skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Climate lockdowns' are already an established conspiracy theory among the nuttier end of society, I really think the news industry has a moral responsibility to avoid alarmism because of its inherently destabilising effect on society.

Of course, alarmism is excellent at driving engagement and ad revenue so I might as well have asked for someone to write a program that solves the halting problem. I don't know how inventives can be put in place so that the news industry is an asset to society rather than a liability but I wish I did.
Why does it vary? Changes in gluon/quark energy due to nucleon-nucleon interactions?
Nostr, an Introduction
I agree that "life is sales". But I disagree with the "it's the art of getting someone to do what you want". I'd argue seeing it that way is THE problem and the reason why people find it icky.
Sales is about helping people. About finding people's pain and fixing it. Even if you cannot fix it you still might have helped them - maybe now they understand their pain better. Maybe they didn't even know it existed.
It's a GPL library, which is a copyleft license that actually predates the usage of the term "open source". Just because it's on npm/github doesn't mean you don't need to check the type of license.
Yes I’m hoping there will be ways to allow walkIe talkie to be blocked during certain focus modes. It sucks there’s no way to send the equivalent of “to be listened to later” voice memos. So if the person has it off there’s nothing you can do.
The problem in this case was that we depend on convention (filenames and extensions) for security.

Operating system should already know if a file is executable and desktop should be using this information when presenting files instead of conventional names.

Yes it would mean that when you download a file you have to set the executable attribute before you can run it. It's already almost exactly like that on Linux. That's a good thing.
It’s a bit confusing but it reads to me that the code is GPL3, so whats the problem?
It runs relatively well in Firefox on Android, though the UI latency is a bit higher than using the Chromium engine. If Firefox fails, you should check your privacy/scripting settings, because it's working fine for me even with privacy-preserving addons installed.

Of note is that if you're on iOS, all browsers must use Safari as a rendering engine by Apple's decree, so any browser you try is actually just Safari with a skin (no Gecko/Blink). This means you can't run this on iOS, due to Apple's WASM size restrictions, regardless of the browser you try.
Love is biological bribery?
The format I was taught is:

Imitate, inculcate, innovate

ie. you need to spend time imitating others, but then more time totally grokking it to fully appreciate the whys, costs, & benefits of the old approach before trying to innovate past it.
Lol, that's really a stretch/nitpick, like saying:

> Delete it.

And this is not so good advice if you're using software that supports history and your deletion action is in another action that you can simply revert.
>That might mean a carriage moved by a steam engine, for example, which also brings you closer to a car.

they made those!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_car#History
“Satisfaction” basically means “hype”. That’s why solid and svelte are lower in “usage” rankings while Angular is second in usage.

Only Vite has great satisfaction (98%) and decent usage (30%).
on the topic of snowboarding

https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/souuve/dad_mic...
It went through RMA 3 times. First they refused to have gigabyte repair it and have them ship it back (what for, it's broken?). Then they restock the known broken part, clearly without any further inspection. Then they fail to properly inspect it, missing the large label but apparently seeing the tiny spec of dust or thermal pate or whatever it is. Not to mention they only sent the board back to GN after their Twitter complaint.
Yeah, yeah. A bit to chat about when Pat Gelsinger roams about thrashing TSMC for having their fabs at an insecure location.
I think it has a great foundation. With some improvements, it could be even better. Something in between being on and off. Right now it’s either getting the voice memos immediately or not being able to receive anything at all.

Maybe the new focus modes can work with the walkie talkie as well.

I’m sure there’s another one or two features that’s aren’t huge accommodations to make it better.

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Personally, I’ve used it for accountability before. When a friend and I were unemployed, we would have to have our walkie talkie on and have to respond in a reasonable time as one light way to keep each other more aware and accountable.
It's worth looking at https://kontain.app/ - seems to address a lot of the mentioned pain points in the article.
Facebookers, Metamates, Googlers... It sounds like a cult.
I'm arguably not too involved in the US Customer Service industry ... but what prevents Leatherman to kill your credit score in that scenario?
Me too.. Rockbox on Sansa Clip+ and on an Ipod 5th gen , what I most like with Rockbox is the speech synth on menus.
But then resolution of the conflict is sales.

Wars don't end when people put down the guns, it's when people can reconcile their differences.
The two main advantages of unikernels are performance (reduced CPU and/or memory requirements) and security (hypervisor rather than container boundary).

It turns out that basically nobody cares about either of those. I know someone who for a while worked at a company that was trying to make money off unikernels. They ended up re-implementing a database in a unikernel, in a way that gave them a 2.5x performance improvement over the original project -- or to put it a different way, switching should allow companies to cut their hosting costs in half. Even with such a clear "win", it was still a difficult sell.

