skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tar is seekable in the literal sense, you have to seek around until you find the file you want. You have to look at each header, if it's not the file you want you skip over that one file and read the next header. Because you only know how long that one file is. So you cannot even know where the third file is without having processed the headers of the previous two. It's "read, skip, read, skip, read skip" until you maybe find the file you wanted. ZIP otoh has the central directory index where you can look things up much faster.
https://github.com/OpenMPDK/KVRocks

Given however, that most of the world has shifted to VMs, I don't think KV storage is accessible for that reason alone because the disks are often split out to multiple users. So the overall demand for this would be low.
Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction
Theres a separate Windows ISO for European audiences as a result iirc it lets you pick a browser to install.
Your phone's client encrypts it to a public key of the receiver phone's client. The associated decrypting key never leaves that receiving phone (verified by looking at the source code). You know it's the correct public key if you check the "security code" thing (not that many people do that, but hopefully enough people do that any tricks would be caught)
I'm generally in favour of OSes encouraging signed executables from known developers with basic oversight by default. Apple do this, I can and do bypass it, but many don't need to. It's not a huge burden for the sort of software most people tend to run.

But that's not what this is.

By saying "oh by the way go and get our browser instead" it's clear that Microsoft aren't just checking known signing keys, they are directly targeting Firefox and using that knowledge to present high-intent users with an alternative.

It betrays their real intentions, and that's something lawyers love.
Does anybody else feel strange about the reemergence of this particular debate as a sort of fetish object of our time? There's the venue (Oxford), a weird place for two American intellectuals to have it out. There's the framing (a civil discussion between two intellectual giants) which, I guess, was Buckley a giant at this time in his life? He had his lows and highs. Was he really so civil, either in this debate, or in general?[0] Was he really that smart?

You can argue all these questions one way or the other, but I feel like a lot of the animus for the perverse modern-day sainthood of Buckley, a man who supported Barry Goldwater, is a sort of misplaced nostalgia for the supposed halycon days of the US, where it was supposedly less barbaric than how it is today, ignoring the fact these conservative figures were all going to parties with David Duke (who Goldwater once employed) and the KKK was still lynching people in broad daylight for delighted audiences.

Not to mention, Baldwin scared the liberal establishment just as much as BLM do today.

[0]:"listen, you queer. Stop Calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I'll sock you in the face!"
Homebrew 4.1.16
A bunch of articles like this should be required reading for CS students.

To put their feet on the ground w/ respect to frugal use of compute & memory resources.
Two comments here

1: my understanding is that blind folks DRAMATICALLY prefer JAWS to the built-in OSX tools by an overwhelming margin, something like 9 to 10. That suggests that the OSX tools are extremely inferior if nearly everyone feels obligated to spend.

2: You can literally get a windows computer AND add $1000 license to it and still pay as much or less than a OSX computer. My M1 MBP cost well over $2000! You could put JAWS on a windows computer for $1500 or less. Just pointing out the extreme, extreme cost difference for accessibility users with OSX vs Windows! You can't even get into OSX for under $1k these days, and even then, it's rough and you should spend more.
When to Move On?
From my experience it seems that there is more work in this space than there is people to do it. If you just tell people that you are open for individual contract type work, the business will roll in eventually.

Just give it some time and start by doing it on a part-time basis. It might take several months before you land your first project, but once you completed some work for some clients, more business will come if you are good.

You will know when you are ready to take your individual contracts full-time.
We've been running Jira on prem for years, paying for server support renewals etc.

We'll likely be running on prem as long as is reasonable without support, and then moving to an alternative - maybe gitlab. Atlassian lost our business with this move.
It could be even better if despite being from Microsoft wasn't handled like a 3rd party guest language on .NET design decisions, and VS roadmap tooling.
Since a decade using FastMail.com. Those guys understand how email is supposed to run.
> False. What I said is true. As much as possible is 100% true. There are some things that have to live in the business layer. But as much as possible should be pushed to the database. All the "business layer" does is build the correct query.

