skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just go with "Hello?".

I also don't mind confirming my name. But I try to never say "yes" or "no" when they ask if something is right, I respond with "That is correct" or "That is not correct". That may be me being too paranoid of people editing the conversation to make it look like I agreed to something I didn't.

There was some point where I was getting a call that claimed to be a collection agency trying to collect on a DirectTV bill. I've never had DirectTV. They kept trying to get me to confirm an address, I kept informing them that I've never had DirectTV. They would usually hang up when I would press them on who their employer was. They often made the mistake of calling during my commute when I lived roughly an hour away from my place. So, you know, I had the time to kill.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/world/europe/us-ukraine-w...
Calories are what matter for losing weight, but losing weight is not the only reason to go on a diet.
Avian flu outbreak causing unprecedented deaths in wild Minnesota birds, eagles
Yes there was. That trend started long before big tech. In the aughts there was a lot of constrination around news rooms being gutted, with less and less investigative journalism — replaced with “soft news”.

Those criticizing this and were called snobs and elitists; the market - the people - wanted soft news stories!

Interestingly the same ideological coterie that cheered news room gutting (because of a perceived ideological slant) and welcomed the soft news trend is now complaining about click-bait internet journalism.
This intense competition over eyeballs is driven by the monetary system. Money printing creates a supply side economy (demand-constrained, as opposed to supply-constrained).

All companies just produce as many goods and services as they can using all the financing which is available to them. The biggest challenge in a supply side economy is finding customers to buy the goods which the company produced or plans to produce. It increases competition on the customer-acquisition side and reduces competition on the production side (I.e. quality goes down). It makes it almost impossible for small companies to compete.

The money printing acts as a kind of subsidy for big corporations (and regular citizens end up paying via inflation). Companies which are not subsidized cannot compete no matter how good their products are or how efficient they are at producing them. They can never get the same profit margins as big corporations due to the lack of subsidies. Subsidies from the money printer can come in the form of government grants, overly generous government contracts or from banks in the form of very low interest loans. It's an asymmetric playing field.
Which people like to bring up, and does make it "possible" to do this style, but takes a style I think is already crazily and uselessly verbose and makes it even more verbose, especially once you take that "strconv.Atoi" and try to inline a function there, at which points the types from the earlier generic instantiation get to appear again. Hope you didn't give your types good, descriptive names!

As a potentially useful technique in the general sense it makes good sense to know. As a solution to making map & reduce practical functions to use in Go, it makes me wonder just how much crap it takes for people to notice that just because a pattern is fun to use in one language, it isn't appropriate for another. I mean, how painful does it have to be, exactly?

Also, some people just insist on chaining, which this won't enable. (At least not without even more gymnastics.)
I think the only qualification for "security engineer" these days is changing your LinkedIn job description to "security engineer". Unlike SWEs, there isn't really any sort of standard leetcode bar for them, which is both a pro and a con.

Lot of snake oil in the field at the moment.
This is a bit of a tone deaf idea to explore right now. If anything, the environment and chip shortage issues should be pushing people to promise extending support for older systems for another decade.

That said, while there are loads of systems out there that could still use BIOS, I like to look at the second hand market.

There are a lot of Dell R710s for sale on eBay still (700+ listings). These are commonly suggested as a good "intro to homelabbing" server in a variety of places. These systems were released in 2009, often featuring CPUs from 2007-2008. They support UEFI 2.1.

Contrasting this, some UEFI implementations are horrifically buggy and largely seem designed to only work with Windows.

I think 10 years is probably too close a cutoff but I do think that eventually it becomes a lot more work to maintain it (like i386 builds, x32 builds, etc.) and becomes not worth it except for niche distros.

If we factor in things like environmental impact, it makes a great deal more sense to continue to support older systems for some longer period of time.
Ask HN: What's the smallest company that has the most domains?
So I recently started thinking about how much it might cost Google to have so many different domain names. And then that got boring so I wondered if there are any companies outside of FAANG that have a similar amount of them. To spice this question up, I decided to take it to the extreme: "What's the smallest company that has the most domains?"
The issue is specific to Linux. I’ve had Solaris and SunOS boxes (years ago) also
do fine.
On HN? hah!
To note, we signed up for the beta and got accepted in last week. Haven't turned it on yet though.
Roadkill Cafe, you kill it, we grill it, how can I help you?
> I wonder why OpenBSD does not provide a separate non-free firmware included ISO mirror like Debian does.

