skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The code book, by Simon Singh.

History of cryptography, really fascinating.
Yeah, going for a walk round Seattle on a VoIP conference call on either 4g or 5g, and both drop out for half the trip
Got it. So I guess the best solution to go forward here would be to deploy Minio and then backup the backup directory itself in regular intervals onto different storage not accessible from anywhere.
RIP Microsoft Comic Chat. The true loss to humanity!
I'm evaluating todo apps and most of the easily accessible opinion/info is shitty listicles or shitty YouTube self-help gurus. Out of curiosity, what were the key dropped Wunderlist->ToDo features? I do hear a lot of people appreciate the MS ToDo "My Day" feature and know a lot of people were annoyed by the switch, but assumed it was a general distaste for MS rather than specific features.

I have weird enough needs I was planning to use an open source CalDAV server, OS native clients and local push notification app for the parts the native apps don't support... but the FOSS CalDav server space is kind of rough right now.
1755 earthquake (and tsunami) nearly destroyed the whole city and was probably one of the most deadliest in history. It was also one of the first quakes to be studied scientifically [0]

Sooner or later it will hit Lisbon again, scientists say. As a Portuguese I'm very afraid the city is not prepared for something with an estimated magnitude of 7.7–9.0...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake
People that don't care are already well served by Chrome, they are never going to switch, so there is little point in catering to them. People that do care however aren't well served by Firefox, that's an issue.

Every thread about Firefox is filled with complains, be it removal of essential feature, shifting around the UI for no reason or addition of stuff nobody asks for. Not every user might care about every of those issues, but do you think that amount of negative feedback is good for attracting new users or keeping existing ones? I don't.

Also the level Firefox has sunken too is mislabeling the Screenshot cloud upload button "Save". That's plain old malware dark pattern strategy to steal your data. They took almost a year to fix that and it's downright puzzling how that ever made it anywhere near a release in the first place.

Chrome might be crap, but I am not going anywhere near Firefox anytime soon either. They have shown time and time again that they really aren't on my side, yet love to claim so. The sooner we get rid of Firefox, the sooner there is a chance a real alternative might arise.
Can we have a non profit for this? I think one of the issues for getting tax exempt status is designating a “charitable class” of people that it would be helping
For someone using Kopia, is there any major advantage in switching to restic?
I actually do sometimes wear shorts at this temp, but usually I'm one of the only ones, and I only do it if I'm doing something relatively high intensity like walking a few miles and going over hills so I expect to get sweaty. At 13C in SF, if the sun isn't out, I usually see people wearing winter gear!

Based on the url I'm guessing the developer is Polish, which I would expect to get warm enough for 13C to be culturally considered pants weather, but what do I know.
I tried to use OsX for a few years since I thought it might help with resume soft skills, etc. But nothing is worth the frustration of Apple and their damn semi-GEO-locked mess of a cloud.

Every Linux just works, even with obscure keyboard layouts, and installs security updates or necessities without ever dragging you into some store login drama.

It would be interesting if people really finished a proper Darwin setup that could provide a good POSIX without service dependencies on Apple. But at that point, there are the existing BSDs.
There was a pyroclastic flow event the last time this volcano erupted (early 1800s), and it killed something like 30 people.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocas_de_Fogo

One big concern I have is the potential for a big boom that can be heard for thousands of miles (like the recent Tongan eruption), which would be in range of a certain trigger happy sociopath that wants a reason to use his nukes. I'm not sure if either of those scenarios (big boom or misinterpreted nuke signals) is realistic, but I'll be worried until it is effectively a non-issue.
If I have to spend my time tweaking an operating system to my liking, it's going to be the one that's cheaper and has less lock-in.
> I've got two friends that I know are more-or-less 5G skeptics, and heard them sharing how frustrated they are that they cannot even give their opinions on these subjects without being ridiculed

There's not really much to be skeptical about with respect to the radio aspect. You're illuminated by far more watts of radiation from non-5G sources than you are 5G sources, more so if you're outdoors. Not only is the 5G radiation non-ionizing but it doesn't penetrate for shit through water (a major component of humans). Unless you put your face against a tower's antenna there's nothing about a 5G radio worth worrying about.

