skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lxd is fantastic but it became unusable for me once it started being distributed only as a snap.

I still use lxd on an Ubuntu 18.04 host that still has the deb instal but looking forward I’m trying to get things migrated to systemd-nspawn.
Cleanup efforts of toxic dump on San Jacinto River remain stalled
ya I'm sure there are some good options especially nowadays. But now think about getting signoff to use that software at VISA, US Bank, or the US military, for extremely sensitive info. Sometimes its just the policies that limit what tools you can use.
I think this just proves that it happens, not why it happens. Also the last flight I took proved that it happens.
He's likely not seeing the target at all. Spotters are giving him directionals.
when i’ve played games like RCT1 that can handle thousands of guests in the park, 1000s of placed items, each square customized, hundreds of rides simultaneously with real physics, it makes me wonder why factorio needs such intense system requirements for a mostly 2d production game
"Throw them in jail to rot there forever" vs "slap on the wrist, coddle them and give them money" is a false dichotomy. We used to have a third option; it worked; many countries still do and it still works.

We should reintroduce short-term but painful punishments (a day in the stocks, public caning, etc) for moderately severe offenses. Some people need more than just a slap on the wrist to change, but don't deserve to have their life ruined forever by a 30-year jail sentence. Physical pain and public shaming have worked well for millions of years (literally) they still work today in many countries, and they are far more compassionate than a long jail sentence. Humans are just another animal species, sometimes animal incentives are what we need.
>Companies with expensive tools have an obvious interest in convincing their best customers that the competition is inherently risky

Honestly I’m embarrassed at how revelatory this line is.
I recall once, I believe it would have been around 2014, watching approximately 50 SFPD officers, in full riot gear, patrolling a socialist worker's march--of less than 100 people--peacefully walking down Mission St.

I have no idea from what perspective your argument comes from. Frankly, I don't think you do, either. But I think in speaking to any resident of San Francisco you will hear many trends like this relating to lopsided (mis)use of police resources, and it comes in many flavors.
And before the electronic computers, we used mechanical computers! https://hackaday.com/2013/03/13/retrotechtacular-mechanical-...
> Well, it is basically there in hot loops. Not necessarily with idiomatic Java, you do have to use primitives but it is absolutely achievable.

Not quite in my opinion. Not bad, but it can be half performance at times.

> Well, it is basically there in hot loops. Not necessarily with idiomatic Java, you do have to use primitives but it is absolutely achievable.

Setting more intricate TCP settings, or sending ICMP, or essentially anything advanced.
Yeah it's bad "Why am I not logged in?".
one of those is a political liberal turned spy-for-hire .. this does not look like a list of Fortune 500 shills from here
Even if the IRS goes after average Americans, what’s wrong with that? I am assuming most Americans pay taxes properly. Those who don’t should be discouraged.
The best futuristic feature by far I've heard of is live-migration of workloads between hosts (read: your compute and memory gets transferred to another VM and resumes without having to restart). This would be amazing for, e.g. auto-scaling workloads when they reach their memory limit. Or to run them on a Spot instance and then seamlessly migrate to another, when the current one is on the verge of preemption.

It's too bad no one appears to be working on that in OCI/Kubernetes world.
> In general, the idea is that Edge developers check in their code to the internal Main branch. Code from Microsoft employees is joined by code pulled by the “pump” from the upstream Chromium project, with various sheriffs working around the clock to fix any merge conflicts between the upstream code pumped in and the code Microsoft engineers have added.

Source: https://textslashplain.com/2022/08/04/understanding-browser-...

Microsoft have their own branch, where they add Edge-specific changes, and they regularly pull changes from the Chromium source (probably not all changes) and merge them to their branch. If you don’t consider this a fork, then please explain why.
While skepticism is fair that should be motivation to do research to possibly find evidence of an ulterior motive.

However just saying that all legislation is some scam without evidence doesn't make sense.

For example, and I don't know the exact name, but the health care transparency act where pricing for treatments or whatever must be published. Who is that helping if you follow the money?

Edit: I should have been more clear but ulterior motive to benefit large companies who sell software, or something that harms OSS.
Check out Git[0].
Using a version control system is a critical skill in modern software development where you can check a "blame" report on a file's contents to see what last touched that place or to check a log for a history of the software.
As for the quality of your notes and commit messages, that is alas something that requires a more personal development.

You can also put each project into its own Git repository and throw it up on a site like GitHub to host it.

[0]: https://git-scm.com/
Fortunately HMRC's opinion of what falls under IR35 is no more legally enforceable than yours or mine. The real problem is that they can tie you up in knots and uncertainty for years of investigation even if you've done nothing wrong and then not even compensate for the wasted time and distress afterwards. Any one-sided power balance can clearly be abused if you upset the wrong officials with too much power and too little accountability for how they use it. That is a much wider problem with government than just IR35 investigations or even just HMRC though.

