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> Firefox issued security update as well

Fixed[1] in Firefox 117.0.1 as well as some ESR and Thunderbird versions.

[1]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-4...
Gitness. Silly name, sounds like and adjective and is only a letter away from gitless.
$2 isn't going to get much from an options trade, or a sports bet either.
> Religion is easy to laugh off as irrational for HNers because religion isn't a big part of their lives.

You’re generalising. On the occasional threads directly dealing with religious topics, you will easily see that there are plenty here who are very religious. As for me, my religion is the most important thing in my life.
yah sorry, there is a button there "view all pricing plans" that will get you up to 100k contacts.
You're assuming 1) that people need a phone that fancy in the first place, and 2) that a phone's life is up once it stops receiving updates.

The Moto G6, and that stopped receiving updates long ago, and was released in 2018 for about $100. I don't need much power, so I could easily get by with such an old, underpowered phone. I did for a while, but I did switch away because I was more phone-reliant at the time, and so an upgrade was needed. And I find the freedom of being able to install anything just from APKs, set another browser as my default, etc. as a huge value-add for Android.

And yeah, the iPhone has more security updates, but that doesn't really matter to me. I only install reputable, and mostly open source, apps on my phone so I'm not really concerned about security.

So in terms of value: there's the 2020 iPhone SE, with, say, 3 years left, for $120–$40 per year counting just the remaining years and using the current price at Walmart, or $300–$50 per year, assuming MSRP, a carrier discount of $100, and 6 years total. And the Moto G6, with just over of 5 years of life so far, and more value to me due to both the relative freedom of Android, and the fact that I'm used to and prefer Android, for $100–$20 per year. The choice seems obvious to me, for my purposes, but I can absolutely see why an iPhone is better for some people.

By the way, fun fact: the Moto G6 has FM radio built-in!

P.S. also, there's no way I'd risk becoming one of those arseholes that tries to make their whole family get iPhones so they can FaceTime, just because they can't figure out how to download another damn video calling app, despite being able to download all other apps just fine. Yes I'm looking at you, mother's half of my extended family.
Very exciting news. I’ve been trialing Kagi for a while now, and just signed up for this new unlimited plan without hesitation. Google’s results have been getting so awful and full of content farms lately, and it’s nice to be back in control of what sort of sites show up for different searches.

I’m eager to see where Kagi goes from here. I’m skeptical that it’ll expand beyond people in the tech industry and their close relatives, but maybe that’s not a bad thing if it’s sustainable for them long term.
With the merge of iox into the main InfluxDB repo, are you preserving git history / external contributions at all?
I see this argument a lot, but it’s actually a pretty complex trade off.

Screen size, target audience (1080p Zoom), cost, sensor size, and pixel size all come into play.

You can pump numbers for the sake of it on paper, but the reality is that it’s very hard to cram a good image sensor into a laptop screen in an economic way. There’s unfortunately just not enough real estate as thin as they are.

Meanwhile, phones are quite a bit thicker & cameras are a huge selling point. Plus, almost everyone has one. It makes sense that if you want higher quality video on your computer, you’d use the other device which has video higher up on the design priority list.
Fortunately I can relink my lights to a zigbee adapter and remove the hub entirely, but it's significant pointless effort I'd rather not have to do. Thanks Philips or whatever third party subsidiary now makes Hue! I'll now never trust or buy anything from you ever again.

If anyone has a setup like mine (a Hue Hub, but also using HomeAssistant) I would suggest firewalling off the Hue Hub from accessing the internet. While the Hue App will stop working your lights shouldn't... for now.
>That's the most cynical take I have ever read about opensource software

Cynical? If anything it's the opposite of cynical. It's an idealistic view, and closely matches the spirit we had back when the FOSS movement caught on - and the idea about the kind of FOSS future that never came to be.

