skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope that first line is not true. 8gb does not feel the same as 16gb

I had the 8gb for work, and i was routinely using about 10gb. Switching apps or desktops meant changing chunks of memory in and out of swap. it was noticeable most when switching 'spaces', since video memory is shared with that 8gb and was also swapped.

Honestly it was ms teams that was the worst offender for ram, even running all my dev environment stuff and other electron apps.
It is a good idea but not an original one: what it's really doing is reinventing the vertical scrollbar, but placing it horizontally, with a bunch of the functionality missing.
You could infer browsing habits from that using timing data.
> Yet all these devices are credited with being more secure devices compared to PCs.

Yes. They are more secure for the manifacturer.
Do you want to give this app access to your files ? To all your files. And it phones home. Encrypted so you cannot see.
It's not about passion at all. Plenty of passionate work themselves to the breaking point and end up with crappy games or failing to release at all.

It's that making ambitious games is hard, and if your organization doesn't have good engineering practices, good project management, a clear achievable vision, a realistic timeline, and capable team members, you will have difficulty succeeding.

And even with less ambitious games, studios fail all the time for the same reasons. It's not just the AAA games.

Clearly a smaller team with a smaller scope has an easier time because as you increase headcount, communication overhead increases exponentially, and bigger teams are usually trying more technically difficult things than a smaller team would try to tackle.
If your main goal is the deletion of the data, you might be able to use GDPR processes to accomplish that.
Syncthing makes Dropbox look downright barbarian. Especially if you combine Syncthing with Android and a NAS or home server. iOS is... not really capable of sync outside Apple ecosystem. And this is true even with Dropbox. Not an Android fanboy. Just stating the fact. I take a picture on my Android phone and I don't have to think about it. It's now on my home server, it's encrypted, it's automatically backed up, etc. I have an app that takes a backup of my phone and puts it in a single file. Literally I press a button and my entire phone is backed up via syncthing. I use KeePass. My passwords are in sync at all times, on every device. There is also KDE Connect, which I have yet to try out.

Even before Syncthing, Unison existed since 1995. Which was the true free software version of Dropbox. You never needed a bunch of hacks to get automatic sync working on Linux. Syncthing is a bit easier to configure, IMO.
In which case let the employees decide what to spend things on
> I visited a place one where the schtick was to get new employees to make a paint print of their hand on the wall like a primary school kids

This sort of thing seems to happen quite a bit. Somebody in HR goes baby crazy and starts treating people in the office as their surrogate children. You can't say shit about it, because it's HR.
Almost all async Rust runtimes use a multithreaded work stealing schedulers by default, to equally utilise all available cores.
It's complete nonsense:

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12936
Meanwhile, GoLang allows thousands of threads without problems.
The result can be hosted? I don't understand if you can do client<->server communication.
That robot looks very nice indeed! I looked at the rooting instructions, and there's this lovely, bolded, line:

> This was patched in many new firmwares. Do NOT update your robot via the Mi Home app if you want to root.

Which sounds ominous if you're buying the robot new today. How do you feel about posting back here, or emailing me, or whatever, after you give it a shot? That bot plus open source firmware looks absolutely ideal.
Filecoin and IPFS?
SPARC is in fact a heavily marketed continuation of ARC, which has been around since 2014 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3540 - note the same authors). So the commercialization ideas would have started way earlier. But a project lead believing in the project shouldn't matter in any objective analysis anyways. The guys over at Lockheed also certainly believed in their compact fusion reactor design when they started working on it (which was, incidentally, one year before ARC), but they too had to learn by now that belief alone is not enough when it comes down to the laws of physics.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love for SPARC to be a success. I just haven't seen any objective, external review that would confirm (or at least try to show) how they solved the problem of controlling turbulent plasma in a high gradient field. It's not even fully clear that ITER will be able to do that, and they'll have a much easier time due to the larger reactor radius.
if you quickly swat at a fly on a window, the fly jumps and flies away. if you slowly lower the swatter and then jump the last inch, the fly will never see it coming and gets squished on the window

humans are exactly the same
> The reason was simple: I did not believe there can be anything interesting or challenging in non-game dev.

