skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just a matter of how you frame it. The view to take is that alienating customers and employees by violating e.g. morality, is not in the best interests of shareholders. Saying that the long term value of the company is best served by avoiding banditry is not only within management's discretion, it happens to be true.

You can't even point to successful companies that treat consequences from violating laws or morality as just a cost of doing business and say that forces everyone else to follow suit. What might be good for one company isn't necessarily good for another.

The fact that companies advertising on twitter don't want their products appearing next to far right diatribe is proof enough that considering morality and ethics is important to maximizing value.
In some of the raids they got their hands on SkyECC infrastructure, IIRC. SkyECC claimed "no, that's a fake version of our app" yet they seemingly did have some service disruptions at the same time.

They also suddenly claim all the users that got intercepted were using "elaborate fake" SkyECC apps and services, yet oddly those same "fake" apps could talk with actual SkyECC users, so, y'know. Grains of salt.
Sure, you go first
You are producing a lot of words, but what are you actually saying? Less democracy, let the elites take care of it?
Taking into account redistribution, the story is even more bleak, not less. Lower income housing prices will rise faster than higher income housing prices.
There is only one good DE and it is Fluxbox. ;)

(I'll go get my flame suit on.)
It's a good meme with a good story that goes viral in every community where this kind of story can go viral.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5v6hlRyeHE
> Committing and supporting genocide is always going to have huge negative consequences.

Lets not down value the meaning of Genocide. There’s not a genocide ongoing in Gaza or Yemen.

War sucks, and the civilian casualties are roughly in line with other conflicts. You do realize significantly more civilians have died per militant death in ww2, Vietnam, Korea, Mosul, afghan/iraq, etc? The Israel-Gaza conflict has a fairly low Civilian-casualty ratio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
Healthy BMI cutoff for Asian Indians is 23.0 (not 25.0)
Just a personal anecdote here. I use Wayland and Pipewire on Slackware 15 which is in absolutely zero sense a cutting edge distribution. While I do have a newer kernel (6.6) than what ships in Slackware, I haven't really modified any other underlying components. KDE Plasma is running great. My audio is the best I've ever experienced, and Wayland (using the "full Wayland" session) is wonderful. It's highly responsive, and very stable in my usage of it. Now, regarding screen recording, I tested with Pulse and with Pipewire, and suprise surprise, it works with Pipewire enabled and running. The mesa issue mentioned is a thing. My performance in gaming did go down slightly by switching to Wayland, but I am also using libraries that are a few versions behind as I run Slackware 15.

For reference, my machine is Ryzen + Radeon, so I cannot speak to any issues with NVIDIA. My wife uses Intel + ARC with the same software stack and she too has zero issues. My son, otoh, runs Windows 10 and has rather frequent issues every single time there's a Windows update. His machine is Intel + NVIDIA 3070 FE.

One household's experience doesn't reflect the state of the industry, but in the Linux-forum-guy tradition: "it works for me"
Helix Editor plans to use Steel as a plugin language [0].

[0]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675
The attitude that software freedom is what users crave above all else is the single most damaging thing about the desktop Linux movement.
How much are you personally paying for transportation (powered by petroleum), energy (whether home heating oil, or inexpensive electricity made possible by an energy market whose rock-bottom price depends on petrochemicals being pumped out of the ground), plastic tchotchkes (which depend on petrochemicals being inexpensive)?
Youtube will fall back to TCP. If the bandwidth utilization actually did drop it's probably because the stream quality throttled down.

What do you mean by "QUIC vulnerabilities are a 3 or 4 packet compromise"?
And you, please read a few things beyond the "theory of punishment". Read some things about international relations. Read some things about game theory. And read what a Pyrrhic victory is.
Travis and Circle CI predated Gitlab, with YAML-configured workflows checked in to the repository and the ability to use custom images.