Think about how much backend code is written in interpreted languages like Python, or PHP, or Javascript, rather than in compiled languages like Go or Rust. It's just simpler to start with the simple solution and then throw money at the problem as you scale. And while performance may be one of the reasons that people are choosing Go or Rust for backends, if it were the only advantage, it's unlikely that would be compelling enough.
That's why you put things behind a permission system. If a site requires a spy permission to view content.... then the user can decide if privacy matters in this case.

Fingerprinting someone who doesn't care is already trivial. Just ask for their email or sign on with google or Facebook. Or don't even bother and just listen through the Google alarm clock. Or find us with our Tiles.

Mozilla wants to kill all spyware, but what about services that would probably cost a lot of money without spyware?

Unless you outlaw those(In which case I'd probably have some angry letters to write) or provide a cheap alternative... the kind of people who click "accept" on location access prompts are already spied on 8 different ways.

It's kind of an uphill losing fight to protect people from something most people like.
I looked around at my desktop, and GNU Octave has some "folded arror into top of computer" instead of the floppy. Way worse and totally random.

Notepad++, MS Office and Emacs has the floppy.
It also works for me in firefox 96 Debian, Linux but it needs some time for downloading...

You can't open local files or save to local files. Open/Save remote crashes...

Pretty impressive though.
In Holland we have a saying that roughly translates as "don't let a butcher judge his own meat".

I guess letting a Bank judge his own competitor is an even worse offence?
How do you as a Kubernetes platform admin delegate control to development teams?
Otomi (open source) offers an admin to delegate the following self-service features:

- Configure resource quota
- Configure egress
- Configure ingress network policies
- Configure egress filtering
- Download the KUBECFG
- Change OIDC settings
- Configure alert receivers

The self-service features are all offered through a web UI.

Delegation of control is part of the multi-tenancy option in Otomi. Create teams and provide secure access to their team space and shared tools like Harbor and Vault, container logs, Grafana dashboards, and Otomi self-service features.

Teams can use the web UI to deploy workloads, configure ingress, configure network policies, create secrets and create jobs/cronjobs (even without the need to have direct API/kubectl access).

To learn more about Otomi, check out the GitHub repo https://github.com/redkubes/otomi-core or https://otomi.io
IMO, yes. If it aids a disability or some kind of personal problem that someone was born with, inflicted upon themselves, or had inflicted upon them, or had naturally occur, then absolutely.

I also believe that we should put the greater good before profits. Every time.

We should not paywall quality of living, especially the senses.
> Note that binding to the same active site as something
> the body produces is also a strategy for imagining that you
> produce less of that thing. There's "binding to the
> same active site [and triggering it]" and there's "binding to
> the same active site [and plugging it]".

This is how caffeine works. Broadly, it binds to the adenocine receptors and prevents the adenocine from binding. Adenocine makes us tired (less alert) and caffeine inhibits that process.
I feel your pain, but let me ask you: how should we manage this as a society?

The fact that air pollution kills massively is not 'new'. Should we stop reporting on it? Should we continue, but use other headlines?

Because the solution can't be "keep chugging along as if nothing were".

I'm heading up infosec in our company, and it's a similar "inconvenient truth" type of situation. My approach so far is to appeal to "coherence". You can pretend that disk encryption isn't necessary, but only if we all agree that leaking data is not an existential threat.

That's what this type of article does: put in context the number of Covid deaths, and ask "is that coherent?"
There can (and must) be compromises between the cost of enumerating moves in messages from the server and the cost of validating client commands; command validation should be straightforward enough to be obviously correct and complete (leaving no room for cheating) and sufficiently cheap, not trivially simple.

For example, if the client in a wargame says it would like to move a unit (by name) from place A to place B on the battlefield the possible moves are implicit (units and locations are known) and validation is nontrivial but easy (the unit is at A and it can move, it can reach B considering fog of war, etc.). Far cheaper than sending 50 different moves for each of 50 different units and validating all of them preemptively every turn.
I often watch videos on the SaveAFox channel. They are wonderful creatures and can easily be interacted with, but they are not potty trained and will pee everywhere to mark their territory.
> Plants and single cells likely aren't conscious or experience pain the same way we or other animals do.

To make a philosophical point: Huge assumption right there. At best we can say that if they are conscious and experience pain, they do so in a paradigm that is fundamentally different to that of animals, one which we as humans are unable to relate, and therefore we care less, prefer not to think about it, and treat them as unconscious agents.

We relate to the perceived experience of animals a lot more because superficially they seem to react similarly to relevant scenarios that we interpret and relate to as reflecting consciousness and personality, and their anatomies that generate such consciousness is similar to ours, so we know which parts should be removed in the process of cultivating meat. We know no such thing about plants. In fact, we know jack shit about plant consciousness, and the more we learn the more we realise that plants have their own form of consciousness too (fungal neural networks, eusocial norms and social hierarchies, pain-like/defensive responses, collective intelligence, etc).