Every now and then someone creates new piece of software that just changes things. Twitter as example (I remember saying to myself as I signed up for the bet, "well, that's gonna be not useful at all - who the f needs SMS on the internets?). Another example, in a more software related bubble one could say rails (ruby on rails) was very influential for web development overall.

I find thinking out of the box very challenging.
There’s an implicit story here which I find quite sad that not a single developer at Rockstar in the prior eight years had the autonomy or bandwidth to discover and fix this themselves.
The former's arguably net-beneficial, in a world with effectively eternal copyright terms. It's shouldn't be possible for Disney to own so much of the last ~100 years of popular media, for example, because most of that should no longer be ownable.
COrrect. The SVT raptor puts out 500+ ponies. No construction worker needed that, but it did pave the way for more efficient ecoboost engines (mustang has a lovely 2.5L EB engine) which power the entire ford lineup
Five automakers tell the Feds they want California emissions rules
To be a successor of WebObjects is not an easy feat !
Die Hard 4.0
Technically yes, but when?

I just retired an iPhone5 that we were using as a "house controller", streaming Pandora, home automation app, etc. I retired it not because the software stopped working but because the battery won't last more than 30 minutes off the charger, and I had an iPhone8 sitting around doing nothing.

IMO an iPhone with linux is going to be less of "do whatever your mind can imagine" and more of "spend countless time trying to hack random stuff into this unsupported platform".

Overall, I think it is cool achievement, but (to me), it feels more along the lines of solution looking for a problem than an actual truly useful thing.
I’ll add “PictureThis” for identifying plants and trees. And a good stargazing app.

I don’t generally like the idea of dragging tech into the enjoyment of nature, but being able to learn about the natural world so easily lights a fire of curiosity about the wild things and wild places that are so good for my mental health.
The only time I've managed to overload my M1 Pro Macbook Pro with 32GB of RAM is when I overprovisioned on RAM and caused excessive amounts of swapping to occur. Keeping my resources under control, I can run upwards to simulated 10 node data clusters with loads and extracts running, among other activity, and be able to do other things while that runs in the background. Keeping resources under control is going to be paramount to any system, let alone something not designed for this kind of workload.

Even when I let resource usage go a bit out of control I've never had it lock up. Early on, I had USB related system crashes, but those went away as updates were released.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Dropbox?
I run valetudo with OpenHAB. No cloud needed just a little rPI.
I have an app for cryptic crosswords, and a few puzzle / card games (Venbrux Software, and stuff by Zach Gage, are good). I also turn off almost all notifications (I can get actual text messages and phone calls and my alarm clock and that's it).
The author provided an update at the bottom. His hack cut the tone from 6m to 1m 30s. The official rockstar patch took it down to 1m 53s. It’s MUCH better but still off the mark by a bit.
> You can however assess how smart somebody is

Are you saying the Leetcode-style interview assesses how smart someone is?
Actual LOL

Have you ever tried to fight spam at scale? It’s trivial to block the 50% of obvious spam accounts, but we are at the stage of humanity where the activity of very dumb humans and the activity of very clever bots, EASILY overlap. A lot.

Bots will use proxies that use residential IPs, they will maintain session info (Cookies, User-Agents, etc) they will move the mouse and introduce jitter, their access patterns aren’t random but are engineered to work in the day night hours that match the geo-data of the IP they are using. They solve captchas, at the same rate that humans do (time, error rate)

Some human accounts look like bots. They sign up and upload a couple of files which immediately get high traffic. They use NordVPN so their public IP is shared by thousands of “known bots”, their access patterns are weird and unpredictable.

Yes, you can use machine learning to try and identify theses but then you end up with false positives and real people having problems like the poster above.

