skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a novice Linux (Ubuntu) user, I am curious as to how these new changes for rand will speed up a Linux distro overall or if there is even a way to measure this. It seems that, in addition to an overdue replacement SHA-1, the new code is a significant increase in performance. I would think that there are a lot of places where random used in the OS and this update would translate into performance improves in those other places. I'm not an expert and would love to head any thoughts on this.
People tend to think meditation (or longer prayer) is a waste of time bc you aren't "doing anything". And once you have anxiety and depression (for most) and only then, Do you realize thats kinda the point.
>I wonder why those events took a while to appear in the urea price?

Probably because big urea producers have longer-term contracts for gas and the price hike would only occur after a set period. Chemical plants buy very little spot.
Are you sure dependent types don't make your programs simpler instead of more complex? A more powerful type system making programs simpler isn't anything new.

I personally haven't seen them simply anything yet, but your assumption that verifying things with a dependent type would necessarily result in more complexity than a non-verified program is not trivial and needs support.
Ah, your original comment was not clear, we agree then.

I'm just frustrated by the bandwagoning criticism of any use of CloudFlare and the suggestion anyone using them is MITM their own visitors, when clearly they are just another part of your own infrastructure (when used correctly). Your comment "TLS termination on the edge services is just stupid" made me think you were doing that.
> 2. You “tolerate” this practice just long enough to win the critical initial wave of reviews and benchmarks. Interested buyers will look at those charts for years to come.

Problem with this scheme is that it assumes reviewers will go to length of running a special hidden mode which may have value in some fringe cases and rave about it.
That is not the same hardware design, and nothing prevents Intel to license ARM yet again.

People should actually learn about CPU architectures and hardware design.
Don't you think the inability to scale is exemplified by revenue growth problems, not headcount?
Ask HN: Clocks
There have been recent threads about pens, watches and other gadgets. What about clocks?

Nixies/VFDs/Numitrons are pretty popular, with DIY kits or premade options from places like https://kama-labs.com/ (they use their own new PCBs in conjunction with original tubes)

Two panel flip clocks or rotating drum assemblies were popular in Japan and the US, but less reliable than even nixie clocks.

Quartz desk clocks with added features like barometer/hygrometer are neat, albeit an even narrower niche.

What other types of clocks are worth looking at for collecting?
The first sentence is "When a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like."
As a learning exercise I switched by Plex setup from Docker to Snaps during 2020.

While not the most popular idea, I love Snaps ability to auto update packages. I configured my box to check for updates every 4 hours. This felt like a good compromise on security/annoyance if there was a security issue for a non-Enterprise environment. Docker I used to use one of the WatchTower images to check for updates/pull images, but it needed to monitor the Docker socket which is a big security no no.

I do find it strange that Canonical doesn't allow you point to/host a third party Store.
Western styled families are designed for maximum generational conflict.

I'm not against capitalism outright, so don't mistake this as a leftist snipe, but consumerism and the lifestyle of it has really separated us from each other. Not just in the stuff we buy but in the constant cultural and sub-cultural fracturing going on.

We're obsessed with identity (not just politically) as a society and consumerism drives it as much, if not more, than identity politics.

People want to belong. And identity is a way to do so.

But we've lost roots with religion, community and family. And the further we get away from it, the more stressful dealing with community and family become.

I could go on more about religion.. I'm atheist but have grown to see the evolutionsiry advntage of it and the socio/psychological problems it solved and how the trade off of its rejections and what we get out of that rejection... Isn't a good deal.

Until we confront all of this... Anxiety, depression, suicide, all of this will increase.

Call it hippy dippy. But being connected to nature and family and community has value that's hard to quantify and hard for a headline or a brand or a political slogan to sell you.

And we're losing it. Teenagers and 20 somethings don't see it. It's only when life is hard at 30-40+, does it begin to dawn on most.
What you seem to be looking for here is a Fourier transform/spectrogram. Vast majority of audio processing toolkits should have prebuilt tools along those lines for you to use.
Didn't you just have people freezing to death in Texas because of a power outage?
I think the implications are less about Peter Thiel and more having associated with known white nationalists, and maybe separately also Carl Tuckerson
I'm surprised by how little people understand the relationship between fossil fuels (not just energy) and global food production.

The primary reason that Malthus was wrong in his predictions about population growth and food supply isn't because of "science" it's because of fossil fuels.

This wouldn't be an issue if fossil fuels were unlimited in supply and didn't have very severe externalities in their unrestricted usage.

People don't like to talk about what the food supply looks like under a zero emissions scenario with our current nitrogen productions methods.

edit: This comment getting quickly downvoted is objective evidence for my argument that "People don't like to talk about..." There's nothing controversial in this comment. In a world without fossil fuels we very likely would have seen Malthus's predictions come to be, fossil fuels are obviously a limited resource and their usage has extreme externalities.