As for the network part, it's a high bandwidth but low latency connection rivaling wired internet but wireless. It's no less useful than high speed wired Internet. For some applications, mobile but bandwidth or latency sensitive, it's infinitely better than wired.
What’s the threat model? It’s not much simpler to break a window and put the car on fire?
Up til now(47) I've only had one bad experience with psychedelics in my life, and it likely came from a research chemical masquerading as LSD. That changed a couple months ago when I started having uncontrollable tics for several weeks after a moderate dose of mushrooms(home grown, so I know what they are). I've had tics most of my adult life, and they are very sporadic, but after tripping it went from once a week or two up to 50-60 a day. Now it's back to a few times a day, but I am questioning if I should ever do them again at this point.
I like how they had all this software with a lot of entertainment value. Probably the list could be made much longer, e.g. there used to be Microsoft Dangerous Creatures and 3D Pinball
That'd require you to predict when it occurs. As for baiting, you assume the input-output mapping is obvious rather than more random. Anyway, they apparently do have enough evidence to take them to court.
I've seen trading firms do this. Why have 8 monitors when you can just have one giant screen? All you do with it is show some app, doesn't need to be special.
That makes the most sense.
A Flea's Fantastic Jump Takes More Than Muscle (2020)
I feel the question highlights how stupid it is to limit yourself to a single field of study.
Nokia was on its way down before Microsoft cane along.

They prioritised hardware over software. Maintained multiple OS’s. Made lots of stupid derisions.
That's a terrible name change lol. Might as well have been "social" or "desktop".
That's precisely why. While there's a lot of room for design improvement in complex systems, it seems likely, or at least more arguable, that nature has largely cleared out the low-hanging fruit for single-celled organisms.
BorgBackup can be made to operate in pull mode too, see: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deployment/pull-...

At work I've implemented a variant of the ssh-agent method described there. Admittedly, it requires some scripting :)
That would create a Kugelblitz, a black hole made of light.
Because money is "funny" inside companies, and because there's no platform sales without hardware sales, I would think that the relevant metric from an external perspective is total revenue (The change in fraction of revenue over the years is probably interesting too).
I've always found the UI after IE6 / FF2 to look "off", and that's likely because they started using non-native controls, drawing their own instead of relying on the platform UI.

Firefox’s Redesigned Preferences Feel More like the Web

That expresses exactly what's wrong --- the native UI controls are predictable and accessible and styled with the rest of the OS, and as the cascade of dialogs above it (I'm not sure how that's even possible --- getting to "Offline Data" From "Exceptions - Saved Passwords"?) shows, you can actually see that you're controlling the browser and not merely a page inside it (related article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30697329).

Another important change is the introduction of a skeleton screen to make the start feel fast

I've never heard that term before, but whenever I see things like that, I'm reminded of fancy progress bars and such --- the real problem is that you need one in the first place, and instead of fixing the underlying problem of why it's taking so long, you try to hide it...
This is why I passed on an OLED when upgrading my TV. OLED is definitely the future, I just have little desire to beta test it with jittery panning. I’m sure they’ll sort it out.
* a complaint about the linked page not working without JavaScript (yes, it does not)
Fair enough! Personally, when I reuse broken electronics, it's often because I'm scavenging more mechanical parts like ports and switches. I think those would tend to survive either method, as long as you're not utterly destroying the device.
I got frustrated with how much other things were designed around Qwerty. Plus I occasionally had to help others on a different computer, and it was always a weird thing to spam the wrong keys for a minute or two while my brain switched back.

Plus, like I said, the benefits were really from being able to put my hands far apart with a split keyboard. The slight rotation made it even more comfortable. Modifiers under thumbs, even better.