It's not that "you can't win" because of course many people have beaten HMRC in IR35 cases once their case was finally properly decided. The big three criteria that are famously used to suggest a contract is outside IR35 (substitution, SDC and mutuality of obligation) don't come from the legislation but from early cases that HMRC lost. But it might be a rather Pyrrhic victory if you've still spent years of your life stressing about the case before it gets to that point.
Absolutely. I made a rather precisely fitted golf ball cannon in college with a hypersonic muzzle velocity @ 357m/s.

I fired it up into the air once and lost sight of the golf ball while it was still climbing.

The joys of living in rural, WV!

As it happens I still have the plans: https://i.imgur.com/rHo1IO8.png

To scale: https://i.imgur.com/JbdJGQo.png
I was suggesting that military is not entirely evil and the US needs military, just like Ukraine needs one.
Yales spielman wins 3M breakthrough prize
Node.js – v18.9.1
I like the 3rd postscript. I think I can see the difference.
Blursed intelligence.

Intelligence is a blessing and a curse.

Cynicism comes by an intellectual feedback loop.

Once intellectually invested reenforcement mechanisms set in, and dispositions contrary are scorned.

eMacs vs vi

Microsoft vs OSS

Python vs JavaScript

Stack A vs stack B

Worldview one way vs worldview The other way

Etc.
It reminds me of a story I just heard about the allegedly haunted plane parts from the crash of EA 401.

Obviously not the most probable explanation, but I found the story interesting.

https://mysteriesrunsolved.com/2020/07/ghosts-of-flight-401....
The angle between the barrel and the scope is already pretty extreme for a rifle. Can’t imagine it being particularly pleasant to shoot with the scope mounted at the sort of angle you’d need for the shot you’re describing.
Rates and price of bonds are inversely related. This move implies the market expects longer periods of higher interest rates (and thus lower growth).
We used to have one of those. They're so so loud and it's a bad kind of noise that wears on you. We've since moved to a admittedly more expensive iq air air filter that provides up tp 320 cfm and is nearly silent. Totally worth it.
If this thread has prompted you to go through your personal archive and update it, please remember that it's very possible that one or more obscure projects have taken over by bad actors and now contain malware. Be careful downloading an installer for that ten year old program.
It's probably only an interim step - EB doesn't seem to get much attention anymore. You might be better trying to get onto EKS or something similar.
Having to read through docs and blog posts to understand what unique abstractions doesn't help those asking. I've read through docs, blog posts, etc. It's for developers who don't want to setup and maintain an environment. Other providers offer this. You end up paying far more than a five dollar droplet in most cases and a lot more than the free Oracle tier offers but much less compared to big cloud like AWS. They offer a free tier and a community helping onboarding. The goal is ecosystem lock-in and they provide enough to win over a certain group in the middle. The fear is the freebies given today will be paid for by the lock-in effects tomorrow.
What's the alternative? Sanctions don't permanently taint money.
And then you complete the captcha, the page reloads, and you have to solve another captcha. Never actually getting to the site
My understanding is that planes don't fly directly upside down, and they angle the wing slightly to make a kinda-sorta-airfoil.

How helicopters can turn directly upside down, and fly that way[1], without reversing the direction of their props, that I don't get. (Thinking about it now, I think it turns from a helicopter to a hovercraft? Eg, this is a ground effect?)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdDESYBdeSE

Also, tangentially, Magnus effect planes are a thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6geOms33Dk
Cable news has government officials on spewing government talking points all night. That’s government propaganda. Suuure it’s not “official” but wtf does that matter when it embeds itself in our inner monologues?

Corporations that own cable news and are given all the money with no strings by the government; hardly an Obama era shift.

Making it illegal is meaningless.
Then why make said identity a fixed size number pretending to be a flat address space, instead of some other type of key?
It's definitely broken, but apparently by design. It's a deliberbug.
Wuby on Wails
There was also an animated GIF version:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13823704

From this thread: https://twitter.com/i/events/838685002703466497
The dmd D compiler goes even farther. Each string is given a name based on the hash of its contents. Then, the linker will coalesce all the strings in the program with the same contents into the one string.
Studies have shown that people who went into the job market at 2008 never caught up to the careers of their peers who joined before or after the recession.

I don't know if it's the same for someone with 20+ years of experience, but now probably a good time to not get a new job. Perfect time to continue studies or do your own thing.

I think at your age, the concern is ageism. Too long in the weeds and you get tired, cynical, resistant to change. Nobody would fault you for having a resume gap with that much experience.

