skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not one to make 'productivity' claims about tiling wms. I'm certainly more productive in one, but that's because that's what I'm used to. (Maybe a little bit because it's an innate preference too, but not even sure of that.)

I just find it less frustrating and more organised looking than overlapping windows, swiping between desktops (or it being animated, or somehow slow even with animations turned off).

Basically I just meant I don't think I'd like the Gnome/Xfce/whatever Linux desktop experience either - it would have all the same things that frustrate me on macOS/Windows, and I expect I would agree it's inferior to those (with their massive budgets, UX staff count and salary alone probably dwarfing the Linux OSS projects - not a criticism of them or their efforts).
I would say Transmission has simpler UI. Outside of UI, it's also packaged differently, compared to Qbittorrent, Transmission can be installed completely headlessly without dependencies to QT/GTK+X.

In terms of actual features, Transmission is more lightweight. It doesn't support super-seeding, broadcatching, native SOCKS support and doesn't have built-in search engine integration.
https://archive.ph/kjOTw
Nothing. If we were to go back in time, we'd make the same `mistakes' again as that's who we _were_ (its the cumulative development since those points in time that gave a different perspective that would make us act differently).

Most of our life is failures. Once I hit a particularly low point (and also with age), I appreciate the journey much much more as cliche as it sounds. For a different reason - with an expectation to mostly fail, we are set free to truly live.
Problem is: they can't watch movies in their browser because they can only leech from people who are seeding from a webtorrent client.

Let's say I have a movie I want to let other people stream with their browser. I am obligated to use some javascript horror webtorrent-compatible client. If I already have a seedbox running transmission I simply cannot use that for this purpose, which is a shame
Lots of universities have their own reactor. They are used for a variety of research activities almost all wholly unrelated to generating power. Sometimes you need samples irradiated, other times you need to synthesize custom radioactive isotopes.

These reactors pose no risk. The radioisotopes produced could in principle be misused, but are in any case very small amounts.
Sometimes I go back and look at my camera phone pictures from 2016 and before, and regret so much that I didn't buy a more expensive camera phone. Some really good pictures are marred by noise and blur because of the cheap lens and sensor of the phone.
Even if the iPhone was better, you couldn’t show up to the job and use an iPhone because people would feel ripped off and assume they could do the same with their phones.
Best is so subjective that it is impossible to say. Speed of execution is secondary to speed of development. Generally speaking.
It is not. It is a custom runtime on custom infrastructure. Why do you assume we use Cloudflare under the hood?
I think we need to be clear about our definitions and our expectations here.

To me, a suicide kit is something you find by looking for "suicide kit" AND it is a single item sold for a single purpose.

This is important because if we're not strict about that, then there are likely billions of "suicide kits" sold daily on and offline. A knife + any other item is a suicide kit by that definition. So are Caffeine pills or normal salt or wiper fluid or a wood chipper.

And that's the problem here: these are random items someone who already wanted to commit suicide might want, but might equality be sought by any reasonable sane person for safe use.
I think Alfred Nobel made too challenging of a target. It's an annual prize to be awarded to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses"

Think of the absolutely immense amounts of political capital that any of those things require, and how likely it is to find a person in any given year who could be personally credited with improving relationships between countries, or reducing standing armies.

It's also not democracy-friendly, funnily enough. In most democratic countries such actions are a collective effort. A single member of a parliament can't get anything done on their own, and there doesn't necessarily need to be some sort of charismatic leader pushing such efforts. An army can shrink just because we have a general consensus that war isn't a good thing and the army can do with a smaller budget, and who do you award for that?

So it makes perfect sense to me that the committee ends up blundering it. Maybe if it was a once a decade thing it'd be a more reasonable one.
> Center for Civil Liberties

Didn't take long, on this page [1], towards the end, links to donors: NED (always them) and the US Department of State. The warmongering neoliberals have won.

[1] https://ccl.org.ua/en/about-the-ccl/
Why use qBittorrent, when there's this?
Given the value, I would suggest paying for a professional recovery service.
Shady crypto founders. What's new?
I'm sorry to hear and I wish you and your dad the best. Hope you find peace and those moments in your head prove to be a forever lasting memory of a wonderful man.
I’m under the impression that ps4 discs are pressed. This article is about writable media.

Writable media needs a dye or layer that can be ‘burnt’

Commercial disks don’t do this and instead are physically pressed.

The dye material is the one that degrades over time. The pressed material doesn’t.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong?

Commercially pressed discs should last a very long time in comparison
Or, when the TV Series you've been watching gets removed from Netflix from one day to another
Two things slightly related:

1. Doing a job as a model when I was very young (17) in which I was sexually abused.

2. Not going to university

After first, I got totally lost and torture myself. A lot. I didn't put priorities in order nor seek for help. I wasted a lot of time doing shitty jobs for having some money, having terrible relationships and doing sports heavily to keep me distracted until one day I decided it was enough and did two HNCs related with computer science (which is something I was always passionate about). I cannot complain about the jobs I've had nor the amount of money I earn right now but I'm 33 years old and I if I could change anything, would be definitely those two points. The first was not by choice, but I should have been more cautious.

