skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately not. If there is a 0 day vulnerability, or you're running an older version of a browser for a known patched issue, you may find yourself with a remote code execution, or 0 click download. Or it could be another kind of exploit, maybe your email service is vulnerable to XSS attacks. Like operating systems, browsers can have security issues too. So trusting your browser to see if a phish is really a phish is just unnecessary risk. I've worked with clients that have ended up with crypto lockers from clicking the link. Even from the IT side, I'm not going to increase the risk by opening a known phishing link to check how good it looks. If I am, it's going to be in a system that doesn't have active logins to other systems/sites, and is in easily disposed and reset. Check out all the YouTubers getting channels hacked with session stealing. Yes, they are falling for phishing attacks, but you really don't know what the attack vector is going to be. It might just be a fake login, or it could be much more sophisticated.
Potentially useful if one of my desired habits is to have fewer reasons to pick up my phone.
> I don’t know whether Tolkien’s estate should or should not keep profiting from his work, but I don’t see why this should be forbidden.

Because you and I are arguing, or at least I am arguing, about the duration over which they should keep profiting off of it. I claim that it's self evidence that a copyright that never expires and is transferable is self evidently bad (companies will end up having monopoly rights to every idea, see their concentration of money).

And I further argue that the current length for copyright also problematic. the current life of author + 70 years is ridiculously long time for a monopoly. It's gotten to that length not because starving artists need it, but precisely because unimaginative large corporations found it easier to extend the copyright on their existing IP than to image something news.

> Make a cool world and license its use semi-openly, be the change you want to see?

But even if you choose not to because you wish to monetize your work, that's fine by me. But lifetime + 70 years is too long of a time.

My thought is that we should have it be non-transferable, no more having authors and musicians sign their copyright away for a pittance. At it should be capped at something like 30 years or 20 million dollars, whichever comes first.

Gives people time to monetize their idea, and if 30 years wasn't enough time, no amount of time will be enough because nobody's looking at your work. And the amount of works that earn over 20 million dollars is a rounding error; you get to be rich, and then the rest of us get to remix your work.

> Just keep in mind that if your world is openly licensed, it will quickly go out of your control and likely in a direction you (or your family, when you’re dead) may find repulsive. Also, I think you would have to be comfortable that if the next guy writes something based on your hard work and gets a Netflix deal tomorrow you may find it difficult to do something about it.

Both of these I find acceptable. Firstly it's my work only in the sense that I was the one who made it, not it the sense that it belongs to me. Copyright doesn't mean that I own the idea, it only gives me a monopoly on monetizing and distributing the idea.

Secondly, this is exactly how open source projects work. The parallel you drew earlier to open source work comes back here. You have no control over what people make or do with your open source licensed project, all you enforce is what requirements they have to share the code (this quickly becomes a semantic discussion).

The GPLv3 and APGLv3 licenses, which people derogatorily label as "viral", does not even attempt to limit you from making money off the code, all it does is require you to allow everyone else to access the changes you make to it and code you built off it.
> Also, I don't like the idea of every query being tied to my credit card details

Pretty sure that is trivially possibly in the tracking supported side of them web - likely far more so for bad actors
Well, hundreds or thousands of servers can probably be still managed by Ansible with Fabric, Puppet, Chef etc.
I don't think focusing too much on the technologies used is useful when planning the overall approach. Most companies could probably consolidate all the critical hardware to 2-3 racks of equipment if they tried nowadays with HA and everything. Hardware is just really powerful and having less of it makes everything else further up usually simpler.

What I would run depends on the particular customer I would have. I probably wouldn't try to unify or integrate access control much. You are not trying to build another public cloud, you want to develop and deploy applications with reasonable robustness in comparison to the cost and benefit of the solution.

