skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I made no claims either way about anyone's

No that was the second part of my comment where I'm not responding to what you're saying specifically I'm just adding on my own information. Taking the thread as an opportunity, a jumping off point to share what I think.
Well it's either that or write software that's useful enough to business that they want to pay money for the features it provides, but arcane and poorly documented enough that they need to pay your consultancy fees to use it effectively...
Feds put $10m bounty on Putin pal accused of bankrolling US election troll farm
OK, I think we operate in very different epistemic and empathetic architectures -- so lets agree to disagree.
Solar doesn't scale like nuclear. The main reasons why solar is so cheap right now is because the manufacturing is being outsourced in China and you get subsidies and tax reductions for using and trading solar electricity.
It is getting better though, there is research on replacing silicone with less polluting and cheaper materials.
There is a lot of value in predicting where a hurricane is going to hit within 100km in 36 hours. Also things like flood prediction so we can drain lakes ahead of time before the waters start rising. Giving people a forewarning saves lives.
You can quantize the model to 8-bit tensors instead of 16- or 32-bit bfloats. NVidia has dedicated hardware in their latest series of GPUs so that they can do inference with 8-bit quantization quickly, and it yields 1/2-1/4x of the model in memory. There are other tricks that can be used like sparse tensors, which have been applied to language models and can reduce the memory overhead 10-100x.

See also: "From Dense to Sparse: Contrastive Pruning for Better Pre-trained Language Model Compression"
I mean, he knew he was a piece of shit and killed himself. Sort of an ultimate mea culpa. So maybe we can forgive him enough to enjoy his works.
The US's biggest datacenter market is short on electricity
That may be the case, but a lot of people do pay attention to recalls. Whether a majority, plurality, or minority of the population I have no idea, but folks in my social circle do search for recalls when purchasing used.
There lies the problem with C++ state of affairs, most defaults are wrong.

It doesn't help that those of us that care about enabling the right defaults are a tiny minority as per C++ surveys.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2021/07/cpp-ecosystem-in-20...
The high comes from cutting oxygen to the brain, with all the side effects that brings.

Do not do this.
Who is going to force them? They are based in Sweden.
We’re a small game studio and we pay for all adobe products ($84/mo/user). It’s an underestimation that people don’t pay for Adobe products. No other offerings match their products, and Acrobat is something that we rarely use. Other products work perfectly.
US Department of Defense funds Google and SkyWater to enable open source chips
Small claims makes low dollar torts fairly straightforward.
TSO is not architectural.
Sibling post is correct: I worked in a couple companies backed by Softbank and they specifically asked for engineering headcount increase.

Investors and CEOs think they need massive numbers because they misunderstand how dev headcount scales and how much overhead it generates. Hiring warehouse workers, moderators and content editors scale, so they extrapolate that to devs and expect the same results.

Also with lots of devs you need lots of designers, managers, product owners and other idea people, so there’s a lot of minor tasks being pushed trough, which would otherwise not be if it was a 20 dev product. Not to mention the extra need of support, QA and ops people, which in turn needs more coordination and management.

Going back to 10 or 20 devs is borderline impossible, even if you reduce the scope, since the infrastructure needed to support 100 or 1000 has too much of an overhead in itself. I would love to see someone try, though.

It is also cool to have 1000 devs in case of an acqui-hire. If your product sucks, you can still sell your team. Yay.
Somebody could design that but it is not clear why you would. You do not need a separate process for that.
The high is nice but the main thing I took away - when doing WHM some years ago - is to tolerate the CO2 buildup by relaxing and calming myself.
The breathing pattern can help induce this; for me additionally learning to breath comfortably through the nose was a big help. But to tolerate CO2 (and with it physiologically adapting to it) is mainly a mental challenge to put your mind into a place where you stay calm enough not to panic when the urge to breath is trying to overwhelm you.

It really translates well to high-intensity sport exercises where at a certain exertion I was trying to breath too hard and too early with the mouth open in an attempt to take in as much air as possible and paradoxically feeling even more suffocated.
Also great for a relaxed swimming experience.

I feel once I began to apply breathing techniques into various activities throughout the day that I now got a deeper connection/appreciation/understanding/confidence for modulating my breathing. And WHM can certainly jumpstart that experience. But I personally wouldn't recommend to just chase the next high.
I’m a big fan of the Turris Omnia. The author seems to write it off because he doesn’t like the UI, not because it’s insecure which is a bit odd to me.
Heaven’s Gate. Unfortunately they got acquired in 1997. Also, some say they were cult-like.
The world’s biggest cocoa producers, Ghana and Ivory Coast are demanding more premium from chocolate makers. They also want traders to pay more for their beans. The two countries say this demand for more premium is part of efforts to tackle farmer poverty.
"Wayland devs" absolutely don't care if you switch or not. I don't get where this entitlement is coming from.
Visualized: Battery vs. Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Used to be.

