skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of these DNS resolvers run on lots of servers instead of a single one. Whether it’s through load balancing, anycast, or other technologies.
> timesheets or use amphetamines

If you're not lying on your timesheets, why would you need to resort to amphetamines?
> Have you ever been told that you are more of a left-brain or right-brained thinker? Maybe you’ve heard someone use those terms to account for being more inclined towards science and math than art and literature (or vice versa). Growing up, I often felt conflicted about which side of my brain was “dominant,” because I couldn’t choose between my love for the STEM disciplines and the arts. Research has shown, however, that I needn’t have worried— the left-brain right-brain dichotomy is a myth.

https://plebeianscience.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/debunking-t...
This person does: https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2021/09/24/the-war-on-the-hor...
But with the web finally becoming the true, real, cross-platform that Microsoft was then-irrationally terrified of 25 years ago, I don’t know what Apple’s strategy is to remain the best provider of the best UX when everyone is going to be using Chromium in some form.

This certainly seems to be the case for desktop apps but not so much for mobile. Personally I'm rooting for the mobile web but the momentum seems to be on Apple's side right now.
Remote work is the single biggest incentive that keeps me loyal to a particular client or employer. I get to do what i did as a kid and on top i get paid for it: write code on my awesome set-up in my awesome room. I get it some may not like it, but for me this is a huge plus and a dream come true.
Free Post-Soviet Building Generator for Blender
I need to figure out what I can use it in, but ordering one to try. I wonder how it compares to asian style fish sauce.
> you can't get a license for a highway rest/gas stop without offering toilets for travellers of all kind.

The province of Ontario is looking at legislation to mandate delivery folks can use a location's facilities:

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/trucking-ontario-wash...
I haven't tried it, but there is a list of available dictionaries in Plover format [1] including French, Spanish and Italian.

As to switching on the fly, I can't see anything in the docs about it - this extension might work? [2]

[1] https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/List-of-Avai...

[2] https://github.com/nsmarkop/plover_system_switcher
How Apple is gaining smartphone customers during a chip shortage
https://danluu.com/productivity-velocity/

Docstrings, writing documentation, talking to colleagues on Slack, asking questions on stackoverflow, writing mails, browsing, working in the terminal. We spend a lot of time writing. How much time could one save by e.g. doubling the speed?

Another aspect is of the working memory - will it free your brain's resources? Will allow writing at the speed of thought allow for new/more thoughts?

I think we should explore these waters, and steno is a solid choice.
You are describing Erlang and it can not get simpler than that.
China proposes guidelines on internet platform responsibilities
Stenographic image watermarks would make sense here. Different methods could be used to increase the uncertainty. The point here is to be a deterrent. It would not have to be reliable.
AI would be a reason for not entering the industry. I can't imagine it's likely someone would "walk out the door" because of something that might happen in a few years.

I saw your "
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Seems a bit large for it to not draw attention
One of the teflon flasks had glass in it.
Spot robotic dog lands on US FCC commissioner’s ‘banned’ wish list
I love Leicester Square in London which is pronounced Lester square.
Dune's Freemen as a historical society
>For those topics, I love to communicate with some "written" form, such as in an email, posts etc. Because doing the "writing" part allow me to conduct some research and analyses on the topic (usually took 10 minutes), which will in turn increase the quality of my reply.

That and to me at least almost more important is the ability to refer back to history.

You have a little oral discussion with your co-workers about an issue, or maybe ask for some clarification on something etc. Then a few days later when you think you need that info again, it's gone.

Having a discussion in Slack, Mattermost, email, etc allows me to always refer back and see what we've been talking about. Which can be vital especially in those situations where we're talking about complex issues with complex answers. The fact that I can a week later go back and see the same clarification again, is definitely helpful
Live video calling – the Dyte way (YC W21)
>if they showed the actual experience almost nobody would buy it.

Next you're going to tell me that buying a Dodge Challenger won't get me a beautiful girlfriend and that HungryMan Dinners don't look like culinary masterpieces.
I've run into the mentioned issue often when an X application in XWayland will fail to open a link in my Wayland Firefox process. I hope they resolve it soon, but I've updated Nightly since this article was written and it still happens, so it looks like not yet. Maybe my installation wasn't built with the necessary flags.
how to un-flag this post? I upvoted it, but someone "flagged" it, so it will be hidden after all?

Why is flagging a thing anyway?
Jetpack Compose Multiplatform Beta Released
That's an assumption not a conclusion.
> We don't have self-driving cars nor trucks yet in the mainstream, but automation has made big impacts on driving already.