So just playing with tech sounds like the best career choice at this point.
> BC (Ballistic Coefficient) ≈ 1.103

Wow.
> process and governance model that proprietary software does.

except that a lot of proprietary software doesn't has anything like that either

there is nothing in common proprietary dev practices which would have e.g. prevented log4j

the main difference is that you can hold someone financially responsible in one case and not in the other
(but in turn you can always fix any problem yourself, good luck fixing any proprietary software after it's support runs out).
Tensorstore Open Sourced by Google
The medical intercom jack is often in the middle of the cabin (on equipped aircraft).

Flight attendants can plug in an aviation headset with a very, very long cord, and the pilots patch it into one of the radios in the cockpit. This allows the flight attendants to talk to a doctor on the ground while they're physically next to a passenger's seat.
100% sure? Why not find out if that's true because I'm sure there are exceptions.
Pretty interesting. If it’s a hoax, it’s a pretty good one.

If it’s a hack of any sort someone is taking their life in their hands because being caught tampering with any commercial airline systems could mean significantly jail time. Cleaning crews and other staff have enough time on the plane to do something… I’m thinking like an Adafruit Waveshield with a timer or something.

If it’s a ghost, it seems like a horny adolescent one.
Ironically, the detractors of the Dropbox launch were ultimately right. Dropbox got their lunch eaten by less product-focused competitors, including folks like Microsoft and Apple who also knew that setting up managed NAS is a cheap-and-simple challenge. Dropbox as a company is barely on most people's radar these days.
This is delightfully simple and low barrier.

I did install it and will use it :)
>personally, I think Americans should give Americans fair trials and be proven guilty before condemned to death by drone-strike, but I'm a conservative.

Conservatives were the ones most in favor of tactics like torture - sorry, enhanced interrogation - stripping terrorist suspects of citizenship rights, indefinite detention and assassination after 9/11. They were the ones insisting that wanting to give terrorist suspects fair trials was a sign of left-wing weakness and an unwillingness to take the existential threat of Islamic terrorism seriously.

It's fair to criticize Obama - I voted for him and I have a list of things I hate about him, and the drone strikes are on it - but invoking conservatism when doing so is ahistorical. If anything, your views in this regard are more traditionally liberal, not conservative.
The other thing I noticed was that Google had some very … optimistic … claims about quality which were hard to reproduce. Every time I tested VP8/9, it took more tweaking to get either quality or size competitive with H.264/5 (VP9 was often playing catch up with the previous generation) and paying twice as much for storage just didn’t make any sense when everything supported the MPEG standards and you couldn’t version-detect which things would technically run but drain your users’ batteries.

It felt very Google-y: lots of attention to the cool CS problems, less so the boring ones like tool support and sensible defaults for non-experts.
I cannot disagree with not one of crawshaw.io's software I'm thankful for...

except vi... seriously you heathen??? emacs 4ever ;)
Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator
You’re grossly oversimplifying. Naval firing calculations include factors like the temperature of both the air and the barrel and minor variations in powder quality - and then of course both the thing you’re trying to hit AND the gun itself are both moving in 3 dimensions.

Even WWII mechanical fire computers took 30-40 variables as input
it’s unlikely they’re doing this live, it would be way too obvious. The toilets would also be the first place they’d check. I’m guessing they’re using some recording.
You are focusing on the hiring requirements which is very vague. What would be a better way to define hiring requirements?
Some people are too far gone for Option 2, but don't deserve 1 or 3. Like serial shoplifters, first-time drunk drivers, non-violent drug dealers…

We used to know how to deal with these people, and many countries still do. Corporal punishment and public shaming have been the go-to solutions for millions of years. We should bring them back. You can make a criminal deeply and viscerally regret their crime, without destroying their life.
Probably the assumption is that you will upgrade the panels at radically reduced prices, re-using the wiring and support. Then, the cost is for insurance against the site being no longer viable. And, probably, the cabling has high scrap value.

The future of solar is in mixed use, where the land continues doing whatever it was already doing, just with added revenue on a very different schedule. This easiest on pasture, but offers most value on reservoirs and canals.

In a rational market it would be impossible to get financing for single-use solar farms. Instead, ignorant investors love them, particularly when sited in the worst choice of place, deserts.

(Deserts are lousy because they are hot and dusty, cutting both output and panel life, and typically far from users requiring transmission line construction. And, the land produces no other revenue, so must be secured whole.)
Imapsync has been the one for me: https://imapsync.lamiral.info/

There is a docker container thats super easy to use. It's worked flawlessly for me the two times I've needed it. Each time I use it I donate because it's clearly a great bit of code.
Do you have friends?
Do you have family?
Do you have colleagues?
What happens when you seek their company?
What happens in you when you consider seeking their company?
And compared to what?
I mention this problem in my book Street Coder in the section titled "Fix it even if it ain't broken". There's value in changing code, but there's also risk in doing it.

