skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - people saying that there are "more performant" devices. Sure, there are. How do they perform in terms of kernel support and documentation?

One of the main options pointed at is low-power x86 boxes, which are better than Pis ever were. The rest of the ARM ecosystem is, I agree, poor.

> - people (often Americans) saying that the Pi has been "supply-constrained for five years". It really hasn't; it wasn't particularly supply-constrained in the UK until about five or six months into the pandemic.

Then it really has; there being a supply in the UK isn't exactly useful to most of the world.

> What I don't understand is this: how is it, if you've not been able to get hold of something for _five_ years, there's been no obvious co-ordinated attempts to get mainline support for the alternatives, or even any attempt to match the documentation? Five years was plenty of time to pick a single series of devices and match the same level of kernel support, surely? Couldn't it have been crowdfunded?

Partially, nobody was expecting it to actually take that long. If at the start of the shortage we'd known it was going to be 5 years, there probably would have been more of a push. OTOH some of the alternatives have been getting more polished.

> It's almost as if most of the people whining are just upset there isn't a cheap device they can drop into a Kodi box without any effort.

Okay. Yes? That's a valid usecase.
It depends.

The appropriate wage should be a reflection of the remote location's market rate, since that is a decisive business advantage in using human resources in nations with diverse standards of living.

Let's put it another way, one would expect an increase in salary should a Kenyan technology company seek to hire resources from San Francisco instead of hiring locally.

I believe that this model is ultimately beneficial to both parties - the employer gets to enjoy cheaper labour, with the additional bonus of corporate cultural enrichment, while the employees receive a competitive salary as well as gaining necessary skills to get a better life.

Some may claim thst this is an act of exploitation, but I see it as an effect of globalisation. Without the reduced wages, there's a good chance at those workers may never had the opportunity to upskill and learn, leading to a stagnancy in the remote nation's technical prowess.
Twitter Thought It Would Lose First Amendment Lawsuit by Alex Berenson After Ban
the pricing is partially due to a lack of collective negotiation

the government programs carry a lot of weight as a large client but are currently barred from negotiating on prices

part of some US universal healthcare proposals are to just allow existing government programs to negotiate on prices, while simultaneously extending coverage to more people
For the business operations and analytics courses I teach, many of the available textbooks are outdated or out of touch with industry. Thankfully, our library has a license to subscription services like O’Reilly Media, which gives students “free” access to their books and learning platform.
Guess what? You do not need to buy textbooks if you have a smart professor that cares and isn't into the racket.

You can use 15% of a copyrighted work for educational purposes. That means you can pick and copy chapters from different books to cover the course material. All free!
Graph Components with DuckDB
The solution is gov loans for higher ed needs to be contingent on a given school having administrative costs be less than 10% of their budget.
Exactly. And if you were to move there full time, I’d expect your pay to change accordingly.
The Guardian is famously one of the few news site that do NOT have a paywall.
Yeah it seems to be a very prevalent thing in the world.

We exploit 20 something year olds new found freedom and cashflows. This is the first time they are making money and are looking to be independent and "grown up" or "find themselves" so the market says "hey, I'll help you find yourself if you give me money."

Young people have a natural sense of invisibility. "I can do anything I set my mind to" has been burned into their brains since grade school. The market turns this into "I can buy anything I want to."

It's like society says "Look, you're grown up now so you need to participate in the economy. Not only do you need to make money, but what's more important is you need to spend money so I can have it."
People should decide if the price is too high to pay, it shouldn't be done it secret, essentially robbing them. I don't think the public would accept the prices being charged in this case. Arguing about what words to use to describe this is beside the point.
At that point you might as well use a dynamic array which doesn't invalidate old pointers, when growing the internal buffer: <https://yakubin.com/notes/comp/reserve-and-commit.html>. It also exhibits much better space utilisation than std::vector, not worse.

(Sorry about the suboptimal formatting. It appears that web technologies aren't up-to-par when it comes to this type of content. I intend to rewrite this post in TeX and add some graphs in TikZ when I find a spare moment.)
> I assume pleroma (sp?) or truth social or whatever it was that uses Mastodon code posted many articles about the evidence they found when they removed it from being hardcoded in the open source code they worked from.

Pleroma isn't a fork of Mastodon and I can't find Truth Social claiming anything like this about Mastodon's code, so I don't think this is it. Perhaps Mastodon is being confused with a different social network that used to have a hard-coded "slur filter": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615058
> I'm not using software designed primarily with mouse interaction and things like toolbars in mind.
> I don't use those features.
> Even at the global level, I don't use tap-hold on alpha keys or arbitrary combos.

But I do! Hence my question specifically about tools that match the power of the ones I use that allow the use of a broader class of apps than just emacs

> It seems like these extra features are primarily useful as workarounds for having a bad keyboard. Normal modifiers are good enough for me.

