skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You should make sure your system receives microcode updates to get fixes and mitigations for CPU vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectre.

These cause a 10%-20% performance drop and I see no reason to enable them on a desktop. They can be turned off using mitigations=off on your grub command line.
My friend doesn't proselytize. He knew I was an atheist the first day we met and not once has he ever proselytized to me. He conceals the very fact that he is a catholic at work because he has reason to believe (well founded reason, I think) that he would face discrimination should that simple fact become known around his office.
PEP-594 is actually causing me some anxiety - I deal with a good amount of code that uses some of those “batteries to be removed”.

Some of them (telnetlib) I can vendor in, but I wonder how many people who use them will be caught pantsless?
Its literally just news.google.com or bbc, with propagandistic bot spam
> quirky projects of the Web 1.0 era still trusting php

Disagree with the dig at PHP. PhpStorm+Psalm doesn't give you perfection, but a perfectly respectable development environment. Using PHP isn't anachronistic, these shallow dismissals are. If anyone out there hasn't seen PHP 8 and Psalm yet, it's worth a look. All languages and ecosystems have trade offs, PHP is no exception, it is a good fit for many scenarios.
Ask HN: Best desktop and mobile podcast experience?
Spotify is fine for most podcasts on Mac and Android but my favourite (An Unbelievable Truth) isn't. What's the best way to listen on Mac and then continue on Android?
Yep. Also known as the golden age fallacy. It's nostalgia for a past that never existed.

Some people can't accept the fact that human life has always been terrible, and it's better today than it ever has been.
Also very common for when you post a comment that it appears to not have posted it and returns an error, then you retry multiple times and get multiple comments posted. And even if you don't get hit by one of those outages, they tend to get saved in the comments from everyone else having hit them.
Reddit's moderation system is the worst on the internet. No rhyme, no reason, no restitution. You're completely at the mercy of little fiefdoms and people who are sometimes on power trips.

I've been banned from my city reddit for simply stating that crime was becoming a problem. I've been banned for supporting trans rights. I've been banned for explaining stock based compensation. For describing and linking to AI tools.

Reddit's moderation system is authoritarian and capricious.
> I don't know if the Dutch has anything similar to the US's 4th amendment (against unreasonable search an seizures).

The Netherlands is party to the ECHR. Article 5 through 8 inclusive are relevant, especially Article 8.

The Dutch constitution may also cover this ground, but I'm not familiar with it.
Sure, but the only qualification to be on IBR is that your IBR payment isn't higher than your standard repayment payment, so it's less a qualification and more a guardrail. Filling out a single form every year on a website is not the worse fate.

The debt is of course on your credit report, but if you are making payments, more likely than not it's going to be beneficial, as young people are unlikely to have other debts that are considered "old". My own student loans carried the "age of credit" criteria on my credit report for a while.

They are a percentage of income, but that is no different than the UK version. And to be fair to IBR, it's more nuanced that that - the income cutoff for the percentage varies state-by-state (so, someone in New York has a much higher cutoff than someone in Arkansas).
Yes. It's goal is to help you stay focused.

I don't know where I heard this phrase, but it goes like this:

> discipline prevents you from doing things you actually don't want to do.

Having a career file that you constantly go back to helps you remain focused and not get distracted.

This file is prone to adjustments over time as you learn and the path you want to follow becomes clearer.
> Each community has its own set of reasons for hosting itself on reddit vs other locations.

I don't think much thought goes into hosting on reddit or elsewhere. The people who like reddit, setup on reddit, the people who like Discord setup on Discord.

In the absence of reddit, I have no clue where many would go, there's no obvious place I would go.
The choice doesn't have to be solely on-prem OR cloud. We're seeing a hybrid approach often as a first step. More predictable, fixed workloads can move back on-prem for cost-efficiency, while keeping elastic workloads in the cloud for flexibility.

The key to success is having the right on-prem solution to help bring both teams together while driving costs down. Our solution at Triton Datacenter (https://tritondatacenter.com) has helped various enterprises tackle this issue by providing a public cloud-like experience on-prem.
It’s not a one to one alternative but I’ve gradually moved from reddit to twitter to get my news and find interesting takes on whatever topics I’m interested in.

I just follow a few interesting people for whatever topics I want to follow. In fact the “for you” page has been giving me decent recommendations lately.
This isnt about generation vs generation. It's elite vs. the proletariat and the pain is just distributed unevenly across generations.

Obviously theyre more than happy with millenials blaming their parents as it exculpates them for turning the crank on the dynastic, parasitic wealth extraction engine.
The American economy is both weak and strong — or so say articles like these that consistently try to convince us.

Even the slightest mobilization of workers within a single company within a single sector can bring the greatest economy in the world TM instantly to its knees.

