skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always disliked the concept of bottles as offered by CrossOver and probably the alternatives. I strongly prefer to have a single Windows subsystem with all the relevant DLLs installed and well-integrated with my Linux environment. Perhaps I never tried any particularly weird Windows apps/games but having them all in just one well-tweaked default "wineprefix" never caused a problem for me - apparently they don't conflict so unnecessary isolation means just unnecessary duplication of files and effort.
And the more this happens, the worse the search results will get because measuring popularity of a link and time spent on a website needs to be measured for ranking purposes, next time someone used the same search term.
Empathy is the key in my experience so far.

No amount of discipline and techno trickery will get you to a happy user if you lack the capacity to feel what they may be feeling while using your software.

In most large organizations the breakdown is obvious. Too many layers. Opportunity to engage empathically is lost to some twitter support bots. Everyone on the inside is reduced to seeing some polished interior of a mindless corporate automaton.

Steve Jobs is an excellent example of how to cut through this problem in a large org. He reinjected the actual feelings of the end user from the top. Few other corporate leaders do this today.
I wouldn't call them "milder". They weren't static ads. They were video ads. Often loud and un-skippable for a certain small amount of time. This is definitely equivalent to a "punch the monkey" ad.
16 years ago I worked on a project with some people from TCS. The 3 on site were very good, and for a long time, I thought they were all the TCSers. Later I discovered there was also an entire off-shore team, and I only really found out because one of them somehow checked their "My Documents" folder into SVN.

My impression was that the good people they have are very good, but the bad people are barely competent enough to warm a chair.
Whenever a company tries to sell you their GDPR compliance by stating data is "encrypted at rest" you should call bullshit. If the data is stored on servers that are online the data will never be at rest (until the day the servers are discarded) making this protective measure useless in the context of Schrems II.

The EDPB Guidelines from November 2020 says:

"where unencrypted personal data is technically necessary for the provision of
the service by the processor, transport encryption and data-at-rest encryption even taken together,
do not constitute a supplementary measure that ensures an essentially equivalent level of protection
if the data importer is in possession of the cryptographic keys"

https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/default/files/consultation/edpb...
Wow that's a weird exception; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litre

I was always tought that the liter was an SI unit, I mean, it's defined in terms of SI units, I know it's not a base unit, but weird that it's singled out as "well, you're technically SI compatible, and you're defined in SI units, but we're not gonna let you be part of the group" :)

It even has an official SI symbol (L), despite not being an SI unit, what?!
FWIW, the inch has also been redefined as "25.4 mm" in the 1950s.
>There have been a few high profile security papers come from Graz university of technology and they seem to want to invest in the city as a security hub.

Graz is an amazing city for quality of life, nature and socializing, and is great if you want to be employed in academia your whole life. On the IT careers side, it's a wasteland of conservative hardware/automotive companies and IT service companies(cost centers) that only deal with the local market, or at best the DACH zone, and is therefore worse on pay than some Eastern European cities that deal with the international scene (Krakow, Warsaw, Bucharest, Cluj). Almost no product based IT companies who deal internationally.

Most tech jobs in Austria are where the money and infrastructure is, Vienna.

>a security hub https://cybersecurity-campus.tugraz.at

Outside of a handful of low-paid TU students and post-docs(basically academia), I think I can count the number of people employed there, on the fingers of my hand. AFAIK they aren't hiring anyone at the moment. Other of massive PR, no job openings, no investments, no tech companies and nothing significant materialized from that, just a few partnerships for PhD/research positions. Hardly a "security hub". A hub would mean you have a cluster of multiple private companies hiring people there to work on commercial solutions alongside research partnerships with universities. That's not what's happened.
> Because the jobs are less valuable, not due to who's doing them but due to the market (i.e. all of us) seeing them as less valuable.

It is a rather sad and naive view of the value of work if you think that it is decided by market value. My work as a developer has a high market value because what I do is generating revenue for my employer. The work of the teacher who shapes the future of our children or the work of nurse that take care of our dying parents don't generate any revenue, and thus has a lower market value, but I, and I think we as a society should, value it much more.

Good teachers and good nannies aren't easier to replace than good carpenters or construction workers. But since many men who are in charge of setting salaries don't understand that they aren't as well paid.

> Have salaries gone down now that women make up a significant percent of the number of doctors?

