skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 'paradise' where those fraudsters end up getting caught for everyone to see on a public blockchain?

Sounds like a fraudsters nightmare since the whole thing is traceable.

That is close to nothing compared to the trillions of fraud and illicit transactions by criminals and terrorists all aided by the banks in the current system in the FinCEN files. [0]

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/fincen-files
Great straightforward non apologetic answer props. Refreshing compared to what we often get here nowadays and reminiscent of how ceos used to reply here.

(I Don like the news itself obviously but the delivery was good)
> every game on every storefront just simply works.

And you lose all the important aspect of the Steam Deck, which is hardware/software integration.
One point the author neglects is that merely browsing an informational site is sensitive depending on social and political context. Examples:

* Woman views information on abortions or reproductive health care in a jurisdiction that persecutes over that

* Queer person views information pertaining to LGBT services/issues in a jurisdiction or LAN that would punish them

* Person views information on protests

* Person reads the news about a crime[1]

TLS does not solve this problem entirely (SNI/DNS leaks, traffic shape analysis) but it helps.

I would not expect search engines/browsers to try to determine if a site publishes 'controversial' content especially since that depends on who you ask.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/06/05/fbi-...
Programming languages are obviously also designed to be parsed by humans
Most of those look quite a bit nicer than ours. I especially like the "lucky wall" one.
People typically shorthand the most popular thing as inevitable.

After Red Hat, Ubuntu was the one that people would think was all of Linux.

This doesn't just happen in operating systems. I've talked to several people who seem to think AWS is literally the only way to run a server, and have it as their baseline assumption at all times.
My eyes were rolling too much to finish this piece, but I’ll share a pair of tips:

In a technical interview, learn to recognize when the interviewer is trying to help you, and take notice immediately when they do. If they say, “Do you really need to use a float here?”, nine times out of ten what they really mean is, “Stop trying to use a float here.”

As an interviewer, it’s really unpleasant to be trying to throw a candidate a life preserver and have them keep shooing it away.

(Sometimes “Do you really need” questions are a trap and the interviewer is testing your confidence, but in those cases it’s usually said with a completely different tone.)

My other tip is for the squishy personality test interview: come into it smiling, and keep that up for no reason. The interviewer will usually start doing it too, and that leads their brain to think, “I’m smiling, so I must like this person.”
I recommend reading The 36 Hour Day

It’s helped me in taking care of my aunt.

It was recommended to me by a doctor who was taking care of their dad.
HTTPS may not be proprietary, but it comes with many of the same drawbacks: central control, lack of transparency, more difficult to debug, and less accessible in many circumstances.
A bit like Instagram etc - there has to be a new fad for those people to move to for that to happen.

So sadly these things don't tend to go away, they just evolve.
> Red Hat has always been open source. They have followed the letter of the license and still do.

It is very much an open question whether they comply with the GPL by imposing additional restrictions on a license which states that you may not add restrictions.
Hmm, could the new Pressure Stall Information in /proc/pressure give further insights into this at a broad level?
> but judging from their enterprise products that sounds like the grossest possible thing to run a personal project on...

Maybe not the best way to judge? i.e. based on impression of other products?

People run personal projects on AWS etc.

Oracle cloud is also a lot better priced than the big 3.
Not tech related, i just share my drawings.
The blog is done with hugo and hosted on netlifly, i also use a cloudinary plugin for the images.

https://cesarbrun.xyz
Show HN: Find Exact Moments in Y Combinator YouTube Videos with Search 2.0
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I don't disagree, but now imagine Quebec having deals with (for example) France and Switzerland and Ontario only having agreements with Italy and Spain (but only for medical licenses), while Alberta may evaluate accreditation on a case-by-case basis. This is somewhat incredible to behold, as if 10 different countries had their own licensing treaties and then we bolted on a federal immigration system on top of that.
https://rnikhil.com/

Stuff on the gaming market in India, real money games, Poker and some software projects I worked on in my past life.
https://gwern.net/complement

>the pattern of “commoditizing your complement”, an alternative to vertical integration, where companies seek to secure a chokepoint or quasi-monopoly in products composed of many necessary & sufficient layers by dominating one layer while fostering so much competition in another layer above or below its layer that no competing monopolist can emerge, prices are driven down to marginal costs elsewhere in the stack, total price drops & increases demand, and the majority of the consumer surplus of the final product can be diverted to the quasi-monopolist.