And it doesn't even have to be 'full AI' when we do get more automation. Something like Comma's level 2 lane- and distance-keeping system would probably do a lot for fatigue on long-haul routes, even if a human still needs to be behind the wheel.
Maybe we need more structural hurdles than just the agenda — e.g. everyone gets an egg timer that refills more slowly than it empties. You flip it when you start talking.
Has nothing at all to do with Postgres, or underestimating anything. Microsoft has a very large, robust partner network that's able get great pricing and the cost of MSSQL really hasn't changed much over the years outside multi-core updates.
A $532M NFT Trade That Wasn’t What It Appeared
That’s pretty interesting. The more possible states a system has, the more room for consciousness.

The ultimate organism is then either civilization itself, or the whole universe, depending on how you want to draw the line.
Switching dictionaries/systems is possible and used every day by people who use it with more than 1 language. Think of it as switching to colemak or dvorak on your keyboard.
>When I hear people say this, I tend to think they're a moron.

In other words, you are small minded and assume that your personal experience is universal, so anyone that experiences things differently must just have moronic levels of intelligence.
>something the government would find difficult to do in the case of a systemic economic downturn a-la 2008

Not really. They'd just print more money.
I would add to this list no-code web automation and scrapers. I am founder of https://automatio.co, but there other great tools like SimpleScraper, Axiom.ai, Browsers.ai etc
Lago Agrio Oil Field
My father's dream job was always working as a long haul trucker. Once my parents divorced, he hit the road and I'd never seen him happier. I didn't see him as much, but the random phone calls from payphones all over North America were always super interesting. There was always a story of some sort.

The work itself didn't sound great. You basically have to sit around and wait for 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 hours. You are always managing against the clock because if you time out (maximum working hours in a day) and can't get your load delivered on time, that's on you. Even if the schedule wasn't very realistic to begin with.

For him the lifestyle, seeing weird and interesting places, and getting to meet new people every day was what he loved and it made up for all that downside.

He's retired, but when the pandemic hit and there was a shortage of drivers, he and his buddies relished the chance to get back on the road. I thought he was doing it because he needed the work, so I tried to send him some money to cover rent etc. He happily took the money (he's no fool) but was perplexed as to why I thought that would mean he'd stop driving.

In terms of bathrooms, most of the good truck stop chains in Canada not only have bathrooms for drivers, but "VIP" lounges with TVs, very cheap showers, etc.
I got to see fish sauce being made first hand when I went to Phu Quoc in Vietnam years ago. I'd love to try and make it myself with locally caught fish to see how it'd go.
>>could hit Earth tomorrow (Oct. 29)

>>could reach Earth by Saturday or Sunday (Oct. 30-31)

>>could deliver a "glancing blow" to Earth sometime on Friday (Oct. 30)

I mean its just an estimate, but they could at least be consistent
Now that I have seen the power of madvise + huge pages, everything looks like a nail. Author reckons 30% from less page table juggling. There are techniques here that apply outside assembly.
Can one sue a psychiatrist who prescribed me drugs not telling me about any side effects despite me not having any disease? The psychiatrist just concluded that if I have somatic problems and trouble sleeping I must be mental, turns it wasn't that. No one ever told me about any side effects (it won't hurt your liver I heard, you will remain cured even after stopping the treatment). I repeatedly told him I see no difference, and he interpreted unrelated life changes as results of the drugs. Or perhaps I could sue the company who produced it?

More reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6943460-the-emperor-s-ne...
A Mistake by YouTube Shows Its Power over Media
Show HN: We made a super-simple tool to measure a team's mood
I agree.

Discussion in meetings has felt mostly useless to me over the years for the exact reasons that the parent pointed out. On the other hand, some of the best work I've done was at a job where the person I worked with most had the same train ride home as me, so we'd just chat for half an hour 2-3x a week. It allowed both of us to work through ideas, and come to much stronger conclusions.
You beauty, this one's going straight to the pool room!
That’s what Certificate Transparency is for. If CT is required by the client, then the wrongfully issued certificate could be detected and the CA be reported for that.
Society simply sucks as even to view someone as a human being, they have to be a valuable member (means work whole life). Not good enough, just work more. Basically be a cog in the economic system or die.
Making a virtual world enforce some scarcity mechanism simply manifests real world problems in the virtual world.

Any system implement artificial scarcity would be a DRM system. In order for you to able to "wear" virtual Nikes (because you paid for them) and me not be able to "wear" them (because I didn't) the metaverse could not be open and federated.

In order for me to see your virtual Nikes I'd have to retrieve the mesh and texture files for them. My system would have to be locked down such that I couldn't pull those files out of my local cache.

From your side of the issue, would you (the hypothetical royal you) pay for virtual Nikes if I could tell my client device to ignore remote resources? What good are your virtual Nikes if people can choose not to see them?