Yes. I don't have the time to dig up the sources right now, and I don't remember seeing it specifically about doctors, but in many lines of work the relative salaries have gone down when traditionally male professions have been taken over more and more by women.
are these scare quotes or sarcastic quotes ?
That is the true reverse of this situation. And frankly, just as bad.
Yeah, posts like this getting a lot of upvotes makes me feel like I don't understand how humans operate these days anymore.
Google search seemed to work fine before that stuff was tracked.
While I can understand their reasons for shutting Upsource down, I think the very same reason will prevent users from migrating to their preferred tool-suite ("Space" [1]): users of Upsource very likely already _have_ existing tools for hosting repositories, communicating, issue tracking, etc.
It seems strange to me to expect people would abandon their existing toolchain in favour of Space, just to keep using Upsource.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/space/
I would have much less problems with internet advertising if it had the same standards as print advertising when it comes to quality.
(US here). It kind of helps to think of celsius between 0-100 as “percent of boiling water” for me. Living in one of the hotter parts of the world at the time, being able to say the temperature is 40-50% of the way to boiling water really seems a good objective definition of “too hot.”
Not to mention how the modern web is also inherently much harder to archive than the old one. Permanently archiving an old site was an easy as dropping the URL into HTTRACK and bam, you have a full working copy on disk. Modern ones have so much dynamic and cross-linked content you might be able to get the text and images in the right layout.
Ask HN: Did I make a mistake jumping on the homestead bandwagon?
I made the jump from the "big city" with a good tech job to the homestead a few years ago and have found as much as YouTube and Amazon have provided an incredible amount of information and resources, I find myself questioning my decision.

I am beginning to feel that regardless of modern innovations when push comes to shove...the truth is homesteading requires an almost soul crushing amount of hard work and fortitude for very small gains.

I can't help feel frustrated when I watch my friends in the city enjoy all of the comforts it offers and seemingly pull away from me both financially and socially.

So I am looking for either some hard truths or encouragement regarding this matter.

Please be honest and refrain from judging those who are! I am a big boy and can handle the truth.

Thank You
I don't know why you're being downvoted. This issue is at the center of this controversy and many others that have nothing to do with COVID. You don't even have to accept the lab origin hypothesis to recognize the problems.
EU disinformation observatory has links with platforms
New features have diminishing marginal utility. Everyone using Word notices if typing words has lag before letters show up, most people notice if you can’t set the font, fewer people notice if it can’t set the margins, down to features that almost nobody is aware it has.

Raising the quality bar quite high before you call a feature done is generally the correct call. Yes, your software might not check off every box on some list, but you can ensure the features people care about work well.
We need warp drive technology ASAP so we can go see what these things taste like.
If you think everything "Pharma" does is bad, go without medicines.

Fuck around and find out.
Missed opportunity to call it “SerenityNowOS”
One man's quest for the most accurate clock
How front pages of newspapers became more visual (timelapse)
I understand your point perfectly, but it is only valid at the abstract level Ward defines it.

However what people did is ignore his actual point and ran with the ‘debt’ analogy and now we call ‘not applying patches for a year’ technical debt whereas this is clearly just bullshit.

And for more serious topic, every trade-off somehow gets called TD. Every deviation from some platonic ideal is TD.

It just is extremely unhelpful for any meaningful discussion.
I can't help but wonder: isn't this basically just fraud? Shouldn't the people involved in this go to prison, or at least have some more consequences than losing the job? Are they even entitled to pay for a job that thought it hired someone else?

Then again, there's also the reverse of this: employee gets hired for a job that turns out to be different from the one they interviewed for. I'm pretty sure companies are never going to be held accountable for that one.
Can you find the source? I doubt that carbonation is a problem.
*according to Google.

I spend 5 minutes on american recipe websites to scroll through the SEO bullshit before finding the actual recipe, but that doesn't mean it's useful.

So, no, it's just Google telling you to let them collect analytics on every aspect of your life for "search improvement purposes".
Interesting article and I agree with most of it. But the argument that "Democratic freedom is incompatible with an oligarchic authority" is untenable. Ideally, they are incompatible, but in the real world, most so-called democracies today are effectively oligarchies.

It's also amusing that the author chose Wikipedia as the example for this utopia. Wikipedia is awesome (mostly) but the idea that it's something where everyone participates and has the same access is simply absurd. The fact that Wikipedia editing still obeys the 1% rule is a sign. Not to mention the edit restrictions articles have where certain threshold of editing history must be met to circumvent them, the complex rules, tools and culture, the editing wars, etc. If Wikipedia is known for anything, it's that it's hostile to newcomers and that the elite dominates it (just look at the demographics of the editors). Not sure how grandma is supposed to have 500 edits for the privilege to edit an article about some politician. If our utopia is that, then we're back to square one.
T-Systems did dab on a, uhm, complicated partnership (legally-speaking, it was otherwise a boring one) with Microsoft (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/germany/germany-welco...).
Well, I now have renewed faith in the future of the messaging app.
That's because way less people were trying to game it.
You are analyzing the wrong thing: email as a hosting mechanism isn't exactly federated, it is the email addressing scheme that is federated. You happen to be self-hosting your domain (which is part of a different system: DNS, which is more hierarchical than federated, though I have often put it in the latter category), which allows you to move around and even delegate to third parties your email host (which is really what you are doing: federation isn't what is allowing you to delegate your hosting provider, as your hosting provider works for you and you alone), but at the email layer that's because you did the super-rare thing of owning your own domain name and knowing how to have an MX record.