Unfortunately powers that be at OpenBSD are pretty hardcore about "Open means open".
Show HN: Create Repeating Google Calendar Event for Last Day of Month
I think Google Calendar is brilliant however one type of repeating event it does not support is the last day of the month. There is the option to import a custom ICS file though and within the specification of that file format you can do it.
You can’t be a billionaire without lots of people calling you an asshole.
Yes - the USA's "entire economy" is premised upon the dollar's reserve currency status, which depends on countries needing dollars to trade in vital commodities like oil (which Russia has). The US' seizure of the dollar reserves of Russia, Afghanistan, and others have deeply compromised that status quo. The SWIFT sanctions have also created the conditions for new interbank transfer systems to develop outside of US control which don't depend on the dollar.
> And 20k GBP will buy a lot more in your EU country

Not in terms of computing, bandwidth, or google ads, etc.
You are confusing copyright with trademarks. You can't release another official harry potter movie just because it would be legal to copy the old ones.
From the original paper:

"Results of analyses of waist circumferences, BMI, body fat, body lean mass, blood pressure, and metabolic risk factors were consistent with the results of the primary outcome. In addition, there were no substantial differences between the groups in the numbers of adverse events."

So weight loss was the primary target, with some ancillary metrics. But it was only a 12-month baseline, which may not show longer-term benefits. And it didn't include any effort to assess things like inflammation or immune system robustness, which personally are the only reasons I do intermittent fasting.
Lots of well off people still purchase things via loans. Also various net worth estimations online place him between $1M to $1.5M. That's not the kind of money where you automatically just pay cash for something that might be $50k to $100K, especially when net worth at that level is often (not always) tied up in a primary residence. There's no certainty here. And regardless, insurance is required on private aircraft, owned or loaned.
What happened to the last CTO?

How many hours per week are you expected to work? ("We are a family, so we are together during Christmas." is a bad sign.)

Get the promised equity in written. An oral agreement is not worth the paper it is written on. Assume that they are worth $0 anyway, and ensure that you are happy with the cash you get.
Do you mind sharing some of your ideas in this thread or as a blog post?
This plane was going to be scrapped before he purchased it. There was also an odd modified fuel selector visible in the cockpit that is unlikely to be allowed on a non-experimental aircraft. Seemed obvious that this wasn't a plane he intended to use regularly.

https://youtu.be/7PgGvl2ZMFs?t=248
The (s)RGB color model is not some legacy choice. It is closely tied to how colors are stored, composited, and communicated to physical displays. And this problem seems a bit artificial - how often do you see a linear gradient between colors like the ones shown in the examples? Finally, it is also trivially easy to get a gradient that looks like the "correct" ones presented in this article, by just adding a few additional color stops along the way that are closer to where you want the intermediate values to be.
It is probably a huge leap to think about using Bazel, but I found Uber's blog post about how they manage this issue after setting up a monorepo a really good read - https://eng.uber.com/go-monorepo-bazel/
Lean and Agile have been thrown around in defense contracts for a few years.
I am curious with the use cases for something like this might be. I feel like it's very rare nowadays to encounter a CLI/TUI program that doesn't have a "non-interactive" alternative, either in a different tool or built into the application itself.

I know that pexpect can be used for testing such applications though. Is this meant to be for a similar use case? Or were "interactive-only" tools more common at one time in the past?
Thanks for responding like this. I think I agree with what you're saying; though I'd still appreciate it if google docs wasn't walking down this road.

What you're articulating is quite a subtle cultural problem. I don't hear many people naming it or talking about it.
There's a lot more to it than just contracts and contractors. There's a good book that talks about improving the military's ability to respond (The Kill Chain). The general point is that the face of war has evolved but the U.S. military's primary method of changing direction and decentralizing decisions (The Kill Chain) has not.

Worth a read.
I've also added posts for last specific day of month and last working day (not 100% accurate) examples too.
I "practiced" penmanship every day for 9 years in primary school, but my handwriting is still the sad squiggly sort stereotypically associated with doctors. It really didn't change much from age 12 and onwards.
And I'm grateful that they did. Among all the sites listed on that page, this is the one I use the most.
I agree, and that's the strength of linux, but here's a slight devils advocate:

If someone is heavily invested into RH for their BIOS only infra, this could be an issue for them. I'm sure there's large operations that would need fixing up if these change happens.

Not that RH is obligated to cater fully to that crowed of course. But 10 years is a bit silly, especially with how expensive hardware is now due to covid.

All that said, it's not going to be an issue like everyone is making it out to be.

Individuals should have few problems forking mainline to keep BIOS support, and large organizations will be given amble time to upgrade (at least years. RH isn't stupid with it's corporate customers.)
Yeah, good point. Still, it's not a hard install.
What's "so many"? I know private persons with 100+.
The US has sent heavy artillery to the Ukraine.
What chords do you need?
Handwriting has also been shown to improve thinking versus typing

https://bigthink.com/the-present/handwriting-memory/

I wonder if there is a way to produce a “keyboard” with the same effect on the mind?
Our full acceptance test run in 3 hrs (on build servers with 64 cores and 3xx GB memory) and we have PRs coming up every hour or so.

