skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not opinion :

- I linked the New York articles interviewing Crowdstrike :

"The D.N.C. immediately hired CrowdStrike, [...] It made its first appearance in 2014, said Dmitri Alperovitch, CrowdStrike’s co-founder and chief technology officer.[...] Whenever someone clicked on a phishing message, the Russians would enter the network, “exfiltrate” documents of interest and stockpile them for intelligence purposes. Once they got into the D.N.C., they found the data valuable and decided to continue the operation,” said Mr. Alperovitch, [...]"

There are similar claims elsewhere. You can also find their management in TV interviews or being in TV expert panels.

- The Mate link is only interesting here because of the handy scans of the House Comitee minutes where they answered a direct question by "We did not have concrete evidence that data was exfiltrated from the DNC". You can also go to the original source, if you want.

There are several scanned pages inlined in the middle of that article.
In case of crypto you can easily go to 0 or near 0. However gold is historically stable in terms of a real value.
I wish Systemd-networkd had native PPPoE support.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/481

Still, systemd is just great and it has made my life a lot easier.
> Does ray tracing simplify game rendering even though it would require more FLOPS?

In theory it will, the VFX/CG industry went through the rasterisation -> raytracing change ~10 years ago, as it simplified things (at least in the pipeline, and in the renderers themselves to some degree). It was slower in terms of compute time than rasterisation, but made up for that by not needing things like irradiance/pointcloud caches, shadow map passes, etc (the removal of which made total iteration time faster), and the fidelity it allowed was quite a bit better (global GI, accurate layered materials traced through the surface, volume SSS, etc, etc).

In terms of renderer complexity, it means that while you have to specialise how you use the rays (ray casting/tracing is really just a visibility query), it means you can use them for camera visibility, reflection, refraction, shadows, environment quite easily in a very similar manner (especially with path tracing), whereas with rasterisation, you need rasterisation for the main tri/quad drawing, then (cascading) shadow maps for shadows, then cube mapping for environment lighting/reflection, and these for rasterisation are very different techniques / algorithms.
> The moment you need to start comprehending the difference between Wants vs. Requires and not hooking into running when multi-user.target is reached (the most common situation) you are in for a world of trial-by-error testing.

And the worst is that the tooling to test is very limited ( non-existent). I had a problem with conflicting/circular ndependencies ( my service had to be launched before networking but after dbus, which is just impossible because dbus needs networking itself), which worked 9 times out of 10. It was nearly impossible to debug, i had to use the graph tool that shows you visually how much time each service took to start, and completely by chance i noticed that dbus started after networking, which led me to look into it.
What would be cool, although it would take enormous coordination and negotiation effort to do, would be to develop a universal reset code for lightbulbs.

One idea would be to use the morse code encoding for "RRR", or ".-. .-. .-." (has a nice, memorable beat to it) with a minimum and maximum frequency such that it could be input at human or machine speed (say an allowed period between 50-500ms and a tolerance of 20% variation while inputting).

Once you have a standardized way to encode "reset" using on-off (which is all we have available given the legacy system we use), the next-gen lamps and light switch panels could just incorporate this into a built-in reset switch that sends the full reset signal to any bulb that happens to be plugged in.
"Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing" by Chris Bail. I have always had a difficult relation with social media. I hated them from the beginning and my discomfort has only grown over the years. This book was an eye opener to me and clearly explains why social media leads to polarizing and it's not what you expect. To me this was one of the most thought provoking books I read this year.
That is in fact how most smart lights are implemented. There is a central unit each lightbulb connects to and that central unit (optionally) is connected to the internet.
> In the end you are free to use any init system you want.

Not really

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hard_dependencies_on_systemd
Whitelist github.com from Auto cookie clearing. Takes less time than a rant on SO. I had a guy at work ask me to store the entire state of an internal web site in the URL. He went so far to go and get his change request approved by management, resources and time allocated. When it was passed to me to implement and I dug into why he wanted this, turned out he was auto clearing his cookies. I told him to whitelist our internal website from his cookie clearing Paranoia and stop wasting my time and company money.
Yes. But my point is voters who are concerned about COVID had the choice between a guy who had their preferred policies, but was a hypocrite, or a different guy who was sincerely committed to policies they thought were wrongheaded and dangerous. Why would they ever choose the latter, if these are the only options?
Improving data quality with Data Contracts
Humankind by Rutger Bregman. It shows an optimistic view of the world through history, he mentions with facts why we trust, why this was/is our most valuable asset to survive and why the biggest advantage of humanity is friendliness even today. He shows many stories about how we are good by nature. A must have book if you want to see the world from a positive angle.
Curious about his examples involving liberal politicians, Chris Brown, and one extremely mild one for Trump. He's not fooling anyone though that this is mainly a hit piece on "libruls".
There are some cool features in systemd that are not easy to do in cron.