I never noticed a real improvement from just Colemak or Dvorak.
Macrosoft aquisition may be in their future
Or an old copper phone line before cellular ruined call quality.
Nice list! You forgot Microsoft hardware, too. Do they still make webcams? The Z-80 soft card?

And what about the software they made for the Apple 2e?
1755, and it really did obliterate the city. They had to rebuild it all, it was all gone.
The Spotify link is a compilation of all Wipeout soundtracks, not just the first one.

Here's a Youtube link to the original game's soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmkdRG7MQm4
The internet has become from being a source of information to a marketplace everyone wants to make a quick buck instead.
The times where you can just search for information without being tracked what and when you search, is over.
I never received spam or when, i had known it came from the shady website i signed up with.
Today, my whereabouts, my age and sex are exploited as information for useless and silly spambots.
They are not even trying to entertain me.
And all that because using a mobile phone, goole knows where you are and where you are working. That estimates the income, making more stupid wine offers possibel, im non-alcoholic, that info they didnt get because i called help hotlines and those numbers are not listed and info is not legal to share.
But well. If one wants to build a free search engine and knowledge base, has to fight with users not knowing that the world is round and alternatives available.
It starts in school, kids end up in front of Windows Computers, Word is a text processor and google-ing stuff is the way to go.
It goes to that extent that recommending alternatives, people refuse it, even if its better because they dont know it. Humans are sometimes stuck in their behavior.
Don't notice this much.... disk is usually the bottleneck, and otherwise it will be the network to the remote backup location. Still backups complete in seconds:

Repository: ssh://backup/./backups/mungedhostname.borg
Archive name: 20220327-2201
Archive fingerprint: 8b710144579c8d531e7c4a0192304323081b14a71445557608d859494bbe84b6
Time (start): Sun, 2022-03-27 22:01:35
Time (end): Sun, 2022-03-27 22:01:52
Duration: 17.28 seconds
Number of files: 45678

Original size Compressed size Deduplicated size
This archive: 24.22 GB 9.35 GB 47.78 MB
All archives: 363.60 GB 140.91 GB 7.81 GB

Unique chunks Total chunks
Chunk index: 59857 852257
It was really amazing how pervasive this music was at the turn of the century, it really was everywhere. Games like Wipeout re-introduced a generation that just missed the tail end of rave culture to Big beat, Trance and Drum & Bass and it really felt like a pivotal cultural moment with how accessible these genres were becoming in the late 90s.
Propaganda through ‘reflexive control’ and the mediated construction of reality
I can't remember where I spotted it, but when researching the climate of a region of Japan I was planning on visiting, I found a city's tourism website that had a table of months of the year with pictograms of the appropriate attire (shorts, sweaters, umbrellas, etc.) for a typical day.

It stuck with me as a nearly perfect way to convey this information instead of burdening the visitor with the job of translating average temperature and rainfall data into what to pack. And it needs virtually no translation to other languages.
There are many, most of which are wildly famous by now: Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Smash Ultimate, Animal Crossings: New Horizons...

Even a lot of the not-so-famous titles are great, like Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle.
The replication crisis shows that in social science even the subject matter experts are often talking out of their ass, even when they get reviewed by other experts. You can't fix a field full of charlatans if you don't let "laymen" argue with the "experts" of said field.

STEM experts reach the level of proficiency you talk about, but social science experts usually don't, so I don't see anything wrong with laymen arguing with social science experts on equal grounds. Especially if the laymen here knows math and therefore understands the quantitative parts of social science better than the social science experts themselves.
I think this post is sort of looking for a "special reason" for 5G to exist that actually doesn't need to be there for 5G to completely alter the telecom landscape.

Bray touches on this a bit, but at a personal level the biggest difference for me is that, at home, my T-Mobile 5G connection is consistently faster and more stable than my AT&T UVerse connection. It's close to the tipping point where I'm not quite sure I need cable at all. That wasn't the case when I was on LTE.

