skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see these as more art and a statement about Linux’s ubiquitousness rather than anything especially meaningful. There’s probably not a lot of people who want to run Doom on a lamp, but people did that anyway.
I think people overlook web forums. I would point to

https://coderanch.com/

https://www.dpreview.com/forums

and

https://polyamory.com/

as good examples. There are a lot of dead forums out there, but there are also ones where the administrators make the effort to greet new users and make them feel welcome. For instance that last forum covers a fraught issue where emotions run pretty high but the administrators do a good job of "onboarding" new users.
I just don't think voting by mail can be done securely the way they did it.

Sorry still have doubts about the integrity of your election.

Somehow Biden out performed Obama with Black Americans in Detroit, who apparently came out and voted in record numbers for him. Yeah, I just don't believe it.

81 million votes. The most popular president ever. Yet the same guy couldn't get 10k views on some of his youtube videos. Yet had problems winning his own party. Somehow won the fewest counties ever, yet had the most votes ever. Delayed counting, strange ballot drop offs in the middle of the night, reversals in counts by the morning.
I just don't believe it. I'm not an American. This is just my opinion. Election looked Soviet tiered.

You know, judges existed in Communist countries too. Good luck getting anywhere with any of them by claiming the elections were fake. They obviously were. The judicial system is a rubber stamp for the system, 99% of the time. The fact that none of those appeals went anywhere should be more of a tip off than anything.
From TFA, “Now it was just a matter of what I like the most, hacking on Linux”. This isn’t a product for users, it’s one of this persons hobbies.
I can install drop box in under ten minutes. I don't have to manage security patches for all the binaries in the stack. My data is available in network edge locations close to me or the people I share it with. I can turn dollars into more storage very easily. I don't have to configure user permissions and groups in more than one place.

Also, what you described is not "sftp + cvs + vps" ;D
Google Cloud Sets World Record by Calculating Pi to 100T Digits
Usenet still exists, but some groups are mostly (but not entirely) spam, at least when you view them through Google Groups, for example comp.lang.python at https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.python . It would be great if a coordinated effort to mark spam as spam cleaned up comp.lang.python. https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.fortran has less spam, and I regularly flag spam there.
I looked up a few of the medications I take and the prices were about even with what I pay at Costco. This is great if it is more accessible for more people
> I wasted way too much time to scan the notes I took

you answered yourself why the scan approach is impractical.
Not yet, as it's just a tweet with no details about what happened after he contacted said humans, if he has.
> I don't think it's ever been normal to use 'male' and 'female' instead of 'men' and 'women' in normal conversations

It's common in deliberately dehumanizing contexts; you’ll see it a lot historically (in writing, we don't have audio recordings) in the context of the slave trade, it's used as distancing language by law enforcement, and “female” became somewhat common among people who talk about women-as-possessions from about the late 20th century.
> Cheap energy is how we've created our society.

Agree.

> The (huge) problem we're facing is that our economy is based on the (incorrect) assessment that we will have an ever-increasing supply of energy.

I'd add to that: the problem isn't so much that energy sources are currently running out. We've still got decades of fossil fuels left over to run the existing economy.

This makes the problem even harder to solve. We do have the energy. It sits right there, tempting states to grant permission to use it. But states ought to refrain from using it because the ecosphere/climate is in danger.

States globally switching to renewable energy would be much easier than it is (almost effortless), if we were truly running out of fossil energy.

As things are, states that undertake the enormous effort to make the transition to renewables, are at an economic disadvantage, at least in the short-term.

Thus the one big challenge is the political one, of setting up an international treaty that somehow turns this economic disadvantage into incentives for the transition.
If you have bad designers then yes, that makes your life harder. But insisting on a custom font doesn’t make that person a bad designer if there’s a valid reason why including it would improve the users’ experiences.
Personally, I think a more Marxist approach is correct in realizing that people follow their economic class.
Someday, if only we could get a basic NAS that fits three 2TB HDD and retail for $199.
Can Analog Make a Comeback?
Sell it or repurpose it, just like anything that gets replaced (fridge, blender, car, etc..)?

