skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone who worked for the British Military told me back in the early 00's the US military (but could be any part of the US govt) had the ability to bowl up outside a building and "tune" into any of the pc they could detect. It didnt matter what floor of an office block they were on, how far away from a window they were, they had a special suitcase for remote accessing any and all pc's they wanted.

Dont know how true it was or is, but I've seen some of these devices now advertised online. I'd provide a link if only Google & Bing would deliver the results, and were also psychologically engaged in warfare on the population.
I'm not aware of any escape since Blue Pill in 2006, found by the Qubes founder herself.
It feels like you'll have to play the communication game in hard mode either way, I don't see any guide that will help you short of "spare a lot of time, make efforts and try to find ways that are somewhat efficient".

In my experience written communication worked a lot better when people were not at ease with the subject or the language, as you could do it asynchronously and they could edit themselves easily.

Meetings had an incredible amount of back and forth with ton of whiteboarding and people only reacting after we'd come to a conclusion that we rewrite in plain words. It's still a pain to do that in written form, but each side isn't stuck in meetings for 5 hours at least.
https://hootdoogs.com/ - "find food between you guys"
Totally agree! The worst example is a paragraph that starts with ‘this’. The author might remember what ‘this’ means at the time of writing, but other readers have to then insert themselves into the author’s stream of consciousness. ‘This’ paragraphs also make no sense when extracted from the main report, or to readers who are dipping in and out
Sorry to have offended you - it was intended in humour as I have switched from using Windows as a daily driver and now I'm happily using Fedora. But don't worry, you can continue to use whatever you prefer.
The challenges of building modern open source software on PowerPC Mac OS X
This is going to cause so many bugs.
There are replicas but there may also be differences because of the large amount of human effort required to build one. I saw a replica complete with wire-wrapping over a decade ago. This technology looks very foreign to any recent computer engineer. As such, the more practical approach is to write software that can validate most commands you would send. I wonder what level of emulation they have achieved (if any) on modern hardware.
Google has a few courses about technical writing for engineers:

https://developers.google.com/tech-writing
i must say I don't know what that is, would you care to explain what that means?
you want kyoo to record tv content for you?
Thank you! Great idea!

I do have thoughts about waht the next generation of source control systems should look like! It hopefully will be the last post in the full series. So estimated arrival time for that post, by interpolation of how long it took me to write this post, is roughly 1-2 years :P
I use a simplified version, that doesn't require as much care in the planning phase:

1. Delegate as much as possible.
2. Alternate urgent and important tasks.
3. Once in a while do a "fun" task - something neither urgent, nor immediately important, but feels like it may have a payoff someday.
It's not "asking for money", it's shutting down a usage of the code, and that's completely against the spirit of "free software", and even against the broader meaning of opensource[1].

However, I think everyone understands that it's a problem to make a living from small but important part of an bigger infrastructure, but this is the wrong way.

The Linux Foundation will throw money at Valkey, Amazon will still sell the service and Redi's will lose (because it's just one company and not opensource).

[1] https://opensource.org/blog/the-sspl-is-not-an-open-source-l...

And I'm not even talking about external contributors whose work is re-licensed under a proprietary license.
Best productivity story from this book: a White House worker brings President Eisenhower a piece of unopened mail addressed to the President. Ike immediately says “No one should ever bring me a sealed envelope” and he drills into his team that nothing comes to the President unless it can’t be resolved at a lower level, and when it comes to him he needs to be briefed and presented with his staff’s best thinking and possible options.
The pacing part can be an issue. In particular when face to face people will want to look smarter, and let things slide even if they don't completely understand them, to preserve the flow.

It's only afterwards that it comes back to bite both sides.
> The Win10 bar code has been there, since October 2021, though?

And it could be removed tomorrow. That's the point.
If this was your main gig, congratulations on getting a big chunk of your life back to do whatever you wanted. I really enjoyed reading your story. It reminds me a little of “the story of Mac”.

https://wm-help.net/lib/b/book/2895812152/59
What Happened When This Italian Province Invested in Babies
https://archive.is/6Mf28
How exactly does graphic acceleration work when you run a VM? Do you need two graphic cards (one for the host, another for the guest)?

Edit: to contribute a little to the grandparent question - I have Windows on QEMU for the Office suite and it works pretty smoothly. I had to make some config changes, most of them outlined in these reddit threads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/qemu_kvm/comments/18z8609/qemu_wind...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChromeOSFlex/comments/ucno4b/qemukv...

I also disabled animations in Windows settings because everything felt clunky.

No crashes, clipboard and shared folders work fine after installing guest tools.
Terminal apps (TUIs) that run 'inline' (under the prompt)
The idea of maintaining something that no one uses sounds horrible but so is supporting something 1-5 (often on the lower end of that range) people use.