>I think you're measuring the success of opensource software by only the amount of software that you have to buy. IMO, that's not fair

Fair or not, that was exactly the vision of FOSS, even starting from the first anecdote about the origins of FOSS by RMS. It wasn't "let's build something Apple or Google can use as a backend for their closed software" or even "let there be a lot of FOSS in the world".

It's success was supposed to be measured by the overtaking of proprietary software, not assisting it, nor helping it behind the scenes as a server backend OS or service. And it's adoption at a mass level for the average user, giving them freedom, not as some niche for geeks. "Linux on the desktop", for example, was part of that dream, and it wasn't about "Linux being finally easy/good enough for some people's desktops", but about eclipsing Microsoft.
MooTools, Prototype, Dojo, YUI... what an era.

It sometimes feels like part of what we deal with now in the JS world is due to half the crowd not knowing what came before.

(Edit: to be clear, I think the other half is responsible for the advancements... so it probably evens out)
Seems completely beside the point to be honest. Like they come from here and cause a small fraction of the mischief they are purported to cause there.
>Is it reasonable to believe that this is possible? Distributed training requires extremely high-bandwidth and low-latency interconnect. The internet ain't that.

The same can be said about piracy and bittorrent. The community torrents is so large that I would bet a lot money they have more computing+bandwidth resources combined than openAI by a wide margin, probably orders of magnitude.
You and I have vastly different definitions of 'overly simplistic'.

Scalping your gamma?

Feels like the stock market is just a bunch of jargon, subterfuge and financial sleight of hand. Like we learned nothing from 2008, and just created financial 'products' mechanisms and gambits out of thin air.

Stock shorting has got to be one of the most pants-on-head stupid things I've ever heard.

Well, next to gamma scalping.
Obviously not every search engine
Good point, I somehow quoted that without fully reading it.
The iPad also has a lot more room for camera hardware than a MacBook. They’re a lot thicker.
We're trying a different model - pay for your core audience and any emails (product updates, user touch points, and transactional) are all included. If you have a use case that sends outside of your core audience (maybe sharing content with non-users of your product, we bill on a more traditional email volume pricing.
Osiris-Rex: Asteroid Bennu 'is a journey back to our origins'
I am seeing dispensaries in CA listed, where you get a discount if you show them a 5 star review on yelp, etc (which I do see advertised in stores quite often, I guess)
Seems weird to still go for that policy knowing that GitHub would be immune to it. I get wanting to defend the trademark but once the cat is out of the bag (which in this case means GitHub's name being immune to said trademark), it just ends up leading to a pretty unfair market advantage for them no?

I'm sure their reasoning makes sense and that this has been taken into consideration by the git project at the time though, so I'll have to look into it!
The melting of the icecap raised the oceans worldwide by 400 feet. Sometimes very quickly (as meltwater lakes broke through barriers). (OTOH, tsunamis go away.)
If you feel like management is "variably talented" in software development... oh, ho. Try some IT security orgs.

It's like going back 40 years in time, where a firm handshake and a golf buddy is enough to land you an exec level job.

Which sucks, because the ground-level work is fascinating and technically difficult and filled with amazing folks!
The worst thing about Scantron tests was when you skipped a problem and planned to come back later, but then forgot to leave it blank on the answer sheet. Then all of your answers were off by one, and you had to go back and erase/refill.

Some teachers would let you finish with the error intact, and then spend extra time (without the questions, just the answer sheet) shifting your answers down. But if it was a standardized test, no such luck!
Nowadays I highly recommend HTML embedding libraries directly in the programming language. E.g. ScalaTags https://com-lihaoyi.github.io/scalatags/ or (my own) https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html

Yes, you give up the ability of designers and frontend-only people to easily work with the HTML templates. But in exchange you get quite a lot.
This is the resume template I've used over the last 8ish years: https://www.careercup.com/resume

It doesn't hurt to get someone to review your resume if you're not getting bites.

