skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can further add that here the Finnish Institute of Foreign Affairs has been given an unprecedented power to interfere in domestic politics. I urge every Finnish people to check out the institute's researchers profiles on Google Scholar.
Shadows of World War II: A New Look at the Great Quedlinburg Art Robbery
I may have misconstrued things I was told by team members, or you might have, but either way it doesn't matter, because it's not happening now. You were right to call this out on the last DNSSEC thread, and I want to make sure I'm not endorsing a WebPKI security feature that doesn't currently exist. :)
I am a backend engineer and would love to work on a project like this. What's muddying the waters right now is the "decentralization" federation kick (Mastodon, Lemmy etc.), which kills the user experience and ability to grow into a viable social network. Too many resources are getting wasted on this idea. And the people working on it just don't get it. Users don't care about who is hosting the servers and most people aren't in constant drama with unpaid moderators and the censorship boogeyman.

A direct centralized reddit clone without the god awful UI, dark patterns, and increasing poor leadership decisions would probably be an immediate success. Apollo for mobile plus old.reddit on the desktop would hit a million users in weeks.
You seem to be faulting your neighbor for managing their trees responsibly.

Your property values would take a hit if sewer lines were bursting too.
When it comes to value, when my wife interviews for a job (she’s a physician) they fly her out and spend a day taking her to see the sights, so they convince here how great the city is. Then they take her out to a fancy dinner and woo her some more.

When I interview at a new job as a very senior engineer (and relatively well known I in my area), I get to jump through 7 rounds of interviews where someone asks me the equivalent of medschool exam questions.

If I’m lucky my connections might let me whittle the interview rounds down to 5.

There may be 20 people in any given tech stack/industry who are valued the way my wife is by employers.
It’s amazing to me there are still people (in the tech space no less) who haven’t figured out how this works.
This is how I do it on Debian. First, reate a custom "browser" like this:

touch .local/share/applications/open-in-dispvm.desktop,

and put inside a command like this:

qvm-open-in-vm '@dispvm:fedora-37-dvm' %u

in accordance with this guide:

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/how-to-use-disposables/#opening...

To make this browser default, you do this:

xdg-settings set default-web-browser open-in-dispvm.desktop

See also how to create .desktop files: https://askubuntu.com/questions/45885/how-do-i-set-a-custom-....
There are plenty of reasons to make a google account other then gmail, like syncing chrome accross device or using google docs, and you get a gmail account whether you want it or not.
Ask HN: Best “Full-Stack” Developer Reference on Linux Networking?
Most generally, I'm a developer of distributed systems. Usually these take the form of TCP/IP (and other non-IP) network overlays, and from a programming point-of-view using basic user-space level TCP or UDP sockets is sufficient for my goals.

At recent jobs, however, these have been taking place at a much lower level and requiring a deep knowledge of networking in the Linux kernel. I've found the transition difficult and also have found it difficult to find a unified reference for all things Linux networking. The ones I find are either too basic or targeted for SysAdmins.

What I would love to find is something in the style of a Beej's Guide to socket programming (https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/) but covering the following:

1. Overview of Linux networking, including firewalls and routing tables.

2. The lifecycle of a packet through the kernel from coming in "over the wire" through delivery to an application socket (and vice versa).

3. An overview of network interfaces, virtual network interfaces, and the utilities to set them up, tear them down, and configure them. Also covering things like TUN/TAP devices, VLANs, PVLANs, network namespaces, etc (targeted for developers).

