skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I want to have independent though, and not be bound to anyone's view of the world without forming my own.

Okay, maybe a strange comment. But you always have to option not to have an opinion or view about something. What's the best solution to global warming? How to solve the Ukraine/Russian war? How to solve poverty? When will the next financial crash take place? How should my colleagues and friends behave? All very hard questions, which may of may not have an answer. You always have to option not to have an opinion about something. Being opinionless is not a sign of intellectual weakness, it's a sign of critical thinking.
Good writeup. This is how I like my advertisement ;).
Also pretty interesting, how he built the product: https://sandro.volpee.de/series/serverlessq-bip
I believe you are trolling and not discussing in good faith, so I will end the conversation.

You don't know what you are talking about
> I personally prefer Linux, but what’s holding me are the streaming services (netflix, amazon, etc), I can only watch SD content if I’m on Linux,

I hadn't noticed. Wife's 43" TV is connected to a linux box with firefox that is used for Amazon Prime, Netflix AND Disney+.

I haven't noticed poor picture and assumed it ran at 1096x1080. I will certainly have to check this out.
Interesting side story: for centuries coins were intentionally made to have a ribbed side surface because otherwise people would sand/cut off the sides and sell the obtained metal.

Nowadays coins are usually not made of pure and/or very valuable metals, but the notches have stayed to help impaired people and automatic identification of coins.
Its dependency management used to be a real mess though. It has got a lot better in recent years.
> Why can't it be both monetary and non-monetary?

Empirical data says money supply often doesn't do much. See Japan for example:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=PA7P

Data series:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGJPN (JP inflation)

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MYAGM2JPM189S (JP M2)

> Friedman was still right.

Lots of folks were following Friedman-like ideas in 2010:

> We believe the Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchase plan (so-called "quantitative easing") should be reconsidered and discontinued. We do not believe such a plan is necessary or advisable under current circumstances. The planned asset purchases risk currency debasement and inflation, and we do not think they will achieve the Fed's objective of promoting employment.

* https://economics21.org/html/open-letter-ben-bernanke-287.ht...

And nothing happened—just like the Keynesians said. See also 'expansionary austerity' that many right-leaning folks were pushing, which also turned out to be a bust:

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/10/12/imf-a...

* https://archive.ph/Efnum

* https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/Exp...

* https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2015/apr...
> Don't take the Librem example too seriously- I didn't know about that stuff, and it certainly changes the way I view Purism.

This is the problem. You advise on something, but you barely look beneath the surface.

> If "winning" is what Chrome is doing right now, I don't want Firefox to "win" either. Competition is good.

Please take a good look at what Mozilla has been busy with, this past decade or so.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/01/mozilla-blinked/
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/09/this-is-a-pretty-dire-asses...
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/12/mozilla-mourns-microsoft/
https://venturebeat.com/2015/06/09/mozilla-responds-to-firef...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS

All this happened while Firefox struggled to modernise the rendering engine, introduce process isolation, address stability and performance issues... Yes I know Quantum eventually delivered on these - but it was too little, too late, and still isn't great.

The only reason Mozilla is still alive, is because Google is throwing money at them - to avoid too much attention from regulators looking at Chrome's market share.

> Nobody cares about how chrome is 50% (i.e. 0.8ms) faster at responding to thing X.

I care. Just put it on any older hardware. Like my 2012 Thinkpad (3rd gen i5; OpenBSD), or my partner's 2017 MBP (infamous for its poor thermal design), running Firefox on either is a miserable experience compared to Iridium (Chromium fork) or Safari. The hardware is still pretty good for our needs.

Don't get me wrong: I dislike Chrome just as much as you do. I want to like Firefox, and I do agree with Mozilla's stated goals and values. But I won't (and wouldn't advise anyone to) personally suffer over this, in fact doing so is doing Mozilla a disservice - they need to get the message, fix their act, and deliver a better product; rather than blowing cash on CEO bonuses, sealing deals to screw their users, or engaging in planet-incinerating ponzi schemes.
Glenn K. Lockwood: Life and leaving NERSC
Again, you’re arguing about technology which is besides the point. A CTO in the enterprise is going to make the safe choice.

Also, notice when you go to
VMWare’s home page you see “referenceable clients” - ie well known companies that use the software? This is “Enterprise Marketing 101”.

Besides, I can throw a stick and find someone who knows VMWare. As a (hypothetical) CTO of a non tech company, I don’t want “support”, I might want an MSP to do it for me.
I doubt it's that alone (and a 10% factor is much more reasonable than a 1% factor). But I think another factor is that column stores usually compress the data in each column. Which can be particularly effective for columns with a lot of repeated values.
how we added support for 500 participants to Jitsi Meet

https://youtu.be/W-PPPGy49kc
Will be trying this out today. Really like the idea!
A big issue is that 10 or 20 years ago the steps for creating a webpage were simple: just open notepad (or whatever) and put some HTML.

