skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Windows, Firefox can't be updated while it's running because the files that comprise it are locked by the running application.

On Linux, you can delete or replace open files, and even running applications. Instead of updates being handled by dozens of individual updaters that coordinate closely with each app so that updates happen between restarts, updates happen in the background without really coordinating with running apps.

Sometimes, after Firefox has been updated, there's some kind of incompatibility between the old running binary and the new assets (internal JS, CSS, and idk what else). In that case, Firefox can't open new tabs because you're still running the old binary, which doesn't work with the new assets which have been installed, or which is looking for old assets that it opens dynamically at runtime that are simply no longer present on your disk.
Debian is good if you don't want up to date browsers, the only shock i had when i tried Debian after this snap fiasco, ironically that's among things snap is trying to solve (quick updates)
speaking as someone who literally worked on a bot mitigation project for Ticketmaster:

They have an effing HUGE tech problem.

The site crashing isn't because of "demand for the tickets" at least not by normal people's definition.

It's not that there's really "There is much more demand for these tickets than there are supply of tickets" as matai_kolila suggested here.

Ticketmaster's problem is very much that there are huge bot swarms attacking it for every popular ticket sale, because reselling tickets is WAY more profitable, than pointing a few thousand bots at it for a few hours.

Anyone who's tried to order tickets from ticketmaster in the past decade knows that it's a massive pain in the ass of hurdle jumping. That hurdle jumping has nothing to do with the humans attempting to buy tickets. It's bot mitigation.

It is not in ticketmaster's interest to facilitate scalping.

1. they don't profit from it. (no $)
2. humans blame them for it. (bad pr)
3. artists blame them for it (potential loss of $)

now, they've got a bunch of stadiums lock in to literal hundred year contracts so, to some degree they're safe financially as far as big performances go because those artists can't go anywhere _other_ than the stadiums they have locked down. Practically speaking Taylor Swift can't perform at your local bar and announce it. A) there'd be a mob. B) it wouldn't be profitable enough for anything other than just testing out songs.

> Why was Ticketmaster’s system so poorly structured?

I can't say that it is or is not poorly structured. I can say, that regardless of how good of a job Ticketmaster's devs do, they are fighting an unwinnable war. All they can do is gain and loose a little ground against the bot makers every round.

This post was obviously written by someone with no clue of the existence, or significance, of the technological warfare Ticketmaster is constantly involved it.

To be clear, I am, in no way, commenting on the practices of the company, or their business decisions.

I am ONLY saying that they have a HUGE tech problem and when the site goes down or is otherwise effed, it is a _very_ safe bet, that it has nothing to do with the humans trying to buy tickets.
They should have simply contracted it out for 843 million dollars and made everyone in the US pay for with federal taxes instead of charging 6$ to people actually using it.

Sarcasm aside there is probably at least some overhead that the money is going towards. Also amusing to read about public/private partnerships when currently one of the biggest social/political buzzwords to imply absolute evil is fascism.
Across basically every company I've worked for - this is normal. And many of those companies are not 3k+ employee tech companies. Think 10 to 100 engineers.

It's actually a requirement for many compliance certifications in the US - previously employed staff are not allowed access to your systems.

If you're in an office - you can wait until you grab the employee and put them in a conference room to fire them before cutting access (as long as security is there to escort them out afterwards). When everyone is remote - that is not an option.

ex: item number 1 for SOC 2 compliance is

----

Access controls

—logical and physical restrictions on assets to prevent access by unauthorized personnel.

----

When an employee is terminated - they are unauthorized personnel.
The biggest answer people miss is that:

1. Sam Bankman Fried is in the Bahamas
2. Sam Bankman Fried was Tether’s biggest customer and banked with Deltec, Tether’s bank
3. The attorney general of the Bahamas, the man with the power to arrest Sam, is Deltec’s former lawyer

The US system is probably content to watch while Sam confesses, but they can’t directly arrest him and Sam appears to have captured the local judicial apparatus.
I'll drop this here: https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-...
I already addressed that by including mass overhead for the overall battery. And sure, it’s always possible to assume more conservative numbers for a whole battery and assume Tesla DIDN’T do any engineering work to reduce overall battery mass, but that’s not something you should put in a headline.