Real on-premise installations usually are a mix of open and proprietary technologies. Many companies probably have a few Windows Server file servers on top of VMware vSAN or some kind of EMC2/ NetApp/ HPE 3PAR or whatever storage with HA capability. There is no S3 compatible storage and all the data is stored on the network drive and referenced in some MSSQL database or stored directly in it. If MSSQL or Oracle is used, they probably run on local storage and have are part of a cluster that are marked such that they are never on the same physical node. You can do similar things with Proxmox, GNU/ Linux and PostgreSQL too with a little more effort. You can run MinIO or Garage for S3 if you want to be cool or buy a supported Ceph installation from e.g. SUSE. Everything will be more rudimentary and half automatic but still a few people will be able to manage that even on a rather large scale without many issues.
Of course, if you have bigger needs, there are companies you can by computers from by the rack. Some will offer you a complete cloud management stack with it. It can be Oxide Computers (their own stack), or Cloud&Heat in Germany for instance (that is built on OpenStack). There are so many options.
I don’t know where you are but NFC terminals are extremely common here (I’m in CA). And Apple Pay doesn’t track your transactions. It actually protects you better than a regular card by using a distinct number tied to the secure element in the phone, and thus your passcode/biometrics. Even if the merchant is hacked your number is useless.
Complete a bunch of activities over a duration of 8 hours. Have a piece of software that relays all of those activities at a slower rate over the span of the next 24 hours.
If I had to guess, it'll be spring/summer 2025 until hiring freezes fully go away and non-senior role open up. Maybe start of 2025. These may be conservative estimates. More optimistic guesses would be fall 2024.

I say this because Interest Rates will be most likely lower than what they're at right now, which will cause money to flow into companies through VC and public investment.

Just a guess though, could easily be wrong. Keep an eye on startup investment and public ipo activity as a potential indicator of things.
From my experience it is Excel first, PowerPoint second, followed by Outlook and, last, Word.

The order varies depending on what you do, each can become absolutely critical.
I'm sorry, what year is it? Am I posting on Slashdot still? Is this year finally going to be the year where Linux desktops become something for normies?

When Munich did this it never got to a majority of their desktops, is my recollection, it maxed out in the 40%s. Now we're going to do it all over again with a different, much poorer, German state?
This is actually quite reasonable and sensible. It’s the future of warfare. People are not willing to fight in trenches anymore.
Even if you take commute time out of the equation, working from home frees up a lot of time for tasks that aren't all active time.
Open source (public domain ideally) what you can, especially website code and non personal images.
This is a really clever product and I'd love to learn more - good luck.
I've enjoyed reading trip reports from the beautiful lunatics who complete the Pittsburgh to DC ride in under 24 hours. Here, one reports on falling asleep several times while riding:
https://chrisshue.com/2020/01/21/pittsburgh-express/
Yup, Google has the attention span of a gnat. I've used Pixel Phones for years, and I wouldn't be even slightly surprised to see that entire product line dropped tomorrow. I'm very glad to see Apple's Vision Pro, because I believe that if it succeeds it will be wonderful, and if it fails it means the AR/VR product category will never (well, not for a very long time at least) be anything but an unimportant niche product, as it is now.
Having more options, in and of itself, has no value. Leaving a monopoly to go to an alternative option in itself has no value. Plus of course, since they decided to basically build their own option, they did neither.

Firstly, the number of options argument. Choosing between lots of options, over choosing the best option, isn't some intrinsic good. I don't support say football over Formula 1 because there are more teams. I choose one over the other based on which sport I prefer to watch.

Going the Linux route "because there are more distributions to choose from" is a dumb argument if Windows is the best OS for your organisation. [1].

Equally, you may decide that you'd prefer to foster competition. You might decide that it's worth subsidising competition just to have competition. You acknowledge you're making an inferior choice, but the are unaccounted upsides to others having that choice.

But govt adoption of Linux (especially creating your own distribution) does little to nurture competition. Munich didn't spend its budget improving Linux. They spent the budget implementing it.