We prefer to think of plants as a glorified bundle of chemical reactions packaged as a quasi-neural network. But then, you could reduce animals to the same; humans too. The only reason we consider humans to be more than the sum of their chemical parts is because we are able to communicate our suprising subjective experience clearly. The reason we consider it likely that animals share a similar experience, is because we identify some of their behaviours as relatable, and perhaps even as a form of communication for that experience. With plants, we simply don't relate, but this in no way means their behaviour isn't underlied by conscious experience. You have no idea when a plant recoils from your touch or releases chemicals, whether this is "just a chemical response" or if its experiencing a stressful experience in its own manner of consciousness.

I have caught myself wondering, imagine if you had to justify garbage collection in your code in terms of ethics. Like, you wake up one day and find out that every single variable you've ever instantiated in code, had a conscious experience. What would you do? Would you leave programs running? Would you let memory leaks happen to avoid 'killing' variables off? Would you only delete some variables but not others?
Yeah I'll continue to use Linode for the foreseeable future. Although they're kind of expensive, the support is top notch.

A year ago I was between jobs and broke, and asked for my upcoming $65 bill to be delayed until the month after. Since I had been a customer for quite a few years Support comped the then outstanding $65 and added another $65 to my Linode balance so I got a free month.

I hope the aquisition by Akamai makes their volume storage a bit cheaper though ;)
The suggestion was to avoid chasing alternatives
Kontain – Run Containers in Unikernels
When they do what?
The Physics Keyboard
It's almost all exactly the same just with different parameters.
May be so, but it's also quite possible we will have started the diversion process within that period, it's just these things take a lot of time.
Where is the source for the icons and what format is it in?
Yes, absolutely. We need to push for things like this, at a minimum, if not making everything open source when a company goes belly up who dealt with major breakthroughs like this.
I think the creator is right about businesses preferring desktop apps. In a way it also mirrors my experience with photopea, great app but I keep forgetting it. I love it but I use gimp just because it's there.
Why doesn't he wrap it with electron and release also a desktop app?
Firebase includes dozens of services including databases, testing facilities, deployment tools etc
I'm not too sad if my browser vendor decides they don't want to support someone foisting multi gig executables on me via their webpage. Doesn't even need to be my browser vendor, anyone with enough market share will do. I'm pretty sure you could write a much better office suite¹ than LibreOffice is with a footprint that's closer to 10MiB than 300MiB, and I suspect we're more likely to see such software if browser vendors impose some artificial limits on bloat.

¹Not with full blown internationalization support for languages with very complex text rendering requirements etc., but most people don't need that.
It runs smoothly for me when zoomed out but when you zoom in on a page it starts to lag. Nevertheless its quite amazing to see LibreOffice running in the browser.
No, he shouldn't "deal with it"; that's a waste of time. This is just garbage news; it should be avoided.
Melody – a language that compiles to regular expressions
Ask HN: What's the best way to monetize actual programming?
I feel that I was lucky early in my career. I got a job at an early-stage startup which bootstrapped with agency-style work. I got a generous share in the company, so pumping out high quality work products very much directly contributed to my own interests. I worked a lot, but at the end I was rewarded very well for this when we had an exit.

Since then I have failed to find an incentive structure which actually rewards programming. I've worked inside of standard agile teams, and typically I can handle the tasks which management can prepare for work within a matter of a couple days if not a number of hours. I'm not incentivized to excel in these environments, since I'm not rewarded more for producing output faster than the rest of the team, and there's social consequences for making other programmers "look bad" and increasing management expectations.

In principal I would be happy to just finish my tasks, and then spend the extra time working on projects which interest me, but due to IP clauses in contracts, it's not possible to do this during the many unused work hours without causing issues.

I have tried freelancing, but it seems that most clients want to have a time commitment. So basically they want to have someone acting as an employee, but only for several months vs. a long term commitment. So the same problems arise as you have with the FTE situation.

Currently I transitioned into management, just because I was so bored having to find ways to stretch several hours of work across multiple weeks. I'm a fine enough manager, but it seems kind of silly since I have much more unique value I can add as a programmer of my experience relative to what I can do as a manager.

So basically I am a very prolific programmer, and I am capable of producing a very large amount of value per time on the keyboard. It seems like there must be some way of monetizing this skillset, but I have yet to find it.
Secret CIA Data Collection Program
If they go lengths to protect some information, then yes I'm amazed they forget about such simple precaution.
Already been reading. Time to work on the other two steps! :)
you'll have the same experience with Chrome on this page
I told someone who uses a phone most hours of the day for decades to click the hamburger menu. "What?" I said the 3 lines at the top in the corner. "Oh wtf? I never knew there was a menu there."