And on top of all that, bots are constantly subverting detection so whatever solution you have now won’t work next week.
SyncThing is actually really good. The main issue is integrations. A lot of mobile apps work with Dropbox but not with decent FOSS alternatives.
Might be a quibble but Rogers doesn't own the leafs. They own the jays. MLSE owns the leafs. Rogers has a partial ownership of the MLSE. Not sure stake but its not large
IIRC, Hotmail provided 2 MB when Gmail was released. The 1 GB amount was so large by contrast that people thought it was a joke.
"healthy home cooked food is as cheap or even cheaper than unhealthy fast food"

Is it? You can get a double cheeseburger, small fries and a large soda (the worst part arguably of the whole meal health wise) for 4 dollars at McDonalds. You can skip the fries, and get 2 double cheeseburgers for the same price. The McDonalds app will often give you a large fry for free for the 4 dollar purchase.

Whats the comparable food you can be making for 4 dollars at the grocery store?

Cooking only helps when you can get economy of scale going. And only when you can use up all the ingredients you can bought effectively. Also you need the energy to make the food, if you are getting up at 7am to get your kids to school, then pick them up at 6 (when after school ends) and get home at 630, and then need to cook for 30 minutes, then another 15 to get dishes and everything put away. Your looking at not even being "done" with "work" until 715pm when you started the day at 7am. Acting like the time to cook and clean is free is not productive.
he wrote this long time ago...
>> "cloud providers" should be treated like something that can fail. We already don't trust hard drives, that's why we have RAID

"Can fail" is certainly true, just like a hard drive can fail.

But we'd all be rightfully upset if someone at Western Digital decided to some to our home and proactively delete files from our HDD.
OneDrive recently switched to cloud stored and you have to jump through hoops to make it so you have a local copy of everything.
Yeah, of course they are. They can already meet them, but it makes it much harder for someone new to start competing.
My first thought when seeing "tech-focused" was "let's see, I hung out in alt.atheism... wait, that's like /r/atheism?" (I see there's also an /r/nonsequitur/, kinda like alt.non.sequitur though the reddit version seems a more....attached to reality.)
Does this kind of header compression mean anything of value, am asking seriously. I'm not an HTTP person but typically I'd expect the body to dwarf the header, and if you are doing many small requests such that the header is larger then the rest, then I wonder if maybe that's not the right way.

If header compression is worth anything much then ok, if it isn't then why might it be being done.
I think it is a little more than just a drug search engine. If you come to to a local pharmacy the price of a generic drug will $50, but if you show them the GoodRx referral with a price quote they will sell it for $5. Not sure what their relationship with the pharmacies are.
Oh, that's a fascinating wild post.

> Google ended up acquiring and eating Usenet, becoming Google Groups.

They did not acquire usenet, they acquired Dejanews, a big usenet-archive and gateway to the usenet. Usenet itself is made of decentraliced servers. Everyone can have one, most big providers and tech-companies had one in the early days. Each with their own groups. There also were public groups, maintained by some hive-mind-org or something.

Anyway, Usenet still exists, it's not dead, technically. But there is also not much alive either. File sharing on commercial servers seems to be very popular now, and the discusion-groups are receiving more spam than actual worthy content.

> Reddit fills some of this niche, but Usenet was tech-focused,

50:50 I'd say. There were many tech-groups. But pretty fast there were also an equal amount of non-tech-groups. And in terms of hyper-focus I would say, reddit has far more focus today than usenet ever delivered. It's more about finding a sub and filling it.

> generally quite professional and frankly didn't have the same clientele as Reddit does.