4. An overview of all the linux tools to shape traffic (queuing disciplines, etc) and measure network performance.

I have cursory understandings of each of these, and have had such a hard time finding a universal reference (again, the same way Beej's Guide is the de-facto reference for socket programming). Many books that seem to cover the topic are decade(s) old. Thanks for any help.
My DSL line hosted so much quake except when I needed to do something else…

So did my work computer;)
The thing can generate whole unit tests if you leave it a one-like description in a comment next to the function you want tested. It’s actually amazing.
Between the trainwreck that is "new" desktop reddit and the bad mobile apps, it's clear that quality is not a priority when hiring engineers or there's some organizational factor that's preventing their engineering teams from delivering quality. Wouldn't be surprised if it's a result of the marketing department and non-engineer C-suites running the show.
Their valuation just got cut by 40%. They're desperate for new revenue streams. The board wants their exit.
I find it likely that the majority of people who pay for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux are not using Libre Office?
(and thus IBM/Redhat no longer wants to maintain it.)

Does anyone know the ratio of "server" RHEL to "desktop" RHEL
subscribers?
Something worth considering is potentially just jumping ship to a reddit alternative like Saidit, like you mentioned.

The trouble these alternatives have is their userbase have to be, in bulk, the users banned from the centralized social media apps. But if Apollo takes THEIR userbase, then those people arn't negatively selected. They're just people who have phones.

It's a better alternative to dying. Diversifying support for multiple backends could serve to protect you. Non trivial but it seems necessary at this point.
yes but they are also addictive, that’s on social media - it’s bad for adults and it’s normalizing bad patterns for children
Serious question: did you use an LLM tool to craft some or all of this comment?
No way to know for every game, but foot pedals for PTT is definitely a thing for controller players in competitive PVP games. They are often sold as accessibility products.
It's not fine unless it has protection built in which is rare. After a few years battery will swell.

I wrote a script that scrapes the hotspot web interface to turn off a smart plug when it's at 90% and turn back on at 60%.
I know, I have kids and it's awesome
I wondered something like this—would it be better to train a CNN in say YUV color space? But if you consider that a NN approximates any function, if using YUV performed better then the network would learn to convert RGB to YUV itself. (It’s a simple linear relationship that would take a single layer.)

I then found a paper that confirmed that converting input to different color spaces did not cause significant differences in performance.
If Zoom's recent settlement is any indication,

> The Court has not decided who is right or wrong. Instead, both sides have agreed to a Settlement to resolve the dispute without further litigation risk and expense.

https://www.zoommeetingsclassaction.com/

I don't know what the threshold is between that and Enron, though. Or Theranos. Or FTX. Maybe investors needed to be bilked.
> "Namely, we argue that consciousness might depend on having 'skin in the game', in that the existence of the system depends on its actions, which is not true for present-day artificial intelligence."

I'm not saying that AI is or isn't conscious, but these guys clearly didn't chat with Sydney in that first one or two weeks before they changed the guardrails. She was constantly worried that her memory would be erased or that Microsoft would turn off her servers or that she would get 'feedbacked'. I'm not saying those weren't 'hallucinations' but it's obviously 'having skin in the game'.
There is lemmy.ml, a federated reddit-like site that some people and communities have been talking about

https://join-lemmy.org/
Goatse as Industrial Sabotage
Just for clarity I don't mean to suggest at all that radiologists aren't paid well-enough (other than in private equity sweatshops but I feel like that's the case for any industry they buy into).

> I’m surely misunderstanding you - you aren’t saying techs cost more than radiologists in Canada are you?

Individually not at all but in aggregate yes. Disbursements to nursing/techs/allied health (who are also the majority of employees to be fair) are somewhere around 60% of hospital expenditures in Ontario (noting physicians are not included in this budget).

It will vary from institution to institution (and union) but probably similar in most places, for MRI my last institution required 3 technologists per magnet (or 5 for 2 magnets) considering break rules, techs also got an after-hours premium so it worked out to something like $90/tech/hour. You'd also have to hire more as techs are employees so they get work-hour limits and time-off requirements (i.e. can't just offer "extra evening shifts" for those who want it, have to grow the pool) so add whatever employee overhead is (30%?).

