skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the trade-offs inherent to EPaxos are resolved by Accord[1], the protocol being developed by the Apache Cassandra community (myself included). There's also Tempo[2] and Caesar[3], amongst others, but they retain some of the trade-offs (and introduce their own). All of these protocols are also capable of supporting multi-shard operations, making them a significant advance over MultiPaxos and Raft.

[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/188...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01142

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03319
yeah it's crazy, I don't understand why Google's data center machines shit themselves so often. Probably cheap ram.
For me the two sources of friends have been:

- Shared work/school experience of people my own age

- Hobbies

They do get tougher with age.
Ok, just rebooted PC. Less than 2 seconds from clicking VS icon till the first prompt asking what do I want to do. After that again less than 2 sec to open previous project.

Mind you this is first restart of Visual Studio in however many days had passed since the last update. Hence "cold boot time" is largely irrelevant to me.

I value VS for reasons other than "cold boot time". IntelliSense and debugging features weigh way more in my decision to keep VS as my main development tool for C++.

All my C++ servers are multiplatform: Linux/Windows. Usually I develop and debug on Windows and deploy on Linux. Deployment on Linux is handled by simple script that pulls from repo, builds and runs tests. However if needed VS can deploy, compile and debug straight on remote Linux server. I use this feature sometimes.
I have some color packs for you, but they are only available briefly.
I also found that hard deadlines work. The closer they are, the better they are.

Yesterday I spent just one hour to review my computer architecture mid-term. I totally forgot about the date and thought I'm going to bomb it. Eventually I did a very quick efficient review and felt very good about it.

The thing is, as you said, and as my Physics teacher said 20 years ago, that I really need to be pushed HARD to be efficient. That's why I hate assignments with long deadlines.
Here's an archive link so you can read the report without having to create an account and log in: https://archive.md/mteZt

One of the links in the article which I also found of interest was the museum page for the Iceman's equipment: http://www.iceman.it/en/equipment/

Among the items found was a tool used to resharpen flint (the equipment link includes a picture as well):

> Researchers were initially puzzled by an object in Ötzi’s equipment – a 12-cm-long tool made from the stripped branch of a lime tree and sharpened like a pencil. A black “lead” protrudes from the sharpened end. This was identified as a fragment from a fire-hardened antler that was hammered into the core of the branch. Archaeologic experiments have shown that this tool was used to shape (“retouch”) flint tools. First a lump of flint was hammered into the desired shape then the retoucheur was used for the precision work of fashioning a sharp blade. It was also used to re-sharpen tools and weapons. The antler point was sharpened like a pencil when it became blunt. This tool was completely unknown before Ötzi was found and has given archaeologists an entirely new understanding of the Copper Age tools and methods.
I compared it two what I see in my VSCode (https://imgur.com/a/u9naqVi) and fair enough, it got way better since I tried it last time.
I don't work on personal projects on my own time, but I do work a part time hourly job alongside my software engineering job. I've found for me this is an essential part of my mental health. My arrangement offers up a little more variety than I'd otherwise have and allows me to work with another group of people in a totally different domain.

Also, I've found the best opportunities come through word-of-mouth connections, and having 2 sets of colleagues essentially doubles the chances of that happening.
I dont care about finishing side projects.

They exist to keep my mind occupied or give it a break from other stuff. Thats it.
I don't know why I have Curtis connected with Arundhati Roy and her Come September speech, and this little documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70L_3RrP6-8&list=PLdwCuEoZ_6...
RFC 8927 – JSON Type Definition
"Killing people will fuck you up, no matter if legal or not". Who would have guessed?
only for recreation, not for getting around... at least that is my anecdotal experience.
Absolutely not.
There are plenty of studies indicating that narcissist tend to get ahead in institutional contexts and I see no reason to think academia to be less viciously competitive than anywhere else.
As for psych departments harboring a greater share of crazies, this is just a personal observation in an area that falls beyond the normally accepted range of research topics. Ask around, you might hear similar things; you might not.
I used to be a heavy Sublime Text power user a couple years ago. I found out at some point that while Sublime does market itself as supporting macros, many commands were one of these four

- extremely basic (ie, move left or right)

- poorly thought out

- Straight up not implemented as a recordable macro command

- Buggy
I'm not sure some of them could hide their glee.
> iOS does not allow 3rd party programs [ ... ] or GPL'ed software ...

