skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I'm actually in the UK, had to look it up but what I was thinking of was 'TETRA':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio

I think I recall emergency services switched nationwide in/by 2010, certainly it came to the small town (i.e. far from breaking new ground) I was in around then.

As I understood it at the time, it meant everything was encrypted and you could no longer listen in. But reading your comment and some of the details there (and having studied such things since then, albeit largely forgotten) I wonder if it's similar to your description, and it mostly prevented casual listening just because it raised the bar for the equipment needed, not because it was actually encrypted.

(Afaik before that it was analogue, or at least dual or slowly switching/some services analogue.)
To be fair, my ex got rid of his after several months of ignoring it and I don't feel that mine 'chases me' or is distressful at all these days.
Author of the post and survivor of several cults here. Nix is nothing like a cult. There is no behavior control, information control, thought control or emotion control at work. There are just people that are passionate about the tool and want to see it thrive. I would hardly call this a cult, more of just an interest group with weird nerds in it.

Honestly after a while the language starts to fade into the background and you just focus on what you are doing. Keep in mind that I am an expert at this point and have prior experience with Lisp, Haskell and a little bit of ML; so the overall flow of the configuration language and the like is easy for me to feel my way into. I have been trying to work on documentation to help get people up to that level; but trying to explain things you understand intuitively is hard :)

I'm trying though. With my Nix flakes series I'm probably going to rebase a lot of it around using NixOS with WSL to make it easier to approach for newcomers.
Dual-Stack Router with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
No one denies the massive decline of poverty.

It's not due to pure capitalism which did nothing to lift people out of poverty in countries where it originated until governments stepped in and reigned it in. Now this is exactly the narrative you chose to ignore because it's inconvenient to your narrative.
> It seems like this is just the “you need to study the problem and it’s dependencies for many years to understand the physics and mathematical details” problem. Which does not actually seem like much of a problem to be solved, just a reality.

Which is exactly the "draw the rest of the owl" problem. Something that takes substantial time, skill and knowledge to achieve is demonstrated as "three easy steps."
Yes and yet it failed. That's what GP is saying: Guix may well be better, but it is even less popular than Nix and thus at (greater) risk of dying.
iirc they discontinued those because most of the sales were to apple for the 12” macbook, but they still essentially make that product tier as lower power i-series
Yes - that was exactly my point. It has nothing to do with the configuration language. The end result of nix(os) could just as well be done from a bash script (not advisable, no).

And the problems with ansible would not be any better off if they had used something like the nix-language instead.
The SGU had a discussion about this the other week. Starts at 34:00.

https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/episode-866
It is! And you can also get the speed editor + resolve for the same price. Kind of "do you want a free speed editor with that?" :)
I have no idea who is the best fit to develop standard protocols... the bar is pretty low for P2P at this point.

There's very few projects that look at all interesting since the BitTorrent days, most everything is blockchain focused, and aiming to completely replace centralized at all costs with no ability to use central servers, even if it performs badly.

Owning your own domain has some disadvantages though. Especially with traditional federation. For one thing, your RasPi at home is probably not as reliable as Google cloud, and neither is a $5 month VPS.

Now you've got a single point of failure, that's on consumer hardware, with no professional IT staff managing it. I don't exactly want to pay for something that's less reliable than Gmail and WhatsApp, since an outage at the wrong time could hurt me way more than Google spying is likely to.

The only way I think self hosted makes sense for a typical consumer is if it can seamlessly transition to fallback servers, and you can talk offline on a LAN, and it doesn't rely on domains.

Like, I should be able to put a DHT record that says "I have linked accounts at these servers, try mine if you can, but if that fails here's a backup that we can meet at, that forwards to my main server".
What's wrong with their mobile app's quality and extensions? FF is essentially the only good browser on Android AFAIK, plus it supports extensions on Android.
Obviously not the ones that are "finished products".

