skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qubes devs are in my experience the most vocal X detractors. They had to work around X's inherent lack of isolation by using a Xen mechanism. The equivalent would be putting a wooden chest in a safe to show that wooden chests are secure on their own.

HTTP also doesn't work as well as it did before: Chromium and Firefox have begun rolling out an HTTPS-Only mode that warns when visiting HTTP pages. The landscape has also gotten more hostile: many telecoms have been caught modifying unencrypted traffic. Vodafone was also caught HTTP CSP headers for ad injection.

Firefox devs have expressed interest in removing HTTP-specific logic from FF in the distant future too, with the HTTPS-only mode being the first step. All current browsers have also disabled obsolete TLS/SSL versions, which broke several sites during the initial rollout.

There is no such thing as a trusted client; plenty of FOSS has exploitable vulnerabilities. Rather than "trusted and untrusted" software, the cybersecurity crowd has shifted to thinking in terms of "untrusted and untrusted+malicious".

There's also a reason why software audits typically have their moment of truth during binary analysis, whether or not source code is available: source code is only part of the puzzle. Runtime behavior is influenced by the toolchain behavior, host OS behavior, shared libs, and a ton of other variables that are collectively harder to audit than a black box binary. FOSS' reasons for existing should be primarily related to freedom rather than security. I don't copyleft my work because it improves security, but because it protects users from further infringements upon their freedoms.

I'd suggest chatting up a security researcher or reading some material on modern approaches to exploit mitigations (source availability is not a replacement for exploit mitigation); I could give you some starting points when I wake up if you're interested.
Are black swans in general?
How is Fedora's package management compared to Ubuntu's? I guess I've been spoiled by being able to apt install just about anything and 99% of the time there are 3rd party repos with most up to date versions too. Say what you want about Ubuntu, but if there's software for linux out there, the maker will at the very least make sure it works on Ubuntu, but I'm not so sure about other less popular distros.
Same, have been a happy Hetzner customer for 8+ years because they've consistently offered the best dedicated server pricing with essentially free (20TB) bandwidth.

Unfortunately they're only offering their "Cloud" hosting packages for the time being, so it'll be a while before they start offering dedicated servers.

Once they offer dedicated servers in US and a managed RDS service I can finally look at moving off AWS for most services. But it looks like Cloudflare will beat them to it as their CEO has mentioned they're already working on a managed DB service, hopefully it will be as cost-effective as their R2 pricing.
(I have only briefly skimmed the article, but ...)

Material such as this serves to remind the reader of what they already know, and contextualize it in a way that is relevant to this article. The article begins by telling the reader, "We all know what scalars and vectors are---here they are---but have you wondered what if ...", and taking the reader beyond. The introduction which you seem to find objectionable is only a small part of a much longer article.

In addition, different readers have different, mildly different notation styles. These introductory blobs inform the reader of the language in the article, and are essentially a friendly statement of definitions.

A third purpose is rhetorical: readers sometimes get stuck while reading text, and these parts of the article work as anchor points where they can loop back and "synchronize" with the writer.
I wasn't using C when I got the Petzold, so only stuff reachable from C FFI was usable.
What do you mean "so many"?

In the main image ( https://i.insider.com/617fc7041037b1001815247e?width=2000&fo... ) I see only one person not wearing a mask, and one wearing a mask incorrectly (covering the mouth but not the nose).

I can see 14 people wearing masks. I cannot tell what the others have.

I don't see anyone in the first Twitter image not wearing a mask. (And at least 18 with masks.)

Nor do I see people without a mask in the second Twitter image. (3 with masks, and lots of backs-of-heads where it's impossible to tell what people have.)
Kleiman vs. Wright: Bitcoin’s Trial of the Century Kicks Off in Miami
It’s something to take up with every nation emitting more than North Korea, given the scale of the problem.

