skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Retail isn't coming back like it was. Downtowns in the past centered almost entirely around retail businesses. The author spends a lot of time bemoaning Walmart and other big box stores, but even the box stores themselves are facing more pressure than ever from Amazon. A small retail store in a run-down third rate city doesn't stand a chance at success against the economies of scale and expectations of consumers that exist today. If a town can draw in boutique retail and bars and restaurants, it can sometimes be revitalized to an extent, but that seems to be the extent of what's possible with old downtowns.
They're not Julia-second or -third either. Having the name in job ads isn't a new thing, it's been the case since at least 2018.

In the past year I've looked at hundreds of data science / ML / scientific computing / software developer job postings - 0 of them required Julia (also none for R and MATLAB). It was all Python.

Of course my sample might be biased and those jobs do exist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)#N...) but Julia is still tiny and I certainly wouldn't say that the job market is aware or interested in it.
Sure. But the comment you responded to was about the observational study that the author did, not about the research. The question is about what portion of the observed emissions come from cooking per se, as opposed to the gas that is used to do the cooking. I suspect it is a small portion, but it is still an interesting one, and not addressed by the article.
For every major OS and software, as long as there are security updates and the new major release is still in infancy, staying w/o update and waiting out while stupid decisions are reverted and inevitable bugs are reported&fixed has been my default strategy for a while to save my sanity.
It's not an odd leap at all. The core problem is that we don't pay for the externalities of fossil fuels. If we fix that, then the next question is what to do with the money, and a simple, efficient, and equitable answer is to return it to the population, equal amount per person. That's why carbon fee-and-dividend is a popular proposal with the support of a lot of economists.
Install Windows 10 LTSC. Minimal bloatware, no MS edge, no xbox game store, no windows store, no bullshit. Its the version everyone deserved but only hospitals etc got.
This is a terrific idea, thank you.

I would love to hear some of the implications of this approach. I can already think that the attacker would know the size of the file, so that might give him information regarding e.g. the file type. It might be of interest to an attacker to know that most clients get files of a specific size, but a certain client gets a file that is much much larger.

I wonder what other implications might there be.
He literally just posted a video a few days ago about the task manager too.
It's not Scientific American. It's every medium. The NYT of 2022 is not the NYT of the past, and WP is not the WP of Watergate. And it goes beyond the ideological issues.

In fact, the same declining quality (though not with the same specifics of course) is the case in every industry where they're fighting for increasingly thinner profit margins.

It was the same back in the day (as far back as Mark Twain, Hearst/"Kane" and the first newspapers), where it was all about political and magnate influence to please some sponsor or another, and cheap writing to get people to buy papers.

If journalism had a veneer that it wasn't about the bottom line, that was when money were plenty, because there was a brief (not that innocent, but much better than before and after) period, say between 1940 and 2000), when:

(a) consumer spending got big

(b) advertising budgets grew

(c) while still having no "per page view" metric available,

(d) and before the race-to-the-bottom of the online era, as there weren't hundreds of thousands of competing news sources plus every amateur with a website plus social media plus 24/7 tv

that gave print journalists the luxury of working independently and with more prestige.
I was using Datastore and other GAE specific stuff.
This one's an exact Web3 sh*t prophecy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJVW_DqLntg
Huh. I have nearly 100tb in unused but brand new hard drives. Might be worth using them to help create an energy efficient alternative to bitcoin.
To name a few examples why one would have that mentality:

- Feature set changes (take telemetry for example with Windows 10, or changes in group policy options)

- Unknown/untested compatibility with small non-corporate backed programs that a user needs to use

- BIOS / Hardware issues (i.e. Power management changes and tweaks may push limits outside operating status)

Generally speaking while I agree with your vulnerability point, its not unreasonable to say new vulnerabilities can be introduced. Many people may value other things more which results in the mentality why one would ask or stay on a previous version of windows.
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“We mine things to make cash flow”?
It thought the kids Laughing Cow triangles were Etorki…
Hospitals are incredibly important services that has under-invested into cybersecurity. A lot of medical devices are on very old systems (Windows XP) with no upgrade paths. When it comes to ransomware, you want to attack something that's important, and something with weak defenses.

Hospitals are why I don't "blame" underinvestment into cybersecurity. Their #1 goal is saving people's lives, not messing with IT issues. You want hospitals to be paying for important equipment, important people, important skills. The whole IT part is just supporting the administrative tasks.

But yes, it means that paying the ransom is the better move a lot of the time than to actually try to restore IT services.

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At some point, it becomes more efficient to go after the hackers, rather than trying to defend every single Hospital.