Just because your old device doesn't support linux doesn't mean it's a brick. (Surely you were aware before you bought the device that it doesn't support linux).
Edit: you substantially changed your comment after complaining about downvotes. That’s not cool. Note that you edited it.

VPS companies delete customer data for all kinds of reasons, just as arbitrarily as Dropbox. I’ve had VPSes at dozens and dozens of places over the years. I’ve seen them accidentally delete servers, purposefully disable stuff for what they claimed were hacked sites that weren’t actually hacked (so that’s scanning right there), I’ve seen them go out of business because the owner was 15 years old, I’ve seen them go out of business because they sold to Endurance or whoever, I’ve seen their data centers catch on fire — taking everyone’s data with it, I’ve seen them accidentally delete whole clusters.

And I excuse it in most of those cases because it is a VPS I pay a pittance for and don’t run production on, but the risk is always there. Trusting your data to Dropbox or OneDrive makes a lot more logical sense, especially if you aren’t knowingly violating any of their rules.

And yes, you can colocate. I’ve done that too. But I no longer have the energy to do that, especially if my box is in a data center I can’t physically access.

I backup about 5 different places because I’m always afraid of someone fucking me over. But for Dropbox to do this, is truly terrible. Especially for an unlisted rule.
I will simply not do that
Many of the VPS providers have a backup option. My personal preference is to have a VM at a few different VPS providers and a cron job that uses lftp to do a rsync-like replication between VPS providers using SFTP. The advantage of lftp over rsync is that I can sync between accounts that are chroot sftp-only with nearly identical capabilities of rsync. The lftp client can also break up one file into multiple TCP streams.

In the event a provider terminates my account I could not care less. The files will be at multiple providers and HAProxy will automatically remove them when the content validation health checks fail.
> So, what books did you read more than once and are worth keep reading?

I reread most of the books that I enjoyed reading the first time. Reading is my hobby, I only read what I like reading. Likewise, if I don't like a book after reading the first 50 pages, I stop reading. The earlier I admit my mistake, the better.
Sorry, who do you think designs the simpler, accessible, secure, private, content-centred sites?
You should see the 10x engineer's jumping jacks.
Linux always boots perfectly fine with TPM hardware support disabled, even when there actually is such a chip built in.

The real showstopper would be if "SecureBoot" would be enforced. I hope it never actually happens for personal computers. Everything else in the consumer electronics business is pretty much a lost cause already.
There's a $5 shipping fee that isn't included until check out, so for a lot of cheap drugs it's still cheaper to go thru GoodRX/Walmart/other discount programs.
Ensuring the recovery email provider being used for your account remains active is your (the users) responsibility. You call the recovery email “invalid” but in this case it’s a perfectly valid email address because somebody owns that domain. There’s no way you can expect Google to make a special arrangement for you to change the email at the behest of social engineering. What you’re trying to do is get a google employee to removing/changing that recovery email against standard protocol and I hope it doesn’t happen for (everybody else’s) security’s sake.
> The question was about commercial Unix, and MacOS is commercial Unix just as much as Solaris, AIX, etc.

Precisely. For those attempting to deny this, He's right you know.

macOS is a commercial and certified Unix and is still sold as part of their Macs. So that is still true to this day.
I really miss the Android Marshmallow era version of Google Maps before the Material Design conquest. It was such a useful map for navigation. We used it with offline maps on a tablet to travel all over Scotland.

When they redesigned it really hit home that you were the product and not the consumer of Google Maps. They removed all the useful metadata about routes like the elevation timeline. Configurable POIs were replaced with highest bidder adverts. I had to submit feedback for half a year complaining before they finally added back the Scale, and even then it was an off by default setting.