We run the acceptance tests for all PRs and also the main branch after each change. So a given PR needs to be 'green', and if we merge the PR then we run the tests on the integration branch too. If the integration branchs gets broken somehow, then all merges stop -- we don't merge any further PRs into a 'broken' branch.

We have tried the option of always rebasing PRs on the most recent integration branch and re-running the tests, but that results in exponential number of builds.

Of course you need a meaningful build farm -- we have around 1000 CPU cores for ~30 developers that are fully utilised during work hours.
LOL at "More than a thousand years after Indigenous Texans..."

"They were Texan, they just didn't know it yet!"
That struck me as well. I’m used to seeing intervals like 11 am to 6 pm, which tactically cuts out “breakfast” and likely reduces the average calories you manage to fit in over the day.
Netflix's core competency was the best distribution (DVD by mail then streaming) and not the best content. Their competitors can beat them on content because that's their competency, distribution is commoditized at this point.

This is an example where they were ahead of the industry with distribution and now that their competitors have invested in infrastructure/distribution, supply chain (movie/show production takes time), marketing, and have competing products the competition is fierce when your price is the highest.

Now replace Netflix with Tesla and this could be the same case in the automobile market in a 3-5 year span. Market leader because they lead the industry in one element but once that tech (batteries/EV/charging network) is commoditized, the market leader could suffer.
You know he could still use the 'I crashed' title even if he ultimately didn't. Thats the whole point of clickbait.
I would argue that for the military to complete the stated objectives (which shift almost as much as a software project often does), is far more complex than maintaining complex code.
This is a bit out out of date. Interpolation colorspace can be specified as of CSS Color Module Level 4. See https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-4/#interpolation-space

I don't believe it is yet implemented in browsers, but I know Chrome at least is working on it.
Why would anyone ever pay back a loan if it had zero additional interest for extending the term?

I have excellent answers to that. Well first off I would, because I pay loans in order from most benevolent to least benevolent. Second I figure out the mathematical theory that generalizes interest, and includes all types of interest as special cases, and compound interest is the special case number infinity, the most morally wrong case.
OpenBSD 7.1: fan noise and high temperature solution
> Yup, there were some premature release announcements, but it seems it's really available now

Technically you it was always available, you can always follow -current or whatever they call it.

Most sensible people don't, however, because it entails going back to the old-school way of keeping OpenBSD up to date, i.e. you don't get to benefit from syspatch, fwupdate and sysupgrade. All three utils being (relatively) recent inventions that help keep your average sysadmin sane !
This somehow didn't work for ISPs at all.
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That's the part about batch rendering. Everything else there is architecture specific and typically not a problem on modern hardware anymore, unless you really force it to its limits.

The coders accidentally optimizing to reduce GPU compute load when there's GPU compute to spare and memory bandwith is limited, for example.
> I personally do time restricted feeding and notice health benefits

but the study is only for weight loss not general 'health benefits' yea?
He doesn't use the term live-lock, but see "6" at the top of the article where he talks about "pathological behavior at near-OOM". Also "3" "Disabling swap does not prevent disk I/O from becoming a problem". Those, in my experience, have been the situations that I was in that I called live-lock.
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Poland sent tanks to Ukraine, it’s not a big secret even if you’d like to pretend that it is.

I’m not sure why you’re getting caught up on the US, that’s just weird and makes it seem like you might have some ulterior motives.

US is sending other kinds of heavy armaments to Ukraine.
At this point it's probably the right time to ask what do you mean by CD.
Continuous Delivery? Continuous Deployment?
Intermittent fasting can help manage hunger and eating habits, but it won't magically burn more calories. People in this study were eating the same amount of calories just with different schedules. Why would that lead to any discernable difference in weight loss? The point of fasting (to me) is that you don't eat the same amount of calories because of the fasting schedule, and the focus you're putting on meal times and what you eat and, at least for some, fewer fluctuations in hunger levels throughout the day.
>From your comment, you went unnecessarily political regarding the January 6, 2021 insurrection. In my view, this is why people downvoted your comment. The common narrative is that it was insurrection

That hasn't been true for months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_att...

Wiki used to call it insurrection but it's not that. I understand the criticism that perhaps it's because it's political, but that's the because the whole subject is political.

>It was certainly a dangerous mob driven by Trump and cronies intending to interfere with the US election proceedings without justifiable cause beyond pseudo-creedal feelings that somewhere, somehow, the election was stolen.