If you can find a friend's cousin's sister who works at a FAANG company who's willing to refer you, that'd be ideal. All the FAANG companies I've interviewed have an internal referral system.

I only got into a FAANG company once as an intern. It was pure luck that I didn't have any leetcode rounds. Every other time I tried interviewing for SWE my fall was leetcode. The good news is there isn't much luck required, its 90% just a grind. You can be the unluckiest person on the planet and still get in. That being said, good luck :-)
> Maybe the conclusion should be that people shouldn’t live in Florida because it just takes too much resources.

For what it’s worth, I am in Florida and I use very little energy to make my house (2200sqft) comfortable between mid-October and May. I have a highly energy efficient home and between May and October my energy bill runs less than $150. My inside temp rarely goes above 75 degrees. My AC rarely runs at all between 8am and 4pm and then sporadically in the afternoon, but will run a bit a night to essentially “charge the house”.
There will be personal use AI which could be cheaply made in the future and then there is pro grade which solves different set of problems such as medical or military etc. So no open source will not win, it will be like today where both can thrive
With current technology, 4 AA batteries should be able to power a calculator for an entire educational career from 6th to 12th grade, maybe more.

Edit: in terms of performance, the buttons and LCD are very unresponsive, you can type faster than they display. When making any kinds of graphs with more than 2 functions, the drawing happens in the order of 5-10 seconds, modern hardware could do that in micro-to-milliseconds and get the CPU back to sleep to save battery. Anything involving regressions of inputted tables can take 10s of seconds, which again feels clunky and eats battery.
Do China's recent military purges spell trouble for Xi Jinping?
And since saving to a floppy is not a thing anymore...
Woohoo! I always commented that I'll switch to kagi when they get to $10 for unlimited searches. That time has come!
But I think we are there for most tasks. I thought a bit about this today and wrote a blog post about how to use a local ai tool, Ollama, to summarize, make links, and ask questions about my notes. It’s not a fully fleshed out plugin but shows the start in about 20 or so lines of typescript.

Check out the post here https://ollama.ai/blog/llms-in-obsidian

and a companion video here:
https://youtu.be/ubXNPHpYREE
In HS I bought a mechanical pencil with .9mm lead. I could bubble in the circles with just over one rotation, and the rectangles with a single swipe. It was the best.
And pretty much all those jobs you're talking about are gone or low paying. Farmers aren't calculating how many pounds of barley per acre they need. They are operating computer controlled heavy equipment that does a huge amount of the calculations for them because someone thousands of miles away wrote magicial electric symbols in sand. The world is a vastly more complicated place now.
Don't get me wrong, there was a lot of bad with religion but modern faith in places like the UK or the Nordics seems to be a net benefit IMO...

Even in light of what the Christian Nationalist movement is striving towards in the US, and in light of the ugly persistence of fundamentalism in places like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan?
I am fairly sure English doesn't have (or at least does not use) separate everyday words for farmor/farfar (fathers mother / fathers mother) or mormor/morfar (same for mothers parents).

Sure in academic language there is probably a way to describe it (edit: and the concept is easy to explain) but there is nothing quick that you can use to tell a kid so they immediately know which of the grandparents we are going to visit without naming them or the location they live in somehow?

Even among the words that do exist, like "siblings", I have a feeling that in some dialects or sociolects it isn't used and people say "brothers and sisters" instead. (I'm not sure about this last one but I have worked with a lot of English and American people over the years and it does feel this way).
I wish I'd been able to get the pihole to work as easily as it sounded. It looked cool. But it was incompatible with the router from the ISP I had at the time, and rather than also buy and setup a new router, I just packed it away. Now I have a new ISP with a different router, and I'm sure it's incompatible too.

But at least it only takes 30 seconds to install ublock origin, and no extra hardware.
I dont disagree. But there is a big difference between not getting attached and pulled around by your negative thoughts and just ignoring them.

