skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ECS (Elitegroup) LIVA Mini Box QC710 Desktop

The squircle design aesthetic looks nicer than the latest 32GB memory new dev kit. Extrude up the shape to a squcube or stack three cubes as modular compute units with a unified memory plane. The Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 exterior has no design effort on the exterior. Wish industry would give dev-consumers the choice of microkernel, user space, window manager kind of like how vehicles come in varieties, avoiding Windows avoids the heartache of the security hamster wheel by being different
Sure, but if there was no drm, there would probably just be a chrome extension you could install and rip/share content more readily than via BitTorrent.

I don't like it, but there is some logic to it. For business types, it isn't merely the existence of ripped copies, but the ease of creating and spreading them.
> How many people have Surface Pro X

<raises hand>
I've been blogging more or less constantly for at least 10 years. In my experience, the times when I don't blog much are either because there's something in my life that makes it difficult (holidays, life drama, too much work, etc) or because the technology I'm using at the time puts too much friction into getting the thing published.
I think it’s weird and cool how Netflix used FreeBSD/Dlang.

Linux is just the automatic go to. It’s great the big tech companies are rethinking these basics.
- Still need a phone number
- They refuse to post the app on f-droid (directly)
- No 3rd party clients allowed on their servers.
- Crypto thing they attempted
- I don't trust Moxie, he rubs me the wrong way.
Stripe was already known (in my circles at least) for being a ~grinder~ long hours type place. Not neccesarily because they're understaffed but because it was a work work work culture.
Building systems that automatically adjust to workloads and data
My Time model has a compass and I use it quite a bit. There are several compass apps in the store.
Political fliers in the mail: How do I stop receiving them?
Yep. On top of that, some people just straight-up don't intend to port their software to Flatpak. There are a lot of unofficially supported packages (or incomplete ports) that will remain that way forever, which really makes Flatpak no better than the AUR in many respects.

The biggest problem IMO is that Flatpak coupled itself too closely with Bubblewrap. Flatpak is missing many key features because of this (support for running services???), and it makes zero sense in the context of a modern desktop. Apps like Flatseal should focus on sandboxing regular applications with Bubblewrap rather than trying to manage all of the software on it's own. As-is, Flatpak is the last resort of packaging methods for all of my systems, even behind Snap.
What tools do you use for load testing / benchmarking?
Debian is probably the move if you want to keep stability, security, and minimize disruption. Most Ubuntu PPAs work on Debian too, in case that matters to you. I personally run Arch Linux on my dev machine, which has its own share of issues (mostly breaking changes due to being a continuous release distro with a focus on being up to date), but the Arch User Repository (AUR) is really good. IMO stay away from the redhat distros like Fedora.
Rare earth elements are enriched by about a factor of 100 in the Earth's crust compared to chondritic abundances (undifferentiated asteroidal material.)

Like uranium, the best place to mine REEs in the solar system may be Earth.
I've been using a Garmin Instinct for a few years, and it's never let me down. It has a monochrome display that is not affected by sunlight with incredible battery life even when using the GPS. It's also tough as a brick
I haven't the faintest idea of what you're talking about.

Again, I think you're under the impression that this particular event was supposed to be in some way Meaningful. Part of some grand strategy or a big movement or something. I'm telling you it's not.

As far as I can tell, https://juststopoil.org came into existence around February this year. They're just a small, new group formed around opposition to Big Oil that's trying to make some noise. This paintings thing is attempt #25, and it just happens to be weird enough to make the news, but not fundamentally different to the 24 that came before it.

In fact they tried previously gluing themselves to microphone at a news agency:

https://juststopoil.org/2022/04/03/just-stop-oil-supporter-g...

I see no indication that this is part of some grand strategy from the Democrats or something. No, it's just a small group doing a weird thing and getting news coverage because weird thing is weird.