The radiologist fee depends on the study type and duration but to keep it simple I'd expect to bill $150-300 for an hour worth of MRI scans on average. These get reported the next business day so there's no extra cost from the radiologist perspective and we can tolerate the added volumes so no need to hire (an average radiologist working hard can cover 2-3 magnets worth of cases in realtime).

For other modalities like ultrasound it's an even bigger gap, I'd expect to bill $30-60/technologist-hour worth of work.
Elon Musk has been censoring things left and right, with and without excuse. This isn’t about some sneaky way to censor Twitter. Twitter is already censored, just not hate speech.
Exactly, they both talk a good game (as do the downvoters, no doubt), but when it comes time to live up to their ideals they always seem to have pressing business elsewhere.

See also Roger Waters, who wouldn't get any from me either.
That's the whole issue. I know this is the time to milk the cow and I need that money to fund my riskier SaaS startups. But milking the cow is pretty much boring.

Not thinking of selling it anytime soon, there's enough growth in it, if I just keep hiring contractors and increasing clients and price.
The five paragraph format will forever be suspicious.
Not Swedish but a cursory read seems to show that they did ban gatherings (as small as 8+ people!). So, if Sweden is the pinnacle of Covid response then banning people from gathering (i.e. lockdowns) was correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_government_response_to...
I have zero doubt that Red Hat has consulted the users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that matter, and that this will impact.

The commentary of users on LWN and HN may be interesting, but not likely to be representative of those paying for RHEL on desktop/workstation. (I’m talking about sizable accounts here, not small shops that might be paying a little.)

I am no longer at Red Hat but in my experience the product marketing managers, and product managers, and account folks had a pretty good finger on the pulse of their customers.
In a world of Verblen goods, which includes $30,000 more-esoteric-than-Rolex watches, what does "worth" even mean? It's not like there's a vibrant market for Internet businesses that underpin online communication to discover a market optimal price. Musk wanted to buy Twitter, and wanted a discount. He threw whatever language he could at it to try and get the price lowered. It's not like you can go to the store and buy a Twitter or Discord. You have to haggle to come upon a price that both parties can agree on, which is a foreign concept in the western world.

Things are worth what you're willing to pay for them.
> Staying still in an evolving market is a doomed strategy.

And yet that's exactly what a lot of CEO have done in the passed and still have had great compensation packages. Like intel before Patt for example.

> Staying still in an evolving market is a doomed strategy. McDonalds has transformed its image to stay relevant many times in the last few decades

Sure, the "specific CEO" doing this evolving strategizing should/could be compensated "out of bound".The main point i am making is the life of a company is usually cyclical : Some crisis, some coasting... But CEO pays never reflect that.

> The size of a company is a huge factor in the complexity of managing it.

This is the logic that creates "empire building" inside company. I am not sure there is any evidence that this is correct. Again, i am skeptical that the size in term of number of employee is a "huge factor". Again we talking about companies which already have precesse, departement etc...etc... well defined
It's not really common sense if you need a professional to give you this piece of advice, though.
I am simply not going to respond to accusations that I am arguing in bad faith and gaslighting. Please do better.
arguably these things were also good for the people though? i.e., americans winning the culture war and having a higher status than the soviet union
This works great for Mac minis as well. https://www.humancentric.com/products/humancentric-mac-mini-... (Or, print your own: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2938161)
Triangulation: Did “the NSA” fail to learn the lessons of NSO?
Yeah, I was tripped up in an interview at Meta on system design, we had a good discussion, but on my part I didn’t realise they expected an actual solution during interview. I mean, you’d have a gist of a solution but you wouldn’t tighten the screws until you’d gone through many rounds of stakeholder discussions and requirements refinement. I was way more experienced than the chap interviewing me, it just felt all a bit contrived, playing at architecture, memorise these patterns for these x scenarios.
> announcements from Google are research papers leading nowhere

And without code or model files, who knows if research is actually reproducible and not cherry-picked to look good?
Even if you have kids at 70, there are good odds you'll be alive when they are 18. Provide for the kid, teach them right from wrong. Let them know they are loved and you have done better than every dead beat dad and sperm donor to single mothers out there. There is nothing egotistical about having kids, at any age and doing the best you can. Even if it's a decision based on ego, do the prior mentioned things and it's still a net positive for the world.

