skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s interesting, thanks.

Article is paywalled, but how can it be proved they’re using something like Signal? There must be at least some discussion available to be disclosured on request by law? How do they define if the subject is relevant enough to require a formal exchange between executives?

The world of big public companies is fascinating.
India Investigates Reports of Covid Portal Breach, Data Leak
> People who use third party apps are outliers. They do not make Reddit any money

I do agree with you. Bu the outliers usually feed the site with good content. There is a quote by Paul G (or someone)

> whatever the hackers do on the weekends, normal people will be doing regularly in 10 years.

This is a recital from memory, prone to be watered down. But the idea is that the outliers are the ones that makes it worthwhile to be in the community. If they are gone because for any reason, landed somewhere else, the normal users will eventually move away. It is not going to be visible immediately, but will have negative effects in the long run.
Props to the publishers though for managing to make even the book cover seem pretentious.
I too find this baffling. I have developed and maintain two platform native pairs of apps in use in the agriculture level irrigation control sphere. Our reasons for doing so are varied (historical, user experience, performance, desire to minimize cloud dependencies, need to really push Bluetooth and other OS assets (like location, storage, and photos)). But it is a butt ton of annoying work. From Java to Kotlin, Android to Compose, ObjC to Swift, UIKit to SwiftUI. It seems to never end. How I would love to use the a “cross platform silver bullet”, but I spent 20 years using and pitching Smalltalk in that space and am just really distrustful that that problem is truly solvable. But I’m surrounded by what seems 10:1, if not more, of web programming hoards who all use the cloud and web apps as the hammer to every problem they see. Their enthusiasm through the industry is great. I honestly am confused why I see app after app be retooled native in parallel or in replacement to a mobile web app. The variety of contexts is great enough that I’m uncomfortable ascribing it to a machivelean subtext of control. There’s too much inconsistency and incompetence betwixt the various marketing/steering levels of all the participants to see it as some universal evil plot. I feel there has to be something more general going on.
Very useful. One practical thing to add: enabling automatic snapshots (e.g. with https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper), ideally backing them up separately (e.g., with borg) might help recovery.
I doubt it as well - for the most part - but if you're buying high end parts, I think it's hard to argue that it doesn't expose (literally) the components to more risk.

My understanding of the association between dust and static shocks are that the friction between dust particles necessarily creates static charges.
Reminds me of the four types of documentation that sometimes get listed: tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and explanation. (Usual caveat of all models are wrong but some are useful.) https://documentation.divio.com/

My (perhaps overly simplistic) take would be that we should take the thinking we use on the product itself (Who's going to use it? In what context? What would they already know? And so on), and apply and adapt it to the docs as we would any other product.
> Don't paint the kid black

Why, other than because Americans have negative connotations with the practice?

> I'm sure there's plenty of other better ways

We're open for suggestions.
> Swift doesn't have good interop with C

Huh? Swift interop with C is basically painless (it has to be, because all C code is ObjC code, so without C interop there is no ObjC interop).
The internet was designed for that. The web, was not.

Take out a few cable landings and you'll lose a big part of the web.

But the Internet will still work fine.
There's a way to make a QR code that provides a device with all the info it needs to sign onto a WiFi network.

I'm wondering if I could make one of those, turn it into an interesting piece of art, then frame it and put it up in my living room. When guests ask for WiFi, I would just say "take a photo of that picture".
Not sad at all, in fact the opposite
> It's the smallest subs I subscribe to that never make it to my front page.

This is a big flaw in Reddit's algorithm if you ask me. On your feed, small subs get crowded out by large ones, despite the fact that you may be more interested in the small sub.

It doesn't seem very hard to improve. They could use the click rate or upvote rate to weigh the interest of each sub as well as normalize how many upvotes an item got based on the average upvotes an item gets within a particular sub.
MyRadar was my go-to Android.

With that being said, nothing was good in the wake of DarkSky leaving.
There are folks who were speaking out early despite harsh criticism. RFK JR (who happens to be running for president on the democratic ticket in the US) has another book coming out soon that will likely be very thoroughly researched around this topic.
Yes, most probably. What was unprecedented then is not unprecedented now. Unfortunately, we tend to think about such events as a rolling average of only a few years. We did witness what was considered more storms, hurricanes and extreme temperatures during those times, they are now considered as business as usual.

The point of the tweet being: expect unprecedented events in 2023.
I didn’t say that nor am I arguing the merits of this particular case.

It feels wrong how they want it both ways.
Last breaking changes in Python were in Python3

Python (or at least the standard library) breaks quite often compared to some other more conservative languages. For example they recently 'broke' dataclasses somewhere between 3.8 and 3.11 by changing how initialisation of default values works and I had to fix some code.