The switching cost for the average user of a federated system--one which has experienced lock-in on someone else's naming system, such as by using a gmail address or having a mastodon account on a large instance--is brutal. There is an advantage here that that is even possible, and there is then competition between these inter-compatible providers, but there are still many reasons why users tend to end up wanting to end up attached to larger namespaces (all of technical, political, and economical). Hell: even some of the smartest people I know seem to have an @gmail.com address (or worse: have let their identities become owned by a company they happen to work for) no matter how immediately "amateur" that makes them look to me :(.

(I gave a short "talk" about this at the Distributed Web Summit a few years ago, but the video they took has an over-an-hour audio sync issue and I haven't taken the time to edit my own copy yet.)
> In theory users of different servers could communicate with each other, but my impression was that it is too complicated and not really encouraged

What do you mean? The rare times I use mastodon I can just reply to any toot from any instance and it just works.
This is so true! Fortunately, for BEV we seem to switch and this works incredibly well. You see kW and you know its about electrics, you see HP (or rather: PS) and you know it's about one of those wonky old "explosions in a tincan" things that eventually displaced the horse. It's quite powerful linguistic era demarcation.
To normies this is incredibly far from a bookshelf. What is a raspberry pi? What is the sqlite in doesn't-even-need-to-be-sqlite? Why do I have to care?

The highest level of questions you would need to be aiming for on the hardware side are: Where do I put this thing? Where did I leave the power chord? How do I turn it on?

If it doesn't turn on, you have someone repair it as you would any other electronic appliance. Can't be repaired? Get a new one. As soon as you plug it in it automatically fetches the automatically created backup. How? From where? What about encryption? The user is not qualified to answer any of that and should not be expected to care or expected to be involved into the decision. If I want to get involved with how electricity gets to my power socket I can look that stuff up on the internet. In the meantime just make it work without any intervention and with 99.9% reliability.

Us techies (maybe subconsciously) still lean way too much towards trying to involve users with the stuff we care about, when most of them just want our work to be invisible. Hide the complexity. Make it seamless. Make all tech a power socket.
It's nice keep it up
My logic is that is always better to look for new opportunities when you can than when you have to. Note: I was never in your situation.
Yet they are running containers on a top of type 1 hypervisor that they can only control over Web dashboards and cluster telemetry.
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1. Assuming that under a just war theory, a just war can AT MOST be just for one of the warring sides

2. big armies aren't any more likely to fight just wars than small armies

We can conclude that if you're a soldier in a war, there's a better than even chance that it is unjust, and deserters are on average more honorable than soldiers."

Admittedly less catchy.
This just too good
No no, it's clearly the Splitstream - https://andromeda.fandom.com/wiki/Slipstream
In 2017, Lazareth and NTN-SNR worked on a trike prototype using this technology[1], mixing an electric engine within a full-hub assembly.

[1] https://www.lazareth.fr/project/e-wazuma/
Not sure if it's only the UK but we also use "up" and "down" as synonyms in some sitations. e.g. "I'm up for going to the pub" and "I'm down for going to the pub" mean the same thing
Interesting idea, but I wouldn't use it, because at 10-20% of Grammarly's corrections are wrong.

It even includes endless loops.
As you're already using python for gpios, you could just use flask to get rid of php.
This will shrink your dependencies by at least 100MB.
Could you provide a description of what you mean by 'homesteading'? Are we talking buy a small farm and try to live off grid?
“It just works” used to be a motto. One of Jobs’ most quoted phrases is “design is not just what it looks and feels like; design is how it works”. Snow Leopard was advertised with “zero new features” because the focus was on improving what existed.

There are plenty of other examples, in interviews and stories from internal events, which corroborate he cared deeply about Apple products working well.
Redirect to a custom login page when securing your Angular app with MSAL
Me too. Even if an alien race that wants to annihilate us had them. It would be just awesome to know if it was indeed possible to craft such devices.
Perhaps a business that doesn’t mine it’s customers data can find an advantage in that restriction. Plenty of successful businesses are built around the idea that you don’t need to sell out.
Part of it is weight. Safety standards and other things have really ballooned the the curb weight of cars. A Chevette weighed at most 2000lbs. A new Chevrolet Sonic (which is also a subcompact)? 2800lbs.+.
You can communicate p2p, but not really participate in discussions on other servers. At least it is not encouraged. Might only be a client issue. I don't remember the details, but I think it is the way messages from other servers show up in the timeline.
Business opportunities for new startups trying to sell it as a new idea.
Ask HN: Cohabitation of PyTorch and a Graph DB
I've been thinking about developing a tool that would help to transform the graph DB data into a Pytorch dataset and use it with a custom model. Are there some red flags that I should have in mind regarding this tight coupling between ML and DB?
a radix is just a digit in a decimal number. For example the number «42» has two digits, or two radices, which are 4 and 2. In hexadecimal the radix is 8 bits wide. For example the hexadecimal number 0xAB has two radices, A and B

