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Meta: Why are there fads like this? Like do people not see this? Everyone's suddenly so interested in how great boredom is, before this it was some other crap, then something else. I don't have a point but I just find it mildly irritating for some reason. It does make sense to collectively research things and exchange ideas but at the same time there's something off about it when it comes to mass media, like it's lazy or something.
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Gas powered drones seem vastly superior for almost every use: cheaper, faster, safer, launch and land almost anywhere.
Browsers can decompress gzip natively
Owning a car is far cheaper than living in NYC!

You definitely spend more than $10-12k/year once you have a family for even a modest amount of space.

And that's the average cost of car ownership, it's easy to find a cheap car.
It's been the storyline of many sitcoms at least going back to at least the 90s set in Manhattan. The Andrea Doria episode of Seinfeld immediately comes to mind...
> Fewer people living in one unit is how you get a shrinking population while the housing supply remains static.

No, that's not how normal distributions work. Among the 5.3%, some significant portion of those left empty housing units in their wake. They weren't all 3rd roommates that left.
"Helped" as in the $600 stimulus checks people got that was supposed to cover groceries for 6 months while they couldn't pay rent?
Novel Terrapin attack: prefix truncation to downgrade security of SSH channels
sadly I'm currently at 13.0 and the lowest supported version is 13.4
This doesn't quite hit the sweet spot for me, yet, but I really wish something described the exact output of this app. Is it a react app, always? Or can it be just a vanilla js-based web app? Can it make svelte components?

Just a sample of the output would go a very long way in telling me whether or not it can produce anything I can use.
Based on our current tests, our algorithm shows significantly higher accuracy and robustness compared to traditional digital signal algorithms such as PEF, NCF, YIN, HPS, etc. Our team is working diligently, and we will release benchmark test data and results in the near future.
Fosdem sounds very bare bones and not appealing to visit.
and if you shift the stress to the first syllable, it comes out as Urinous. Ya can't win.
We? Who is we here?
Yes, by default the installer slices off a partition for linux and installs to that, it looks like another version of macOS to the boot picker
If you haven’t, I’d suggest you visit a large or mid size city in a prosperous north Midwest state like Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, etc.

People I know from the East Coast that have visited are typically floored by the quality of life in flyover country. Everything we have is new, life is affordable, top performing schools and communities are growing. The local governments are generally growth oriented with excellent infrastructure and relatively
Low taxes.

Oh, but maybe not as many Thai/niche ethnic restaurants, so there is that downside, ha. But beyond your 20s, why anyone would consider calling NYC home is beyond me. Quality of life for my family > proximity to restaurants and bands.
I used the subtitle because the original title is very clickbait-y: "SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker"
Chrome only :(

I guess Firefox 121 isn't modern enough...
The comments here are funny. You have a bunch of people saying folks are fleeing NYC due to crime. Then other people saying folks are fleeing due to housing shortage and rents going up. It's like the old restaurant line, "no one goes there anymore, it's too crowded."

Keep in mind, crime has risen for each of three years through 2022, and while that trend is worrisome, the actual number of crimes is only back up to 2006 levels. https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/crime-statistics/histori... That's not a year known as "the bad old days" or particularly dangerous, though you can certainly write the alarming headline, "highest crime in 16 years." (FWIW indications are the trend reversed this year https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-06/nyc-crime...)

The population decline coincides with the pandemic and remote work, and from my own personal experience here that's a much bigger driver of people leaving. Many people fled to their vacation homes and never came back, other people bought new places upstate and moved.

Like all cities, but probably more than most, NYC is at an inflection point where it's figuring out what its future looks like as work habits change. The offices won't all fill back up but aren't easily converted to housing. And frankly NYC's industries, though dynamic and high end, continue to face tech disruption, and Silicon Valley only has more economic strength every year.

So there could be even more population loss. Rents seem to be softening. There could absolutely be a down period here, economically and otherwise. But if you look back at the history of the city, these have been the most fertile times culturally. Crime in the 70s and 80s went hand in hand with punk rock in LES, art scene in SoHo, independent film wave, birth of hip hop. There were some actual businesses that came out of all that. I don't want NYC to become that bad again, it's not good for the people who live here, but if there is a lull as the city figures out what it is, there will be a silver lining.
they don't really make clear if this install script replaces MacOS, or if it installs Asahi/Fedora alongside or inside it. Does anyone know which it is?
I've evangelized against unit testing at most companies I work at, except in one specific circumstance. That circumstance is complex logic in stateless code behind a stable API where unit testing is fine. I find this usually represents between 5-30% of most code bases.

The idea that unit testing should be the default go to test I find to be horrifying.