I’m either getting sick of living in such a brittle system that is constantly at peril from people wanting to join or stay in the middle class, or I’m getting sick of these articles implying that this is the best we can do and there’s not better options.

Too much cognitive dissonance to be believable.
I agree but I’d caveat the equivalency.

Sure GCJ and other overly leftist subs are annoying. But there is a world of difference of spamming “[video game] is secretly about trans fem boy communism” by GCJ types. Vs alt right groups talking about (real life) minorities not deserving equal rights.

Subjectively, I avoid any overly politically forced sub. However let’s not push the “both sides” argument.
There's many problems with forums though. Different UI/UX interface. Different requirements in order to be able to start using. You have to register a new account. A lot of friction before you are able to join and participate in a new community. Many forums will also require you to have certain amount of useful posts to avoid spam etc.

With Reddit, or Reddit alternatives you don't have to worry about all that.
You and GP can send me an email for an invite (see profile).
Do you audit all the hard drives, to make sure that:

* someone didn't prep and use the drives before using OS level encryption

* someone didn't ignore swap space, eg config mistake

* some process was supposed to set up / a person set up, but didn't

Are you going to audit all those drives? It's literally cheaper to just destroy them, far far cheaper.
The video is just him reading a medium post, linked in the description, with a bit of commentary - https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-w...
Progress Software Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities in MOVEit Transfer Solution
Progress Software has warned customers of critical SQL injection vulnerabilities in its MOVEit Transfer managed file transfer solution that could allow attackers to steal information from customers’ databases.

The security bugs were discovered on May 31, 2023, with the help of cybersecurity firm Huntress, and affect all MOVEit Transfer versions.
If that pivot happened it was well before Microsoft ever announced the HoloLens. Enterprise-focus was a big part of their marketing from Day One and consumer/games relevance was always an afterthought in their demos/marketing.

I think Microsoft didn't have the confidence that it could be a mass market/consumer device at its price.

(It is interesting that with the Disney section of the keynote, Apple seemed much more directly was flirting with consumer/mass adoption.)
How do you enter a two sided market? I don't think enough people care about ownership structures to join your service or keep it growing.
Are there any other good sites that also have cascading comments like reddit and this site? I've realized that it's the best format for reading discussion for me. Any flat structure just won't cut it.
Copilot is a product -- at least indirectly -- of Microsoft, a company who for about a decade made very public pronouncements about how they disagreed with the GPL (or copyleft generally), found it problematic, and tried actively to discourage its use.

Today's MS isn't really the same, and they've clearly made their peace with Linux. But it still happens that the GPL is in some fundamental ways at odds with commercial exploitation of open source code. So any corporate entity is going to struggle with it because at best it requires being very careful in distribution, or trying to negotiate or cut a deal with the licensee. At worst it can lead to legal problems and IP leakage on your own product.

So, not claiming any conspiracy. Or intent to violate intentionally. But it is in the convenient interests of companies like MS/OpenAI/GitHub to treat open source work as effectively public domain rather than under copyright, and to push the limits there.

The risk to an employer is of course the accidental introduction of such copylefted material into their code-base through copilot or similar tools.

I suspect two sources of disconnect with the broader community on hackernews that doesn't seem to see the issue here:

a) Much of the folks on this forum are working in the full-stack/web space where fundamentally novel, patented, or conceptually difficult algorithms and datastructures are rare. For them Copilot is an absolute blessing in helping to reduce the tedium of boilerplate. However in the embedded systems, operating systems, compiler, game engine dev, database internals etc. world there are other aspects at work. In certain contexts, Copilot has been shown to reproduce complicated or difficult code taken from copyrighted or copylefted (or maybe even patented sources) without attribution. And apparently now with some explicit obfuscation.

To put it another way: it's unlikely that Copilot's going to violate licenses with its assistance with turning your value/model objects from one structure to another, or writing a call into a SQL ORM. But it's quite possible that if I'm writing a DB join algorithm or some complicated math in a rendering engine or a compiler optimization phase that it could "crimp notes" from a source under restrictive license... because those things are absolutely in its learning set and the LLM doesn't "know" about the licensing behind them.

b) Either misunderstanding of, or lack of knowledge of, or outright hostility to... copylefted or attribution licenses which require special handling.
Rosedale suggests that one reason virtual worlds are not as popular as they have been hyped is that people have difficulty "embodying" a virtual avatar, projecting themselves into it. I have no problem with doing that, but I'm a Second Life user. It does seem somewhat plausible. First-person video games avoid that requirement. But there are also plenty of third person games too.

