skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suppose you want to do something anonymously.

1. Download installer from Mozilla from your home network - Mozilla now has your home IP and installer ID.

2. Transfer it via USB key to a secure, anonymous computer - one not linked to you, on a network not associated with you, such as public WiFi.

3. Install Firefox using that installer on said computer. It transmits the installer ID to Mozilla, which matches the one given to your home IP, thereby deanonymizing you.

4. Mozilla receives a warrant for this information, or it is hacked, or the organization is infiltrated by a single government or corporate spy.

Edit: It gets worse. Suppose a newspaper IT department takes care of providing Firefox and other trusted software installers to their reporters. Now Mozilla can determine who that newspaper helped with IT, such as journalists or sources. Or if you provide trusted software to your friends, Mozilla gets part of your social graph.
Is the app simple? Yes. Do you have to purchase it? No.
Not sure why this turned into a critique of the programmer and subsequently his podcast and co-hosts.... weird.
Sure, but if they're 'clandestinely working with anonymous' then they just are part of anonymous, as that's the only membership criteria.
I hate all the damn totes and the drink bottles. How many of those do you need in your life? I must have a dozen nice ones and I've recycled endless dozens more.

I usually refuse to take them if I have the option.
Quote from the article:

UK Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) Secretary of State Nadine Dorries, said her aim with the bill was to "make the internet, in the UK, the safest place in the world for children and vulnerable young people to go online."

People don't realise, but the UK govt think pretty much only about the children and vulnerable young. Legislation begins and end with this question: "how can they make sure everyone is nice and safe?"

Its not that they are using this group as a pretext to shove draconian legislations down our throats, no. /s
I'm thinking there is something wrong with the camera on that particular monitor. I really doubt Apple would release a monitor with that bad of a camera built in.
We see this in Mountain Bike reviews once in a while where the frame breaks during testing. Looks bad in the review, but isn't what typically happens for everyone else.
Lovelock (of the Gaia Hypothesis) had the bright idea to put all the CFCs onto all the old ICBMs and launch them at Mars to kick start the greenhouse effect there.
> Honestly dual-booting with Linux and Windows on your workstation is perfectly feasible nowadays.

I’m confused by the word “nowadays”. I had a friend with a dual-booting setup between Windows and Linux in the 90s.
Don't Ask Computer Software's Software Automatic Mouth
Caution: blocking E-Mail-Address popup prompt first.
You can criticize anything you want under the guise of some environmentalist angle. Can everyone stop doing Y because Y is bad for the environment? Where Y can be traveling, drinking the wrong kind of water, having a big house, driving a car, flushing the toilet too often, taking long showers, printing reports, turning on the lights, not living in a tent on the street, getting a new phone every two years.

This is so tiresome. No, everyone else isn't going to change their behavior to align with your personal environmentalist crusade. Leave us alone.
Flat minimalism (compared to using words) is popular because you don't need to have translations of square, circle, and triangle into foreign languages.

(Square, circle, and triangle is also the old Electronic Arts logo, but that's probably not the reason.)
> but one can image that they want to understand where are people getting these copies of ff if they do not download them themselves.

These people are getting it obviously from their admins! (Like myself. I push Firefox updates to close to 1000 PCs. I thought (amongst other things) I'm doing them a favour by saving them traffic.) They obviously know that! The real reason they are doing this is simply because they started collecting data. Now they are hooked and constantly want more. That is all there is to it. They already identify each individual installation, so someone on the team said: Let's identify each download too.
Yeah, they both share Rob Pike and the Bell Labs heritage.

Weird side note: Renee French did both the Plan 9 and Go mascot designs as well.

https://go.dev/blog/gopher

And to the further above, there are other languages and compilers supported on Plan 9/Inferno. Like Go.
RIPE Atlas tries to do this using their IP Map. It sorta works. https://ipmap.ripe.net/
It is a very different concept, yes.

Considerations of efficiency and power consumption are relevant... but not much else. Generally such devices are either too expensive, too maintenance heavy, or utterly inefficient.

I'm not qualified to comment on, but I have found it interesting that it heats up the air (hotter air = can hold more moisture), passes the air through some material that's supposed to retain moisture, then cools it down with radiators. It seems that it would be more efficient in cold weather but would not perform nearly as well in a desert (where you need it to perform well as the moisture content is low during the day).

So maybe Mr. Thunderfoot will be able to debunk this too. If he can refrain from reusing Theranos and Boring Co footage.
There's no sales team at Zotero to interface with the UC behemoth...
It's your country, sorry for you.
> Why do companies continue to waste money on useless swag?

Lead list generation. Sales...

Is the answer. You need to entice a potential customer closer to your booth, get their name and have a chance to follow up later.

If a customer represents a few $100 or few $10ks, the customer acquisition cost of a $15 water bottle is quite low.