The way out is agency over how you deal with reality, not better blindfolds in the short term.
Best free CAD software for novice with access to great hardware?
So, I find myself on a scientific research vessel with, at last count, 4 3D printers, and I randomly found a 3DConnexion gathering dust on a shelf in our workspace. I have a macbook pro and no money, but I have Starlink for data. What's the best way to get started?
Convenient point for PEX: If copper pipes aren't properly grounded they'll tend to develop pinhole leaks within that timeframe.
Looking at this from the other end, a long time ago, when I had problems that I eventually figured out or useful information I discovered, I posted them somewhere on a forum. This was rewarding and engaging!

Then I largely migrated to Reddit. This was also good.

Then I stopped liking Reddit when the UI went downhill and the brain "draned," and kinda migrated to GitHub or Gist or more focused sites where the niche fit. This is also great, when the niche fit.

But eventually many of my niches moved to Discord, and I spent a lot of time posting there, probably more than any other social media, which I now regret. Discord is horrendously inefficient, and I feel like all the cool stuff I have ever said there has fallen into a black hole. I largely just talked in loops like Groundhog Day.

So that burned me. Now I have discord uninstalled, and I just... Sometimes post on HN, but otherwise don't really post problems and solutions outside of GitHub or private chats?

I dunno I represent a larger trend of actual humans divulging less useful public information, but that seems like an existsnsial issue for google.
However, not being able to explore such feelings ends up making you an unsympathetic person, as you cannot bare these feelings with others.

Another argument is that you are denying yourself of the experience of being human. These feelings exist for a reason, just as physical pain exists for a reason. You wouldn't hurt yourself on purpose (or maybe you do c;), but physical pain helps you stay safe. I feel this is the same purpose of negative feelings.

Finally, I have found out that suppressing these feelings does not allow you to fully process and heal from the events that trigger them.
I think you are right and that the financial model is a total blind spot to the lawmakers. Never mind the fact that Volvo (or any other be maker) makes the bulk of its money from new car sales.
Volvo used to make a lot of money from spares and repairs but that company was divested many many years ago. Now all the money is coming from new vehicle sales.
Rather than something generic, here's a scenario with made-up numbers to better explain the goal:

Charging from 80% to 100% puts more strain on the battery than charging from 60% to 80%, even though it's an addition of 20% each time.

So let's say you use about 40% of your battery daily, and charge from 60% to 100% every day, and that drops your total capacity by 10% each year. You'll have 6 years before your battery won't last a whole day.

If instead that +40% charge was going between 40% and 80%, the reduced strain might mean you only lose 5% of the total capacity each year. That would get you 8 years before your battery won't last a whole day.

Getting your battery to last longer like this also means that a year or two in, if there's a day you expect to need the full capacity, you can just turn off the limit for that day and your battery will last longer than it would have if you never limited it.
Are you saying every single variable and function call should be logged every time the code runs? In a dream world sure. While we are at it, let's make it possible to freeze all the state from the production system and let me add breakpoints to rewind in time. In the real world, someone has to make a decision what is noise and what is content.

Unless you are talking about profilers, that measure execution time and memory only, but traces are a lot more than only that.

Annotating the code with logs and traces is a UX activity, not for the end users, but for the ops-team. They don't have knowledge of the internals of the code. Logs should be written in the context of levers that ops have control over.

Take the example from the OP: nr of cache hits. It's something ops can control by configuring the cache size, it is something ops can observe and correlate with request-time and network bandwidth. It would require an immensely sophisticated debugger to make all these correlations automatically.
Custom fields that are important in some cultures and not others would sound reasonable, compared to trying to account for all of it in code.

That’s what databases are for after all. You can’t encode every possible version of a familial relationship as a constant.
No doubt. But is it a big deal to have to swap batteries once every couple years? I think the bigger waste is that these things still cost so much. I cannot believe that the TI-85 I used over 20 years ago is $70 on Amazon.
> “Wait, wait, wait, but why are we doing it this way?” Barroso said on the podcast. “And it just turns out that the people who had been living in that area hadn't really thought about questioning that. And sometimes it's something that was based on a good reason three years ago, and that reason had a sell-by date, and it's time to do something else.”

