skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Element Desktop shouldn't freeze, hang or be extremely slow on an account with large numbers of large rooms. My personal account is in around 4000 rooms which span around 500K users, and it's completely usable on Element Desktop on macOS on an average intel macbook from ~4 years ago.

So whatever is going wrong here is presumably a Linux-specific bug on Element Desktop, which I'm unaware of, and haven't heard from any of the other linux Element Desktop users. Have you filed an issue with logs to get it on our radar? HN is not our bug tracker...
Have responded at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32093491.
Not to mention, why should big corporations get to have what would essentially be customer-subsidized tax write-offs?
Did you notice how nearly all the text was copy/pasted from Wikipedia?

Though the KDE one was copy/pasted from the initial KDE email.
While I've been in similar situations and mostly agree with your reasoning, one thing bothers me. Your calculations of engineering hours, which is how most cloudy stuff gets motivated, hinges on two points. One is that operating the software and using it are so disparate that those two or three trained experts could not also be your developers. But in a small organization, that's likely to be the case. Or put another way, if your developers refuses to gain experitse in the technology, what business do you have relying on it?

The other point is the implicated idea that, somewhat rightfully, operating the software without expert knowledge is "amateur hour" but apparently developing for the same software without knowing what you are doing is somehow ok? To me, that doesn't make sense. The same logic applies there, where you need a handful of people to counter sick leave, accidents and other unplanned human outages.

This is especially true with Elastic. Sure, running a production cluster on some developer laptop which suddenly reboots for updates isn't great, but neither are broken schemas, uncontrolled bucket growth, broken stemming, or any other of a million things that can go haywire logically without operations being an issue.

There's simply no getting away from requiring expertise. If it's your part of your day job, you need to really know the stuff. Yet not knowing what you're doing is so taken for granted that "throw it in the cloud so at least the operations people know what they're doing" is completely accepted logic.

That doesn't mean cloud services are bad per se, but the expertise-not-needed argument is. This in turn changes the economics considerably. Sorry for going on a tangent. I know I'm the odd one here but I can't bring myself to accept it.
> Assuming I have 100k text blurbs I want to classify of sentiment and/or emotion and want at least 95% accuracy, what are the options?

The way I think Google does it with reCAPTCHA is to request classification for each item multiple times. If they differ, keep sending them out until you get a consensus on those items. It weeds out those responses that were just basically random clicks.
*Apple fixed the vulnerability in Big Sur 11.6.6
Whilst I hate Captive Portals in most circumstances (most hotels I stay at have completely broken implementations) we find them to be extremely useful.

We run LAN gaming events and a Captive Portal helps us enforce our physical check in procedure. If someone has somehow bypassed checkin, they have no access to our network... puts a bit of a downer at a LAN event.
More expensive and worse wins if it enhances your perceived social status. For example, Ferraris are not the best track cars, they're not the worst either, but they are a potent status symbol. In any case there exist much cheaper options which can outperform them.
Now this could be a fake story, ie check your car seats have the elements to heat the seats or enquire with your dealer if your car has this facility, the press will keep stuff quiet if they need to, but if these heated seats do exist in your car and you are a good enough hacker, then you just a got a Brucie Bonus if you play your cards right!
For anyone in areas with Aspen trees, they are a single organism since they spread via roots. That is why you see groves of Aspen trees that seem to be sharply delineated, it's all one tree.

Biology is just fascinating/scary like this, but knowing this makes the experience of standing in an aspen grove during the height of summer even more powerful. It's all one connected organism thst has spread so far that you can't see anything else of the mountain while standing in the middle of the grove.
I want to see a comparison of the infrared from Hubble vs the infrared from James.

I also want to normalize calling JWST just "James" :)
Not that I'm defending this outrageous rent seeking - but just to play devils advocate. If you use it for half the year, you could presumably subscribe to it for half the year.
If you don’t need to access via phones, gocryptfs is a good option.

It might be possible via terminal to mount in Android, but I am not sure about iOS.

Cryptomator does a lot more on user friendliness, looking at their community page.
I want the software in cars to be locked down. I don't want to be on the road with a car that's running some hacked together software. That's what makes this so infuriating - the risks involved in switching to an open source version of the software are too severe.
This is anything but new. In Germany BMW sells cars since years, where the engine power is throttled by default and the throttling can be disabled for an extra fee. Former colleges of mine are working on the business side of this, trying to figure out the sweet spot for the fees, managing marketing campaigns through every possible digital channels, etc. Serving the devil pays well btw...
Phone charger regulations were based on the need to reduce e-waste caused by every phone having a different charger.

I think the same principle could be applied here. Heated seats that can't be used are causing increased emissions as the car needs to move them around without actually providing any benefit to the owner, and so should be regulated.
>Will intel now rent me an extra few hundred peak mhz too?