At least for me, Google Maps is only useful if I know my destination and it's no longer a meaningful discovery tool for what's around me.
I cut GTA Online loading times (2021)
This is really all about the iPads to me. Having that "magical piece of glass" run free software for years to come is an absolute win.
And Taco Bell
I worked at different startups while being a freelancer. The one that provided the best environment for me to work as an engineer:

- Great welcome packages (computer all set up, some cool swag, and a person I could easily ask questions)

- Unlimited budgets for tools I judge necessary

- Time for learning. One company had a moment once every two weeks where an engineer would present his findings about a new technology. You could choose to share anything you thought was interesting for others in your team. Could have been a git functionality, a new framework, or a tool.

- Daily standups and very few to no meetings during the day. => This is important. One startup I worked at had me in meetings half a day and was expecting me to ship like I was working a full day.
I use ResilioSync (formerly Bittorrent Sync) for my personal Dropbox-like stuff. The iOS client is sparse but functional, and it has clients for pretty much every OS I need, including arm Debian... so I have my 'not-quite-Dropbox' home on a Raspberry Pi.

We also use it to cross-backup photo libraries with an avid photographer friend who lives across town.

It works very, very well.
It seems like a good opportunity to use automation to cut out a lot of admin bloat. So the motivation here would be to make a ton of money.

I think one of the issues with healthcare is the incentives are out of whack to increase costs as that makes more profit. For example, insurance has to pay out premiums in benefits so to make more money they raise premiums and pay out more, but have a higher profit at the same margin.

For example, if I collect $100 in premiums and pay out $80, then I have a gross profit of $20. And it’s hard to increase that. So how about I increase premiums to $120 and pay out $96? Now I have $24 in profit. So I don’t care much about increasing costs as it makes me more.

If I just have robots processing orders and can funnel all the profits directly to me (or a small group of employees and investors) then I’m able to take lots of market from “fat” insurers before I maximize my market share and start to increase costs.

The nice part about this is that it disrupts the current insurer, pharmacy, drug company environment where none of them care much about costs.
Judge of Elections.
I encountered a false positive where a pure text file made up of personal log entries was flagged by antivirus as malicious, and it started fighting me on trying to restore the file from a backup as well. Fortunately, I was eventually able to recover it, although I've forgotten how.

Probably my most memorable lesson in unexpected failure modes for complex, automated software.
Photos from the day when US Government nuked Mississippi, 1964
Tone tags ruin a perfectly good joke
Have you heard of Amazon's "LP" interviews? It seems to be a little bit like that. The challenge there is to tell a number of well-rehearsed stories.
If you think Apple has your best interests at heart, I'd like to kindly direct you to what happens when they have total control — it's iOS.

The duopoly doesn't want you to own your general purpose computing device.
There's the concept of the AI effect, where the goalposts for what is considered AI are continuously moved so that they no longer encapsulate what today's AI can do.

I wonder if the same thing applies to godhood. For thousands of years, humans have shifted the evolutionary path of other species. We create humans outside of the human body every day. We manipulate fundamental forces and create particles. For fun, we interact with virtual worlds full of creatures we made. We've even put life on other worlds.

Maybe our universe is just some greaterverse being's homework.
I would point out that there are places where having boilerplates is a significant time savings. I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out the practical application sometimes outweighs the cons.
If anyone doesn’t get the reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Same thing happening on iOS right now. Banking app refuses to run if you jailbroke your phone
And by “more than a few years” you mean “nine years”, in the case of Safari (which is usually somewhere between a third and a half of web traffic depending on your userbase).
> Same with the TPM, except the effect will be far more disasterous - a complete loss of admin control over your machine when it runs under Windows.

You can just switch it all off in UEFI? What's the problem?

My guess is that they really want to do this because:

1. they're trying to push OEMs to care a little bit about security in their designs

2. it helps OEMs sell new devices and therefore new windows licenses

3. public opinion on windows security is bad
Spoiler, no one is taking one for the team.