Or are you claiming that only "games as a service" are good enough, and all "finished product" games should be removed?
Fanless, light, insane battery life, always cool and blazingly fast. No noticeable difference between the M1 (8/7 16GB) vs. M1 Pro (10/14 32GB) in daily use

Indeed. I only got the M1 Pro because I often do larger builds and two AMX (matrix multiplication) units is nice for some machine learning tasks. Other than that, I liked the Air more.

I hope that they carry over some features of the Pro to the next generation Air, in particular MagSafe, supporting more than one external 4k/5k display, and perhaps >16GB, and it would be so perfect.
Also a great place to work too. Former member of the Decklink team here. Grant seems to genuinely care about the well-being of his staff, as much as a busy man in his position can. Great benefits like mixers with food and drink on a Friday to get to know other people in the company, and free food and coffee daily. Also enjoyed the rather "flat" organisational structures of managers and engineers. I'm sure in my team, if I recall correctly, the "team-leader" was regularly rotated amongst the engineers as just another role to be done, not some excuse for egoistic power-tripping. Almost like a chore that someone had to do. I think their organisation reflects in the quality/affordability of their products, as being engineer led.
Yes. And a farmer can hitch a pickup to a trailer filled with 1500 gallons of anhydrous ammonia and take ‘er home.
Betamax was superior to VHS, but it lost to VHS because you could record an entire football game on one VHS tape. GNU is football games in this metaphor, because the GNU+obsession that Guix has is what is really holding it back from wider success.

Nix/NixOS is kinda shit, but at least you can easily run closed source software on it.
This seems like well reasoned advise, I might try it myself! In the intermediate ratings between 1500-2000 what would you say are the biggest factors affecting performance?
sir, i dont think their content editor can do anything about that.
People who get financial help their parents are ultra ultra privileged then?

Ultra means extremely. You were saying that simonswords82 was extremely privileged. In the US, (edit: Europe) having parents and a garage is somewhat common, though, I think.

Alternatively you could say that you were unprivileged, and he privileged (without ultra).

Oh well what does it matter
You can add new syntax without destroying backward compatibility, as long as it doesn't conflict with existing syntax. C++ took C and added the std::unique_ptr<int> syntax, which is much more readable.
Fun fact: Nix is really a compiler from a weird Haskell like DSL to bash!
JavaScript is very much a pseudostandard these days.

Most of the new stuff is invented by Google and rejected by Mozilla and Apple.

If you are in an intranet environment where you only ever target Chrome and Chrome Mobile and pretend the rest don't exist, it kinda does work like that.
I use the Heirloom Troff for my daily workflow: http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html
Support for Unicode, OTF fonts, Knuth's algorithm for formatting paragraphs, etc.
How about HCL? (Hashicorp Configuration Language, as used in Terraform for example.)

It's not really 'kind of like' any of Lisp/ML/Haskell IMO, and a good fit I think. Maybe it wouldn't allow everything or easily, but then if we're already only talking about being 'kind of like' (not actually using) an existing language that's not a problem.

(It's more like Prolog I suppose, not syntactically but in declarativeness, which is also missing from your list. Unless it's lumped in with Lisp for having too many parens.)
What drives people to extremist YouTube videos?
I have an Instagram account that I no longer own the e-mail or recovery phone number for. I have the password for it but every time I try to log in I get a ‘suspicious login’ warning and have to verify with said phone number. I want it gone but I cannot delete it. Loathe as I am I would even be willing to provide government ID.

Instagram literally has no contactable support if you aren’t a massive account (200k+ followers or whatever). I feel this should be highly illegal.

I have thought about retaining a lawyer and see if I can twist their arm legally (via GDPR), but I don’t want a simple account deletion to run in the tens of thousands of euros.