Last breaking changes in Python were in Python3

If you only stick to the core language, then yes. If you make use of a lot of the standard library that comes with python by default, then all bets are off.
GPT Engineer
Chris Martenson did a lot of this as it was ongoing- of course his YouTube videos got flagged. As another commenter mentioned Dazik had a big role- he lead the delegation that went to China to investigate the origin even though he had an obvious conflict of interest. 60 minutes interviewed him without digging into the conflict of interest. There are now public emails between Fauci and others coordinating the NIH position that there was no lab leak. That silences much of the scientific community that doesn’t want problems with their grants. Not to mention Fauci constantly going on TV doing interviews to try to control the conversation.
- https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/

- https://bigtechdigest.substack.com/

- https://www.architecture-weekly.com/

- https://betterdev.link/

- https://stratechery.com/
Lol. That last sentences says "citation needed".
No, that right there is how I remind you that if you want your hypothesis to be taken seriously you need proofs or at least a very compelling argument. There was neither.
It doesn't work for me.

All icons on mobile look the same to me: I mean, Android's Material Design icons really look the same to me and even the icons from iOS never really stick in my head. That "settings" icon for instance with all the gears looks like a movie poster for The Golden Compass and not a settings dialog. The App store and Adobe Acrobat and many applications have meaningless logos based around a generic triangle...

Once something gets a mobile icon I will struggle to find it, but if I want to find something on the web it is a quick search, often autocompleted when I type a few letters, or easy to find in the bookmarks or maybe my history.
No.

;)

I tend to agree with you (finding the leading No\n grating when it's used as a "well actually" replacement) but ime its sometimes used by people from cultural backgrounds where the standard for communication is more direct than what the English-speaking world is used to, and not intended to come across as smug or know-it-all, and I don't mind it as much in those cases.
A little fast huh?
The link near the top of the article that goes to a separate page explaining security problems with Desktop Linux is quite interesting.

The article itself starts off much more focused on privacy than on security though it does have a fair bit of content on both topics.
That happens when you have legal requirement on the documentation. The same way you have an accountant peering over and keeping track of every transaction that happens in your company.

Short of that you'll need to explain why the company is losing money because Jim didn't write a full explanation on why his "getUserIdOrNull" function returns null when the user id is not available.
What's the point of saving the Earth if no one is alive to experience it?
> > The modern approach to High Availability is to have redundant hardware. A single machine being fault tolerant isn't that important anymore.

You're making a lot of assumptions with regards to the operating environment. What about a probe being sent to Mars, the Moon or wherever? In fact let's just generalize to space-faring craft. That environment demands incredible resiliency and the ability to continue running even if the hardware is having problems - at least enough so ground control can assess the situation and send updates.

Weapons systems are another environment you'd prefer to have resiliency. You'd hate to lose control of a missile while in mid-flight.

Automotive systems are another environment that comes to mind.

There are a lot of embedded/remote environments where the "redundant hardware" solution isn't applicable.

Edit: I'm fully-aware these systems have redundant hardware in modern implementations. I'm also fully-are that monolithic kernels are unable to cope with a failure of any of the hardware comprising the system. Hence my calling out this point.
I'm scared of the climate present, terrified of the climate future. Anything less than panic is irrational.

Fortunately, I have David Roberts' Volts podcast talking me off the ledge. He covers many of the efforts to build our fossil fuel free economy. Most are super clever. Cat nip for hackers. Highest recommendation.

https://www.volts.wtf
Yes ... fossil fuels absolutely too ... that's another reason why WFH is so important.
> unfettered Internet

Unless you point out America's war crimes, crimes against humanity and heinous violations of human rights at scale.

And then you will be fettered.
It is his interpretation presented as if it were an objective truth.

As far as I read the essay, Jo Freeman advocates both equality and transparency. In particular, she makes strong points that equality is impossible without transparency.
Some people will not be convinced by anything short of the actual destruction of our planet, and by the time that happens, nothing is going to matter anyway.
Latest version of that graph is here: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

The one in the tweet stops at 24th April.
> A lot of Perl can be readable. But sometimes you get a backend where someone with , let's say, a "unique" view of software development writes

I agree. Perhaps Perl culture encouraged that kinds of development. But I've a seen number of monstrosities in other, better known languages that are "crafted" that way as well. I'm currently working with a large commercial product in C that would undoubtedly be easier for the 50-strong team of devs to work with if it was written in Perl (though they would still complain), and ironically it would probably run faster in Perl too (and be much more secure).

I don't think the problem is the language really, as Perl can be written in a modular and fairly clean way too (compared with many other languages) if the developers are minded to. I think it's the culture in which those large projects were developed. Or rather, the lack of software engineering culture for long-term maintanence, and a disinclination to use frameworks and patterns that would be familiar to new developers coming in later, especially from other environments. It may be that Perl's rise and fall was a product of its timing relative to software-at-scale culture as much as anything.

