skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
”MS Office users need to get used to working with the standard document format, which is what OpenDocument is.”

This is not how the world, in which most of Fortune 500 operate in, works. The software and format people use, is the one usually mandated by their working environment. If your org operates in Office, you operate in Office. The question 99.9% of all users are concerned with is ”I want to review/edit this document I got from Sarah/need to send to Jane”. Not ”does this conform to standard xyz”.

Standars are just paper that software may support. The real question is phenomenological - is there a support, at what level, and is the software vendor incentivized to implement support.

There is no ”this format must be followed” convention in userspace software (sadly) unlike in say, hardware drivers for a desktop os. Even if the standard would have an ISO label.
Nx vs. Turporepo: A Comparison of TypeScript Monorepo Management Tools
I could access it without an account, but I agree it's not a good place to put it.
before reading "is it malware?"
after reading "it was malware"
You have to think globally. They sent those CDs everywhere.
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I made a free and open source Windows equivalent: https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/releases/tag/1.1
Cannot the email be opened prior to the flight, while being in a car?
Bitcoin ETF Approval Odds Raised to over 90% at Bloomberg, Drop on Polymarket
is AD single point contact or multi point approval system, can people in between approve the requests? and can the tickets be raised for a certain permission? can that permission be tracked? i think AD is merely a portal for azure and other cloud platforms.
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I agree but on the flip side it is interesting to consider what were the pressures and the timeline to bring us to where we are now.

Great ape brains are distinguished from monkey brains by their larger frontal and cerebellar lobes. The Neanderthals had bigger brains than us but smaller cerebella. And, most strikingly, modern humans have much bigger cerebella than “anatomically modern” Cro-Magnon humans of only 50,000 years ago (but relatively smaller cerebral hemispheres!)
Ships do lose containers regularly though. New market opportunity!
This inspired me to do this experiment:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1K count=$(( 256 * 3 )) of=a.ext4

mfks.ext4 a.ext4

mkdir a

sudo mount a.ext4 a

cd a

sudo chown 1000:1000 .

python3 -c 'open("a", "wb").write(b"\xff\x00\x00" * 2000)'

python3 -c 'open("b", "wb").write(b"\xff\xff\x00" * 2000)'

python3 -c 'open("c", "wb").write(b"\xff\x00\xff" * 2000)'

cd ..

sudo umount a

(echo -n 'P6\n512 512\n255\n' ; cat a.ext4 ) > a.ppm

convert a.ppm a.png

The resulting a.png is reversible - you can convert it back to .ppm file, skip first 15 bytes and you should get a valid .ext4 back.
We're currently working on the website. I'll post the article when it's ready. To be honest, I didn't want to come across as salesy, that's why I just shared the Google Docs for your feedback.
Automatically switches to last words recorder mode.
It's clearly spelled out, App Store refunds work more often than they don't...

...and it's a $1.99 risk ffs.

Tangential point: It's super easy to go off the rails and on a rant, while the real reason behind someone's "bait/switch" is external, trivial, and benign. We tend to judge others by their actions, but ourselves by our intentions. I used a German company's excellent sleep supplement (and later worked for that company, too) which was being bashed on Facebook as "non FDA approved snake oil". Meanwhile, the FDA refused (and still refuses) to even look at anything outside actual drugs, even if you wanted them to. Sometimes your hands are just tied.
I don't understand where this Berkshire reverence comes from. Buffet didn't become rich through stocks. His accomplishment is to stay rich by investing, primarily in insurance contracts, and it does look like that is a good way to summarize Berkshire: it's a backend investment fund for his insurance business. It makes his large insurance contracts a lot more competitive. And about that part, he's very tight lipped.

He invests well, but he's hardly the only one, and Berkshire would not work without the backend insurance business generating the amounts of funds he has to invest in the stock market. So all of his advice is mostly pointless, unless you have 100 billion lying around.

I'm saying: if you want to beat Berkshire financial performance, they key to that ... is not investment. Which is the great con Buffett pulls. He shows large amounts of money and a very prudent investment strategy, and with that attracts funds to run his insurance business. NOT the other way around. This is the central component of a huge insurance business: you need a LOT of money, available as capital, to run it. To be fair, I've never heard of him lying about this either, but he's not exactly forthcoming with this information.

He also does remarkably little investing with the time he has. Clearly he's spending the vast majority of his time on his insurance business, not his investment business.
Ah, I misunderstood your point. I disagree that RDBMS is the wrong choice. Most apps are CRUD, and have the same basic patterns.
> it is impossible to know which stocks are going to succeed or fail.