I find that unit test believers struggle with the following:

1) The idea that test realism might actually matter more than test speed.

2) The idea that if the code is "hard to unit test" that it is not necessarily better for the code to adapt to the unit test. In general it's less risky to adapt the test to the code than it is the code to the test (i.e. by introducing DI). It seems to be tied up with some sort of idea that unit testability/DI just makes code inherently better.

3) The idea that integration tests are naturally flaky. They're not. Flakiness is caused by inadequate control over the environment and/or non-deterministic code. Both are fixable if you have the engineering chops.

4) The idea that test distributions should conform to arbitrary shapes for reasons that are more about "because google considered integration tests to be naturally flaky".

5) Dogma (e.g. uncle bob or rainsberger's advice) vs. the idea that tests are investment that should pay dividends and to design them according to the projected investment payoff rather than to fit some kind of "ideal".
> And through his books he distributed this "knowledge" to a lot of people who became dogmatic to his "teachings".

A dogmatic following of even the best of ideas often leads to problems (e.g., your interview example). Software engineering is a thinking craft. It's critical to be constantly thinking about the tradeoffs involved in the systems we're building so we can find a better set of tradeoffs. The same goes for the tradeoffs offered by our tools, techniques, approaches, etc. in any given situation. Even the best techniques are the wrong choice in some situations.

I think books, articles, advice from experienced engineers, etc. are best used to set up a set of questions in your head along with default answers. As you gain experience and as our craft evolves, you should be throwing out some of the default answers (or even some of the questions) and replacing them with ones you see elsewhere or ones that your experience has taught you. But they continue to be default answers, not the right answers for every situation.
Many people are reading this stat to say that NYC is dying because of post-covid crime or some other stat. I really think this is a misreading of the situation.

I think it is far likely composition effects from:
- High-income people who work remote or hybrid started demanding more space for work and living. Given NYC housing is basically fixed (there is almost no building), this trend has decreased the average number of people per housing unit.
- As the article notes, "the city’s populace is overall older and wealthier": wealthier people use more housing per person and tend to have fewer children.
"Insert coin to continue"
I mean, if you want accessibility support, generally straying outside of big/default projects ends up being a struggle.

Like, you can complain about missing deep accessibility support in something like Bpswm or Ratpoison, but is that really fair?

I'm guessing accessibility support is/will be pretty good on both Mutter (Gnome) and Kwin (KDE). Wlroots-based probably will be too with the community attention it is getting. Stray beyond that and you'll be on your own.
The uncertainty principle is just a really misunderstood concept because it was first discovered in the context of quantum physics (Heisenberg 1927) and only later (Gabor 1946) the underlying mathematical principle that causes it was discovered.

It has nothing to do with measurement, knowledge, randomness or even our physical reality at all. It is a much more fundamental mathematical phenomenon [0] that always occurs when you switch representation between time and frequency domains and it tells you how you can arrange information in such mixed representations.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle#Signal_p...
I would be happy with 5 deletion credits, that renew by karma or time.
Beeper's effort to keep iMessage on Android keeps getting more complex
I think that's a second order effect of ownership.

You'll bring the same heat down on yourself (eventually) if you use a distributed protocol but rent your server from Amazon. Therefore I think it's ownership of the hardware that is the defence against censorship, not the protocol you use.
You don't call yourself an engineer... the State calls you an Engineer once you meet the qualifications and pass the professional licensing Examinations.

You don't call yourself a driver... the state qualifies you to do that.
What state had schools closed for years? I see this claim a lot, but even in California hybrid was available ~1 year after shutdown, and full return to school was available for the fall after that (so about 1.3 years)
Tragically, New York State's efforts to increase housing supply by applying laws at the state level seems to have failed: https://www.nytimes.com/article/nyc-housing-hochul-long-isla....

If voters like expensive housing, I guess we'll keep getting expensive housing.
> There’s a reason nearly everyone in the Linux community has been trying to create an X11 alternative.

Maybe because the developers themselves have deprecated it? That would be freedesktop.org.

I think an X11 alternative would be a Good Thing. In the future, that might well be Wayland, I suppose. But I don't trust freedesktop.org; I have learned to expect them to play compatibility games in order to achieve hegemony. The main reason I use Linux is to avoid hegemonic overlords.
Ah, Goodheart's law ruins everything.
I personally think focusing on discrete math is a mistake, though everybody does it. Kids know the world is continuous* — just consider Piagetian experimentation in the bath — so opportunities to think that way are just as important, and I suspect more intuitive. The downside is my kid wanted to major in pure math.

* well, down to the Planck length I suppose :-)
> "tier 2" cities in the US actually have most/all of the food, culture, and activities that they think are exclusive to New York.