In marketing the goal is to, every step of the way, not lose customers. Basically: You want to sell stuff or attempt to teach stuff? If a simple hamburger already is < 100% everything else must be terrible.

More than 0% wont be able to see the little house as a link to the front page while something like "home" would work for an English audience 100% of the time.
Don't feel too bad - he comments he is making $100k monthly from the ads.
Now there's a welcome break from The Sky is Falling political news. Cheers!
What that means though? A VCL backend that targets HMTL5 instead of Qt?

Can you elaborate?
- Build your own tools to allow you to do your work faster than anybody else.

- use your knowledge to troubleshoot broken systems, companies that are in trouble are utterly price insensitive
Usually the lower an employee is on the company totem pole, the more they are treated like infants. More "company values" to replace any values you might hold, more dumb names. Maybe they will make fun new uniforms for the metamates soon. That way the adults can quickly pick out when children are in the room and adjust accordingly.

It's going to be funny seeing employees laugh it off and use the name ironically, and watch in horror as the irony is gradually lost in translation to newcomers.
> I don't mind using hosted email, as long as the revenue source is coming from my wallet, rather than ads.

Serious question: Do premium Gmail accounts (using your own domain) serve ads and mine your data?
Very practical tips. Thanks!
Yeah I seem to remember they became well-known when they were the CDN for the Apple Trailers site around the (Sorenson encoded) Episode 1 Trailer times?
From FranchuFranchu's comment above, about 10 to the power of -36.
Awesome. Hadn't thought of that!
I think micro VMs solved a lot of the issues that people had with regular containers and that unikernels were going to fix. There is still probably a performance improvement to be had with unikernels, but not enough to throw away all the investment companies made into containers.

That said, there are options for running unikernels as K8s workloads if you want, eg NanoVMs: https://docs.ops.city/ops/k8s
The "one thing" I have been focusing on is testing backups to prove that they actually work as intended.

The state of industry with regards to backups is wretched. If backups are done at all, they are often not tested — people just copy a bunch of files onto a RAID, or a USB drive, or an S3 bucket, or whatever, but never test restoration because that takes extra effort and may be inconvenient unless the system has been architected from day one to enable seamless restoration of live systems without obvious interruptions in service.

Specifically with regards to ransomware hacks...

The first thing that an attacker who gains root must do is corrupt production data. If there are no backups being created, or if the backups don't actually contain all critical data, then the hack is complete.

If there are backups being performed, then the attacker must also hack the backup system sufficiently that restoration from available backup data is infeasible (or at least more costly than just paying the ransom). This adds an addiional layer of complexity to the attack.

if restoration is being tested on an ongoing basis, then the attacker, in addition to corrupting the production data, must also spoof monitoring so that the the corruption of live and backup data doesn't get caught and interrupted before the corruption finishes. This adds yet another layer of complexity to the attack.

A sufficiently competent and thorough attacker may overcome all these difficulties, but criminals are not always perfectly competent — they don't need to be because there are so many target organizations that are not competent either.

It seems that your specific organization does thoroughly test backups to prove that restoration actually works as intended. Kudos! However, I wasn't evaluating your specific case — that would have been weird and inappropriate as you were just giving a (helpful!) example, not laying out a comprehensive system design and asking for review. My point was to add on the condition that in principle backed up data must be not only be 1) current and 2) not corrupted, but also 3) complete. And the way to prove completeness of backups is to test them, ideally on an ongoing basis.
CC BY is not a copyleft license. Copyleft is explicitly about the requirement to use the same license for modifications, which is present in CC BY-SA, but not in CC BY.

CC BY is recognized by the FSF as a free license and by Debian as DFSG-free. While it's not listed by the OSI as open-source, I think that's mostly because it's not a code license. So I don't think that calling it a open source license is misleading.

Of course, for open source icons I would actually expect the source files to be open...
US report warns of 1-foot rise within three decades and more frequent flooding
> In fact there’s a calculation to be made - what percentage of people return or dislike their drill?

If that's true, they left something out of their calculation: What percentage of people will install an adblocker as a result of feeling like they're being hounded for a few weeks? This scenario was mentioned specifically by Tim Cook when he introduced the Safari anti-tracking features.
You kinda can. Use quotas and limit scaling.
That isn't true either; many Unicode characters exist solely because they were part of some other encoding standard that Unicode preserved in its entirety. For example, all of ASCII is preserved in that way. That's also why 囍, a character which does not have any linguistic use, is in there - it was included in an earlier Chinese encoding standard. Nobody thinks it was a good idea to separate U+2126 OHM SIGN from U+03A9 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA either.
Bcachefs Might Be Ready for Upstreaming in Linux This Year
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