skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks like a PR stunt for the Right to Repair. Google phones are very difficult to fix and they break easily when fixing. Screens and parts easily break when open. I have failed twice with Pixel phones and the cost to replace those are quite expensive.

iPhones on the other hand are easier to open and replace parts even though Apple mostly doesn't allow 3rd party parts.
Are load tests not a standard thing people do any more?
Global government debt set to soar to record $71T this year, new research says
Vague Standards Are Trouble
The reason it didn't overfly was political. The Gary Powers incident being the main initiator of that policy. It overflew Vietnam and had loads of missiles shot at it by Soviet SAMs with Soviet SAM operators. Mainly it flew too fast and too high for those to hit it.
That meaning of dropped generally only applies in intransitive contexts. Here we have a thing dropping a thing, suggesting the older meaning of "dropped".
I haven't tried myself, but is there any reason why Notepad++ wouldn't run on Wine? I don't think it accesses APIs obscure enough to run into usability bugs, does it?
I'm a little confused how modern journalism works on the internet. Isn't this an article written by Dorothy Cucci and originally published on Business Insider? I think SCMP is syndicating the article and using Business Insider for the by line in the header and linking to the original article in the footer?
Because they probably can't. Reasonable requirements to get a government-issued photo ID would probably get an ID into very few hands that don't already have one--and ID suddenly wouldn't be a political issue any longer. For example, here are the requirements to get a government-issued ID in one of the most Democratic-leaning states in the country:

To get a learner's permit, driver’s license, or Mass ID in Massachusetts, you’ll need to provide proof of citizenship or lawful presence, a Social Security number, and Massachusetts residency. Learn what documents you can use below.

https://www.mass.gov/guides/massachusetts-identification-id-...

No reasonable scheme is going to involve just going online, filling in an unverified name, uploading a picture, and getting a card in the mail a week later for free. (Or going into an office.)
Shame it requires a Google account to use the magic links login. Would love to try it out, but I'm google-free.
I had exactly the same experience and had to convince myself I was wearing headphones. This came at a time when I had no idea that the feature existed.
I'm optimistic on the progress that has been made, but its arguable that many repair programs are hedging their bets to slow down or actually kill proper right to repair legislation.

"We don't need right to repair, we already have programs in place voluntarily"

Which is all fine and good, but in many cases leaves out important components that still can't be obtained or bundles them with unnecessary components in a non-economical way.
(The above comment was changed. When I replied it was talking about different threads reading from a database.)

In that case you’d be relying on the database rather than the programming language to manage shared state. (The article is more about how to safely manage shared state within a process.)
Anyone know what the red-tape / pay is like there? It seems like government organisations are just at such a disadvantage in terms of red-tape and large pay gap between the private sector. I know some have more discretion in their hiring ability, particularly in the defence space, but does it come close to private sector? You're probably better off working for a contractor working for the US Digital Corps than for them directly.

My experience is working with the Canadian Federal gov at a few national research labs. It was amazing work but joining the private sector is a major culture shock in that you can pretty much do anything and get paid 4x.

So, what's the incentive to work there?
Not in 1982. CD players were very expensive to manufacture and buy and making discs was harder too. Over time it got cheaper because a potato could do the decoding and the lasers got cheap and economies of scale allowed it. But at first it was very expensive, discs cost like twice as much as vinyl albums.

A record player is mechanically and electrically much simpler. And vinyl disks are just pressed vinyl. You can buy a toy kit to build a record player, a CD player is just too complicated.
> It's about the most biased thing I've ever read.

I gather from this that you either have not read many things in your life, or you are yourself an outlier. I found it to be completely unbiased, just reporting the facts of what it is like to use Windows after having become accustomed to Linux.

> Hardware all works mostly without issue.

I have not had a hardware issue with Linux in almost twenty years.

> Software is easy to install even if it isn't in the official store (e.g. apt).

./configure && make && sudo make install is pretty damn easy to do.

> Power management (sleep etc.) works reliably.

A fair point, although it has gotten tremendously better. One of my laptops has never had a single sleep/suspend issue, and the other has an issue every several months (which is still too frequent).

> Settings are almost all GUI-accessible. You rarely have to fiddle on the command line etc.

I want all settings to be in text files, period, neither the command line nor a GUI. Just let me edit the settings!
Fear not! In his 2013 post he already said if he ever made another Monkey Island he would get rid of the "verbs".
That is true as well, but as with most double-edged swords there can be a downside in that people that used to have the deep knowledge can now be swapped out with "cheaper" people that do not, and will not (by choice or by policy) do something in addition to the remaining shallow tasks.