All the other marketing BS that carriers and equipment providers can dream up may just be bullshit, but switching to a world where many consumers could get all of their telecom and TV desires met from their cell company instead of their cable company would be a massive change.
We Americans consider knickers to be antiquated 19th-century wear too.
A statement from Google.
I mean sort of? They still offer Solitaire and Minesweeper on the store, but they're games with an annual fee to remove the ads. Which is utterly revolting, of course.
I think the most important data that is difficult to obtain is a history of which links people click on for each search query term. I think that's really the special sauce that Google has that others do not. There is a catch-22 where you need a lot of users to get the data but you can't get the users without the data. Initially Google pulled ahead with inbound link counting, but anyone can clone that. It's the click data that's missing.
Abstract:

The nature of reality has been a central concern of philosophy and the social sciences, but since the proliferation of social media, psychological operations have taken on greater visibility and significance in political action. ‘Fake news’ and micro-targeted and deceptive advertising in elections and votes has brought the tenuous character of political reality to the fore. The affordances of the Internet, World Wide Web and social media have enabled users to be mobilised to varying degrees of awareness for propaganda and disinformation campaigns both as producers and spreaders of content and as generators of data for profiling and targeting. This article will argue that social media platforms and the broader political economy of the Internet create the possibilities for online interactions and targeting which enable form of political intervention focused on the destabilisation of perceptions of reality and recruit users in
the construction of new politically useful realities.
> what can't you do?

Latest example: I can't install a proprietary driver for certain hardware. The problem isn't just the fact that there isn't a driver available, it's that the infrastructure (ABI or API) to make such a driver is not there for ideological reasons.

Software freedom should also be the freedom to decide whether I'd like to give up said freedom if needed.
I wonder if you can obtain that behavior with a bash script, but it's boring to write scripts and I do not know if SIGTERM can exit Restic gracely.
Makes perfect sense. Restic kind-of supports this because you can just kill the client after an hour and, tomorrow, it'll see which objects are there already.

I'm not deep enough into the project to know whether this is like an officially supported use-case, but restic was of course made with the idea that interruptions can happen (your computer can crash) and should be handled safely, and for the deduplication it'll cut files up in a deterministic way and thus (as I understand it) store those chunks in a deterministic place.
Probably the word “abstract”
Not always. It is difficult to hire people with a deep knowledge of complex systems such as the Windows suite and it makes sense, security wise to protect this insured of having chaos in your configurations.

An MS environment is today extraordinary complex and it is very easy to make a mistake setting it up, maintaining and integrating other stuff with it.
I recently watched a documentary about the east rift valley. They say in a few millions of years there'll be a new ocean and Africa will divide into two.
Yeah like:

> Skype for Business
Expiring in over 3 years, Skype for Business (formerly Microsoft Lync and Office Communicator) was an enterprise instant messaging software developed by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Office suite. It was almost 18 years old.

It’s still around because of a lengthy transition path Microsoft offers and they admit that and then start talking about it in the past tense…
32 inch 4K is perfectly fine. I recently switched to a Samsung CRG9 (I can only have one external display on this computer) and the resolution is pretty crappy compared to the 32 inch. But either one of them is perfectly fine for coding.
Yeah, that was the part that really gave me pause. While there was always a clear "I'm the guy that you have to listen to" relationship when I ran the team, there wasn't ever, from what I could tell at least, any real attempt by anyone to try to suck up or anything. And now, they've got their own manager to try to suck up to if they want to, but the new guy seems to have a similar style as me (he was the senior-most person on the team when I left).

The other piece is that this team has done this kind of stuff in the past for each other. As an example, one guy blew a timing belt on the highway about 150km out of the city (on Sunday night coming back to town for work Monday morning). Two of the other people on the team loaded up tools into their truck and drove out to meet him, try to see if they could fix the car on the side of the road, and when they realized they couldn't they towed it away from the road and gave him a ride back to town.

