skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Analysis: When China's leading paper ignores Xi, all bets are off
Looks OK: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/malfeasant

> one that is guilty of malfeasance

“Malfeasor” is not listed.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night (and day)!
https://archive.fo/hXT5U
Translated source: https://www-acm-nl.translate.goog/nl/publicaties/acm-verplic...
The 9600k is an entry level CPU from 3 years ago. Personally I don't think it is surprising that it gets matched by a premium modern CPU. I do think there's something wrong with your desktop however, because in raw benchmarks the difference between an M1 and 9600k is minor - and it should not be a noticeable speed improvement unless something else in your configuration is causing problems.

Similarly, Intel's 1185g7 laptop CPU also goes toe to toe with the 9600k, with comparable performance to the M1 (albeit with worse efficiency). But the efficiency isn't a bother personally as the 1185g7 laptop still lasts all day for my usage. I do have an M1 MBP and have used them side by side, and I'm not really sold yet. Admittedly part of the problem is the locked down hardware and lack of support for Linux - but in the mean time I'm always reaching for the Intel laptop and do not miss the MBP.
How do you get started doing this? I think I have a suitable temperament and the skills required.
I've had 2 kimsufi email servers and both were fine. It shares the same data centres as OVH so I guess IP ranges are similar. No problems with blacklisting based on anything other than my own misconfiguration so far, and it's been maybe 8 years.
Yeah, 25th is the day to nurse the hangover
He also had a brilliant career as a driver, and people remember him very fondly. It's about the way he lived, not the way he died.
No. Too small of a sample.
I do however try to attack a "red ocean" market (markets with a lot of competitors), I.e. I basically let other do the validation for me.
Ask HN: A good personal health tracker/collection device?
I'm trying to collect my health data (heart rate, temp, sleep, etc.) to gain some insight. I've looked at quite a few bands, rings and watches, and haven't found anything good.

Problems:

Very uncomfortable to wear that it affects sleep

Not accurate enough

Data not easily exportable, or behind paywalls

Privacy issues (although this one can probably be worked around by not providing real identity)

In particular, I was eyeing on the Oura Ring, which had pretty good reviews. But they recently switched to a subscription model. This really puts me off because it tends to get downhill from there.

Have you found any good ones?
My point though is that the maximum fines they can hand out, even for the third offense, are so low that they can't really give effective fines to some companies (unless they apply such a fine e.g. per user whose rights were violated, which doesn't seem to be what they're doing).

Grindr made a profit of $31M and a revenue of "well over $100M". The maximum fine is 20M EUR or 4% of revenue (whichever is higher). So assuming under 500M EUR in revenue, the maximum fine is lower than Grindr's 2019 profit. So if Grindr is the lucky one that serves as an example, I don't see how even the absolute worst case fine would put them out of business.

Although the max fine is probably higher than the 2019 profit from the EU, I could totally see that changing, and someone deciding that getting slapped with the maximum fine is cheaper than the loss of revenue from complying, especially if it is a business that is entirely in ads.
Best of Metadata in 2021
Those were a great little product. I can see you easily saturating the market, though, and selling to basically everyone on the planet who wants one and having no possible customers left.

I had some custom shirts made once (same as the one Marty wears in Back to the Future) by the original manufacturer. I'm glad I only had 500 made because selling the last dozen was a real chore. I absolutely and totally exhausted the entire market.
Back then it was more about getting people to use CSS better (learn about it) and to use separate files (use classes not inline styles).

Back then, pages were rendered on the server and in many cases there wasn't much templating either. People would normally have their sql query code, their business logic, and the html in the same function in a file >5k lines long.

Bsck then it made perfect sense. Now, considering everything else that's going on in Web development (JS explosion), perhaps not so much.
Anna Karenina jumped to the top as favorite novel; Brothers Karamazov as best novel...The difference between the two adjectives tells more about me than anything else. :-)
Do you think the carb rich Japanese diet is also horrible?
The vast majority of WiFi adapters work fine with Linux and linux-firmware. You only need special "libre" ("firmwareless"*) WiFi adapters if you want them to work with linux-libre and distros that use it like this one, since it cripples support for anything that requires firmware.

* Most "firmwareless" devices have firmware ROMs anyway. The FSF only believe it counts as nonfree if the users can see the firmware in /lib/firmware; they are happy to endorse products with hundreds of kilobytes of nonfree firmware ROM as "respects your freedom", since users can't see the blobs.
I guess people only pay attention to what they want to find, but Canada and Mexico are missing (=North America with the US) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29673305. And the Asian part of Russia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29672321
> I don’t know how much has been launched all the way out to L2 before...

There is a handy list on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrange_po...

Your intuition is quite right, there is way less satellites parked around L2 than in low earth orbit for example.

But that doesn't really pose too big of a challenges in itself. It is of course far, both distance wise and energetically.