In that regard, I simultaneously agree that bitcoin is a pointless waste we’d be better off without and also a rounding error compared to the single biggest and easiest wins we can start with and also that despite that it needs to be stopped (I am skipping a few of the steps for why that is still the case even if 100% of power was renewable).

Edit: I phrased that wrong. The maximum sustainable global emissions are approximately North Korea’s 2017 emissions. The sum of every country emitting less than NK is about 28 times what NK emits.
I always struggled to find a reliable anatomic reference for free. This has the best quality of production up to now.
They do, but you generally also need to do so following some best practices and guidelines.If everyone in every company just put stuff on whatever provider they liked, then there would be a lot of issues.

I mean, do you have any idea how many people have exposed confidential data by hosting it on a publicly accessible s3 bucket?
> You can treat them as separate, functional patterns of behavior with their own agendas, feelings, beliefs, etc.

Wow.

I have seen television shows and art that treat humans as the amalgam of a faceted personality where each facet is depicted by a separate character (representing, I assumed, the embodiment of that fact), but I had never considered this might be demonstrative of the way people might actually think (or think they think).
And that is why the "metaverse" will succeed if it's decentralized.

I wouldn't touch a MC server that has no grief prevention. But you can have your 4chan and I can have my builder server and we're both happy. Because there's no central authority telling us how to run our pieces of "metaverse".
Ask HN: With open source software, how do I find out where my users come from?
Hi HN, I am writing and maintain a open source python library for making network visualisations [1]. Since that is a fairly specialised task, the software typically only gets a couple dozen downloads a day on PIPy (the python package index). It is a labor of love, not my source of income, so that is totally fine by me.
However, last weekend, there was a huge spike in downloads: instead of the 0-5 downloads that are typical for a normal weekend day, there were 2000 downloads, both on Saturday and Sunday [2]. I would love to know what happened here, or at least, I would like to be able to find out the next time something like this happens. Obviously, unlike a normal business, I don't control the distribution, so I can't measure the traffic with Google Analytics or similar tools.

I would love to hear how other people that have open source projects are getting their intel into their user base.

[1] https://github.com/paulbrodersen/netgraph

[2] https://pepy.tech/project/netgraph
For me, Hetzner, Starlink, and Tailscale are 2014-era startups: stellar products that turn you into a zealous militant for the companies. This is a very exciting development. I am very much looking forward to their dedicated offering extending to the US.
How are you using tilda on Wayland, i.e. without global hotkeys?
> 1) Most american adults watch several hours of TV per day. alternatively, many play a few hours of video games.

Isn't that still about <25 and > 60, or those without kids?
I hardly can find a calm 30-60 mins per day to just sit and read, sometimes play for 30 mins (2 kids) just before sleep.
All the warehouse should have these shortcuts due to fire hazards and emergency policies.
I think there is something else going on. Before I moved I checked the address I was moving to and Starlink was available. After moving it is not available until the "middle of 2022".
Nice Article !
Bogged down only happens when I am taken out of the zone or not coding, or, finally, what you mean I guess: when I am too hungry. When I start coding early morning (6-7am) and people do not interrupt, I forget to eat and the day just passes until I get really hungry in the evening. And sometimes even not even that until late. Unfortunately, interruption usually happens and the context switch will just take a bite out so then the sitting is over.
Personally, I make use of this all the time. My home network uses the 10.0/8 subnet, so I'll naturally use 10.137 in commands like ping, ssh, curl, ifconfig. Other than web browsers and the `ip` command, virtually everything that I might enter an IP address in seems to support the two- and three-part addresses. I've always thought of the lack in `ip` as a bug [0]; `ip route add default via 10.138` seems to misinterpret the address as 10.138.0.0 (or as I would say, 10.138.0).

Note that this is also nice for loopback addresses. Normally the loopback interface owns all addresses in the 127.0/8 subnet, so you can listen on any address from 127.1 to 127.16777214.

