skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off the top of my head I can't think of any that are GOOD.

But a decent number of them appear to switch off most/all validation once you select a non-US address, which I think is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. (That's if they even support a non-US address, that is.) I've never seen any data but I wonder how much help validating addresses even is.

The "must have a postal code" is by far the biggest problem. I can't recall a website that actually can cope with not having a postal code.

In practice you can put in any number and the local postal delivery here will ignore it/figure it out since it won't be the first time a foreigner has put the wrong address on something in Vietnam.
Agreed 100%. The logos are not even vaguely similar, either! Besides, didn't we already go through this decades ago with Apple Records?

¯\\\_ (ツ)_/¯

Probably a case of "lawyers gonna lawyer," because US trademark law demands that one vigorously defend their trademark, lest they lose it.

SMH

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
This is not exactly true for many countries.

In Australia, for example, telcos get punished heavily for delaying ports but don’t get punished for unauthorised ports. This disincentivises telcos to perform any due diligence whatsoever. Up until a few years ago, anyone could walk into a telco and port any random number onto a new sim. These processes are improving, but sim swapping is still trivial.

Not to mention SMS is also an unencrypted medium.

I avoid using my phone number for MFA unless I’m forced into it (which sadly happens quite often).
All these things you listed are objectively bad and a tumor and I'm glad that those that are gone, are gone for good, because the one that stayed is a menace to any programmer caring about his sanity.
I regularly run into projects that won't compile on the machine I want to run them on because it doesn't have enough RAM. It's not a panacea, by any means.
I don't want that much information density. That's the whole point. Information density is not net positive.
That's still often times an optional feature, so if you don't want to use it as IDP, you may not want to opt in to 2FA.
Am I missing something, or are the only GNU parts of a modern distro just some barebones terminal utilties for copying files?

I'd think the kernel, desktop environment, and other components like wayland, systemd, pipewire, etc are the actual OS while gnu mv is just a user level program.
Wow. I knew decaffeination using dichloromethane (aka methylene chloride) was once a thing prior to the popularization of industrial scale supercritical CO2 but I had no idea benzene was ever employed.
Huh? Have you never written stuff to files procfs or sysfs?

Not every file there is seekable/readable - some only exist as an input interface to change some property.

The very same way there could exist a 'signals' file to write signals to.
Microsoft to Remove Multiple Folder Options from File Explorer
maybe. initially it seemed like they can pull off the impossible and just make it work for everyone. (providing adequate self-service tools, nice undo/redo features, keeping scope very focused, working a lot of behind the scenes magic.)

of course then complexity hit, and the paranoia of fake ad impressions ate the whole company.
The ending of Truman Show is often considered one of the greatest moments in the history of cinema. It's a really great sequence that also stayed with me since then. I was never too much into Carrey acting on comedic roles, but I really like his dramatic ones.
Even though the blog appears to be by someone who doesn’t have much of a clue, this is gatekeeping.

Just like in the Unix world of old before the rise of open source, many system administrators never compile any binary. And that is fine.
Anyone who pays more than 2$ for a cup of coffee is insane.
The purpose of states is to restrict access to capital, to protect private property claims. Trademarks aren't even physical things you can claim as property, they're legal fictions trying to enclose culture the same way we have enclosed the land. By your reasoning owning a plot of land, or a factory or a stack of money is a government-granted monopoly and as such inherently not capitalistic.
Isn't the telco contractually required to let me use it? Not sure about the US, but in Germany I think you even have the right to keep your phone number when changing telcos.
You might get pwned by (1) the government, (2) your mobile carrier, or (3) a hacker that can social-engineer your mobile carrier's tech-support (SIM jacking / SIM swap attack).
A finite state machine can’t have infinite state space.. also, you can write a finite Turing program that does exactly that, but you can’t write a finite description of an “infinite” state space, which is the whole point.

Ad absurdum everything would be computable (recognizable) by FSMs, simply by listing all the infinite number of possibilities. listOfAllPrimes.concat(“|”), here you are..
Article mentions that Plan9 missed `cgroups`, QoS.

Linux moves towards massive process sharing, and thus various of sharing controls are key to the future that is missing from 90s operating systems.

Just enable sound, run your browser and music app, and count number of processes living with `ps ef|wc -l`. I see 282 kernel threads, and 536 total processes. You will see that we live in the future, because of extensive modularization of system services, and cannot get back without sacrificing reliability and comfort.
They not only cater to DSLR, high end compact cameras were also reviewed but your point still stand.

I still think there is still a niche market good enough for a website to strive. Photographers and lots of Vloggers still use high end cameras.
It's not that they don't trust them, it's that those accounts are the least possible trusted accounts that they have. They have the least information, the least relationship, the fewest checks have been done.
I'm not sure of your point here. You claim that SpaceX's process was an iterative one which lead to the 'most reliable rocket in history', but state that the process does not matter.
> logo in question is likely pre-existing

If the logo exists longer than Apple does, isn't Apple the one commiting infringement?