PD: Holy fuck. I think is the first time I feel brave enough for mention this "out loud" to someone.
I use cannabis daily and am all for it being legalized and those in jail released. However, I cannot join you in a victory lap here because Biden's pardon affects nobody. As far as I know, there isn't anybody in federal prison on simple possession charges. That being the case, this smacks of politicking, optics, and opportunism rather than anything meaningful. If Biden wanted to do something substantial, he'd sign legislation legalizing cannabis (including growing your own).
> yet another RocksDB-based KV store

Aaah, there was a super informative talk about the different databases at Facebook, most of them built on RocksDB, with different trade offs. (And I can't find the video :((((( )

Anyway, it makes sense to have yet another it if serves a different purpose. Eg. for read-heavy workloads (caches, serving user feeds, whatever), or write-heavy (monitoring, storing that sweet sweet tracking juice that then gets read once or twice while building the recommendation models), small or large blobs, latency requirements, HA/consistency requirements, how complicated queries are going to be, does it support secondary indices or not, etc.
In a library setting they were useful to show availability.

Often Users would press the power button, when the screen was blank, even if the PC was on. Boot time was longer than two minutes and the filesystems generally didn't have journaling and were prone to corruption, when rebooted that way.
Hi from an internet stranger! Have you sought help? Please do, even if you think the worst is past. Best wishes :)
Oh, that's a hard one, since I have two major regrets in my life:

1. Not being more outgoing in university. Feels like that made things like getting a good job way harder than it could have been, and left me in a situation where making friends is difficult, especially offline.

2. Not investing more into my YouTube channel in the earlier days, especially back in 2017. I covered a game which was super popular back then, and many of my random videos from that time did extremely well views wise (one is now at about 5 million views because of it). If I'd built more of a fanbase then, I'd probably be far more successful on the platform now.
Molly Russell: Dad wants no further delay to online harm bill
My dad started writing me letters after major life events and birthdays, on new years, etc... I save them all.

They boil down to advice like being grateful for what you have, looking back and being proud at what you’ve accomplished, valuing the people in your life especially those that take time to help you, and realizing how lucky you are and at the same time encouraging working to put yourself in positions where you make your own luck.

They seem to come at the right time, after I have a phone conversation when I tell him I’ve failed at something or am frustrated with someone.

It’s less about him and more about me but it helps me remember the kind of man he was, one of the greats.
Even with ddrescue you might lose a few bits. You will only find out when accessing those specific files and bits.

For my photo history I prefer to keep PAR files next to it. On a running mechanical disc I haven't seen issues when running the repair. I do expect to see some errors in the future and as long as it stays under a certain percentage, things will be fixable.

I started doing this long time in the past, when harddisks were awful. I would often lose mp3 files due to damage. With mp3 you can easily hear it. With jpeg images you can often see damage as well.
To everyone in this thread, a piece of advice I didn't initially believe but over many years I have understood more:

"everyone loses 10 years to something, somewhere along the line"
I don't have anything of substance to say.
Personally to me the "Memorial" org is an interesting case. Similar organizations are spread across the globe but we see they can be forcibly shut in authoritarian states. The risk of losing amounts of historically accurate (crowd sourced) information is at stake. How to decentralize the ownership of such data to prevent the loss in cases when people get killed?
Tell HN: Mailgun has an unreported outage in EU
For the last 10 hours, the EU endpoint that Mailgun is providing is timing out - smtp.eu.mailgun.org [1]

There is nothing mentioned on their status page [2] , nor it seems it is a local issue, as it is not accessible from anywhere [3].

And their ticketing system doesn't let me file an issue in the right category for some reason.

[1] https://help.mailgun.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007512013-Can-I-Migrate-My-Domain-to-EU-

[2] https://status.mailgun.com/

[3] https://ping.pe/smtp.eu.mailgun.org
The thread seems not to know you can (and people often do) home dilute their chemicals. In fact 6% pure salt is actually very high for home curing and will also need to be diluted down to <1% to be used. 6% salt would be toxic if ingested in any real quantity too...

The whole thing seems like a lawyer trying to turn a nothing case into something and either being ignorant of the facts or hoping others are...
You seem to be the only one here pathologising ADHD.
The vast majority of startups and tech companies started in the last 10 years do not use any Java.

But older companies and enterprises still do.

Depends on what kind of companies you want to work for, I guess.
it's not the same but acts similarly to a book, you can look at the content but imagine alot of the stuff on your own.
I love mine a lot, tough, radio controlled, sleep mode, solar, $99. Just works whenever I pick it up.
I had to remove the old client and install the new one. Login in the different account.