Example:
I use restic backup. One timer runs every 24h or on the next boot if there where more than 24h since the last backup as this is a laptop. Also it waits some random amount so that not all script run at the same time after boot. If a backup fails (eg remote server down) it retires every 15min, but no more than one hour before I get an Mail with a detailed report.

All really easy in systemd. No scripting required.
> And, related, Christian forgiveness was critical technological advance to making scientific failures acceptable.

So did it just take 1,600 years for that critical advance to express itself, or something? I judge Greek technology (and all technology is the result of scientific failures) to be greater than Medieval technology. Maybe you mean a "Protestant forgiveness?"
>When I'm abroad, and I want to buy a car, I look for one that was manufactured and sold also in the USA market so that it meets NTHSA standards

This seems like a super reliable way to purchase a totaled vehicle, no?
I question whether reddit has shadow banned one of my accounts. I post regularly to both and one has about 10k karma and the other seems stuck at 2k. I do get the occasional like but never anything substantial and it makes me wonder if they are severely limiting how many people see my posts. I could just be imagining it but with the thought of shadow band it had me wondering. I couldn’t remember my password so on a separate computer I made a new account and hope to stay logged in on the first one so I don’t lose it is why I am using 2 accounts.
We're using Simple Analytics mainly for privacy reasons. I did a bit of research beforehand as we're in a quite 'sensitive' industry. So if you care about privacy Simple Analytics is the private one. They are the only ones that never track IP-address. Plausible and fathom do (only for a day or so, but still do). https://simpleanalytics.com/
The GDPR has a provision that requires that the same level of access to the service has to be provided regardless of your privacy/tracking choice.
My side hustle[0] brings ~$600/month. Not a whole lot but it covers the costs and brings a decent profit.

[0] https://pdf2qrcode.com.
Jeff Geerling tweeted something about that he got 1 million TikTok views from a video he spent two minutes to make. I think it featured this book.
I haven't read much this year, but I would recommend the book I'm currently reading (or should I say working on): Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. D'Ooge.

It's decent albeit old-fashioned. I think it would be better to use this accompanied by LLPSI.
I would diversify.

Cryptocurrency is maturing, and that might mean we will see less volatility.

https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/volatility-index/

And gold has also fallen 40% from $1825 in Aug 2011 to $1061 in Nov 2015.

https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-...
I highly recommend reading the hacker news guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The most relevant part for you is:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

But i suggest reading the entire thing, there are a lot of good points.
But he also "dunks" on Trump by saying he profited from his DC hotel, where the bacon was amazing.

Yes, that's the worst thing Trump got away with, sarcasm off.

How these obvious Trumpists make it to the top of Hackernews shows once again that the nerds really aren't alright anymore.
Anyone read a book that helps with headaches? I get lot of them and I meditate too. I sleep well, and eat well too.
https://youtu.be/i_FofLSherM

We're currently binge watching Ted Lasso, and that scene really stung and stuck with me. I am someone who is often judgmental and contrarian, exacerbated by the Internet and many things in our society being not enjoyable, and it has masked the underlying humanity of curiosity that lies inside. It's hard, but focusing on what I can do to learn more about something and actually do things rather than critiquing some existing thing is a process I'm trying to implement. While being a critic is valid, too much of anything is not a good thing.
That is a cool service!

My wife recently published such an emotional development book in Slovakia [0], and it became a bestseller there. She's now translating and expanding into other countries.

It would be nice for our wives to connect :).

[0] https://www.sebavedomie.com/knihy-pre-deti/
Definitely a valid point, which is why I use Paddle on my website. 30% is still a huge fee for that, Paddle only charges 5% for example (and that includes payment processing fees).
No, they absolutely don't increase the value of btc - someone buying eth means they don't buy btc. The only remaining advantage of btc is that it has the largest capitalization. The moment that ends is when it gets repriced as an old memecoin - a competitor of doge and shiba. Complete collapse into oblivion.

There's no liquidity to sell large amounts of btc. I don't know how many Dorsey has, but the only exit plan for whales is to dump bags on pension funds buying into a spot bitcoin etf. Of course that's not going to happen if bitcoin is no longer first. For this reason it would be more profitable for bitcoin whales for btc to drop 70% if that means 80% btc domination.

>but Dorsey can easily move his investments if he sees that coming

He's already sitting on a massive loss, and you're proposing he sells at an even bigger one like it's nothing. If he was going to ever do that it would already have happened.
Really awesome and exciting, opens a lot of doors for high performance code. But it is a little concerning to me how much Swift is ballooning with keywords and attributes. Swift 5.5 has so much more to learn than Swift 2 (the first version I seriously worked with)…
It's a bit of both. I learned a ton of the period from the baroque cycle. Stephenson inserts the most curious historical details of the period into the books and you are constantly checking wikipedia - did this really happen? Usually the most outrageous details are picked from history.