Yes I am intensely frustrated.
I had this exact same experience working as a dev for a property insurance startup
> If that single black person is playing the legendary Greek warrior Achilles

There's actually iconography in Minoan Crete showing African Black folks (from Northern Africa of course, but Black folks were never exclusive to "Sub-Saharan" Africa anyway) as very well socially integrated, in the same social roles as "white" (actually, Levantine/Mediterranean) characters. So that's probably a bad example seeing as Minoan Crete itself may be the origin of the Achilles myth.

And yes, they could be very effective warriors too, not unlike Achilles himself. In a radically un-Woke twist, a later source (Frontinus' Stratagems) goes as far as to describe a group of auxilia troops (i.e. quasi-mercenaries) from Africa fighting valiantly for the Carthaginians as nigerrimī.
Classic UK government... Produce a 30 page document reviewing energy trends, but fail to mention the key element that led to reduced demand in that period ... Price!

The energy price increased 900% for gas spot prices. 600% for day ahead electricity prices.

Anyone commercial who hadn't bought the right long term contracts was forced to shut down.

When a good chunk of factories shut down, of course demand falls. And yet the report mentions frequently the 'recovery from covid' in an upbeat way, but never the massive price increase causing lots of industries to just shutdown.
> Heavy censorship

> Approval ratings
> Besides that, packages in nixpkgs often have known vulnerabilities for months

I would be cautious not to assume the alternatives are perfect https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/s.... It's not uncommon for nixpkgs to get a security fix out before debian.

I think the real issue is that nixpkgs has a lot more "long tail" packages than most package managers, where security issues are grey areas. e.g. upstream aren't great at handling them, making new releases with the fix or god forbid acknowledging the need to be able to backport a fix to a stable branch.

Though I don't disagree that timely reviews would help an awful lot in nixpkgs.
Oh yes you are right!

That's apparently part of the first 1MeV TEM. Should be the high voltage source for the electron gun. The electron optics were most likely magnetic, not electrostatic.

There is a whole movie about it:

https://images.cnrs.fr/en/video/1257

Later MeV TEMs looked very different, and are now replaced by aberration corrected tools...
From experience, seen hackers who hack for some other reasons than to just steal some money from one machine.

Even hear stories, people hack providers, to fix some things, constantly not fixed by official support.
Broadcast system economics are fascinating:

• Selling to the pro field (50+ person studios) is a meager few billion dollar market, but highly demanding in terms of features. In Israel (where I worked in TV a decade ago), there are likely under 1000 'pro' edit stations, for almost 9M population [1].
• Selling to the general public is a much larger chunk, but you're competing against iPhone apps (previously against multimedia software, which is geriatric by now).

That's why the prosumer market is that lucrative: Same software as pro, with some flags to limit features. For every professional who can shell $5k (/year, which is new), there are 50 hobbyists willing to pay $250. Triple the income stream with marketing as the sole expense.

But not all companies have access to broadcast markets. For example, Adobe never got Premiere into newsrooms, but did make money off After Effects and Photoshop in design departments there. So Adobe changed their licensing structure to account for a different consumer:prosumer ratio by creating a "bundle" license paid monthly. Studios paid less (licenses for AE used to be single payment, and a lot) and consumers paid more.

Avid made money primarily from broadcast & film, so their flagship products factor that in their licensing, so their prosumer ratios are tilted towards their primary market (more expensive prosumer products).

I wonder how many studios switched to Blackmagic software. Davinci and Fusion (their compositing software) don't have a lot of success stories nowadays, but the feature list (multicam! high end grading! scripting! compositing!) is objectively more focused towards serving studios than Adobe's. I hope the adoption story looks a lot different this decade.

[1] I don't have official numbers, but a post house owns 5-50 Avid licenses, there's about 15 of them, plus universities, schools, military + corporate offices. That's still about 1 broadcast license per 10K population.
This is basically how a dedicated device driver for a particular printer works, but back then many operating systems like DOS didn’t have a standardised device driver architecture. Each application like Lotus 123 or Word Perfect would need its own driver for each printer.