It's a bit easier to spot systematic fraud when you're the plurality shareholder, founder and former CEO of the company.
Yeah but that wasn’t the DGSE going rogue, that was ordered by the gvt.
I've been learning German recently - at a slow pace, I'm busy. I'm intrigued, though skeptical. I'll certainly give it a shot if there's a German version.

If your tool is really as good as you claim you'll have a lot of word of mouth recommendations in the language learning community, but everyone has seen "fluent in 3 months through x special method" so I doubt people will give it a shot if it's paid.

I recommend offering a free trial of the start of the course so that people can see for themselves.

20 minute conversations sounds like B1 at a minimum. Four months to B1 is pretty much impossible even with people studying all day, at least with German. How did you do it? How many hours of study are done in these four months? What's your approach?

I presume you're a native French speaker (the "help you" rather than "helps you" is a Frenchism in my experience). How do you intend to create the other courses?

Good luck. This sounds interesting.
You can always use the Steam button + Left Bumper to zoom, or in this specific case use a mod and call it a day: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/xca50u/is_it_pos...

I agree it shouldn't be verified though.
ok, functionally kind of like Shadow DOM, but requires a compile step (which interacts with other compile steps and libraries in different ways I guess), and re-invents all the shadow DOM facilities like referencing local elements but with those x-dimensional provisos.
There is an "don't lock" app feature, most obviously used by video apps but I've seen a couple others offering this feature.
Limiting speed (below highway speeds) can be incredibly dangerous. Not being able to merge at speed is a non starter.
Good editor support/autocomplete, probably.
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> One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you're going to wind up with an ear full of cider.

(Guys and Dolls)
That's not gonna happen any time soon, clickbait content generates more clicks, i remember watching a video of someone lamenting that they had to resort to clickbait but he showed that clickbait thumbnails and titles always performed better, maybe next generations will be more resilient to it but I wouldn't hold my breath, so in the meantime if someone craves for a solution they need a different frontend for youtube.
But then, if I generate an image using "AI" and touch it up in Photoshop, is it eligible for copyright again? How much "touch up" do I have to do for it to not be "AI generated"?
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far away, the sources of coding voodoo demanded distribution. But broadband internet was rare and you would die of old age waiting on dialup internet. So it was that the preferred method of source distribution and acquisition was CD-ROMs (and later DVDs) driven down the highway in a station wagon.
That's just it, for some reason XFCE ties the window grab areas with the theme so the solution is "don't use the default theme".

Mad that the best way of using XFCE is to not use the defaults (last time I used it I also had to change the whisker menu because the default one was Win95 era), whilst people in the same breath complain that you have to change the Gnome defaults.

I'm fine with Sway, the nwg-piotr project adds some interesting panels if you want it.

Sorry for the hyperbolic initial response but the hypocrisy with the alternatives which have the same sorts of problems is annoying.
There are records of people killed by meteorites, literally in single digits.

A simple statistical test would give you an idea. With 10B people on Earth, a "one in a million per lifetime chance" would happen to 10M people during their lifetimes. If we optimistically assume that a lifetime is 100 years, and the chances do not change with age, the event would affect 100k people every year.
A posted CD in Germany took a day to arrive (when sent from Germany, and there were people who'd send it locally), downloading the source code for a few large packages could easily take a week on dial-up.

Been there, done that.
> Alt-tabbing groups apps and requires you to use your mouse or the arrow keys (of all things) to specify which window to change to

For what it’s worth: you can use alt+` (the key above tab on my keyboard) to cycle between windows of the same application. You can immediately use it without releasing the alt key, or use it directly if the application is already in focus.
It keeps getting worse with each version, and they drag a big part of the open source community with them, because so many apps depend on GTK. Especially important ones like Firefox and Chromium. It absolutely sucks when Gnome controls such a large chunk of the open-source ecosystem.

In fact, it was Gnome that dragged Debian into the systemd debacle. Lennart Poettering managed to convince the Gnome developers to introduce a hard dependency [1] on systemd.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31993161
If you have a better model for the outcome on a Sport than the bookmakers you can make money gambling against them. The reason this doesn't work in practice is that bookmakers will simply reduce your stake limits, to the point that it's a waste of time, if you beat them consistently.

There are fewer problems like this in the stock market. However, getting a better model than the players in the market is arguably more difficult. However, with the resources of Berkshire you can do things which a retail investor couldn't dream of, stuff like using satellite imagery to approximate performance. Or paying the CFOs latest squeeze for information (or at least the same but laundered through a 3rd party).
> Cross-browser support for nesting, :has(), container queries, and more¹

> ¹: More: linear() easing, subgrid, dynamic viewport units, color spaces, and @layer.

