skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using a paid Teamviewer license to manage a fleet of Raspberry Pi 3b+ (50+ devices installed, 50+ incoming), doing some monitoring behind either a 3G/4G router or behind a firewalled enterprise NAT.

So far, it has been the most reliable way to connect. I've tried multiple VNC and RDP clients, and when dealing with "hidden behind a network" systems, Teamviewer works very well, with little to no overhead. Specially since they have an special client for RPi monitoring, which works fantastic in my opinion.

If you don't have the option to pay for those licenses (which I did for several months), and no direct SSH access is possible to the machines, you can setup a cloud gateway SSH server or a VPN network.
Speaking only for myself, the fear of creeping authoritarianism is not about some grand conspiracy by "the elites" but rather about our collective tolerance of such a "new normal." I just responded to another commenter here who was lamenting the fact that the mask mandates are not permanent. That person's vote counts just as much as mine. I don't think it's ever unreasonable to think that any policy that restricts one's freedom has the potential to either a) become permanent or b) lead to additional restrictions.
You definitively can't get kvass on your average Kiwi. I can't even get it my local Spar or Mega. But there are always odd exceptions (my local Mega pushes mochi heavily for some weird reason).

Immigrant shops are your best bet, it's true.
(2021)

And it's still online in 2022! http://last486.online/status
The big difference is that if you’re attending a riot in Harvard Yard, then you clearly know what you’re getting yourself into, and you’re making an informed decision to participate and accept the consequences.

However if you’re someone attending a spoken debate, and you’re asking a reasonable question backed by lived experience (as opposed to a deliberately provocative question based on the assumed experiences of others), then you shouldn’t be subjected to direct personal attacks.

Attacking someone because their lived experiences run counter to your preferred world view is just intellectual cowardice. You’re neither trying to learn from the speaker, or provide a valuable counter-experience. You’re running from knowledge that might force you re-assess your world view.
$ wc -l .zsh_history

71114 .zsh_history
I was talking of the future, but you're describing the present! There's no reason why local neighbourhood datacenters and ubiquitous high speed mobile networks couldn't be a thing some day.
The biggest surprise here for me was that this happened unanimously - does anyone know why or how? Maybe I should be glad that such clear-cut, science-based decisions are still possible, but it's become just so unusual lately...
Once you get in bed with the military it's a slippery slope. Isn't google using their computer vision tech to help better target 'enemies' on the battle field?

During a bear market or temporary downturn induced squeeze, these sort of relationships and contracts may not just seem more attractive but financially necessary.
Tell HN: I can't buy a PS4 because of my email
Just wanted to share this because I think it's ridiculous.

I happen to have an email with one of the newer TLDs (like .pizza or .website). This somehow makes me unable to check out on the sony website.

See: https://imgur.com/a/gL0u6JY

Of course, the real error is swallowed by their frontend and all I can see is that an error has occurred. I have to dig into the network requests to find out the real reason why they don't want to take my money. Who comes up with this? Why is email validation still a problem in 2022?

How can a normal internet user figure this out? If I wasn't a web developer I would have given up.
Warning: you will want to listen the whole podcast after listening to this and it takes time.
There was a better way until Samsung decided we're not worth their business.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/samsung_magician-consumer...

There's still a better way where they do think so — "enterprise" SSDs:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/samsung-ssd-dc-toolkit

Vote with your pocket, support vendors that do care.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive#Firmware
One of the domains I own I plan to keep indefinitely. Assuming Google survives that long I think it really does start to become a question of when.
Is this actually saying anything new, except for putting it in the language of economics and markets?

How does this differ from say Hitler's "Big Lie" or advertising or propaganda generally or 1984's memory hole.

I'm not sure the weasel words around "fake news" are required. If someone is misinformed by their news source, are we really splitting hairs that it isn't misinformation if they just don't mention certain things because that's not a false fact?

Wasn't the whole point of Newspeak that you couldn't mention or discuss certain ideas?
Russia steps-up Assaults, as Ukraine Appeals for more Help
Also check out Bismuth which is more advanced and really well integrated:

https://bismuth-forge.github.io/bismuth/
I know this is happening in Spain, France, and UK. And I've heard it's happening in other places. YMMV
Ugh, can we just stop talking about that guy?
I mean a lot of what you said applies but that doesn't make the entire concept BS.

On the one side of the coin you're right, it doesn't matter for a huge percentage of startups - until it does, and then it can matter quite a lot, very quickly.

Yes most startups fail so technical debt isn't a primary concern. But on the flipside if a startup becomes successful they'll have the budget and experience to clean up technical debt. Only at that point it's like repairing a car while the engine is running - when you're scaling fast, suddenly you have millions of new users flooding in, you can't take your systems offline and rebuild them on the fly - users demanding new features and improvements takes priority over fixing invisible stuff they can't see, etc. I'm sure you understand this.