Despite its origins as a glue language, Perl 5 is a Lisp-like once you see past the syntax. Perhaps that's part of its problem: Lisp encourages creative and unique approaches to large projects too, and also isn't widely used any more.
It's not terrible thing to say, he was a horrible person, only God knows how much damage he has done to our country and for how many years we will have to deal with them.
Did the site get a hug of death maybe?
That's probably because for the years prior the same people were bashed into the ground for their beliefs. Now that it turns out it's more true than not, they're probably mad.

aka, you're on the other side now.
There is no evidence SARS-COV-2 was being studied.

But even if you were to accept that, the bayesian reasoning would be that you'd say that the probability it's from Wuhan it's a leak is 100%, and 0% for any other city. You could go further and look at the viruses that have caused zoonoses in China in the past (the evidence is that hundreds of SARS-like coronaviruses have) and compare it to what was being studied. Even then, if you apply Bayes' formula, you'd have overwhelming odds towards a natural origin.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8203164

> These attributes are not part of the signedAttributes which is used to actually authenticate the signature

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ieinternals/...

> unverified data within the PKCS #7 blob itself which will not be taken into account when verifying the Authenticode signature
If you want to save articles, you can try using Hamsterbase.

It doesn't collect any information and doesn't require login or registration.

It offers a self-deployed version and provides desktop clients for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

It supports full-text search.

It supports annotating web pages.

There is an open-source and free browser plugin that allows real-time annotation in the browser: https://github.com/hamsterbase/hamsterbase-highlighter.
There is a IRC channel for the same effect (useful as it uses less cpu, ram and bandwidth), #reddark at irc.hackint.org:6697, hanging out with the people from Archive Team too, who are achieving reddit at the moment (in #shreddit, same server)

https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/reddark for a webclient

Using data from https://reddark.rewby.archivete.am/ which is a rewrite of the other reddark featured on the frontpage some hours ago, but way more reliable (source: https://gitea.arpa.li/rewby/reddark-remix)
Problem in big companies is that its is filled with people that , especially the higher you go, have their own plans and agendas. Sometimes they align with each other and oftentimes some part of company is actively trying to sabotage some other part of company.

Individuals also have their own personal goals such as high bonuses or maybe high IPO, where you will sell out and become rich.

And as CEO you have to not only have a plan, but also set up initiatives for people to follow it, which is often harder than it seems. That is why it sometimes seems a company is sabotaging itself. Sometimes there is something deeper going on but sometimes they are sabotaging themselves.
I think there's an issue in your thinking: you're only approaching this situation in terms of technology. This is in fact the reason why the "solution" in western countries is open source and decentralization: we think it's a technology problem, so the solution is technology. But, like most things, it is inherently a social problem.

Cuba has been under embargo for decades now, and its internet has been heavily censored since; they haven't known how ingrained FAANG are, how ubiquitous Android and iOS and twitter and all those things are. For us, Mastodon is an alternative to Twitter; if there never was an ubiquitous Twitter to begin with, would we have created a heavily asymmetric client-server architecture ?

Sneakernet is the digital continuation of gathering with people and exchanging. Cuba already had an intranet between interconnected homes. The social shape always defines the communications shape, so the reason a sneakernet works there is not enough to say that a sneakernet would work here.
Easier targeting, especially third-party means higher CPM, means more advertising driven revenue. Also, you’re worth more if you can be tracked across different devices (that became more important after the so called cookie-geddon.)

Speaking as someone who worked in publishing, ad tech and built primarily for mobile (PWA or native).
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=PaulDavisThe1st apparently.
what tracks a blackout tracker when the blackout tracker blacksout?
> Third party moderation tools are staying. They're beneficial to Reddit, of course they're going to keep giving them free access.

This turns out to be much more of a mixed bag in reality. Many of the third party moderation tools are built into the third party mobile apps, which will not get free access.

In the AMA OP [0] they listed a few projects that will get free access, some moderation tools among it, but even just requiring registration for such tools will have a massive chilling effect on the existing and future ecosystem.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
Previous discussion of the record high: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36187203
I gave up reading as this feels like a business/financial article. Tech people, in my albeit limited experience, might not want to move up. They’re known by their technical skills and successes and they tend to be introverted vs. Business types. Money’s cool, but keeping score is done with different things.