(Tesla has typically done better than their peers in overall battery specific energy as well as energy per mile.)
Also, it's not like he's about to hop in a private jet and evade the jurisdiction. He's constrained in an extradition friendly country. And to the extent it's not extradition friendly (mostly if they want to press charges first), it doesn't help to file an arrest warrant.

Speed isn't required here.
But did Nissan disable the "we're collecting data and sending it off to the homeland: OK/Cancel" startup screen? No. So now every time I drive the thing, I have to push a button that does nothing so that I can see the screen.

One of but many little duck bites that has us firmly in the "never buy another Nissan" camp.
Hasn't SBF given long detailed interviews about the activity of FTX & his roles there?
Anything you do on work hardware, it the US is pretty much free range for them to snoop into as much as they want.

Putting that kind of stuff on your work laptop is just unthinkably weird to me. Why would anyone do that?
Wow, selenianboondocks. That's a blast from the past.
Yeah that one mono font quiz[0] always ends up recommending it to me

[0] https://www.codingfont.com/
My conversation with Hamed Alemohammad, who was the previous Executive Director of the Radiant Earth Foundation, a Non-Profit focused on building open machine learning tools & datasets for satellite imagery through projects like the ML Hub & STAC, Spatio Temporal Asset Catalog.
Why don't just buy a domain like DNSOver.Wiki so people can just scihub.dnsover.wiki without installing the browser extension..
Snaps are annoying. But Ubuntu is not the same as desktop Linux. Some alternatives: Linux Mint,[1] Fedora[2] or Silverblue,[3] Pop!_OS.[4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Linux

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Linux#Silverblue

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop!_OS
Yes, catechin is my enemy. It inhibits the Nitric Oxide Synthase Enzyme as well and that messes me up mentally.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03043...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6303682/
It's point to point, which does make a difference, though I would note that Big Tech companies who provide email are _extremely_ happy to "defederate" from email servers who send spam, or who merely look like they may send spam, or who share an IP range with someone who sent spam once in 2008. Like, the sort of guilt by association that would make even the most trigger-happy Mastodon service admin hesitate.

There was a time when it was pretty easy to set up an SMTP server, but, if you want your emails to actually get seen, it's non-trivial today.
I think out of all of this the worst thing to come of it, is this term, seemingly re-invented here, called "free speech absolutists". Which isn't a thing. It's the inversion of "relative censorship" and much larger concept and strategy to turn everything "relative", i.e relativism, or "The Relativists Clan". Free speech can't be "relative" to somebody's interpretation, otherwise it wouldn't be speech that is free -- free -- of relative-style censorhip. The basis of relative speech is that some speech is harmful and it should be censored. That just means, hey we're not a free speech website. It comes down to be honest, there are people who don't want other people saying things and they will go as far to redefine words and meanings to censor them.
The OP used a product and it didn't perform as expected. The expectations are set by the marketing material, and conversations and comments by other fans enthusing about "awesome performance".

I have no clue what you're talking about calling it a fake review and such. Your cookie was a bit moldy ;)
This is unfortunately exactly what will happen.

What is scary to me is how censorship has become completely accepted by the new generation, including software engineers here in their 20s. No true hacker (this is Hacker News after all) would be OK with corporation or government censorship. Slippery slope is real.
laws or observations?
Literally never heard anyone say this before
Shortly after the push to manage everything through snap, I set up ubuntu server and installed docker, to support a client facing demo involving a few containers. A few hours before the demo snap updated docker to a version that was totally broken and there was much embarrassment. That day I gave up on Ubuntu completely and never looked back.
> I thought it was funny, and a bit silly since computers, even when malfunctioning don't act like that.