Ex: When REvil accidentally hacked an oil-pipeline (instead of a more passive target), the blowback was so severe that REvil disbanded and ran away. It caused an international incident, to the point where Russia has caught the attackers and is offering them up to the USA as a peace offering.

What is rather unfortunate, is that we put more importance to our oil-infrastructure than our hospital infrastructure. But these ransomware attacks on health care has been going on for years. Its not new.
>Any insights as to why the big players are implementing E2E while ignoring P2P? Is this a control issue or purely related to technical challenges?

Both. Certainly a lot of major players see messaging as an important strategic area, not much needs to be said about that. But remember, for actual secure communications one needs both encryption and authentication, and the latter is a much more challenging problem. Purely as a matter of tech there could be better ways to go about that, but in practice there isn't any great infra for that inter-system, which is both distributed or at least federated and easy/accessible for the overwhelming majority of the population. It's improving in fits and starts but still a mess. A lot of the natural places that might make sense to base authentication off of have insecure foundations with enormous legacy base that'd be hard to change (typical collective action problem), or are very slow moving for other reasons.

Centralized solutions just make authentication much easier, even if at obvious cost and SPOF-risk. Within any given platform the centralized provider can of course guarantee all participants about certain properties of whomever they're dealing with. Governments could perhaps require some sort of industry standardized public-key based interoperability of auth, but even assuming they didn't muck it up goverments themselves (as this article shows) have unfortunate perverse incentives there. Not many have internalized yet that the economic cost of poor authentication and security is very high because it's so distributed. There may be a bit of coming around on that but it's slow. A grim silver lining to all the ransomware attacks for example is that at least they're highly visible and painful, and at last have started to motivate minds a bit. But the addiction of many agencies to old models is strong.
If SG-1 production gets restarted, would they stay with the Air Force, or become Space Force?
Oh. No. Really not.
Comté is way more flavorful and tangy, and develop quartz of salt than crisp when you eat it.
How else is she supposed to sell Germanic history to the academy?

It fits nicely with an observation she made herself:

> [Brunhild] appears unnaturally tall and pale in illuminated manuscripts from later in the medieval period; voluptuous and glowing in Renaissance portraits; pensive and windswept in Romantic-era prints.

Well, this portrait, made today, says "yasss queen".

Anyway, the article is structured as a sandwich, and if you skim past the "bread" at the ends, the "meat" is worth reading.
> When you get to this scale, tools like Kubernetes make more sense

They are no where near the scale where Kubernetes makes sense as anything but a tools for making deployments easier. Ignoring the deployment part, I think many are pretty clueless about how big you truly need to benefit from Kubernetes and how much ekstra overhead you'll have in terms of managing clusters.
For reference $420k is about the cost of 2 employees at a typical tech company.
The author did an AMA on Reddit 9 months ago that I think is relevant here: https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/mpasyl/i_started_lic...

In particular:

How they remain free: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/mpasyl/i_started_lic...

On his salary: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/mpasyl/i_started_lic...
It would be helpful if you could just go to a website, enter in a code from your property tax bill and see exactly how every dollar of the taxes you paid were used. This is one of the valid uses of a public ledger I can think of. In my opinion, all tax funded spending should be traceable like this with each transfer recorded and reported to the tax payer.
Yes, exactly. I've talked with artists about how they arrange collabs, and tried to follow what works for most of them. The benefit here is that you get a steady stream of tracks in your inbox, of which you know the involved artists are open to collaborate. The most common problem of the artists I talked with was how much time it takes to find people to collab with.

I might update the copy on the website, realizing there's not a whole lot of explaining going on :)
Probably, but a random stalker can't, and your local ISP / network snooper can't tell who you talking to either.

OTOH, many email providers do include the sender's IP, so it doesn't seem like a deal-breaker.
Bad news for Signal
That's a neat idea, especially if you could set it up to do practice QSOs. iirc back in the day there were some programs that allowed you to connect a key/paddle to your computer by abusing the serial port.
Oh that's an awesome idea! I'm fluent in Spanish so this technique will probably make my Spanish and English brains way smarter.
> So, should average citizens be on the hook for most road repairs, or should those who utilize extremely heavy trucks?

You can scapegoat the trucks, but average citizens are utilizing heavy trucks (indirectly) by buying stuff on Amazon or Walmart (to name a few examples).
We already see this to a certain extent, Linux has NDISWrapper to use some Windows drivers, but my understanding is that it isn't so straightforward for most other classes of driver because the way they work has a lot to do with the way the target OS kernel works and it's hard to map from one to the other.
And "Progressive Enhancement" [1], although that is usually used in web development context.

