics. Alas, it takes a while to compile all the tropes, dog whistles, talking points.

> If people want to convince me, they need to lead with their strongest evidence.

Yes and:

I considered myself a Popperian. I used to think discourse and reason could solve all of our problems. Ha.

How do I talk to my creationist (for instance) family members? What can I say that hasn't been said before?

I can't. And even if I could, I don't have the resources or wherewithal to counterbalance the tsunami of noise.

So I adapted.

One consequence is I'm now a predictionist. Whatever that's called. (Utilitarian?) For public discourse, rhetoric, policy I no longer care about base truth, objective reality.

Just make some predictions and stand by them. How does a belief in creationism, young earth, supply side economics, herd immunity, or whatever (for instances) help me navigate the world?

As I aged, I had less drive to refute every utterance about astrology (for instance). Now I no longer feel compelled or obligated to refute any other given cult.

Okay, I think that's my rant. Oh my god, family can push our buttons.
>At first I opened a router port but the RPI showed access attempts every few minutes, which was troubling. Learned enough about ssh tunneling to setup a systemd service to auto-attach the RPI to an AWS instance.

What was the gain here exactly? The same port scanners are hitting your AWS instance now. If it concerned you before with the RPi (which it shouldn’t btw), I don’t see why it wouldn’t concern you with the AWS instance as well…
when "Add discrete GPU pass-through"
One of the things I like best about programming (not for a living) is that later on, I'll look at my old code, wonder what was I thinking, and rewrite to get the same thing done, more clearly, in half the lines. Quality takes time.
Author gonna get sued by BLUBlox
The decision was made by the chair of the department that was organizing the talk
Not sure why the downvotes, this is 100% what is going on the the top of the top 1%.

Which is why the current congress push to ramp up capital gains to get money back from the rich is super super misguided. It screws startup founders like myself, but it literally has no impact on the mega rich.
Yeah, these articles are missing the big picture. I've seen too many people cite articles like this while implying effectively that sleep and wakefulness somehow is not related to lighting at all, and that's utter nonsense.

Lighting is VERY relevant to sleep cycles, and there's no doubts about this anywhere legitimate. The most effective is to not ONLY use red-tint in display controls but also have dim indoor lighting AND dark red glasses (darker and redder than even the generic blue-blocking sort). And the effective is dramatic. Like really get sleepy with dim light. It's not subtle, it's about as strong as an effect can be.

Studying merely the question of whether a little more or little less blue affects eye health in terms of serious diagnosable eye conditions is completely missing the point.
> Dixon, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is a big believer that “the next wave of computing innovation will be driven by crypto.” His definition of “Web 3” (a term more commonly styled as “Web3”) revolves around blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies — a market that a16z is heavily invested in.

In other words, a guy heavily invested in speculative technology X, is pushing X.
I don't know why, but NordVPN has always made me wonder if it might be a honey pot. Just the way they came on the scene, had so much advertising money, made sure to bill themselves as the "no logs" option you heard the most about etc. But that's just pure speculation on my part
AMD 4700S Review: Defective Playstation 5 Chip Resurrected
maybe proof that a large block of numbers doesn't contain mersenne primes?
> Goodput is the subset of the throughput that is handled without errors and with low enough latency for the client to make use of the response.

"Back in my day..." we used HPS (hits per second) and CPU load as the "goodput". A 'hit' was only recorded via an access log at the end of a successful request<->response. Of course this doesn't measure whether the latency of the responses is unacceptable, just that there was a completed response... so that's where CPU Load came in. If you're doing a lot of HPS and load gets too high, you know latency is just going to get worse to the point of unavailability, so you start load shedding.

In our less-advanced old-school practice, load shedding was merely lowering the maximum requests per second option of the HTTP servers, waiting, and lowering again, until the load recovered. Our tools could reconfigure the server's settings without restarting, but required issuing an admin command to the server and "waiting in line" while the server processed all the other CPU requests under load, which meant the problem might continue for longer than we'd like.

To get around "waiting in line", you would use a transparent network filter (either a proxy, or IPTables) to load-shed. This can be called a "middlebox" solution. But sometimes termination of connections isn't feasible without "dirty" terminations that might cause bugs in clients or servers... and that's [one of the reasons] why people hate middleboxes. But they're great when they work!

You would also probably use Apdex today instead of CPU Load. If your API has contractual minimum latency guarantees, you'd skip Apdex and just use latency itself.
The ban on the rule against perpetuities is particularly egregious in my opinion. It serves absolutely no public good and is basically just a tool to entrench aristocracies.

Also an example of how so many of our laws are bought and paid for by the rich and powerful. My guess is that 99% of South Dakotans don't even know what a dynasty trust is, much less have a reason to own one.
The artictle says:

“But it’s also how quack medical claims and a daily parade of conspiracy theories are made to trend—#Ivermectin“

Fortunately it is not a con, ivermectin truly works. I am in direct contact with many docs who are using it against covid since May 2020. www.ivmmeta.com www.flccc.net

Remdesivir cant show up that level of proof, still being used.