> "hold T for Toolbar and tap 1,2,3" seems like a comparably painful/inefficient chord, and

It's specifically chosen for the T mnemonic (thumb B for toolBar is also fine), which is easier to remember than the more convenient thumb mods, so works better for less frequently used functions

> There are already plenty of actions available using just single keys and modifier keys

Only if you significantly constraint app universe!

> probably vim support arbitrary key combos

Vim doesn't even support left vs right modifiers

> 95% of my time is spent using tools that are programmable and intended to be used primarily with a keyboard or at least have first-class support for it.

That's not first-class, that would be power+usability, and none offer that, you can get to power with a lot of effort and using other tools

> I have global keybindings for all my most used applications

Globals interfere with some uber-global fullscreen apps which you don't want to accidentally interrupt.

> Only if you're a fan of GUI configuration. I'd much rather have no GUI at all and just good documentation.

Or if value your time, for a lot of these functions it'd take much longer reading the docs/writing scripts

> If you like having options, it's nice that linux has so many Desktop Environment choices and dozens of really good window managers.

I like having good options, so having many subpar ones doesn't help. Hence the original question, it takes a lot of time having to review and find limitations of the various options, so thanks for the tips

> linux is going backwards wrt generic keyboard/automation tooling.

:(
Food is not a huge expense though. I spend 150€ a month in Sweden. Even if it was twice as expensive in Iceland, it wouldn't be too bad. They have a very high disposable income. And things like heating and electricity are basically free.
I'm going to have to spoil some of it to point out that part of what he's done is reinventing the idea of delay-line memory, although he makes no mention of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory

...of course if that's all there were to it it wouldn't be interesting, but I won't reveal what the rest is as per your suggestions. :)
> Between every pair of adjacent elements, this vector allocated a dummy page, marked as un-readable and un-writeable. Any attempt to access it would immediately trigger a segfault.

I'm struggling to figure this one out. Essentially every two elements would be stored at the start and end of a page, respectively? Followed by a dummy page?

8KB per pair of elements I guess, hope your vectors weren't too large :p
1. get a mastodon.social account

2. start following people

3. if you notice that a lot of people you are following are on a particular server, consider getting an account there and using the account migration tools to move all your current followers over there

4. alternatively, set up your own server, maybe just for you, maybe for some of your friends and/or family, with your own set of rules and a manifesto that is perfectly sensible and not weird at all because it is yours.
I mean. Chain, queue, it's not that different if you squint hard enough...
I like the graphing very much.

There are a lot if DIYers, IOT, home automation people on youtube that might find this interesting. Maybe add some comments on your github about what featues it offers vs other systems that provide similar functionality.
How the Pix Firewall and Nat Saved the Internet
Several comments mention track buckling in extreme heat.

When this happens, how is it resolved ? Does the track usually revert to its original positioning at all points, or does every stretch of recently-buckled track have to be inspected and possibly realigned ?
There were over 200k recorded immigrants in November 2022 alone. That doesn’t include the ones that weren’t caught.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/01/13/monthly-e...

Nearly the entirely population of Iceland came to the US in a single month. The scale of immigration here is very hard to compare with anything the EU sees.
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Ummm. I think the ideals behind it are perfect. Simplicity, clarity, ease of use, resilient. But I still can barley figure out how the comments and reply functions work. While I agree that the brutality/minimalist UI might perform a filtering function. I definitely think that some basic readability/usability improvements would be great.
Serious question.

Anybody actually keep and use their old textbooks?

Way back in the day, I only ever kept an algorithms book and used it once a never.
This one is easily explained by the fact that Mastodon is young and people who migrated are the most active social media users.
Delete

To avoid confusion, the delete statement only works with primitive values like numbers, strings, and booleans.

delete 3!

print(2 + 1)! // Error: 3 has been deleted

HAHAHAHAHA
There's an entire industry around "Enterprise Search".

Some big players to look into: Coveo, Glean, Sinequa, Lucidworks...

I'd say its a pretty crowded space, so just be aware...
Save you a click, this is the company in question:

https://www.logically.ai/
It's more likely they were lazy and conformed to the status quo. You know, the old never attribute to malice what is easily explained by ignorance.
Are you an OpenAI user who has a valid payment method attached to your account?
I've notice they approve GPT-4 as long as you have a valid payment method and a reasonable justification, which in my case one liner.
Yes, if you have the time, knowledge, and appropriate equipment it's possible.
There was even a time where if you had the right information you could steal bandwidth on some commercial sats in the early 2ks. We're not talking a lot of bandwidth but it was possible.

Now there are a few people that use repurposed dishes to catch the downstream from various satellites but that's more collection than active hacking so to speak. There was also a huge market for dish / direcTv cards (i'm sure it still exists) as well.

Here's a few presentations from BH/DC from around that time.