Adjusting the introductory statement on that Mozilla page we could arrive at something like:

"Progressive enhancement is a design philosophy that provides a baseline of essential content and functionality to as many users as possible, while delivering the best possible experience only to users" ...whose computers have sufficient resources such as RAM and CPU cycles available to process and display it.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Progressiv...
Out of curiosity, is it a new OS or a new shell?
Yup, just to be clear, I wasn’t talking about site data, I was talking about the processing of Personal Data (IP & User Agent).

You were using Netlify previously, which is a US provider and backed by AWS, and then Cloudflare for the testing.

But yesterday I can see you moved to Bunny (an EU cloud provider), which is great news for your customers, party time!

Provided you’re using Hetzner behind Bunny, that looks like solid Schrems II compliance to me.
Tesla was impacted by this as well. Here is what Elon Musk wrote to all:

> Unfortunately, our payroll processor, Kronos, has been hit
with a ransomware attack, making them temporarily
unavailable. We are tracking things manually for now and
will issue pay manually, if they are unable to get back
online.
We are doing everything we can from our side. Sorry for
the trouble.
Elon
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I take it you are not familiar with POW mining? You don’t have to mine a full block, you get paid for any fractional contribution.

Any device that converts energy to heat can be replaced by another that converts the same amount of energy to the same amount of heat while doing POW work.
Really? I’ve never seriously considered trying AHK in wine.. just kinda assume that won’t work lol.

Am curious now how well that works via xrdp then as xkeysnail & other uinput methods don’t.
I meant the other party that you are talking too. For example I initiate a conversation with you and now I know your IP address. This was a problem with Yahoo! Messenger which was P2P.
Telegram is not e2ee, by default, IIRC. You have to manually switch to an encrypted chat. Are those group chats typically e2ee?
I've had some classes from Sape Mullender where he showed Plan 9 source code. It was also quite beautiful. Each function fit on 1 slide and was clear enough to need no documentation.
parasite is probably a better term
The difficulty of keeping it a secret or the failure to do so does drive the plot of several episodes.
So instead of wrecking the GPU market we would move to wrecking the HDD market?
That's a great idea. This Get Down edit is my favorite so far: https://www.brew.fm/artist/5a5rsH8zoQQwaAmn6v75GL/Pedro-Blue. Will add a section on the homepage soon
Where do you go now for "graphic / web design / typography"?
>I don’t see how the two can be decoupled.

A Bitcoin miner powered by a solar panel isn't contributing to global warming beyond the manufacture of the solar panel. The problem is how we generate energy.

If someone wants to consume electricity mining bitcoin thats every bit as valid use as their time as playing video games imo. I choose to play games because I prefer that.
I put in a pic of chedder and it says "gruyere". Nah bro.
I found it very useable and intuitive and focuses one 1 thing at a time. Though I was not sure if you were a real person - I needed a page with a face and ‘about’ to make the human connection.
They are coupled, but the BTC price is the independent variable, because of the difficulty adjustment.

If the price rises, the mining becomes more profitable, more miners jump in, and mining gets more difficult so the issuance rate stays roughly constant.

If the price falls, mining becomes less profitable, some miners drop out, and to keep issuance from slowing down the difficulty is decreased.

Whatever the price does, the energy usage follows. So we can't really say that energy usage is the foundation of BTC's value, it's the other way around.
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That’s and improvement, but is it not possible to filter for followers?
filter:followers filter:followed filter:following
none work
As long as it meets the BBCs "strict impartiality rules". Remember if facts annoy a certain group that supports the governments agenda the truth must be watered down to keep them happy.

Can't have Nadine Dorris* being offended can we?

*The closest thing the UK has to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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> life is not fair or unfair by itself, it's just life

Yes, which is why we have laws - to bring fairness to a system that is indifferent to it. And the ability to serve your time and then move on with your life is one of the ways.

I completely understand your point of view and I'd be similarly careful with someone who just got out of prison. Here's the thing: you said you wouldn't hire "a thief" as a warehouse manager, but someone who went to prison for theft, did their time, got out and has been probably more law-abiding than the rest of us is not a thief - they were a thief.

Again, caution makes sense for a recent offender, but after they do their time and don't do commit more crime for some time, it definitely becomes unfair to judge them for it.
Unfortunately, most people don't see it this way, they only see a criminal, which is why employment is such a big problem for ex-cons (esp. in the US) and why I believe there should be a "right to be forgotten" at least after some time has passed.