Another thing he says is that pure consumerism fails on virtual worlds because people want to create. I actually think this might be part of what has made SL a niche interest. At the very minimum, an SL user must "create" their avatar through combining a plethora of commercially available avatar components. A typical avatar consists of 10 to 40+ different pieces bought separately from different creators, a long with customizing the 50 or so shape sliders. Avatars aren't a single fixed mesh like in other worlds. This makes people watching super interesting because every avatar is unique and indivudialized. But you can't just grab a pre-made avatar and call it done without looking like a "noob", and I think this is actually a hurdle to wide adoption.
I don't like the centralization of Cloudflare, but it's the only way I can host public web pages out of my homelab with a DSL connection. I would rather have a CDN than put my content on a VPS as the servers remain 100% under my control and I can change providers anytime.
> Bullshit is too weak a word.

Try the English slang word for bullshit, bollocks.

Or that if we wish to keep it PG: deceptive nonsense.
I just hope they don't DLC it to death.

I didn't get into the first one early on, and I would have loved to try it later.. but when you sit there and see like hundreds of dollars of DLC, it makes it not appealing. Sure I could just buy the original, but you just get the feeling you are missing out on so much.
Whoa tildes are a reddit alternative? I thought it was all about, like, public access unix systems.
So if I have to choose between diet and normal coke, which one is objectively worse for my health now?
It feels to me that this advisory was not put out sensibly. WHO advises "against [artificial sweetener] use" because they "do not help control body mass or reduce the risk of weight-related illnesses" and because long term "[may increase the risk] of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease". But is that enough reason to give such a blanket statement disallowance?

What if you want to have some sweetness from time to time but you are watching your sugar levels? Surely that's better than just taking sugar. What if you are weaning yourself off so much sugar? Surely that's better too. It seems to me that artificial sweeteners are a useful product for many people and is obviously not a panacea. I mean, honestly, hardly anything is good in excess!

I feel this is so poorly communicated and almost guarantees people will take the wrong message from this.
This is just some podcaster reading a medium article to his audience. Don't post tabloid fodder to HN, post the original article. Flagged.
Anyone trying to lose weight and skip a meal today? Open a reddit client and do a subreddit search with "teen" as a prefix. Or don't, you know. Silly me for assuming that this had been solved after any of the various sketchy-porn related subreddit purges.

I'm not naive, user content is hard to moderate. But is it hard to say "any subreddits with these keywords go on a list for review"?
I wear Crocs everywhere except for the few times I need to wear a suit.

Resoling a pair of Alden's is easily 100 to 200 bucks whether to do it through the factory or through a cobbler. So no savings there.
The article seems to be implying that you shouldn't use artificial sweetners as an alternative to sugar but instead should just have a healthy diet. There don't appear to be any sources for anything but I wonder if people who consume more artificial sweetners are also the ones who consume more sugar because they're used to a sweeter diet.
eIDAS' levels of assurance are about authentication when logging in.
For digital signatures, the levels are 'An electronic signature', like /s/, 'advanced electronic signature', and 'qualified electronic signature'.

The first "shall not be denied legal effect and admissibility as evidence in legal proceedings solely on the grounds that it is in an electronic form or that it does not meet the requirements for qualified electronic signatures."

Qualified signatures used to require that the private key was physically on some tamperproof chipcard (or similar), but eIDAS changed that. Now, you can rely on some vendor's implementation of cloud signing services that is certified to ensure(?) that "signature creation [data] [is] with a high level of confidence, use[d] under [your] sole control". Much like how many people don't manage the secret keys of their crypto wallets.

For remote QCSD the relevant spec is ETSI EN 419 241‐2 PP. It has very few requirements (8.1.8) about authentication, only that it should be resistant to guessing your PIN/password, and it should only let in the legitimate user.

Note that you can get certified as a qualified trust provider by EY or KPMG.
There is a lot of similarities between redesigns and general software development

- The bigger the change is the harder it is to effectively migrate dependant users/systems/apps

- The bigger the scope is the harder it is to maintain feature parity with the old version through the development window

- The less researched the rationale for the change to users/systems/apps is the more likelihood it will cause them problems

- If you mess up the implementation you are doomed

Hence the best practice to introduce incremental well researched changes to actively used systems in a systematic way.

With a web redesign, there is uncertainty in the way users will respond of course. But tbh ive seen APis with far more unpredictable responses :P
While I appreciate that the public debate about nuclear power is… mis-calibrated[0]… remember that the political issues are people having visions of everything being another Chernobyl, where the land made unavailable is ~52 GW of PV even after assuming both 20% efficient cells and 10% capacity factor.

And then there's the large quantity of "free space" in the form of rooftops and car parks (and cars) for PV, and that wind farms don't preclude other uses for most of the land (or water) around them.

10 or so years ago I was very much in favour of more nuclear power; now, while I still think it's neat, I don't have the energy to promote it when there's more palatable
alternatives that are also cheaper.