Look at drivers. Usually you update those yourself. Some managed services exist, but they break often, leaving the system in an unusable state.
I think it’s entirely fair to read the quoted reference to “white masculine power” as referring to the subject of the article as a whole rather than the specific reference to “rolling coal.” I think your missing the forest for the trees in reading that quote.

And the sentiment is in the same vein as this article against tactical gear. The author isn’t trying to create a moral panic about Bangladeshis buying tactical gear.
Cheri-based computer runs whole KDE stack locally for the first time
> not built on a stack of fickle dependencies, fads and ever increasing complexity.

Every dependency is a benefit and a liability. It's been interesting to watch this ecosystem grow over the past decade as we collectively explore how much liability we're willing to accept.
They do, that is why any C++ shop where code quality is relevant has a DevOps team that cares about the right defaults being enforced on th CI/CD pipeline.

Devs that don't care only get to build on their own computers.

It isn't fullproof, but definitely helps to tame some cowboys.
Just downloaded it. As someone who used to read more poetry and has fallen off, I like the idea! Maybe this will prod me back into the habit.

One bug report: I can’t select text in the poem. Wanted to look up a word and can’t figure out any way. Was that disabled intentionally?
> Part of the problem is that most of these startups simply have too much overhead to offer their product for free or cheap.

I think that is not the issue. The issue is having a physical product that is tied to a subscription which could also be a one-time fee. Like a subscription for your dorbell - just why?
Something I wasn't expecting in all the comments on this post is the steady drone of denial, that long-covid might not be real, I came back the next day and sure enough it's all over the thread.

Blows my mind that in this day and age people are still doing the "didn't happen to me, or I imagine I had/got over it in a week, so isn't a real problem for anyone else"

I'd expect it on facebook/twitter but not on HN where the average coder/hacker is a bit more educated. But maybe the problem is lack of world experience, not grasping the massive difference in genetics between people, the different kinds of environment exposure.

Definitely not wishing it on anyone but wow are people in for a surprise if it happens to them, then they'll "get it" but it will be too late. It's probably why the long-covid forums are full of suicides and suicidal declarations, they trivialized it until it happened to them and then feel boxed in to their own egos.
I resonate with this. I'm not 100% FI, can't simply coast from here.. but I could make it work with almost any salary given my savings and lifestyle. Yet I still interview for better paying gigs, and generally turn up the heat on a career I don't love. My answer to "why do I do that" is difficult to give..
To help clarify for the person you're replying to; minification could be considered to only mean: taking an interpreted language like JS, and essentially compressing the text of the code by doing transformations to it that don't change the semantic meaning of the code. Swapping out long variable/function names with short, computer-generated single(ish)-letter names. Removing whitespace.

Much of this was because real compression methods like zip simply weren't available during early decades of web development.

Obviously, if shrinking the code size is desirable, and you were building a library that did minification, you'd want to move on to also adding other, more dangerous changes that could change the meaning of the code, like removing unused CSS classes, doing DCE on javascript, etc, etc.

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Since programming is a giant, decentralized soup of autodidacts, there's no "word of god" authority that can really say "this is the one true name of something". It's mostly just lingo that passes in and out of various communities, and a lot of times communities (as you're seeing in splintercell's comment) try to helpfully match themselves up and standardize so it doesn't degenerate into pure chaos.
It seems like the problem with Wayland is things that used to be solved by merging some code into X are now a big social synchronization problem, ie. get everybody to agree on a protocol.
Check out the kids game I made using Godot to help with hand-eye coordination
"Imagine a world where you could submit personal information to a company, with the technological assurance that this information would not leave that company... and you could verify this with remote attestation of the software running on that company's servers."

That world already exists, it just doesn't get used much. You can do this with Intel SGX and AMD SEV.

The obvious place for this is blocking cloud providers from accessing personal data. For example, it could be used to resolve concerns about using US based services from Europe, because any data uploaded to such a service can be encrypted such that it's only processed in a certain way (this is what RA does).

RA gets demonized by people making the arguments found in the sibling comment, but they end up throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There are tons of privacy, control and decentralization problems that look intractable until you throw RA in the mix, then suddenly solving them becomes easy. Instead of needing teams of cryptographers to invent ad-hoc and app specific protocols for every app (which in reality they never do), you write a client that RAs the server to check that it's running software that won't leak your private information as part of the connect sequence.
It's funny, there's a sort of penumbral attack on the term being used here.