I get that people are scared, but it's still sad to see a community of otherwise curious people start to break down when they see facts that make them uncomfortable.
Wouldn't it be simpler to just add everything into your path, then split, uniq, and re-combine it, at the end?

Edit:

I use a .bashrc.d directory to store all of my bash customizations. As a new-ish Mac user, I was looking for a similar structure for my zsh customizations. Really like your setup - thanks for sharing!
100gb wasn't enough for me. A family subscription to office 365 offers each user 1tb of storage and the price is reasonable compared to the competition, especially if you're already ok with paying for Microsoft office.
Exactly the same for me. I'm currently in the "I know I should be doing X but not being able to bring myself to" cycle on a piece of a major project. It's not hard work, I know how to do it, but I just cannot do it.

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child, and have avoided the medication my whole life. Recently, I decided to try Adderall. It's like magic to be honest, and has helped tremendously in multiple ways. I can focus on a single task, less pain in getting started on tasks, can actually stay focused, can listen without the draining mental effort to force myself to, and am less forgetful.

But for some reason, this one project has put me right back in the same old 'cannot do this' state even with the Adderall.
>If Intel should retake the lead, Apple's choices will be to have a slower / less efficient processor or switch back to Intel.

Power efficiency is not something that Intel has ever led the industry in, regardless of process node.

Even selling mobile SOCs at a loss didn't allow them to break into the handheld mobile device market.

>Intel’s Mobile and Communications Group lost $1.1 billion in just the past quarter and just over $2 billion so far this year.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186367-intels-mobile-div...
I still wanna get some old Cray XMPs and use em as office benches. RIP Sidney as well. A great actor and, by all accounts, a great man.
Yeah it's back up... I started planning a home renovation in January 2020 and I've been waiting on prices to come back down :(

Starting to consider doing it myself as much as possible to recoup lumber costs with reduced labor costs.
Which never happened in 50 years.
For ardour, we almost never squash commits because we prefer our (always linear) git history to show the actually "story" of a branch's development.

There are two exceptions.

1. branch developer suffered from several "thinkos" along the way, the branch doesn't contain that many changes, and there's simply no benefit to seeing the contrast between the initial (mistaken) changes and the final result.

2. the branch commits create a situation where git bisect can't be properly used because intermediate commits will not compile. Squash is one option here, though it is often preferable to just re-branch and re-work commits to avoid both the bisect problem and the squash.

With a 21 year development history, we have found it invaluable to be able to trace the "thought processes" behind a series of commits, and squash would rob us of that.
This is so disingenuous. The total energy input from fossil fuels is several fold less than the energy output since most of it is derived from the sun. [1](See figure 3)

Around 50% of the input is indeed from nitrogen, but it need not be derived from fossil fuels since you could source energy elsewhere and use water electrolysis derived hydrogen in the nitrogen production process. That it is currently more economical to use fossil fuels is a separate issue.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2935130/
Psychological Language on Twitter Predicts County-Level Heart Disease Mortality
Only 29% of El Salvador has a bank account and you want them to use Wise? How are they supposed to get their money OUT of wise, transfer it again to someone with a bank account? Seems like an extra step when they can just receive BTC (and even spend it locally), go to the ATM and be done with it.

You think you have used less energy than the average El Salvadorian who uses BTC? It's really entertaining to see the watt-police coming out when many of these same people have A/C or heat turned up in their house way beyond the maximum survivable bands of the temperature range.
I hope he finally gets those two round-trip, first-class tickets to Athens, Lisbon, Madrid and Scotland and Tahiti.
there's really more than enough CO2 in the atmosphere right now. The plants aren't struggling for it.
Western ‘Zoom Towns’ Take Aim at Short-Term Rentals
One of my all time faves, was thinking about this moving this morning when I saw the news abut Sidney Poitier. Setec Astronomy.
The column was quite misleading, as "resolved" doesn't mean that airtel is no longer trying to block it. (it's trying, but failing).

As such, I've just dropped the column.
people can build that, and some services offer that

its pretty clear there is a market and user story for a segment of the population that doesn't value reversibility
100%. Lots of gray area here in "shouldn't", "illegal", "can't", etc.

That's why, in my experience, I think TheWorkNumber has a pretty good and individual-centric approach. I have to explicitly grant access to that data on a per-request basis with some form of one-time key that I provide to the requestor.

Compare that to a credit check, where ("if you're lucky") you sign something saying you're aware of and approve the request, but without any sort of real technical control.
Curious how these big input cost swings translate to final product costs. We're seeing steady news reports for individual components such as SemiConductors oil and other costs skyrocketing by triple digits. Presumably downstream the costs are partially eaten by wage declines, profit margin shrinkage, supply reserves, and other costs which aren't spiking.