I think you are wrong, the other commenter is correct. In all my years of engineering, I rarely see a lot of business logic in the database.

Note that we are talking about what the situation _is_, not what it should be. It is an eternal debate as to whether it is better to push as much login into the Db as possible. My own view is that you should use the right tool for the job. Databases, excel at, well, managing data. Regular languages excel at logic.

> Business logic should be extremely thin.

I'm leading a team building a front end to statistical engines, storing metadata in the Db. Are you suggesting we should implement the higher level statistical functions in the Db?
Russia is probably an outlier here, but the pendulum here is swinging back to on-prem, especially if the cloud provider is located in a different country. (Example: former McDonalds recently bought an on-prem solution from our company, although we have a cloud version, too). Today you're on good terms with a cloud provider, tomorrow the politics go 360° and all your data is lost. Probably not not as urgent in the first world, but with the current segmentation of the Internet happening (e.g. restrictions in EU), I wouldn't be so certain about it.
Cockpit Developer here, the webserver is written in C and the old bridge (the one "API" which communicates with JavaScript through the webserver with system API's such as systemd, podman, dbus, etc.).

The new bridge is written in Python and when time comes we want to rewrite our webserver into some modern.
I love this response because it's at least honest about the reality of "scientific publishing" today - who cares about the accuracy, verifiability or ability to replicate - you just need to maximize your citations via hype!!"
> Breaking up of Standard Oil, just made the owners more money.

Isn't the break up of monopolies supposed to benefit the consumer as well by lowering prices, which most economists argue that it did?

IF if the owners made more money, and the consumers saved money, I would say that is a great argument for breaking up Google as well.
I can try but will doubtless miss something.

.NET Framework was the .NET we all knew and tolerated. It was on version 4.6/7 or so. Windows specific, requires a full install of the framework on the machine to run. Support for Winforms, WPF, WCF, Webforms, ASP.NET MVC/API etc.

Microsoft wants to make a play for the cloud. Windows Server is expensive and no one likes it. Luckily for Azure OS is irrelevant, whichever server Microsoft still gets paid.

Step forward .NET Core. This takes the .NET runtime and makes it cross-platform (and open-source). Only really supports ASP.NET in the beginning. There are some libraries/APIs that are available in both .NET Framework and .NET Core runtimes. This common interface is .NET Standard, you can basically ignore this now I think but it means libraries can be used from both.

.NET Core goes through multiple versions, 1, 2 and 3. More things are ported to .NET Core but Winforms, WPF and Webforms are left behind. Meanwhile Core becomes a better and better platform for web servers.

.NET Core drops the 'Core' naming, becomes .NET starting at .NET 5. .NET Framework is legacy but gets a bump to .NET 4.8 or so. So basically unless you're doing Winforms/WPF/Webforms you can be on .NET Core/.NET 5+ with minimal issues. Hopefully that clears something up.
It's pretty much the default design for most "admin panel frontend" templates.
It's actually nowhere near as simple as that, and it depends on how you define the "same activity".

Moving your body from one location to another at a particular speed results in a fairly static amount of work done (in the basic physics sense). So if the same you hops on a bicycle and cycles up the same hill in the same conditions with the only difference being that one of you has trained hard for the last 5 years and the other hasn't (but somehow your body mass has stayed the same) then you'll burn exactly the same amount of energy. Untrained you will find it much harder, but the energy burn will be roughly the same.

There are some things that can be different as you go from "untrained" to "trained", for example lighter people burn less energy moving themselves around than heavier people. Trained people tend to do activities harder/faster so the "same activity" could actually be a much harder activity despite it not feeling that way. Although if the activity involves travelling a set distance some of the extra effort involved in doing it faster is offset by the fact that it takes less time, so the difference between the two is not as large as you'd think.
Yeah obviously that's true now because C++ has been around for literally decades and had basically 0 competition for all that time.
https://archive.ph/agffT
Isometric Geological Diagrams
Some of them going forward aren't even possible to consume from F# unless there is a C# shim, e.g. anything that relies on code annoations for code generators, or post .NET 8, interceptors.