[0] EDIT: looking into this, it seems that they "fixed" it at some point but then reverted the fix for legacy reasons: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865992
Yeah, and a lot of the transition is about pushing down prices of renewable energy solutions so that they become more competitive. It happens when those technologies gets adoption. So even a small country should be able to make a big impact if they adopt green technology early.

Prices of photovoltaics for example has gone down to a large degree thanks to early adopters and stimulus. Now it's quite competitive without such help. But it's not the only piece of the puzzle. Other technologies deserves to be pushed towards competitiveness as well.
I will have to see it to believe it. 4GL promised the same thing. I actually look forward to the day happening when I become a farrier in the car age. A lot of people smarter than me will turn from code hopefully to hard science and we can start advancing again.
Another Apple Worker Says the Company Retaliated Against Her
> I don't have inner voices, there's only me up there

I don't have "me" up there most of the time. Usually only when (a) I'm reading to myself or (b) if I'm practicing/going over a conversation or 'debate' on a concept. Otherwise my mind is usually quiet.
Yes, only three. As defined, two bivectors are equal if their areas are equal and if their oriented planes are equal. Therefore two more degrees of freedom are absorbed by taking rotations of the two vectors in the plane.Along with the rescaling the author noted, we're down to three from six.
Thanks, that helps. When I notice errors in the stuff I already know about, it find it hard to trust the other information that’s new to me.
I agree. I have a Compaq Armada E500 lying around, and it's fantastic to even just touch the device. I'd love to use one with a similar build, but updated interior.
And the entity has massive incentive to be user hostile because that's how they make their money.
Here is one list of problems with X11 which Wayland solves. One of the author is someone who has done a lot of work on Xorg, so they know what they are talking about: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_waylan...
I've had a the smallest cloud instance for a few years now, it is in fact really good and fast. 1vcpu with 2GB ram is plenty for a full stack web application + a database. IO is also very good with stable ~8000 iops write performance for 4k sync.

Compared to Azure VM instances, Hetzner offers like 100x more performance for each $ spent.
It is a very good mapping of the state of affairs in our minds to assume this multitude of selves and experiencing them as they show up is very intimate and deep. A sudden shift in perspective when you realize it works like this blows people's minds away and is enormously freeing (I try not to exaggerate).

I am myself partial (with multiple reasons) to Voice Dialogue perspective as presented by Sidra and Hal Stone in their work, but you will find this perspective of multitude in many places, reaching back to antiquity - theoretical, practical, with neuroscience following.
"Almost every attempt of mine to change anything was met with either "yeah we know but we have to live with it for now" or a straight denial to hear me out - brushed aside as a newcomer (I'm senior and was hired as such)."

F them. I would have started looking to jump ship after just a month or two of that.
> “He can easily while away an hour without having a single thought.” No! It is “not a single _verbalized_ thought”!

I can have stretches of time where I don't have images (or words) in my head. My mind is blank.
Can't speak for others, but Zig scratches an itch for people like me who started to get fed up with where C++ is heading, but also understand that C doesn't necessarily cut it for higher level gameplay code (especially when working in a team). Zig looks like the perfect way out of this dilemma.

Also, most gamedev middleware is written in C++ or C, and Zig can build those out of the box and directly import C headers so it's trivial to build mixed Zig/C/C++/ObjC projects (and without the hassle of C/C++ build systems).
X has what, 40 years of history - it's battle-tested to hell and back, and knows all the corner cases. Wayland is much younger and a full rewrite, inevitably it will have issues for years and years. Part of the push is so that these cases emerge.

Wayland is probably easier for developers to work with - the X codebase by now is ancient. But it will lack some functionality that X has, probably forever.
This is huge, 1cpu, 2gb or ram, 20TB of bandwidth on each vm for $3.99.
I think you have some issues with reading comprehension: I specifically blame the US in this case, for simply moving all these emissions to China instead of dealing with them for real and right here. We share the planet. Simply moving this crap around doesn't fix anything, and never did, if anything it exacerbates the atmospheric effects.