[0] one particularly memorable bad take was someone asking which you'd rather have under your bed, a bucket of coal or a bucket of nuclear waste. Obviously the coal, but assuming a 5 gallon bucket packed with coal, 11.3 kg coal, the mass of uranium with the same available energy (about 330 MJ) is 4.2mg with a volume of 0.2 mm^3; and conversely, burning 11.3 kg of coal produces 44 kg CO2, which approximately enough to be a lethal dose in a room of 100 cubic meters.
I'm not sure the rss comparison really works. The link discovery and discussion are one and the same because they are being driven by the same community. Significant reaction and discussion of one post leads to more posts extending that premise, and then more discussion, and so on.

I don't think replacing Reddit is just about throwing a toolbox at the problem
Which blows my mind, because when all else in the diet holds equal, swapping two sugar'd sodas with two artificially sweetened sodas will save you (using my old vice Dr Pepper as an example) 54g sugar and 200 calories per day. It's just a little annoying that WHO (or this article, not sure who's most at fault) decided not to get into the nuance that people tend to make up those missing 200 calories in other ways.
Summary provide by Claude via the Youtube transcript:

The narrator shares a story from someone named Brandon Jackson whose smart home devices stopped working after Amazon locked his account due to a delivery driver's claim of receiving racist comments from Jackson's doorbell camera. Even after submitting video evidence showing this was false, it took Amazon days to unlock Jackson's account and his devices to start working again.

The narrator argues that incidents like this show why you shouldn't give companies control over infrastructure in your home. If a company employee decides to act unreasonably, they could cut off access to your own property and devices. The narrator recommends keeping as much home infrastructure as possible disconnected from company servers. He gives examples of how he runs a computer to play music through an amplifier that isn't connected to the internet. He argues people got on just fine without "smart homes" connected to company servers and don't really need them.

The key takeaway is that connecting critical systems in your home to company servers means giving up control to those companies in a way that could be subject to unreasonable actions. It's better to keep as much infrastructure as possible disconnected and self-contained.
> Why is there such an obsession about having small computers/servers?

Space. Most people don't have room for a closet sized computer, or if they do they can't justify using the space that way instead of for something else. Also cost of materials for a case: to sell generally you need to properly deal with EMI.

Most of the cost is in the RAM and CPUs/GPUs, which beyond a certain point you simply don't need a bigger unit to fit in. If you are wanting to build up more compute power the usual way is to get a rack in that cabinet worth of space and put separate machines in there (that generally means low profile high-density kit with cooling solutions that are not optimised for quietness, but I'm sure water cooled options are available too).
Wasn't aware of groups.io for ham discussions, thanks for posting!

For USENET, I think I know the answer, but are there other consumption methods that you know of/recommend?
There's no end to end encryption right now but it's interesting the thought immediately goes there. This is not a replacement for signal, WhatsApp, etc. It's more like an advancement on forums or replacement for Facebook groups that takes things private in the sense that it's invite only and no one outside your group can talk to you. The recent community chats product from Facebook has also foregone end to end encryption because they want to be able to centralise the tech and moderation as it's much simpler for group products. Again this is not a replacement for whatsapp, signal or related messengers.
I'm sorry they're having trouble, but speaking just for myself, perhaps this means I will be able for a short time to view a very considerable number of web-sites which normally are inaccessible behind a permanent loop of "we must check the security of your connection".
This article seems to recommend having water instead.
You are overseeing how demand is still increasing I believe. Faster bandwidth than ever before is met by higher demand than ever before and it will continue like this for a while.

60fps HDR 4k Content will become normal, eating away at bandwidth availability, meaning that any possible savings will still be relevant, for example in still images.
I've gone the other way and just don't use very many apps. I'll only use an app instead of the site if I find the app provides actual added value *to me*. And that is not often the case.

And for cases that force you to the app instead of the webpage, I don't use that site on my phone. Which tends to start a cycle where I stop or at least greatly reduce using that that site.
https://sic.pm/ is an interesting project by epilys I have saved but the code seems to have been removed from GitHub.
So did you watch the montage?

If so, please admit that you were wrong when you made this comment:

> I'm hoping that in a decade or so, people will stop using "vaccines never prevented transmission" as an argument since it has been said at least a billion of times since the beginning, VACCINES PREVENTED SERIOUS ILLNESS.

My montage showed you (if you had watched it), many talking heads and officials at the time accusing the unvaccinated of increasing transmission.

The rest of your remarks about "covid deniers" are irrelevant to the point.
Reddit has platform-user misalignment
I call BS on the "capricious bans". Tildes bans rarely (only one person has ban power on the site), and when it does, there's some discussion around it.

See for example: https://tildes.net/~tildes/15my/new_users_ask_your_questions...

Occam's Razor: If someone got banned, it's more likely that they were being an asshole than that the admin of a site that's been running peacefully and smoothly for 4-5 years is suddenly on a power trip.