skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...grew out to become a worldwide multi-node adblocking DNS network with thousands of concurrent users around the globe

This is hard because DNS going down means Internet is down for anyone who isn't savvy to check and change a failing DNS upstream. And when your users are global, it might mean some really angry users if you couldn't fix emergent issues for hours on end. I run a public content-blocking DNS stub resolver. We made the decision (and subsequently paid the price upfront in terms of engineering) to host it on Fly.io (DoT), Deno Deploy (DoH), and Cloudflare Workers (DoH) to specifically avoid sysadmin tasks for what's a free offering, and the code is licensed under MPLv2 in case anyone wants to run their own stub resolver on those platforms.

We haven't had much down time, if any at all, in the past one and half years we have been functional. It costs us $1 per 2tps (transactions per second: ~6M requests) for a month. The free-tier of these platforms should cover personal workloads (3 to 5 devices: ~1M requests), just fine.

> I will make sure to keep the domain registered and under my control for the next year, to prevent adhole.org from being abused by DNS hijackers/spoofers.

I think they could, if they want to, transfer the ownership of the domain to another public content-blocking resolver, after a year has passed. There are two or three such providers that have a very solid business backing them up to support such a migration.
In your analogy, what about the parts of the work that aren't building the bike, like the printer you use for shipping labels.

Sure you could buy a $1500 xerox, but you could also buy a $99 laserjet. Across the N items you buy, a handful will fail or need replacement. they're the things you buy quality versions of.
5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds
1. You'll have to disclose this in your privacy policy

2. You can store identifying data of website accesses etc for at most 30 days without worry

3. Beyond that, you can only store data that's absolutely necessary, e.g. metadata associated with actual purchases and transactions, but not every access.

4. Usually, you'll have to delete that 2 years afterwards, in some exceptional situations up to 30 years are possible

What I'd do: 1) disclose, 2) delete logs after 29 days, 3) copy all logs associated with a customers transaction into a separate storage location, shared by customer, transaction and date, so you can delete it 2 years later.
Goddamn. I've been an MacOS user, and supported MacOS users, for ages and I had no idea this existed. Thank you!
it's their job to figure it out ;)
A lot of people have 'real jobs' that provide them with the means to eat, have shelter, etc. Those same people may have hobbies that they do on their own time for any number of reasons other than making money to live, and may, in fact, be sufficiently compensated at said 'real job' that they can cover the cost of their hobby, even if it turns out to be a virally-popular word game, without significantly impacting their pocketbook.
> The problem is, convincing anybody of anything is very hard.

Convincing specific people of things is hard. Convincing a few of a very large group appears to be easy, if you don’t care which few those are.
In case you haven't heard of it before, that term comes from this blog post, quite a good read!

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
ERC-721 and the protocols that define NFTs
Haven't you heard? Real is brown.

https://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=222
Thanks for that info! Wonder why they don't just provide a "launch anyway and take the risk" option in the gui?
Well, with the first power assisted steering, they retained direct wheel to ground coupling. Now they see the need to have tactile feedback added to stop the 'steering with a volume control' lack of feedback.
Road and Track mag has this.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a36418499/hydraulic...
This is actually really neat I wasn't aware of these BEPs. Do you know of any place where they are being used?
Thank goodness you didn't make the game.
> evolution of software at all

If we just enforce existing US patent law wrt. software related things, then not only would there be no evolution. There would be an apocalyptic collapse of the whole software industry, and beyond.

The question is often less if we have sane laws but more how they are used/enforced. In case of software related patents they often aren't.

But often aren't doesn't mean they never are, we just have been lucky until now as no one was stupid enough to force it...

And copyright law is I think even more messed up then patent law... so I don't think your argument holds.
I'm pretty sure that the number of users actually wanting to send an SMS rather than an iMessage to their fellow iOS-equipped friends is very, very small. I can't even think of a fitting use case.

It surely doesn't warrant a per-message-toggle and a global setting seems reasonable in my opinion.
China to create own NFT industry based on state-backed blockchain infrastructure
“willingly” is a bit of a stretch
Police use data from contact tracing Covid app in unrelated investigation
Same for me, on Airtel. Can only access with a VPN or TOR

Pinging news.ycombinator.com [209.216.230.240] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.

Request timed out.

Request timed out.

Request timed out.
And I completely disagree with the complaint and his examples. Too saturated makes things look unrealistic and plastic. I prefer scenes that make me think "holy shit, this looks like real life" instead of "yawn, another movie turned into a comic book".

There are ML-efforts underway to make games look more realistic. And they do that by reducing colors and reducing contrast. Because Caucasian people don't look orange in real life, we look a pale beige with a hint of pink.
Write it down even if it can be automated. And make sure the documentation is also comprehensible to people who don't already know how the system works.