This is a very humane way of thinking about the mindset of people who implemented solutions that don't quite work for your needs.
Streaming services got higher adoption because the price/trouble cost was worth it. People saw value in putting $7/month into a service that delivers high quality video.

This might not last with the fragmentation of streaming services (I don't think people are ready to pay $10x10 for access to all services).
That list mostly seems a bit odd.

This Windows computer doesn't force reboots (though it does nag me), it hasn't tried to trick me to upgrade to 11, it isn't sending telemetry to MS, it has never forced me to sign up for a non-local account.

I think it does force security updates on me, which I think is clearly pro-user, though arguably not respectful.

I also decided to use Edge to access my job's shitty Outlook stuff, and every ten minutes Edge tries to trick me into doing something, including but not restricted to making itself the default (you can pry my Firefox from my cold dead...). Until I decided to try Edge, it has not ever done anything to try to get me to use Edge.

That said, I'm not agreeing with GP that Windows "has more respect for the user than Linux does", that just seems confused to me. But I also think that I read a lot of criticism of Windows that seems laughable.
As far as the fonts - font support across email clients is.... not great. We offer it but warn our users that their chosen font might not be displayed in most cases.

Ideally, you'd be able to paste any markdown into our editor and have it render properly, but still something we need to work on.

A markdown to HTML (email) converter would be neat though.
> it's not very clear how the codes are constructed

I agree the specification really lacks examples, but it explicitly states that it uses canonical Huffman trees so that only code lengths have to be transmitted. I think this is clear enough to pinpoint the actual tree. (I don't think there is any canonical Huffman tree implementation that uses the inverse lexicographical order.)

> This is a decades-old technology that should've had the bugs worked out of its many implementations by now and there are also countless articles about how to implement it.

Because there are many implementations of Huffman trees with different trade-offs? Charles Bloom once said that the definitive 1997 paper on Huffman optimizations [1] is still not well known at that point (2010) and many optimizations were rediscovered and then forgotten, so there should be many inefficient implementations out there.

[1] https://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2010/08/08-12-10-lost-huffm...
Canadian-founded Rumble rejects British Govt request on Russell Brand content
This is what's new in Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/39/ChangeSet
GBA switching to GBC mode turns out to be combination of both hardware and software. There's a physical button that is read by the BIOS to see if it wants to perform a mode switch to GBC mode, then the BIOS triggers the mode change.

But that button is also responsible for making the cartridge bus actually function with GB/GBC cartridges. If you switch into GBC mode without the button being pressed, nothing can be read from the cartridge. (Normally the register bit that switches to GBC mode is locked out and only the BIOS can write it, but if you are executing code in the BIOS, a timed DMA transfer can perform that write.)
I’d be fine with a dub if they kept the same sound design, but sound design is way more important than dialogue imo. Yea I’ll definitely watch with subs. I got absolutely no fear about that for a foreign movie. For an English movie though I gotta take subs off unless my gf demands them (I dunno why she likes them so much)

I used to speak Japanese but I can’t rely on it at all for movies. I’ve forgotten most of it.
A matrix is made up of elements :)
Gitness brings code hosting and pipeline execution together. It builds on top of the Drone continuous integration system, which Harness acquired. Brad was directly involved, but this time he had the help of 12 full time developers
Ah thanks! In the middle of publishing that integration :-) We'll get that fixed.
I agree, I think my point got bogged down in the details. Declaring scantron dead because the SAT is planning to go digital soon is so clearly out of touch nonsense on its face given how slowly technology is adopted in this space.
It's nuts to me that I can't tell if this is an AI response or not. I feel like 80% sure this is a robot.