I'm _certain_ this is on an internal roadmap for fairly soon
Which applies to a lot of online content, especially on Reddit

Kamala 2020!!!! could be a ringing endorsement, a lighthearted parody of ringing endorsement or utter derision depending on context so I'm not even sure the commenter classifying it as "neutral" was wrong.
No meters in neighborhoods around here, just painted curbs. I only see meters on very dense downtown blocks, and many seem to be solar powered (which seems feasible for an LCD and a card slot).
I've switched out my seats for heated ones and the difference is an extra block on the seat loom and some metallic slivers in the upholstery. I have noticed absolutely no difference in my fuel economy and, being a nerd, I data log everything.
The current video rooms implementation is powered by Jitsi, which optionally exposes E2EE for clients which support it (Element Web on Chrome and possibly Safari) via insertable streams and megolm crypto from Matrix. It isn't hooked into Matrix's key identity system though.

In the nearish future we'll swap it to use Element Call which now has native Matrix E2EE over native Matrix calling and works on all platforms: https://element.io/blog/element-call-beta-2-encryption-spati...

In terms of crypto UX being problematic in Element as a whole: yes, there is still work to be done to improve the UX, and we're very aware of it.
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When "crypto enthusiasts" talk about privacy some people think they just mean the usual confidentiality expectations of conventional banking. But banks are required to keep records for accountability. The goal is to prevent money laundering and tax fraud. Cash payments are generally accepted for smaller transactions but anyone accepting large amounts of cash as payment will want to keep similar records to avoid running afoul of these same money laundering laws (unless they're intentionally trying to do a crime).

Banks offer confidentiality, these people want complete secrecy. But most of them aren't insurrectionists or revolutionaries who fear political persecution while they try to overthrow the government. They just want to conduct businesses outside the reach of the government. Or to put it simply: they want to commit money laundering and tax fraud without being caught.

Don't mistake "crypto enthusiasts" (as in cryptocurrencies) talking about privacy for actual crypto punks (as in cryptography). There's a reason the people rallying for "privacy" in crypto tech are venture capitalists and sketchy wealthy people rather than organizations like the EFF.
https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2015/10/13/goodbye-twitter/

I remember reading this the day you posted it. I honestly really looked up to you as a Scala community member and open source evangelist. I even attended the talk you hosted at Twitter on using Kleisli arrows for HTTP request composition and processing. I have no issue with your political beliefs but as I stated think it’s quite disappointing to see people invest so much energy into destructive social vigilantism.
Using MQTT, my Sonoff with Tasmota on it, as soon as it gets a message to switch, it will reply with it's current state. Seems simple enough?
Yes but this assumes infinite availability of the resources required for battery production. Given they are in Africa and Asia, this is gonna be way more difficult in the rising new world order with the shrinking influence of the US and EU as the Pax Americana is dying a slow death.

BRICS nations and friends will make the near future very uncomfortable for Westerners used to affluence.
> and they are just becoming one of the 50 EV car makers out there.

The Model Y was recently the best-selling car regardless of technology (i.e. overall best-selling passenger car) in several countries. Most notably, last month in China.
Backend developer here

If it's a new language, I create a small CLI poker game. It allows me to feel out most of the important parts of a language, as well as how ergonomic it is.

New framework, usually a small wiki with a custom markdown parser. It lets me get dirty with routing, the database, rendering, user state, and injecting custom code.
"Cucumber time" is the season, where news paper doesn't have anything to report on than cucumbers.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-cuc2.htm

https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agurketid
Mostly agreed.

> The 2m of rainfall in Singapore won't do you much good if it's contaminated.

If you collect it directly as rainwater, should be fine?

How clean your water has to be and how much you need depends also on your energy budget.

If you have limitless energy, you can distill almost basically source of water, and get something potable out. (If you have large but not infinite amounts of energy, you can eg condense water from the air. Our dew point in Singapore is typically roughly around 24C almost all the time.

Singapore as a country has also heavily invested in recycling of water, see eg https://www.pub.gov.sg/watersupply/fournationaltaps/newater and we also have some desalination going. And the reservoirs I already talked about.
No, Monero is not pegged to any other currency
Re: response for a tactical nuke detonation

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/207353...
Cf. https://github.com/hardcore-sushi/DroidFS on Android.
Plus you could get those renewable systems online tomorrow (or get them much much cheaper in 2030), vs nuclear where you pay today and then just hope it doesn't massively overrun time and budget...
Yes. But I was more worried about every neighbour on the block trying to run a hundred hives.
While an 18 year old is not as mature as we are, when you start talking about computer restrictions I think it's very important to realize that we're actually talking about an 18-year-old adult. Let the guy does what he wants, this is absurd!