What red hat is doing is commodotizing their complement, it's nothing more than that. One big example is that I would rather be using an OpenRC init system, but because redhat throws their weight around I need to use a systemd-based distro at work, to work on embedded systems (can't use ~~chroots~~ systemd-nspawn unless the host is also running systemd).

By throwing all this shit out for free they're able to destroy any sort of organic competition that might arise. Honestly I wouldn't even be mad, except a big chunk of it enterprise-ey shit and introduce major security issues just from how they're architected.

There's good and bad, but the problem is they make it very hard to just take the good and leave the bad. They bundle things together, like the decision to make Gnome depend on systemd, or the way networkd can't really be seperated from systemd, or renaming gummiboot to systemd-boot.

They also don't do a good job of disclosing what open source projects they have de-facto control over, and you're likely to find a lot of redhat employees in key positions in projects you didn't realize had anything to do with redhat.
IIRC "random" isn't quite right, there was logic to find the moment the telemarketer stopped speaking for the next response to play.
Deportalling from Libera Chat
QNX is used as an operating system on some programmable logic controllers.
I think Omron's PLC use QNX.
> The fact that the platform is now explicitly transphobic is a case in point. Musk has made transphobia part of his policy position.

Hacker News has become Reddit. ${the thing I hate} is racist and transphobic!! And mindless anti-Musk hate.

We should not accept this type of comment ^^^ it is objectively and intellectually dishonest.
> which of the two alternatives

There are not just 2 and never were.

Oracle is, you know, quite big and fairly well known.

https://www.oracle.com/linux/

It's also much older than either Alma or Rocky.

So is Springdale Linux, formerly PUIAS Linux:

https://springdale.math.ias.edu/

EuroLinux is also a thing for the wider world, i.e. outside North America:

https://en.euro-linux.com/eurolinux/what-is/

In Japan there is Miracle Linux:

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=miracle

In China there is Euler OS:

https://developer.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/euleros/index.h...

There was also Inspur K-UX:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspur_K-UX

Both the latter were even officially UNIX™ certified.

I am sure there are many more I don't know about.
https://umhau.github.io/

A few years worth of posts (haven't updated it in about a year though). Anonymous because I'd rather not tie it to my normal acct on here.
https://domk.website/blog.html
Ah, many of those builing façades that are now murals were in fact painted ads some 70 years ago.

https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2018/09/15/anuncio...
I switched permanently from Plots.jl to Makie.jl in order to have backend-agnostic fine-grained control. My publication plots look fantastic and the power given to users is really something. It also has a nicer API than Plots.jl once you get a hang of the figure, axis, plot distinction (plots live inside axes live inside figures) and what goes where.

Unfortunately, as with Plots, the documentation is lacking. The basic tutorial does a good job introducing the aspects of the package at a high level, but the fact that some parts of the documentation uses functions/structs that don't have docstrings in examples makes it very hard to build on the examples in these cases.

I get it, I can do anything with Makie, and most things that I want to do work amazingly. But my code for a single figure can get huge because it's all so low level. See, for example, the Legend documentation[1].

[1]: https://docs.makie.org/stable/examples/blocks/legend/index.h...
The privacy protection is a benefit, but it is balanced against accessibility, which is often more important, such as when trying to access important information on an older device.
Must have been mid 90's, and I was in France with my parents who were doing up a run down house there, and we ended up in some shop and I stumbled upon a "Linux Pour Les Nuls" book which came with a RedHat disc - that was my first ever foray into Linux! I spent my summer holidays messing about on a laptop with it, and that pretty much cemented my joy it. So, whatever happens (and I have no idea as I'm not really paying much attention to it) but it was always my first!
Never forget that the whole ad industry is ultimately paid with your money, as a consumer.
I started writing about animal ethics at the end of last year. This is mostly a clearing house for my thoughts, but I have found some people enjoy reading it.

https://joshbaldwin.substack.com/
One has basically nothing to do with the other, but I'll humor your attempt to draw a connection and say that if I had to choose between Firefox having GPU video decoding and IBM/RH not trying to subvert the GPL, I'd choose the latter and forego video acceleration. This is to say, the former does not make up for the latter even if I humor the existence of a connection.