Also, China is not a "poor country" anymore. It's time it started setting money aside for "investment in poor countries", too, rather than build hundreds more coal power plants in the next five years.
> Does anybody really even care what a TLD is or is "meant" to be used as?

Yes, the owners of the TLD. The same way that I cannot register a .google, .no, or .uk at all.
Hetzner cloud servers are now available in Ashburn USA
The same thing happened with roughly the same proportion in the UK, so no it's not to do with the US health system. It's to do with telling people there's a hospital crisis and they have a social duty to not go.
Can second. Ryzen 3XXX integrated graphics has caused me no amounts of headache, to the extent I'm wondering if Nvidia isn't a better bet after all.
Specifically, it's an effect of mistaken predictions about COVID. COVID is still with us and people have stopped avoiding the hospitals now, unfortunately, the backlog isn't clearable except by people dying whilst waiting for treatment (in the UK at least).
about 20 years ago I was using the kde application Ktouch to learn touch typing.. it was highly effective compared to the competition of the time. Give it a try!
As much as I like the idea, those hourly rates seem way too low.
The first thing I would do is check if your Github repository is showing the traffic source. If your primary documentation is on Github, then you would expect most people to visit it in order to figure out how to use your software.
For the CDC report you can read their article

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6923e1.htm

"The number of visits for conditions including nonspecific chest pain and acute myocardial infarction decreased, suggesting that some persons could be delaying care for conditions that might result in additional mortality if left untreated. "

Or better yet, just glance their infographic:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/social-media/mm6923e1...

If you read between the lines, you know they have a serious problem here with people avoiding care.

Billionaires net worth increased 70% [trillions] during pandemic: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/28/politics/billionaire-wealth-t...

And I will say this: personally I've done quite well financially during the pandemic, through tech wages and investments. And part of me thinks, well the shift we are doing as a society is necessary as we step into the future. But part of me also feels bad for the people who have to lose and die to make this shift happen. We have so much momentum towards where our society feels it is destined to be, and covid just feels like an excuse to be another step in that direction. Maybe I should just shut my mouth and let it happen, but Im an idiot so there you have it.
There are more than enough people who don't want to take the vaccine for pre-existing reasons that they could have formed a control group who promised not to take it, and would stick to it.
> All you have to do is say no once in a while.

Being able to say "no" is absolutely critical.

Of course, you do incur a risk and you may fail or hurt your career in that org up to the point of termination even if you're "right". Moreover your follow-up after saying "no" will be judged harshly and silently for every little snag, real or not.

But that's part of the deal, right? It's not easy, if it were easy you'd have dream-teams all over the place rather than an industry where occupational dysfunction is normal.
Also hexadecimal would sort much nicer. Compared to dot notation. As really logically you want to sort them by groups, not as strings.
Isn't that a live lock?

Can anything really shield you from that? It seems nothing can, in the same way nothing can really shield you from an infinite loop.
I enjoy pretty budget Magicforce Smart 2 68. I'm using it for almost 6 years now and I'm on my 3rd keyboard. First I tried Outemu Blue switches, they was way to loud, shortly after I replaced them with Outemu Brown, which I used for I think 4 years until they started to fail registering clicks (I can't expect much from $40 keyboard), then I bought another one this time with backlit Gateron Browns and I like very much. For some reason the layout is just perfect for me and I'm still using keycaps from the second one because I didn't liked keycaps from backlit version. Text on keycaps is as it was when new, keycaps got a little bit shiny from typing (which I actually like), unfortunately they're turning a little bit yellow since I moved my desk very close to the window 2 years ago. Overall I can recommend it.
Yeah, I did. There wasn't much there. A few more people than usual but well within the margin of error. The majority being referred from Google.
Everybody loves Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
easy reusability and ability to scale complexity easily
To people that are confused, I offer the mind bleach test.

Have you ever imagined something that disgusted you so much that you wished you could "bleach" the image out of your head?