Today you "gotta" install node, yarn, webpack, react. Then you gotta make a package.json and configure webpack. Or replace webpack with something called "crap". At least that's what all the "for beginners" tutorials that everyone recommends says! Nobody ever said I could just use notepad!!!

But that's not exclusive for frontend.

20 years ago you'd get a random server with Perl. Probably free. 10 years ago you'd get a random server with PHP. You would use FTP and notepad to learn the ropes.

Today you must install some advanced editing software with some plugins, use a terminal, install some runtime or compiler, get some packages, which won't work, so Google tells you to use "sudo" so it works, but that's very suspicious. Stack Overflow says shouldn't be "sudoing" by the way, this is dangerous, you should actually install this "version manager" thing here to install the first tool you installed, so maybe uninstall the first tool, although there's no uninstaller. Oh, and you need this "package manager" tool that install the version manager in the first place. Then you gotta learn to deploy. At this point you're already too old for this shit.

Desktop apps? Good luck with that.

OF COURSE there are simpler solutions, like just making a website with HTML as you could before, or Jupiter Notebooks. But few people today will stumble on that by accident.
> It's no wonder many people basically view anything past the surface level of computers as dark magic, and we call people good with these magical devices "wizards".

The dirty secret is that, due to the consultant effect, that feeling tends to owe its existence to those "wizards" who are happy for things to remain that way (and go around making it so where it's not already).

The Computer Lib Pledge (<https://archive.org/details/springer_10.1007-978-3-319-16925...>):

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

I am going to help make people free through computers.

I will not help the computer priesthood confuse and bully the public.

I will endeavor to explain patiently what computer systems really do. I will
try to answer people's questions kindly, or explain that I do not have time.
I will not treat any question as a dumb question, since there is no such
thing.

I will not give misleading answers to get people off my back, like "Because
that's the way computers work" instead of "Because that's the way I designed
it."

I will stand firm against the forces of evil. I will speak up against
computer systems that are oppressive, insulting or unkind, and do the best I
can to improve or replace them, if I cannot prevent them from being bought or
created in the first place. I will fight injustice, complication, and any
company that makes things difficult on purpose.

I will do all I can to further human understanding, especially through the
new visualizing tools of interactive computer graphics.

I will do what I can to make systems easy to understand, interactive wherever
possible, and fun for the user.

I will try not to make fun of another's favorite computer language, even if
it is COBOL or BASIC.

So help me.

-- Ted Nelson
I recently considered installing Linux on my desktop workstation. Then I decided I wanted to buy a wireless card for the machine - and any device I saw available locally had dubious issue/debugging threads online, people unable to get it to work, BT functionality missing, etc.

I've used Linux desktop in the past and it looks like things haven't changed much. I don't like the idea of having to compile kernel modules just to get my machine to work (and then having to do it on each distro upgrade) - I have better things to do with my time.
but dwindling...

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2022/0...
Same here! Thank you!
I use(d) ESP for this, keeping a binary around to install in any new machine. I miss it so much now that I’m on Mac. Alfred is good and does so much more but it is painfully inferior to ESP at finding files by name.

I never heard of Ava Find and will enjoy learning more about its features if I get the chance.
So you seem to be adding your voice in support for the article which, er, directly contradicts your views about money printing and current inflation.

Right now we know for a fact that current inflation is a genuine global shortage of actual stuff. Crude oil, cooking oil, wheat, Chinese products. Plus American government overspending, to be fair, but that's just a US phenomenon.

Of course that's inconvenient if you really desperately want to complain that you specifically are being cheated. After all if you have less, it must be because somebody else has more, right?

If we're all screwed, who do you blame? Putin and Xi are far away and broadly hated already, so there's no satisfaction to be had blaming anything on them.
I think quantified meant Ford's dealership and maintenance network.
OCSP is done over plain HTTP (for obvious reasons), so the OCSP provider doesn’t have exclusive access to this data. There is not much value there for DigiCert and others when every ISP can potentially sell the same data.

OCSP stapling helps maintain privacy, so eg. ESNI isn’t completely pointless when stapling is used.
That's basically what it's like buying service from one of the smaller companies. I call my small provider with good customer service, they deal with Rogers and a Rogers technician shows up at my house to do the work. My life is 1000% improved by not having to talk to Rogers.
I have never been able to get Amazon to honor a warranty when the manufacturer refused, even though the law in my country clearly says the retailer is responsible in the first place. In fact the button to return a product disappears from the order after a couple months, and they don't even have a category in their support system for this.
The Svix Webhook Service (YC W21) Is Hiring
The English is non idiomatic. Mistakes make it seem middle eastern/central asian
As a member of the JS community: shrug. I revoked my OAuth apps on Github, changed my passwords. The tarballs are unaffected. Not worried.
Not on most days, because the Earth is a lot smaller in the satellite's sky than it is from LEO, and the equator is tilted with respect to the Earth's orbit. So there's a 44-day period around each equinox, during which there will be shadow for a few minutes per day, up to 72 minutes at the equinox itself. The rest of the time, the satellite gets full sun for 24 hours.

https://www.viasat.com/about/newsroom/blog/how-satellites-ar...
That's an interesting name.