Edit: And in fact, Just Stop Oil is UK based, so they have nothing to do with the US Democrats or Pennsylvania.
Couldn't you just double sign your bits? Sign your payload with your key, then wrap that in a snap with their key; snap verifies the outer sig, then an "inner" installer verifies the sig of the payload.
That said, I would run screaming from an ecosystem with such insanity.

In fact, I am poised at the starting line of that sprint, but I'm still trying to decide what my next distribution will be that provides similar quality and cadence. It's a somewhat sad day, as my servers have been running Ubuntu for almost two decades. A switch will be immensely painful, but the state of their snap crap is pushing me to switch all of my systems once and for all. Worse for Canonical, I then will be taking all of the systems in my engineering division to those greener pastures.
They do, it's called WOW64, and it covers emulation of 32-bit and 64-bit x86 on ARM. More details on Microsoft's website: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/apps-on-arm-x8...

It's not as fast as Rosetta 2 on Apple Silicon (not by a long shot), but especially for lighter apps like productivity software, it isn't bad at all.
Most of what runs on any computer is built by volunteers. Most open source softwares relies on volunteers.
I don't see anyone mentioning fedora. Is that a decent alternative?
> It’s time to move beyond the era of Big Social using platform lock-in and attention traps to monopolize our minds. We shouldn’t need to fret so much about a dictator holding dominion over a vast digital media empire. The power should reside with the people. The power should reside with you.

My natural response to this is to say something like, "I've chosen not to tie my success and happiness to playing a game on social media."

People will respond with some nonsense like, "lucky you, others dont have that choice" But of course they do. The mass delusion that social media "matters" that elections "matter" that political leaders "matter" that what's important is all the power other people have over you instead of just living your life locally and feeling that real impact in the real world.

Kanye Wests opinion on jews doesnt matter. Imagining every idiot with twitter needs to be "fought" because they said something out loud.

Like people say stupid shit all the time but for some reason "amplification" is the problem. It's all very chicken little to me.

I'm not too cool, I'm not above it all, I haven't seen it all before. I don't have the right idea and you the wrong idea. I really think it doesn't matter. And I cant understand why people think it does. It really seems like delusion.

I know I'm victim to imagining other things matter. I'm a singulatarian. I have weird beliefs than I can't get people to share in. But I dont understand the idea of "fighting Elon" it seems like a bug in thinking.

Twitter is a tool. But people will say, "you are trivializing the public square" like what? There isn't any sense of an equilibrium outcome they want. It's just addiction to conflict and unhappiness.

I feel like the response to this I always read is just additional moral outrage. "Good for you, you see the world on fire and shrug." Sigh, more framing.
You can still get those batteries replaced. It's just a lot more work.
Adding a WYSIWYG editor to your Django forms
Agreed on all counts, especially the last one.
> Honestly, every ban should come with a public explanation from the network, in order to deter similar behavior

This only works on non-adversarial systems. Anywhere else, it will be like handing over to bad actors (i.e. people whose interests will never align with operator's) a list of blindspots
That is less than 200 Racks to serve every single of their customer on planet earth. ( Ignoring Storage. )

If you're going to ignore storage, Netflix could just ship a low-end video server to every one of its customers and be done with it.

Every problem is an easy problem if your pretend the hard parts don't exist.
For the entire history of this country the elites have pitted the working class against itself along racial lines. The failure of Reconstruction to enable Black agency or punish slaveholders deeply scarred the country and it may never heal from it.

The media and political class continually manufactures the racial divide. We see this now with the culture war about crime narratives.