Obviously replace Nike with any IP holder even down to the smallest of small time creators. A metaverse with artificial scarcity would be the walliest of walled gardens with a giant moat on the outside. The only way to make that work is to have a completely locked down and closed system.
Question for folks: where do server-side Swift folks hang out?

I've been writing server-side / enterprise code in Swift for about a year now, and the language has really grown on me.

But it's a small community, and IBM's & Google's departures were a big blow to the feeling of inevitable growth to it.

I'd love to find a watering hole to chat with others in the same small niche.
Brain Is Like Beethoven
It's interesting, I wouldn't have guessed the SQL dialect differences to be the main reason to pick one database over another.

Other comments on this suggest it's very important to them, which is a surprise to me.

Rather, I would have bet on either the performance characteristics for your particular situation, the knowledge of your programmers (or db admins) / recruitment pool, or perhaps integrations with other software.

Still, a very useful looking tool, don't want to knock it.
Learning a steno system is similar to learning a new spoken language - it takes time, and the time it takes differs based on the time you invest daily, personal experience, type of study... Some have reached 100wpm in 2 months, some take 2 years. As a reference number - to be a certified stenographer you need to pass a test with at least 225wpm with 99% precision. The classes take 2 years, I think.

Being a pianist might be handy, but you'll still need to practice a lot to see progress.
Notice how most of these are primarily video and image platforms. Anything which is primarily text, as most of the internet is, would never show up on this scale.
CamelCase is built in to Plover! [1] symbols work too - they might have less intuitive memorisation, but you don't use that many anyway (unless you're in APL...but that doesn't work with normal keyboards either).

You can set up Vim-like navigation e.t.c. too (e.g. [2]), for moving about in code. I haven't tried it.

I think however that the benefits of coding with Plover aren't really great enough to justify the huge struggle it would be to get proficient with it.

[1] https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Dictionary-F...

[2] http://www.openstenoproject.org/stenodict/dictionaries/vim_d...
Worcester Sauce is a common way to refer to it. Even and Lea and Perrins used to do so - here's an advert for it from the 1840s, along with some generic references to it from the 1830s.

[1] http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/worcesterorworcestershiresau...
With a correctly designed enclosure (chamfered edges, black), it might not look all that suspicious tucked away somewhere charging a phone.
I’m developing a tool along this line of thinking - providing light structure to meetings, currently at https://timezap.io.
I'm nearly 40, the internet that I grew up with, is vastly different to the internet my kids are growing up with. Heck, the internet the 15 year old grew up with is vastly different to his 4 year old sister's experience.

I see nothing wrong with blocking access to certain sites by default - protects us as well - if anyone of them have a problem with it, they can come and ask why it is blocked. Simples.
Not that much larger than those big block laptop adaptors, black injection molding would make it look pretty legit.
Have you worked in logistics?

Truck drivers are regularly exposed to the worst possible restroom conditions.

It's not a surprise that they often don't flush the toilet when they come into the office.

It's not an easy situation to deal with, and it has little to do with white-collar vs. blue collar.

It's all about what level of restroom management is appropriate to keep people from dealing with 'surprises'
Hot code paths are still written in assembly, it's just on a different level. DOOM is an engine; nowadays people use off the shelf engines so that they can focus on creativity instead of low level details.

I mean I could probably hyperfocus on storing my application state in a file on disk, but why should I bother when there's off the shelf SQL databases right there? Which have been optimized endlessly, I might add. I don't get paid to write low level ASM, I get paid to build applications.

Edit: And to add, my current thing I get paid for is several orders of magnitude faster than the one it replaces. Not because I spend more time optimizing, but because I write it in sensible Go instead of 10K LOC PHP files that concatenate XML strings that get converted to JSON to be rendered in Dojo-flavored HTML concatenated together in JS because of reasons.
For some actually interesting research on human brains, even if from over 20 years ago, see https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/123.1.74 – most right-handed people activate left hemisphere brain regions during language processing, but approximately 7.5% of them activate right hemisphere brain regions instead. Their brains (or at least this aspect of them) are "swapped" compared to the majority of the population.

I find that fascinating as an example of genuine biological neurodiversity, with no known clinical significance. There is a lot of talk of "neurodiversity" nowadays, but it is neurodiversity assumed to exist based on observable differences in people's behaviour or the assignment of a clinical diagnosis – and not everyone with certain behavioural traits gets the diagnosis, since the process of diagnosis is heavily influenced by social and cultural factos – and in most cases with no identifiable neurobiological difference in any particular individual. All the people in this study were "neurotypical" – they had no known diagnosis of any psychiatric or neurodevelopmental disorder – and yet 7.5% of them were actually neurodiverse in this particular way, and I imagine if you looked for other forms of biological neurodiversity too and added them all up, you might reach the conclusion that "neurotypical" people don't really exist and at the biological level everyone is neurodiverse.
OpenBSD and Debian are really the only systems I use and trust today. I'm sure there are some other 'old-school' open source operating systems out there that are just as useful. But these two have been great over the last 25 years.
And it documents a different study that uses a different method.