To get around that you would write a driver that produced output that could be ingested by as many printers as possible. That intermediate output could be an image in theory, but a 300 dpi page image, especially for a whole document, was enormous at the time, far too big to fit in the memory of most computers or even fit on disc even with compression.

A language makes for a very compact, flexible and efficient intermediate format. Back in the 90s I set up a Linux box at work as a print sever, running the Ghostscript open source postscript interpreter, to print to various printers that didn’t natively support postscript. That was my first use of Linux.
Textualize – A framework for building Text User Interface applications
Pony.ai, the First Autonomous Driving Company to Receive a Taxi License in China
> They don't even document how to mark something as a security issue

Only committers can add those labels - it's probably best to flag it in the PR subject line and hope a committer notices it and turns it into a label.

Edit: more...

When it comes to "trivial" changes I think there's an ironic "zone of triviality" where, if other reviewers are anything like me, reviews of more serious bumps will get prioritized. A minor bump is so likely to get superseded very soon that I'll prioritize something that is more likely to cause breakages and require attention. Some package areas (e.g. python packages) do periodic mass bumps of packages to catch the stragglers.

There are of course issues though drawing attention to "trivial" changes that are subtly important like, as you say, security issues.
Resolve is a $295 one-time purchase and includes many of the features of the Adobe suite though, so I think in a relative sense, Adobe is expensive.
They had to buy rights from investors and it was 110k eur.

https://www.blender.org/about/history/
> Sure, but e.g. the documentation problems with Nix don't prevent you from working with it

In a world where there are thousands of things for me to learn (many of them with poor documentation), Nix is just one such thing.

The question is, do I care about its purported benefits, and sink my time and effort into it, or should I sink time and effort into learning Unreal Engine, playing Rimworld, or going for a walk?

So far, for me (and most of the world) the last three (and the rest of the thousands of things) win over Nix.
Your last quote reminds me so much of the Gaia X project. The short version of that project is: a standardized protocol of privacy preserving data exchange. But suffering from design by committee and wanting to throw in everything in existence (including blockchains, cause why not) makes it into something that on release (if ever) will just crumble under its own weight.
last I extracted (and migrated) WA from iOS I used idevicebackup2 and a util ideviceunback to get a decrypted sqlite database. From there it's sqlite schema discovery that is documented in multiple places, e.g. https://gist.github.com/paracycle/6107205 - the method of an decrypted backup skips the elaborate steps outlined in the article.
Related New Yorker article from 2021

> How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/09/the-seas-are-r...
CGTN was found by the UK's OFCOM to be controlled by the Chinese government and had its broadcast license revoked.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-rele...
Because DaVinci Resolve is a color grading and video editing tool, not a "media importer" / "conversion" tool. That's the job for some other software and hardware combo.
All this talk about Gateway Timeouts made me curious:

> Gateway Timeout is a deep learning-based anomaly detection system. It detects anomalies by learning the probability distribution of normal traffic and comparing it to traffic that does not match the normal distribution.
From my perspective, if a product is open source, it means I'm not at the whims of a company which might or might not go under or change models. I have huge amounts of content from decades ago locked up under no-longer-existing proprietary formats. The companies long went out of business, activation servers are gone, and in most cases, there's no way to find the .exe files.

My LaTeX files still work.

Open source doesn't mean I won't pay for it. Indeed, I'm more likely to pay for it.

I think in the case of Resolv, if the bulk of the money is on software, open source is a huge risk. If it's on hardware, it's a nominal risk and a huge potential upside. To the extent there are cloud-based collaboration services, the risk also goes down, since that's what most businesses pay for. Even if the server is open-source, it's cheaper and more robust to pay BM than to hire a sys-admin to run it myself.

I have an old Olympus AIR camera which is great hardware, now useless since Olympus discontinued the associated software, then got sold, and it's basically now dead.

