skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, also having to power up their devices, and something like internet is a key to entertainment and information for children. If they wouldn't have smartphones, they'd ask for directions, and also directions are already there as well. But with it, there's a whole lot more possible, without having to rely on external factors (except data connection perhaps, as well as having the map loaded up). It makes me wonder if an old smartphone is a good donation to a refugee.
Clonezilla and an external drive

https://clonezilla.org/
I think these systems were always intended for small scale use for detached villages and whatnot? I don't see a way they would be able to provide for city even if you made hundreds of thousands.

If you want to support a civilization you better switch to something that can exploit the volume for increased efficiency, like an actual desalinization plant and a solar concentrator powerplant to run it.
dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/other/foo.img bs=1M

and perhaps filter through gzip or something...
What would be best way to evaluate randomness quality? This is something I've been thinking a lot. Yes, there are 'ent' and others, but I am more after trend of randomness quality over weeks and months.
Yeah, you’re right, sorry. Fixed it. :)
How did software engineering get to the point where this kind of low quality update is shipped "too often" for serious circumstances like a physical oven? Like it's hardly notable news anymore for something like this to happen. It's frequent.

I worry that agile is largely responsible, and has mutated into a pipeline for garbage, though I don't have any evidence to confirm that suspicion.
There are people like that, and they're usually great to have on an OSS project, but they're a minority.
:'D
You can do better than that!
Probably not...c-level execs are usually owners of the business.
Anecdotally, I think people have to do a lot more to get an idea improved or deal with day to day bs of broken libraries etc.

With remote, employers also miss the in person social queues when someone has started going through the motions or everyone is simply tired.

In the office I could see when someone was working 12 hour days and intervene, with remote I just see someone sound a little tired on the video screen.
How do you remap keys?
That's a really cool suggestion. We'll look into that for sure. We're trying to integrate cilium as much as possible currently, esp for its zero trust networking in the dataplane, but adding more control plane security as well would be a great add.
I don't think right wing media hold a particular candle for John Major.
Your post makes no sense. No idea what you are trying to say.
Just a quick counter to the “avoid saying well, at my old company we did this”. A lot of people hire externally to get this perspective, especially if it’s a team that hasn’t grown in a while, but if that’s the case they usually won’t be shy about telling you that. But don’t be attached to how you did things before just see if it opens up new ideas for everyone.
Neoliberals today are trying that on as a term for anyone who they believe is too rich after seeing how it’s been used to demonize the Russian upper class (who in most cases are oligarchs).

As usual the actual meaning of word doesn’t matter, they’re after the feeling the word evokes.
Imagine trying to sell this premise to somebody 50 years ago.

> It's a toaster, just like the one you already have on your counter, except it won't work unless you give the manufacturer a copy of your rolodex.

People then would laugh in your face, but today most people don't even seem to blink. The absurd has been normalized.
Just within Mac they've gone from 680x0 to PowerPC (related to POWER but separate), to AMD64, to Apple Silicon. Before the Mac, they also had the 6502 and 6800 platforms.
Yes. Worst offenders:

- Companies that deliberately offer a subpar webapp experience (including, not keeping you logged in and spamming you with 2FA) to push you to download their mobile app

- every fucking company that saves your credit card info - I mean I understand why (you wouldn't want credit cards to be easily abused) but it just points out to the actual market failure - Visa/Mastercard duopoly and subsequent lack of innovation (obviously the correct solution here is to have phone-app confirmation of every purchase even for stored credit cards)
I've one (and only one) persistent upgrade issue in using Ubuntu over the last ~15 years - and that's ensuring that the updated/replaced Apache modules are enabled as they should be (especially PHP - it seems to be the biggest offender here)

Otherwise ... do this (as `root`):

--------------

# screen

(inside screen)

# do-release-upgrade

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Participate where it wants, but otherwise sit back and enjoy the ride
If you're using lvm or zfs it's trivial.