E.g. if you read a detailed description of the kinds of things a facebook content moderator might have to look at, is it possible for those words to generate an image and for you to regret reading the description?
You're right of course. Every language has warts, and declaration, especially involving pointers, is C's. But once you internalize that declaration mirrors usage, together with the spiral rule, it will all immediately become clear. There is some method to the madness.
Which paid Git GUI friend?
No, Apple's clever marketing department 'solved' the digital music problem. The iPod was a clunky, unintuitive and buggy product (not to mention the horrors of iTunes), but people didn't care because it was the 'thing to be seen with.' The market was told it was 'easy' so they pushed themselves to work it out.
But at least it's more useful. Much easier to subnet, even outside of nibble boundaries, because just looking at the number you'll immediately see what bits are set.
Meanwhile, in nearby Portland, the people are (were, this is from 2017, I don't live there any more) fixing potholes that the government would not.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-15/portland-...
How to Appreciate Mother Earth with Your Family – North Brunswick
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
Practical Elasticsearch Performance Tuning on AWS
Thank you! That’s not how I interpreted that original post, but

It’s not that small houses are bad. Small houses (as I’d define it 1000-1750 sq ft for a 3 bedroom) are great.

But I still see it written as “if those structures were removed” that those alternatives are a suitable alternative to a stick-built house for the majority of people. I think they are all sub-optimal solutions that people should not be forced into unless they want to.
There are similar studies for adults.

The reality is, nobody knows how dangerous the vaccines are relative to COVID because the trials weren't sufficiently reliable or well powered to show it, the data on COVID is corrupted by people being reported as died of/with COVID or hospitalized with COVID when the true causes were different, and all data on vaccines then is horribly corrupted by swivel-eyed hatred of "anti vaxxers". meaning reports of people being seriously injured or killed by the vaccines are constantly being swept under the carpet.

Anyone who thinks they have a clear picture of this, or that they understand the tradeoffs, just isn't aware of how useless the data has been (deliberately) made.
Probably - there are various large groups of people who wear a helmet every day for most of the day, and goggles are comparable in weight to that.
The confusing part for beginners is maybe to know were to start the spiral (or right left scheme) in a cast since there is no identifier.
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In my experience an unusually competent person in an org, if they can communicate their competency and rally their peers towards initiatives they (with their unusual competency) view as necessary for the whole department, actually gains a ton of social capital and respect. There’s very little they couldn’t accomplish in such an org once good faith is established.
So, that’s what I said. It’s very apparent that the masks should work and it’s very easy. But there’s little actual data and the data there is shows it doesn’t work.

Plus the old story about how Schrödinger’s Japan that is the big example of masks working, also isn’t the example when it turns out they don’t work. Of course.
An inactivated virus does not express anything, it's basically protein debris, and yes, if it's done right it has the full-length spike. But it does not enter cells, it never gets anywhere near DNA.
knownhost has a pretty good dedicated server offering in the US
Vector algebra is at the heart of a fairly large industry - games. I don't think there can be enough of accessible and understandable content from that point of view.
Can you explain point 3 a bit more? Specifically where the performance impact came from:

A) Mode 13h has not enough ram to have 2 pages, so either you get screen flicker as you see Doom draw, or you loose 64k ram for an offscreen buffer, and the extra data transfer also takes time.

B) The core of ModeX/ModeY is disabling the chain4 mechanism and manually dispatching bytes to the 4 planes. The cost of this is some 'out' instructions, I assume 1 group per vertical slice. I don't know how doom did floors here, maybe draw them 4 times?. Even so, the cost seems not that expensive.
The commercial Common Lisp I use, also has large amounts of extensions to CL. Including a function to split sequences/strings, parallel and concurrent extensions, ... ;-) It's actually the same commercial Common Lisp which Rich Hickey used years ago to write his first Lisp programs and where he developed his first ideas for Clojure.