GitlabCI's innovation was integration: making it a feature of repo hosting.
Starting a $120K/Month Cleaning Business From Scratch (2021) [video]
Unfortunately not at this time.
eps8266 is sub $1 if you buy enough never heard of a $0.02 module.
A reference implementation sure. But a strong one? I don't know if I agree there. It's not API stable and almost every release comes with breaking changes, which makes it tedious and annoying to use.
> Are there safety concerns, and how would that be perceived?

What scale black hole would affect Auroras and e.g. the ionosphere and greater magnetosphere?

Aurora > Causes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora
OP's company is paying for a dedicated CI team. Unless they have special needs, they probably aren't concerned about the CI hosting costs themselves.
> First: Talk to them about it. This is the hardest part.

This is only hard if you do it after talking with everyone else.
Not enough, if it's just enabling continuous proxy wars abraod.
> know no one on it

Shoot me an email, it's in my profile.
I don't buy that. Without western intervention, after eliminating Israel, the arabs would just continue fighting amongst themselves with more Iran and Saudi funded proxy wars.
Its influence is not as heavily discussed because innate characteristics (parentage, race, height, eye color, etc.) are unchangeable. Why would I worry about something I can't fundamentally change about myself when trying to perform at an elite level? Other than wallowing in self-pity, it serves no purpose. Instead, I worry about the dozens of other factors I do have a say in.
Huge amounts of the demand just moves $x up the price curve, but that doesn’t suddenly conjure supply into existence, so you have the same demand willing to pay higher prices across the same supply: that’s just higher prices. In HCOL areas the vast majority of rent prices stem from land rent, and that supply is not just less elastic than demand, it’s totally fixed.

Most insidiously: the demand that will move most aggressively up the price curve is lower income people seeking better lower/middle income housing. So those prices will move the fastest.
Force projection to keep the shipping lanes open for global commerce in one of the most important shipping lanes in the world.
The latest 545 Nvidia driver is so broken that I had to downgrade back to 535. A huge amount of Linux desktop issues can be traced to Nvidia and their drivers.
Yup. I think this is the sort of perspective you get with experience.
The Google interview has degraded in the last few years. When I interviewed 6 years ago as a fresh grad they flew me out to Seattle. Now I don’t believe you can go in person even if you want to on your own dime - at least not for the level I interviewed at when I got in a couple years ago (this was after Google’s supposed return-to-office).
I've seen some currently used COBOL that had it's like change date in the early 80s in the finance industry, so there some rather ancient programs out there. Of course this also means that these files have met the needs of the industry that long and bug free so why go messing with things that move 100s of millions/billions of dollars per day.
I really like the phrase "storm in a teacup" and I'd never heard it before. Is that common in your place of origin?
Unraveling Big Problems Disguised as Small Unrelated Issues
(2022), and discussed multiple times already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421132

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752760
Isn't it easy to say anything, and almost always harder to back it
up with actions? Actions that require sacrifice and personal
inconvenience for the benefit of others - specifically, your children
who will benefit in the future.

Ever refused your kid that "pester power" plastic toy, even though it
meant screaming tantrums?

It's even harder to be unpopular, and even worse having to see those
you love suffer present hardship while unable to fully understand the
sacrifices you make for their future security.

What it comes down to is what kind of a person you are. Leaders in
life don't habitually choose short-term popularity and safety.

This tension (and I think widespread misunderstanding) underwrites so
much at stake today;

Will you leave your car and take public transport, even while your kid
is whining at you that other parents all take the car, remaining
resolute that you have their real long-term interests at heart?

Will you fight in a war, knowing you may well die, so your country or
way of life won't be wiped out?

Not working at a shitty tech company - when you know it's very
organising principle is to spy on, exploit and deceive you and your
family - is frankly a bloody good investment for the future, even if
it means eating cold baked beans from a can for a while.

All parents and leaders know that life sometimes requires making
sacrifices. Just sometimes they are aren't the obvious ones.