(fwiw I spent about that much time on the computer at that age and I turned out fine)

EDIT: OP is sparse on details, if this is a "won't get a job, makes mommy pay for everything" situation then that does warrant some form of action, but then the computer is not the cause of the issue - someone who refused to get a job and spent 9 hours a day reading economy text books would still be a problem. There might be social anxiety or depression or some such at play - talk to the guy, be gentle, be supportive, seek professional help if it's really a serious problem.

If the guy is in school you really just don't have a basis to hassle him about what he does in his free time. "My house, my rules" is the creed of authoritarianism parents, trying to dictate the life of an 18 year old will only foster resentment.
These are some pretty great soft-synths worth checking out:

Monome Norns:

https://monome.org/docs/norns/

Zynthian:

https://zynthian.org/
Pi, or rather pi/6=~0.523, has an odd coincidental relationship with a formula involving phi=(√5+1)/2=~1.618, to three places. And, it is just possible that whoever the hell did the Great Pyramid knew of this coincidence.

There is also a strange relationship involving pi, phi, the cubit used there, and the modern meter (which is canonically taken from 1/40,000,000 of the Earth's circumference). The Egyptian cubit, by some mysterious, hermetical coincidence, exactly matches the French royal cubit. The ratio of that cubit to the modern meter is pi/6, to 3 places.

https://www.willemwitteveen.com/the-royal-cubit/

This might all seem like reaching, but the Egyptians were very keen on numerology. They thought it had legitimately divine implications, and that coincidences were none. There are odd coincidences with the size of Earth, moon, and sun involving these values.

You can go down the rabbit hole; https://www.sacredgeometry.blog/the-royal-cubit/

Demanding only three digits of precision to match makes these coincidences a lot easier, but the ancients were probably satisfied by that precision.
Nuclear does not "emit" solid waste, it returns it in nice sealed containers (in small quantities, over a long period of time). When the goal is to minimize environmental impact, it is absolutely fair to class it as "non-emission".
You would think modern wi-fi standards would be able to support per-user username and passwords by now.
Zoom in on a small section of sky and toggle between James and Hubble. James reveals many additional galaxy in each tiny slice of image. Probably hundreds or more in that one image alone.
> When was the last time a switch just restarted to apply updates?

When it's updated by a network team. It's a semi-regular occurrence in many workplaces.

Windows Update is not forced upon Server editions. It can be scheduled at will by administrators.

This complaint is the equivalent of saying that Linux is terrible because an admin scheduled "sudo apt-get update" to run on every node of a cluster at the same instant.

Why would admins running updates concurrently be a failure of Windows, but not a failure of Linux?

I seriously don't get this complaint, ESPECIALLY because the article makes it clear that:

1. The fault was in RabbitMQ, because I quote: "The default partition handling strategy is ignore which means to just enter the partitioned state and keep trucking along in this “split brain” mode thereby thrusting your cluster in to total chaos." [1]

2. Windows update wasn't inherently at fault: "The fix for Windows update was the ensure that nodes in the cluster are patched at different times."

I bet the default partition configuration setting of RabbitMQ is also wrong when running on Linux, and the behaviour would be identically bad if an admin scheduled updates to run concurrently on all cluster nodes.

[1] That's clown-shoes programming, which is why I'm never using RabbitMQ for anything ever. I've only heard bad things, like "the default settings result in corruption and data loss."
Dams are also uniquely vulnerable to climate change, since drought can affect their power output.
Agree that context is often needed! (Which is why it was strange to us that raters weren't presented with any context besides the comment text itself -- not even the subreddit, much less the original Reddit post.)

One interesting question, though: if "LETS FUCKING GOOOOO YOU DINGBAT" were meant to be a combative insult, would someone still add a bunch of O's ("GOOOOO" instead of merely "go")? My intuition is that if combativeness were intended, "let's fucking go, you dingbat" would be more likely than "LETS FUCKING GOOOOO YOU DINGBAT", but of course it's a bit hard to say without that context.
> You better pray and hope that Element does not introduce a crypto wallet, just like what Signal, Session, Keybase has done.

That is not going to happen.
It is much more complex to use compared to GC languages.
Sure, coming back to fix something is absolutely completing actual tasks for the company. But I certainly disagree you can generalize answering a question as "effectively acting as a consultant for [the company]".

Someone who replaced you but you don't know reaches out asking for help on their work? Or you're being asked questions you'd need to dig in to? "Sorry, I don't work there anymore".

But answering a text message from someone you had a good relationship with, who is asking a question in good faith, the answer to which you can recall without effort? Wouldn't agree with calling that consulting.
https://news.crunchbase.com/business/terrible-spac-performer...