It's as if the articles were written about different things.
Configuration and code: you could argue that code is simply configuration for a processor. I certainly wouldn't want to have to make the case that there's a difference.
oh yes! this is the single most frustrating thing on Wayland for me right now (not a huge deal, but almost anything else just works these days).
Julian Assange Extradition Appeal: Day 2
never ever ever connect a smart TV to the internet directly. Use a chromecast or something.

the updates ARE ads
He's wrong. All those explanations ARE intended to explain flight! They're given to professional pilots without qualifiers, presented as if they were complete explanations. (If they weren't, then the controversy would instantly evaporate.)

This situation is quite different than, say electrons of atoms. First we learn that atoms are like little solar systems ...but then also hear that this is oversimplified (wrong,) and that we'll have to learn QM and probability-clouds in order to have a correct explanation of atoms' electrons.

That's NOT done with lifting-force explanations. Pilots aren't being taught that the explanations are wrong, oversimplified, and only the professional fluids experts can attain the "bigger picture" which removes all the mistaken concepts.

Did your angry colleague supply a simple correct explanation, to replace the wrong ones in the article? "Feels right" is a cop-out. Pilots don't want hand-wavy fuzz, or some experts who insist "it's just too complicated for beginners."

How about this instead...

First we explain a hovering helicopter. It's an air pump. It pulls air inwards from all directions, then blasts it downwards. Next, shove the helicopter rapidly sideways. That's how wings actually work: they pull air in from all directions, then fling it downwards. (But this is hard to notice, since the downwash-plume of an airplane is all stretched out, and it even seems purely horizontal. It's not.)

Heh, wings are the same as VTOL jet aircraft! But the turbine-blades in the VTOL engine have broken loose and flown off alone. Yet each little blade is still acting as an air-pump, and pulling air inwards from all directions, and flinging it downwards, producing a downwash, a momentum-carrying "exhaust plume."
"But you can't be a vector of transmissible diseases" what exactly did you not understand about your own statement? Are you allowed to be a vector or not?
> It's always linked to how focus the dog is something

Pardon you?
DNS is essentially a cache. I've never once in my life heard of infrequently accessed cache items as "long-tail". This is definitely a dumb phrase that should be avoided.
I wonder if you could get one with warm water. And why not use a towel to dry off afterwards? Many people keep one in the bathroom for showering anyway.
I suppose you could leverage the Firefox remote agent protocol that things like puppeteer use and make yourself a wrapper that emulates the behavior that was deprecated.

I had a somewhat similar situation with WSL where I wanted xdg-open to open Chrome tabs in Windows instead of WSL. Was able to get that working with just WSL->Windows built-in functionality and a *.desktop file.
I first experienced it a few weeks ago, coincidentally after I started experiencing some kind of weird, mass downvoting of basically every comment I write. For some reason, this mass downvoting is continuing.

I don't mean that literally every comment I write is getting downvoted to below zero. Rather, I'll write something, it will accumulate a couple to several upvotes, and then, those upvotes all go away over the course of a few more hours, sometimes to be replaced by net downvotes.

The end result is that I actually have less karma now than I did a few weeks ago. And, I wouldn't particularly care about those fake internet points, if the loss of them didn't seemingly come with these weird, arbitrary-seeming restrictions like "you are posting too fast."

TBH, it's getting to the point where I'm about ready to abandon this account.
Secure, yet refuses to implement hardware root-of-trust standards?

https://isopenbsdsecu.re/mitigations/secure_boot/
Sounds like a cool idea! Would love to try it out. Email is in profile
Corporate Lingos to Know for a Great Workplace
To balance the views, Mirabai, the person who started this project, does live transcription in vim and uses it for editing the notes as well. Ted, one of the lead developers, uses steno daily for programming. Emily, another user and plugin developer, has developed dictionaries to help with symbolic input and modifiers (e.g. ctrl+shift+x). There are plugins for changing case (camel, lower, snake etc.)
Anaximandros upon return to his summer home: “Something smells, Alkmioni must have been right, I left the sardines in that jar last summer. Does not smell halfway bad, let’s take some of this golden juice and try on the bread, gold is a good colour, a godly one. After all, Alkmioni has gone have a bath with her childhood friends and we won’t be eating till later. This tastes amazing.” And the rest is history unlike the preceding.