Such a marvelous trilogy.
I guess the use case is for when you want to migrate home to a different install. At the same time assuming you can't just adjust passwd to make uids work.

So I guess there is none.
It is expected that if you are logged in you stay logged in. Only a minority of users clear all their cookies at the end of every session. Sorry but that is true. Thus the landing page is optimised for the most common visitor, that is the one with no account yet, not the loudest complainer on a tech geek forum.
We live in a time when the anchors on TV as well as the politicians running the government are telling their supporters to break laws.

Be it January 6th or the riots and looting we have seen for the past two years. Both sides have figures in their parties that are advocating for this madness and normalizing it.

I am a bit of a patriot who is pretty intent on leaving the world better than how I found it. I help people. I try to set good examples. This whole behavior of the right and left has left me thinking they are both morally bankrupt.

I disagree with the article. I do not feel like a sucker. I just feel all of this extremism is really sad and depressing.
First of all, the node pooling actually leads to heavy centralization. Remember in 2017 when one of the pools grew so large it became 51% of the hash rate briefly? Yeah, they ended up limiting their hashrate to stay under 50%, but if 2 node pools colluded, they could control the network (and require miners joining them to install upgrades if they wanted)
VAT is just as complicated as it used to be, especially if you sell into Northern Ireland. The only thing that improved is we don't have to do those bloody EU sales lists.
I'm not sure if best but certainly the most enjoyable and entertaining: For the love of physics. I absolutely envy people who have been in Walter Lewin's classes.
I have been working on my side project Mailboxfiler for almost 2 years. Haven't reached the $500 mark yet but kind of too close. https://mailboxfiler.com/
It's always been this way. You shouldn't enter open source expecting accolades or deference.

It's awful the way log4j is being treated. I just don't think anything has changed.
I agree that it shouldn’t have happened. The blame however belongs to Rosenbaum who hid in a cluster of cars when he saw Kyle alone, chased after him, and grabbed the barrel of his rifle. This ambush is what caused the “clusterfuck”. It was all caught on video by the FBI, who had aerial surveillance of the “protest”. You should watch that video.

It’s also pretty clear that Kyle’s motive was to help people. He offered first aid to people who might be injured. He put out fires. He cleaned up graffiti at a school. If he had gone there to shoot people, he could have saved himself a lot of effort by shooting them on the two prior nights of looting and arson.

Oh, don’t forget that he tried to turn himself in to the police just minutes after the shootings. They apparently didn’t believe him, so he went home. The next morning he went to a police station to again turn himself in. That station was in the wrong jurisdiction though, so he sat in the lobby for a few hours while he waited for detectives from the correct jurisdiction to arrive to question him. I don’t think he would have been so insistent on talking to the police if he had gone to Kenosha with the intention of killing people.

I find it really sad that people have strong opinions about this case, but haven’t bothered to review the actual evidence and testimony. We have complete video recordings of the entire trial, which is extremely rare. Normally we just get a transcript, but here we can watch the whole thing on Youtube.

I especially recommend watching the parts where the prosecution’s own witnesses state that Kyle was defending himself, as well as the two times in a row that the prosecution attempted to violate the defendant’s 5th–amendment right to silence.

You might also watch the part where the prosecution asked a witness about evidence that they had already asked the Judge to exclude from the trial. This was pretty hilarious, because it gave the defense an opportunity on cross examination to ask about the psychiatric medications Rosenbaum was supposed to have been taking. I don’t know if that was a key part of the trial, but it was pretty funny to see them make such a mistake; truly that was an unforced error.
Skilled leadership.
>Get yourself an e-ink display of 10" or 13" (standard dimensions offered by the patent-monopoly vendor across multiple OEMs), and discover that online reading of PDFs is 1) quite pleasant (so long as the underlying PDF formatting itself is sane) and 2) vastly preferable to either HTML or "fluid" ePub or Mobi file formats.

Notably this is not the standard size for most e-ink devices though, on which pdfs are a pain to read. Mobi/epub files, in contrast, are fantastic on my kindle (and on my phone, and on desktop).

If your argument has to boil down to "this file format is great if you just buy a specific device for viewing them, and eschew viewing them on any of the other devices you already own and use more frequently", I'd say your argument provides more evidence for the counterpoint than for the one you're arguing.

I'm happy you found a good way to consume a fundamentally outdated format, but PDFs are a bad format for the majority of use cases.
""Because I can't trust them, they shouldn't be able to trust me" isn't a good moral philosophy to live by, that's for sure."

Corporate America is fundamentally amoral and the rot is spreading to the rest of the world.

When dealing with such entities "screw them before they screw you" is just beating them at their own game.

Don't criticize, praise people doing this.

And just because they do this to employers, that does not mean they are living by this philosophy.