I can think of a few companies who were big players in our local / national sphere who hit it off, got splashed all over as the next big thing, and their systems totally failed during their big events, or were seen as industry leaders only for a breach to sink them overnight.

I see part of the problem is technical debt often only gets raised retrospectively, when it would take huge efforts and expense to deal with. It doesn't take an insane order of magnitude of time to move a little slower and make more calculated decisions to build something with scalability and longevity in mind. A sensible balance should be struck between velocity and engineering. Technical debt should be raised early in the process and used proactively in decision making.

I suppose it doesn't matter if you're an investor or owner just trying to get ahead of the market and sell it off for profit, you can flip Gartner-as-a-Service products all year long and still come out ahead even if a good portion of them fall over their own feet at some point in the future.
> In other words there are no billionaires on Tinder while many pose as such.

No, but there sure are a plenty having lunch at LPM, dinner at Coya or Zuma.

> dude, you don't exist

I think this is something you’ll only hear from people who have never put in the slightest effort to infiltrate such circles.

Turns out that being the guy that bullshitted your way in automatically makes you the most interesting person in the room.
I am neither a medical professional, nor a scientist, but I absolutely fail to see how wearing a mask on a three hour flight, sitting side by side, is going to protect anyone.

Please, is there real science to back up wearing a mask but still being 18 inches away from each other, for hours on end, or is this just the flight attendants union?

I beg your pardon, but I Really hate masks on planes and I think it’s total BS.
Doesn't chrome + google do this by default?
>22120 is licensed under Polyform Strict License 1.0.0 (no modification, no distribution).

So this is basically Freeware / Shareware in the old days but with Source available? i.e not Open Source as defined by OSS. Do we have a term for it? Shared Source? I know Microsoft tried to use it but it was early 2000 anything M$ did at the time were extremely unpopular.

Will be trying this out soon because I just realise either half of the internet in the past 10 years have eroded, or Google simply cant search something I am sure I read about it 6-7 years ago.
Is there a way to test if my color scheme is considered accessible for various vision issues?
I think the comment was referring to this:

"In early 2019, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) sought a merger with French automaker Renault, and reached a provisional agreement with the company. However, the behaviour of the French government during negotiations led to the abandonment of the deal; The Economist reported that "for FCA this portended future interference." Nissan also had various concerns of the impact of the proposal on its alliance with Renault."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellantis
I think it's a bit pedantic, honestly. She's a politician, not an engineer, her job is to communicate policy and advocate a position, not to precisely employ technical jargon. It's at best a minor, embarrassing gaffe.
What will be next, excluding a "Z" letter from all the alphabets because Russians have used it? Ukrainian researches, please, do not confuse a war with a research. You are f*cking scientists, not a religious followers.
I guess it's an improvement over this type of visualization:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/man-injures-falling-bla...
It's possible to see the acceleration disk behind the black hole from both sides. Above arch is the upside, below is the downside. That's the outermost disk.

It's also possible to see the up- and downside of the front part of the acceleration disk from both sides second time from the light that circulates the black hole.

I think the fuzzy part that joins photon sphere is the light from the upper part of the front of the acceleration disk. Going once around the black hole. When you go you go off axis (upwards) the lower side becomes fussizer/wider and other side mixes with the photon sphere.
What amount of work?
I don’t feel like much of this post actually talked about ethics. It talked about quality, competence, flexibility, and reliability, and assumes that ethical software would have all these things.

That’s not really _ethics_ as I understand the term. Software ethics would do more to plumb the question of, is it ethical for the WebKit team to ship a feature that will make one of Apple’s business goals more viable at the cost of increasing daily energy consumption of the iPhone by 3%? That is actual ethics, not ‘did I make this system easy to extend?’
As I explained in my response I want EU to become more independent from US

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30688930
> I don't understand how datacenter SSD manufacturer can so blatantly ignore Linux.

If you mean Sammy, they do provide support for datacenter SSDs:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/samsung-ssd-dc-toolkit

I don't think Kingston offers anything in that niche. I know very little about that, though.
may I ask why? I don't know the context
I'm as usual Out Of the Loop. Why we're considering him a renegade now?
Yet, software engineers have no ethics or standards to speak of.

Nonsense - engineering ethics have been discussed, codified, and taught for decades. Why are engineering ethics insufficient to cover building software?
> We're helping our neighbour.

Cynical view here: We're helping ourselves.

We all know how difficult is to find good devs (edited: with subpar compensation) nowadays. The same applies on different fields also. As an anecdote, Portuguese government is _actively_ asking Ukrainian refugees to come to Portugal and sending them directly to areas known for chronic worker shortage. Ukrainians, typically, are not social security abusers and as such well seen by natives here. However, Portugal is not being successful and the low wages are being appointed (by our journalists) as the main reason why. This also means that other countries are competing for them.
What would set china to likely partition itself? Meaning religion, culture what can it be. Currently it looks like china is pretty homogeneous?
Don't get me wrong, but it is because you don't like the ideas presented or because you don't like him?