I one hundred percent agree that not allowing GPL software on the store is problematic. I am still torn on whether not allowing 3rd party programs on their store is problematic or not. As a person on HN, of course I would LOVE if they did allow third party stores/downloading application distributables and executing them.

But considering the innovative nature of malware/spyware and the tech-illiteracy of my mother, I can't help but feel if she isn't better off on a platform where applications go through _some_ form of human verification, and a random pop up on some random website would not end in her details being leaked/accounts being hacked/phone being bricked?

> iPhones are non-existent in my social circles

That's a fair point. Developing one less app would make the turn around time for the rest of the stuff faster for the supported platforms. At some point of time though, the folks behind Tox would need to min-max this out for optimal availability and usability.
Suggested tweak:

(when window-system
(global-unset-key (kbd "C-z")))
A poor nice guy will have real friends. A rich nice guy will have real friends. A poor asshole will have no friends. A rich asshole will have fake friends that hide their hatred and contempt behind fake smiles.

So is the solution to stop being an asshole? Yes. But this is not an easy thing, because with fake friends you are not getting any feedback. You don't notice when you step people on the toes.

Maybe pretend to be poor until you have learned the lessons you need to learn.
That's a path with no end, with one security gadget begetting another. Today it's video doorbells, then some CCTV, maybe hidden cameras in every room, and eventually laser trip wires and touch sensors.

You're probably better off looking for the root cause of why you've got that creepy feeling in the first place.
Microsoft: Telemetry is essential in implementing a Zero Trust architecture
Is it just me or does that cat skull look unusually large?

Fore reference here's a modern domestic cat's skull in someone's hand:

https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Felis-Linnaeus-Domestic-Specim...
See a doctor.
Active involvement = parent teaches child various skills and ideas, reads books aloud, suggests interesting problems to solve, works together with them on extra-curricular projects, obtains materials and resources related to the child’s personal interests, ...

Micromanaging the completion of their school-assigned busywork is something different.
Iceraven is currently two major versions behind.
https://divestos.org/misc/ffa-dates.txt

I maintain a hardened fork called Mull.
I also help maintain Fennec F-Droid.
Both are available on F-Droid!

Of extra note, both Iceraven, Mull, and Fennec F-Droid are based on Fenix, not Fennec.
Fennec is any Firefox for Android before version 68 and is not secure.
https://github.com/conradludgate/vite-react-ssr-next here's my project if anyone is interested. It kinda sucks at the moment though so definitely don't use it, but hopefully it might inspire someone
As true today as it was 18 years ago -- Just replace Operating System/Platform with your Public Cloud of choice.
If you teach your kids how to use a computer, then teach them yoga and meditation too.
Or for tricking good people into doing evil.
The nation’s last uranium mill plans to import Estonia’s radioactive waste
As someone who was burglarized a few years ago, the things that could be replaced was the worst of my worries. My safe deposit box that had notes and sentimental gifts from people that have passed away were taken. My home had been invaded and my sense of security was gone. I couldn't sleep there for weeks and ended up moving shortly after
sorry i dont follow
I got you

Documentaries

- The Airbnb Story[1] <-- Start here

- High Score (A netflix series on the history of games, the first episode has a part where some college guys had to change hardware to make games harder)

- The Pirate Bay, Away from Keyboard

- Silicon Cowboys; highly recommend this one, I believe we wouldn't have the industry as it is today, if it weren't for Compaq.

