skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you are not a dumb ass.

I wonder this all the time. I admit I've come to some pretty negative conclusions about "tech" and "tech workers" as a result. There are so many problems with access to traditional financial systems that are completely ignored by those who the system was built for...that if I were to try and list them all...everyone would just shrug and say "oh, well, that's just the way it is" which basically means "since I personally don't suffer from those issues, I don't give a damn that you do and it's easier for me to just blow you off than to waste my precious time fixing something that causes you pain and suffering." Which, of course, is exactly the problem. There is no incentive for those who suffer no damage to assist those who do.

The scariest people are those who constantly try and smash crypto for things that haven't been built yet. To me, it's no different than saying "Well the Wright Brothers haven't yet built/flown/proven that flight is possible so I'll just consider them frauds and idiots. Forever." Or Edison keeps insisting that this thing he's working on called a "light stick" will be better than that nasty oil that Rockefeller is pitching but since he can't make it work yet, it'll never exist. And he is a fraud too. Or Berners-Lee keeps talking about hooking all these systems together and Andreesen keeps talking about making easier to interact with it....you get my point.

VC Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Capital just wrote a blog post about the scarcity of engineers in the Web3 space: https://tomtunguz.com/programming-languages-web3/. I've included the link so you can read it for yourself. But to me the issue seems related to engineers not wanting to learn new languages or upset their heavily laden, golden apple-filled carts. If everything is going lovely right now and the company pays me top dollar (and does my laundry, provides chef cooked meals, bicycles, gyms etc etc) to basically sit and type all day, why would I want to learn a new language and possibly not hit the Unicorn in the side with my poisoned darts??? The new web will wait or if I talk it down enough it might just disappear all together.

But we-those of of who can't get mortgages because we chose a different neighborhood than the banks would like or who are a different color/gender/whatever than the bank (ie: the system) would like have seen the new horizon and have seen what's possible: a window to a different experience. One where we get to set the terms and offer them to a marketplace. Which, by the way, also hasn't been built yet and the marketplace gets to say "yea" or "nea" and where things can be negotiated to the benefit of both.*

So I'd say the rabbit isn't going back into hat-Thank Goodness. But I also think that all the best things that haven't been built yet won't be built by members of this community.
I've not had a problem with this with <LEGACY DEDICATED SERVER PROVIDER>.
Are you just saying that randomly or do you have any good reason to think it's true? :)
I feel like "casualty" is a lot worse. I think they need a better marketing department. I'd suggest "meltsicle" or "atomic boo-boo".
I used to maintain a blog/personal site with a collection of Guile scripts.

These days, mostly I write little Emacs Lisp programs to provide nice (meaning Emacs-compatible) interfaces to tasks I have to do at work, like setting up and managing local Docker containers and running SQL queries.
I'm fairly certain that's some sort of elaborate joke I'm not getting. In case you're serious: *bullshit*. There have been wars before there was money, and before there was modern money. WWI is modern ( thatl's where all modern military tech bar drones came to be) and it was while countries were on the gold standard. And it was as "perpetual" as it gets in terms of wars.
If you can create a .git directory above a victim's home directory, then you're root.

Or else, if you're not root, you're in messed up system. Whoever is root should go read some 40-year-old book on Unix about how it's supposed to be laid out.

This is not a genuine security vulnerability; though of course, it's good to fix it.

Here is how I would fix it. Forget about permissions and ownership entirely. There is a weaker, more powerful condition we can check. Ready?

Git should terminate if it is executed from a subdirectory of a git repo that contains no tracked files according to the first .git/ directory that it finds while ascending the file system.

If you're in a directory that contains no files that are tracked by the closest .git/
that can be found by walking up the stairs, then that directory has no relationship to that
repo. Git should diagnose that and bail out. (It could allow files in that directory to be added
to the index, but only with -f option to force it.)