If not, you're probably going to have to take a backup the old fashioned way.
Pretty awesome that making an MMO has gone from something requiring a budget of millions to being something an indie dev can put together with Unity and a few cloud services now. It's impossible to overstate just how far the tooling for game dev has come in the last 10 years. What the OP is describing would have been a silly pipedream in 2010.
They have Formula-E. Ultimately, it should overtake F1 and replace it.
Go is more than specific enough, unless you go writing the name in lowercase.
If you want to run neural nets you'll need to use the proprietary nvidia drivers and their matching cuda versions. I'd check which versions of the best ppas (graphics-drivers) are available for the newer distro.
Yeah, Snap is the reason I will be moving away from Ubuntu. Mint in my opinion can suffer some of the same issues and they will too have to address the Snap issue sooner or later (as they use Ubuntu packages). Something Debian or Arch based sounds nicer by the day.

The Snap sandboxing sounds great until you realise it means you can't access hardware reliably and sometimes you can't access files. Snap likes to randomly update and restart stuff you are actively working on. Ubuntu are too heavily invested into Snap now to walk it back.

Additionally, I hate Gnome more and more by the day. It's a slow buggy mess and is not worth the bells and whistles for this amount of unreliability. Gnome randomly crashes after over a month of up time.

When you see the Gnome blog updates, you only see updates regarding the Cloud, IoT and business interests. The Ubuntu Desktop seems to have taken a back seat these days.
The halo orbit JWST is in is much more stable than that.
It is part of git, some distros just split it out to a separate package ("git-gui" on Debian) to avoid pulling GUI dependencies in unnecessarily.
The Day the Bank of England was caught in an artificial pumping scheme is way more accurate of a title. But I guess anything to smear Soros and the "left" gets upvoted to HN nowadays.

Connection being the authoritative right sees Soros as the analog to the Koch bros.... not quite understanding we don't like capitalists anymore than the right likes socialists. But hey Soros === bad, leftist === bad so to the top of HN it goes. (please prove me wrong)
Not only impossible in python, but also seems conceptually useless (why would you have a set of frozen sets?).
I don't get how that's still useful. (As in, it really shouldn't be. I get what the problems are, they just shouldn't exist.)

Pop-up login windows shouldn't be a thing. First because browsers have some hard rules about pop-ups, but also because inter-window communication isn't reliable so doing everything on the same window is easier in every way.

Browsers shouldn't let the site open windows as they wish. That's incredibly user-hostile. Take the example from Firefox: if the user allows pop-ups, by default they can only open on tabs, without the focus, and with full chrome. (It took a while for Firefox to get over the usual web culture and restrict the sites, but it seems that other browsers aren't there yet.)

And finally, there is the issue with passwords. We just shouldn't be using them on random sites anymore. But browsers just can't innovate.
You don’t need snap to use let’s encrypt on ubuntu.
> While this may be true, it is entirely the fault of the dumb UK mortgage market

How would raising interest rates affect spending in the short/medium term if loans are all fixed for 30 years?

I guess maybe the property market is more volatile in the US as a result of this since who would take on a 30 year mortgage when rates are above their long-term average? In the UK, if you're on a high rate (but a short contract), you can at least look forward to when interest rates fall.
We currently deploy our clusters with a slew of scale-to-zero nodegroups including spot instances that can be selected easily using typical k8s constructs to somewhat accomplish this. We'll look into making this more usable as well, since configuring affinities is not the ideal user experience in a lot of cases.
Hopefully one day we'll all stop using memorized passwords and switch to hardware authentication. So much of this will go away.
The analog thermostat of my fridge broke, a replacement thermostat didn't work reliably.

So around two or three years ago I replaced it with an ESP2866, a relay and an ds18b20.

It worked great, except that the logic was outside the fridge on a home server, it was a a Python script which also logged the data into InfluxDB. The issue then was that sometimes when the server was down, the fridge stayed on or off.