Otherwise you're setting your company up for a miniature re-enactment of the Butlerian Jihad at some point in the future.
The author's use for this is to circumvent geographical jurisdictional restrictions. If that is the aim (rather than privacy), then I don't understand how a $5 (per month) VPS along with all of the config and steps required (read: non-negligble time cost) is the "Poor man's" solution. Surely using any of the free forever unlimited VPNs would do the job at near zero cost?
In addition to working tech.

Form has no working tech, as evidenced by the total absence of any mention of it. No specs, no pictures, no test installations, no whitepapers, nothing.
this is tangential maybe - but some of these industries are dominated by unions and really skew the data. Airlines for instance. No one leaves an airline unless they're quite literally at wits end and willing to go start all over at the bottom of the pay scale somewhere else.
To save you a click, it will autocomplete answers if you give it questions:

```
q: Are you there?
a:
```

And it will autocomplete an answer:

```
q: Are you there?
a: Yes, I am here.
```

Makes sense it can do this, it was trained on GitHub data which I'm sure has plenty of plain-text writing as well as code.
Imo react is simpler to get stuff done with up until a certain point. Every large react project I’ve contributed to, or adopted, had the same overhead you described of Angular. Further, each had built custom abstractions due to the nature of how integration works with react. Some apps were fine, some had 1000+ line state files, 1000+ lines of hooks management before a render, weird ways of using context or passing props.

Today we still prototype mostly with react. It’s easier to staff junior devs around and empowers them when it comes to trivial logic with cool UX.

Any large scale work, or prototypes going to prod, do so with Angular. Where we’re confident in the Sr level engineers writing that code.
Seconded, never had any issues with it. One of these cases where letting someone provide a honest service for money is worth more than fiddling around with self-hosting something myself.
Since you insist and press for more personal information (ironically in a thread about privacy), go ahead and prove to me, how I could have avoided the digital certificate in a country that uses a central vaccination register and does not even hand out physical print outs in the hospital, even on request. The urls to the unprotected certificate website are sent after vaccination by SMS (I consider this a privacy violation already). No exceptions. WHO passport is completely irrelevant to my story, even if I had it with me. Maybe there would have been an option to get it stamped after acquiring Passierschein A38, but not to my knowledge. That would also change nothing at all.

Mongolia. If you find a source (Mongolian regulation please - Google Translate works) that describes how the digital certificate could have been avoided, I will admit that I was wrong about the specific certification requirements. Nothing more, because I did not lie in this thread. To my knowledge I had no option to get vaccinated (and also tested) without getting my privacy violated.

Another funny anecdote the PCR test result for my flight (the physical one - the redundant digital one was SMS&URL again) was provided to me in this way:

Nobody was at the clinic when I came and all the results (mine and many others) were openly on a table next to the open entry of the building. This one I can actually easily prove, because I took a photo. I can show it to you in Berlin if you want. But then I want you to admit that there are indeed terrible privacy implications through all these certificates.
Even if it's all documented with a README, with container images and Ansible playbooks or whatever to make it all happen… still people will be complaining that it's oh so complex and that's not how we did it in my previous job and what about secret management, or load scaling, or full disk encryption, or how would this be deployed to a moon-based server, or whatever they can think of how the probably less-than-average crap you've built isn't maximally convenient for them.

So, even if you have everything 100% automated, most people will look at that and conclude that your automation is complex legacy bullshit and you should have automated in some other way.

Just saying.
What's misleading about it?
If you don't count security issues.
Not the GP, but my guess would be: irony.
Can't quite put my finger on it, but I just can't shake off the feeling that your quote from wikipedia is implying blame on the "end user" devs for the confusion, instead of the team for naming things so badly.

> Those stupid developers don't realize that AngularJS and Angular2 are two completely different frameworks! Okay, I guess we need to make it now VERY CLEAR that they are different. How about AngularJS and Angular? Sounds good, right? Now it should be clear to everyone the two are different frameworks.

Switched from AngularJS directly to Vue.js after the months of confusing messaging, no regrets, Vue.js is what Angular2 should have been, in my opinion.
I was about to say the same thing, but I think he’s talking about how GPL2 requires the company to give OP the kernel source code. OP mentioned that he didn’t have the kernel headers for DKMS.
Because we expect people who do good things to be rewarded. It will incitate people to do more good things.

And in our society, it generally means money. With money, you eat better, sleep better, you are able to do more of the things you enjoy and less of the things you don't. Money also allows you to become charitable, for example, if you think homelessness is a problem, with money, you can build a shelter. There a reason charities want money above all else.

Now, what are "good things"? In the context of game apps, that's an game that a lot of people enjoy playing.