Movies

- Who Am I, No System is safe (Look for one with English Subtitles)

- Echelon Conspiracy

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XicLf8cyh5E
There were some warnings that olwm is not 64bit clean. As far as i know can be compiled on 32bit systems.
Like another commenter said, you can always say "Hey guys, give me 15 minutes while I wrap this up" and you don't enter context switch mode. Unless you work with completely unreasonable people, they'll wait.

In fairness, as you are forcing a context switch for a standup, it is likely that you do work with unreasonable people.
It's likely the other way around: most Soviet block cities have not only historic centers equally centered around walking/biking but Soviet city design focused strongly on public transport and walkable neighborhoods because cars were unaffordable to most people.
This is the first time in my 29 years of Emacs use that it has occurred to me that someone out there might like M-x customize enough to hold it up as a pro-Emacs argument.

I use it very occasionally in order to discover the name of one of Emacs's thousands of user options, which option I then manipulate with Emacs Lisp code added to a file. I much preferred the (recently completely removed from Gnu Emacs after 2 decades of being marked as deprecated) vastly simpler list-options command for doing that.

For me, easy modification of one's personal software environment by adding Emacs Lisp code to files is the central argument for Emacs and cancels out the negatives such as the fact that, e.g., C-z does not undo the latest editing action.

One of benefits of online discussion of things like editors and programming languages is that it is a constant reminder of the largeness of the diversity in cognitive styles and preferences among people.
A Hypothetical Command Vision Statement for a Fictional PLA Cyber Command
That sounds pretty nice. I hate unfiltered sun.
It should, as it's a totally off-cloud product: supports SIP and RTSP and records video local to SD card. No online services, no monthly payments.
My emacs setup takes minutes to install on a new computer. I use borg, but there are many other ways to do it.
For what it’s worth I would say the book is even stronger at it.

The movie watered down Watney’s technical know how quite a bit. That is to say if you liked the movie, you’ll love the book.
Interesting. What is the field of the part time job?
I never claimed to be an emacs user. I've used Linux exclusively at home since 2001, and I've never "switched" to it or vim, though of course I have a passing familiarity with both from such things as certifications or working on other people's machines.

Of course I'm familiar with the "never leave emacs" meme, moon phase indicators and "what it needs is a good editor" etc. I even gave an example of it being used as a platform in my other comment here (proof general).

But this was about its popularity relative to other editors, not relative to other scriptable framework things.
I always found it interesting how many people consider themselves devout Christians and also become Marines/Soldiers and kill others for a living.

Islam and Judaism, sure, their books are littered with commands from god to kill people over resources and dogma, but Christians? In contrast to Judaism or Islam, Christ never ordered his devotees to wage war, steal, commit genocide or give their enemy's virgin women to soldiers as sex slaves.

These guys know that they are doing wrong both by secular ideals and by their own dogma. Maybe they deserve PTSD and to suffer for their sins?
Secretive court system poses threat to Paris climate deal, says whistleblower
At the very least, they should have to be in the room to give the executioner a final yes/no decision. Not really sure how we'd make all the states do something like that, but I think it'd really help.
draws a picture of a Godzilla monster (who is the computer community and their funding enablers) breathing fire-databases on children-in-groups
My son had zero interest in command lines or programming until he got into Minecraft and Roblox. For the former, best mods are available for Java edition. Through that desire, he at least learned command prompt, basic directory navigation, and java -jar.

For the latter, he wants to build a game, so we're learning some LUA together. Going through that process (we're very early in) has been great, since he also has ADHD and doing this work is helping with focus.
I love the idea, and I'd never push for fewer farmer's markets, but I must say I've always found them more expensive, slower, and less convenient with hardly any selection. I often wind up heading to the supermarket immediately after, because I need another ingredient to cook what I've just bought.
At least he has one.. you could jimmy open my front door and walk in without any electronics recording you

Full disclosure though, if you do that while my wife and kid are home I will stab you
The majority of the web should be standardized uniformed wizards. Then people can apply whatever the skin they want onto all of the web. We don't want to deal with all kinds of design that are hard to make, require crazy powerful browsers, and was asked for by no one anyway.