I get the impression your problem is more about the people, not the platform. Yes, usenet had more nerds and expert, more technical capable people. But usenet was also significant smaller, as was the whole internet at the time. You had some kind of natural selection, as internet generally, and usenet specifically only lured very specific people in. With special interests, from a special age and culture. Today it's different, you have anyone from anywhere making a space. I'd say those time are lost forever. At best you get some overhomogenized communities, like this hackernews here. But if you look at reddit, discord, or web-forums in general, you will still find hyper-focused spaces. Just not necessarily with the kind of people your chemistry matches with.
Swap helps for some use cases - the most common one being having two large programs, but only using one at a time. Imagine having Photoshop and Illustrator both open, both using 6GB of RAM on an 8GB machine - if you're only using Photoshop then the OS can swap out Illustrator's RAM to make room - but if you're actively using both that won't work.
Genuinely curious about this question. Were you unable to search or browse the site for some reason? What was the impetus behind asking this?
This is only true for a fraction of all healthcare that’s actually consumed. For my family, over past 4 years, maybe 10% of our healthcare consumption carried a significant risk of death if we elected to not consume it.

As an explicit example, my wife took our infant daughter to a doctor the other day, because she was coughing and sneezing for a week already, and she wanted him to confirm that it’s most likely nothing to worry about. The doctor agreed. Insurance was billed $200, with $10 paid by us out of pocket. If we had to pay $200 out of pocket, we’d probably wait another week (and ended up not paying anything at all, because the coughing indeed disappeared before the end of the second week).
imo ads - online or offline - are fine, but the internet has enabled advertisers to use so many shady tricks to milk more data (and money) out of consumers.

I’m completely desensitized to ads and know people who won’t click on ads at all. I wonder how effective ads are then.
except they should have notified their customer of the dmca violations on their account, if they did not .. that would run afoul of the dmca, right?
Programming languages tend to get programmed in programming languages.

The cool part is really how concise this kind of code is in a lisp (from OP):

https://github.com/turbopape/scheje/blob/master/src/scheje/i...

It's kind of magical! If someone explained this code in say a programming lecture, they would be compelled to dress like a wizard.
If you just want a server, you can use an android phone already. Either pick one that works with postmarketOS, or termux could work fine (I don't know the overhead of that though). No point in using an iPhone here.
English please?
Ugh, am embarrassed by my coding style, from back then. The product still works on Windows XP, but is in storage in Iowa (am in California). Next time I visit family, will bring it out.
It also assumes the conclusion "people will always be sad" despite this being disproven over and over again in the 250 years since the idea was proposed.
Not sure this applies here since the OP seems to be only for certain hardware, but...

I'd have bought an android tabled years ago if I had found something that seriously competes with the iPad Pro 12" versions.
It totally depends on wherever you want to teach already programmers how the web works or if you want to teach programming starting with the web as their first technology.
at worst they should scan files that are shared then.
That's actually good news I wasn't aware of. I have a couple Macs (a MacBook and an iMac) that I mostly just use for browsing. As long as they get security updates I'm pretty well set.

I probably will replace the iMac with a Mac Mini at some point but this means there's no rush.
https://nextcloud.com/

https://syncthing.net/
You mean if the content does not cater to people who are well-off enough to pay for it with money?

There are many people who simply don't have the financial means to support all the content they like. Does that content not deserve to exist? Should quality internet content really be a class question?
Hungary. Yeah they told me to wait 6-8 weeks for a custom MBP. It was 20 weeks ago. :)
Apple and Major League Baseball Announce July “Friday Night Baseball” Schedule
Well you can do as you wish I suppose, but personally I would rather avoid getting into gun battles with machinegun toting bank robbers. Better for the government to hire some men to do it for the rest of us. You know, like police.
Blocking illegal content is censorship.
Ford needs to be careful, yes. But Comcast in this example doesn't need to be. And for you to compete with Comcast by spinning your own ISP and having your own cables is not likely.
Does ORY actually have 2FA yet? I remember the last time I checked it out it was pretty off putting that they advertised 2FA in the marketing material and Readme but it wasn’t actually there.
thanks for all the time you put into this.
LOL. I hope this happens, maybe it will wake people up to the consequences of allowing this practice to happen.
s/page/font, which is what `font-display: optional` does, sort of. There's a 100ms blank grace period, and if the font's not ready by then it uses the fallback font. (It'll still load, and be ready in cache for the next page visit)
Yes, all modern browsers divide their cache per-site. Some large advertising companies like Taboola have abused caches to store unique identifiers. I won't be shocked if Google and Facebook have also used this, so Safari (from 2013, https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110269), Firefox (depending on settings from 2018 and widely deployed in 2020, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/State_P...) and Chrome (from 2020, https://developer.chrome.com/blog/http-cache-partitioning/) now separate caches.
I've been having somewhat similar issues without overloading the system. For context, I have an M1 Max 14" with 64GB of RAM.