Have you met Siri? Let me relate an interaction I had with it last Sunday, driving home from the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. I may not have this exactly correct, but it went about like this:

Me: Siri, Airdrop Lisa's address to Sheri

Siri: Composing message to Lisa and Sheri. What would you like to say?

Me: Cancel

Siri: Got it. Would you like me to send the message now?

Me: Don't send.

Siri: "Sent!"

Sheri and Lisa received an email titled "Address" with message body "Cancel."

There's no way that anyone who works on Siri actually uses Siri. The only thing it does reliably for me is set timers and alarms.
Well, yeah. But also:

> It is possible that foobar is a playful allusion to the World War II-era military slang FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar

Which is certainly how I've always understood it.
Nikon do very well with the Z series. I have a Z50 and it's closer to smartphone than DLSR. BT and WiFi work, decent quality viewfinder and articulated multi-touch screen. Also with the 16-50 lens it still goes in your pocket but is a proper camera.

I disagree with smartphone quality. I have what could be considered a close to best of breed in quality iPhone 13 Pro and it's crap. It's a 2009 DSLR with three crap prime lenses stuck to it. It's mostly usable if you shoot ProRAW with it but the processed images (HEIC/JPEG) are really quite fucked up.
What made me drop snaps is it wouldn’t let me access files outside of $HOME no matter what I tried, and the snap decided I was running Gnome instead of KDE no matter what I tried, going back to the .deb worked perfectly.
Note 3 out of 5 of those services are run by beneficiaries of the old school cable bundle where yearly price increases have always been part of the business model for 30+ years.
Yes but it’s fairly complex and he keeps presenting it as a mistake and a lack of controls.

He hasn’t admitted to it as fraud, which is (I’ve heard) hard to prove.
to become zuckerberg you need to be smart, industrious and have luck on your side. If he went to CC, he would still make his way to upper middle class life no doubt but maybe not a billionare.
> not even Page herself

I see that you're not ideologically motivated here. ^_^

It's decidedly not "criminal" for an adult to get a surgery that is commonplace for men with gynecomastia just because they have an "F" on their birth certificate. Breast tissue is breast tissue and there is no regulation that says that anyone has to have a minimum amount of it based on their sex assigned at birth. Women have breast reductions, especially at advanced ages, to help with their mobility all the time after all.

Peterson's objective was to slur Eliot Page by casting him and the doctor who treated him in a negative light. It's slimy trolling and provocation. Not speaking truth or even a simple fact like that "men are not women." Just thinly veiled hate for his hungry audience to feed on.
Is Hubot-Sans.ttf working in XWindows for anyone? Mona-Sans.ttf is fine for me, but not Hubot.
I wonder of that was an euphemism for something? Seems like the antiques version of putting your elbows on the table otherwise.
Okay, cool.

So if I read [1] right, some kind of average price for electricity used in the transport sector in the US as of September 2022 was 12.48 cents/kWh. That would mean that the 500-mile trip costs 500 * 1.5 * 12.48 / 100 = $93.6 in energy.

If that includes hauling tens of thousands of pounds of cargo, that sounds rather a lot like it would make transport powered by electricity commercially sane, right? Nice.

EDIT: I hadn't read the article much; it seems the current power value given is actually 1.7 kWh/mile, so that increased the price to 500 * 1.7 * 12.48 / 100 = $106.08. Not a huge increase, obviously.
I guess it's a question you'd need to ask the 1000s of customers who have bought existing HEV and PHEV trucks, not me. There's clearly some niche for them. Anyway if we're going to talk about "dragging around" something then obviously the main thing we are going to discuss is 5 tons of dead batteries, not a teensy little diesel drivetrain that maybe weighs 1 ton or less.
When I was laid off security walked me from a conference room near the exit to my car. I was not even allowed to collect my stuff from my desk, had to have a friend bring it to me after.
you can get a list of bullying activities, just inverting some not required https://i.imgur.com/GNRUEzH.png
It's not the market, the customers don't care. They won't stop buying the product because of security issues, it's because of THAT that the price recovers, not because "the market" doesn't understand security

If the customers cared, there would be significant drop in the price of the stock because a vulnerability like this would result in lower sales
Are you using the volume buttons to take a picture? I sometimes find that more ergonomic than tapping the screen.
Would you even need to take anonymization steps for this as another commenter has suggested (fake/stolen KYC and anonymized collateral)?