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Americans lack class consciousness in part because a plurality of Americans do not have the lived experience of the "working class". The decimation of the labor movement over the past 50 years didn't help either. And those who experience class divide the most, the very poor and homeless, are totally politically disenfranchised.
One hard part is that on the youtube side, most views occur within the first 48 hours or so and a good fraction occur within the first 6. With netflix, they have a catalogue of ~5000 videos and gets <200 new per month. Youtube has around 30k channels with more than 500k subscriptions, so that's somewhere around 30k videos per week.
This is no worse than distro contributors or say, AUR or Nixpkgs folks packaging 3rd non-free party software.
> Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything

Never heard of it...where does it come from?
We’re not architecting cathedrals anymore
At a certain level we all should ditch companies for giving these monstrous coding challenges or they'll probably never learn. E.g. I think it's ridiculous to let people write code when applying to Senior Developer or even worse Software Architect positions. If you can't find out otherwise if the person is a fit or not you're doing it wrong.
monty python, but even better: three men on the bummel. The second half of chapter 3 begins:

He handed me a small book bound in red cloth. It was a guide to English conversation for the use of German travellers. It commenced “On a Steam-boat,” and terminated “At the Doctor’s”; its longest chapter being devoted to conversation in a railway carriage, among, apparently, a compartment load of quarrelsome and ill-mannered lunatics: “Can you not get further away from me, sir?”—“It is impossible, madam; my neighbour, here, is very stout”—“Shall we not endeavour to arrange our legs?”—“Please have the goodness to keep your elbows down”—“Pray do not inconvenience yourself, madam, if my shoulder is of any accommodation to you,” whether intended to be said sarcastically or not, there was nothing to indicate—“I really must request you to move a little, madam, I can hardly breathe,” the author’s idea being, presumably, that by this time the whole party was mixed up together on the floor. The chapter concluded with the phrase, “Here we are at our destination, God be thanked! (Gott sei dank!)” a pious exclamation, which under the circumstances must have taken the form of a chorus.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2183/2183-h/2183-h.htm
Big thanks for writing about your experience here, I've been thinking about doing this at some point for passive income, including livestreaming open source SaaS apps I want to build. This gives me a little hope! It was also good to know I need at least 1,000 subscribers!
The borrow checker is "smarter" within a single function body though, so factoring code into a separate function is not necessarily as easy as in other languages.
Windows 11 only up to one of the betas—the production version has some ARMv8.1 extensions that aren't compatible with the Pi's SoC.

The Pi is also woefully underpowered, even when overclocked—the cheaper ARM SoCs from Qualcomm are still 2-4x faster than a Pi 4, and they even feel a bit slow at times running Windows on ARM.
Absolutely, Ory Hydra supports basic OAuth2 standards like OAuth2 Introspection - if the technology supports these standards then it is compatible!
Oops wrong comment to reply to.
This is true of any platform to be honest. You could be a terrible writer and still do well on sites like Medium or Substack. Be a terrible musician and do well on Spotify or SoundCloud. Be a terrible artist and do well on all sorts of platforms.

Whether people like it or not, the production values involved in a piece of work have only the loosest correlation to whether it'll do well.
Does YouTube give you a numeric score for engagement?
As an educated person, it's actually insane how hard it is to create click-bait / engaging thumbnails and titles.
It's true but it would be nice if they were honest about it. It makes sense as a strategy because, if the bust doesn't come (or as soon as you think), then you'd much rather be in the position of having grown to take advantage of it than not.
> The correct behavior would have been for signal to offer an official snap or to contact the maintainer.

Are we sure that Signal didn't contact the maintainer? I haven't seen any statements either way about that.
I agree, FlatHub isn't ideal either. They also fail to make it clear that the flatpak isn't made by the developers of the software, the "developers" on the Zoom snap lists zoom.us, and the only potential indication that it might not be official is the "See details" link under "Publisher" which takes you to a github contributors list.

How is a user supposed to decide whether they want to trust a flatpak published mainly by "flathubbot" (according to the page linked by FlatHub) and a bit by various other contributors with names like "TheEvilSkeleton" and "barthalion"? I have no idea.
If you're not out of money, why the frantic search? It isn't going to sustain you forever, but if it takes you six months to find a new job... oh well?
I dunno, Europe post the printing press was pretty crazy for a few decades. More generally I think that it's the rate of increase that causes the problems, not the baseline.
Unfortunately Firefox is a snap on Ubuntu (eventually I'll get around to switching to a better distro -- "it's a laptop," I said, "it'll be nice to have Ubuntu deal with everything for me," big mistake).
I'm the maintainer of this unofficial snap package.
I've never seen a single reviewer say FSR is equal/better than DLSS especially now with 3.0. I would like to see a source for that. I do like that it's open.