Isn't this an open and shut case?
> Relying on anyone else to provide a binary categorically disqualifies someone as a systems administrator.

Come on, that's too harsh. We're not all Gentoo users, most sysadmins use packages provided by the distros.

There's also the issue of close-source software, that only supports certain distros and architectures.
As Joe Rogan says about people with black belts in Jiu Jitsu: there are levels among black belts.

You, like many "smart" people, have an air of confidence about you...but if you really think about it, you think there aren't people out there that couldn't absolutely ragdoll you on the intellectual equivalent of a Jiu Jitsu mat, if the above is the type of game you bring?
Wow that's bad. Every new detail looks like something out of an undergrad project. It works to hack something like that together as a first prototype, but even a masters student in a decent lab with decent mentors can make something much more professional. It's like they must have actively prevented anyone with any professional experience whatsoever from seeing it.
Before watching the Truman Show I actively avoided Jim Carrey movies because I really disliked his over the top acting. Just like in your case, this movie completely changed my view of Jim Carrey, even the performances in previous movies that I had disliked so much. I may even call this my favorite movie of all time.

Btw, Jim Carrey has never won an Academy Award, and neither has The Truman Show, which is quite a shame.
One does not. If an image is created, it is copyrighted automatically. But copyright is not what this article is about. It’s about trademarks.
Although many projects are offered free of charge, individuals can choose to donate or seek sponsorship to ensure their continued development. Not all freely available software depends solely on financial support, with some projects choosing to develop without any monetary compensation. However, it can be frustrating to feel like the Plex Pass and associated account offerings are being pushed upon you.
From the article's opening lines: "SUMMARY: Biology faces a grave threat from “progressive” politics that are changing the way our work is done"

From HN's guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics"

This is just right-wing culture war nonsense. Biology is not being subverted. People wrote the same things about Darwin when he claimed we evolved from primates. Bunch of conservative, anti-progress, fearmongering idiots pushing an agenda against anything they see as too 'different'. This is isn't the place for this crap.
FUD stupidity.
Thats right some use macports on MacOS.
Tiobe index, indicator of the popularity of programming languages
Technically, a computer is also just a large finite state machine. Which suggests computability theory is unable to accurately account for the intuitive difference between computers and simpler automatons. I suspect it has something to to with the computational time/space complexity of the algorithms they are able to execute.
He has a reputation but it's for being untrustworthy.
> Do you also get angry when a business describes something as mission critical?

Not if they are doing something useful to others.

Are hikers who get lost on a mission?
The Castrati: Unveiling the Melancholy Melodies of Italy’s Lost Boys
> - Health => the sector should be working on planning its own obsolescence, not on growing.

That's what it was before government intervention, at least in UK and US. Worker's organisations had employed their own doctors and managed very good, driving medical professionals wages down. Doctors associations asked governments to intervene, license their profession and used this licensing to punish doctors who would work for such organisations.

And now people see broken systems and think that even more intervention would improve things.
Voice Commanded Essay Copilot
I run a handful of little servers, some x86, some ARM. I've had none of the issues that the author raises.

Sounds a little like the old Linux v Windows or the PC v Mac debate - lots of fuss and really comes down to personal preferences.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind comes to mind, as well.
Yes but also think about it?
In 2012 and even now, which language would you use to replace Go.

Assuredly not C++, nor Rust... No javascript, swift has become more complex apparently, not haskell... Not C... OCaml? No it has a weird syntax, French people and wanting to be different... Etc...

So no, Go has genuinely appreciable qualities that are not found anywhere else :o)
> Which is, admittedly, a very HN assumption to make

No, it's your assumption that is wrong! You gave an explanation of several possible reasons, and you assume that people care. Actually, they don't!

The first site worked crappy and the second worked nice: the first site missed the money and the second one got it!
Dutch banks all got together some 15 years ago to devise the perfect online payment system: iDeal. Pretty much everyone uses it. Checkmate PayPal and Visa card.

But the best secondary effect was that it locks out foreign banks who can't be arsed to set up a local branch and apply for a banking license.
well, you skipped long :D
The postgres documentation for logical replication suggests using "pg_dump --schema-only" as a starting point.

I am sure the pg_easy_replicate tool brings something to the table(probably replication lifecycle management) but reading the docs, the bare postgres replication looks just as easy if not easier than the easy replicate tool. I am going to try it on my toy db and see how it goes.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/logical-replication-restr...
Sound reconstruction from human brain activity
Once again, Swiss will raise their pikes to protect right to protect their own in court without any EUtside interference...

While money is wasted on proceedings.