I mean, I could be misreading this, but it seems like I, without really knowing what I was doing, put together a really tightly gelled team that jumps at the opportunity to help each other out. And in the process, I guess I got to be a part of that even after I left.
If you've ever ctrl+c'd restic, you'll know the message

> signal interrupt received, cleaning up
I get a bit of a "This food is so horrible and the portions are so small!" vibe from it.
The only Microsoft software I've ever really enjoyed using: Musical Instruments (https://archive.org/details/microsoft-musical-instruments).

I never owned it, but the Children's Museum in Indianapolis used to have a copy running at a kiosk.

I believe it was absorbed into Encarta.
IIRC that was WipeOut XL/2097 and 3 that had proper name-brand electronic music on it. The original one was all a guy called Cold Storage. Still excellent.
I am receiving increased SMS spam past week. Is connected to this exploit? Msgs are all different domains with unique ID appended.
You could do this with the `timeout` command.

`timeout -s SIGINT 1h restic...`

That would let restic run for one hour, and then once the hour elapses send a SIGINT which will stop the process (see https://github.com/restic/restic/blob/a29777f46794ea4e35548f...)
I used to look down on PHP, but after being forced to use it for a while I begrudgingly came to admire it for all the reasons that you've pointed out. And I started using PHP by choice, generally for writing small scripts (no frameworks or libraries) that I could "deploy" simply by copying the .php file into /var/www. It's a very productive language when used as intended.

PHP scripts on shared webhosting was the original "serverless" and you didn't have to be too careful about object lifetimes and leaking database connections because as soon as the request was finished the entire process was nuked from orbit.

But "modern PHP" is the complete antithesis of everything that I grew to admire about PHP because it's just another Java or C# with awful syntax and weird equality rules and gigantic frameworks with thousands of classes and interfaces.

I would very much like to see a version of PHP that dropped all the nasty namespace and object-oriented misfeatures and just focused on cleaning up the language semantics and enhancing the built-in framework features...
Or a local speech course. I took an eight-week course in public speaking in college, and it was probably the most useful course I took there. I can do talks in front of tech groups or hobby groups... not without some sweating, but still more effectively than most people.
> The code makers have been ahead since about the 1970s.

Or so the code breakers would have us believe…
GP, the links above are far out of date, you want reddit.com/r/discodiffusion and the Disco Diffusion v4.1 (note: I'm specifically saying 4.1 instead of 5.0, focused more on animation and trades off quality for speed of frame generation)

They're very, very, easy to use if you have any familiarity with coding. The hard part is patience.

Midjourney is (hand-waving) a Discord UI on top of that. Again, hand-waving, there's some secret sauce Midjourney does that makes it more likely to recognize your prompt. I assume they swapped out a model somewhere with one they trained on a wider variety of images
The Scottish variant

https://www.taps-aff.co.uk/
I like that it runs in the background without heating my laptop much.
Thanks! Will try tonight to play with Restic
The key difference is that wireless is completely federally regulated, and the FCC doesn’t hold them to the same rules as wired providers. They don’t have the same net neutrality requirements and can and do rate limit based on a variety of factors.

For 5G, home wireless is bottom of the line and gets de-prioritized behind phone customers.

The playbook is pretty obvious based on Verizon’s behavior. They’ve halted most fiber deployments in urban areas in favor of mm-wave 5G. The FCC declared mm-wave a national defense priority and it is not subject to any local regulation.

Spectrum and Comcast suck, but they are the lesser evil compared to telcos imo.
>That'd require you to predict when it occurs

Just have your phone to be always recording?
That doesn’t really change the fact that what was called EdgeHTML is gone and it was replaced by a program that has an entirely different lineage, API, user interface, feature set... I am definitely aware of WebView2, I even maintain bindings for it for Go!
The dumbest genius I know actually thinks like that. I'm very glad he has a wife who is so much wiser than him.