Last week I started to reorganize my WiFi, which devices access which APs, and since then it had constant disconnects, so I decided to finally fix this issue.

Now it's an ESP32 with the logic in code which now only posts to the server for InfluxDB-logging and is upgradeable via OTA and parameters can be set via http://fridge.home/esp?data={"set-fridge":{"max":7,"min":5.5...}

It's been fun doing this and extended the lifetime of the fridge for a couple of years.

But I also would never buy an internet connected fridge or any type of appliance, unless it could be flashed with some OSS to make it cloud-free.
Probably helps with SEO.
No country for old men: Aging dictators and economic growth [pdf]
I'm pretty much with you on this. Important things I want 2FA on, but so many services are forcing it me now. I don't understand why I can't choose to not have a second factor if I don't want it.

However, it's worth noting that you can get desktop apps for TOTP, and some password managers also support it. So you don't necessarily have to go via your phone.
I make a lot more than most business owners as a mid level employee at BigTech without the headaches.

I worked for a startup that went out of business. You know how much sleep I lost when they were struggling? When they did finally kick the bucket, I called a few people in my network, got another job and kept it moving.
See also "My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi" (Jan 31):

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30147379

And "GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven without connecting to WiFi" (Mar 5):

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30570027
I suspect many resignations due to burnout would be better attributed to the company's poor management, culture, lack of opportunities/compensation, etc.

not that I think burnout isn't real; I think the test is if the person can easily move on to their next thing or not
I do think GUI programs should have machine-to-machine interfaces built in too, yes.

I was young & barely knew it, but KDE's DCOP seemed like a very adequate way to script & control any app- that was awesome. Today on FreeDesktop, some apps do a good job of exposing themselves via DBus; music/media players in particular have very widespread support for the mpris interface, for example, but all sorts of apps expose control this way. The programming language Vala[1] in Gnome world has excellent DBus integration built in, so one can take some of their application models & expose them to the world, very much easing making m2m interfaces.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/DBusServerSample#Type_T...
Try to actually buy the 3090 RTX anywhere.

It's out of stock just about everywhere and the few places that you can get it have scalpers charging thousands for it.

A standalone GPU that consumes multiple times more power than the M1, is a massive brick of hardware and is impossible to get for most consumers performs better? Shocking.
Robot Dogs Join the New York Fire Department
Yes, after the systemd change, not a lot has changed really - since about 16.04 I think.

I roll every LTS upgrade maybe 3 months after the release - has always went pretty smoothly.
# dd if=/dev/sdX bs=4k status=progress conv=noerror | zstdmt - > /mnt/backup.zstd
Also worth noting most companies allow password reset which make it very 1FA.
Christopher Alexander Died
Isn't privacy, security and freedom the hole idea of firefox?

As of my understanding, firefox, contrary of chrome and Edge, is really commited on privacy.
I think the 2FA feature is only available if you have their subscription which is kinda cheap to be fair.

Or alternatively you can host VaultWarden and get it for “free”.
The main problem with single-use bags is that they blow away too easily and end up being seen.
If you're a coding nerd this way of thinking will naturally lead you to some sort of statistical arbitrage. Break out you favorite ML framework, get some data from somewhere, and try to test the hypotheses about whether one or another trading strategy works.

I went down this rabbithole a long time ago and I'm still in the cave.
High speed variance can also be dangerous, since it encourages people to do overtaking maneuvers. This effect is probably significantly strong in low-visibility conditions.
It's probably true, but at this point Wikipedia is also considered "generally unreliable" for politically controversial subjects
But not the "third world bad health" theory so much.
Flexures are generally interesting, these flexures are amazing.

The video references the public documentation @ https://www.esmats.eu/amspapers/pastpapers/pdfs/2006/warden..... They weigh 665 grams (1.47lbs), have a range of 21mm (.826 inches) and a 7.7 nanometre (0.00000030315 inch) step. They work at temperatures down to -253C (-423.6F).