That said, a classic entry-level "sysadmin" job was just a "jargon translation" job between a vendor and the local implementation of the vendor's products quite often anyway. That doesn't have to be a bad thing, but I do think it makes for a waste of human potential just to keep the anonymous cogs of an organisation running.
Interesting, we’ve found unstructured conversation pretty much impossible on Zoom. No one liked the open ended happy hours, so they stopped. Games actually got people talking.
> The unfortunate echoes of this slant towards eugenics are heard today in the names we use for many statistical concepts, such as:

> Regression: What we call “linear regression” today was named for an observation that genes “regressed” to some average. It was a way of saying, “don’t mix with those people, or your children will regress and make society worse for it.”

> Correlation: Literally from co-relation, or how related two “desirable” traits were in a population. You might guess which traits eugenicists thought made one desirable.

This is another entry to go along with "The so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be accurately measured against", isn't it? Science isn't making enough progress for people to differentiate themselves by their research, so we'll start throwing people out for not keeping up with intellectual fashions like the sociology professors do.
Why do you think real estate shouldn't be an investment? Time, money, and effort to secure land, materials, labor in order to build real estate. This is the same economic principle for any other commodity.
Does GoDaddy buy domain names you've searched then try to re-sell them to you?
Your best bet for monorepo building across a variety of languages is Nix. If money is no object you can also make do with Bazel.
well, that is cross platform I guess?
> I found that women, in particular, discussed their sexual experiences in visceral terms: encounters that end in unexpected and alarming acts — a choking, say, or other porn-inspired violence [...] Queer relationships, being less beholden to male-female gender dynamics, may [emphasis mine] present fewer issues — but they aren’t perfect either.

Speculation based on gender studies theory might be good enough for the NY Times, but why don't we check?

43.8% of lesbian women and 61.1% of bisexual women have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime, as opposed to 35% of heterosexual women. - https://ncadv.org/blog/posts/domestic-violence-and-the-lgbtq... [data from the CDC]
Geany fills this niche, and is close to being feature complete. It could use help and attention as well, it unfortunately doesn't get enough imho. Also on github: https://github.com/geany/geany
Qt is a particularly poor experience on macOS. Also the past few years all the new stuff in Qt was QtQuick, which seems basically like JS, and if you're into JS, why not just use Electron?

GTK is a non-starter for something professional, at least if the experiences of the GIMP and Inkscape on macOS are representative. (Also, it's C, which does avoid some ABI problems, but it's hardly suited for an object-oriented environment)
I'm not entirely sure if this is meant sarcastically.
> I am no security guru, but as I understand it, all three have a well deserved security reputation, and the core maintainers run a tight ship.

Among us security gurus, OpenSSL has a really bad reputation. It's a giant pile of spaghetti code with a huge history of critical system vulnerabilities stemming from trying to be everything to everybody. Bitcoin is in the process of writing replacement functionality in order to remove OpenSSL entirely from its dependency tree because they got burned by major bugs multiple times in the past. A lot of modern alternatives like libsodium list "not OpenSSL" as a selling point. The situation is so bad that multiple organizations have forked OpenSSL to create stripped down alternatives (BoringSSL, LibreSSL) that are more likely to be secure.

I know less about the OpenSSH code base specifically, except that it came out of the same culture and the same developers. I wouldn't use it in new projects unless I had no other choice.
What year is it where you’re posting from?
Tesla, Block and Blockstream team up to mine Bitcoin off solar power in Texas
A few months ago I went to install Notepad++ and the installer says "Software is like sex: It's better when it's free" so I closed and deleted the installer. (It still says that today.) Glad to see an alternative I can install!
Murray is an awesome character. Though I often get him confused with Morte from Planescape: Torment (both sarcastic floating skull sidekicks).
Natural Born Killers comes to mind
This article is vague about which per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were made at the Zwijndrecht factory. After some digging, I believe it's chemicals in 3M's Novec and Fluorinert product lines:

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/data-center-us/applications/imme...

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/c/b/novec/i/electronics/ (Specifically, the "engineered fluids").

What was desirable about these chemicals in the first place? Looking at a specific Novec product page:

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b40044867/

This liquid:

- Is non-flammable

- Is electrically non-conductive

- Is compatible with plastics

- Has zero ozone depletion potential

- Has low acute toxicity

- Has low global warming potential

- Is a VOC-exempt solvent [1]

Here's what 3M says about Fluorinert for semiconductor manufacturing:

Semiconductor manufacturing requires precision. Very small temperature variations may have big impact on yield. Compared to aqueous coolants like deionized water, Fluorinert electronic liquids offer wider operating temperatures, require less maintenance and will not damage electronic equipment or wafers if a leak occurs.