It seems to me that whomever was making these trades knew (suspected/or had actual inside operational information-but possibly from prior trades) that Alameda would buy the position and he would not be liable for the subsequent deflation of price.

If you knew that Alameda were going to backstop at 1% under the market price, this seems like an obvious trade to make. But how would you know that Alameda were going to do that without inside information?
The swastiska has had a very long history, before the Nazis misused it for their purpose.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

So when kayne used it, of course he referred to the Nazi symbol and just wanted attention and strongly hint at his antisemitism.

But other people can mean something very different:

"In several major Indo-European religions, the swastika symbolises lightning bolts, representing the thunder god and the king of the gods, such as Indra in Vedic Hinduism, Zeus in the ancient Greek religion, Jupiter in the ancient Roman religion, and Thor in the ancient Germanic religion."
Hmm...I subscribed, but after clicking the activation link, nothing was sent. Anyone else experience this?
It's explained here pretty well: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1492023

My reading is that if your package manager updates FF on disk while it's running, it can no longer guarantee that new tabs can be created safely, since creating a tab requires spawning a child process and the parent was created with an executable that no longer exists/knows anything about the executable it needs to use when spawning.

It is super annoying and I feel like there are some obvious fixes. I'm also not 100% sure why it only happens on Linux (it updates fine on Windows and MacOS while running right?)
> why is desktop linux still such a piece of crap

Snap infestation is highest in Ubuntu - so I am planning to switch to some alternative (and due to other Canonical excesses like ads in CLI system tools).

My current candidates are Debian and Pop!OS.
Thats a series hybrid idea. they are already doing that, however, car industry has been exceptionally poor in making a efficiency optimized generator mostly because their R&D depts have been tweaking engines that operate over a big rpm range to send power directly to wheels. the design gets much simpler if you are making a high efficiency generator. recently companies like Aquarius have done some work on that.

That said, the main utility for hybrids is in stop&go situations where gas engine has to operate over a large RPM range and energy is essentially lost in stopping. In case of big rigs I actually agree that you need full electrification (or maybe ammonia/H2 engine IFF conversion efficiency to carrier is high). We 'just' need to get the battery energy density up 30-40%. Quite doable IMO.
Variable fonts, color fonts, etc. There's a lot happening

https://v-fonts.com/

I'll still only stick to websafe fonts for actual websites but I'm excited to see what the future holds. Also because I hate Arial
Time to put my conspiracy hat on.

A lot of people have criticized the government for not knowing the attack was coming and not being prepared for something like it. Now that G.W. Bush is sort of irrelevant, could this be a falsified document by one of the 3 letter agencies to make them look better while putting the blame on Bush?
1. I brush my teeth

2. Go to my bedroom

3. Put on my pajamas

4. Turn off the lights

5. Uncover the comforter

6. Lay on top of the fitted sheets

7. Cover back the comforter

8. Close my eyes

All kidding aside one thing that helps insomnia for me is doing long an complex math equations, functional programming problems, or reading heady philosophy. You could also try meditation.
Email is one to one or one to many. Twitter is one to all. The burden of responsibility is different because of the scope of reach.
The FAQ contains re-states the content for point 14 in point 13. Point 14 is about why your code might be slower when using 2.0. 13 should be about how to keep up with PT 2.0 developments. Someone should change that.
> It is now common to hear people saying: "He didn't really build that" "His family had money" "His family had a mine" "He's a fascist" "He's a racist because of where/when he was born"