I'm sure you are not the kind of person is happy only so long as it's
others who are making the sacrifices for the security of your
grandchildren?
Here come the scrutiny
Just reminds me of all the systemd hate.

I like that phrase though "storm in a teacup"
In the coming decades when clean drinking water runs out they won't have to take it away.
Presumably to prevent people from being instantly pwned when trying to run the latest "ad free" version of some software or compiling some random person's code.
The car drive shaft analogy is also apt because a drive shaft is a precision part that _someone_ has to think about very passionately, in order for others to not have to think about at all.

~13m30s: https://youtu.be/xyeeksFRnn4?si=924f0OZYDZk7otFL
Show HN: Audio plugin for circuit-bent MP3 compression sounds
I made MAIM, an open-source audio plugin that uses real MP3 encoders to distort the sound. I've also added knobs that let you "circuit bend" the encoders, changing parameters that would normally be inaccessible to the user to get strange glitchy sounds.

The plugin lets you switch between two MP3 encoders, since under the MP3 standard, the specifics of what to lose in MP3 lossy compression is left up to the encoder. The encoders are LAME, the gold standard for open-source MP3 encoders, and BladeEnc, an old open-source MP3 encoder that has a really bubbly sound and was fun to work with.

I'd love any feedback, and I'll be around to answer questions!
> Why are we in the area to begin with

Because of USSR

> inserting ourselves into these volatile conflict zones?

Because America was protecting those nations/regimes who allied with America against USSR

> We keep doing that and then acting surprised when we get caught in the crossfire

Because American former allies started to fight against each other, and not USSR
Then how about subjective performance criteria?

In a motivated and well performing team, everyone has a pretty good gut feeling on who's slacking off and pretending to work.

Unless ... the whole team is full of slackers who want to collectively engage in theatrics and perpetuate that there's no such thing as objective performance metrics in order to not be exposed as slackers.
How could the external command change the seek offset in its parent process? Did the seek system call change it in both?

(I guess I've forgotten most of what I ever knew about Unix system calls.)
wayland brings in a new security model. x11 is wild -- any client can snarf data from any other client at will.

any game on steam can screenshot your bank details when it sees a window open with the right title
Does a couple years ago = early 2021 during the pandemic?
I find GitHub Actions incredibly counter-intuitive, personally.
I think it should be a point of pride for the linux developer community that nvidia cards work as well as they do seeing as the company is actually hostile.

The only solution for the end user is to vote with their wallets if running linux and/or wayland is important to them.

Bringing it as an argument _against_ wayland, however, is missing the point entirely in my opinion.
Roughly 13 million servers at present, with $20B spent on new datacenter gear in 2023 and another $20B in 2024.

Running CentOS 8 Stream currently, going to 9 soonish.
> A very contentful answer

I see what you did there ;)
> multiple monitors

You are talking about a very rare niche case where one monitor runs with VRR and the other doesn't. Everything else is handled just fine with X.

> screen tearing.

"No screen tearing" just means forced vsync which is easily possible on X11 with a configuration switch or by using a compositor. Actually forced vsync is one of the great disadvantages of Wayland because it always comes at the cost of higher latency.

> Wayland rocks those two challenges.

And it sucks in every other challenge. Most importantly standardization and development. The Wayland API ecosystem is ultra developer unfriendly and complicated and will pose serious harm to the FOSS landscape which thrives on hobbyist and niche applications. It's so bad it wouldn't be far fetched to call it sabotage. (E.g. look at the hello world: https://github.com/emersion/hello-wayland/blob/master/main.c it's a complete mess)
I guess translating COBOL is somewhat less embarrassing than Watson being used to predict fantasy football scores.
To the section about lack of features, highlighting screen sharing: I completely ran into this and it soured me on Wayland even more (than my experience with Pulseaudio did before for big desktop changes). On an upgrade, Ubuntu switched to Wayland as default with the Gnome DE, which I used at the time. I didn't even notice, until it was next meeting time where I was supposed to hold a presentation for the big boss. Sharing my screen from the browser - completely stayed black. I was humiliating, frankly. And completely the fault of Wayland.