I don’t actually want to rely on altruism and I prefer a solid, non-exploitative business model where people do a good job because they want to get paid.
Or Disney or Ford or McDonald's or Goldman Sachs or 1000s of others. Even in pharmacy, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and many others are named after founders.
About time Flarum is noticed!
I have been using Flarum through unitedbsd.com. It's nice and snappy.
Might be a lil too modern for some communities. Especially OSS ones. But is fine IMO.

My problem with discourse has been that Firefox shows FB tracker warning in irregular intervals on the top-left corner. It's says FB tracker. It makes me uneasy. But somehow it is the standard for all OSS communities.
Ask HN: Are there any new social networks you're excited about?
Quick question: how does this differ from keycloak? Are they competing products or do they work fundamentally differently?
Ok, then docker compose some Nextcloud on it, that’ll be some 20 lines? Add some more for Treafik for the let’s encrypt certs.
How do you use Office365 specifically email?

I only use it for one of my lesser used domains and it is the worst email/app experience I have had in ages.

For some reason the outlook app went blank and had to resync. Missed a really important email. It gets like 100 MS update emails which have zero relevance to me and then it sends random emails I am not sure how to unsub from. It shows notifications for all those random emails and actual important ones get lost.

I got it for the 1TB storage space and teams(let me not even start on that). But now I am seriously considering moving that domain to gmail and zoom.
Dropped out after 3 years since my family made it impossible to finish.

Was at 6 figures 2 years later. They're a multitude of paths one can take. I met a high school dropout the other day who easily makes more than most of the degree holders I know.

Nothing stops you from dropping out and going back.
Malicious compliance.

I imagine that Teksavvy, et. al. would not do it, but the point of the exploit is that the lists are dynamic, supplied by the NHL/ESPN/whoever. Get the provider to make a list that blocks everything.

Could be as simple as creating a web site posting that there is an intention to stream a game. Just a list: "I hear that you can watch the upcoming Leafs game on IP a.b.c.d". Let NHL/ESPN/whoever scrape it. Start with providing nothing but "bad actors". Spring the trap by flooding with sites you desire to be blocked, you know, just before the next playoffs.

This is pretty much the same strategy used to poison bittorrent feeds. More effective, though. In the case of bittorrent, only really popular torrents can be poisoned. In this case, there are a very limited number of targets that need to be attacked.
> Big Pharma looks obscene sometimes.

Sometimes? The medical industrial complex's MO is to squeeze as many people (in the USA) as they can for every penny they have. The American sheeple have been duped to vote against their own best interest (a single-payer system). We don't have the best medical care in the world and we pay at least 10x for it.
In my experience, "democratic socialists" aren't as upfront about being sexually abusive as techno-anarchists. They're more about roping people into sex to be a part of the scene because that's SO totally revolutionary against monogamous heteronormativity or whatever word salad.
I didn't know that Bell was the founder's name. Thanks for that tidbit!
Just a single advantage, I should allow others that use VS more regularly than I. VS also has all of the same types of things you mention as advantages for VSCode as well.

I'm not advocating for people using it necessarily, just saying it is a really high quality IDE if you need or want to use an IDE.
The Leetcode system is incredibly self-perpetuating for some reason.
Triodos Bank announces 18 hours long service interruption
I quite like Jessie Frazzel, so it pains me to say this: Reality is not in line with what she says in this post.

The paper she's referring to specifically calls out hardening guidelines for containers to make them more secure, but that is not how containers are run, even on GKE (a platform I consider to be the defacto gold standard for container platforms).

Aside from the issue of signing (which, is a continued problem in windows-land FYI) not being the default, even seccomp is disabled by default in the overwhelming majority of cases. Even flatpak only uses seccomp to filter "the most risky syscalls" (perf, ptrace, weird network protocols like DECnet and recursive namespaces).