To be fair, that's been going on at least 2-3 years. Way before he got involved with Twitter.
Having spent an extended time in the academic milieu in Cambridge, MA, another concern of mine is the extended use of stimulants. For personal choice, I don't much care, but in the context of those making the laws, I observed a definite tendency of students and researchers to expect Joe Random American to be able to output work at the same capacity as hopped-up administrators to be. And the end effect is observable: a meth epidemic among the disenfranchised. Is it any wonder a class of vulnerable people is created who have to take drugs to work the crappiest jobs because large equity and gaps in access to capital prevent them from ever owning a home? Curb stimulant use in the Ivy Leagues.
I don't like Ubuntu anymore, but not because of "how it operates."

More because of "how it operates, without being forthcoming about what its new purpose is, which is not 'everybody's Linux.'"

You're trying to be a tool to support big corporate IT. That is absolutely fine, good even. Getting more Linux in that space, under Ubuntu's name, seems pretty cool.

But you're no longer "the people's choice" when you behave that way. They're putting in big grown up restrictions and ideas and methods of doing things, and they just need to be honest about that.
Elon Brings One of America’s Most Prominent Nazis Back to Twitter
I wasn't trying to make a point about price (e-mails are practically free). The book could cost half a penny and my comment would still stand. People just view items that cost something differently than genuinely free items, and not in a rational, economic way.

For example, see: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/13/156737801/the-...
Do they, or are they emotionally manipulated into reading it?

There's a difference between "wanting" and "liking" something. The reason doomscrolling on social media is a thing is because people want their fix. Whether or not they truly like it is another matter. Most would probably admit they don't, if they really sat down to unpack everything about it.
> Had to update my XCode to use the generated mlpackage files :/

I keep running into this, message is

RuntimeError: Error compiling model: "Error reading protobuf spec. validator error: The model supplied is of version 7, intended for a newer version of Xcode. This version of Xcode supports model version 6 or earlier.".

I upgraded XCode, tried re-installing the command line tools with various invocations of `sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools ; xcode-select --install` etc but still get the above message

(thanks in advance, in case you see this and reply)

edit: I see from https://github.com/apple/ml-stable-diffusion/issues/7 that somebody upgraded to macos 13.0.1 and that fixed the issue for them. I've put off upgrading to Ventura so far and don't want to upgrade just to mess around with stable diffusion on m1, if it can be avoided.
What a Chicken Chain Can Teach Us About Culture
It seems AIs are bad at obscure popculture references

Another point for the AI in the Turing Test
I despise snap. There's a reason why we use apt / yum / pacman or whatever, and that's because traditional package management works.

When I install something through snap or flatpack, invariably it starts slower, has worse performance, is much more bloated and is generally a much more janky experience than just getting it from the apt repo. Snaps are the number one reason why I use popOS or mint over ubuntu.
And none of them seem to have good hinting for low-DPI use.
AWS Application Composer – visual designer for building serverless applications
I seem to hear conflicting reports on whether invest in Greek Egypt (up to Cleopatra) was practiced mainly by the Greeks or by the Egyptians to thumb their nose at the Greeks.
Usually your payment method is tied to your country of residence (bank/currency), and from the platform's perspective (as a business) region-verification locks on content/behavior are demanded by national governments.
The flip side is that it's tricky to have an enjoyable life on no money. Not impossible, but difficult.

The ultimatum game tries to capture that: there are both benefits and disadvantages to rejecting the bargain. The simplified game basically says they're a wash, which isn't true but can be informative anyway.

So I don't think rejecting the offer is the only reasonable reaction. You have to figure out what kind of life you'd enjoy. There are ways to do it, but some options (like having children) are nearly closed off.
Even one-upping it with his response to "how on earth did you come up with that?!". xD

That thread is easily the funniest thing I've read all week.
While I think you raise important points about the dominance of hardware optimizations, I think you're massively overstating the simplicity of the algorithms.

Sure, it's easy to code the forward pass of a fully connected neural network, but writing code to train a useful modern architecture is a very different endeavor.