Here's another idea: QR codes that give you NFTs or alt coins.

You can then turnaround and donate it to a charity.

This generates customer engagement at the very least...
Also "make everyone carry their dependencies down to the standard C library". The churn that the userland on Linux distros has is very unfortunate, but it's probably not going to change any time soon. It's not that hard to ship software with minimal dependencies if you know what you're doing, but it sure is easier for Windows.
> But man, endlessly fiddling to fix the layouts is time I'd like back in my life

I know many engineers are perfectionists, but pick your battles. It’s not as if the alternative of manually laying out every node and edge and maintaining it is universally better.
Thanks for all the replies. As a few have mentioned, directly or indirectly, this may well be an industry shift away from the long standing method of handling temporarily undeliverable email, at least for the largest providers.

This used to be the typical way of handling things:

This is the mail system at host abc.xyz
####################################################################
# THIS IS A WARNING ONLY. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE. #
####################################################################
Your message could not be delivered for more than 4 hour(s).
It will be retried until it is 5 day(s) old.
For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

Bottom line seems to be, if you host your own email expect inbound mail to begin permanently failing after three hours should your server (or routing to it) be down longer.
This doesn't solve it because theb the phishermen will simply start cloning the <login> element style.
Funny something like this recently popped into my LI feed: https://www.linkedin.com/company/buzz-swag/

Buzz Swag - esg corp gear eval.
having a hardware encoder and decoder on a device is super useful for streaming content of that device. Not sure I would want to use other compute for that, that compute is much better used doing CV on the video stream :)
These are seafarers working on Cypriot flagged vessels used in international voyages.

UK employment law is entirely irrelevant here, only international maritime law applies.
No doubt these numbers are twisted and inflated to greatest bidder or friendly institution. Wonder if someone could pull these numbers and highlight the outliers with some AI or vs. public data
> A mug will last for years if you don't drop it

Depends. If the mug is cold and you pour a hot liquid into it fast enough, it'll crack.

That's happened to me a couple times, but I've learned my lesson since then—pour slowly.
> What is surprising is that thunderfoot didn't lose his habit of repeating himself over and over again

Yeap.

> Though to be fair, he's now more into into making misleading videos about SpaceX and obsessing over Elon Musk.

His videos are recursive.

You see, even videos having nothing to do with the subject at all, he will still find a way to include Hyperloop, Theranos and Boring Co. footage. Plus older videos. Like a house of mirrors.
But people do learn different. The proper way to learn is to get a bachelors in your interest, and meet professionals. Some people settle for books. Others - videos.
I went on the website and I seriously can't figure out what they do? I'm not joking, if people on here are recommended I'm genuinely interested, what does it do?
As with anything in US healthcare, it's never that simple, e.g. Telehealth providers outside of the US can't bill Medicare (https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/doctors-outside-us-cann...) which covers about 1/5 of the population.
I built a computer with its own languages, and I consider it to be _less_ cognitive load when everything is in 1/2/3 languages. I don't have to worry that the next program I want to read the sources will require "Go, Rust, C++, JS/TS, Python, Java, etc."

There are other metrics to consider besides your notions of cognitive load and productivity. Inferno predates most of the languages on your list. My computer (https://github.com/akkartik/mu) uses custom languages because I was able to design them to minimize total LoC, and to ensure the dependency graph has no cycles (unlike all of the conventional software stack, at least until https://www.gnu.org/software/mes connects up all the dots).
A few hundred bucks a month is for all intents and purposes "nothing". It's a rounding error in terms of the time he spent on it.
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I think it could make sense to implement lower-level APIs in Rust and then expose higher level APIs to JavaScript so that connections to upstream services can be shared across a pool of JavaScript Workers.

When running NodeJS at scale we had to add proxy servers to pool connections to upstream services which had been designed for smaller numbers of more highly utilized connections from large multithreaded Java application servers.
The only reasonable explanation I've heard is that Putin has surrounded himself with all sorts of yes-men and that those yes-men basically told him that most of the people would gladly welcome Russia's forces.

This kinda explains why the first wave of Russian soldiers were naive enough to stop in the city and ask common people for directions to the city center.
Ah, ok.

"We try to tackle the crazy problem because if we can almost do that we should be quite good at the reasonable ones" sounds like a communication problem unnecessarily attached to the physical one.
I'm... not sure what you mean about VLC? It started out as a student project, but now VideoLabs is a for-profit company, and there is a libVLC.
Who fucking cares? This wouldn't be nearly as huge of a problem if people with a physical dependency — inclusive of addicts, but by NO MEANS exclusively addicts — could reliably access safe, reliably dosed opioids instead of getting pushed to street drugs.
thats not fair DS9 was good...
seriously though I got more a Battlestar Glactica vibe from it than ds9
I can give you some anecdotal evidence that supports what you're saying.