Everyone seems to be railing against the shadow of bad use invocation of 'privilege', but there's no actual instances of that happening directly.

Just things that 'people have seen'.
I’d never heard that there’s an upper limit to the size of a black hole. What is supposed to happen when it approaches this limit?
I got so tired repeating this and trying to convince others that just I created my own agency. Clients are happy, I’m happier, so I guess we are not totally crazy.
You can play the then what game. Keep asking then what.

You have enough money to retire, then what? You go travelling all around the world, then what? So and so forth until reaching a conclusion on how you consciously decide to live your life.
>But if they are momentarily connected to different networks (frequencies), even though they have the same SSID and same password, Apple software will see them (correctly) as on two different networks so the password will not be shared even when the password is the same on both networks.

I don't get it, how is this an issue? If both devices are already connected to the same SSID, then both devices already have the password. Why would you need to share passwords?
You'd lose every element-specific browser behavior. A div with role=button doesn't handle, say, keydown events correctly like a <button>.

You could rewrite every edge case for every element in JS if you wanted, but why? Just understand what the elements mean.
Prediction:

The issue is settled few days before the trial begins.

Musk has very weak case but he will be able to remove few billions from the $44 billion due to the time value of money, so maybe the final sum is $40 billion or so.
See also "Reaction of IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) to Flash-Renumbering Events":

In scenarios where network configuration information related to IPv6
prefixes becomes invalid without any explicit and reliable signaling
of that condition (such as when a Customer Edge router crashes and
reboots without knowledge of the previously employed prefixes), hosts
on the local network may continue using stale prefixes for an
unacceptably long time (on the order of several days), thus resulting
in connectivity problems. This document describes this issue and
discusses operational workarounds that may help to improve network
robustness. Additionally, it highlights areas where further work may
be needed.

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8978
It's very clear to me that Wayland will be broadly supported on the year of linux on the desktop.

There 2 major software achievements may be all we need to finally get fusion (or economically efficient solar power) + economically efficient carbon sequestration
Edison was pretty ruthless and a garbage-y person. Do you feel an ick factor while enjoying the modern electrical world?
I feel no entitlement, I'm happy with what I'm using already. I do however perceive a vague desire from Wayland advocates / developers that I stop using what I like and get with their program. But I won't until it works better for me.

If you don't care what I use, then my above comment shouldn't upset you. I'm merely describing why I continue to happily use what I use.
Just to clarify, you can email him to report errors in any of his books (and I have done so, several times). It's only for other general communication that he insists you use physical email.
Wayland is 10 years old, the importance of it as an X11 successor cannot be understated, and somehow it still has big problems.
My Mac displays a permanent warning that my AP name isn't unique enough. Funny enough, I've never seen anyone else use it in the wild.
I see now, thanks.

Though I believe that if Google is the adversary, they have ways (only a guess, but some kind of correlation between GPS location on mobile while connected to Wi-Fi and http requests could be one) that make the "wardriving database" unneeded, I mean, there should be a constant updating of this database, or it would turn out pretty much obsolete soon.
I tend to agree. And in terms of being used for DDoS attacks etc., that's really an issue that needs to be addressed by ISPs, who supply routers to the vast majority of non-technical home users. ISPs should be setting appropriate defaults, setting unique passwords, and issuing automatic firmware updates over the air.
Business also needs to care,

> Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished
us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980, language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions
would have long been against the law.

-- C.A.R Hoare on his Turing award speech in 1981.
Blockchain. It's always blockchain. Can we just not?

How about we go back to web 1.0. TLS mutual cert auth with an ID card as a smart card, either from the government or from your favourite third party.

Or maybe we go back to web 2.0 with OpenID. Users pick their own identity providers and websites can pick which ones to trust and which ones not to trust. Actually, we already have that, and it's "sign in with Google/Facebook/Apple".

If you're a fan of stuffing Javascript everywhere you can, just use FIDO2/WebAuthn before or after validating the user through OAuth.

Solutions exist. Nobody wants to implement them, it seems. Inventing new ways to do what has been done before doesn't solve the problem, it just creates more dead protocols.
Does this have a clear advantage over Pihole? I see the android app and that's nice but not enough of a killer feature (for me to want) to switch.

Pihole still offers nice things that a cloud solution can't, like local network resolution and DHCP.
>I get 25-50% more FPS in games using X than Wayland.