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-09/Laurie/Black...

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-10/Nve_Leonardo...
CNN isn't a particularly trustworthy or neutral news outlet on the matters relating to Musk (or anyone perceived to be aligned with not-their-favoured-opinions).
Yeah; and Wine is better at running many older games than Windows is.
What about Lemmy? The fediverse isn't JUST Mastodon.
Or, universities should forbid any teacher from requiring the purchase of any book

Having it as a reference? Sure. Requiring its purchase for a semester, as in, your grades will depend on it? No no
When I was at university, I bought about 300€ worth of textbooks. In total, for the whole 5+ years. Math books we used were about 30-40€ each, the IT books maybe up to 50€. More often than not you didn't need any book at all since the professor put up his lecture notes as PDF or you could just copy it in the library from his handwritten notes (that was back in the early 2000s where the Internet was not quite as it is now)
You are both right.

Supply was allocated to businesses, but there was not enough for every business, so quite many of them could not buy Raspberry Pis for their products.

Then again, everyone was having major supply issues. Yes, you could pivot from the "hobby" R. Pi to a "serious" industrial brand that had sales people talk big words about how they don't have these "beginner player" issues - right up to when it was time to deliver and suddenly they start talking about 100+ week lead times and 2025 delivery dates...
I really wish they would decide not to do it at all.

Put all the high-performance work into the CM units of different specifications. Make (or encourage the market to continue to make) mainboards that take those units. Maybe certify a couple of them for the Foundation's use.

And then focus on making microcontroller-level chips at different performance levels, up to an "alternative home computer" device. Something small, which can be learned completely. Enough power for something equivalent to a Minix or a CP/M or RISC OS. The RP2040 is almost there anyway.
> vendors who built products around rpi were still able to operate

> We worked on a project in 2021 where we needed around 150 and had no problem sourcing

We had minor sourcing difficulties ordering much fewer for production (10-15).
L-Argenine is huge for me in competitive cycling. Among many effects, it allows more oxygen to get to my muscles, which can double my range and substantially increase my speed.
States should mandate that public universities use open textbooks. Federal government should make open textbooks, open journals, and FRAND licensing of patents mandatory as a condition of subsidies and other largesse like student loan guarantees.
The pilot project has yet to secure funding for the trial.

Report with more details: https://autonomy.work/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/BASINC.pdf
Microsoft providing software and services to organizations running concentration camps in Texas is why I stopped using GitHub.
Did you just watch the new Spiderverse film too?
I’m in managment of a Norwegian tech company which is part of a larger corporation. There are plenty of tech work in the Oslo region. It’s true that straight up “keeping the power on in the data center” type of work is in many instances handled by offshore resources, we are even using an Icelandic partner for some hosting services. But for developers, architects and technical project managers work is plentiful and pay is much higher than mainland Europe.
https://archive.is/u3ZxC
To me the prescriptive declarations in this whole conversation make it insanely stupid. Who the hell gets to tell developers what they should do.

Your users want your software so you get it to them how you can. End of story dudes.

Immutable distros with flatpak apps are the future for desktop Linux. Thankfully wining about it seems to get less attention.
We are gate keeping access to knowledge/education too much, I wonder if this has any effect on the rate at which a society evolves, how many smart minds didn't make it due to lack of funds, perhaps one of them could have revolutionized the battery tech?
"Then I was an actual problem not just a troublemaker."

Maybe I'm weird, but this sounds like the highest form of compliment.
I don’t understand what you’re saying. People who oppose racism and inequality are responsible for child labor increasing? What?
It also captures the appearance of obsidian shards very well, the old one is like a generic gemstone icon from a dated video game.
We aren't talking about an imaginary person, we are talking about a specific individual. And I suggest to you that you shouldn't take the words of a prolific liar at face value, as demonstrated by the very case we are talking about. He claims to have ethical concerns but those disappeared as soon as he was paid? Maybe it was about self-interest all along?
What I did was email business@raspberrypi.com, as suggested at https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/production-and-supply-chain...
To clarify, it was from a single vendor who sold a product that was designed around use with particular models of raspi, not bulk individual boards (even though that's how they shipped).

This was also two years ago, although we've been able to get more from them since, so I'd recommend calling companies that have any kits or products that include pis and asking them for info on ordering. If you have a procurement office or purchaser, they can help.

You'll have to forgive me for not wanting to threaten our golden goose just yet :)
So, I have to disagree again.

Your language's module system is boring. An specialized web server is about as close to the opposite as a corporate structure will allow.
Is that yearly number the mean or the median or an upper percentile?
The advice "never use telnet" is fine. Yes, technically there are ways to use telnet safely (e.g. over WireGuard or a LAN), but they are fragile and I think it's better not to mention them.