The very large health care company I work for now is currently redesigning their global nav. We've had no less than 10-15 design working sessions. The same thing that continually comes up is the hamburger menu and how to handle it.

The reason is the company did some pretty extensive research with seniors (a big chunk of our clientele) and found many don't have any idea the hamburger menu is a standard menu now for both desktop and mobile apps. We were told we either have to use it minimally, or not at all. Its been a struggle to find something that everybody can agree on. We have a very small team of 5 people - 2 designers, 2 devs and myself (accessibility) working on this.

I also happen to work in accessibility which many of the apps/sites that use hamburger menus on mobile either create keyboard traps or are totally unusable for screen readers. I'm at least happy our company is trying to move to something different.
The stuff has become so cheap and junky that it's basically useless. Like they hand out bluetooth speakers which sound worse than laptop speakers. And then the company gets stuck with box loads of this ewaste junk when branding changes. I think the least wasteful idea I saw was the company branding on a packet of mints. At least thats something almost everyone wants and isn't any more wasteful than store mints.
EMR software, like all medical software, suffers from a variation of the Dead Sea Effect.

Those who are truly invested in EMR software are not developers and developers are not invested in EMR software. So, as a developer, it's a job you take because you need a job. And if you're competent, you can get a job elsewhere eventually. If you're not, well, it's not like medical software has a deep talent pool to draw from. You can coast for a long time.

Combined with that, you have to work with doctors and nurses. Doctors especially operate under the belief that demonstrated competence in one area correlates to expertise in all areas. No one bikesheds harder than a doctor. Except a doctor who fancies himself a programmer as well.
Thanks.

Know anywhere that’s fairly liberal and warm? Hahah
Going on living is politics now, I see. You clearly have a different vision on politics than I do.

Have a good life but take my advice to heart: don't blindly trust consensus, especially when dealing with the revolving door between the pharmaceutical industry, lobbyists and policy makers. This used to be common sense but it seems to be a sign of radicalism now - how things change.
>Really the only reason to chase after this display for the screen itself is if you desperately care about having a 5K display that can display MacOS at pixel-perfect resolution with no scaling. I don’t want to discount this: a lot of people care about that a lot, and for those folks, $1,599 sounds totally reasonable considering that the only other 5K option on the market is that buggy LG UltraFine.

Doesn't this just scream "The Mac OS software is bad, so buy our bad monitor to make up for it". There's a reason no one else makes a 5K display, and there's no reason why people should need to worry about buying a specific resolution display. It's just a failure by Apple. Am I missing something?
I was expecting a wasm browser inside the browser. I'm sure you could do something really rather sophisticated with that. No idea what though.
There will be impurities, it won't be just NaCL.
do they publish postmortem's? gist.github.com was down too for sometime
It's two sentences that are wrong. You could put "hydrogen peroxide" in quotes, but that won't make it water.
It looks like in some modern art and the artists behind it are lacking , I'd say, skill/labor not execution because the execution exists in some shape or form. But many of these artists are trained classically and could perform in a classical way if they really wanted to (though some can't), but choose to express themselves in novel ways. And that does get pushed a bit too far, sometimes up to the point that we wonder what could NOT be considered art. But even if you don't like most modern art, at some point you will find something that stirs something in you, something that would not be possible if we had very rigid/conservative standards. I find that modern art is more about processes, abstractions and ideas.
Annihilating positrons don't really consume an appreciable amount of the star's ordinary matter. Their presence mostly serves to allow a big star to compress into a much smaller space than otherwise, leading to a more powerful thermonuclear detonation.

One way to think about the gamma -> lepton-pair is that the parent (the gamma photon) must have at least the same momentum-energy as it's lepton-pair children. That is, the positron and electron each have less momentum than the gamma, and since each half of the pair can go in a different random direction, a gamma whose entire momentum may be outwards might turn into a positron that, for example, heads inwards and an electron that heads outwards, each carrying about half the gamma's original outward momentum. The outward momentum flux is what does the work of keeping the star from imploding gravitationally, and the balance is usually fairly fine; when a substantial amount of that momentum flux is turned in the wrong direction, the implosion is inevitable. There is nothing particularly special about the positrons (indeed, muons and antimuons, and other cascades of particles likely are produced too) other than that they and their partner electrons represent a redirection of mostly-outward momentum.

Another way of thinking about it is that a hot gas of gammas becomes a cooler gas of gammas+leptons, and "hot gas rises" is what keeps the star inflated. Cool down the middle, and the star contracts, because there is less hot gas rising. Initially, the sudden central cooling may re-heat the star's middle (compressive heating as outer layers sink inwards), which produces further central cooling (pair-production), which produces yet more heating, and so forth, with the swings from heating to cooling becoming more extreme over time. In some stars undergoing this process, the heating wins, and a thermonuclear detonation completely obliterates the star, scattering its remains to infinity. In other stars other factors help "lift" the outer envelope (e.g. the star's rotation, or the presence of many atomic nuclei heavier than helium) and cooling wins, with a super-dense phase (likely a black hole) holding on to some of the detonating material.