This is probably just a bug. If you are using kwin compositing on X11, and not using the option that disables it for games, then it will be doing more or less the same thing as Wayland. So there is no reason it should be causing such a performance hit.
The nice thing about owning the home instead of renting is that they have the home. It's not an investment, it's a place to live. These homes are enormously more valuable than when they were purchased, they were a great financial investment if maintained.

If the small places elsewhere are relatively more expensive, well, that's always a risk. Someone over there is complaining they can't afford it either. Maybe these homeowners would have won the lottery if other people were fleeing to their places.
Once upon a time there was a project to do a Linux distribution in Ada.

Unfortunately it died a couple of years later.
That seems to be an argument for damned if you do, damned if you don't. Yes, people need some incentive for deploying security upgrades and being able to say "we are sure it wasn't us" in disputes is part of that incentive. Otherwise why bother? If people get treated the same whether they made a genuine good faith effort to be secure, or do nothing, then you're just rewarding the companies that ignored security to focus on other things.
> Just playing Devil’s Advocate.

You could just ask me questions without associating yourself with Satan. ;-)

> If a real tangible offer came through for 10s of millions of dollars, would you still feel that way?

I would definitely sell for 10s of millions of dollars! Indeed, I would sell for 1 million dollars. But nobody is going to offer me that LOL.

> Will your family sell it to the lowest bidder, delist it, or just leave it to bit rot?

They would have to leave it to "bit rot", because my source code is encrypted, and nobody else has my passwords. (The extension has no server component and should continue working fine indefinitely with no updates.)
That must be annoying. Here is another thing you could do if tweaking the AP isn't an option. I don't have a 5Ghz wireless adapter at hand, but from what I see on my 2.4Ghz one, you should be able to set 'Wireless Mode' in the adapter settings to 802.11ac (or 802.11ax if you're that fancy :) ) to force 5Ghz. I recall having an option to simply select the preferred band on some laptop adapters, too, so you can use it, if it's available, instead.

I do that on Windows, but there must be something similar on Mac/Unix, too. I think these options are basically driver-related so the OS choice ultimately shouldn't matter.

edit: ah, realized I misread the post. Thought the "I picks" was "it picks" :)
The fact it took more than 10 years for an alternative display server to be semi-usable is indicative of how much of an uphill battle it was and continues to be.

Like another comment pointed out, requiring every single program to support Wayland is a tough pill to swallow. That AreWeWaylandYet site is cute, but the fact it lists individual apps is exactly the problem. If your workflow requires other apps, or if you'd just like to use something else, you're SOL.

Switching to Wayland today means replacing most of the apps you're used to already. No wonder adoption is slow.
ExifLooter – finds geolocation info on all URLs and directories
You still had the same problems in X. It was a bad idea to try to get protocol code merged into X unless you could get everyone to agree on it. Because ultimately, in either case it is still the same set of people who will be using any new protocols.
There's no confusion here? This is a perfectly natural classification, that satisfies many people's intuition about Rust as having "compile-time GC". If anything, bringing up affine type systems is more liable to confuse people in this context; just because a language has an affine type system doesn't necessarily mean it needs to use it for memory management.
> If service is (barely) 1 gig, and most end users dont notice degrading, why bother?

Because there's really more to it than just raw bandwidth.

Either with the new protocol itself or with the new hardware that supports the protocol, you'll get other improvements besides raw bandwitdh. A WiFi 6 AP in this case should in theory provide you better security (WPA3, PMF¹), antenna design², power savings³, lower latency and lower interference⁴.

There are other improvements as well that might now be included with new AP's, but as they're not mandatory to implement it depends on the AP. Just like PMF was an optional feature with previous WiFi.

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1 - Protected Management Frames (802.11w) simplified protection against deauth attacks. Could also mean it is enabled for WiFi 5 devices, previously a very enterprise/high-end only feature.

2 - The higher requirements of WiFi 6 will most likely mean that WiFi 5 clients will also reap some benefits. Lower packet loss, better range, actual MU-MIMO and better beamforming even individually might be a large step-up for some.

3 - Target Wake Time - scheduling better when targets wake up

4 - BSS coloring
Yeah I hit:

> It is quite pricey if you purchase it from the store

and stopped reading. A one-time payment of $19.99 for an app you use all day every day is not 'quite pricey'.
Or you could have bought one of a myriad of cheap portable 15" HD or 4K screens for that for 1/4th the cost of an iPad Pro 12.9"
The number of successful new companies contradicts that statement.

Regulation, on the other hand, does tend to lead to rent seeking behavior as incumbents use those laws to their advantage and forcibly block new companies.

It’s much easier to overcome high costs than bad laws.