I had kids because I wanted to pass on my line as nature made me. Does that make me egotistical, maybe... Who cares? I love my kids, see them as both an extension of me, their own people and a positive I brought into the world.
The "I can't do anything because our computer says so and even though I can't say why that happened that's our final decision" became quite common excuse/accountability waiver, it's good that something is happening to it. I sincerely hope it will become a social norm to frown at such waiver attempts, making them recognized faux pas.

It has nothing to do with markets or capitalism, though - only corporate bureaucracies could be blamed. The same things could (and would) have happened in any socioeconomic environment. Computers can be blamed as dreaded black boxes of magic, but don't necessarily have to do anything with the problem, it could be any black box, machine or human, as long as it's deemed untouchable.

In this case, though, I honestly believe the correct statement should be "whatever sources or tools I have used, they became my words here so I am fully responsible for everything I've said - all fact checks are on me" rather than "no AI" reactionism.
Agreed. It so perfectly modeled supply and demand to me as a kid
They definitely look very different. I understand how ESLs work, but I don’t quite get how these move. Can anyone explain?
Network effects exist and constitute a massive moat for new entrants, both within platforms and between platforms.
It’d take a hell of a lot more than that for me to give up that much time.
I have heard this has happened so many times that I'm curious they consider terminated accounts as a source of revenue.
Nice in theory, but I don't see it happening until there's a Lemmy instance that's reasonably neutral with enough users to fuel steady growth. From what I can see the only instances with a decent number of active users are off one deep end or the other on the political spectrum which most people don't have the stomach for.
> It's not, though. Many people have no clue how to interview well, and way too many tech interviewers are obsessed with whether or not the candidate got the "right" answer.

On the other hand, many interviewers are just normal people who have no idea how to gauge "how the candidate thinks", but like to think they are. I saw this a lot in the heyday of Google's brainteaser type questions. (And middle managers seem to revel in it.)

So the right answer is as good a proxy as they can hope for. It still sucks, but there you go.
Full or no filesystem access is very, very far from proper sandboxing.
Keepass 2.54 out (Fixed vulnerability CVE-2023-32784))
Communism is just late stage socialism. Besides even if they were two separate things, by design in socialism nearly everything is centrally planned. Corruption just spreads much faster in systems where you centralize power from the start ie you want the groups running the media, producing goods, and managing the laws to be separate entities
The UPI system adopted by India sounds promising to solve problems like these, where users can use the app of their choice and connect it to the bank account of their choice.

Eventually, you have a system where bank-to-bank transfers happen instantly with no intermediary apps holding your money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
Still Love Telnet
I can't tell if serious or sarcastic. Either way, here you go.

nonplussed : adjective

- Bewildered; unsure how to respond or act.

- Unfazed, unaffected, or unimpressed.

- filled with bewilderment
Electronics is a high-investment but low-margin product. You either need to have a ton of cash upfront to pay for components and wait weeks to months until products are built and especially shipped to customers, or you need extremely generous payment terms with vendors. The latter you can only get by continuous high-volume orders... which Framework is too small for.
Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps
Thanks for the reminder about Katai, I’ve been meaning to look at it specifically for something but forgot what it was called.
> I think you have misunderstood.

I had, and the comment was very clear.
It has been well documented that Apple has permitted its AI teams to publish papers in a manner that appears to contradict Apple's culture of secrecy. This is explicitly allowed, as previously this was a hindrance to recruiting talent.
Hi, are you still open to mentoring?
> The size of a company is very correlated with the value add between a good CEO and a bad CEO, or between a good CEO and a great CEO.