More technically, the lepton-pair has more degrees of freedom than the pair's parent gamma, and as one adds more degrees of freedom to a system, one increases the system's heat capacity. This is why one calls the process of pair production "cooling": effective temperature goes down when specific heat capacity goes up. For a nice rabbit hole, visit negative heat capacity in stars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_capacity#Negative_heat_ca... with a general attitude of "momentum can condense, or become frozen into structures with large numbers of internal degrees of freedom (DoFs); black holes have enormous numbers of such DoFs inside the horizon, with number of DoFs increasing with black hole mass, which in turn is why more massive black holes are colder than small black holes".
Very interesting, and certainly hard to catch, even for technical users. Maybe it is things like this where google is justified for "forcing" 2FA on us. Lowers, although minimally, the effectiveness of auth credential attacks.
I am so grateful for my Windows 11 sweatshirt. I'm proud of what I did for Windows 11 and am proud wearing the hoody.
Meanwhile, our nearby Ford dealer didn't even know when our service appointment was, didn't send a confirmation when I originally scheduled it, and forgot to tell me that the date I was scheduled for wouldn't work because they didn't have the part and that they would need to "hold the car" while waiting for it to arrive. Trying to find another dealer to schedule this with is a pain, because they all have different websites and use different schedulers.

Needless to say, we haven't replaced this modem yet, and I am now wanting more than ever to replace that car with another Tesla.
Or, for that matter, the aflatoxins in peanuts and coffee.
> I always encourage people who are "learning computers" to actually write a compiler (there are some good starting points for that but online courseware from MIT and other sources can get you the lecture material too). Doing that helps broaden one's perspective of what language designers and implementers are up against with regards to pretty much every computer working the "same" way (Von Neumann or Harvard architecture wise)

I suggest looking up the author's CV.
There are only two pieces of swag that I've ever bothered using, both were from the same event, and I only ever used them as evidence that I was around during the early days of Linux. My main reason is a dislike of logos, but utility is another big factor.

I understand this stuff is shelled out to promote companies, but it's not very useful if it goes straight into the trash. I will keep a business card since it is small and they're easy to organize. A decent quality pen may be kept, but I've only ever seen them offered by local businesses. I only see a use for the first two mugs: one for coffee/tea and one for quality pens that are never given out. The bags are not durable enough, I would never use them outside of work, and I don't have a use for them at work. Anything else will be very dependent upon the person.

As for the people who do like that sort of thing, just leave the stuff on the table. Don't force it in a person's hand and don't make them feel obligated to take it.
The thing is the downside of risk taking still exists. It just shifts from an individual risk(the corporation) to an existential risk(a big chunk of the economy).

The only way to prohibit this would be to cap the maximum size of a corporation. My guess is lawyers would just come up with some legal novelty to work around this in no time at all.
Heh sorry.

Reading various accounts it indeed was a precarious situation for Apple which could have gone either way.
They’re pretty good about protecting embarcadero parking lot profits by having a couple officers directing traffic at each exit
75k USD a year in Berlin, with their requirements might be hard to find someone to fill in.
So downloading from the arch Linux repo via pacman, I don't have a unique ID?
Hi, blocked-at author here.

Get in touch over email if you want to explore further.

Some quick comments:

- I didn't notice the node version or you didn't state it. The impact from async hooks is _vastly_ different between node versions

- I need to update the package a bit, I've got a known perf improvement to add AFAIR.

- your implementation is likely to produce false positives. The trick to prevent (some) false positives is the most valuable part of the lib.

Also, take a look at the event loop utilization metric introduced last year https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WetXnEPraYM&list=PL0CdgOSSGlBa...

And for more of my diagnostics experiments see debugging-aid package
https://www.npmjs.com/package/debugging-aid
Most often, yes. As a consequence, you'll often see DLLs with a "createFoo" and a "deleteFoo" functions for creating and deleting Foo objects. The reason is that you can't free a pointer allocated from one DLL in a different DLL, since they can use different runtimes and thus different heaps. This is one of the sources of really fun bugs when writing for Windows :) .
Pre-pandemic I was thinking the same thing, but at conferences. Since t-shirts and hoodies were a hot commodity, many companies resorted to giving away what is essentially trash. The cheapest items you could possibly imagine. Little toys, and trinkets, and things that were bought from china that will never make it out of the bottom of your conference bag. Sitting there for years waiting to be discovered in your closet and subsequently thrown out.