I think there is a problem when we cancel ideas because of whom is telling them.
No, because some site simply disappear. Either the search engine cant find them or they dont renew their server / domain. For example if HN lost its server or YC somehow decided to shut it down, everything you remember reading on HN will be gone with zero reference.
Perhaps media and politicians have decided they’ve gotten enough power and politics out of this crisis, and now it’s OK to move onto the next one.
Ask HN: Do cyberattacks cause physical damage to servers?
For example, do they reduce the lifetimes of SSDs significantly?
His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent
Well if you see her track record you'd see it's par for the course for her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMFWT8HzsPg

And is "algorithm" a technical jargon nowadays? Geez, I wonder what grade I learnt the definition of this word in school...
A Bot That Solves Wordle Puzzles (184 Lines of Python)
Because he has and continues to provide interesting and useful advice to software professionals. Leave cancel culture to the idiot class.
It's true that carmakers have made self-repair inconvenient or impossible nowadays.

But wear and tear impacts all cars operated in the real world, not just gasoline cars. An EV is not magical, just another type of vehicle. Its most frequent failure modes are still being discovered as we put more miles on it and gain experience.

Source: work in the automotive manufacturing industry.
We shouldn't have to live in a culture when being called out for making a 'choice with tenuous political relevancy' is socially expected, and something someone is 'guilty of'.
code: https://github.com/Psycho-Ray/Wordle-Bot/blob/master/bot_wor...
In all industries there are people without ethics, the same happen in our industry. Most people have ethics and standards and I completely agree with you that we should not generalize it.
Asylees in Norway certainly can get work visas, even before they get an answer to their asylum application. Bank accounts and temporary SSNs are also possible (and probably necessary) to get even before they decide if you get protection.
Yes and it works fine except for one minor issue: no Firefox Sync support for uBlock rules.

Otherwise it's fantastic. It's so good that I wouldn't consider using the internet without it. My iPad doesn't have it, and I practically never use its web browser.
Modern Samsung SSDs support online updates. Here's SMART from mine:

Firmware Updates (0x16): 3 Slots, no Reset required

Same thing as BIOS flashback in modern motherboards. Flash it and reboot, if anything is broken it'll roll back (hopefully).
There is also some debate about the role of FBI agents/informants in the Governor Whitmer kidnap case: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/us/whitmer-kidnapping-tri...
>Please don't misconstrue the facts. Access to the FSD Beta is not something that everyone just gets.

That's right, only the most uncritical and loyal people are allowed to have it. The narrative is essential.
no at all
This isn't GMail Beta though. This is beta-quality software roaming the streets posing potential, life-threatning danger to people. Why is it out there to begin with? You can't roll out unfinished features to a safety-critical machine and expect people to shut the fuck up.
I find kode24 practically unreadable without uBlock origin. Loading the frontpage, there are 45 items being hidden, and this is just by the cosmetic filters. In addition there are the third party analytics/ad scripts.

Btw, as far as I can tell, you're neither GDPR compliant, nor compliant with ekomloven[0], as you're not mentioning "Cookies" or "Informasjonskapsler" anywhere readily available.

All that being said - great initiative :)

[0]: https://www.nkom.no/internett/informasjonskapsler-cookies#hv...
> escape Russia

I am not sure how that disproves your bias, respectively what that is even supposed to mean. I am not aware of any travel restrictions, so there's no "escape".

I am also not quite sure why you are so dismissive of Mearsheimer. But again, there will be little point in continuing the discussion.
There isn't. No matter how clever your cleanup/filter algorithm is, you can always more cleverly biased "coin" that defeats it.

(Assuming the "coin" is a complex device)

That's why proving that a hardware RNG is secure is very difficult.
Russians in Russia don't have a choice, please stop implying that Russian elections are either fair or of any consequence. People on the internet love to throw around the idea that citizens of oppressive regimes have a say in the direction or actions of that regime.

Neither Russian nor Chinese nor North Korean nor Iranian citizens have any say in what their respective governments do.
Global powers inch closer to agreement to waive Covid vaccine patents
> "I feel like ucranians are fellow europeans."

> "If you look for a well-defined and rational response, I don't think there's one."

The lack of a well-defined and rational response, beyond vague feelings, is what causes this discussion to eventually reduce down to claims of pure racism.

We're denying that there's racism and xenophobia involved, whilst simultaneously being unable to explain why we're seeing those differences.

I'm not accusing you of anything, I'm merely observing. I hope you too can see why this ambiguity is problematic.