Fancy UIs are made to slow people down in their tasks and draw attention to things that don't matter to what they want to do.

Web developers and creative people like to think the web is their playground but really the most important role of the web should be delivering informations and services efficiently, and get the hell out the way.
The article indicates something along those lines is in place.

> The governor is always listening through a phone when people condemned to die in South Carolina take their last breath. During 13 of the state’s recent executions, the Commander was on the line with the governor.
https://www.robin.nl/en/shop/proline-homekit.html
I’m not on the opposite side of a debate with you, and I don’t care about “high school debate rules.” If you’re right then you don’t need to lie or mislead and use little tricks like the one I pointed out. Just make your point without them - people here are happy to hear your perspective, and will be more likely to hear what you’re saying without all your embellishments.
It wasn't "embracing the outrage"; rather facing up to the fact that -- whatever the merits or lack thereof of his proposal -- the donor's language was intrinsically manipulative:

This windowless thing is just a bunch of crazy suppositions by an ignorant man.

At the end of the day, this just isn't the kind of person you want to sit down and do business with. No matter what dollar amount he's trying to jerk you around with.
Just out of curiosity, when you spent 9 hours at work, was that in a software field?

If so, why would you choose to do the same thing 18 hours a day for 5 years?
Triumph of the Nerds

War Games

Real Genius

Any of the 'How it's made' series.
Be careful what you wish for. I expect executions would become campaign propaganda events.
Fast forward 5, 10, 15 years, $22B can buy a whole lot more battlespace capability in the direction of Tesla's Dojo D1 humanoid bot effort for U. S. Army than all of the world's most valued Microsoft HoloLens product stack has to offer.
British regulators approve Merck's molnupiravir as Covid-19 treatment
Seems to also contain malicious code :(
I work from home and also live in a neighborhood with lots of door to door salesmen. I use a video doorbell to prevent hopping off a meeting just to tell someone I don’t need new windows.

It’s also useful if we are out of town and need a neighbor to grab a delivery.
I would ask the opposite question -- why is that an important number to conceal? (Please no "it's none of your business" replies, that doesn't really answer the question and it's not an interesting direction to go.)
Oh jeez, I'd never heard of this and I lived in the city for years. This is amazing, thanks!
Yes, in addition to my private XMPP server, I have been running a Matrix server for one of my clients for about the same amount of time.

Element desktop is... slow and terrible in comparison with all of its confusing options, and regularly kicks just a single person off the server for no apparent reason when their session becomes corrupted. I really want to use fractal but it doesn't do E2EE.

Synapse was a horrible resource hog, but conduit actually seems pretty good. Still prefer ejabberd.
Why Rapid Covid Tests Are So Expensive and Hard to Find in the US
The Athena database is Hydra;
The Athena graph is Pixie;
The Athena job runner is also Bob
Nothing in nature (with the possible exception of faces) comes within an order of magnitude to the "experience density"

I got one of the first digital cameras of anyone that I knew. It was early enough that people were kind of shocked to see it.

One of the things that I noticed very early on is that JPG files that were generated from pictures outside were significantly larger than JPG files that were generated from pictures inside. At the time I took this to mean that the outdoor pictures were much less compressible because the level of detail in the natural world is much larger than anything indoors. It's a world of subtle details that we literally evolved to sense.

I just don't think looking at pictures on a screen can compare to the experience of physically going to places.
Thanks for the insight!
I'd never thought about this way, but it makes a lot of sense intuitively. Did you formulate that yourself, or is there some source that might hold similar nuggets of wisdom?
> lisp.h

Wow. Been using and extending Emacs for 40 years and I've never had to even look at lisp.h or hack the C code.
I suspect this is a side effect of Christianity becoming the state religion of the Roman Empire in the 4th century.