Of these: @layer has broad support from March 2022, dynamic viewport units from December 2022, but the rest have less than a year (a couple less than a month). You shouldn’t depend on any of these yet for general web content. It’s pleasant to find that no single browser is lagging behind: Chromium, Safari and Firefox are all first to implement at least one of these features by more than a year, and all last to implement at least one of these features.

(Also, a correction: the nesting link should be https://caniuse.com/css-nesting.)

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> 1. Stylesheets should load as fast as possible (small file sizes)

> 2. Stylesheets should not re-download unless changed (proper caching headers)

There’s a fascinating contradiction in the midst of these two: inlining CSS (as in, from a <link rel=stylesheet> to a <style>) is unreasonably good for performance up to surprisingly large file sizes (I haven’t tried to get good numbers, but reckon it’s comfortably into the tens of kilobytes transferred).

If you have the ability to conveniently do it, try inlining all CSS files always, and get a feel for the performance differences. The results may surprise you.

> 4. Fonts should load as fast as possible and minimize layout shift

I would remind people that “as fast as possible” means just don’t use them. I would also remind users that you can disable web fonts: my experience is that the fallout is slight, and the advantages due to consistency significant.

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> Specify target browsers (browserslist) and have syntax lowering to compile modern CSS features to work with those browsers

Just remember that this is primarily about syntax features like nesting selectors or rgb(r g b / a) instead of rgba(r, g, b, a). Of runtime features, it can only help with a few, e.g. adding RGB approximations for wide gamut colours, or kinda supporting logical properties like margin-inline. Things like :has(), container queries and subgrid, it can’t help you with.
>Homelessness

>Hunger

>Slavery

>Genocide

All are greatly reduced in the last 100-150 years. Globally. In large part thanks to "Western" contributions to science.

The rest are some very developed and sophisticated atrocities. Being developed and sophisticated doesn't make people good, it just makes their evil deeds more sophisticated and developed.

Just to qualify: I'm not trying to promote the noble savage myth here either. I'm trying to say that the simplicity/sophistication scale is orthogonal to the good/evil scale.
Things may have changed since you were here. Currently, there's additional digital systems built around the e-DNI and much of the administration -national and local- uses that for most of the things where you previously just used your DNI number and a smile.

The certificates themselves in the DNI are used only occasionally, but it's mostly your decision: you can stick to using the certificates and not activate other means and then you can't access a bunch of things unless you use the certificates.

But still, this is mostly for the public administrations. Private entities, such as banks or whatever, don't really make use of it and build their own systems (most of the time quite stupid ones [0]).

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[0] Fortunately they changed it, but for about a year or so my bank decided that instead of sending a 4-digit code through SMS -which you then typed to verify whatever transaction you were doing- it was "more secure" to just show 5, 10, or 20 4-digit codes on the transaction site and then send you a single number through SMS, say "7", to select the code from the list.

And somehow this was applauded and got them some newspaper headlines as the bank investing the most in advanced security in the country or some shit like that.
The claim here is that "existing hardware fuzzers are inefficient in verifying processors because they make many static decisions disregarding the design complexity and the design space explored".

"To address this limitation of static strategies in
fuzzers, we develop an approach to equip any hardware fuzzer
with a dynamic decision-making technique, multi-armed bandit
(MAB) algorithms." (From their paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.14594.pdf)

They're saying their fuzzer is faster and better at finding bugs than other fuzzing aproaches.
I would go so far as to say if you can understand React, you can understand HTMX.
Great perspective, you made me realise that this is the team topology my department implemented.
It does explain why communication between team is non existent.

I definitely need to read this book
If you do directional antennas, and I'm not sure how far away you'd have to place them for signals not to interfere with each other. Nice idea tho.
I did a true graphical visualisation of ext4 at FOSDEM a few years ago. The video is here, the visualisation starts at about 20 minutes:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/nbdkit/

Edit: If you're confused about the bit where I talk about the filesystem trims in "blue", well that's because apparently the projector at FOSDEM could not render the light blue colour I was using. I didn't know about this while giving the talk, it looked fine on the laptop screen. There's an accompanying video on my blog which is rendered correctly: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/11/04/nbd-graphical-viewer/
And one might also question how much of that money can be given away and how much that would actually affect the price.

You can not sell stock valued that high endlessly.
I don't think the "Learn in 4 Months" method will work for most languages. Now that I read your comment, I know German is one of those languages.

Yes, I'm a French native. Languages like French and English are very easy to learn if you have the right method and dedication. We have the method, so we'll probably partner with natives of other languages to develop these courses.