What I'm trying to say is: ticking the box that seccomp is enabled is not useful if you're allowing bind mounts.

Why would you allow bind mounts? that's insane?!

Well, usability is a trade-off my friend, and telling people their fancy sandboxed application can't read their ~/Downloads folder is not going to fly.

The only solution is an all-encompassing one, with a prompt system like macos has to allow only a selected number of mounts, but that's going to be handled at a completely different level than seccomp itself, and seccomp will be explicitly permitted to do this; thus protections against this one specific thing could be thwarted. This is but one of many things.

Solving security for the general case is really hard. As Jess herself points out in that article.
Legit thought this was a reference to the infamous Dropbox HN comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
We’re All In: The Ecosia Manifesto
If I'm understanding their basic message, the pitch is "we can get you cheaper prescriptions because we're a well run business that's making a rational but not exorbitant profit" and linking your branding to someone already famous for running businesses seems to be a very reasonable way to add credibility to that message.

In other words, I don't think Cuban puts his name on all businesses he's involved in like this, but for this case specifically it seems fairly obvious that using his name furthers their message.
They don't really have to do a full turn, if they can predict direction with any sort of accuracy they could at least reduce the exposed surface area with a minor shift.
I just posted one of my own, and I agree with your sentiment.

I would like to see a future where humans achieve symbiosis with machines. Our brains acting as a limbic system to a larger sovereign machine entity. Still “you”, but more.

For such a thing to work, many ideas need to change. Data ownership, sovereignty, and the core philosophy in regards to machine-human augmentation needs to be reworked in groundbreaking ways.

As it stands, with megacorporations having no respect for individual access to their data on services at the whims of the corps, human machine symbiosis is about the scariest thing imaginable right now.
Strange radio burst raises new questions
If your hand hurts after writing with a pen you're probably holding it wrong. There are a lot of complex biomechanics going on and very little attention is paid to building proper form any more. Proper form costs nothing beyond a little of your time training yourself out of whatever bad form you happen to have adopted.

The most common reason for your hand hurting after an extended writing session is a death grip on the writing tool; ideally you should be holding it just hard enough to put it where you want. Someone should be able to lean over your shoulder and snatch the tool from your hand with little resistance.

Also very common is putting weight on your wrist. Your whole arm should be a little bit active, carrying your hand around the page as you write or draw. Ideally your wrist is completely stiff; this does little for control, but it helps lower the chances of the tendons that control your fingers rubbing up against the bones of your wrist and deteriorating. You could get a wrist brace to help you practice this.

If you want more of this stuff you will find it in vintage "penmanship manuals", from the days when the most convenient method of writing was a fountain pen. I largely got it by word of mouth when I was working in animation next to old pros who routinely passed on their secrets of proper form as a way to help the new kids avoid career-ending wrist injuries from bad form.
Reminds me of Apple laptops with too tiny SSDs which moved stuff automatically to iCloud...
I think it's normal to use 'male' and 'female' when you have to specify species. "Male cats are solitery hunters... while Male humans hunt in groups"

Or when referring to non living things "Male USB connectors" or "Male protagonists".

But I don't think it's normal to refer to your fellow humans as male or female outside of those contexts.

At least that's what I've picked up via cultural osmosis.
I would be under the impression that the M2 has faster single core performance, but the M1 Pro and Max to have better multi-core performance. Until the M2 Pro and Max come out.
> And yet GOG exists and sells games all DRM free.

It is worth noting that GOG exists only because CDPR want it to and subsidise its costs from their other businesses due to their political beliefs.

As a standalone entity GOG would have ceased to exist overnight a long time ago. It's lack of DRM is definitely an argument to why it loses so much money.
Your Car Is Tracking You Just as Much as Your Smartphone Is
Anytime I see celebrity name, I assume marketing campaign. Reddit is simply unusable, everything is an ad outside of posts on technical topics.
Pedants ;)