These products offered lower environmental and health hazards on the then-known dimensions of risk when they were introduced to the market. But the risk assessment has changed as the chronic endocrine disrupting effects of these chemicals (and/or their manufacturing byproducts) has become better understood and regulated. In the long term I don't know whether semiconductor manufacturing processes will substitute deionized water for Fluorinert (with the downsides mentioned above, but zero environmental/health risk) or if Fluorinert use will continue with heightened emphasis on preventing releases into the environment. Semiconductor manufacturing already uses some very toxic materials like hydrofluoric acid and phosphine, but with correspondingly stringent guards against worker exposure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOC_exempt_solvent
This seems like an EXCELLENT way for junior engineers to finally get out of the "no job can't get a job" box. Super curious to see what comes of it, and to recruit those who complete the fellowships.
Consider what consumer technology might look like if products were designed with this sort of time horizon in the first place. I'd expect hardware to be more generally upgradeable/repairable extending its service life and at the very least I would not expect to see products assembled by drowning them in glue.

It feels to me like the generational difference in hardware products has been flattening out so 15 years may not be an outrageous practical service life, really.
According to their own page KDE is the default desktop: https://en.opensuse.org/KDE

> Default Desktop

> Plasma Desktop from KDE is the default workspace on openSUSE.
Missiles are faster but start in a far disadvantaged position. The missile has to start from 0 speed and 0 altitude. By the time the missile is at speed and altitude, it is too late given the speed of the SR-71.
Unlikely, as they require a background investigation and that's not legal at the Federal Level.
You could probably do it for a key value store, but I think it would take a custom database to do it for a relational database.
Where will you get your supply of custom chipsets? Do you want to reverse engineer Apple's already badly documented chipsets and reimplement them on fast enough FPGAs maybe even support more modern RAMs or improved off-chip caches? It would be nice to have a mATX NewWorld Mac you can maintain for playing old MacOS games, but the farther you go into the G4 (or even worse G5) era the more advanced GPUs you would have to reimplement as well. The PPC6xx era 2D on-board graphics may be in reach of such a project, but I can't see anyone without Nvidias active support releasing a Quadro FX 4500 compatible GPU clone.
I've seen other stories where they e overcome the tumour generation from this technique (in mice).

It sounds like this kind of technique is almost ready for use in surgery to minimize scarring.
Huh! This sounds a lot like my hobby project to real-time sync files between my laptop & desktop:

https://github.com/stephenh/mirror

But dressed up to work with docker + "just" :-) being a professional/polished product, which is impressive. Neat!
Hmm, OK. That certainly is worse than opt-in postal voting, though I think it's possible you're overstating quite how bad (for example, assessing how you think other people might behave is never quite 'basic logic').
I tried to apply about 5 years ago and the process looked like it was going to take longer than a full set of Google interviews and it was going to be a big pay cut so I dropped out.

EDIT* It seems I was thinking of the United States Digital Service, which is a different thing.
Nice! Fun little game - very similar skill curve to slide puzzles, where at first it's a little mind bending to try to move things where you want without disrupting the rest - but once you get the hang of it, it becomes very simple. Solving row-by-row top to bottom, and then doing a quick muscle-memory swap of the bottom positions if needed means any combination can be solved trivially in <1 min.
I think it's pretty obvious what point he is trying to make.

I lived in Hoboken, NJ for nearly five years and had some friends who volunteered at the homeless shelter through church that entire time. The homeless there had pretty good access to food, water, shelter, and drugs (mostly cigarettes and alcohol but I'm sure others). At some point there was talk of a program to move some of the chronically homeless into government housing; when asked if they wanted to participate nearly all of them said no.

Think about that. In a city with very little housing where students and young families are clamoring to make rent payments, and the temperature in the winter gets below zero, they were offered free housing (on taxpayer dime) and turned it down. They actively preferred to be homeless.

Why? Maybe there were too many carrots being given out, and not enough threatening with sticks. (Mind you, the sticks do not have to be cops and jail, although those are pretty big sticks. Forced rehab sounds pretty good.)
Interesting product. FYI, you have a typo in your post: utiliziing -> utilizing
only use NFC.

NFD was used by HFS+, but got abandandoned by the current insecure APFS. (which uses unidentifiable names). NFD is faster to produce, but NFC is complete and needs less space. with NFD you can still have reordered sequence variants, and thus nonidentifiable names.

and the NFKD, NFKC hacks should only be used with python internally, because they didn't understood Unicode. or just read the TR's without understanding it.

it will need several more decades until filesystems will find out about their wrong decisions. maybe I'll bug them with CVE's some day.
IMO if Roblox runs in Wine, Notepad++ should be no problem at all. But with just the right/wrong development decisions I suppose it's possible.

(And then someone could probably look at building Notepad++ in Roblox to ensure that it can be used in Linux :-))
I torrented something when I was 17... I think I'm out :)

When both the FBI and NSA came to my college they basically said that during a recruiting meeting and most of the students just left
I used to work designing landfills and they're not a bad choice. Right now many landfills in the us are the worlds largest bags. They definitely are now better engineered so that toxic substances have less chance of leaching into the ground.