There are reasons Windows and Office dominate the desktop, especially in large scale environments. You may not like MS, but that doesn't negate those reasons. If you make a choice to forge a different road because you don't like MS then you'd better be very clear on what those reasons are, and what challenges and costs you are likely to face. Because if you aren't, then earn those challenges and costs come up it's hard to wave them away.

I'm not saying all this to rag on Linux or OSS, or to say its impossible to run Linux etc. As per the GP, there are companies that have made a choice, that hire people with the right skills, that make it work.

But thinking that rolling out Linux at enterprise level is easy, or cheaper, or has better desktop options, or runs more bespoke software, or is easier to get good desktop software for , or is easier (cheaper) to buy hardware for, is wrong. And that wrongness will lead to project failure. And those failures don't help Linux, arguably they hurt it.
Frankly I am shocked that they went with LibreOffice over OnlyOffice.

OnlyOffice supports online collaboration already, works online and offline, and has a much more familiar interface. Compatibility is also better with MS Office documents.

OnlyOffice is developed online-first but they provide an electron app that works fully offline on all OSes: https://www.onlyoffice.com/download-desktop.aspx?from=deskto...

Yep, an electron app is better than native LibreOffice. That's how low the bar is currently.
Curiously, I was going to bring up that very same slashdot article (and the one describing how it has failed). Howdy old-timer!
I haven't read that particular book, but i've read many others by her.

I find her novels tend to be either great or terrible (e.g i loved the disposed, left hand of darkness, the beginning place, but hated always coming home and city of illusions).

So if you didn't like one novel its definitely possible you might like others. Of course maybe you just don't like her style.
Meanwhile in the rest of the world it is ALSO not true.

That opening blanket statement turned me off so hard I couldn't get past that paragraph to read the rest of the article.

I am struggling to justify 10Gb LAN in my house. Between purchase costs and energy requirements (some 10Gb arrangements seem to be crazy inefficient). And I like "more, more, faster, faster" in my tech.

How does this scale (and cost) across even a significant section of human society?!? According to the article's prediction things must get crazy soon.
German state employees must be excited for this move.
... or does "S3 file system" mean https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3 - a Rust project by AWS Labs that provides "a simple, high-throughput file client for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system" ?
> Any tips on the minimum hardware or VPS's needed to get a small swarm cluster setup?

From my testing, Docker Swarm is very lightweight, uses less memory than both Hashicorp Nomad and lightweight Kubernetes distros (like K3s). Most of the resource requirements will depend on what containers you actually want to run on the nodes.

You might build a cluster from a bunch of Raspberry Pis, some old OptiPlex boxes or laptops, or whatever you have laying around and it's mostly going to be okay. On a practical level, anything with 1-2 CPU cores and 4 GB of RAM will be okay for running any actually useful software, like a web server/reverse proxy, some databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL/MariaDB), as well as either something for a back end or some pre-packaged software, like Nextcloud.

So, even 5$/month VPSes are more than suitable, even from some of the more cheap hosts like Hetzner or Contabo (though the latter has a bad rep for limited/no support).

That said, you might also want to look at something like Portainer for a nice web based UI, for administering the cluster more easily, it really helps with discoverability and also gives you redeploy web hooks, to make CI easier: https://www.portainer.io/ (works for both Docker Swarm as well as Kubernetes, except the Kubernetes ingress control was a little bit clunky with Traefik instead of Nginx)
What if the singularity is in the past?

Yes, loosely I think what you're asking at the end is somewhere slippery that I've been thinking as well. By introducing chaos or randomness in one's life it may be a way to incur computational cost to the "Sentinel AI" that is optimizing for predictive behavior (which humans are pretty predictive day to day).