“For SPAC investors, however, the good news is there is only a limited distance left to fall. If you’re trading at $2 for instance, at least there’s only $2 left to conceivably lose.”

The SPAC scene in a nutshell haha.
Every news source on the planet it seems. This source didn't localize to your language (I had the same frustration), but every website seems to do this, this one just didn't localize the cookie prompt.

Not going to lie, it seems a bit presumptuous to expect that a local Norwegian source has every aspect of their site optimized for English readers. Aside from the Norwegian text, it was a standard cookie click-through.

Edit: this reads hostile, I mainly want to point out that not every site online is in English and expecting that shouldn't be the norm. I've read excellent Chinese only articles through translation services, it seems unfair to expect everyone to default to English to share their knowledge. Especially now with AI translation being a thing, it seems unfair to criticize a local news source for focusing on their local language. Reading non-English sites is easier now than ever, and translation errors are worth being able to read about more of the world's ideas. There are ideas that don't spread to the wider web simply because the author wrote them in their native language. When it's so easy to get a machine translation that isn't perfect but is serviceable, I have trouble complaining about language issues.
>he had to have them for him to leak them

A smart leaker would then delete them and destroy any disk they touched.

Even if they knew he leaked them, there's no guarantee he would have them on his machine. Which would be another reason to ‘sprinkle some crack on em,' that way he would still be punished if he was prepared.
>massive loss for the EU

Thats the crux of it. Russia aligned with the EU would produce a superpower relationship that even China couldn't confront. This is intolerable to the USA, so: undermine the EU, it is...
«Silly season/cucumber time»

Harvest time, indeed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_season
I have enough faith in my own abilities to evaluate if the dude I'm talking to is a scumbag or not.
I recommend the book "Why we sleep" by Matthew Walker if anyone is interested in the research aspect of what happens when we don't sleep, or don't sleep enough, and the science behind it.

I try and not eat after 9pm, stop watching electrical devices 1 hour before bed, and no caffeine after 3pm, and aim for 8+ hours in bed. Im very happy that I can do this, and not have to worry about getting to work on time (I live close to office)
> I’m still shocked how low the quality of Mechanical Turk was

I don't know about Mechanical Turk, but there is a crowdourcing platform by Yandex. The pay is so low that the reasonable way to earn something is to find a task that is not properly validated and put random answers there from multiple accounts (because there are speed limits). Usually those are tasks by naive foreign companies not knowing about validation.

So if you want high quality you need to implement proper validation, triple check every label by different people and do not expect that someone is going to do it for $5/hour. And maybe you should learn how a crowdsourcing service looks from the worker's side, for example, by registering and trying to do some tasks yourself or by reading forums for workers.
for a start - when you can't afford your requests to time out because there's so many of them but can afford to process them later and/or in bulk.

then you notice that you can do much more than that, but most people start here.
Do elaborate please. I always get that feeling but I'm not able to put it in words.
Is web3 still a thing? Isn't it crashing and burning together with the value of blockchain crypto coins it's nebulously tied to?
Just to clarify point 2 about Git Flow (or Gitflow as is also spelled). It is just one of many workflows that include creating a feature branch off of main and merging it back in, but not the only one. Personally I always found it too complex, even for the intended use case of (enterprise) software with regular release cycles.
> What about the industrial north and the agricultural south?

Guess what kind of labor the economy of the "agricultural south" was dependent on at the time. The Civil War was primarily about slavery, especially the expansion of slavery westward. To argue the opposite is ahistorical nonsense so false it amounts to an outright lie.

Even the Confederacy was open about the fact that slavery was the reason for succession. Just read The Cornerstone Speech given by the vice president of the Confederacy weeks before the Civil War began:

> [The Confederacy's] foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
I test drove a used 2019 BMW. It didn't have features that are quite common, such as Android Auto and adaptive cruise control.

On the one hand, I would have liked the option to turn those features on.

On the other hand, once you factor in how much all those extras cost, BMW would lose on price.

I guess they've always relied on people who are willing to pay more for a BMW. But now they can sell a base model for a price similar to other manufacturers, and win customers who value the BMW brand over features, then charge for upgrades later.
There is this guy called Henry George that wanted this.
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The outcome of punitive retribution is that it undermines the domestic security of the US when convicts sentences are over. They are less integrated into society than before the arrest, and are not rehabilitated from the crime they did, are not rehabilitated from the punishments and society in prison, and are marginalized from the rest of society pushing people towards more petty and violent crimes against the population just for basic food and shelter.

So your idea exacerbates the thing you want to dissuade.

The concept is called recidivism if you are interested in corroborating or learning additional perspectives of this. And why it occurs such as the misaligned incentives that promote recidivism that we as a society can fix.