I'm not knocking tier 2 cities or advocating NY, but that's just not true. Some people don't value what NY has to offer - the elite, the center of the world in arts, business, food, talent, etc etc. If you don't value it, absolutely don't pay for it - pay for things that you value. If you do value those things, there is no place else in the US, and with some exceptions, the world.
If you follow the Privacy Policy link at the bottom, you land on a Phanpy page.
The inputs and outputs of anything that is slow enough to care about caching is so large in an ml context that caching is unreasonable. The one exception would be people recomputing entire notebooks over and over, but again caching in some generic way that can't tell if underlying data changed or not is going to break all kinds of stuff.

Don't use notebooks for real work guys, I know you have a PHD but that's not an excuse to refuse to learn software engineering. We have lots of ways to define data dependencies and conditionally rebuild just the parts that need rebuilt. Look at any build system.
The Game of Chess
> Was this the right thing to do? I don't believe there's a clear answer to that

I'm not sure how you reconcile your claim that you don't believe there's a clear answer to whether it was wright with the emotion-laden and leading statement you made just before.

Everyone suffered during the pandemic. There was no way to spare anyone, it was a traumatic experience for everyone. Having a dead grandmother and grandfather would be much more impactful on their life than the school they missed.
Plasmic isn't a one-time codegen tool, where you generate some code and then modify it to suit your needs. Instead, we've designed Plasmic code generation so that you can generate code, add some business logic, iterate on design, generate code again, without blowing anything away. You're never directly editing the code generated by Plasmic.

You can check out how it works (https://docs.plasmic.app/learn/codegen-guide/), but also happy to answer questions here!
> Ultimately if the universe is deterministic, that must mean that everything that happens is predictable from the initial conditions of the universe.

This is still not superdeterminism. The superdeterminist claim is a statistical one: your choice of measurement is not even approximately conditionally independent of the state of the thing you're measuring. Ever. There are plenty of deterministic processes that nonetheless wipe out most correlations over the long-term: thoroughly mixing two fluids will do it. Preserving a strong correlation between the future state of your brain and the exact luminosity of a star a billion light years away at one particular moment, over the whole history of the universe is incomprehensibly unlikely. And superdeterminists claim that this happens every single time.
NYC housing quality is, absolutely, dollar for dollar, garbage value. With or without discounting car costs.

My (now) wife & I both got well paying jobs at banks out of college almost 20 years ago. Our entire signing bonuses went to apartment fees & deposits.
We were each in a situation where 1 paycheck per month went to the rent.
Neither of us had a dishwasher, let alone a washer/dryer, central air, any aircon.. etc.
Our buildings had bugs&rats, and walls thin enough to hear neighbors phone calls.

Marrying and moving up to nicer places, we still had no washer/dryer across the next 2 apartments.

Finally when we felt like we had "made it" in our mid-30s, we bought a new condo and finally have a washer/dryer. It cost more than my parents, in-laws, and sister's homes combined.. and then multiplied by two. It has only 2 beds (not 3 like the aforementioned homes). My kitchen has a stove the size of a fisher price play kit, and the oven doesn't fit standard sized baking trays. I have only 1 zone AC which can't manage to keep the different rooms within +/-5F of each other.

I could live like a proverbial king in 95% of the rest of the country on this budget.
We need to pick which out-group to sacrifice vs. take care of everyone is the kind of thinking that creates most of America’s problems.
> Eligible consumers will receive at least $2, according to the settlement, and may get additional payments based on their spending on the Play store between Aug. 16, 2016 and Sept. 30, 2023.

I bet they give it as a play store credit. How else would they actually distribute $2 to so many people without costing a huge percentage of the payout?

> Like Apple does in its iPhone app store, Google collects commissions ranging from 15% to 30% on in-app purchases — fees that state attorneys general contended drove prices higher than they would have been had there been an open market for payment processing.

The real lesson here is to not let anyone get a foot in the door of your walled garden.

> Google also agreed to make other changes designed to make it even easier for consumers to download and install Android apps from other outlets besides its Play Store for the next five years. It will refrain from issuing as many security warnings, or “scare screens,” when alternative choices are being used.

The States that asked for this are idiots. The real world consequence of this won’t be improved competition. It will be grandma getting fleeced.