Dangerous seems an over reach.

Contemporary comparison you have mostly peaceful riots and actual insurrections like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest

It's really important to see what's happening here. It's ultra important to be able to talk about these things.

Republicans need to address the police brutality and objectively proven racism.

Democrats need to address some things as well.

These conversations have to happen and they are going to hurt.
Not a tunnel in the ground, but when I was younger we were at a friend's lakeside cottage. Their grandparents had built the house with crawl spaces/ladder? spaces running through everywhere for the kids to play.
I hope you meant Open source not open sores. I’m too scared to google for open sores to see if you actually meant that lol
Interesting, I assumed they were the native cottontail! Is there a reliable way to tell them apart?

Edit: Wikipedia says that they are morphologically almost identical. Is the species distinction just a matter of genetics at this point? Normally I am bothered by invasive species, but somehow this doesn't seem to be such a problem, if you literally can't tell them apart without molecular analysis or looking at minor differences in their skulls.

I am aware that similar situations have happened with house sparrows and starlings, where they have so successfully outcompeted the natives that you would think they were the native dominant species. At least starlings are easy to identify and can't be confused with anything native, but I don't think I could tell apart the different sparrows.
if the Taliban militants were using it then it's a legitimate target and I would take out the antennas. I assume the same holds for Ukraine. If Starlink is being used by Ukraine military then I think Russia is perfectly within the rules of war to target the antennas. If a software update makes them harder to target then does that make SpaceX HQ a military target? idk, probably, but in the same way FedEx is a military target. I don't see it very feasible nor advisable to launch a cruise missile targeting Hawthorne CA...
They didn't even really lose them, Netflix gained subscribers if you exclude Russia.
I work on a project with a 3 hour CI process that handles about 15 to 40 PRs a day. The problem you describe here is a real challenge. Our PRs don't use a merge button. Once CI passes (your changes built on latest develop), then you can click a box that says this PR should merge. An automated process scoops up all those PRs each night and builds them together. The system test team tests that build in the morning. If there is a problem, that is debugged (we build build some bifurcation builds ahead of time to make this faster). Then the batch is merged to develop. This process has worked very well for us. Develop keeps a good pace but is only very rarely broken.
Interesting.

Where I come from, writing cursive is taught in the first few grades.
I can recommend it.

Even if you don't have a supper high commit frequency it is still nice to enable certain rebase/stacked PR workflows. Which can remove a lot of friction even for teams which "just" have idk. 6 PRs merged per day (but other PRs which are based on top of this PRs in review and progress maybe stacked multiple layers deep).
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What is the relative density of those areas? High speed trains only make sense moving between dense areas. The central valley is many multiples of size of the bay area and the population served by the train will be small.
I'm all for mentoring the next generation, I'm just saying thought that it's a much higher burden than people realize, especially for a company that doesn't have product-market fit, and where you can expect a lot of the people you trained to leave for greener pastures.

To put it another way: the higher your ARR, the more responsibility you have for others. The first period of a start-up is the riskiest and working with fewer young people significantly reduces that risk, especially in today business environment.
both describe losers is a connection
When I get off work, I want to think about silly computer problems as little as possible. Perhaps the same applies to security engineers.
Rethink as in:

"@elonmusk
, while you try to colonize Mars — Russia try to occupy Ukraine! While your rockets successfully land from space — Russian rockets attack Ukrainian civil people! We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations and to address sane Russians to stand."

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/14977014840032133...
Yup, all IPs are suspected to be VPNs.
Last I checked, and it's been a couple years, the MacOS license allows you to run up to three MacOS images on your MacOS hardware. We do that on our MacOS build servers we use for building iOS apps since you can't have multiple versions of Xcode installed simultaneously.
Thanks, I guess that could work. But still... I'd prefer a solution that doesn't require a daemon that has to continuously wake up and check for this. I wish for a cleaner solution. Besides, it doesn't fully solve my "snappiness" desire: it doesn't prevent the kernel from paging out pages. I guess the answer for that is to get faster disks but that can get tricky on my old raspberry pi machines.
Semi related aside - it was a good post day today.

I've been after a book called "Flip The Script" for ~10 years, but being out of print the prices are crazy. It's recently been reprinted, arrived today, and it's absolutely wonderful - https://www.handselecta.com/handselecta-flipthescript

As it says on the back "Graffiti is one of the last strongholds of highly refined penmanship." Anyway, beautiful book, highly recommended.
Yes, but then they do the same and it is endless phone tag which usually ends in "you can email me at blaa."

The telephone is broken.
It's hard to trust press when journalists keep saving scoops for future books
It looks the same on my Macbook with Chrome.

Did you use some browser extension for eye protection or dark mode?