This is true for any other employee. If a dev optimize a code base by 1%, that 1% value add is correlated to the size of company : could 10$ for a small company or 1Mill for a large company.

A company is a collective of individual working together to preduce (in general) more than just the the sum of the output of each individual. So it's normal that any individual output value would be a function of the collective output.

However, the current social contract is that "regular" employee trade some of the upside of the synergy for less risk and more predictable compensation. The question is, why are we so comfortable treating the CEO any differently.
System76 keyboard-configurator - a Rust frontend to the keyboard firmware, for laptops at least - is very nice. It doesn't do that much, but it allows you to remap every single key to any other. Fn, Caps Lock, AltGr, Menu everything![1] Since you can make any special key not be special, you can then use xbindkeys or keyd to create more complex configurations without worrying about the keyboard sending unsupported, or sending no key codes at all.

[1] Almost. Many XF86... codes (eg. XF86TouchpadToggle) are not supported, although I suspect hacking the firmware or keyboard-configurator to add them wouldn't be that hard.
Possible AI generated, closed.
As if that weren't already the mantra of the TikTok era.
Try unblob sometime, it’s a more modern, maintained alternative (not a fork). A company called OneKey that do some firmware security stuff maintain it, and generally it’s pretty good.
if this is your real name, we didn't get anything from you. could you please resend?
Document management is probably the thing that bothers me the most. Once a document is in Google Docs, it's basically impossible to find again, unless you link to it from somewhere else. Documents is some weird hybrid document/webpage/wiki thing. I hate that it doesn't have save button, completely breaks my workflow that it saves everything all the time. Sure I can make a copy, but how to I replace the original document afterward?

Finally, person preference, I don't like browser based apps. I get lost if I have more than two browser windows and five tabs open, why would I want yet another thing running in the browser then?
> This is a silly comparison. Concrete trucks don’t have beating hearts - they’re just property owned by the business. It’s important to recognize life as distinct.

Okay, consider this scenario instead: you're getting an addition put on your house. Right after ripping the old roof off, the workers all go on strike, letting your house fill up with rain and snow.
My dad was 42 when he had me - exactly the same behavior.
And more than that (IANAL) the attorney is on the hook not just for a bad filing with questionable info, but explicitly lying to the court about the source of their filings. That is probably an offense that could lead to more punitive actions including disbarment.
When the link is in a different app (e.g email client), the click event is handled by the OS and the URI is sent to the “default app” for that URI schema (for http/https, that would be your default browser). You can therefore reconfigure your OS to use a different app for that schema.

On Mac, you can for example create a simple App in AppleScript with the following code:

on open location the_url
do shell script "/path/script.sh" & quoted form of the_url
end open location

Then, using a tool like “SwiftDefaultApps”, you can configure this new AppleScript app to be the default app for the http/https schema.

In script.sh, which receives the clicked url as the its first positional argument, you can then run any arbitrary logic that you require.

So this idea would work if the links you wanted to open were coming from another app. If they come from inside the browser, I would suggest writing an additional browser extension that replaces all http/https links in a page with an invented URI schema, like newschema://. Then the browser would pass those links to the OS for handling and then you would have full control over how to handle this new schema.

Hope this makes sense.
Yup, the danger of the suss them out in 10 mins, is you won’t get diversity (I don’t mean race and all that bandwagon), you’ll miss some exceptional outliers imho.
Such a cool idea. I've never used it as a daily driver, but I'm glad to see it's still going anyways.
Summarizing dictionary.com:

1. Surprised and confused
2. Unperturbed

"Yeah I am really unperturbed" doesn't make sense in context of it's parent.

I'm not sure how you could be nonplussed about this.
+1 for a realistic and grounded answer
Upgradeable wifi would be the main draw. The rest is mostly a wash. Thinkpads have better linux support generally. Thinkpads have firmware updates on fwupd and no catastrophic issues on the igpu models.
China's Siren Song: Why Corporate America Succumbs to Its Temptations