One of my suggestions is that any component that you avoid breaking, deserves to be broken the earliest. The rigidity (the resistance to change and the inclination to break) of code is a sign of greater trouble in the future, so should be addressed the soonest. That means, I don't agree with the "don't fix it if it ain't broken" sentiment fully. If that component's so valuable, it must be covered by hell a lot of test coverage to make it impossible to break it with changes in the first place. If you can break it without knowing, that's a problem that needs to be addressed immediately. I say, break it, identify breaking points, add tests to those points, so the component becomes flexible.

My second suggestion is to make the changes, but discarding them after. I also emphasize this in the section titled "Write it from scratch". By doing that, you gain certain level of insight into that rigid design, and improve your understanding of the code base, which eventually leads you to the phase where you can finally code changes that you're comfortable sharing with your colleagues.

You may think of the writing code only to throw it away a wasteful exercise, but I argue that it's not as great a loss as you may anticipate.
Maybe Instagram is worse but TikTok is full of the most dumb shit I can imagine, either that or people plugging their Instagram. There are smart people on it but they don't define the culture.

The immediacy of the format is amazing but the content is awful.
Part of it might just be that they have lower expectations for Switch in terms of the CPU being able to keep up with a large megabase. They expect players to be able to launch a rocket without any noticeable lag, but one-rocket-per-minute bases might be a bit much.

Also, they mentioned in the previous blog post that they've done some optimization to keep the framerate from bogging down, so maybe even the x86 requirements are lower these days (or will be when those optimizations show up in the public version, which might not have happened yet).
Also check out Arthur C Clarke (author of the 2001 Space Odyssey) predicting internet connected personal computers and remote work in 1974

https://youtu.be/OIRZebE8O84
The last spin in the campaign to blame excess deaths spike in the last year on anything, but that one thing they forced on everyone.
I’ve heard it long after 9/11, but not in several years now.
Messages sent are encrypted, but what about the keyboards. I know Samsung logs all key strokes for ad purposes. Also WhatsApp backups maybe? Are they encrypted? What if another app is reading off of them. Or screen time apps, most of which are selling your data and need permission to read everything on your screen to block apps and content
My most recent pet peeve is the constantly having to choose not to save to the cloud but to use my local file. On every single document saved
Nature nurtures: Amygdala activity decreases after a one-hour walk in nature
Naval guns can have bullets 18" in diameter and weigh 3,848 lbs though.

Source: used to work at NSWCDD
They mention in the article that by the end of it's flight, the bullet is flying subsonically and that their bullet is optimized for that subsonic flight so I wonder if that forms a significant portion of the flight time. If so you could have the sonic boom start to catch back up with the bullet and not get as much delay as at a closer range.
Everyone thinks james bond when the reality is someone hits you over the head with a rock they found. Like that xkcd where they beat you with a wrench for the password.
A couple of days ago, I give a very brief workshop of Arduino. All the students with Linux boxes have some kind of problems, like the user was not a member of the dialout group or the group does not exist at all. I still prefer Linux, but no everything works "out of the box".
I've found the docker support to be quite good these days, you can run docker compose yml files directly now (the kludgy old way they had has been deprecated)

I'm a big fan of beanstalk. It is tricky to work out exactly how to deploy to it when it's managed by Terraform but if you can put up with that then you get a well thought out app hosting + deploy with an escape hatch of being able to interact with the underlying machine using the hooks system they have.

It's and older service but still valuable for medium sized sites.
Stolen Optus customer data reportedly surfaces
LF OpenSSF "criticality score" for 100K Github repos, https://github.com/ossf/criticality_score & https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uahUIUa82J6WetAqtxCM...

> Generate a criticality score for every open source project. Create a list of critical projects that the open source community depends on. Use this data to proactively improve the security posture of these critical projects ... A project's criticality score defines the influence and importance of a project. It is a number between 0 (least-critical) and 1 (most-critical). It is based on the following algorithm by Rob Pike..

Top 20 projects, based on "criticality score" algo output, you can run the script on your favorite OSS project:

> node, kubernetes, rust, spark, nixpkgs, cmsSW, tensorflow, symfony, DefinitelyTyped, git, azure-docs, magento2, rails, ansible, pytorch, PrestaShop, framework, ceph, php-src, linux
> I wrote and complained to the responsible editor with citations showing how and where the article was wrong, and a few very grudging emendations were made (effectively saying that even though the reports were still probably true, they couldn't be 'verified').

That's interesting, because it possibly led to a sort of well-meaning destruction. Was the content surgically edited, or did it grow a warning that some of the info originally published was incorrect, or (more perniciously) both? Consider the affect this has on researchers trying to do studies on misinformation—they certainly want to be able to access the originals themselves.
LXC is particular useful on shared web hosting.