If git finds a .git/ dir, and that repo's index shows that at least one item in, or below, your working directory is in that repo's index, it should go ahead and work with it, regardless of ownership.
Because so many folks here missed out on crypto and speaking badly about it makes them feel better for having to continue to work for the next 30-40 years because they didn't buy early.
What are your thoughts on Sam Harris, and in particular his positions on Islam [1]? Are you aligning with alt-right ideology?

How is Christianity, or any religion for that matter, germane to the linked discussion?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/28/alt-ri...

But it may be said that very little proof is required in a charge of this nature, since it takes very little argument to expose a person's guilt; for it is said in the Canon de Haereticis, lib. II, that a man makes himself a heretic if in the least of his opinions he wanders from the teaching [...]

- Malleus Maleficarum
The most polished and useful program I've made for personal use is an emacs minor mode that lets you scroll down top lines in a file. I was tired of having to always look all the way at the top of the editor window to read the top lines of a file or small files.

https://github.com/trevorpogue/topspace

I also made a Python tree data structure library to easily parse and read tree structures which I actively use in other personal projects.

https://github.com/trevorpogue/sections
Besides things in pointed out in the other replies, I think the main error in this mental model is assuming there's a category difference between radio and microwave.

Microwave is just a term for a largish swath of the spectrum that encompasses millimeter wave, and lots of cell phone bands, and frequencies used in point-to-point microwave links, frequencies used by your microwave oven, wifi, etc.
I am impressed by what can be achieved in the browser itself these days. It seems there is massive capability which is not being used as much as it should because - "is there a framework for it?".
The best theoretical efficiency of a heat pump is 1/CarnotEfficency. So the best you can do is to have a round trip efficiency of 1. See Carnot batteries. So using a heat pump to increase the temperature so that a thermal engine is more efficient can’t possibly increase the overall efficiency.
When I worked in comms the running joke was that all of us that did things with high powered RF would only have girls. No idea if there's truth behind it.
It's one of the reasons I have a headset with a mechanical switch to turn off the microphone.
That these were so scary shows the downside of usage-based fees. If you run on dedicated hardware, you always know what you'll have to pay, no matter how you utilize the system.

The risk of surprise bills, even with the advantage of higher scalability, is one of the major factors to put me off many cloud services. I wouldn't want to run a business where you always have the risk of some bug or unforeseen behavior destroying your budget.
Software is very close to math. Most people would agree that math should not be sold or licensed. How to add numbers is not something that should be paid for. If actually someone made their living by adding numbers we would probably agree they should be paid. So the programmer should be paid, the hardware should be paid, but the software not?

Doesn't seem to work. Exactly like people expect everything to be free on the internet. Surveillance capitalism is one way to overcome the paradox. Not that I personally like it, but it seems to work.
I use objective-see’s app Oversight [1] for MacOS.

OverSight monitors a mac's mic and webcam, alerting the user when the internal mic is activated, or whenever a process accesses the webcam.

Have found it very useful whilst using videoconferencing apps.

[1] https://objective-see.com/products/oversight.html
Does that exist? Can you determine how mcuch of a DALL-E picture is identical to copyrighted material? And what's the threshold anyway for copyright to apply? I'm not sure that's a process with set rules yet.
> the distribution cost is basically 0

How do you figure? Surely you know the magnitude of ad spend on software products, not to mention hosting and scaling infrastructure. We're not shipping cd's to every mailbox anymore but a typical marketing budget + Heroku/AWS cost is likely far higher for a typical growth SAAS startup than AOL was dumping on their physical distribution methods in the early 2000s right?
not that it doesnt have valid points, but, this entire article seems like an ad for You.com
Nice try:-)
Define "it works".

For me, with this method, text chat works a bit (often forgets chat history on reload). Notifications get dropped all the time. No video conferencing at all. Sometimes I have to discuss with colleagues, why my teams acts weird.
I tried very hard to steer an old colleague away from their "magical" view of computers, because at some point I aggregated enough experiences and insights to agree with the article's thesis. When working closely with hardware, there's no way around breaking that magic. I would even flavor that how it all "actually" works physically is cool and magical (in a we can compose magic way).