>The group’s multiple-paged ransom note suggests that victims perform three socially driven activities to be able to download the decryption key.

Wow, just that sentence alone makes a flood of memories come back.

(Purposefully doing my morning... executive time... in a place I never went when I was younger to get a fresh look at things.)

Just so everyone is on the same page, The Goodwill company is not good at all. They used to be, maybe, but they do this thing where they pay people less than minimum wage who often do their job better than folks with a "normal" IQ.

It was also widely known in my hometown if you donate to them, the employees pick off the good stuff so it rarely meets the shelves -- anyone who was a serious computer hobbyist would do deals on Craigslist, since unlike eBay, if someone just starts walking away with your device without paying you can physically stop them or call the cops.

I'm an enviornmentalist, I don't believe in getting the newest anything if the old works, so often I'd sell a previous device after doing my best to wipe the hard drive.

Only once did I have an issue on Craigslist, and it was after I had moved to a new state.

I had someone I sold a cracked iPhone threatening to sue me and a bunch of other nonsense. I told them the ad said as is, and I had assumed they were buying it for the parts, which they paid a more than fair price for, and that it was unsurprising that an iPhone with a cracked screen would fail, and they can meet me at kroger for their money back minus a restocking fee, like you'd expect at Best Buy, if they promise to never contact me again.

I picked Kroger because they had an armed security guard, and apparently literally doing the sale inside the lobby of a college town police station wasn't enough to send a message: I am operating in the open, I am giving you a fair deal, we are not friends, and I get very angry when I have to put a bunch of thought into how to convince someone to never make me feel unsafe again.

(I'd love to find an analyst role, but I don't know how you land those, my email is in my bio if anyone is having staffing issues and wants to make an offer.)
It's the specifics that give it away. "Take 5 poor children from your neighborhood to Pizza Hut."

Screaming kids at Pizza Hut aside, we can't make other people have empathy. They have to find it and explore it themselves, perhaps by seeing others do the same.

It's especially ironic that someone with lowered empathy would be demanding someone else show fake empathy publicly before giving them back control of their own computer.
Banning natural gas hookups in new homes and future bans of gasoline-powered cars come to mind. I think governments that do such things lose legitimacy.
Considering time has been said to be already laid out and defined.. i prefer to think we are a living memory
> How would you define "generated"?

Data is generated in the location where a human user interacts with the system, whether that be with a fully local system, some random website with a server in who-knows-where, or just configuring a domain for e-mail.

(Yes, AI actions are a separate can of worms.)

> > The foreign country itself doesn't really matter

> Of course it matters.

It doesn't for suing for rights, that's the point of generation-based legal authority. The legal transaction is taking place in the user's location, and by offering services there, you are agreeing to the local legal framework.

> Arguing that doing business establishes a legal nexus with someone of a particular citizenship opens up a massive can of worms about whose law applies where.

This is already the case, except with location and not citizenship. Safe harbor agreements just used to make this much less of an issue until they disappeared. You really can't expect to do business somewhere without adhering to the local legal framework.
The 10x developer experience is to me a temporary one. It can exist if the problem being addressed is in my technical "wheelhouse" and their is no impedance caused by the development methodology.
1. Standing desks rule.

2. Greenery. Makes working so much more pleasing.

3. I like keeping my desk as clean as possible and having as little things on there as I can

4. Organize my computer, desktop files, explorer.
Fabric is a Python library designed to execute shell commands remotely over SSH
Mother here. The examples listed in the article aren't of much use, as there's not much there you can use to identify species. If you're interested in moths, you'll visit a specialist web site, and if you aren't, you won't visit the Wikipedia pages either. The web site I use is https://www.ukmoths.org.uk, which has photographs of each (UK) species, as well as its range, food plant, and flying time.

Regarding the number of beetle species, JBS Haldane (probably) said that "God is incredibly fond of beetles" (or words to that effect).
Monero is cryptocurrency, this article is just venting from someone who buys into scams. Crypto matters because privacy matters, and privacy needs decentralization.

-edit-
Just to add clarity, decentralization is necessary becasue inevitably the people we need to hide from, are the same ones in control of the system.
Focused on coming up with a set of narrow waists that make the problem tangible.
when you can't add more accounts on the android app without a subscription is where it is still annoying on mobile
Don't be dismissive of script kiddies, they can cause a lot of chaos, and often do it because they feel like no amount of self education or self improvement will improve their chances of stable full time employment.