> "There has been hundreds of thousands of non-european people inmigrating to Europe for years, but somehow we're hypocrites now."

And there are many millions more that - given the same support and openness given to the Ukrainian people now - would leave the war-torn, collapsed countries they were born in and look for refuge in better societies in Europe. But those people aren't getting the same level of support. Why do we treat those groups differently then?
>They haven't taken that away from him.

It doesn't exist, so what is there to take away?
The analogy of the pine tree is an interesting one, it identifies that the shape of a technical product is not just about what problems it needs to solve today, but also the history of problems it's had to solve to get to today.

What the post fails to call out is that many of those problems simply might not exist anymore. That tree may have had to weather a freak once-in-a-thousand-years stormy season, and has structural baggage as a result; but if that tree were to grow again starting today, a repeat season may never happen and the tree would end up looking different.

One way we can consider technical debt is the extent to which the current solution differs from an (often mythical or at least hypothetical) ideal solution. How different would it look if we built it today, with only today's constraints, rather than all the historical ones? How much is that historical baggage getting in the way of us moving forwards?
I’ve found my problem to be the opposite. You can spend too much time making everything technically perfect and nothing ever gets done.

It’s much better to have a working product, customers, investors, etc with some code that isn’t perfectly DRY for example, than academically perfect code for a product that’s 20% functional and no one will ever know exists.

In the real world we have limited resources when starting things and you sometimes have to pick between those options.

If you have something new and very limited resources, get something going and refactor it later.
qbittorrent-nox-static (go with 4.3.9 for now, 4.4.1 still has a memory leak) is the way to go, IMO, on a linux server.
BTW, if you like quotes, the Quote Investigator is an entertaining read and a good reference for many (often misattributed) quotes:

https://quoteinvestigator.com
>I'm not sure what would have happened if I had been a purely MacOS and Linux household.

Passthrough to a VM, though I suppose the Windows license could be an issue.
Opportunities to work for free abound if you are a designer.

Unless it is design software, and it ain't, there's no upside.

It's just work.
You might be thinking that it's a Putin's war, but I can assure you, Russian people are wholeheartedly support the war. Even people who live abroad.

> It scares me how people lose their minds to xenophobia, war, and hate

Because while some russians are experiencing "hate and xenophobia", civilian people is Ukraine are being brutally killed in thousands using unguided bombs, artillery strikes or MLRSs. For you, dead or injured children are just a picture you can choose not to look at, but for a huge number of Ukrainians, it is the reality.
Are you suggesting sending around SQLite dbs as a data interchange format? Or to replace some other csv use case?
A lot of people seem to consider him an out of touch architect astronaut peddling snake oil that doesn't have any relevance to actually writing real software in the real world.

Personally I think he has more misses than hits and everything he writes should be taken with a large grain of salt, but occasionally he hits upon some interesting ideas.
He also loves monopolies
if as a software engineer, you prefer to live a life where you wake up to absurd work daily, each day fixing a bug in a way that creates two more, or introducing a feature that creates three more, sure, technical debt is beautiful
It’s not racism, it’s familiarity and pragmatism.

The West has gone above and beyond for Syria, at least my country has.

That said, the refugees streaming out of Ukraine are citizens of a western-ish democracy, are NOT young men of fighting age and could adapt to cultural/religious/civic life very quickly in Slavic countries and quite easily elsewhere in Europe.

Compare that to all the services you need to integrate someone who doesn’t speak an Indo-European language at all, has a religion counter to the dominant culture, is from an autocracy, and is a bored 18-45 year old guy who is not aware of how to find/exploit opportunities available in your country, and who has worked under a completely foreign system of regulations and education, if they have an education at all.

From first and second hand experience with Syrian and African refugees, many have no education because war/instability took the chance from them. Many cannot do the job they had before because either it doesn’t exist or they need licensing. Finally, some got by on nepotism before and are unsuited to the western corporate environment.

These people are no more or less human than Ukrainians, but cost a lot more to put somewhere they can flourish, or even just survive.
I call this term "minor privilege". West is affluent, and they are likely to donate if some is victim from their group. Syria is not in west, so they aren't born with that privilege and many west aren't emphatic to them due to various reasons like media coverage, leaders etc.
thanks ~~Obama~~ Putin
Basically "visualizing black holes with relativistic ray tracing" is my hobby now. I can't think of a better use of compute, honestly. The way it was explained to me: we can simulate a single black hole, all the photons together by gravity alone, on a Lambda workstation. To simulate two black holes in orbit, requires Berkeley Lab's Perlmutter, the biggest supercomputer on the planet. By the time we get to three black holes in orbit, it's so chaotic it doesn't matter if are afforded all the energy in the universe, it would not be enough to calculate predicatble orbits. Cosmological simulations are the benchmark. And the outputs are the building blocks of life itself: dark matter & energy ;)