If Blackmagic were 100% open source, I'd know their hardware is forever. Perhaps the software won't continue to improve -- there are plenty of dead projects -- but SOME nerd will at least port the existing functionality to Ubuntu 32.04 or whatever comes out. If push comes to shove, I might even be that nerd.
I share same account with my brother for several years.
I would have no issue paying for my own if Netflix at least offered some kind of profile export or migration.
There's no way people are going to be burning ammonia in personal engines. The pollutants from burning it are far worse than burning hydrocarbons. On industrial scales it might be feasible to scrub the exhaust (and even recycle them, since they're economically valuable) but on small scales I doubt it could be done.
In the example you provided, the state can compel the thief to forfeit his private key, under pain of imprisonment.

But there are other cases where the state is not able to intervene, because of the immutability of the blockchain protocol.

The limits placed on the state's power is a beneficial trade-off, where the state loses some power to protect people's private property, while losing even more power to rob people's private property.
>> Using Haskell as a base for the syntax

> I don’t really think this is a problem at all?

Of course it's a problem. You shouldn't use a syntax that has been soundly rejected by the industry.
I used DaVinci Resolve 17 (the free version) to put together my video for FOSDEM. I had no previous video editing experience, but I tried a few programs and this one was by far the easiest for me to use.
So long as the parser doesn't except on undefined keys, you can add pseudo-comments to many places in a JSON config file.

{
"foo": "bar",
"COMMENT": "This bars the foo"
}
A home is kinda like food --- a terrible investment that turns to crap --- until you compare it to the alternative.
I'd recommend a slightly differently approach. First of, remove snap all-together. Continue removing snap packages until there are none left.

sudo snap remove firefox
sudo snap remove gnome-3-38-2004
sudo snap remove gtk-common-themes
sudo snap remove core20
sudo snap remove bare
sudo snap remove snapd

Remove snap completely:

sudo apt purge snapd

Then instead of adding the ppa, use flatpak with flathub (https://flatpak.org/setup/Ubuntu)
Ask HN: Desktop Email Apps
I know the topic of “what’s a good alternative to” that popular email provider. And maybe less often what’s a good alternative App. Fastmail’s latest beta features close the gap — a lot. (But they don’t offer an app for desktop. Yes, obviously the site but for offline especially what is the best desktop app for email?)
From the tank shown in the article it looks like it would fit best in the fuselage.

Hypoint is developing the fuel cells, and they’ve partnered with someone else on the tanks. Electric motors for small planes don’t appear to be a challenge. Beta technologies out of Burlington Vermont is flying electric planes with lithium batteries today. So in that case, it is really about switching the energy source for the plane.

I think what’s missing is all the hydrogen infrastructure to get cryogenic hydrogen to the runway. But that’s a classic chicken and the egg problem.
firefox containers is both the killer feature of firefox for me (I can't leave it) and also the jankyest. I don't think mozilla knows they have gold on their hands (but do they ever know?).

I lived through the firefox extension debacle in 2019 or so when FF accidentally let a cert expire and it helpfully uninstalled all my "unverified" extensions, of which container tabs was one. When everything was fixed, my settings were erased.

Except they weren't. To this day, I still get random ghost-like behaviour from my old container tabs settings. Google-contained apps will try to open in my banking container, as I gradually realise all of my containers were deleted but the URL-to-container mapping wasn't, and it was by ID not name, and the IDs have been reused.

Containers should be a core feature because they are /the/ feature ff has over the chrome army right now. I know they were (are?) trying to prove that core features aren't necessary because you can write anything in a web extension (IIRC that's how they justified getting rid of RSS), but it just hasn't been so in my experience.
To hop on the maintainability point: The same is true for "High-code" solutions. If you want the ticket done quick and dirty, it'll be done in a quarter of the time. But good luck ever iterating on it with additional features.
You don't need a lawyer to send a standard "right to erasure" GDPR request and they are required to respond within 30 days: https://gdpr.eu/right-to-erasure-request-form/
I've never developed anything with SharePoint but I've used apps made with it. You can tell that's going on from the outside.