Besides, I'm still going to play videos in mpv anyway. In-browser players suck for various other reasons besides the acceleration/performance issue. The bare-bones vanilla in-browser player has virtually no features and controls cannot easily be remapped. Firefox's floating video player feature is a nice step in the right direction, but only a tiny step. Furthermore the video controls implemented by websites like youtube are even worse and fixing that on a per-site basis would be a huge chore. I'll give you a specific example: my laptop's universal volume keys are my F1, F2, and F3 keys and they're right next to my 1, 2, and 3 keys. In the control scheme youtube has implemented, if I ever miss my volume keys I jump the video back to 1:00, 2:00 or 3:00 because youtube for whatever reason thinks number keys should be shortcuts to seek to that minute mark. I guess some people probably like this but I certainly do not. I could try to fix this by injecting scripts into the youtube page, but that's a hassle I can simply avoid in the first place by using a video player that has mostly sane defaults and makes configuration straight forward besides. I'd rather configure mpv once then play wack-a-mole fixing numerous websites and keeping those fixes up-to-date and working.
I think some companies send junior techies to do first round filtering (with easy coding questions), while others keep the HR folks busy doing first round filtering (with, well, behavioural etc. questions as outlined in the article).
Well, I downloaded and compiled it (cool! Thanks!) but no matter what prompt I give it, it just prints out gibberish....where do I go now to learn how to properly use it?
FTFA: "Block Cloning allows to clone a file (or a subset of its blocks) into another (or the same) file by just creating additional references to the data blocks without copying the data itself. Block Cloning can be described as a fast, manual deduplication."
Yes it is. It's more or less a scheduler library, that you link together with all the other code you have to get a microcontroller system image. There are no processes in FreeRTOS, just tasks (threads).
Me too.

I'm not an expert, but I'd say I'm a strongly average vim user.

But even at that skill level with vim, I haven't seen an area where LLMs would increase my velocity.

Quite the opposite. It would completely interrupt my flow to have to constantly stop and do a code review while I'm writing.

With good plugins, templates and macros in vim/vscode - velocity writing code isn't the issue.

The stuff that takes all the time is UX tweaks and reasoning about architecture, business constraints, and the correct level of optimization for the company's maturity.
There's a screenshot in the article I linked/wrote (part of the inspiration to write this). How many examples do you want? A cursory browse of HN or the ChatGPT subreddit would give you many such examples. You can also experiment with this yourself.
Cuttlefish Camouflage Is More Complex Than Previously Thought
Law isn't code. Believe it or not judges, and regular people, can suss out when someone is trying to be clever with their illegal discrimination.

If admission to a college is based on a standardized test that is administered only on Sunday mornings, no one is going to buy that it is not designed to discriminate against devout Christians. It doesn't matter if the college swears up and down that that's the only day they have proctors or testing sites available. You don't have to say or even imply you're doing it for an illegal reason.

Unless there's a legitimate reason for applying whatever criteria you choose to apply, you have to check whether they're a proxy for a protected class. This definitely applies to hiring. I see no reason why it shouldn't apply to college admissions. Does having a parent who studied at Harvard better qualify a student to study there?
This is a public university in California. The UC system decides, and that's presumably someone in the UC staff responsible for generating policy for DEI initiatives.

And since this is a public uni it has to comply with state and federal rules. UC can choose whatever it wants but if the laws shift on the state level it's moot; Texas is doing something along those lines now...
It's sort of the opposite. If you're on a free account with free tier and under utilize resources below a certain threshold it may get reclaimed after a while.
> Well, you do support only vector containers

Yes.

> Your name "array" clashes with the C++ array

In C they are called arrays.

> And your array is unsafe sized, as last is the only size provision, even unsafer than C++ with its unsafe iterators.

Can you explain more? C++ <algorithm> is intended to be used for C pointers as well. The iterator concept is an abstraction of pointer.

> You can only replace insitu

I'm not sure what you mean. The replace/remove/unique work just like the C++ versions. The STL recognizes there are cases when you want to work in-place, and others when you want to use a separate buffer. That's why it provides multiple versions.

> the spirit of the STL algorithms is to allocate, not overwrite.

I don't believe this is true. It's designed to separate memory allocation concerns from the algorithm. That's why a lot of them require you to provide a buffer satisfying some requirements.
The refractive index of transparent polystyrene is actually pretty high so that's a neat idea.
Why not start with realizing and saying out loud that https enforcing is bad?
I think I'd be happy with innocent things like your example as well. One could even argue that ads are useful even, in the right context. But I have no idea how to go about regulating that.
The problem with modern concrete falling apart prematurely is usually the use of rebar as a reinforcement.
Dave Winer has made his whole career out of being wrong about things. Why stop now?
Why would you expect doing free testing and contributions for a for profit business?
I could.
This is huge.
One practical application is fast recovery of a file from past snapshot without using any additional space. I use ZFS dataset for my vCenter datastore (storing my vmdk files). In case of need to launch a clone from a past state one could use a block cloning to bring past vmdk file without the need to actually copy the file - it saves both space and time to make such clone.
> Get a free certificate from Let’s Encrypt, set up redirects, and then add the Strict-Transport-Security header to further secure the site and reduce network traffic from the redirects.