The main complication often mentioned is if something is wrong with the telescope it makes it very unlikely that a crew can visit it to fix it. The way for example how they repaired Hubble is unlikely to happen with Webb.
Okay, but that accounts for one honest man out of every thousand who are mainly self-interested.
Merry Christmas and Happy Hacking from NorthWest Arkansas!
Don't let the hogs get away from you! :)
correct link: https://alexhernandez.info/blog/what-is-event-sourcing/
Merry Christmas to all who come here and to the moderators and mainteners of this wonderful site. This is an oasis of intelligent debate and information rarely found on the web.
More like a Tesla vs a gas guzzling rocket car. Rocket car may be technically faster under optimal conditions - but everything else about it sucks.
Free public Docker image vulnerability DB
That makes sense, Facebook were trying to peddle their cryptocoin at some point so it's just another way to control people I guess.
Nevermind FB. We miss you on twitter man.
You say that your team should have had the willingness to ship a flawed product sooner, and that maybe that would have changed your fortunes.

If you're ok with sharing, I'd be interested in learning more about why you believe that. Did you hear that from former beta customers later on down the line? Is it an intuition you have from your reflections on the period?

Also, what brand of "perfectionism" are were talking about here? Chasing down minor performance boosts? Gold-plating existing features?
I'm not certain, so you might be more informed than me. It's possible my server is sending on port 25 and since the firewall I use doesn't block outgoing connection I just didn't notice. TIL!
I think what they did was the same as Waze. It warns against playing while driving and asks you to confirm that you’re the passenger. In other words, the software treats you as an adult. Someone who lease correct me if that is not how it was implemented. I’ve never tried to play a game while driving, for obvious reasons.

If we need software to kindergarten us against endangering ourselves and others, we have much bigger problems as a society.

Out of the same philosophy, Tesla allows you to set Autopilot speed slightly above the applicable speed limit. You can cry out that that’s illegal. But then again, try to drive exactly the speed limit in real world situations. You might actually be creating more dangerous situations than you avoid. Hence Tesla treats you as the driver. It’s your ship, and you are the captain. The tech is just there to assist you.
GSuite and Office 365 are not free, and make security guarantees to their customers.
The Satie blob opera is hilarious but sadly i lost the link.
> I’d gladly buy an Occulus but nope, need a Facebook account

Facebook says that Oculus won't require a Facebook sign in anymore.

https://www.facebook.com/boz/posts/10114026973983491
Hardware manufacturers can ideologically target the libre flavor, but in practice it is next to impossible to deliver. Drivers are built to address specific hardware features. As features grow, so do system complexities and software calls. Every OEM addresses a feature in a specific problem-solving paradigm. Trying to unify most hardware under a standard set of function & procedure calls cannot be fathomed.

A real world analogy is to make shoes of a single size and color & expect every person in the world can use it comfortably irrespective of their size or body type.
Windows was the most used desktop OS for development before WSL. Here's the 2015 Stack Overflow survey, which also includes the 2014 and 2013 results for comparison [1].

Here's the 2021 survey's OS results [2]. It shows higher WSL usage than the AoC survey, but still only 3%.

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech

[2] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-...
> My problem with Linux isn't that. My problem is what a5aAqU did in his reply to my first comment. He suggested Linux even though my post made my preference clear. This happens almost every time I mention using and liking Microsoft products and technologies.

I wasn't suggesting that you switch to Linux. I was just pointing out that you can't escape the keylogging by using Windows. Linux is the major platform where you can fully control your computer, but it still might not be the right platform for you.
Great question!

I did do a bit of QA myself: dishwasher cycles; hot & cold liquids (a good test of borosilicate glass); drop tests from very low heights (it is glass after all).

Most factories worth their salt also undergo some third party testing and I asked for these certificates which detail the chemical breakdown of the glass. Granted, I suppose these could be forged, and I would have no way of knowing.

Finally, there is quite a lot of back and forth with videos on Whatsapp, where you see the factory floor, and get a sense of the type of show they're running.

Part of the down-selection process is also just how willing each factory is to engage with these types of questions!
It failed even at being a cool failed project.
I started a Rust project several months ago and quickly became frustrated with the state of basic terminal libraries. None of them seemed to implement the buffering and minimal-refresh of ncurses, so I was forced to rely on one of the many shifting ncurses binding libraries and all the unsafeness that comes with that (or reimplement my own—way out of scope for the little toy I was building). What's the state of the art for raw terminal libraries (not TUI helpers) in Rust nowadays?
Happy Holidays HN! Buon Natale.
Point of the article is that establishment is defending whoever is on power and itself, and there is no much more democracy, especially when opposition is dissolved, leaving people to chose between parties that are not fundamentally different. Erosion of democracy is the result, especially now all aided with technology and biases big tech platforms introduced
Honestly, there's a million things you can learn by reading the source for those files. Right click, view source. Good skill to have.