I won't trust that project ever.
The main complaints against Wayland is:

* It forces me to use a desktop environment, I know about sway, but I like fvwm. From what I have read, creating window managers on wayland is very difficult.

* X-forwarding. Yes I know about waypipes, but does not work when you want to execute an X application on AIX and display it on Linux. AIX is still in use in many large companies. And yes, no performance issues for me doing that.

* Many Linxisms that need to be ported to the BSDs, and in my opinion these corrupt the design of a sane architecture.

* Will probably obsolete many old computers due to resource usage. Similar to what Microsoft is doing with TPM2. Luckily NetBSD is around for old systems. One selling point of Linux was it kept old systems "live".
This is brilliant work, thanks for sharing.
To my eye, Nvidia not playing ball seems to be at the root of some of the most significant issues with day to day Wayland usage. Unfortunately, with the degree of lockin they’ve achieved with CUDA they don’t have to care a whole lot.
> Dutch technicians then developed a technique to copy the random access memory (RAM) of one of the Sky ECC servers without causing them to offline

Teasing! I wonder how.

Thanks for sharing.
The fact it could boot up an X server is quite extraordinary.

Since it was designed explicitly to serve that purpose, I'm not sure why it's 'extraordinary'.

Disclaimer: I spent time at a 34010 X terminal shop.
Iran isn't Arab and anyway what gives America the right to decide who rules where?
>>> Reading code solely does not make you good expert in it.

Neither does reading words. Literacy is not just reading - but it's a big component. Reading a book on cooking does not make one a chef. Reading the code in a toyota robot won't make you a kanban focused floor manager.

>>> Literacy is needed in any area, while artisans can go without software and still produce.

My argument is that so much of the world is going to be eaten by software that being illiterate will put you at enormous disadvantages. Not every part of work will be software-replaced, but so much of the surrounding "B-work" will be that, I don't know, an artisan bricklayer can still do their work well if they are illiterate but they will be disadvantaged "in life", from invoicing to whatsapp messages.

>>> Software is about logic, literacy is about conveying meaning.

Straight nope to that. More and more software is encoding meaning and enforcing that meaning. Unless we are talking about evoking emotions - and even then let me introduce you to some edges of the gaming community.

>>> Knowing how to code does not at all teach you how to communicate.

I think pretty much every software list of advise since 1980s has included something along the lines of "learn to write english better"
> I did

If you decide it's a technical discussion but no one else does, is it a technical discussion?

Why does your decision matter more than others'?
I can assure you that plenty of things in this system are being disturbed. This is science sensationalism.
PHP dev here, we have extensions for development that make no sense in production, xdebug for example. You need it for breakpoints and debugging in general but it should not be installed in production. So we extend our production image and install it on top of it. Similarly, we include Composer (package manager) in the dev image only as we only need the installed dependencies in production but not the package manager. Our dev image is a flavor of the production one, really.
How hard is it to actually learn COBOL? It seems like a fairly simple language to pick up, but maybe the idiomatic COBOL used in these legacy systems is particularly nasty for some reason.
[RE: noise canceling headphones]

[I am not an electrical engineer]

I think that noise canceling headphones require at least one microphone, some op-amps, and some digital circuitry to sample analog signals, process those samples, and then perform digital to analog conversion to put the canceling signal back in the audio stream.

Line level audio, can't power all that. Not enough current. Not enough voltage. So you need a battery or USB or a wall wart.

Or you put some big ear pads on ordinary headphones...I have some for my ATH-MX50's I bought on eBay. They are about an inch think and filter out a lot of ambient sound. But perhaps I digress.