It was interesting to connect some of the issues they asked for help with relate back to this magic-fication.
they also store all your info

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/qqpggk/new_youcom_pr...
Where might I find docs on the output document persisted to the db? Also, reading back this data back into the editor.
I didn’t tell you your experience, I interpreted your experience. You don’t have a monopoly on truth just because you experienced something.

You could have 100 years of experience, it would still not make your observations statistically significant, even if they were objective, which they aren’t.

You said it yourself; you had crappy managers. It stands to reason anything they would have done would be bad. Due dates weren’t your problem, bad management was.
Why do you prefer to talk over video instead of typing?
For anyone interested in AWS's the so called free, the lowest tier: It's free for 12 months then it starts to cost 10 plus dollars a month.
Oculus was acquired by Facebook in March 2014.

Oculus Rift CV1 was released March 28, 2016.
System Error, Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot (2021) [video]
Comcast will never have to play at dumb.
That’s true. The way he blends in special effects just looks so seamless that you often forget that he basically recreated the video in blender in order to rotate and split it.
Wikipedia, EFF, Gnu
From a company that intentionally broke text editing on mobile to force people to install the Messenger app, I wouldn't use it even if it was great.
OK that's pretty interesting, if I'm understanding it correctly. The top level file holds all possible libraries you want to import, but then in each project you say which ones you actually want to pull in. And it's hierarchical so you can have a pecking order.

Are there similar or equivalents in other languages?
Much like space technology, a lot of tech that would never have been considered if there wasn't excess capital available eventually filtered down to "regular" applications.

There are numerous examples of tech developed for F1 that ended up in road cars.

https://www.carshop.co.uk/latest-news/formula-1-rule-changes...
Modern games are jam packed with content to the point of FOMO. There's so much baggage for just sitting down and having fun for an hour.

Look at Elden Ring - who cares about "weapon arts" and sneaking? Upgrades and infusions.... what? In Demon's Souls remake you get a shield and a sword, and you have to be creative and make your own fun. And I like that, making your own adventure - being a player instead of a spectator.

It's a game after all.
Love this Q&A:

Do I need an API key to use this?

No, YouTube.js does not use any official API so no API keys are required.
> I'm sure some do, but the bulk of the multi-tenant products use one (or several) larger databases.

In that case, the tradeoff between isolation and ease of development is made. That said, having a schema per user (even if in the same physical database) seems like a nice approach, if you can stomach the overhead and added ops complexity.
Collector or speculator?
I think that Atlassian's core issues stem from the CEO who is more interested in activities outside the company. The lack of vision starts from the top and flows down through the rest of the company.

If MCB is so interested in those things, then he should do the right thing which is to retire from Atlassian and go whole-heartedly after those noble causes.
“I’m not an expert” is a bad starting point when you argue that everyone else is wrong.

It’s more likely that you’re just not aware of all the variables that influence a given situation.
Yeah i noticed this blog advertised already second time this week, first time it was stupid comparison of photo in PNG format (!) with amazing small WebP (I mean anything would be amazing next to photo in PNG), now for change he is expert on games, dunno who upvotes this...
FTTx systems make copper almost non-existent.

All copper in my city is replaced by fiber, and only copper is from the FTTx box in front of my apartment to my flat. Eeerything (landline, internet, IPTV, etc.) runs from a single, dark fiber.

With cabling already in place and VDSL can reliably provide 5 units of bandwidth (where 4 units is used for download and 1 unit is used for upload, e.g. 32/8 mbps), with a theoretical ceiling of 350mbps, I'm pretty happy with what I have.

While I'd love to have fiber at home, I definitely don't want to rerun cabling.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220410235242/https://www.econo...
> Nonetheless, a prepaid card is legal tender.