Put everything together and you get monetization, it is a way to turn goodness into rewards.
It's really amazing that GoT didn't go from "okay" to "terrible", or from "outstanding" to "meh", which is the most common thing. No, it really went from "outstanding" to "terrible".
especially the ones that talk about people performing magic...
Backlight level is just an overall brightness adjustment (i.e. it is a factor of the light output*). It is entirely reasonable to crank the backlight up to make up for an overly dark picture; the effect is the same as increasing the brightness of the image at the pixel level. This is already done automatically, in the opposite direction, by many modern screens and projectors, to save power.

* modulo black levels, but you aren't going to get eye strain from backlight bleed.
There isn't "the lab leak theory", there's at least 3:

* the lab had a sample of the virus that accidentally got out.

* the lab had modified another virus, that accidentally got out.

* the lab purposefully released the virus as an attack.

I get suspicious when people talk about "the" lab leak theory, because I never know which one they mean. People I've heard from in real life have generally intended #3. This article is arguing for #2. When the epidemiologists quoted in the article were talking, which were they referring to? #1 or #2?
I love the code in the screenshot on top of the article.
For a lot of people it's not even just simple greed but more an easy way to measure them against other people. They are often very ambitious types who take great pride in being "type A personalities" and things like that.
Spoiler: Its almost always an artistic choice. However, In some rare cases, its to make up for shit cameras: I'm looking at you RED/Hobbit trilogy. But nowadays its a choice to give the film a certain feel.

There was a while when all action movies were graded to look teal and blue: http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-ho... However when cheaper cameras, better grading tools seeped into the masses, that style was felt to have been played out.

DI, the stage where the colour "grade" is tweaked, crafted and perfected is now an integral part of the edit/VFX stage. Colour is used to push emotion, just like sound and music design.

The bit about LUTs is mostly distraction. LUTs are normally used as a reference, to make sure that all the footage has roughly the same colour (important when you have different cameras for different scenes) They are static colour offsets, so are great for techincal colouring, but not overly useful for making an artistic grade.

TLDR: Its a fashion, just like the pricks who removed the obvious on/off indicators from slider buttons.

EDIT: If you want to see some interesting grading, look up "day for night" https://noamkroll.com/color-grading-tutorial-creating-a-day-... where they take normal footage and make it look like it was shot at night
I recently took a management class to wrap up my BSCS that discussed Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs [0], which I thought articulated some feelings of need I have had throughout my career(s) in facilities management, project management, and general IT. In a nutshell it describes 5 stages of needs: physiological, safety, love and belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization.

For myself, this certainly rings true. I was fortunate to get my salary in a comfortable spot early on in a career (outside of tech), and spent a few years in that comfort zone to begin dialing it back often taking salary cuts to move towards things that were more interesting and/or had better working conditions. The security kept me around, and now that I have the physiological and safety needs "locked in," I can't imagine myself pivoting into anything else - it's a rat race to the finish line from here, and maybe I'll climb up the levels of the next 3 in the hierarchy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
I guess it's kinda like everyone in the music industry following the loudness war. You could have the best possible sound using the best available audio processors... but instead you just optimize everything to maximum loudness.
Just let the patsies add it to the blockchain themselves, give them tales of web3 ;)
I like to see a return to technicolor vibrancy in some media IP. Some directors, like PTA, still use it to great effect, but when you watch some old Powell and Pressburger films, or Bad Day at Blackrock, or even Purple Noon, you see these beautiful colours that don't assault your eyes in neon brightness; instead, you get these beautiful rich tones that seem solid and deep. It seems like now a lot of colourists just go for overwrought colourgrading, insanely crushed blacks, or slamming a movie into blue-orange land.
> bees in the teeth

Google returns only your post for what idiom. What does it mean?
Would hardly call this breaking it.

If you have functions that return values you can do this, also simply using comments and doing a Q&A chat in them, as you would in a real life code comment.
I'm always surprised by the lack of "easy" parser/compiler toolkit for more or less complete DSL... It looks like there's only

- either full blown programming language for IT guys

- "natural language" AI toolkits (not really usable yet for just simple automation by users)

- graphical language like State Machine or "no code", missing loops and requiring mouse and boxes

However, most of the time, user simply need some kind of BASIC (like visual basic used a lot in "shadow IT" by users)... but there's really few libraries providing that kind of functionalites
Duly Noted. "noko-auto-brit-with-bounds" is designed just to avoid sudden flashes of bright screens. Depends on the machine, some adjust brightness quite slowly already.

Some better machines and displays have also light sensor built in, it is quite possible to include that input with the "ddcutil"-program.
Nor is the Bible reliable historical evidence.
That isn't even ad hominem! Ad hominem would be like "your ideas are pathetic, therefore they are wrong" whereas what I said was "your ideas are wrong for these reasons, therefore they are pathetic". You are mixing up the premise and the conclusion! Come on!
>I really don't understand why countries are so persistent about storing data in their country.