Everyone shall ask questions and dig deeper. Deeper means go read the original studies and research the people behind them. Then research the people who are against it. Interesing pattern going to emerge.

Tldr: it works.
Unfortunately with the way Gecko is structured, the browser requires a lot of connections to the Firefox Remote Settings Server, for:

* OpenH264 Codec for H264 playback

* Widevine (if you enable DRM, it's disabled by default on Waterfox)

* Extension blocklists

* Phishing/malware website blocklists

* Certificate downloads and HSTS Preload Lists

* Captive portal detection

* And a few other security related bits and bobs I can't remember off the top of my head.

I did try to migrate to offline dumps so these things would only get updated at browser update time, but it causes a few issues with the browser doing so.

> WF was obstinately trying to record each and every info about me into a network of servers.

That would be rather shocking to me if it's true - the browser should be making requests to download things, but not upload anything? If this isn't the case do let me know what is going where as that is most definitely not by design!

> WF Classic froze the whole operating system, the keyboard went unresponsive so I had to do a hard shutdown! You know each hard power off could destroy the SSD.

That is definitely not ideal, but unfortunately Classic is very long in the tooth now and compatibility is getting harder with each release.

Sorry you had those issues though, definitely not what we want happening.
An old go of mine at filling in that incompleteness in a minimal way: https://github.com/darius/ichbins

It went a little too minimal in having no comments.
Next act for Apple veteran Ron Johnson is taking home-delivery startup public
Pak nuclear scientist AQ Khan dies
So basically Erlang/Elixir style OS. They wanted to build Erlang, lol.
I'm pro vaccine, and am convinced that the benefits of the vaccine absolutely eclipse the risks, but your math is so horrendously wrong here. Delete this.

Edit, here's some corrections:

This isn't 5 people in a row who had issues, it's 5 people within 4 nodes of distance in their social network. 4 nodes of distance is a lot of people, probably around 200,000 - 2,000,000.

The odds of having severe complications from the vaccine are about 1 in 100,000.

Therefore, everyone should expect to have 2-20 people within 4 nodes of their social network to have severe complications from the vaccine.

The mistake is not realizing the absolutely massive amount of people within 4 nodes of distance in your social network.

The other massive issue I see here is that there should also be somewhere around 500 covid deaths in the same pool of people that produced these 5 people with vaccine complications. The fact that they are focused on the 5 and not the 500 speaks heavily to their biases.

Keep in mind, all of this also assumes that what they're saying is 100% accurate, and these complications were definitely caused by the vaccine, and were not a coincidence. In truth, for every 1 person that has complications with the vaccine, 10-100x had the unlucky coincidence of something bad occurring that would have happened even if they hadn't gotten the vaccine.
Pay walled. Not even summary.
> A lot of odd Nix hate in here, or at least extreme dislike.

I hate this expression. I'm a nix user. But if you can't understand why people dislike it... you're the one that's odd and out of touch.

If you want people to adopt nix the worst way to convince them is to call their behavior odd when it isn't.

The reason why adoption of nix is so low is trivial. High initial learning curve and it's so different from everything else that's out there. The only reason why I got over that learning curve is because my company uses it. If it wasn't for my job I would not have have the will power to climb over that learning curve.

Like seriously can you not see that someone is not willing to spend months learning nixos when they can get a pretty much from point A to point B using a turn key solution like ubuntu?

Nix is great. But you need to climb over the initial hump. That is all.
> when the loan is paid back, is the money “destroyed”

Yes, of course. Interest too. Money in a non-central bank account (or actual coins and bills) is just a number written in the bank ledger. If you borrow money from the bank, the bank just has to increase the number written in your account (and thus creates money). When you pay it back the bank just decreases it (and thus destroy money). And when you pay the interest, the bank also destroy the money by decreasing that number.

Of course, the bank needs to make sure it will not default on its central bank account if you do transfer that money to another bank/into cash, but since those are mostly symmetrical the bank is able to lend much more money than it has in its central bank account. And worst case scenario, another bank may lend them some central-dollars (and if they don't, you get an interbank lending crisis).
Logitech M500S. I have one similar, its great to spin it like a fidget spinner
IARPA Strives for Innovative Portable Power Sources
That'd be a neat name for an operating system KairOS.
You can find them on lcsc.
Time and Distance Overcome [pdf]
That would be like someone giving the United States 5 Trillion dollars to fix its budget problems. Would it help? Sure. How could it not? Would it also cause more problems? Sure.

The problem the US faces isn't a lack of money directly - it's that there's either an unwillingness to make trade offs or a perception that trade offs are not necessary.

I'm not an expert on Lebanon but from what I've read I think the problems are not dissimilar. A tanker full of fuel would help Lebanon. Who in Lebanon it would help is at least an open question. In anything except the very short term I think the main problem is one of politics. It's going to be hard for people not directly involved in Lebanese politics to fix those problems.
I have found that using a dedicated e-reader with a front-lit e-ink display does not cause me any trouble with falling asleep.
> And it wouldn't upgrade to the latest version of NixOS because of some certificate issue

This sounds like Lets Encrypt changing it's protocol. Nix itself doesn't give a shit about such things, but maybe some sort of script was supposed to double-check the cert on boot (just speculating). While NixOS can be reproduciable, whatever software Let's Encrypt runs is obviously outside the host's control, so perhaps "leap-frogging" to the latest NixOS somehow helped.