Or maybe not. Thick earpads provide passive noise reduction without batteries and a set of ATH-MX50's plus earpads will set you back about $200, but you might get by with less expensive MX-30's or even MX-20's...indeed, some MX-20's plus some thick earpads from eBay is the simplest thing that might work.
"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy eating bugs"
Profit, Power, and Purpose – Rethinking the Modern Corporation
> It remained unclear what damage, if any, the vessels sustained in the attacks.

De-escalation seems like the right move here.
The article says grit and mental toughness are necessary and sufficient for elite performance, and that such attributes can be learned, ergo anyone can be an elite performer. Adding luck as an attribute pours water on that theory: Mental toughness isn't enough, there's ceiling on how far one can go with grit alone.
The "YaYa Yeet and Pop Drop": Dumping the Elderly at the ER Is a Tradition
This views it somewhat as a system of dependency.
Yes, I also checked in the inbox (in their web app), the request is legit
ZigZag (software)
Hell, after seeing both kind of applications (java vs cobol) by these bank/financial companies I am of the opposite mind.

Those COBOL applications will keep working until the sun burns up or inflation makes the numbers so long they no longer fit in bounds.

The java applications they write should fill you with terror.
What Happens When a Poor State Guts Its Public University
The article never says what people are sick of. Just states that it is not Covid-19. One person had a tingly hand and couldn’t hold his coffee. Is it a variety of illnesses? Is there a common or dominant illness?
No need to minimize consumption for cocaine, ~90% of the resources used are in the distribution.

If legalized, the cost of distribution would crater to that of other products, just a few dollars per kg.
https://archive.ph/B2CnP
At this point nVidia is an AI and HPC accelerator company that happens to attach video outputs to the accelerator cards for that niche use case.

They are still good video cards but that’s a side effect of their main focus.
VueScan Supporter Program
This is true (and actually valuable) but it doesn't help in cases when Elon or anyone else who is influential, adds a comment to a false, misleading, or racist message.

People aren't flagging when Elon says "True!" so people end up seeing the quote of the message that has community notes attached, but don't see the community notes unless they actually click. So it becomes a bit of drive-by assault, or a hit-and-run.

Although I suppose they could be flagging his (and others) statements as Amplifying Misinformation, or whatever the issue happens to be.
Show HN: Pixel Kit Elevating React Development with Figma-Inspired Innovation
During an extensive period, I have worked as a developer specialized in React, participating in a wide range of projects, whose main function consisted in the integration of editing tools. On many occasions, when looking for tools that would allow the creation or editing of various formats, I was faced with a lack of viable options or, failing that, with tools that showed limited compatibility with more contemporary technologies.

What was the central motivation for the creation of Pixel Kit?

The underlying intention is to conceive a new integration aimed at React applications, employing the most cutting-edge technologies of the time, such as Next.js, React and Typescript. However, my approach goes further by drawing heavily from solid references such as Figma and Adobe Photoshop.

Additionally, I am working on a vitally important feature that is currently under development: the ability to transform designs into static web pages through artificial intelligence, allowing their deployment in hosting services. This functionality seeks to elevate the user experience by converting their creative concepts into a tangible and aesthetically appealing web presence. I am committed to taking this vision to the next level by providing tools that align with current demands and expectations inspired by graphic design leaders.

Thank you very much for getting to this point. I would appreciate if you would follow me on my social networks to be aware of updates to this ambitious project.

https://twitter.com/ivanglpz

Post:https://x.com/ivanglpz/status/1731365638692655199
I'm not sure how HN feels about posting links; but you can google: grit "replication crisis"

It's not just "grit" - it's the entire field of "TED-Talk-headlining applied psychology [allegedly] based in research."

Absolutely infuriating.
Learning COBOL is the easy part. My understanding is the hard part is becoming familiar with insanely expensive, proprietary mainframe platform that’s you’ll find in most COBOL work. I know IBM has some sort of self training material, but I’m not sure if it’s enough to go from zero to qualified. Most work I see in the area seems to want established domain experts, not hackers who learn just enough to be dangerous.
You must be the guy that thinks people are excited to use an app