TO answer your question, these were written by hand and you can see that from the code.
Reminds me of the Dhar Mann slot machine at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai9Hr9noqSg
The title is misleading. I don't see "open source" mentioned anywhere on this page.

e.g. it is very unlikely that all the Basic variants listed here are open source.
> light does not follow a straight path through fiber it bounces around.

this is only relevant for multimode fiber, right? in singlemode fiber the light must propagate parallel with the fiber. even in multimode fiber, some light is parallel, so it doesn’t necessarily limit latency — it creates dispersion.
Didn't know about that, but was a little surprised by:

> In every way that matters, Automattic is a reflection of Mullenweg (you could say he puts the “Matt” in Automattic). He started building web software because he wanted a place to store and share his photos; he’s a blogger to the core, and loves anything that aids in the free expression of ideas on the internet. He loves jazz, which is why WordPress releases are named for jazz musicians.

Sure name your company whatever you like, but why should releases of an opensource project be named based on one person's taste in music?
I did read your comment. You don’t have any explanation of how the top level scan can maintain the color index array for QOI_OP_INDEX chunks without doing any decoding.
While completely abandoning hope for the small players in the process.
I appreciate being respected as a responsible adult. Why would you want some company thinking what’s best or you? I assume you also try to be a responsible driver.
Casting their description of the review board's opinion as if they were asserting their own opinion. If you want to attribute an opinion to them using a quote, find them stating their opinion and quote that.
I've heard of people doing this with RC car parts. What printer do you use?
Yeah, sadly I think that is the case.
iredmail does this pretty well

https://www.iredmail.org/
I tried to build StackOverflow for flashcards (i.e. spaced repetition with collaboration as a first class feature.) After working on it on nights/weekends for ~2 years, I realized my architecture was shit. I started out with Blazor + F# + PostGres, but eventually I realized that syncing offline client DBs to the cloud was a very nontrivial problem. So I moved to event sourcing. Turns out that's not much better - I started to write my own IndexedDB wrapper, then said "you're a moron" and switched to CouchDb/PouchDb/RxDB. I also wanted to support plugins. I thought I figured that out with Blazor, but eventually I realized that more powerful plugins would want to manipulate the DOM directly. Blazor's virtual DOM kills that possibility. So, I'm off the dotnet ecosystem (I am so, so sad to leave F#) and onto Typescript + SolidJS. I would've gone ReScript but that's tightly coupled to React which uses the VDom. Perhaps I should be using Svelte - I'm not 100% on any of this new architecture yet. So my project has not yet entirely failed... I just realized I spent ~2 years on the wrong architecture.

The carcass of my attempt in dotnet: https://github.com/dharmaturtle/cardoverflow
It was foreign, but they sinicized and they claimed to be representatives of Chinese civilization, so in the course of history it was eventually accepted that they were legitimate successors. This is in contrast to imperial Japan, which explicitly did not claim to be a successor of Chinese civilization, which was one of the reasons why they continued to be viewed as foreign.
Thanks so much for the kind words!
It's a top-down versus decentralized, market-driven approach, with all the upsides and downsides of each.
Author here.

I have code in FreeBSD. Does that count?
Mental health is health.
Comparing how CLIP+VQGAN interprets artist names for AI-generated images
Thank you for Flexbox Froggy! It was of huge help to me years ago.
Author here.

> Regarding OP's comments on GitHub Copilot - I agree with the sentiment but I wouldn't worry too much. If the "stolen" code snippet is easy to write then it's really no big deal it it gets copied. If it was difficult to write then the person "stealing" it probably won't be able to understand it, which will lead to trouble down the line. It's not (yet) the same as ignoring the license of an entire repository.

Boy, I hope you are right.
I’m no fan of his but Peterson is hardly right-wing. If anything he’s politically centrist with a strong focus on individualism.

Both right and left wingers hate him because he undermines their collectivist/authoritarian sides
For her first year, yahoo was growing in visits. 1 year into her tenure, yahoo had more visits than Google. The next four years were downhill. To me, that looks like Yahoo was on a path to recovery and she sunk it.
Absent open source we would all be buying those libraries from small software shops just as happened in the ninieties before OS become so prevelant.
Often centralization is chosen specifically because it is easier to monetize. I love FOSS just as much as the next guy but it has it downsides too... Just look at the log4j bug and all the crap those developers get for work they've done on their free time. Sorry, but I get triggered any time anyone says they want software without paying for it.
For a CMS that was 'unusable by non-technical users' the adoption rate was mighty impressive?

'Catering for everyone' is an ego-trip that's resulted in page bloat for everyone whether they wanted it or not.
in my experience it works this way with electronic components as well
I was talking whole continents. I did notice some other bits went missing. "I guess people only pay attention to what they want to find" - not sure exactly what you're trying to say there, but it didn't feel good.
I'm thinking some wiz kid from a cheaper country could do this.