I worked indirectly for an online gambling company and they maintained multiple interfaces to their underlying gambling system because there were whales (aka big spenders) who had gotten used to the old interface and didn’t want to change.

Imagine if every redesign/refresh actually had to be a new product and you left the old version alone running in parallel. This company also wanted to do a lot of redesigns or re-imaginings, or a new platform that would “replace all the existing ones” (spoiler: it didn’t).

They had at least 5 different products running that all talked to the same backend but had to be updated occasionally to keep them working.

Also, they had a backend system that did a lot of low-level handling of customer data, it had an API but you weren’t allowed to talk to it directly. No, you needed to call this php api which talked to it and spit out the results (well, different format, but the results). But wait, there is more. Over the years they had php code calling php code (over HTTP) calling php code because they didn’t want to QA new interactions with lower levels. Since the existing stuff was “battle tested” all you could do was call the next layer down until one day your layer also got an effective code freeze. It was maddening. Oh! And each layer had its own validation, so imagine the fun of identifying at which layer your input was reject at and why. Data and errors/responses were mangled at every level.

Without knowing about all of these layers, as a contractor, I called the lowest level api since it had the most raw data (each layer normally lost some of the data or consolidated/summarized it in some way). I was told I shouldn’t call those api endpoints, instead call these ones. The higher layers required more calls and even with all of that some data just wasn’t available. Making my stuff worse while having to work with worse endpoints really sucked.
>It isn't easier or fairer to write everyone a check, because quite a lot of people don't need any help

Is this some kind of joke? You pay taxes on that check, which means you effectively get less money as you earn more. Do people really not understand how negative income taxes work? The system is the same in terms of net payouts compared to any means tested scheme, because you can turn the knobs any way you like.
The last ~45 seconds after the end of the rap (with the chorus and the hallucinated repeat of the bridge) was a nice surprise.
Lots of people publicly host searx instances. There's a list of publicly available instances online, but if you are looking for a tool that randomly redirects you to an instance for every search you do on your browser's bar, you can use neocities: https://searx.neocities.org/changelog

I use this all the time. A downside is that sometimes you land on an instance that doesn't provide any results or gives you really poor ones. This has been happening less frequently recently.
Is there any way to show a real commitment upfront to openness?

As far as I know there's nothing that can stop a project from switching license (for for new code only, of course) and this can feel like a deception. There may be a legal/corporate mechanism I don't know about, like a permanent kind of charter, but it seems not.

The best option I can think of is giving control (board seats or copyright assignment or whatever) to trusted institutions like Apache or the FSF or Linux Foundation.

It seems too easy for big "open" endeavours to change their mind after they've built trust and a userbase. It would be great if there was a way to guarantee that that won't happen.
DST is the dumbest thing ever and especially now with global warming. IF you want to move the clock in summer to make things more convenient, move it back an hour, not forwards.

Due to DST we have less time to spend outside in the evenings. The sun stays out much longer, especially here in the more northern part of Europe. With DST, once you get off work it's simply too hot in the direct sunlight to be outside comfortably.

It only gets comfortable outside around 10 in the evening, at which point it's almost time to go to bed. By moving the clock backwards instead of forwards you get 2 additional hours of outside time. Another advantage is that you have a more time for your bedroom to cool down a little before going to sleep.
They used to have an auto organize plugin which was doing that very well - but sadly it is no longer maintained (and no longer working on current versions). I did have quite a few things not correctly recognized with Plex which went away after going to Jellyfin and letting auto organize do its thing.

On the plus side, lack of auto organize made me properly setup the complete arr stack, which throws things into correctly named directories, does support batch renaming for existing stuff, and handles a lot of other stuff on top of that.
JavaScript-Native RPC to Cloudflare Workers
Football is the most profitable and most colleges do make money on it. https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances Not only is sports usually profitable on the surface but it draws donations and new students. Administrators aren't as stupid as you think. Sports need not cost a huge amount of money. Stadiums used for one sport can easily be used for other purposes instead of letting it lay fallow in the time between football games.

It always amazes me that people simultaneously say that colleges are sharks when it comes to maximizing tuition and minimizing expenses, while also saying that sports are objectively a waste of money. They aren't stupid. If sports wasn't a desirable thing to invest in, they wouldn't do it. We could make the same complaint about luxury amenities too. The fact is that colleges have to compete with each other, and they charge enough to pay for everything.

Could tuition be lower if not for all of these luxuries? Maybe so. Should core education get more money? Perhaps. It certainly used to bother me that sports got more money than academics. But I really get that it's a legitimate business decision to allocate some money to sports. I don't even like sports much but I would not cut it out if I were them.
Regex DSL for Ruby
>I think it's unwise to not respond to environment changes.