And thank you for the nudge. I really appreciate it.

btw, what are things you'd consider when trying to buy a language course?
Napster shaped my music taste along with Limewire, Bearshare and Kazaa. I remember I have to wake up around 11pm-12am, so I could download mp3s on Napster faster (less traffic). Check the mp3s on winamp or Windows Media Player and then burn it on Nero. Announce on mIRC your new cop, and distribute it to the hood. Simple times.
Agree. Particularly the tax writeoff argument is complete bullshit.

You could make an argument that you need some level of fraud to keep the anti-fraud dept on its toes. It’s like war. If you have an army that has never fought a war in a century, you should have no confidence you have an army at all. That’s a problem the day a real war or in this case a real fraud, happens.
Because of the debug mode
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DirectDraw did support hardware accelerated blitter, and speedup was quite significant.

http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/directdraw%20results.htm

Even the oldest S3 VLB cards performed 8 bit copies 3-4x faster than CPU. Pretty much every VGA chipset from around 1993-94 onward had 2D accelerator, most popular were IBM 8514 derived like from S3 or ATI.
LibreOffice - in my experience - is also much better about dealing with huge CVS files.
same, and I'm often surprised how many files are touched / read, and also how many times (trying to load local configs from dozens of places)..

some unix practices seems very inefficient
Disagreed, the banks aren't cancelling it - they wouldn't authorize the transaction in the first place. Chances are, the banks are correctly returning an address verification mismatch if you didn't use your true billing address.

Most likely the stores are cancelling the orders because of billing/delivery address mismatch or (if you didn't set a different billing address) that it doesn't verify against your card.
Apple iPhone release day is a right royal pain in the arse for banks. The surge of one-off high value payments causes a huge spike in false positive fraud detections, which then swamps staff responsible for performing manual checks. And that’s after we’ve already tweaked rules to prepare for iPhone day

On top of all the, the fraud systems at the major card networks also go haywire. They start seeing huge spikes in high value transactions, and start randomly declining transactions. On the banks side, we can see these transactions being declined by the network, but it’s damn near impossible to stop them. The card networks themselves set the rules, and getting hold of someone technical enough to turn them off is surprisingly hard to do.

Suffice to say, iPhone day each year is a bit of an all-hands-on-deck situation for bank fraud teams. You’ve got your technical teams trying to tweak rules to better detect and ignore iPhone purchases, which it much harder than it should be because Apples payment processing system is a Byzantium nightmare that creates so many different types of transactions, and uses so many merchant identities you can just do a simple “if Apple, ignore” rule. Then you’ve got your reviewer teams working hard to rapidly the all the flags so customers are impacted for too long.

It doesn’t help that buying MacBooks and iPhones is a classic way for people to commit credit card fraud and money laundering. The products hold their value so well, and are so easy to shift on the second hand market, that’s it’s a prime method for organised crime groups to liquidate and launder stolen funds.
Interesting video. I wonder what would happen to most of these russian gadget hackers with current war drafting.
The MDN has now been updated to a fuel level example https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/me...
The binary ones, not the source
Sacrificing one life for money? Easy, derail the trolley regardless of cargo.

Anyway, as philosophical or moral problem, the trolley question just sucks.
Why would you spend time making someone else’s collapsing project better for free while they get paid while you could just work on your own vision
I'm not aware of any stigma around .xyz. What gives it a very bad rep?
In 1998 maybe, though 1 hour at even 48kbit/s is 20 megabytes, which is a decent-sized program's source. (The Linux kernel source in 2003 was about 25MB, compressed.)

But in 2004?
First off, I want to commend you for reaching out and seeking solutions despite the hurdles you're facing. Your experience in DevOps and Systems Engineering is solid gold, even if you can only dedicate a few hours a day. There are several avenues you could explore to bring in that extra $300 a month without overwhelming yourself.

Considering your background, freelancing or consultancy gigs might be your best bet. Websites like Upwork, Freelancer, or even reaching out to small businesses directly could land you short-term projects or consultations in your field. Your expertise is valuable, so don't hesitate to put it out there!
In trying to sign up for Threads, I was insta-banned when I created an Instagram account, without even having a chance to use it, for allegedly violating the ToS, which seems impossible, since I hadn't done anything yet.

They wanted to extract my phone number from me, and then also a photo/video after that to "verify" my identity, so I aborted the process, because I'm not going to feed the data slurping machine. I think that's the whole point of these fake bans, to extract personal data from you.

Twitter used to auto-ban me too in order to extract my phone number, and we know that Twitter illegitimately used phone numbers for advertising purposes.

To hell with the corporate-owned social networks. I want no part of them anymore. I'm sticking with Mastodon, which is free from this garbage.
I think Katmai was Pentium III