Bob is from Romania, he comes to America for college and gets a new grad offer at Twitter.

After 10 years he has a million in vested stock options, he sells em all to retire to the countryside of his youth.

I guess I could do the same, but I can't imagine it being easy to learn Romanian. All the English speaking countries are fairly expensive to live in.
I agree. I’d say this is a critical plot point of the movies

Morpheus:

> You have to understand. Most people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured and so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.

And The Architect

> Please. As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99.9% of all test subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level. While this answer functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo, those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probability of disaster.
The Semver Trick
Useful step-by-step instructions:

* https://workaround.org/ispmail
I actually tried Gutenberg a few months back. It was nearly unusable as a document editor. Typing, undo, cursor movement, and moving between blocks was a glitchy mess, and so was importing pages from the classic editor (though that's a difficult problem). I reported several issues, and a few actually got fixed after weeks. Though I haven't tested again since I decommissioned my WordPress Pi image.
Corporate O365 users often have their own Exchange server (cloud or self-hosted) with custom configuration.
And then you make contact with the real world and realize that, yes, morals are important, but just as holding a Civil War era to our standards is unproductive, you are going to need to pick your battles. There are lines I'm not going to cross. To take a life, or directly hurt others in malicious pleasure, for example. But I'm not going to be so rigid as to imagine that my moral compass can navigate every gray area with certitude. I'll do my best and God can judge me in the end.
I spent several years as a LaTeX user during graduate school. I spend some time in LyX as well.

Then pandoc was released, and markdown let me be more expressive with content than dithering with minutia of layout. In that vein, I feel LaTeX is awesome but requires a comprehensive understanding of all of it to be fully expressive. I just want to type my papers quickly, ya know? So Markdown gives me what I need, and if a coauthor needs LaTeX pandoc can suitably provide.

I keep my resume in TeX, for what its worth. I suppose I keep my half-written data science book in it too :)
Represent the NWA! One of my best friends just moved to Fayetteville. I've not had a chance to visit yet but hear great things (open minded bi-coastal here)
Sensor Network Technology in Vinge’s a Deepness in the Sky
Screen Ratio Comparison
AMD and Apple aren't playing on a level field currently. We'll see how well the 5nm AMDs with the 3d stacked cache perform when they come out next year.
Happy holidays to all.

This corner of the internet is always a great source of motivation and discovery, and suprising amount of insight.
Stay safe and wishing you a peaceful year ahead.
I can't watch this. So many years and so many man-hours riding on top of a rocket is to much for me.
That's a bit concerning. Has anyone written about this somewhere? I'm guessing I'm not the only one who's had their interest piqued considering the large FOSS community here
> A large mail provider doesn't have access to magically different security tooling than everyone else.

Actually various big FAANG companies have very privileged access to vulnerability disclosures.

However, the threat model can make small mailservers way more secure. Breaking into gmail is worth billions.

Breaking into your personal mailserver is not worth the time of any skilled attacker unless you have very valuable secrets.
They didn’t pick that either, it was supposed to launch earlier but a clamp broke down when attaching the telescope to the rocket sending vibrations all over it and and as a result they had to inspect for damages, further delaying the launch. Then the weather wasn’t good and delayed once more.
In theory. In practice I see too many comments that use the phrase ("as an immigrant") as a way to turn their opinion (not always very smart) into some kind of fact. Look at the parent comment, it's not in the form "in my opinion as an immigrant". It's "as an immigrant I can tell you" as if that's something objective. Well, I'm not an American and I can't tell you that. Quite the opposite, in my opinion his comment is rubbish.
I do have a question about JWST that I wasn't able to find a fine answer in other forums.

A lot of people and engineers are saying that the JWST is a marvel of engineering, with truly inovative technical solutions and a giant step up compared to Hubble Telescope. And it does seems like so!

However, I'm always baffled how everyone seems proud that the telescope has something like 200 SPOF during deployment, and if even one of them fails the whole mission could fail.

I know that each step has probably been throughoutly tested, and that the acceptable probability of failure of each one of those steps has been deemed acceptable. But I'm still surprised that people are proudly conflating excellent engineering with a design that has a large number of spofs.

In my domain this would be considered as a terrible design (aka "hope is not a strategy"), even given the constraints of mass and volume that such project incur: 200 hundred low probability events, chained, can get in the realm of possible.

I can't imagine JSWT team doing "bad engineering", so I'm sure I'm missing a piece. Is it only PR that underline this aspect? Is JWST as brittle as the news want to make us think? Or are there technical reasons or acceptable failure modes that gives confidence that those steps are not as critical as the news let us people know?
Burger, then.
They really are the best. So I’m depth but at the same time very accessible.