OCaml is a much better option in the UNIX world.
This is why we need to get AI (or DL) out of the realm of CS, quickly. Similar to how psychology is a different field than physics even if the former is built on the latter.
DW Innovation: A quick status report after 10 days on Mastodon
are you maker?
Tape drives for backup were used at the time, and are still used. Though I can't blame PKZIP for not caring about that use case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Linear_Tape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open
Polish radio (Program 1) brodacasted (and maybe still does) a time signal at 12:00 every day. It's a series of beeps and the end of the last and the longest beep marks 12:00. Here's how it sounds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p34LVMQI19M&t=129s

Fun fact, in the past (I suppose it's obsolete by now, since time and distance are defined in terms of the speed of light now) the carrier of the Program 1 (225kHz - as visible on the video) was an official standard of frequency in Poland.
Drought in Amazon Rainforest hits all time low Record
Receiving $2000 of donations is pretty good for a small opensource project too.
Are there any documented cases of people actually committing crimes with a 3D printed firearm?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_cassette_tape

Sorry, but I guess you had to be there to have that knowledge?
Important considerations for good API experience
These are some reflections on what different products we integrate with provide to users of their APIs. Definitely not meant to be a best practice guide, rather some food for thought if you're building or comparing competing APIs.
There's good reasons for it though!

One is boot performance. Another is zero cost for a rarely used tool, which may be particularly important on a VPS or a small computer like a Raspberry Pi where you don't want to add costs for something that may only rarely be needed.

I think a nice benefit for an administrative tool is the ability to update it, and reload the updated version. You don't need the tool to have its own "re-exec myself" code that's rarely used, and that could fail at an inconvenient time.

The reason why inetd didn't stick is because it's a pain to use -- it's separated from SysV init, so it needs to be very intentionally set up. Plus there was the inetd/xinetd disagreement.

Tying in init, inetd and monit into a single system that can do all those things IMO made things much nicer.
What are some good iOS options?
> "Whatever app I use to play music needs to support chromecast audio."

If you can't find something pre-built that fits your specific needs, you could perhaps "quick and dirty" script yourself up something using "Cast All The Things" [catt@github][0] to talk to your ChromeCast devices, and maybe "Beets" [beets@readthdocs][1] to manage play / playlist commands and management of the music library itself, presuming some Python scripting skills on your part, or a willingness / interest in learning said skills. Other language / library pairs exist as well, if Python's not exactly in your "bag of tricks".

- [0]: https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt

- [1]: https://beets.readthedocs.io/
One of the main reasons Chrome has become a monopoly is that Google pushed it aggressively with such tactics on its various properties.
With Cockpit Client this is not even required it will do the SSH magic for you.

https://flathub.org/apps/org.cockpit_project.CockpitClient
Many of these SoC have HDMI directly from the IC without needing additional hardware converters. Something like DP you need a converter IC which adds expense and board space/complexity. Something like MIPI -> DP, I think TI makes some chipsets that do this.

The size is probably to save space on the board - looks like they try to keep to relatively the same size and mounting holes as previous boards.

I have an entire box of these mini-normal converter cables because of boards like this. OK when messing around but I can see the frustrations if you're not used to it.
Gary Gensler urges regulators to tame AI risks to financial stability
How in the unholy mother's pillow is this legal?? Didn't MS get pretty heavily sanctioned both in the EU and the US for using its operating system to push for its browser? The US case was only settled when the government threatened to dissolve Microsoft Corp and break it into commercially independent parts (like Standard Oil was dissolved in 1911). And the EU case resulted in Microsoft having to add for European Windows users a post-install dialog where they could directly choose to install any browser of their liking.