True, but killing your company and make your code proprietary is most likely the wrong response.
> adding a new member to a team doesn't linearly increase productivity

How does that differ from non-IT processes?
I’m not sure I find this document to be a good example of careful and effective communication. Quite a few of those bullet points seem repetitive, and it feels more like someone flushed out their thoughts somewhat randomly, rather than trying to bring them into a clear and concise structure. I would personally prefer the main take-aways to be condensed into fewer points, each with some additional text for context and nuance. For a guide, I think I’d find that easier to grasp and memoize.
That makes sense, thanks for pointing that out. But on a global level, I find it hard to believe there were zero exceptions. If other species have pockets of limited existence, why not Neanderthals? Perhaps Homo Sapiens were also more violent? More willing to kill their "enemy"? And that too lives on in us?
Relative simplicity is also a key ingredient to the success of these probes. The computers onboard are completely understandable by a single person. The software stack doesn’t have so many layers of abstraction that you are disconnected from what the hardware is actually doing… in fact the opposite is true.
Keyless solution to automate Turo businesses
I had been a Turo host for a couple of years and was getting tired of meeting up with customers to drop off keys.
I considered lockboxes but they are not very secure.

So I built WeCar to automate my Turo business and use a keyless system.
I have not met with a customer face to face for over 2 years.
The Linux Foundation won't "throw money" at it, it will probably provide some legal support if needed, but project work is largely funded by the membership fees for the subfoundations, and at this project membership level thats not much unless eg AWS etc are contributing it.
Argentina's government considers inspection of Chinese space station in Neuquén
Which is indicative of... squat. They could introduce an RSA-authenticated backdoor at any time, not unlike the one we had seen in xz, & no researcher would ever find out. In fact, chances are it's already there but even if it's not, Qubes is locking you into Xen platform regardless. The only viable means of gaining security against the NSA is full-source bootstrap from commodity FPGAs. Yes, you'll be stuck at 50 MHz for the time being but at least you know a backdoor-in-synthesis is so much more intractable. The physical surface area to protect is much smaller, too.
See

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)

Though for a second I thought you were going to talk about the mythical TV licensing detector vans :)
SQUATCH internet time?
According to LWN [0], Redis was already maintained by big corporations/cloud providers:

Tencent - 24.8%
Redis Labs - 19.5%
Alibaba- 6.7%
Huawei - 5.2%
Amazon.com - 5.2%
Bytedance - 2.0%
NetEase - 1.3%

[0] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/966631/6bf2063136effa1e/
it's unclear to me why anyone, particularly anyone with even a passing interest in what the topic of this submission has to offer, would be even remotely interested in being the "master archivist of your own internet browsing."

i don't need anything else archiving anything related to my internet browsing except for my human brain. and yes, that's just me...

but how is the shameless plug of this not just therefore off-topic but diametrically-opposed-to-total-personal-privacy tool appropriate here?
It's giving Ubik
Stop pretending that companies care if you spend 40 hours or if you do 80% of the work. The majority of the time they look at you as a cost per unit and make decisions based on that.

I just saw the best lead java developers be laid off after 20 years with the product because he was overpaid salary wise when compared to 10 other contractors from India. All that tribal knowledge is gone and never coming back. Mind you this person could run laps around all 10 of these contractors but corporate America only cares about vanity metrics and looks at employees as cogs in a machine.
Loki: An open-source tool for fact verification
It's when you turn on flight mode, right? /s

(You have to physically remove the wifi and bluetooth hardware)

Also, one-way diodes are fine, mostly.

But I agree completely. There's a major lack of awareness.

I'm quite angry that firewalls on phones isn't a thing - and that you have to use a VPN workaround. Why is such a basic feature missing? (Oh wait, I know: advertising revenue, and uh, intentional vulnerability)
Ask HN: What is the biggest thing you've changed your mind about?
> What I do is take several diverse short video segments, like 100, concatenate them into 4 segments (example 23+24+26+27 since they have diverse lengths) and then xstack them into a 2-by-2 mosaic video.

Just out of curiosity.. what use do you have for a 2-by-2 mosaic video?
Were the creators of Redis responsible for making it a standard, or was it some early cloud "influencers" who stumbled upon it and promoted it in their resources?
> Why in the name of Christ do we need closed platforms?

Is it hard for you to accept the fact that other people make different choices? The market has spoken already and Apples success indicates that yes, people do want closed platforms as well.

Pretending iOS's security is not the best on the market right now is simply being in denial.

But I am not arguing for closed solutions. I am arguing for an ecosystem with both closed and open solutions.

