skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They left Linux because they want stability and portability so they jumped to macOS? I don't understand.

Which bit don’t you understand? macOS is stable with fantastic professional QA and support, and it lets you run more cross-platform ported software than Linux does.
I'm afraid not: https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/21
So, I normally stick very hard to tech topics on HN, but this (dance and tall folks) is so close to heart I have to chime in:

Have faith! Don't feel bad, lankiness while dancing is just "the emergent property" of what happens when a tall person is learning. Short dancers (of whom the 2 of the best footwork-heads in my old crew were) have their own pathologies to get over, it's not all free lunch, they just look differently when they do. And similarly, as they improve, they can gain a really distinctive style of crisp, clean, fast, small motions. HOWEVER, tall dancers aren't precluded from mastering styles that works with our body either, it just, tall as for short, takes practice. Have a link to one of my favorites, Kapela [0]. I can only hope it inspires others like it does me :) (Going to go do my footwork practice now, in fact, as talking about this got me excited.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoBveCfGCZk
Don't sweat it. None of us will lay upon our death-beds wishing we had scored more points in an internet popularity contest.

Sometimes a downvote is because you made a salient and equitable point that threatened someone's cookie jar, an angry conservative enraged that someone expressed a progressive view (and vice versa), some humourless bastard who failed or declined to recognise what you thought to be in obvious jest, or a narcissistic asshole incensed that you dared observe their poor behaviour. These you may consider to be upvotes in disguise.

Notwithstanding all this, I suspect you will also discover there's a strong current of support for those surgically dismantling yellow journalism.
One strategy might be to monetise Googles failure/difficulty/broken business model with regard to SEO, promoted, and brand sites. How might one do this?
Create a market for filter add-ons to Google’s results. A market for quality filters (subject to different user groups subjective view of what quality means).
For example, let’s say I am a specialist in some particular area, and I’ve devised a “quality filter” or “screen” for my specialism. A user, an ordinary user might choose to pay for my filter to cut down the firehouse of junk normally coming out of a google search. The platform owner, for this value added search market might have an App Store for filters and skim off some of the recurring subscription revenues for the 5, 10, or 50 filters the user might subscribe to.
My favorite anecdote about magnetic core memory comes from the development of the Naval Tactical Data System.

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_Naval_Tactical_Data_System_i...

A paper bag of magnetic cores disappeared while the engineers were out to lunch:

> But shortly after, the engineer called and asked if the shipment was there. This did not sound too good. With a little detective work we found a cleaning crew had worked in the office while we were gone. A little more sleuthing revealed that the bag had been accidentally knocked into a waste basket, and that load of waste had already been dumped into the plant incinerator. The incinerator ashes were spread over a concrete floor, and sure enough there were small magnetic cores, about one sixteenth of an inch in outside diameter, mixed in with the ashes. The CP-642 B had 32,768 30-bit words in its memory, meaning, with spares, there were just about one million magnetic cores in the ashes. At ten cents per core, the ashes held about one hundred thousand dollars worth of cores.

We reasoned the cores were the result of a firing process, and the heat of the incinerator probably had not hurt them. Maybe it even made them better. A quick test of some of the cores picked from the ashes revealed the cores were as good as ever. We and a contingent of Univac engineers & technicians spent a fun filled day rescuing the cores from the ashes with long needles. The cores were strung into the machine’s memory planes, and it passed all performance and environmental tests with flying colors.

That entire history is worth a read if you are interested in computer history of the military variety.
F u cn rd ths, u cn bcm a sec & gt a gd jb w hi pa.
It's two different companies, which I guess was part of the motivation for clubhouse.io to change name to shortcut, since clubhouse.com became massively popular in a very short time
When talking about backups for nerds, https://www.rsync.net/ always deserves a mention.
Software engineering

- Steve Wozniak’s autobiography

- The Phoenix Project

- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
Agreed - 90k sqm is a small-to-average sized logistics park at best.

It’s a very strange article to be here.
Yes and: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2...

“The scale of it is enormous. We're talking a trillion dollars of wealth in less than two years landed in the hands of people who were already wealthy. At the same time as the government last Christmas refused to increase the benefits by $50 because they were worried that it would increase the government debt.”
Good point. Remember how easy it was to migrate off Kin? Or Windows Mobile?
This misses the fact that the increased bandwidth allows for improved applications that couldn’t have existed without it.