A good person will take the corporate scumbags to the cleaners so they can spend the rewards on family and loved ones.

Now there's a moral philosophy to live by ...
Speaker for the dead (second book in Enders game series). After many years first book I read in one sitting.
They are long term consulting (or you can call them outsourcing, rather) jobs for quite big companies. I am weary of saying the domain, but it's... Really not the domain most people would expect.

I guess I'm just lucky stuff doesn't overlap. I try to keep meetings at a minimum and solve things as promptly as possible so I avoid being dragged in them. If I have some overlap I reschedule or if it's not critical I simply don't join.

The expectations are pretty fucking abysmal to boot. People in this domain do not know how to fucking write software and I've been at it for a while and I know my stuff petty well. The funny part is the customers are quite happy with my work. If you also them, they will say I am one of the higher performing members of their team. I do tend to solve trickier problems and I understand the parts I build quite well so if issues arise I am quick at solving them. But, again, the level of competence is really really low! Clients will suffer most in a couple of ways. It will probably take me longer to do things than if I were to be uniquely employed for them. But, again, expectations so low, they don't have a good comparison. If one of the clients has a really serious problem, I will pour most my time in it to fix the burning issues, so the others will get neglected for a bit. Sometimes I run out of gas and I have mini burnouts so I will have these mini slumps, but I quickly snap out of it and get back on track.

Just to expand how bad competence is here, at one point we had a team we worked in and out of about 4 people I basically did the whole work, while working 2 contracts at the time.

As mentioned, this field is deeply dysfunctional. I worked in it as a normal consultant for a long time and really really tried improving client's stuff but.. I gave up. Most clients don't even use git and they won't fucking listen when we tell them the decisions they take are bad. They just go ahead out of inertia with horrible horrible standards and bad approaches. So I guess I'm now jaded and kind of... Resigned to be just a pawn and just bill hours.
Swift is a long way from Rust

There is no memory model, really, from the POV of a Swift programmer.

There are no guarantees about the cost of abstractions.

The threading model is awful. Almost useless. I works well for simple cases (which are simple!) and not at all for complex cases. There must be a way for threads to communicate and synchronise other than a semaphore, but I have not found it. (Do not need it - keeping it simple and on one thread).

The compiler is very slow. You thought the Rust compiler was slow? Try Swift!

Not Swift, but the IDE provided by Apple cannot deal well with programmes when they approach ~100k lines. It gets very slow and its tools become unreliable.

The learning curve of Rust makes it unsuitable for general purpose computing, and there is nothing hard about learning Swift. It has a lot of modern features (c/f C, my first love!) - map, reduce, optionals, result types, generics....

I do not think it is a threat to Rust for system programming outside of Apple (Dog knows what madness they will try). I think it's main competitor is Go. Not in systems programming but in general purpose computing.
That’s so exciting, congrats! How did you approach user acquisition? How did that change as you grew?
27” IPS Monitor developed by 4053 gamers, coders, and designers
I am quite happy to mention that I have been a long-term fan of your work, thank you!

I probably used more than 100 of your wallpapers over the years. I can currently think of at least four computers in which I've stored many.

I can't quite recall when I signed up for an account, pretty sure it was pre 2005.
You don't. I don't. But people who were on the fence will absolutely join in the next time.
If you dig victorian steampunk I warmly recommend Perdido Street Station by China Mieville.
On one hand I'm excited about the future and I want to build apps for humans in spaceships, but on the other I'm very disappointed with how hard it is to get to the actual piece of information you're looking for on some of the websites filled with all this fancy stuff.
Sites like this one the other hand, just don't waste my time and I like this idea of simplicity. I wish we could have that everywhere, so we can be more user friendly all around.
Climate Change Champion Elizabeth Warren Arrives On Her Private Jet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vavV0Q94MhA&ab_channel=TheDC...
I love 3 men in a boat, it’s my favorite book ever.
I have never seen anyone I would remotely describe as a layman using TeX.
The reasons you write open-source code:

- training purposes to better yourself
- as a showcase or to build up your reputation to get hired
- because you have a niche need in your personal life that no one else already solved

None of those reasons are invalidated by big corporations using open-source without paying back.
There’s also “Miracle In the Andes” by Nando X (forgot the surname). And “Adrift” by Callahan (forgot the first name).

The latter is one of the few books I read thrice over the years. Combines for me beauty, survival, appreciation for life and our humanness, philosophy and knowledge about our world.
I made two websites and 4 windows apps, around $550.
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"The Bitcoin Standard" was pretty good.

It is a long history of all the effects of monetary policy. And how Bitcoin could change the world in this regard.
Define "worth". We were never in it for the money. I maintained Dia for 8 years and never saw a penny. If you don't like your FOSS project being used by evil capitalist megacorps, put an anti-commercial license on it.