AMD's ray tracing isn't good yet and is years behind NVIDIA
I work for Stripe and got laid off this morning. Sucks because my manager was only told this morning, and didn't have a chance to talk about how well I was doing or take any part in the decision making. We'll at least I'll get a break. I worked nights and weekends all of October.
keep going... (source: old wince sdk survivor)
Hi there - I'm the author of `jc`. I also created `jello`[0], which works just like `jq` but uses python syntax. I find `jq` is great for many things but sometimes more complex operations are easier for me to grok in python.

[0] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jello
Is that legally speaking? Ethically speaking? Or financially speaking?

And which one is really more important to humanity?
Why is taking responsibility the same as taking a punishment in your eyes?
My two cents: ubuntu snap daemon is not a good idea at all.

"Snap is a magnificent idea with a still immature realization.[...]
The overall user experience with Snaps on Ubuntu is frustrating: several apps won’t start when installed as snaps, others run weird, others take really long time to start. As an example: Telegram as snap takes around 51 sec to be operative, Telegram installed as binary starts in 1,5 sec."

see https://cialu.net/how-to-disable-and-remove-completely-snaps...

Also I was never happy with snap because unable to full control when software will be upgraded (and why).
It was the main reason I stopped to use it, after Ubuntu20 make snap a default install complex to remove:
https://gioorgi.com/2021/ubuntu-20-failed-me/
SAT scoring is not an ELO system.
Presumably not all of them are engineers. There must be an operational side we're not seeing that consumed a lot of resources.

> 7400x0.8x30 hours a week= 177 600 man hours a week.

Is that what the 0.8 is about?
"I can't believe they gatekept MY package," says user who enthusiastically downloaded WalledGarden Distro.

cf https://twitter.com/cavalorn/status/654934442549620736?lang=...
I was wondering why they'd stop shipping a deb package for certbot. This has some info: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/6770#issuecomment-...
The problem with that is now you've given a 3rd party power to update your system in any way that they want. Which is fine when it's just signal but less ideal when it's 20-30 randomish companies of varying degrees of trustworthiness. The point behind flatpaks et. al. is sandboxing applications so that they can be safely updated automatically.
Yes, but distributions provide a security layer, as well as source repositories. With flathub, binaries with no source code are being packaged up (albeit with scripts), and the process of pushing updates is quite easy.
Especially in postgres, you can use a hash index to get constant time index lookups rather than log(n) with a b-tree index, which is the best you could do with prefix lookups on a column. And you're storing and indexing less data since the tree is inherent in the structure and not expressed as part of the data.

Honestly I'd test both implementations to see which is fastest, but my gut is still that recursive CTEs would be fastest, while also simplest, structure-wise. You'd also still be getting all the benefits you'd expect from database-native functionality, like referential integrity and schema enforcement, etc. Presumably there's structure in these indexed string columns that the database knows nothing about, and thus can't enforce any constraints or optimize outside of plain string prefix lookups.

My experience has been that people don't try recursive CTEs because they don't realize they exist, and so they reach for all sorts of exotic or bespoke implementations of essentially that same concept. So I at least try to make sure people know they're a really solid tool to keep in your tool belt, and one that hasn't let me down yet even in very large data sets.
2022 State of Haskell Survey
And is the video presentation on Netflix?
Neat. The first play through was confusing as it was unclear that I was using letters that would be replaced with new ones. Making that clear would be good.

I'd also suggest that what makes wordle so popular is that it's shareable in a meaningful way without giving away answers.