Without broadband, we’d have fewer applications that could use it. With widespread 5G, we now have the infrastructure (or soon will) for a slew of applications that we haven’t thought of yet but couldn’t have existed without the additional speed.
Bubblewrap: Unprivileged sandboxing tool for Linux
I'm honestly torn.

I was a big Linux proponent for a while, then Apple won me over with Macs for a time. They did "just work" for my day-to-day(DevOps).

However, last spring, I bought a new personal system for freelance work/side projects, and have been running Ubuntu as my daily driver. Funny enough, it seems like during that same period the my UX on my work-supplied Mac(2019-era MBP) has been steadily declining. I've been dealing with maddening slowdowns and numerous bluetooth issues(with Airpods no less!).

Conversely, I find working on the Ubuntu machine much more enjoyable, and I'm exploring the option of getting a Linux machine supplied by work as well. I'll caveat by saying it took some time to hone in on solid configurations, tweaks, and a good DE/WM(i3wm), but I gotta say Linux is winning me back over.

All that being said, I'm not deluded enough to think Linux(in its current state) is ever going to make inroads with Apple's consumer/pro-sumer userbase. It's still very much an enthusiast option in my mind.
I am still salty about how badly they ruined Skype, though.
> Javascript manages without named parameters using anonymous objects, which is basically the same thing.

It's not. Unless you have a strict typing on the function in TS, you can't know if you're typing the right member.

This is actually one of the thing in PHP I like more than TS.

It takes no effort to provide meaningful names to parameters from the caller.
You're just rephrasing the "throwaway code" polite fiction. Increasingly, publishable-quality research is expected to be publically reproducible, and that means the code must stay around, potentially in the "long term". Every scientist loves it when their research gets cited a lot, right? Well, those citations become worthless if you can't reproduce the research because the code is an unsurveyable mess relying on bitrotted, unsupported external components.
Any suggestions for alternatives to Microsoft Academic? Google Scholar is ok, Researchgate sucks, and I'm wondering about any other such services which I might not be aware about.
Does anybody know if there are any resources for tampering with the hardware itself to remove networking capabilities from a smart TV? I'd like to just use it as a big monitor, but if there's still a possibility of automatic network activity without my consent then I'd rather just rip out that functionality entirely
It's only got 6 upvotes/points as of this comment, so maybe it doesn't take much on Sunday?
Either Google engineers reacted to your hour-old post, or you picked an example where Google actually does well.

The top-of-page "featured snippet":

> Kenya Airways and Jambojet Limited fly from Nairobi to Kisumu every 4 hours. Alternatively, The Guardian Coach operates a bus from Nairobi to Kisumu every 3 hours. Tickets cost $6 - $11 and the journey takes 6h 30m. Two other operators also service this route.

Then the rest of the page links to route-planning websites, a Tripadvisor discussion about bus from Nairobi, and other actually relevant results.

Google disappoints me too, but TBH I can't objectively gauge how good it is. My own opinion is just based on spotty personal experiences that I don't keep track of.
I mean, humans compete against horses and win sometimes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon
The council did make very aggressive statements in the height of the George Floyd movements. Mostly after the SPD defied court orders and city law to not use tear gas on crowds - and tear gassed the city council.

The city did defend the police after judges came after them for defying court order. Take that how you will.

The actual passed policy has been WAY more water down. And the rhetoric around defunding mostly died in 2020.

The SPD, like many large cities, has had its share of issues and court orders etc. Suburban people tend to not know the political power of police in cities and also their propensity to be the center of scandal.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/court-ord...
No, endurance hunting is mostly about running. To quote Wikipedia [1]:

"Persistence hunting (sometimes called endurance hunting) is a hunting technique in which hunters, who may be slower than their prey over short distances, use a combination of running, walking and tracking to keep pursuing prey over prolonged time and distance until it is exhausted by fatigue or overheating. A persistence hunter must be able to run a long distance over an extended period."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
Replace is just euphemism there. Nothing about Windows Mobile was in Windows Phone (which was also killed).
How I miss MSN Messenger. They had it so right, until Skype.
It's blocked by Quad9
Phi – Jailbreak for new locked-down Numworks calculators
Some are questionable, yes. But what about food, vodka, and gasoline, natural gas, and oil?

I don’t think people avoided these products before the Ukraine invasion.
Agreed. Microsoft is really good at back compatibility - sometimes even to a fault.

It also seems Microsoft sometimes is held to a higher standard when it comes to supporting products long after they are out of service.