Good case for a libel countersuit?
"The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has spent the last month touring world capitals where, at talks to sold-out crowds and in meetings with heads of governments, he has repeatedly spoken of the need for global AI regulation.

But behind the scenes, OpenAI has lobbied for significant elements of the most comprehensive AI legislation in the world—the E.U.’s AI Act—to be watered down in ways that would reduce the regulatory burden on the company, according to documents about OpenAI’s engagement with E.U. officials obtained by TIME from the European Commission via freedom of information requests."
For a while I was running a mixed k3s server for fun and curiosity. Most popular images are manifests pointing to -$arch containers that gets selected automatically. It's also fairly trivial to build them yourself either with 2 machines or qemu.

I've stopped using it but multi arch is definitely not the reason. Biggest problem is that 60% of my punny machines resources were being used to keep Longhorn synced - and the constant high usage resource kicking the fans up started to irritate me. But the cluster worked really well regardless of what node the software was running.
Reading that memo is going to be a "hold my beer" moment for many, no doubt.

I wonder how much of it was written by ChatGPT...
Nice to see that BNSF 4723 still has the Microsoft Train Simulator Sticker[1] in 2022. :)

[1] https://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bnsf/bnsf4723bf20.jpg
And in exchange for that performance we got one of the most insane /class/ of unfixable CPU bugs ever imagined.

What do Spectre and Meltdown have to do with “everything as a file” system architecture?
You make one prototype in a few weeks with a couple of people then call it a day and start fleshing everything out???

Dude, it might take a few weeks to work out if a big project is even viable in a large company.

Prototyping a full product is not the easiest part of the big project by a long shot. Prototyping is when you find and create the constraints, reduce the chaos and make the project legible so other people can work on it.

If you do it right, it should make it easier for other people to work on the project not harder.
The Bolt's charging speed is glacial. San francisco-> Palm Springs and spent 2 1/2 hours charging vs about 50 minutes total in the Tesla.

The 50 minutes in the Tesla is the same time for a bathroom and quick food stop. The additional hour and a half in the Bolt is pure time wasted.

Add even more time if you drive faster than 65.
Overtly mean doesn’t work very well, but that’s the stupid form of mean. Covertly Machiavellian seems to work, as does the kind of initially ingratiating gradually controlling personality of a cult leader.

The best kind of mean for todays environment seems to be Machiavellian coated in a superficial gloss of magnanimity via stuff like effective altruism, longtermism, or wokewashing.
I think Hurd also has the per-process namespace thing, I wonder if it got that from Plan 9?
Get rid of them.

Of course, only if they are not simply decoration to signal intellectuality to yourself or your social environment.

Most you won't read a second time, and many of the unread ones you won't read a first time.
Although I wouldn't qualify it as insomnia, I usually have troubles sleeping due to racing and intrusive thoughts. One thing that worked is counting backwards from 40; whenever my mind drifts, I start from 40 again. Eventually, it (or I) succeeds.
There’s an argument to be made that if you want a more robust computing environment, you want more diversity of architecture and OS, not less. Does this take more effort? Possibly. Is that worth it? It depends.
all depends on the alarm. I took the time to find a gentle one and it's probably why I nap a lot more often now. There's still the danger of it putting my day to a dead stop but quite often it feels like a net good. Also sleep on the floor to help prevent a deep sleep
I wonder if line6 could rename the ipod to "BHA" (B. H. Apple)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pod_(amp_modeler)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Personal_life_and_b...
What a silly waste of time
Voice against innovation!!!

Without architecture diversity, he wants to limit innovation, and promote a monopoly. x86 is anything but an open source standard, due to patents, and thus cannot be easily standardized. So he also voices against open standards.
MLOps Maturity Levels: Microsoft and Google Push for Automation
Recently, I went through the Google and Microsoft blogs about advancements in ML infrastructure. It is used as a guide to establish the next steps to scale your infrastructure. I decided to combine the best practices from both and write an article with nice visualizations so it's easy to follow along.
However, during the research and reading the Microsoft blog especially, I felt the push for automation and the description of lower maturity levels as messy and problematic.
After a bit of thinking, the push for advancement and automation partially comes from the fact that Google and Microsoft are the biggest players in the cloud computing business. An example is their push for an automated retraining process, which is often very expensive, unnecessary, or harmful.
Let me know what you think. I included my opinion about it in my blog, which also includes the visual progression from manual processes to advanced automated infrastructures, so if you're interested, check it out.
This is counter to my understanding. I've always believed SIM porting attacks are both harder and less frequent in Australia compared to the USA
Do you think there's any amount of research or evidence or debate that could make Normies aware that the sensation of omniscience that they experience when contemplating the nature of the individual members of their abstract conceptual outhroups is actually just a clever trick played on them by consciousness + cultural shortcomings?