Take the version in your comment for example. You wrote "With Wireguard in place, it is safe to return to legacy telnet", but that on its own is misleading: it is easy to accidentally route the connection outside WireGuard and compromise the password.

You do note later that it's not best practice and can be vulnerable (aside: I assume "are in place" should be "are not in place"), but a reader might miss that part or underestimate the risk.

Also, "safe" is subjective: telnet allows all the users on the network to try to bruteforce passwords. (SSH also allows that by default, but not for the root account, and it lets you disable password authentication entirely in favour of public key authentication etc.)

I think it's fine to give broadly-applicable-but-technically-inaccurate advice ("never use telnet"), and trust that the experts who can safely ignore this advice will understand that the advice is a simplification. (To be hyper-correct, one should give the broadly-applicable advice but also state that there are exceptions.)
FWIW this is how it works on ChromeOS today. From the Linux terminal app (crostini lxc container) qemu launches macOS, Windows and Linux vms. They even support nested virtualization on my Framework Chromebook - so vms can run inside those vms.

I agree if Apple implemented virtualization on iPad/iPhone this same way it would be a huge for unlocking their full usefulness and capabilities while still maintaining host isolation/sandbox.
This, this is what the internet used to be like.

ok, what the good parts of the internet used to be like.

I also love that its highlights an AWS dark pattern. more, more I say.
The sqlite db contains a imdb column but it seems like the author forgot to include it in the fts4 index, meaning one cannot search for "tt9916362" even though it's right there in the database. It's a shame because this curated mapping is the most useful aspect of RARBG.

FYI, this dump has 826'201 magnets (torrents) with an associated imdb ID and 2'017'490 without, including lots of porn but also random music and software.

Category breakdown (careful though, most items aren't categorized or use a category code I couldn't interpret):

XXX ( 1): 2,255
XXX ( 4): 607
Movies (14): 3,206
Movies (17): 117,440
TV (18): 198,314
Music (23): 11,621
Music (24): 471,161
Music (25): 1,339,739
This is not news, right? And there was not any significant updates recently? So it is upvoted just because, right?

This is not a rhetorical question, I am trying to understand if I missed something important.
Ask HN: Literature on Ultra-Wide Tables?
I'm currently building a model on the value of ultra-wide tables when doing observational science outside of laboratory settings.

By ultra-wide I mean tables with thousands of columns.

I've got my basic concepts down, now looking to read the literature on what has been written before.

Anyone have any pointers on people or terms to search?
If Putin wanted to let him leave, he would have left already. He's effectively a sort of hostage.
I'm always surprised by the quality of insect pictures on inaturalist. What are you using?
My focus has been on fungi and plants, but I try to scan what people are recording in my region just to keep up with what is around, where it is and what time of life it is. The turtles laying eggs around now are worth keeping an eye out for as an example.
Make sure to look at the example programs if you missed the link in the doc

https://github.com/TodePond/DreamBerd/blob/main/LICENSE.md
“we have no record of this user gaining access”
I found out from reading a plaque on a bench that an elderly lady I had known had died. She had been a neighbour of a relative, was the grandparent of a school friend, and worked part time at one of the schools we attended. Sitting in the summer sunshine I took some time to remember her, and I can't think of a better place in the world to do that.
Could you explain the connection to the article?
The lead sample is way more dangerous to kids than any of the others; the radioemitters are not that dangerous as radioemitters. Lead is extremely dangerous to children in extremely tiny quantities.
Why does an investigative reporter need to tell me that fossil fuels can be used to operate a tractor? We knew that already. No investigation is required.
In fairness, I have the least amount of knowledge about the Norwegian market. What I said could largely apply just to Denmark and Sweden.

But it doesn't sound that far off. Managers are at home and many resources are elsewhere. An architect role is fairly senior...

Also I'm not saying all of the work is outsourced -- I should have said "that many jobs compared to US tech markets". I found lots of developer opportunities in Copenhagen when looking around -- but everyone I talked to they had bigger teams working in Spain and did most of their hiring there.
So someone shared a link on various social media sites, counted the likes they received, and now this headline goes around the internet as if it was some serious research? We can do better guys
This has been discussed on the No Agenda podcast -- with clips to emphasize the point -- for over three years. Listening to that podcast is like listening to the news three years in advance.
Don't fear the furry. Embrace your inner 6ft anthropomorphic wolf thing, its not going to kill you. (well not unless you get heat stroke, furries die in hot convention centres people. )
> would you store your bank password on a piece of paper you always leave sitting in your backyard?

Not that I'm advocating for checking passwords in git repos, Github or otherwise, but you metaphor depends on how rich you are and how bad is your neighborhood, I would think.

My mom has definitely done exactly that — her medical conditions make it very hard to use bank apps without full daylight and also hard to bring the notebook home after every use — and I don't think that her password management choices, however frowned upon they may be here, have ever been a serious problem in practice.