This is incidentally a good example at why I am pretty against microservices (not saying Let's Encrypt is a bad or a microservice, but it is the analogue of one in this parable).
I found a study within a few seconds on Google Scholar which refutes OP's study.

Using google translate, i see this in the article (German translated to English):

"According to a recent study, contact lenses that block blue light do not provide better protection from eye fatigue than standard contact lenses than standard contact lenses (American Journal of Ophthalmology 2021; DOI: 10.1016 / j.ajo.2021.02.010), according to the DOG."

Hmm... One article versus several:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C44&q=blu...

Several studies available at link above. Here's an example from what I found via google scholar query:

"All light is not equal: blue wavelengths are the most potent portion of the visible electromagnetic spectrum for circadian regulation. Therefore, blocking blue light could create a form of physiologic darkness. "

"At the end of the study, the amber lens group experienced significant (p < .001) improvement in sleep quality relative to the control group and positive affect (p = .005). Mood also improved significantly relative to controls. A replication with more detailed data on the subjects' circadian baseline and objective outcome measures is warranted."

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/0742052090352371...
Money Does Not Buy Popularity, Power, or Influence
I'm an Android user. I break my phone addiction by using an iPhone. Seriously, it works! I find it very inconvenient to use an iPhone to the extent that I use it less often and eventually get out of the addiction.
It has to be successful at some level, otherwise why would they keep sending it?

So I don't think it will ever be solved because fundamentally it's a human issue, not a technological one. While people remain gullible the spammers will be there to take advantage.
I obviously don't know your life or circumstances, but try to ensure it's not a self-fulfilling prophecy where you envision a tragic life for yourself and then steer yourself in that direction.

> didn’t have any clue in how to make it work when young, and now I can’t stand people socially anymore

1. You're still very young. I'm a similar age, and I'm fairly certain when we're in our 50s and 60s we'll reminisce about our younger years in our 30s and 40s.

2. There's a lot of people in the world. It's a bit unfair to group everyone together and say you "can't stand people socially anymore". You likely only need a few close people in your life for it to feel rewarding, and I'm quite certain they're out there.
>Group affiliation is a decent heuristic. It helps you to know what to look for when identifying whether there are concessions made to forward a larger agenda concealed within the text.

That's exactly where the wheels come off. The implication is that individual ideas or policies should be valued based on whether they're part of a platform at the level of party politics or similar.

So what if the idea is part of someone else's larger agenda? What exactly are we threatened by?
Not while incentives for spamming others still exist. If corporations and governments are still seeing the internet as a way to maximize profits/popular approval, the spam will always be the norm.
Citizen app hiring overseas workers to listen to US police scanners: source
Would you please stop posting flamewar and/or flamebait comments to HN? We're trying for something else here, and comments like this contribute directly to destroying that possibility. You've done it repeatedly in this thread already. If instead you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
An alternative front-end to Medium.

To view a Medium post simply replace medium.com with scribe.rip
He must be one of these guys that spends there life coding all the time.
I think we all know one, that guys that has written his own programming language 2 years into college and that codes up until 1 am everyday...
"Untervermietung", translating to "sublease", is illegal for Vienna municipal housing. [0]

In May 2021, a court ruled that this ban extends to Airbnb. [1]

[0]: https://www.wienerwohnen.at/interessentin/serviceinteressent... # Darf eine Gemeindewohnung auch zur Untermiete angeboten werden?
[1]: https://kurier.at/chronik/wien/urteil-wiener-gemeindewohnung...
Well many claimed that Twitter caused the Arab Spring a decade or so ago. That uprushing of democracy in the Arab states. And look how that turned out....hmm.
The big disconnect for me is how it’s just a number on a ledger. So, if I cash a $1M check at another bank than the writer of said check, their ledgers are adjusted, but what happens to the physical cash in vaults?
Wireguard is great. Checkout Tailscale to manage key exchange for you automagically. I just set it up across my home network and devices and it’s shockingly easy. For personal/hobby projects it’s free.
It's a bit confusing (and the old site did a better job explaining this), but basically, you have two separate projects: Nix (a package manager/build system) and NixOS (a standalone Linux distribution that uses the Nix package manager).
Never tried Scoop. I've used Ninite for years and appreciate it's limited scope and app availability.

I love chocolatey as well but I have struggled with it in the past, especially with some more esoteric apps.
There seems to exist in some circles a slippery slope fantasy, where if today we are asked or required to do X then tomorrow will assuredly bring totalitarianism.
> I started building this system after finishing a 3-month rehabilitation program for drug addiction in 2018.

not something I expected to read, kudos on turning life around and being open about it
It's been a while since I've seen an add on Google....

They can ban the ads, but can't ban the truth: there's no economically viable way to change climate. I don't need to see an "ad" to figure that out.