No, it's not, an even if it was, that would create no obligation of a vendor to let you use it to establish an account. The effect of legal tender comes when making an attempt to pay an existing debt, not when trying to establish a relationship in which charges might be incurred in the future.
Batch file on the desktop to disable the devices

On a call - "We're live" - always assume the camera and mic are hot

Off a call - "Its dead Jim"
And here we are with our on prem Gitlab with CI/CD that hasn't been down for 2+ years (except for very short, planned maintenance) and has 100% predictable cost at much lower rates than cloud services. We can still scale within minutes if needed (thanks to Terraform).

Dedicated servers are just so cheap, esp with sth like CI/CD that's perfect to host at cheaper providers.

Seeing constant issues with Gitlab and Github products just reinforces that decision.
Smartphones are real cameras [video]
> In recent years, it’s been applied to try and force mask mandates [...]

from cited article,

> The investigation by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights “will focus on whether … students with disabilities who are at heightened risk for severe illness from COVID-19 are prevented from safely returning to in-person education, in violation of Federal law,” the letters from the department to states read.

Which seems very reasonable IMO

- - -

> [...] the use of left wing history books in schools [...]

"recent years" now means "1974 through 1980"

- - -

> [...] and now, transgender women competing against biological women in college and high school sports.

which is bad because ... ? Everyone is fine with the concept of doping, but suddenly if someone goes the opposite direction, the resulting loss in muscle mass and power can not occur, and the people in question must be cheats?
They really need to keep reading mike input. When you start talking on mute, it is nice that the app reminds you that you are mute (although they could do better voice detection)

I wished that the whole conference app would be red on mute and green on unmute and would pulse (in both states) to the audio input level.

Is my keyboard typing loud? Show me that I’m sending loud noises to all my peers.

Make it dead obvious that I’m talking to a muted mike.
Yeah I'm currently job hunting while full-time working and found the implication that this is a difficult and unique scenario to be alarming. I can't quit just to job search because then I'd use up lord knows how much of my emergency savings. Can't collect unemployment if you quit (in my state at least).
That's a weird thought. Medium might be irritating as an interface or as a business but there are still some really interesting things written on it, no?
The major complaint in the article is lack of communication
Browne's live shows (usually in a packed auditorium or theatre with an audience of hundreds or thousands) are amazing. Sure, his TV stuff can be edited, but the live show has to work, and it does.
Hi!

I can cheerfully confirm that I've absolutely never:

- received a git repo as an archive from someone, and then

- changed to root with "su" before unpacking it somewhere, such that

- the chosen location was above the home directory layer of a multi-user system.

- in such a way that one of the directories of the /path/to/home path has a .git/ subdirectory as a direct child, and not as an unpacked-tarball/.git grandchild which would not be accidentally found by git. I.e. that one of these directories exists, which might be found by someone running "git" in their home:

/.git
/path/.git
/path/to/.git
/path/to/home/.git

rather than the more likely:

/foo-project-123/.git
/path/foo-project-123/.git
/path/to/foo-project-123/.git
/path/to/home/foo-project-123/.git

which will not be found by someone running "git" in their home directory.

If I did such a thing, I'd care more about what happens when I happen to step on one of the malicious hooks in that repo as root, and less about what happens if users step on it.
On the contrary, any device which has DDC support and a VGA, DVI or HDMI output will have an i2c pin in the connector. Even DP carries i2c in its aux channel.
https://hackaday.com/2014/06/18/i2c-from-your-vga-port/
Oh billing :( My own disappointing incident was metering customer usage in Bytes when billing was setup for Gigabytes. A couple of “concerned” customers noticed that super quick when the new functionality was turned on. Having to sort that out at 3am highlighted how many “business process” dependencies dont have the same level of operational response as our systems. On the plus side it highlighted some areas to improve continuous monitoring (and alerting) of what customers are metered and billed.
Really?