Possibly a typo, A and B are 4 bits wide each.
It’s the second trisolarian fleet! (Three body problems books. Highly recommended)
It seems you're not enjoying it, cut your losses and end it.
While I have encountered false positives with Defender, the fact that ads are deploying something Defender can detect, is hair raising in itself.
What would happen if Google would decide to host all of EU related data in EU? They would be 100% compliant?
Fetch API has landed into Node.js
> In every decent programmer’s toolbox lies a strange weapon called a Radix Sort. Where does it come from ? Who invented it ? I don’t know.

Bit of a tangent, but at first this kind of caught me off guard because in this day and age it's easy to search for deeper info on established concepts and most articles would briefly have this answer (if the author cared to mention the history at all) but then I had to remind myself the post was created in 2000, before Wikipedia (Radix Sort was added to Wikipedia in 2001), explanatory YouTube videos, and tons of writeups made us into instant "experts" of every field.
Yes, Red-Hat used to AOT compile Eclipse with it.
By the same logic, running antimalware software and patching security exploits is interfering with malware operators' ability to generate revenue.
Nowadays I use a single 27" 4k Monitor. The reasoning is, that I want to avoid multitasking. Multitasking is a major cause of stress for me and lowers my productivity at the same time.
> - are you people open to the idea of an IRC/XMPP chan or a weblog/gemlog? following from afar (without being on the ML) looks like there's not a lot of activity, although i can see with my bare eyes the draft spec has evolved a lot

Yes, the only reason why there are no posts on the ML and very little posts on the GNUnet news archive is that I do this in my spare time.
Now, the draft is mostly(TM) finished. So I do not see a reason for blogging anymore.

> how confident are you in your DHT spec/implementation for scalability and security? are other people working on different implementations? is there a testbed one can run scalability checks with?

That is a good question. GNUnet is still figuring out the transport layer. Until that is in a state that we are satisfied with, we will conduct performance tests.
That being said, looking at other DHT proposals out there we think that R5N (and especially the improvements we have planned) are far superior. It still has strong roots in Kademlia though.

> are you actively cooperating with other non-profit projects such as Tor? GNS sounds like it could be the missing piece in such crypto-secure routing schemes without memorable names ; i understand that GNS is part of GNUNet, but i'm asking about other ties/cooperations

Yes. I think there was some collaboration here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-grothoff-iesg-sp...
But we are not in regular contact and tor seems to go their own route. There are, however, similarities: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/224...

> - why is it called "hyper hyper" local root? maybe i'm missing some context (despite reading about RFC7706 and froot), but "local root" or "user-editable root" sounds clearer to me

As this was confusing, it is removed from the draft. I think you can still find it on some slides when you look for it. In general, what is currently explained in the draft should be correct and there is no need to think about this too hard ;)

> - did i faithfully represent the technics/politics of GNS in those posts? if not please let me know so i can avoid to repeat the same mistakes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30155773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30156097 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30156175

I think so. There seems to be an understandable conflation of the technical means of name resolution (the draft) and the governance issues related to zones and names. Governance of zones (but especially root zone governance) is out of scope of the draft. But it is of major importance for any real world use.

> - how can we support GNS and help make it a reality?

My usual response would be: Install GNUnet and run a zone.
But, we are currently in the process of fixing some major bugs in GNUnet and it is just not yet ready. As you correctly assessed, we are a very small team at the moment.
Sadly they don't care. There's countless reports where the the reporting user gets pointed to answers.microsoft.com, and some asshead employee replies telling the user their issue is invalid and they should post on uservoice instead. For example, Onenote class notebooks can still not delete group folders, ever. A bunch of them get added by default, and can never be deleted. Adding one takes a few clicks and it can never be deleted. This was first reported in 2016 and hundreds of frustrated teachers clicked on "I have this problem too". Some microsoft employee replied telling people that that's not going to happen, and they should post on uservoice. As of this year, the entire uservoice instance with thousands of issue reports and hundreds of comments on each was deleted. Microsoft has used every tool available to tell its users their feedback is not wanted and they should fuck off.
> Germany allows about 12k per year in capital gains tax-free if I recall.

It's 801€ per year, but you can deduct losses up to 20k.