(Hence many of them operating out of the former USSR.)
Sure, as soon as an operating system with a good Win32/DirectX/Windows HAL implementation appears, I will be the first one to switch. ReactOS perhaps?
Don’t they open source all of their patents?
> WTF is a skid? Is that an abbreviation from "script kiddie"?

Apparently, yes. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skid#Etymology_3
Cool article.

I can't figure out why i am supposed to care about zig beyond it's fun? I get that it's interesting and more safe than C (honestly though what the hell isn 't).

Say you write rust pretty regularly for new product development, what does zig offer to make my life better, my products more stable, etc?
So... This might be a good opportunity for me to clear up some of the doubts I've had for a long time. I don't really work in "teams", I'm an amateur and all projects I've worked on have been just myself, for myself. So please bear with me.

Most of the things I do aren't really that important, but there's this one project where I need everything to work perfectly, or else I need to know about issues as soon as possible.

The whole thing depends on input I get from scraping, which basically means the data model can change at any time and there's a myriad errors that can happen. Besides from this input data, I also have to check that my "big-picture" assumptions about the model are correct before the actual program runs. In particular, the sample data already determines what values should be possible for most database tables; these tables don't change during program execution. I have a(n also immutable) config file that determines what can be queried from the database. This means I can prove that my config is/isn't correct (e.g. the program should never try to query for an inexistent value) before the program runs. And it should then be possible to turn these values into types to further tighten up the code and my workflow. But creating types from database values just feels all sorts of wrong. Or is it not?

All I really want is something that is DRY while also 100% ensuring the consistency of data before I run the program. I guess my idea is: Everything that can be automatically proved about the program before it runs, should be, and it should be stopped on its tracks before running if it's provably incorrect. I don't see how Clojure does that.

From everything I've read about Clojure, it sounds like the perfect fit for this kind of thing, but in the end I always conclude I'm too dumb and undisciplined to rely on myself to use it correctly. I make too many mistakes that boil down to assuming something has a different type than it actually has, or that it has a field it actually doesn't, I forget about checking important conditions, etc. And, to be quite honest, I'm too lazy for my own benefit, so I need the system itself to force me to do it the right way, while Clojure assumes you're responsible enough.

So I guess my question is: If I switch to Clojure for a critical project, how can I sleep at night?
What if their victims are already poor?
Is it a good idea for the Australian government to actually own the internet service, given how authoritarian I always hear about it becoming?
For the smallest change with the fairest result, I would reseed the random IDs on a schedule.
In a lot of the modern startups that's definitely the case, as a contractor I've come across some questionable "Denglisch" codebases a few times though.
Maybe someone should trace the flows and look for conflicts of interest.
Yes then this is truly something new, you used to be able to see tip couple of posts
Yeah that decreasing price for silicon chips over the past decades has been a real disaster.
> I think quantified meant Ford's dealership and maintenance network.

I'm well aware of that, which is why I think the comparison is not a suitable one. What good are truck sales if you have not ensured a way for your (ideally returning) customers to have a reliable way to charge them over long(er) distances? You just proved why the Super Charger station is the real lynch-pin in this Industry to anyone considering buying an EV.

It's putting the literal cart before the horse in terms of EV deployment.
It can come down to one program that doesn't have a good alternative on another OS, my version of that are the DAWs / music production tools I know and love.
Wine solves a lot of this (but not all) for Windows programs, the macOS equivalent Darling[0] seems to still has some way to go until GUI programs are reliably supported.

[0] https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
I think the problem is that there are so many options, some more accessible to newcomers, some less. For example, I think Thonny is a nice entry level Python "GUI"

But it's really hard to find what to start with from a google search.
Vercel on the frontend and Heroku on the backend already do this, so you have something specific in mind?
Is this article auto-generated, auto-translated to English from some other source language, or web-scraped and assembled automatically? It doesn’t read like an article written by a human, whether native or non-native English speaker.
It might be changed? I remember back in 2020 when I wanted to watch something I was dual booting to windows, because Amazon was streaming at 720p and Netflix 1080p, so the only option to watch in a good resolution UHD was an OS that has a browser with a signed DRM system.
Who exactly is an elite? I knew people who definitely weren't a decade ago, got rich in tech, and act like the people we used to rant about in private.

It feels very cyclical, and ten years is not as long as you'd think, on a cosmic scale.
Joseph Stiglitz: 'We should shut down the cryptocurrencies'
Man, I understand your point. For real.
But the 51% attack I cannot say it’s impossible, but very close to it.
You cannot attack the chain by just conquering the mining power. This is something very basic on how btc works.
But you know, anyway..
Wouldn't an anti-ransomware group then hack some people, take their money, but not return the data, thereby undermining their real enemy, the ransomware groups?