The share should have your final score as well as colored blocks of all the words made (without the letters) like wordle and put into the clipboard for pasting.

It was fun tho!
Now you aren't being tracked.

Say you've done a crime that will be discovered in a few days. You buy a ticket to Detroit and next week the fbi will be wasting its time looking for you in Michigan and trying to convince Canada to search for you in Ontario.

In reality you hopped on a flight to El Paso under a fake name and you are deep into Mexico by now.
Anecdote here, but I sell vintage clothing, electronics, and furniture on the side and have noticed a substantial downturn in sales this year. Lower than pre-pandemic levels.
That's a different problem to where the packages are hosted. You can host your own packages and get added to an official aggregator. Said aggregator can function as an automatic verification system to assure people that your software is not compromised, has been updated recently, etc.
This article would also make for a good video, me thinks! I actually tried clicking your first screenshot, thinking it was a video summary of the article.
Sheesh, the software interview process is so messed up that it makes people wonder if they can actually do the job they already do.

"Huh, maybe I don't know how to program. I thought I'd been programming functioning applications professsionally all this time, but despite all evidence to the contrary, maybe not!"

The problem is with the interview process, not you. More broadly, the problem is with the industry and its incentives, not you.

If I had to put my finger on it, I'd say it's the need to scale everything, including human processes like finding new team members. Nobody doubts that spending a lot of time really getting to know a programmer's strengths and weaknesses would be better, but we'd have to sacrifice a lot of throughput in the hiring process, and god forbid we do that.
I blog from time to time. Currently these things are stopping me: a) Researching a topic takes lots of time. Writing and rewriting also takes time, and currently I don’t prioritize it. b) For the time being I feel that it’s more fun to do stuff than to write about stuff. Doesn’t need to stay that way forever though.
It wouldn't be impractical if the studio planned ahead for it.

Studios already plan for this.

For a short time in the 80's, one of my mother's job responsibilities was making sure every single person involved in the production of a movie in the 1940's got their revenue check each quarter, whether it was for $50.00, or 12¢. Hundreds of people. Hundreds of checks.
Having made something similar [0], and having seen a lot of these types of tools, I'll paste a comment I made before [1]:

"""

I've done a lot of research into this calendar/tasks/notes space, how does this compare to

- Sunsama [0]

- Daybridge

- Routine [1]

- Agenda

- NotePlan

- Cron

- TickTick

and the hundreds of others out there?

I've also seen a lot of apps like this shut down over the years, such as Sunrise [2], Woven [3] and more. Personally speaking, I even hesitate to continue on my own app as well because it seems the market is saturated with the same exact idea and style, but it seems that users aren't really that attached to one company for it to generate enough revenue to keep building.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24990238

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26565629

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11676448

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26882680

"""

[0] https://getartemis.app

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32312413#32313370
"you'd still have to contend with the transitive dependencies written by smaller organizations or individual contributors" - generally these are the higher risk dependencies anyway and should probably be used with extra caution anyway.
Similar to the US entertainment industry.

A lot of the nice stuff that musicians and actors have, is actually owned by the company.

Gilded cage, so to speak.
I thought about that phrasing, but it was too far from the original quote for me. But yes, it also works and is the better joke as well.
Me too. Would appreciate it being first-party though.
You've got taxes on that so 40% and then health insurance at Cobra rates. Granted it looks like they said they will pay that for 6 months. Not sure if that is taxable as well also not sure what the individual contributions are.
There's a difference between a PROGRAMMER and SOFTWARE ENGINEER. I know bad programmers that are good swes, and I know good programmers that are bad swes. Though the best is probably happy average.
So, punycode I do think was silly. We should just have used UTF-8 in DNS and have left it at that.

Using UTF-8 would not have required a flag day. It would have required upgrading some servers in order to be able to have non-ASCII domainnames, but it wouldn't have broken anyone not using non-ASCII domainnames.
And even still, why act like taking responsibility is the same as taking a punishment?