You cannot keep an empire of that size together without quite a lot of violence, especially when enemies like Attila the Hun come plundering your territory, so you find all kinds of religious justifications for war and killing even against the original intent. The alternative is defeat and slavery.
The eufy (Anker) video security products have worked very well for me and store the video locally. I don’t trust anything consumer oriented, but realistically I also don’t have time to invent my own solutions (nor do I want to maintain them). I can’t guarantee the Eufy cameras are the most secure setup, but the system works well, has a pretty good (above average) iOS app, doesn’t store on the “cloud”. No complaints here.
Git pull/push stuck forever on WSL2
I would never have one but I think it makes people feel control in a world they have little. One thing people need to remember is that if it is easy for you to view your door step or (worse) house interior, it will be easy for someone else to view that info too. IoT companies are notoriously crap at security (because good security is not convenient). Look at all the hacked baby monitors. Now you add in that anything you buy comes with the ability for the parent company to view that video or give it to the police. People want to "keep an eye" on their house but they miss the collective point that then everyone is watching what you are doing all the time. The next product will be made is video motion lights. When the lights come in, it will start recording. Only after people get caught on camera doing something they wouldn't want recorded will they cry "Privacy!". I don't want to live in 1984 but unfortunately a lot of people feel safer with big brother.

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Ben Franklin (yeah, I know this quote is misused but it has been co-opted into a new meaning that is relevant)
> - In the middle I tried to implement a full scale map editor. I managed to build a simple yet working one, but dropped the project once I realized that it needs a lot of work to write my own GUI (back then I'm using C++ and SDL2).

Sharing my slightly unrelated experience, but Tiled2D is a nice piece of software to achieve this.

I've used it for one of my personal project, where I wanted to make a digital adaptation of a board game, and I needed to "digitalize" the game board[1]. I don't use the tiles or the tile grid at all, but just the "polygon" feature that allows me to draw the borders of the different regions. It's not at all why the software has been written, as the polygon is supposed to be a small feature to define areas in a tiled game, but it gets the job done.

[1] https://github.com/Longwelwind/swords-and-ravens/blob/master...
> Of course you would have to live a tad more simply than your standard upper-middle class software guy.

Actually, many software jobs are like that. All it requires is for you to not be ambitious to create. You can have very good salary in many companies while slacking a lot. Sometimes you might have to be in office for a lot of hours, meaning doing leisure, socialization and side project in the office.
strace git pull

```
lstat(".git/refs/tags/HEAD", 0x7ffed22c0b10) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat(".git/packed-refs", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=114, ...}) = 0
lstat(".git/refs/heads/HEAD", 0x7ffed22c0b10) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat(".git/packed-refs", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=114, ...}) = 0
lstat(".git/refs/remotes/HEAD", 0x7ffed22c0b10) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat(".git/packed-refs", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=114, ...}) = 0
lstat(".git/refs/remotes/HEAD/HEAD", 0x7ffed22c0b10) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat(".git/packed-refs", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=114, ...}) = 0
stat("/usr/lib/git-core/git", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=3093072, ...}) = 0
pipe([3, 4]) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, ~[RTMIN RT_1], [], 8) = 0
clone(child_stack=NULL, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7fd39f040e50) = 1430
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
close(4) = 0
read(3, "", 8) = 0
close(3) = 0
wait4(1430, 0x7ffed22c0ec4, 0, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set)
--- SIGWINCH {si_signo=SIGWINCH, si_code=SI_KERNEL} ---
wait4(1430,
```
I assume Amazon will be chartering or even purchasing their own private cargo ships soon. They already have their own delivery trucks and aircraft so ships would seem the next logical step.
Remote code execution, SQL injection bugs uncovered in Pentaho Business
Thank you for illuminating that, it's important.