Oddly this led me to realize that historical magic related to randomness may actually be a "thing" in such a system, and it was kind of a "wow" moment.

tl;dr use randomness to attempt to distort reality and run experiments, if results show anomalies then you may be in a reality at the very least "modulated" by an AI.
Yeah, gimp is pretty crap and it is what it is sure. Clearly they work in a world that has more smaller boutiques where replacing Adobe with supporting OSS alternatives isn't a clear winner. Industries that have a ton of engineers are more likely to build their own alternatives, and some of them realize that they can cost share by being OSS.
When I went ziplining in Costa Rica, I was somewhat more concerned about injury than if I had been stateside, on the assumption that a facility with a bad record would be sued out of existence. Apparently I overestimated the benefits of living in a litigious society!
The same could apply to economics. I feel like US stats still haven't caught up to actual numbers. For example, the number of six figure jobs.

A big problem is that when numbers change quickly, median numbers, or even average numbers, don't immediately capture that change. It can take YEARS for the real stats to come out.

That being said, it is absolutely ridiculous that this has become the drama it has. Federal departments should be given lawyers and be allowed to go after people.
My google-fu is poor; I'm not coming up with any hits for that. Do you have any references?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_Temple doesn't seem to me to be the act of someone who is in favour of combining spiritual with temporal power, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_1st_centur... looks like a muddle from here.
A car doesn't break down immediately after you maintain it.
How is that different than air pressure?
It could have been the aforementioned mis-calibration as well, not sure. I consulted some help/documentation at the time and it said it was normal.

With respect to telematics, I think the only change to the vehicle was that a few menu options were unavailable. I updated the software on one of the vehicles, renamed a few, added some to the app, etc.

In my opinion, a Hertz office with sufficient charging capacity could be great with EVs. (I also don't understand why traditional gas stations aren't already featuring a few high capacity charging stalls)
Oh it’s definitely for me, I loved it but it’s not the standard to hold up to everything else.
Unwatchable on 1x speed. Not interesting on 2x.
This kind of reasoning is such a plague on the internet where if you argue (e.g.) one person was wrong, that implies the other person was right.
Local pilot knowledge: Lodi is extra shitty.
How many other animal species enslave other species, anyway? I'm never going back to owning a pet, and probably not any farm animals, either. I'd far rather put my energy into rehabilitating the land and water so it can support more animals and plants.
Does it vary at the location or is it constant? Basically, is it more like a fluid (air) or fixed because of mass?
Oh, yes, gimp, the software that is still going "we'll have non-destructive editing.. maybe.. soon.. probably" when its first elements were introduced in Photoshop in the mid 90s. The. Mid. 90s.

It's such a productivity boost that it would be a lack of self respect to one's own time to use a tool that doesn't have it.
You mean one of these "if you are reading this note it means I am already dead. I am speaking to you from beyond the grave..." Yelp reviews??

(I will make this my default Yelp review for local restaurants...)
are cards that dont have paywave or whatever really that common in the US? my bank cards have both had it
I honestly still hate office ribbon.
I feel like I'm reasonably well read into low-level TCP/IP security (also: eBPF) and I'm not sure what you mean by "decades of security checks and countermeasures baked into the Linux network stack" than an XDP kernel bypass would skip. Can you say more?
Samsung flags 10-fold rise in first-quarter profit as chip prices recover
If I had to choose, I'd probably give up Netflix before I give up Google, even if Google decided to fuck it and charge everyone $10/month for searches.

Search is just that valuable to me.
It's a freaky story no doubt but also kind of weird. Forgot about DNA tests - was the victim totally alienated from his family? I could see someone else did X under your name and you can't prove you didn't do it but in this case the victim couldn't prove his own identity.

At least one of his parents was still living - that parent couldn't or wouldn't come to California? Or was impossible to be contacted?
Or just get an HP Elitedesk 800 G5 i5-9xxx, way more powerful than a pi with same ballpark power consumption. Easily found on eBay.