And as others have written, if companies provide collaboration tools yet demand in-office work I guess the tools suck?
It was mentioned in a bullet point in the article a table of contents is really, really important if you want people to read your README. This is usually a no-brainer for libraries but I'm talking about company's repos for the applications they are developing. Often the READMEs are quite long and ain't no way anyone is going to scroll through an entire README in hopes that their question might be answered.
> Mojo seems to have a strategy similar to Rust, which requires user annotation

Except that it also claims to be a superset of Python. That is, you can use it to run any Python program without changes. So explain to me how it’s faster than C while also literally being Python. That’s more outrageous than V.
A Scanner Darkly was also immediately where my mind went.

I enjoy the style, but I'm also not sure it's the right medium for most works.
thank you for a great summary.
See also: Reddark, website to watch subreddits go dark

https://reddark.netlify.app/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36254086
I can imagine lots of plausible/implausible things. If they’re not practically possible, I’m not gonna worry about them.
> But I’ll see how Reddit-free life feels for a bit.

If you're anything like me, then it feels more productive and less addicting. Turns out the longer I do without it, the less connected to it I feel, the less compelled to go back and participate some more. And I feel better using the wasted time to do something more useful with my life.

I turn off HN periodically for the same reason, when I feel like it's becoming too much.
Yup looks like it, it loaded up for me but showed no data. Gave it a refresh and now get an ngrok error (op were you seriously running this locally and relying on ngrok?!
> He also did work within the framework of existing politics.

I mean sorta? He didn't have any particular allegiance to one or the other, and famously ran as a Democrat before. He clearly has nothing but distain for either party and is mostly there out of his own ego, or because foreign intelligence was goading him (one way or the other) to.
The outrage was primarily centered on what my work wasn't - It wasn't written in (Insert trendy language here) which meant it was an attack on those, it wasn't advancing (Insert cause here) which meant it was an attack on them, it wasn't a CADR, it wasn't Symbolics Genera, it wasn't running on (Insert environment here), and it wasn't living up to the hype surrounding Lisp Machines in general.

When I got actual hardware to examine it got a lot worse; nearly all of the feedback I got after that revolved around my being too poor/young/not-famous-youtuber-X/unwilling to part them out. When pictures of my house were posted because I was unwilling to sell a keyboard that was too much. None of this stuff was worth my safety.

On top of that, the vast majority of the people who downloaded the emulator didn't even bother to download the disk images or documentation - they just cloned the source repository, did "./configure", and then sent hate mail when it didn't work because the source repository wasn't a release source and required you to do the whole autotools thing.

It became a no-win scenario - there was no way I was going to live up to the expectations people had and no way I was ever going to make the gatekeepers happy so I just stopped trying. I moved on to other things that seem to be a lot less controversial and when I do work on something that may be controversial I just don't tell anyone about it.
Exercises of Rhcsa?
As you all know I got a job as a Linux Administrator Intern few months ago. I've finished Imran Afzal's course on udemy a month ago, which was 35.5 hrs long. I'm comfortable with Linux by now. But I feel I could do better. That's why I picked up a RHCSA course that I got for 15$ from reputed online site. Now, I want challenging problems of Linux like in programming there is leetcode, hackerrank etc. No, I don't need bash shell scripting for the job. I just need to perform basic activities.

I'm also thinking of purchasing RHCSA question bank from Ghada Atef on udemy after I finish this RHCSA course. What other activities could I do to improve my Linux skill.

I'm obviously using Linux in a vmware workstation pro and doing along with the course on laptop.
https://archive.ph/ZUeQn
1 is not documenting anything, and both 1 and 3 are meant for pilots? Who are the "users" in this analogy?
Is there any reason I shouldn't be for climate engineering (e.g. spreading sulfates into the atmosphere) today? In my mind, that has moved quickly from, "We probably shouldn't due to unexpected consequences" to "We should've started a few years ago".
Is liberalism digging its own demographic grave? (2022)
Studies have found that people living near bats in Yunnan have immunity against this class of coronaviruses due to exposure, which would strongly blunt pathogenicity. There is also more to pathogenicity than you let on.
Having worked at some quite large companies: yes, it happens for real that they do not do stuff like that. It is likely that some team obviously has ran the numbers but that does not mean they made it to the people who made the decision.
The way I use Reddit is to subscribe to small subreddits for thoughtful engagement and just do r/all when I want to mindlessly engage with whatever is hitting the top.

So far aside from a couple random “we’re protesting” or whatever banners from the former main subreddits, my experience has remained unchanged, except that I’m seeing some welcome diversity in what’s at the top pages of r/all. Meaning: it’s not just r/pics or r/videos or whatever hitting the top, because they’ve neutered themselves, and now it’s pics and videos from slightly smaller subreddits that don’t normally hit.

So far I’m liking this change, though not engaging through Apollo will be a bit annoying in the future.
The tweet in question isn't so much depressed about what's happening, but about what's not happening: the fact that a lot of people are still not taking this seriously, and nothing is being done to address this.