That's not what this is.

The EU is not saying "data MUST stay in the EU", it's saying "Data can only be transferred to a jurisdiction which has equivalent data protection".

>It's not like the enforcers could walk into the datacenter and plug in the usb drive and get the data.

No, they send a request for the data and threaten to jail anybody who even reveals that a request has been made.

>And it's even hard to see what all constitutes user data. Does logging constitute user data.

Article 4 of the GDPR: ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person

>A much saner approach should be limiting what the company is allowed to do with the data.

That's exactly what the GDPR is...
It also doesn't hurt that recent generations were convinced to take on tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in student debt, as teenagers.

Having a negative net worth makes you desperate for money.
> The opposite, not for profit, usually means, for loss, which is not sustainable.

Not-for-profit means that 100% of the revenue is reinvested in the business (“mission”), rather than have a portion returned to owners/shareholders as profit.

Successful not-for-profit companies can have a problem of having more money than they can effectively deploy. This can lead to all sorts of problems: Overpaid staff; Inefficient operations; etc.
> the Google and NSA employees can just read my emails and then blakmail me

this is a new level of conspiracy theory.
This is what we're doing with Jedlix (I'm the Technical Director there).
Currently we're doing grid balancing and load optimizations so you as EV driver make money while you charge (!) and at the same time you help to keep the electricity grid stable.

Of course that works well with times that there is over capacity on the grid and there is a lot of flexibility in the car (time plugged in vs charge demand).

When there is a lot of production (lots of solar for example) and not a lot of demand (during the daytime) that energy can go nowhere. At night there is usually a lot of demand but less renewable power production (it's dark after all). This is one of the areas where we will leverage vehicle-to-grid to power homes using renewable energy and also allows to more efficiently use the solar power you yourself produce (if you have a PV set up).

Have a look at https://jedlix.com if you have an EV.
That is all fine if you're the only one that needs to understand that code. Otherwise you're wasting other people's time and sanity. Unless, of course, it all works for everyone, in which case carry on. At least until a new-enough team member arrives and starts pulling their hair out :)
Fuzzing101 with LibAFL – Part IV: Fuzzing LibTIFF
Lol, if you say so!
Phone Companies Complain iPhone Privacy Feature Stops Them Tracking People
I'm very fortunate not to live in the deserts of the US (like new Dexter) and to actually live somewhere, where trees will be green in summer and new cars and houses have color. Just for your point that everything is unsaturated; in fact, real-life colors in the greens are seldomly represented in a "realistic way": https://tftcentral.co.uk/articles/pointers_gamut
Expert physics tends to be more, can we build it smaller out of weird goo it make it 1000x faster to explore the limits of our theoretical models...
I could quote Sheldon Cooper all day long that engineers are the workmen of science.
Conversion fees are a problem for the time being[1], but the Bitcoin lightning network solves the issues of gas and payment processing. There are entire countries using crypto currencies now. Cheaper doesn't mean free.

1: assuming you need to convert, which isn't always true. You can use bitcoin as is (case in point, El Salvador).
It goes both ways. Emigration _from_ the US to another western country is also incredibly difficult.
I came to ask the same thing - I haven't picked up my Switch in a couple of months but I never touched my router settings for this and it was always working fine. Maybe it's just something from a recent Switch firmware update? Or perhaps just for online play in specific games.
Cost per user is a meaningless metric for comparison. Different applications will have different loads per user.

That said that seems to be a lot of money for that many users. But not anywhere near crippling if you are charging decent money for your service.
Can only attest to small to mid-size businesses (up to 300 employees) in Europe.

The default expectation (from business school?) seems to be if for a given job interview you are left (95% of the time) with say 1-4 (reasonably) good choices mangement is quick to cry wolf: you see, this is the skill's shortage everybody is talking about.

You can make this - at least here in Europe there is a tendency for that - a numbers thing (i.e. performance indicator) which mangement is "measuring".
Meanwhile what "specialization" in the labour market meant in the 70's and what it means now a half decade later has changed significantly, multiple times.

For example: We are long at a point now where paradoxically time spent in the educational system is simply time lost for developing and honing skills (for a rapidly changing environment) which is exactly the opposite of acquiring as much "competence" as possible in order to "catch up" with the pace of innovations.

You want to expose young people to real challenges in the world as soon as possible and when they become frustrated with a problem you offer them teaching fundamentals they obviously lack. I am mostly oblivious about my ignorance but when someone can show me how e.g. a mathematical concept can possibly package my problem to make it manageable I will bite.