Cheers
I drink espresso as well. It takes 1/2 hour to warm up the machine after I turn it on. Having it turn on and be ready for me when I want to make a coffee saves 1/2 hour. Plus I have time-of-use billing for electricity so having it turn on early in the morning during off-peak hours saves money! It takes more energy to heat the thing up to operating temperature than it does to maintain that temperature all day.
Perhaps the entire kitchen sink could be redesigned with robotic dish washing in mind. No bipedal Boston Dynamics style robot washing your dishes and taking out the trash - just two arms built into the sink with automated drains and soap dispensing to wash dishes, put them in a rack, and do nothing else. I'd pay quite a bit for that.
People always forget about Outlook. Name me a competing desktop app that does integrated calendar, email, todo, and meetings as well as Outlook.

Thunderbird is (unfortunately) a joke, and web clients aren't as nice when managing complex folder arrangements and lots of mail.
Having recently experienced an over-capacity MacOS disk, "emptying" files in this manner simply did not work.
Apple Cut at Least 600 Workers When Car, Screen Projects Stopped
Big Tech Is Trying to Prevent Debate About Its Social Harms
In truth, I thought it would be a great idea to train them on turning English and code into formal specs and logic language. Then, we could use all our tools in those areas work from there.

Combining LLM’s with rewriting logic, like Maude or K Framework, would be the most, powerful option. The rewriting tools plus LLM’s could probably rapidly develop static analyzers and code porting tools.
In case you aren't aware, you can select a few builds and quickly compare the stats using: https://mk8dxbuilder.com/

Another thing is the coins. Collecting them gives you a speed boost for each coin you collect.
Oh interesting. Thank you.
I'm a big fan of Tufte and he certainly informs a lot of my opinions on making tables and figures :)
Among other things, Office comes with support, a word most Googlers can't spell.
I don't know about how well this solves any game programmer's problem, but the attack surface thing --- modulo the kfunc trick --- doesn't seem real: eBPF programs are ruthlessly verified, and most valid, safe C programs aren't accepted (because the verifier can't prove every loop in them is bounded and every memory access is provably bounded). It's kind of an unlikely place to expect a vulnerability, just because the programming model is so simplistic.
I fucking hate capitalism.
What is with this condecension? She published books, she is an author. You don't have to like her books, but she's clearly written some.
I feel like I have always judged skydiving correctly. It's been a consistent "nope" for me my entire life.
This. Believe me, Office and Office clones are very distinguishable. It's like saying a Macdonalds burger is indistinguishable from a Gordon Ramsey burger. They may both be food, but they are very much not the same thing.

There's a reason people use Office. Pretending that reason does not exist does not make the argument for switching better.
There is pushback, it's just not broad enough yet. Because, as broken as things are (which is especially visible to those of us making the sausage or watching it made), they still kinda sorta work most of the time, to the point where users grumble but learn to live with it.

But I think that AI coding will upset this equilibrium by reducing the quality even more, and significantly enough that users will very much notice - and for many of them it will push things into "what I need doesn't work most of the time" category. And then there will be payback.

Then again, I am an optimist.
Hehe, this was the exact thinking going across my mind in considering underlying architecture for a LLM OS/Word processor that was self aware of the documents across a project for consistency.
What's a reasonable amount, in your opinion, to disable ads on a piece of hardware you purchased (i.e a Roku) to watch your own locally streamed media?
Or corruption, as it's called when it happens in a less developed country: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/25/22995144/microsoft-foreig...
In the last case I'm thinking of, it is Xrdp's fuse mount.

I would be willing to blame Xrdp, but Thunar works just fine side by side with the same file at the same time.

Also kind of interesting was that Dolphin's status bar shows a different free space amount than Dolphin's properties window.
I always knew those little red tires were the best. Sadly, this misses the most important thing to me: style. And my love of Zelda. So I'm afraid I'll personally have to disregard all of this.
The amount of money that Roku is making, as well as their market cap, are utterly irrelevant, and the only reason you're bringing them up is a manipulative tactic to divert attention from the fact that the vast majority of Roku's revenue comes from ads and streaming.