In all devices.

Apart from that, yes.
dang posted this[0] on the thread of last year's winner:

> All: please don't post if you have a reflexive-indignant reaction rather than a curious one. This site is for the latter, not the former, and the former tends to drown out the latter.

> I'm not saying you owe Nobel Prize committees better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797286
I don't have access to the full article (it isn't on Sci-hub either), but can someone check if they control for income? While I can believe the claims of this work, they might have just found a spurious correlation.
Thanks for sharing because it reminds me of a situation I went through which was similar in some ways. I had a back-to-back of really bad managers. Ever met people who are offended and basically angry that you are smarter than they are or ever will be?

I made good money in a terrible spot for 2 years. Dropped to 145 pounds or so at 5’7” (now 165 abd healthy). Broken emotionally and in spirit. The worst part? Those closest to me kept insisting I was being off base and Jeff wasn’t really that bad. Oh and don’t quit until you have the next job lined up, which even with 2 applications a week was useless at the time.

All of them were just afraid of instability or that I wouldn’t find work. Maybe at the time they were right. I’m also glad to share the following which I probably couldn’t have done without that awful experience…

In 2022 I discovered my role is getting massive raises, promotions, and work-life balance because of the stress that comes with deadline driven sales processes. Within 5 months I saw a dream job on paper be a bush-league cult pressure cooker. Also they were underpaying market rate by $10-15,000 in salary.

I spoke up about an issue and got Terminated for non job performance reasons. After 5 months there I just updated my resume and leave their name off because Momma told me if you don’t have anything nice to say…and I’m the job hunt in Fall 2022 it doesn’t matter. People are asking “when can you start?” more seriously than “why are you looking now?” because it’s obvious - the market is hot and six-figure gigs are falling out of the sky with signing bonuses for the first time ever.

So, as unsettling and not-their-comfort-level this time has been to them, for me it has been therapeutic and inspiring. I’m a finalist in 3 different firms, 2 are promotions, all pay $15,000 - $20,000 more in base salary so I can keep up with inflation, and hybrid office presence versus butt in chair for a Boomer’s sense of control.

Yea it’s a little over a month but the future is blindingly bright after all that suffering along the way. Yes I love the people who are bothered by this different approach, but it’s my goddamn life and I listened to them last time and it was shit so they can either get with reality or shut up and manage their own lives and leave mine alone.
> And I kept putting it off due to poor mental health and travel.

I've been you, quite literally. And with an extremely similar age timeline even.

I won't tell you _you will make it_ because we are not owed a specific outcome in exchange for our efforts, but I can tell you it can be done. Channel that regret into creating the proper scaffolding to propel yourself into trying to make it work.

If you don't end up _making it_ at least you will be able to say you did indeed try your best until you couldn't.

The ideal best time to do it was ten years ago. Next best time is today.
Theoretically? Sure, that works. I have some respect for it.

As a practical matter, I don't think the US was ever in favour of locking a bunch of people up, destroying lives for nothing and the uncomfortably racial nature of where the hammer fell. They could have used methods to deal with drugs that worked. Even if the conscious plan is to vote for a chimera, it still makes sense to vote for one that implements good long-term policies as well as bowing to short term expediency.

If the policies as-implemented are so bad that he feels a need to pardon people for being charged under them, I can see why some people would be apoplectic at this bald-faced ploy. After some number of lives ruined by bad policy making, really these politicians should just resign. Although, again, I do think most people are making a show about it fright now are doing so for political reasons; there aren't a lot of people out there who care about principle. Any of the last 10 presidents would have done the same under similar circumstances.
I concur, there is no "fire and forget" solution comparable to what a physical medium gives you. And I could have probably avoided the CD-RW corruption by dumping the whole image on a new CD / DVD / USB storage every now and then.

I also have some external magnetic HDD that is now already ~10 years old, stored in the same conditions as the aforementioned CD, let see how it fares in 2032 :)
Exactly that. In some ways i'd love to have some of that old code, as icky as it would likely be to view now.

Does make me wonder how kids of today just start coding, without having to fuss about dev environments. Listening to my young nephew talking about doing python at school sounded encouraging, but python is hardly "I want to learn to python, starting coding in python". Lots of fiddling about. Still he seems to enjoy it.
I remember in 2006 when Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize[1]. As a teen I wasn't particularly interested in the peace prize and knew that the quality of it was quite low compared to the other Nobel prize; The peace prize is given out by a committee elected by _Norwegian parliament_ a political organization, unlike the scientific one which came from the Academy, in Sweden.