When I join a zoom meeting in my web browser, the system hangs for a few seconds. There's also random issues like my bluetooth keyboard lagging and then repeating keys for the first few seconds after it reconnects. It also intermittently seems to drop keys from my USB keyboard when connected to CalDigit TB4 dock and needs to be unplugged and re-plugged in multiple times.
> The abomination that was Google Groups

FYI, Google Groups are literally the “groups” of Google Workspace — every time you create a group of users to e.g. assign that group some GCP roles, that group then also gets an email address (that being the group’s global primary key), and that email address then implicitly becomes a mailing list all group members are subscribed to.

It’s actually very useful in a corporate Google Workspace context — it’s rare to need an actual mailing list given Slack et al, but they’re effectively “group email-forwarding aliases”, allowing messages to e.g. devops-billing@example.com to arrive in the inboxes of multiple people.
I don't know if it's worth it but maybe contribute to cloud compute like DreamLab
Mystery spill detected in Baltic off Swedish coast
Perhaps there's another collectively shared work experience that also created leetcode style interviews. That is dealing with someone who has a degree, can speak well of what it takes to code, but who cannot code to save their life. I have known more than a dozen such "engineers". That's the reason you code during an interview, I think the emphasis on optimal O(N) is just a set of engineers who don't believe it should be "that easy" and doesn't really help produce more of a signal.

My coding question, for example,

You have a music player that should be playing a 900 song list randomly. You notice that you keep hearing a song being repeated during your drive and you are curious if its truly random. You also keep hitting skip in the hopes a particular song comes up. Write a piece of code that simulates this.

You should tell me three things;
1) the number of songs played before a repeat occurs
2) how many songs needed to be played before you played them all
3) after you succeed in playing them all, how many times has the most common song been played.

You can use libraries if you know them, and you can use the built in sort method in the language, I will google it for you if you don't remember the syntax.
Any backup which is the lone backup isn’t a backup at all.
I use Rust for the amazing types, map/filter/reduce, and, even if I never write macros myself, beautiful libraries like serde and clap. I do need to often use async to wait for multiple network requests at once, although I'm not quite comfortable with it.

Requesting urls n-at-a-time took me a while (https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...). In particular rust-analyzer itself cannot figure out `buffer`'s type here.

You can consider me very intrigued by Lunatic.
As far as I know, if you just have the files as "Keep local" or whatever, Dropbox will still delete them locally if it's removed from Dropbox. The only exception is if you're also using the backup feature to backup certain folders on your machine that's not in the Dropbox folder.
I hate to diagnose people over the internet, but have you ever been tested for autism?
I too did a double take on that, I thought you’d left out “without”. It’s a hard balance huh?

Perhaps the ideal way would be to have your main cabin with no real internet, and a 100 yard path to your tiny work cabin with internet. A physical friction to prevent needless interruption.

One can dream.
I enjoyed my Neato XV-11 back in 2010. It had laser room mapping and planning, automatic self-charging as needed, and scheduling back when Roomba was the only alternative and only offered "bounce in random directions" robots. No software, cloud or otherwise, required. Scheduling was done on a small screen on the vacuum itself. I gave it away to someone else after 8 years.
Glad I'm not the only one. The Wikipedia summary was enough.
Even if you use N cores, you still get a massive benefit from being able to let >N threads wait on IO events simultaneously using concurrency/multitasking/async.