// And hell, I'd love a former thief as a warehouse manager - who better to spot other employees stealing stuff than someone who knows exactly how it's done :)
YouTube just recommended his channel to me the other morning and I spent a few hours watching his videos. Good stuff. Worth the time spent. Unique insights.
> The climate is harsh

Doesn't this seem like a fatal issue right there? Given that Americans are free to move anywhere in the US, I would expect a general trend towards places that are more comfortable to live. Population growth can cover up a lot emigration, but the era of large families is over. Cities can still draw people with cultural significance, but what is the draw of Galesburg IL? Even for people that like small towns, there are plenty of small towns farther south with better weather.
Nice.

I have a generic blue mold cheese here and it identified it as Bleudauvergne.

Incorrect, but very close to the truth.
Especially when it’s the developer that is inactive. Like, we’ve ignored you for 7 days and now we have committed to ignoring you forever. If I find this I won’t even bother filing a report. I get that we’re not owed attention, but they’re not owed bug reports. As a dev I have won’t fixed issues due to lack of dev time. I think the problem is when it’s paid software, or an open source project connected to paid software. There seems to be a push of testing onto the users which is disastrous when combined with a policy of ignoring them. Microsoft went through a period of aiming for two testers for each dev. Post my tenure it seems that devs are supposed to the test themselves.
>that's your own choice, isn't it? If you don't want to waste the product you bought, don't trash it?

I don't think you understand how all of this works. Mining chips have a lifespan, they don't last forever. They stop working, then you can't use them to compute hashes anymore. Most mining chips die--as in stop working--before they ever mine a block.

>turn it on during winter, have fun gaming.

I already do that. Mining Bitcoin to heat my home, on the other hand, will lose me money. I'll just burn through expensive chips without ever getting a reward, because a home mining rig can't compete with the industrial operations. The idea doesn't work.
It would have been enough if you had just removed the store verison of WSL.
Month? Try years.

Ransomware attacks on hospitals is a bread-and-butter move by the hackers in these times. I've been hearing stories like this since 2016.

Hospitals pay the ransom and have terrible IT infrastructure. They're the ideal target.
Coal subsidies are good in poorer countries. Having cheap electricity is important for developing nations
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>Woke culture had a purpose but it has become a victim of its own success.

Did it ever really had a purpose? I find that the black, gay, indigenous, movements of the 50s, 60s, 70s and so - that is, before the solidification of "woke" ideology, had much more coherent demands and narratives.

In fact, society wise, they were much more militant too, and in periods when it was actually costly to be in favor of those causes. Now the "woke"-ists are mainly following the easy path, and the top of them, makes a career for themselves (plus the whole supporting industry). Not to mention that at the time, the liberation movements at the time were mostly comprised and fought from by the affected peoples themselves (blacks, gays, lesbians, trans, native americans, etc).

Now it's predominantly white aspirational classes that champion wokism and police the field. They found a way to make this about them (and a way to use it as a class signal between their own, like they'd use their superior music tastes and dress style).
Yep. And yet many many many people are taught the holy triad of "at least one uppercase one lowercase and one special character!"

Since most strings following these rules are hard to remember, and humans being humans, we get passwords that follow simple, predictable, and easily guessable patterns like

aAbBcCdD1234!

Follows every rule in the holy triad and is likely to be cracked in seconds from some rainbow table.
Haha yeah I think those specs would be 10x on AWS.

GRA, RBX, etc - OVH about as cheap as it gets.
This is not specific to Windows, but reasons not to upgrade a system:

- New bugs. Most recently, my iOS 15 made my bluetooth headset twitchy in new subtle ways. Now it will unprovokedly switch from headphones to speakers without warning. If I pause whatever I'm playing and press play, it will go back. This is very unfortunate. Thank you, upgrade.

- Arbitrary UI "improvements" break workflows and simply change the look/behavior of things I didn't ask for. Menu layout changes means you no longer find things in the places they used to be; maybe the new place is better, but it places a burden on constantly having to re-learn menus. Microsoft Office, in my experience, has offended the most here. Compare this to UNIX command-line tools where parameters have not changed in decades upon decades.

> To stay still is to accept ever increasing vulnerability

That's what security updates are for.

If software vendors would differentiate between

- security updates

- deprecating old APIs/libraries

- adding new features

then we might have more software that Just Works.
Also, I got carried away and created this interactive 3d graph tool that lets you discover similar tracks based on Spotify listening behavior: https://www.brew.fm/track/5jRaNtkJrlg2Xh7PuMhcif/Get-Down---.... Inspired by good friend @drpancake's rephonic.com graph tool to discover podcasts. Might be interesting for non-artists as well, to find new tracks.
If only some large tech company could come up with a way to deal with CSAM while still allowing for e2e... /s