It seems like they are at it again. Really hope the DOJ is not gonna settle this time around (repeat offender and all) and actually see it through that Edge, Bing and Windows are actually spun off to independent subsidiaries that can not collude to illegally manipulate the consumers.
> needs to be shared via encrypted p2p

You mean blockchain? DNS has been solved with namecoin more than a decade ago. One of the few blockchain applications that actually make sense.
Good news! Health insurance has dropped by 37% in the last year, according to the CPI.

I tried to ask HN about this a day or so ago…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37880185
Atlassian is a f...ing joke at that point. Their cloud offering seriously lags behind in features which means that there's a lot of third parties filling the gaps - e.g. Refined and My Requests, which are a must-have for anyone running Service Desk - and the admin side of configuring things still looks as ugly, weird and disjointed between their various services as it was eight years ago.

I wonder where they actually put in the billions of dollars they've raked in from their customers - from the looks of it, definitely not in the product, and also not in support given that it's very obvious that their first line of support is some Indian guys in a callcenter with the complete inability to do more than follow a badly written script.
Ah yes `.cxx` is rare but used. I haven't seem `.mm` for decades. IIRC gtkmm uses that? No maybe not, they use `.cc`. What on earth uses `.mm` now?

Anyway none of that really changes the point - they could easily standardise extensions. The only reason they haven't is because there has been no real benefit until now.
You mean doing what users want is bad?
When you put all your money into a already hated product so no money is left for your employees.

Great Work Stackoverflow executives!
Consider it this way: your smartphone is an advanced collection of multiple, highly sensitive microphones, cameras, location sensors, accelerometers, etc.

The fact that you have a phone in and of itself is traceable, as cell phone towers maintain records of who, when, and where. At this point, usage of such records is so commonplace by LEO that not having your phone with you when you do something is considered suspicious in and of itself.
To be fair, Banks has made it clear that the Culture is separate to terrestrial humans. I believe he's even said he thinks Earth won't make it.
PK(A)Zip was available on the Amiga in 1990

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.amiga/c/_XvqYUvBwvc/m/c...

Unix support came later, in the form of infozip in August 1992
Given that we're talking about cycling, the solution is to buy a power meter and measure rather than estimate. Unfortunately that's a rather expensive option for all but the most committed cyclists.

Being someone who has a power meter, I can say that strava's estimates over a long time period aren't that terrible, but if you're riding in a group, or there was a some wind, or a million other reasons they can be absolutely miles out.

That's hardly strava's fault, it's more about what's actually possible with an estimate.

What is completely made up and should be ignored is the calorie burn estimates you get from gym equipment.
Very interesting thank you
Fwiw, I think even just starting an attempt is impressive. And especially if you’re not local!
I would argue that this text is very hard to compress as it is already a compressed version of PKD's thoughts on reality, religion, perception, philosophy, and more.

It's well worth the time it takes to read it all.
Afaik, the last few iPhone generations are in the box upside down (= with charging coils up) and very close to the box lid :).
Love can be completely real under the definition that it's a chemically induced attraction between two biological beings.
Diff is to type you need to have better understanding, what is good for IT work.
This is kind of an inherent property of the llama architecture.

Maybe new architectures will be better, but companies will likely be making the best foundational models.

In the meantime, you can hook it up to a vectordb and ask the llm to check itself with zero temperature, but that only helps so much.
What if you don't have a cell phone? Boom, checkmate.

I'm half joking, there's a percentage of people that doesn't have a smartphone, anything internet connected, who just have analog clocks or watches and who (I presume) would or could use this signal to sync things.
uYou+ and its recent forks as long as you can sideload IPAs (ie, through AltStore)
Not sure there are that many. Last time I looked, there were no viable options via the app store.
If it's so troubled that a process won't start, it's probably time to reach for the IPMI console. Even if ssh is still running, if the system is that broken, is bash going to start, or what tools you might need?
Meningitis isn’t super rare. Various infections. Children don’t have a fully developed immune system.
I assumed the idea was that if you open it up to everyone it becomes less valuable to the tech giants.
> I don't get why people think great books should be made into movies.