I wish I had access to an approximate Soviet style planning machine to simulate the outcome and time delay to cost increases. We're probably still eating the food grown with last years food and fertilizer prices.
I'm glad you noticed! The idea behind the inverse radius and duration relationship was that each specific message might only be seen by, say, 100 people. Certainly hoping this reduces spammy messages.
I thought the whole point was how great UNIX was.
A buffer overflow isn't a memory safety issue?
Shell Eval
One of my favorites movies. It has this brilliant blend of thriller with humor and the music by James Horner is fantastic. Although I generally hate comedies, it's probably one of the few movie that makes laugh, even though I know it by heart.
He's depicted as more of a nerdy relatable "analyst". Truly the common man's CIA operative.
Sneakers was the best technically, but Hackers captured the spirit of hacking during the time the best. Wargames is inbetween those. I'd argue Weird Science and Ferris Bueller are at the same level as the Matrix as far as the hacking content goes.
>People don't like to talk about what the food supply looks like under a zero emissions scenario with our current nitrogen productions methods.

I'd have to run the numbers... but offhand I'd guess it just means nitrogen gets 2.5x more expensive. (Call it 2-10x if you want some padding) That doesn't even mean food gets 2.5x more expensive, only that the percentage of costs due to nitrogen go up that much. I think this is such a non-issue.
Porting Castlevania: Symphony of the Night to the Genesis [video]
>> Why is this upsetting to you?

> It's not upsetting

You know what's truly upsetting? Pervasive gross incompetence in the C suites of American companies.

> I just think, as I've explained multiple times, that putting a spotlight on the degree alone, as the linked article does, is a bad argument

Why?

It would be a fucking scandal in literally any other field.

"Chief Medical Officer didn't have any medical training".

"Chief Accounting Officer doesn't have any accounting training and isn't a CPA."

Do you not respect IT as a profession? Or do you think anyone who has read some WebMD, shadowed a bit, and muddled through a few years of physical exams at a family practice should qualify for a CMO position?

> ...given that track record and experience matter much more than what degree someone got years ago. It's a cheap gotcha.

No, it isn't. Insisting on a formal demonstration of knowledge -- in addition to experience -- is not unreasonable.

The IT status quo doesn't exist in any other profession.

Engineers must attend ABET-accredited programs and then become or work under PEs.

Certification and required education is pervasive in medicine.

Lawyers attend law school pass the bar.

CPAs and actuaries take difficult exams.

Fact: IT security is a complete cluster fuck. Incompetence is everywhere. For every competent self-taught person there are dozens of dunning-kruger idiots. The status quo does not work. At all.

There are many jobs in software shouldn't require formal certification of technical knowledge. Just like there are many jobs in medicine, law, accounting, and finance that do not require formal certifications.

CISO of a credit bureau isn't one of those jobs.
I did come across several reports from Pakistani users as well while researching for this today.

Do these ISPs limit themselves to court-ordered blocks in your case?
Ethereum PoS is live now through the beacon chain. Merge just hasn't happened yet.

It's sharding that's probably never coming.
The software has a workaround to account for that, as long as you keep one key held down, the "stroke" isn't considered finished.

Obviously if you're gonna use it as you daily driver, you'd want to get a NKRO keyboard, but the "hold one key and tap the rest" trick works for the web demo.
Neat. Apparently it's part of the reason for the 'm' in the name; I was thinking vi.
> There is literally always, someone, at some point in time that paid with time and/or money to trade something.

But how did the trade get started?

Does it go back into an infinite past? An infinite series of trades, with neither an end, nor even beginning?

Otherwise it would seem something must be free.

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatio_ex_nihilo
It took me until I was 45 to finally get screened. I really wish I had done it sooner, it is not that rough. But I said the exact same thing when I bumped into this notion. I was quite resistant to the idea, which is itself a fascinating mental knot to untie.
If you're looking specifically for roguelike tutorials, the roguesharp link provided above is good. Also, SadConsole[0] is a great library and has a friendly and helpful Discord community.

If it's general gamedev resources for C#, then I would suggest Cynthia McMahon's Eyes of the Dragon series[1], for C# / Monogame. It goes through topics like input handling, drawing, tooling, etc. A thing I like about this as well is that it's not "perfect" off the bat -- an entry later will return to code written previously and talk about its benefits and drawbacks, and then refactor that code for a new goal or sometimes to just make it better. If you're new to C#, development, or game development, it offers a good perspective into what doing this "for real" looks like.

[0]: http://sadconsole.com/v8/articles/tutorials/get-started/draw...