The cryocooler and these flexures have me seriously considering going back to school for a mechanical engineering/materials science degree.
I agree with OP, though - Its getting ridiculous and its not just websites. For example, my employer requires me to enter 2FA code every time I log into windows.
Bless you, I knew this was ringing bells but couldn’t quite place it.
This is actually a big potential for a smart grid - turning on or off demand from things like fridges and ovens in response to the grid frequency changing.

If the grid is very slightly over 50hz it means demand exceeds supply and vice versa.

By automatically switching off the pump on thousands of fridges for a few seconds, networks would require less generation capacity on standby - saving $$$ and CO2.

Of course, like you say, this would leave potential for this to be used in reverse to destabilise an entire grid.
I have used Ubuntu on desktop and laptop for years.

My main advice is consider when to upgrade. I never upgrade to the latest release on release day. Usually I try to wait two months. Safer would be three months. By then most of the major bugs found on release should be fixed. I was burned more than once by not doing this.

On the other hand, when I had more free time, I tested pre-release Ubuntu releases in the KVM, or even installed them as boot alternatives in GRUB, reporting any errors I could find.

If you're concerned about breakage, wait at least two months after release before upgrading. Maybe even three.
If you like sports in the service of pushing technology, and you care about the environment, you should be watching Formula E instead.

For a good intro: https://youtu.be/EUyHyk6bq0I
So there's two things I don't really understand this article. Firstly, what is the difference between you "value investing" your own money, and sticking your money in a hedge fund which does "value investing" for you? Other than the fact that you're doing this in your spare time whilst the hedge fund manager is doing it full time. Surely what this article is basically saying is "89% of hedge funds underperform the index, but I think I've got a way to beat the index" when in reality, he's just taking the bad side of the bet.

The second thing is, that the author points to 89% of funds underperforming the S&P500. But in that same paper, there is another shocking statistic - 97% of large cap value investing funds lagged the S&P500 Value Index. So surely, if you what you believe in is value investing, that doesn't prevent you from using a passive index, it just means you should choose the value indexes[1], not that you should suddenly put on your boldest pin stripe suit and start picking stocks.

[1]: https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239728/ishares-sp-500-va...
Even if you own 20% of the company, statistically the chances of it being worth anything besides toilet paper is slim.
Well, when you accept a job, you make a promise. So do what you must to get the job done then, on time.
> such a guitarist might say your $3000 instrument is a vanity thing as well.

No, they wouldn't. Playing well on a shit instrument is a way to demonstrate skill good enough to overcome shit, or part of your public persona. Or they have a good quality instrument that looks like shit because it hasn't been treated well in the past. All professional musicians know what to expect from a good quality instrument (up to a point of course - spending $15000 on a guitar puts you right back with the audiophiles).
I've never had anything break on a Mac with an OS update - and I've been running them for 30+ years
I have bad news for you, insider trading isn't about fairness. People trade, legally, on inside information all the time. Adverse selection abounds in markets, so you have to be careful. Insider trading laws are rather about theft: did you illegally appropriate information owned by someone else to benefit yourself and/or a third party? That is insider trading. In the US, it can be even more relaxed than that, with the standard being you had intent.
> The multiply has no purpose, and so nobody would write that.

A fellow named Bjarne Stroustrup fixed that bug, though. In the plus plus dialect of C, A * B could reboot your system, without any #define macros for A or B.
As others have said, i'd personnally wait to the 22.04.01 update to migrate. Will do on some of my devices. My usecase is somewhat similar to yours.

Bugs that got throught are generally fixed. Keeping up with the LTS release conservatively is the best (and/or boring) way to avoid issues. There's nothing particularly groundbreaking about 22.04 and it's perfect that way.

I'm the user that like Gnome and I've mostly seen fewer annoyances and better memory management (Gnome is still not the lightest).

I don't have any NVIDIA parts, so I can't speak about that.
I use the Google Authenticator for everything and with ios & macOS i just press on the code on iOs & paste on the mac. Done.