Because some of us suffer from aphantasia and can't just fully experience a book.
I don't know if or when it stopped, but here, every hourly radio news bulletin would start with a distinct two short, one long beep pattern, the short ones being a countdown, the long one being "it is now exactly the whole hour".

I'm sure some radios could listen to that signal too, so not just for manual adjustment.
They're hijacking your internet. I'm not on social media and let me tell you the rest of the web still exists. Its pace is much slower, but it's there.
Thats amazing! We have been doing very similar optimisation for clientvectorsearch.com

Great work!
Is there any performance gain over writing append-only data to a file?

I mean, using a merkle tree or something like that to make sense of the underlying data.
- [Tiddlywiki](https://tiddlywiki.com/)
Crypto is only used for non legitimate and speculative purposes and mostly scams. [1]

Instead Patreon or Librapay is a better way to support them.

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/crypto-is-a-scam.html
Yes, they're not talking about programmers. Unfortunately, the corporate world runs on Excel.
Use Lutris if the game isn't on Steam:

https://lutris.net/games/command-conquer-red-alert-2/
As someone said in another thread: the problem with ad-tech is that they think that you need another hamner.
There's a reason both Apple and Microsoft have ad networks; its because if they had ones the size of Google they'd double their revenue.

Apple loves to tout its privacy but it's their own APIs that apps used to track you ...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/234529/comparison-of-app...
Yattee

https://github.com/yattee/yattee

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629

You can use it both with Piped or Invidious

https://np.reddit.com/r/Yattee/comments/13d3lj7/how_to_set_u...

Works perfectly on both my iPhone and apple TV. No jailbreaking nothing needed.
I think the numbers are more than you'd think - as a cyclist who's near the top end of "keen amateur" but still nowhere near what people are capable of at the elite level my experience is that anyone of moderate fitness can do a 4 hour 100k without too much trouble...

It could depend on how you define "almost 100%" of course. There's a big difference between 5% and 0.001%.
JIRA has been annoying the shit out of me with their recent UI updates --

1. Changing default sorting order to 'most recent first'; I thought I was going insane at first when it happened

2. Making the comment box a floating page element so it always takes up about 25% screen real estate

I've been able to script these back to their old behavior but wouldn't it be nice if they added settings to toggle the behavior...

My company has been on Atlassian products for the past like 20 years so it'll be interesting to see whether we migrate to their cloud garbage or migrate off them altogether.
https://archive.ph/uUarY
Do Facebook users want to exclude me (no FB account) from their pages?

I think that's what Facebook wants.
Invidious, cross platform since it is a website.

https://invidio.us
The proposal is for 3D printers that are capable of printing a firearm, or firearm component.

Which is actually really broad. From what I can find, NY law doesn't define "firearm component", but it does define "major firearm component" to include "barrel, slide, cylinder, frame or receiver". And I imagine pretty much any decent 3d printer can print a receiver for a gun designed to be 3d printed...
The new editor in Jira is drives me nuts. They replaced a perfectly good, functional markdown editor with the current POS, and it causes me problems nearly every single day.
I don’t think the government intentionally skews numbers.

The phone in your pocket, your laptop, your car have all gone up in quality/safety/speed but that also isn’t counted.
Hey thanks for the tip!
The past was more like the present than we like to believe. The past was no more sepia than it was black and white. Just like the 80s wasn’t as bold and neon as pop culture portrays.

In media we use colour to exaggerate the differences of the past, to make it feel different and foreign to our senses, rather than represent them accurately. So if you want a more accurate representation then you absolutely should be training your models on modern video.
This whole rewards thing we don't really have in Europe. At all.