I bought it back in 2018 from USA and back then all the pieces seemed to be there. The print quality is fine for my copy atleast though I understand if it isn't as much as what you paid for. But then again textbooks (and college in general though I don't want to get into that discussion as it has been discussed plenty in the past) in USA seem weirdly expensive.

From what I understand, the security piece came later. I found this from their Book News [1] (effectively a changelog) website:

>>> v1.01 07/06/20: Added new Security chapters by Peter Reiher (UCLA) to the main page. These are included only on the webpage and not in printed form or in the entire PDF at this point.

So, they warn you about it.

> i would advise people to only buy the book to show support. not for reading.

In that case there's a donate button in their site [2]. In the same vein, apparently they also sell laptop stickers, mats, mugs, t-shirts etc. On the website it's right above the text about donating.

[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/combined.html

[2] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/#donate
So when do we get fbide?
Yeah, I think OP might be more interested in "what is the most elaborate program you wrote only for your personal use?" Most of my personal programs have been command-line script. I have written a couple of single-page web apps and a Mac app once. These were more learning projects than programs I used long term.
I've had to take advice that saved my relationship. It doesn't feel natural but that's what changing behaviour is about. Never stop worshipping your wife. Remember she's your Queen. You put her on a pedestal and would do ANYTHING for her. Climb a tree for honey, slay a dragon. Suddenly making a cuppa or cleaning a cup is easy right? I did ask a friend once what he did when his wife started tidying and nagging and he said he just joined in tidying. If I'm too busy to help I often transfer a large sum of money to her account without telling her. Or maybe later I go out to the garden or garage and sort that out. I remember there's a bit in the classic book 'Men are from Mars" about just the thing the author is talking about and he really could have done with reading that book. I read it about 20 years ago but it had the bit on 'relationship points'. Now he thought his salary was worth 50 sex pts. But really it was only 1. and the dirty dish was worth -1. So he was left on 0 pts.
I hear you. Been doing webdev for over two decades, and I feel the exhaustion of modern tooling, most of which seems overly-complicated for the time involved and learning curve.

But, there are plenty of cool web things exciting me these days:

* FaaS and Serverless Computing - Cloudflare Workers/KV and Google Cloud Run in particular

* Cloud IDEs - Google Cloud Shell Editor (deploys straight to Cloud Run), Cloudflare Workers editor, Replit

* Site Builders - Carrd and Webflow in particular

* Focused libs - Handlebars.js and htmx in particular

* Simpler DevOps tools - WordOps in particular

* Languages - primarily C# .NET, but also using a ton of Node.js; did some Python recently; hoping to learn a little Go and Rust sometime.

Starting, and then launching, tiny side-projects and utilities that I need myself helps keep the fire going.
New Qt 6.3 cross-platform compile Docker images
The new docker images which support the wide range of platforms (lin,win,mac,android,wasm) to compile Qt and general cmake projects was just released - you can find them https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/stateoftheartio/qt6/general .

Do you think this common way to build the Qt applications is good enough for CI?
That sounds like the French system, only they push the other car forward with their car instead of requiring some random car pusher guy. And somehow that is legal (?)

Just over the border in Germany there's a good chance of getting beaten to death if you attempt something like that. Cars are holy here.
I'm not familiar with the tile-specific stuff Apple is doing but I think the grain of truth in that thread is some graphics apps on Apple silicon will perform better if they use them. The rest of the thread is doesn't make sense to me.

If you want an idea of what GPU programming is like you could look at some CUDA intros:

- https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/cuda-refresher-cuda-progra...

- http://cuda.ce.rit.edu/cuda_overview/cuda_overview.htm

If you don't have CUDA hardware you can get various versions of OpenCL that will at least work on your CPU. Lots of interesting compiler stuff happening targeting GPUs.
Sad but true, we need wackos/mentats/obsessed people to help us all, because we don't have the stomach for it.

Society progresses, one battle at the time...