Why I remember Yunus was because it was shocking to teenager me, that a banker received the prize; but when the details of why it was revealed to me, it blew my mind how helping poor people through lending is actually helping for the somewhat "vague" goal of peace. To young me it was the first time "take a big problem, such as peace, and break it down to smaller problems which you can solve. Solving big problems directly often fails" resounded.

Then the following year I was ofc like everyone else disappointing with EU, Obama getting it. I often even joked with my friends that the Peace prize is actually cursed because Syrian crisis and migration crisis, and Ukraine 2014 happened quite quickly after and made the entire peace prize look stupid.

I wish the Peace prize focused more on concrete action that have be proven to *lead to peaceful results*, rather than throwing the price at people/organization that *represent* something virtuous.

Attention economy and Social medias "like" culture already cover the "appraisal to the virtuous sayer than the pragmatic doers" phenomenon enough.

But I guess going around actually looking for results and evaluating it is a time-consuming and a hard thing, compared to just searching for symbols and words.

That said, it seems like this years recipient seems to rather be on the good side.

[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2006/yunus/facts/
Results of Bellingcat's Second Hackathon
I know, my above statement wouldn't make sense without this assumption.
Based on what evidence?

Have you ever actually been around these turbines IRL? I have and they are absolutely disruptive of the environment.
If you have local, un-pushed commits 'on' master, and there are upstream changes to master that you lack locally, there is absolutely nothing wrong with pull.rebase, i.e. rebasing your local changes on the upstream ones before you push.

Beats the hell out of:

* deadbeef (master) Merge branch 'master' of upstream
|\
| * feedbeef A proper commit message from upstream
* | deafbeef A proper commit message of the actual change
|/

which not only hides the real commit message in CI, but also flips around the history so master's snaking around between upstream's path and the person not pull.rebase-ing's path.
There's also the Transmission Remote GUI, which is a nice GUI for remotely controlling the Transmission daemon, on say, a NAS: https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui

It's great for keeping downloads going overnight without having to leave all the power-hungry devices powered on.
The price of bitcoin went up so much after mtgox went bankrupt that the bitcoin the bankrupcy trustee has found is currently worth about $2.8 billion.

At some point in the next year or two, up to 90% of that will be returned to the 25,000 creditors who filled in the paperwork to make a claim years ago.
> depth of field

I know I'm a weird person, but I never got the whole depth-of-field/bokeh thing. While I understand that some people want the "focus" to be the sharp center of attention, and perhaps other things to be less sharp, I never liked the "everything except the main object is super blurry" effect. In many cases, I want everything to be in focus so I can choose what to look at and enjoy.

As for HDR look, it's a bit difficult to say what neutral/normal is since it depends on SO many variables (including the brain of the viewer). So I would argue that your perception of the "fakeness" of phone HDR is because your mind is trained on images which look different. Even if there is a formal correct definition of ideal, in cases of relatively small differences it's kind of moot.

Plus, at my basic understanding I believe photogs shooting in raw are choosing to some degree how to interpret the data when they convert from RAW. Maybe they let the default converter choose, and maybe (probably) they make some choices of their own. So at this point there is no truth. There is just the subjective choices of the operator.

Even between camera/lens/software choices the results can be quite varied from what I've seen reading many camera tests, reviews, and comparisons.

Ultimately a human with a little training or some intuition/luck can make choices of how and where to shoot which probably have the greatest overall impact on the likeability of the image.
I know the feeling, but please keep the cynicism in check. Some of these people are worthy of the prize, and peace isn't an exact science. There'll be errors, and there'll be choices you don't agree with. Criticism on the actual choice is fine, the rest doesn't help.

To paraphrase: give it a chance.
I did, it is an Asus netbook, with Linux pre-installed, it is the only device that has issues connecting to my router, GL support is GL 3.3 while Asus Windows drivers support DirectX 11 and GL 4.1, occasionally instead of shuting down goes into a sleep state only recoverable by taking out the battery.
Who got a break in this deal exactly? There isn't anybody in federal prison for simple possession charges. It's like him giving every man, woman, and child in Antarctica a pony, only not as efficacious.
TL;DR:

A simple brute force tool that tops at 4,500 password/second, 25 years expected for a 7 character password, the Author essentially wrote a tool that is way too slow for any practical use (in reasonable times), it is interesting if seen as a tutorial, but that's it.

As pure anecdata, the only time I actually needed to recover a lost password for a zip archive, I was lucky enough that a known plain text attack was possible on that particular archive, even much faster "professional" tools had time estimation for brute forcing in years, unless you greatly reduced the space with some parts of the password.

Anyway, I believe that nowadays such "professional" programs running on a (powerful) dedicated GPU may go between 3,000,000 and 5,000,000 passwords per second.
Google Chrome is reportedly riddled with security issues
It's a great piece of software. I'm running a web remote v2.92 on an rpi with simple basic auth protection, and it has been working flawlessly for years now.