> Europe can't keep up with the US in this field because

Europe was keeping up with USA just fine until about 15 years ago. So the problem can't be one of the reasons you listed (certainly not the ancient history of the WW2), those existed before as well. What changed lately was the onerous amount of regulation being added and a strong left turn in economic policy. Together they brought the unfolding disaster we are witnessing today.

I am willing to bet you've never build a startup in your life. Do that please and then come back and tell me which is worse: regulation or big competition.

> Why should Appel decide what you can run on the device you bought and own?

Because they aren't selling you a device. They are selling you access to their platform. Interfering with how they build and run that platform will just ensure we'll get fewer platforms in the future. You get either competition or regulation - the later logically diminishes the first.
Biden Takes Aim at SpaceX's Tax-Free Ride in American Airspace
It was also possible to install an OS without needing to create an account.
Have we seen people start to game this system? Basically, attend a cheaper school for 2-3 years then jump to an elite one to get the paper?
Thank you. While I like the nice gradients on the original post, I tend to use the top of my screen as a reading line.
No. The solution is to use a different license, one that doesn’t allow contributions to be re-licensed in this way. This isn’t as complicated as people are making out. They just don’t want to admit that the license is operating as intended, but rather, their feelings about classical ‘open-source’ have changed. Admitting that would be admitting that the Software Gods of the last ~50 years are imperfect in their eyes, which is jarring for the sort of people that complain about these situations in the first place.
Are Bitcoin Developers Losing Faith in Lightning?
Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days
Ah ok, thanks for the information. I had never heard of them. Their website didn't make that really clear, it looks like a random rebranded android based tv box.
That... was amazing. Were the lyrics AI-written too, or is it a pre-existing text?
I think there were some benefits that are difficult to quantify. I'm not talking about progress with technology, instead I am mostly thinking about the psychological effect that seeing Earth from the surface of the Moon provided. I believe it altered the perspective of almost everybody at the time.
>but project work is largely funded by the membership fees for the subfoundations

That's something completely different you are right ;)

>>Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community

>>Industry participants, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap Inc. are supporting Valkey.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launc...
Is anyone else using Qubes OS or airgapping at work? E.g. finance, trading, ... ?

Do you use specialized equipment and processes, e.g. PDF-to-PNG rendering, one-way diodes, and such?

Also, I'm surprised to hear so many stories about crypto theft. Aren't there any airgapped solutions? And why aren't they mainstream?
> Is there any way to show a real commitment upfront to openness?

Of course there is. Don't require a CLA and use GPL instead of permissive licenses. Then any derivative work will have to legally be GPL compatible.
Having lived the first third of my life in the pre internet world, I'm no longer sure I think it's net beneficial in all things. I didn't expect to be this unsure progress works. It's unscientific. Progress by definition is improving surely?

Since in (very small) ways I helped bring it into being, this message is displeasing in several ways.
Is funny because this totally offline and locally hosted search engine in DownloadNet is potentially the most private of all.

I get if you’re not interested, but I imagine people interested in locally hosted search-related solutions, may be.

Your view is probably more personal and hard to support in general given this, and given the comment’s position and votes indicating at least some people are interested.

I totally understand why you wouldn’t want your browsing history archived anywhere. But that is what search engines do somewhat. It’s okay, everyone’s different.
Default to async, hire people reasonable enough to request upgrading to synchronous communications when needed (cover ground faster or clear up miscommunications) but used judiciously.

(~10 years remote)
Of course you still probably won't win though

This is the sort of attitude that ensures you don't win!
The Garantia Data rebrand and narrative reframing as the inventors of Redis is one of the greatest marketing efforts in OSS.
And certainly not an unrelated piece of software.
A weather plugin for django-cms using darksky api. Finished it, less than a month later darksky was acquired by apple and said that the api will stop working soon.
Writing 30 bullet points on how to communicate sounds like you suck at communicating.

Making every employee publicly confess how much they got done today sounds like a very toxic and nannying work environment.
Related question: Does it make sense to buy a RTX 4090 or 3090 Ti for this? Or for finetuning existing open models.
As with anything, you can't police it at this scale, at least not until we have mandated brain implants that monitor our every thought and action.
This is a large gap in the 'democratic', some might say 'chaotic' nature of open source. Where anyone can fork something, or just not feel like supporting anymore. It seems like the best projects have some small group, or one person, in control.

Linux itself, would it have been as successful if Linus hadn't maintained dictatorship?

Or, maybe it is that every project needs some 'motive force' driving it. And the larger the committee in control, the more it diffuses.
The Turbo Era: Formula 1 on Steroids [video]
Very good info, I am also planning to set something up over QEMU.
Well, yes, but one is telling and one is showing. A good story teller shows and not tells.