[1]: https://cynthiamcmahon.ca/blog/category/eyes-of-the-dragon/
"Woke" as a political term was originally used to describe someone with political views focused on what they saw as the historical and modern forms of societal oppression: subjugation of women and sexism, racism and forms of societal bias against minorities, homophobia and anti-LGBT views found in mainstream society. To be "woke" was to be someone who was aware of the ways in which American society was and still is unjust to these various minority groups.

Over time, as some of this progressive-minded population became more extreme/absurd, the term came to represent that absurdity and became more of an epithet. Students protesting because they believed the proprietor of a shop on campus was racist when he physically stopped some students attempting to shoplift, because they were black. A rich black female college student who entered a cafeteria was asked to leave, and became the center of a large movement (with ACLU support) outraged at being targeted for eating while black, resulting in the staff members being fired. Members of the ACLU supporting a campaign to censor a book for trans-related wrongthink. These sorts of excesses began to be associated with the term, so now, while it can be used both ways, is more commonly associated with the loud, militant, and extremist portions of the progressive movement, and is generally used as a derogatory term.
Aside from agriculture, demand for urea has also increased due to recent introduction to maritime applications.

International Maritime Organisation - Tier III emmission certification require lowered emissions in (S)ECA areas.

Urea injection in exhaust lines convert SOx to CO2. "HUG-units" long used in greenhouses to also use the exhaust of generators used for lighting/heating as additional CO2 source. These same units are now being slapped on to seagoing vessels that of length under Class (Lloyds/Bureau Veritas etc.).

Sidenote: Service engineers and subsequent calibration tools are fully booked at this time. Good business to be had.
An Open Approach to Financial Freedom
It was just a weird idea I had. Not a canary, but a way to say "we cannot guarantee that exe is not compromised because of things we can't talk about, so there is no need to provide https to secure it, so here is just http".
To me, Snap and Flatpak are less about security than they are about universal application distribution that doesn't rely on third party maintainers and is free of conflicts. There are much simpler ways to achieve that goal[0], but the fragmentary nature of the Linux Desktop community makes the necessary standardization all but impossible. Similar to your statement about security, I loathe the traditional package manager/repo model because it consistently makes software unavailable to me either because it is missing from the repo, isn't updated yet, isn't maintained at all, or has library conflicts. All of its supposed advantages are useless if I can't actually run software.

To that end, I've put my money on Flatpak. I have my issues with it, both in practice and in design, but it isn't as user-hostile as Snap and seems decently popular and growing.

[0] AppImage is a valiant attempt, but simple AppDirs before it were much simpler
If they want to hire a contractor then offer them contractor rates, i.e 50% above the current offer.
by definition, they don't.
LMAX Disruptor (2011)
The ship of “intelligence can’t be made with statistics” is sinking, but i think people will keep saying it’s impossible until the bitter end.
Reading about this and considering the current price shock and inflation in Brazil makes me worried.

Right now, even before this fertiliser crisis materialises, there's already been a sizeable increase in food prices there, the pandemic pushed a new wave of homelessness and food insecurity after already some bad years before Bolsonaro came to power. Coupled with higher unemployment and overall loss of competitivity of Brazilian industry there just seems nowhere to go for society... If there is another food price hike it'll very likely cause massive social strife, I really don't see a way out if this crisis materialises in next year or so.

It will be brutal for the global south.
The conventional ag model where you have one farmer monocropping a thousand acres are the reason the #1 thing most farmers grow is debt. That requires expensive specialized equipment, and much heavier application of pesticides and fertilizers than a balanced system, so both your fixed and variable costs are high.

If you want to see a profitable, productive mid sized farm, check out Polyface. Joel makes a good living while treating his land and animals well.
I've heard this argument also as "guns don't kill people, people kill people". It's not exactly useful.
At times I get so mad at these things, especially when I have to do 5 of them in a row. Then at some point I just start clicking the wrong images over and over. One captcha should be all it takes.
Microsoft will sell you a $25 poster to celebrate a major Xbox hardware failure
These are observational station locations, so typically located at airports, but will cluster in highly-developed countries and where people live or build things.

Wet-bulb temperature is to first approximation the average of the dry-bulb (ambient temperature of air) and dew-point temperature (direct measure of amount of water vapour in air). So we're looking for places that can be both hot & wet in summer (e.g. eastern US) or really hot and still somewhat moist (e.g. near Arabian Sea) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classifica...
Yeah its probably not fair to compare them really, because I think Hackers (and Wargames) are great too. Just in terms of the movie itself (and cast... I mean my god) its great.
I don't think your comment ventures into the culture wars. It's just about good communication skills.
Especially when CloudFlare knows that their upstream is specifically targeting a certain class of users, they have a responsibility to fix this and notify their impacted customers.