Compare that to Google and Android for instance... it's a big mess with millions of outdated and insecure devices.
The problem is, you probably won’t pay for it.

Google’s revenue per user in the US underlines that point, taking a credit card out for an annual subscription for a $100 probably isn’t going to score a good conversion rate for anything beyond a very small userbase.

The predicted economic/behavioural constraints are inhibiting innovation. You’re forced to play Google’s game.
Edge is still IE11 compatible[1] and still provides an embeddable component (WebView2)[2].

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-mode

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/
Between all these efforts of UI redesign, they removed one feature that was unique to Firefox: Tab Groups.

Ironically, it's now present in all other major browsers. Safari went above and beyond to make it a headline feature.
Firejail offers private home (i.e. not your actual), and disallows running executables within, etc.
> But to be sure, in my view, this is very good for the consumer of internet services, it will almost assuredly provide the customer with a lower cost per Mbps due to increased competition particularly with all the LEOS (Low Earth Orbit Sats) also in the mix.

The problem is that all these services improve download--which doesn't matter all that much.

Technology, however, is driven by upload. Every time upload speeds jumped by an order of magnitude, we saw a whole bunch of new computers applications.

Sadly, computers have been knecapped by a maximum 10M upload speed for almost 20 years now. NAT was just an extra gunshot wound to add to the misery.
Indeed! The weather here really is pants, isn't it?
I would go with "Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical" by Lakatos, its a dialog-form history of defining Euler's formula and it shows the human side of mathematics as a science. I think its great as math has this unique status as providing with undoubtable knowledge but history shows that human error is possible even in this field.

Alternately "The Unreality of Time" by McTaggart, it has less than 20 pages and argues that time doesn't exist since it is logically incoherent.

Not sure if this would get someone hooked up but for me those two were extremely fun reads.

EDIT: Just to be clear – both are meant as philosophy books, even if they touch on other things. :)
This point hides a lot of goodness in something that I didn't even understand on the first read:

> - We have added checksums for various backends so data uploaded to a backend can be checked there.

All data is already stored in files with as filename the sha256sum of the contents, so clearly it's all already checksummed and can be verified right?

Looking into the changelog entry[1], this is about verifying the integrity upon uploading:

> The verification works by informing the backend about the expected hash of the uploaded file. The backend then verifies the upload and thereby rules out any data corruption during upload. \n\n [...] besides integrity checking for uploads [this] also means that restic can now be used to store backups in S3 buckets which have Object Lock enabled.

Object lock is mentioned in passing somewhere down the changelog, but it's a big feature. S3 docs:

> Object Lock can help prevent objects from being deleted or overwritten for a fixed amount of time or indefinitely.

i.e. ransomware protection. Good luck wiping backups if your file hoster refuses to overwrite or delete the files. And you know Amazon didn't mess with the files because they're authenticated.

Extortion is still a thing, but if people would use this, it more-or-less wipes out the attack vector of ransomware. The only risk is if the attacker is in your systems long enough to outlast your retention period and creates useless backups in the meantime so you're not tipped off. Did anyone say "test your backups"?

For self-hosting, restic has a custom back-end called rest-server[2] which supports a so-called "append-only mode" (no overwriting or deleting). I worked on the docs for this[3] together with rawtaz and MichaelEischer to make this more secure, because eventually, of course, your disks are full or you want to stop paying for outdated snapshots on S3, and an attacker could have added dummy backups to fool your automatic removal script into thinking it needs to leave only the dummy backups. Using the right retention options, this attack cannot happen.

Others are doing some pretty cool stuff in the backup sphere as well, e.g. bupstash[4] has public key encryption so you don't need to have the decryption keys as a backup client.

[1] https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/v0.13.0

[2] https://github.com/restic/rest-server/

[3] https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/060_forget.html#secu...

[4] https://github.com/andrewchambers/bupstash/
Not my field of study but the book but I got really engaged with this book on architecture (houses) patterns https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003TXSR1O/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Your Nairobi question results in the top answer today on [https://millionshort.com/] It has some info, not sure how useful.
Well, you could always investigate how to detach the wifi antennas, though it’s possible your Bluetooth will also stop working, and most TV remotes are Bluetooth these days.
Ive been looking at a way to use transformer based models on tabular data. The hope is that these models have a much better contextual understanding of words. So embeddings from these models should be of better quality than just word2vec ones
Rural user here - yes, 5G is an absolute godsend, 4G was over congested and had extremely unreliable ping (the other option was 2mbit ADSL), I now have a fairly stable 250/100 Internet connection, with much lower latency
I find the idea that mass and energy are equivalent to information in some way plausible, personally. Just, this paper doesn't offer anything useful on the subject.