Personally, I happen to believe there is, and I bet it might even be way easier to do than it may seem.
Having non-x86 machines has actually made my life a lot easier -- most common exploits don't have the proper offsets and simply don't work.

Before you call me lazy for not patching, there are a lot of vendors that have very long patch times. If you have an environment that is mission critical, you would be well advised to not use x86 at all in the server environment. My entire income is based on cryptocurrency, so if I get owned it would result in large uninsurable losses.
Consider 3 scenarios:

- Alice is currently reusing passwords, and does not use 2FA. Alice decides to set up 2FA, but keeps reusing passwords. Not ideal, but net improvement.

- Bob is using a password manager, but does not use 2FA. Bob decides to set up 2FA, and sticks to using the password manager for storing password. All good!

- Charlie is using a password manager, but does not use 2FA. Charlie decides to set up 2FA, and afterwards drops the password manager, and starts reusing passwords. Not good.

My guess is the Alice and Bob cases would be the majority. Do you think the Charlie cases would also be common?
Difficult to say. The oldest file I could find says it's from 1989, but it got onto my machine a lot later. There's also a lot of "Ship of Theseus" going on, since it's a source code file that has seen lots of revisions over the decades.
Can somebody put this on the Internet Archive?
This specific controller does not. The Logitech F710, I've got one on my desk right now. It has zero ports and only works wirelessly. It uses AA batteries so there's no need for a charging port either.

For wired use, Logitech have the cheaper F310 that lacks rumble, and the discontinued F510.
> I think both camps are right to a degree. I will defend Behringer's right to use the stuff that's clearly in the public domain, but I also think they have no class.

Right -- same as 7Artisans / TTArtisan lenses. Genuinely impressive, affordable products, combined with a notable and surprising lack of self-respect where external design is concerned. At some level a lens barrel is a lens barrel, and the "big" brands are converging in their design language anyway as is normal, but the sooner these cheaper brands develop a consistent design language, the better.
> has accused O'Donnell of failing to pay him royalties after acquiring Akai, repeatedly calling him unscrupulous and a "bastard" in interviews.

This seems extremely straight forward to sue against? Basically the claim is either never paid for specific sales (very easy to win) or stated number of sales is lower than expected (requires lots of disclosure).

OR, maybe he did win in court and they simply ignored the court order?
but old habits die hard :)
"Another interesting question is "Is bad 2FA better than no 2FA?", and the answer to that is a resounding No!"

Then goes on to explain why it is indeed better. Perhaps meant to write 'worse'?
You do realise that this project has had broken build since 2021?
How do you deal with the social tension of telling your kids the truth about Santa, etc.? My wife convinced me that if we didn't conform, then all other parents in the area would dislike us.

Interestingly enough, when a classmate's dad told my 1st grade daughter about the (Christian) god, she got home and asked me why people believe in false things like that. But, she still continued to believe in Santa and the tooth fairy as well as her imaginary friends, etc. I think that maybe she knows they also don't exist, but she's enjoying the fantasy and experience.
> You missed their point, accessing a website also requires you to have _something_, namely a device with a browser. If you have a device with a browser, then you have a device with a password manager.

My point from the root of this tree was that I do not want to make a shit travel (github asks me to prove identiny by mail > gmail asks me to prove my identity by phone > my phone is somewhere else because I am not addicted to it) just to have an ability to use my github from web-interface. If I can successfully use my bitcoins without any 2fa/totp security theater than github is just shitting me with no good reason for me and for my helloworlds collection.

Probably just saving cookies solves the problem of the shit travel, but since every few hours session of browsing makes me to store tens megabytes of cookies with no value to me (except of not un-logging from github) I use to clear all cookies every time I close my browser.
It’s not gatekeeping in any sense. Technical skills are required to do technical jobs, and this person asked for any criticism or feedback given by posting a public blog that has, for some bizarre reason, gotten to the front page of hacker news. Wtf. Technical incompetence must be addressed head first, or we risk real world problems
Call recording returns for Truecaller on iOS and Android
It's certainly not a rare example. "Inventors killed by their own inventions" is kind of a running joke or a meme. It even has its own wikpedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_th...
Hell you can literally run TOTP via pen and paper if you want to (though you probably need to compute it a few windows in advance, especially with the hmac_sha1).
There is still a small window between touch and rm for the file to not be cleaned up. There is no easy way around it with standard shell and coreutils, but there could be a tool that would use memfd_create(2) and exec user's command passing the /dev/fd/XXX filename somehow.

A simple case could work like this:

$ memfile /usr/bin/echo
/dev/fd/3
$
This is true. Last time I looked at the DHT in IPFS it was full of kludges and workarounds for performance issues due to the fact that it uses TCP connections underneath.
He addresses this in the comments and confirms that he got it wrong.
In fact synology’s response was to start ignoring WDDA, so they removed themselves from the situation.