If you want to be inclusive of old clients that may not be able to do modern TLS, you can serve the same content on http and https, but reference your favicon on https and serve a STS header with it. Clients that understand STS, will internally redirect to https, clients that do, but can't reach your https for whatever reason, will be able to continue with HTTP.
I get this problem on Xwayland which is the only way [0] to enable HW video decode on official Chromium binaries on Wayland ATM. Am on Arch and if the Chrome team doesn't fix the issue in future releases I just might give this workaround [1] a chance.

[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132675...

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-wayland-vaapi
But where does the quantum come in? You don't need it to have/manipulate consensus.

What are the "weird things"?
https://bachmeil.github.io/the-blog/archive/

It's a continuation of my earlier blog, but I wanted something more minimal. It's not something I'd read if someone else wrote it. Sometimes I like to write. I put professional content on my website.
> as an old OS/2 fan and former IT executive that had to deal with large strategic outsourcing deals: IBM is not a trustworthy vendor

Amen. IBM doesn't believe their customers are "developers" or "sysadmins"; they believe their customers are C-levels who will always come back. They miss the point that C-levels rotate out as previous devs and sysops rise up. That's how they lost the mainframe market, and the desktop market, and now the minicomputer market that they clawed back with RHEL. The cloud they already lost.
reminds me of the saying "don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that guy behind the tree".

Its always us vs them.
I have three blogs for the three languages I’m fluent in, and I have different interests in each language.

- https://bfontaine.net/blog/ (English, on tech, rarely updated these days)

- https://bfontaine.net/blogfr/ (French, on Paris, inactive)

- https://bfontaine.net/blogit/ (Italian, on Italy and Italian language(s), active)
THIS. High saturation colors are loud and tacky. Kyoto look wonderful.
https://blog.reversepp.com/ for an incredibly niche blog about UK planning application data
That would create a new job market - drawing ads
It does provide basic recommendations based on the video you’re currently watching.

If you only care about the channels you’re subscribed to, it’s a much better experience.
Graffiti is usually tagging [1], but includes other forms of (non-sanctioned) random acts of art and, especially, writing.

Wall murals are usually sanctioned – either there is permission granted to paint a wall, or, often, they are commissioned. Usually there is only one artist or company that makes the "complete" mural, with much planning and coordination, and no intervention by casual passerby.

In the source below, you can see that though it is wall, it is being tagged (not a mural) with various ad-hoc contributors.

Some would argue that a wall that is purposefully provided as a space for passerby to add their contributions (to add "graffiti" to it) makes it not graffiti at all, since that goes against its anti-institutional spirit. In that view, commissioned wall murals by an artist are distinctly not grafitti.

1 – https://www.britannica.com/topic/tagging
> Under the GDPR, companies have to claim some kind of legal basis—there’s a list—if they want to process Europeans’ personal data. Over the years, Facebook/Meta’s viable options have been whittled away by regulatory decisions and court rulings, and a few months ago the company retreated to what it saw as its last option: having a “legitimate interest” in processing people’s personal data for ad targeting. The court just rejected that claim, saying Facebook needs real user consent for this mix-and-match profiling.
yeah i also presumed that it was different locations, like geoguessr
Looking through Steam sales for sub-$10 titles with "Very Positive" or "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews is a good filter.

Some of my favorites over the years include Slay the Spire, Celeste, Vampire Survivors, and FTL.

Edit: How can I forget the "holy trinity" of mystery indie games? Return of the Obra Dinn, Outer Wilds, and Her Story. These are brilliant games that really make you feel like a detective.
> Makes you wonder how far we can get with trial and error.

And millennia long test periods.
Entirely useless distinction. Although if for you "crack open an app" can mean "see a bunch of opaque blobs" then sure.
https://www.kevinlondon.com/

I write most commonly about experiences in big tech, code reviews, and navigating hiring processes
SMS 2FA often blacklist VOIP and similar systems to avoid abuse. Try receiving SMS 2FA at a Twilio number, for instance – it’s super unreliable. There are virtually no providers where you can reliable receive 2FA via SMS programmatically, with the exception of a handful of companies who use large banks of real SIM cards.
It depends on the role. IMO the bar is pretty low for many engineering roles. Determining “that you're a reasonable person when faced with interpersonal difficulties” is usually good enough.