They roll out large sheets of plastic and weld them together. Some states (NY) require dual liners (bags in a bag) and piping to collect the liquid that comes out at the bottom "(leachate). When they put the plastic top on holes are made to allow waste gas to escape. Landfills tend to be dry and nothing rots in them.

I think they work well, but its better to reduce the waste going into them. I'm assuming many places in the world aren't handling the trash like this leading to issues with groundwater contamination and other problems.
When unexpected load causes a production outage, it's often something you wouldn't have predicted using a load test.
Not OP, but I have an R620 running in my garage I use for self hosting. It has 12 cores (Intel Xeon E5-2665), 96GB of RAM, 10x2.5" drive bays (came empty). The SSDs I use I shuck out of old external USB drives.

Together with a full standing rack on wheels, I bought them for $600 cash (plus U-Haul rental to get it home).

My trick is craigslist in a city with datacenters (PHX). There are resellers here who buy used hardware from local datacenters and resell them to smaller businesses. I've had it running 24x7 for almost 3 years now and it is still going strong.

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/ has some good references for acquiring hardware for a home lab setup.
Pilot Loses Control of 777 Just 1,500 Feet Above the Tarmac
Sadly, I had to turn down an offer from usds a few years ago. Seemed like really great people to work with :(
If Windows was only the case we wouldn't be having a blog post explaining why they didn't chose Electron for a program running exclusively in some other platform. As that implies that Electron is very widespread even in that platform.
For those people thinking this is a huge opportunity: there are 30 spots total for this year. This is a very small program, so will be highly selective.

Also, since it's Federal and requires a Background Investigation drug use will be an issue. Surprisingly they allow fully remote though, which is a huge plus.
Maybe Nvidia is ready to commoditize their complement (operating systems)?
>they were intensely focused and effective

Oh, I feel this. I have ADHD and I can focus on ANYTHING, but I don't get to choose what to focus on. Some days, my body decides I get to focus on Jira - and then my Jira board gets ALL my attention. Some days, I learn a LOT about data governance or clearing out old emails.

The hardest part of ADHD is to STOP focusing on one thing so I can START focusing on the right thing.
maybe you consider Apple’s approach with FaceTime: offer app for Apple platforms but allow joining via Web Browser?
Sleeping well at night when you're older knowing you helped Grandma get her social security checks, your cousin in the Marines got the surgery he needed, the Post Office trucks got the maintenance they needed. A good career doesn't need any public service, but most great careers probably do.
Production has been shut down. The article says "The materials supplier halted production of PFAS at a plant near the Belgian village of Zwijndrecht on Mar. 8."
In the past (when high rates were a thing) by being more cautious about their purchases.

Certainly that's how my wife and I have been, while everyone else has been partying and living potentially well beyond their means. Guess we're suckers.
I'm thinking Carbon footprint is shorthand for other wasteful consumption behaviors. Likewise, things like trading carbon-credits is also a boondoggle. Keep doing what you're doing, so long as someone else uses less carbon and can trade.
Oops, this was a mistake. I don't think most browsers have a way to restrict client certs to specific domains but since asymmetric cryptography is used, and the key agreement ensures no MITM, no phishing is possible. (They may ask for your cert but can't use that to authenticate with the correct host.)

I've pushed a fix.
Not fashionable, but Gompertz curves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz_function

Originally used to model the growth of stable populations. I found that it is perfect for things like spam/abuse timeouts. The function has a couple of tunable parameters for things like the amplitude and steepness of the curve and the x-offset. Once those are dialed in as you like, you get a really nice function for measuring and responding to abuse.
That might be the ticket for me, thanks! I don't have a spare license key (or high-seas version) for Windows, but if I can get a game working with Proton, then I can at least try running some Proton-supported game within that tool on a Linux desktop.
I didn't think it could be that bad, and then I went looking. Apparently to get a pay level that aligns with typical base salary in tech for senior level IC positions, you'd have to be an agency director of a large agency or in the Cabinet. And that doesn't even take into account losing RSUs and smaller bonus payouts.

This actually goes a long way in my mind of explaining why the US government does so much contracting of people for work as well. It's probably not possible in the current legal framework to pay high quality tech workers a fair compensation for the market, but they could hire a firm as contractors for a project and that firm could pay fair compensation. I just wish more firms were honest rather than milking the government.
The audio gear market has always been full of bullshit marketing shenanigans and overpricing. Probably since the first caveman figured out acoustics.

Because almost all of the profit is in the premium for branding, so advertising has a better ROI than research.
Astronomers spot most distant galaxy yet at 13.5B light-years away
Unfortunately both this and USDS require the applicant to be a US Citizen.

I wish there was a similar option for folks who are not yet citizens but currently work in the US tech industry (maybe in exchange for some sort of a streamlined path to citizenship).

Similar to the (now paused) MAVNI program.