It’s not that it should be possible, but making it not “scary” is not a good idea for the reality we live in.
Interesting because we moved our family from Miami to the Chicago suburbs for the same reason.
> Lots of podcasts do not exist on YouTube

You can subscribe to any podcast (RSS/Atom) feed via the YouTube Music app.
I've gone a number of times when I've been in Europe for other events at around the same time. But I agree with you even it's maybe an unpopular opinion. It's always good to see people but Brussels is one of my least favorite European capitals, especially in February and the venue has a lot of problems to say nothing that there are probably 2 to 3x the number of attendees than it can comfortably handle.
Would you end the life of others for your kids?
I'm eager for Twitter to fail because I think it's been a net negative influence on the world almost since its inception, but it has not seemed realistic to hope that it could go away until now. Certainly, it will be replaced by something, and that thing may be just as bad, but I'm happy for the possibility that it might be better too.
I can't believe I had to scroll this much. Thank you!
My child's classmate has a mother who has only one lung, and that one lung is barely functional. If she catches COVID, she will certainly be in the ICU. As a class, we all worried about her mother during the entire pandemic.
Not paying their fair share of taxes on those million dollar bonuses, continuously inflating executive salaries, and realized capital gains is absolutely stealing. Failing to pay their fair share of taxes on their corporations’ income is similarly stealing.
> Periodic reminder that these are just passwords too. They should be treated as such by users (generate random responses) and devs (hash and salt them).

Unfortunately this is not how almost any business treats them; they are frequently used as challenge/response authentication over the phone, so using a random response or hashing and salting them doesn't work.

Authenticating a user over the phone is a major unsolved problem IMO, and responsible for a huge swath of modern account takeover issues.
No it has not always had expensive housing. How do you think artists used to live in Greenwich village?
Everyone has a different take on story points, but the original idea was for them to record _effort_, not value.. more story points are actually worse. Delivered value is better. So digging a ditch and filling it in would get a bunch of story points but have zero value.

But managers want to look at the numbers they have, which is story points.
One can easily buy a car for $30k that will operate for 200k miles/10 years with no problem. That is $0.15 per mile, add $0.45 per mile for insurance/fuel/maintenance/savings to buy new car.

$0.60 per mile is $6k per year at 10k miles per year, which is a decent amount of driving. $9k per year at 15k miles per year.

However, you can usually get more than 200k miles/10 years out of a car, so those costs above are very high end costs. Unless you opt for luxuries, I think annual car spend can easily be brought down to $6k, or $500 per month. Even less if you opt for liability only insurance, and live in a place that does not require you to drive 10k miles per year.
I love that so many people answer this with "well, just get headphones" ... which just seems like an admission of a design mistake to me.

I think the real reason open floorplans are popular is money. It's MUCH cheaper to cram 20 people into 200 square feet than to let 3 people sit in offices (in the same square footage).

Now you know why 50% haven't returned to office spaces like corporate america (and specifically corporate real-estate owners) would have hoped.
The comment you replied to refers to the Russian Revolution after WWI. The damage inflicted by WWI greatly damaged the Tsarist regime. (And, no war, no German government shipping Lenin back home.)
Show HN: Canary Checker – An OSS Kubernetes Native Health Check Platform
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Canary checker was born out of the need for platform teams (particularly those running on- premise or on less than perfect infrastructure) to understand the health of applications running on top of the platform.

Unlike other solutions such as prometheus blackbox exporter, kuberhealthy, and synthetic testing offered by major cloud providers, our approach goes beyond health collection.

Canary Checker enables health aggregation by ingesting alerts from Prometheus, Cloudwatch, Dynatrace, and for running full test suites using tools like K6, Playright, Robot, etc.. This approach provides a unified view of system health without the need to browse through many dashboards.

Canary Checker can also replace the need for multiple Prometheus exporters. It empowers you to export metrics from responses across 35+ supported protocols, including HTTP, SQL and Elasticsearch.

Something fairly unique to canary-checker is the ability to build stateful checks that use the results of a previous check in subsequent checks to generate metrics around historical data such as logs, logins, and activity stored in db tables.
I mean if you want police to get public support perhaps it would make sense to change the rules so that any racist highschool graduate with a superiority complex could not do 3 months of training and become a police officer. In Europe that would be unheard of. In Estonia you have to do 3 years in a university studying policing specialty, and then pass a psych evaluation.
Living a carless life is amazing. It gets hard if you're starting a family though, depending on what lifestyle you want to live.
It can do it, the way you can hammer a nail with a small axe. It's not exactly terrible, but you can tell that it wasn't made for it.
Hm, that could be correct actually. Perhaps Many Worlds is the most deterministic interpretation and I've got it backward - this clearly is not my day job :)
Sources like [1] put New York at 379 in 100,000 people, or 0.379% making it the 15th worst hit US state.

Bear in mind that even if everyone in the country lived to 100 then died of old age, you'd still have a 1% of people dying every year.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
Then think of the unit test as the safety interlock.