Things have gotten way easier with password managers and proper MFA in my opinion.
I think TOTP is a premium only feature in Bitwarden. But it is only $10/YEAR.
The old domain thing is totally worthless for a while until it is abstracted and linked to the new domain. Then it becomes gold when carefully used.
There's always been paranoia around what you say, but now I believe it's probably propaganda by the pension fund industry. With pensions it was still tied to the stock market (but sometimes including non-public investments) but was more open to outright corruption, as a fund could just choose to invest in some bunk asset as a way of giving away all the money.
I find that there can be a lot of inefficiencies and flat out problems that existing employees have learned to accept. Being an outsider helps to see the problems that they've learned to ignore. Fixing those types of issues (after learning the backstory) in a positive way helps to integrate you with a new team.
Ah, that's interesting about the Netherlands. I didn't know that.

I know a lot of German programmers, as I am one myself and I work a fair amount in German companies, and I never knew a single one who used US-International (apart from myself in the brief phase described above).
Yeah, that was the idea, but doing it in a way that doesn't require excessive boilerplate needs some creativity :)
This one might be better: https://priceonomics.com/the-trade-of-the-century-when-georg...
That's a confrontational mindset. In reality, there was a window post-1990 in which we (the US, Europe, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and the most stable African countries) could have created the means to resolve global conflicts peacefully, or at least in a shared manner. The real victory of Desert Storm wasn't the military annihilation of a regional power in a matter of months, but the fact that it was achieved under a UN mandate. That practice should have become the norm.

The major crisis right after (Yugoslavia, the first post-WW2 war in Europe which we try so hard to forget every day) still had some UN legitimacy - NATO acted somewhat unilaterally but it was arguably as protection for a UN peacekeeping operation. The Russians had to follow suit - begrudgingly, but on shared terms.

Then 2001 happened and all that strenuous effort to keep powers together was just thrown out of the window, in pursue of simple and pure vengeance - the oldest and most tribalistic instinct for violence, the biblical an-eye-for-an-eye. Even then, there was still a chance to forgive it as a temporary aberration of a young country that had never been seriously attacked on its mainland before. Instead, the US literally decided to conquer Iraq on a whim in 2002/2003. At that point, anybody who had ever seriously considered cooperation had to change course, or lost massive amounts of political capital. Areas that were slowly moving towards softer stances (Iran, China, Russia, etc) predictably reacted by rushing back to the safety of oppositional competition. And now it's what it is.

Escalating competition further and further is not the answer, and will lead the world to darker and darker places.
TBH they they could do a little more in regards of donating. For eg. I can very easily ask my government to donate 1% of my taxes to Wikimedia foundation, but Mozilla is not registered as such in my country.
I've been reading Matt Stoller over the last couple of years, discussing how weak anti-trust enforcement is leading to consolidation and concentration in the market and a reliance on foreign exports in the name of efficiency. Mostly he focuses on the US but I suspect that similar things are happening in the UK. It leads to a fragile supply chain rife with bottlenecks and "just in time" links, overly reliant on imports and not robust to unexpected events like COVID or war in Europe.

If you're interested here is some further reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/01/americ...

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/national-champs-or-nation...

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/counterfeit-capitalism-wh...
Why is there no user-facing firmware update/recovery feature, so that at least tech-savvy users can resolve the issue themselves? Or a reset feature that reverts to the factory firmware located on a separate, read-only chip?

Ah yes, it's to prevent people downgrading or running "unauthorized" firmware when they inevitably start adding user-hostile "features".
Unreliability insofar as Wikipedia is concerned means it’s articles are of varying quality. That’s a fact somewhat inherent in its design.

Why do you feel like that prevents their moderation teams from being arbiters of source quality? That page’s findings are not public-editable, for the record.
He's the boogey man to a large portion of society. He makes the left look slightly bad so any chance to showcase he's just an evil capitalist that steals grandmas money rockets to the top of HN.
certbot != Let's Encrypt