For the case of erasing a 1TB storage, I think it's fine to assume an abstract operation with no error correction or internal state. But even still, any wear-and-tear to the drive counts as data as well, and that's going to be incredibly hard to quantify. But if you got past all that, then the idea is that the quantum state of the <the drive + the erasing system>, if an isolated system, has to put that 1TB of entropy somewhere (since in principle the erasing operation must be reversible), and that it presumably becomes decoherent thermal noise. It's 10^-25 kg of energy _in the form of heat_, not anything useful like discrete photons.
Volcanic soil is some of the best soil there is.

If you want agriculture, there's no place better than near a volcano (which is one reason for big death tolls, when they blow their tops).

I lived in Uganda, and that country is surrounded by volcanoes (I think they are all dormant). The soil is jet-black, and it is a gorgeous, lush nation.
A good test suite does wonders, too.
I trust Mr. Brown Moses a bit more than Ms Doubovikova.
> But if someone proposed that all restaurants should perform chemical analyses on random samples of their food

To be fair, people propose things all the time. It only becomes law when enough people agree that it is needed. That process isn't always perfect but in general it works.

The reason we don't have a "General Food Safety Regulation" is that the current situation is good enough, either because the existing regulations are sufficient or that the industry can self-regulate (as it's usually bad for business to poison your customers). As a result, in most Western countries, you can be confident that any business that sells food will not poison you.

If we suddenly had a food poisoning epidemic because all vendors were unscrupulous and selling spoiled food, I would totally be in favour of stronger regulations even if it means small taco shacks can't compete. Having to go to a farther/more expensive place that can afford such checks is a price I (and I suspect most other people) am willing to pay if it means not getting food poisoning.

The GDPR came to be because it was determined that the existing data protection regulations were inadequate and the industry demonstrated that can't be trusted to self-regulate.
So, You are working for Russian propaganda.[0]

Okay, opensores, You would be listed in #RussianWarCrimes[1] list & added to Anonymous' #OpRussia[2] as Russia's ally.

Cheers!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30518707

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30654704

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30484880
Arguably, the names of these lists imply a level of blame; or at least evoke emotion from potential visitors. But, that's the name of the game these days.
many of us have been in a spot where we are working on some code that’s out of date compared to the rest, is used by almost no one, and makes no impact for the business. yet we maintain because we have too. and we wish someone could be brave enough to just kill it. i’ve been at a few jobs where i would have been happy to see a graveyard like this
There was also MSN messenger, which was more capable than Skype other than the connection to the actual telephone network (having messages be delivered later without requiring both people to be online at the same time - amazing!) and when Teams replaced Skype, even more features were dropped. What part of that is positive other than "well, you can still do some of the things but we prefer to give you an inferior product".
Forward Chaining with the Jena Rule Language
> Its results are significantly better than any competitor, check for yourself.

Maybe I don't have very high standards, or maybe it is the way I write search queries, but I almost only use DDG and the results are good enough for me. I just find what I am looking for. There usually is just no reason for me to use something else, so why would I want to put my privacy into the lion's cage?

The few times I landed on Google's result page during the last couple of years, I found the results more confusing than helpful. Maybe I unlearned how to use Google.
Rwanda and Burundi too?
I have to say, this is an excellent solution and I am seriously contemplating on deploying it for all of our servers.

I'm a little unclear on one thing, are alternative S3 providers supported?
Also, if you have access to the executable then you can use it indefinitely (with obvious caveats).
No mention of FoxPro? I remember going to some sort of expo and winning a copy of visual FoxPro in a big box with lots of manuals and all the software on floppy disks.
My head canon says that Valve allows fans of its ips to come out with these sorts of graphical remasters (theres also black mesa) because they are pretty preoccupied with steam.
Factor in 2022
I came away with the same conclusion reading this and the Google sites, but I do feel like these sites nonetheless do a public service aggregating and organizing this kind of information, even if it feels pointed at MS/Google specifically.
Aside from the eye issues, with a phone size screen mounted externally, moving your head 2 in would be like moving your head 2ft, so you couldn't have any variation in your posture without the screen being uncomfortably off-centered. Think of a movie theater where you can move several seats or even rows from the center sweetspot seat and still have roughly the same view.
Hm, is 9C really considered shorts weather?