skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're describing a team, owner, discussion list, and end users. It turns out your post is much like a RACI matrix:

- Responsible: People who do the work. They must complete the task or objective or make the decision. Several people can be jointly Responsible.

- Accountable: Person who is the “owner” of the work. He or she must sign off or approve when the task, objective or decision is complete. This person must make sure that responsibilities are assigned in the matrix for all related activities. Success requires that there is only one person Accountable, which means that “the buck stops there.”

- Consulted: People who need to give input before the work can be done and signed-off on. These people are “in the loop” and active participants.

- Informed: People who need to be kept “in the picture.” They need updates on progress or decisions, but they do not need to be formally consulted, nor do they contribute directly to the task or decision.

(Source CIO.com)
I checked your service, healthchecks.io, and I got excited when I was reading your About page.

Under Values, you say: Do one thing and do it well.

I took a lot of life lessons from my grandpa, but one stuck really well. Do one thing and do it well. Thanks for the memory lane, keep up the good work!
My story is a very small one compared to most peoples - a few hours of work on the side, spanning a couple of weeks - but it think it sets a pretty high bar for pointlessnes:

This was back when:

- the internet was new and exciting, rather than just part of the background of our lives

- people used video tape recorders

- "multimedia" was a field of its own, and people made a fuss about it

I got a contract to write a program in Macromedia Director (which was what ruled the multimedia roost before an upstart program called "Flash" came along) which would take a number of still pictures and emit them as a short Quicktime movie, with each picture only on screen for a couple of frames. Definitely not the hardest bit of work I've ever done.

What was it for? Someone had had the idea that the best way of getting real estate ads in front of people was to make a 15 or 20 second movie consisting of dozens of static real estate ads, which would be broadcast on TV at the end of... what? Some news or current affairs show I think. Potential homebuyers would tape this on their VCRs and the go through it frame by frame, carefully reading each ad.

As you can imagine, this was before people had much bandwidth, and long before real estate moved online.

By some miracle this actually got aired a couple of times before the idea sunk into oblivion.
Perhaps it's because it's not up to date? As the page says:

GENERATED AT: 2024-03-18
That was just an employee towing the party line at a talk.
This looks really cool, congrats and thank you!
Is there a plan for an iOS application somewhere in the future?
Italian SPID?
I still happily develop on an i7-950 with 24GB of RAM from 13 years ago. I just haven't been able to justify the minimal performance improvements from upgrading vs all the other things my family needs.
Ironically this could cause the year of Linux!
AI is a clear negative from where I stand.

As of last week, there are two new AI enabled cameras in
my building, that are connected directly to the police.

One of my banks recently started using (a completely useless) OpenAI chatgpt, while lying to me that I am talking to a live agent.

When Googling something,
I now skip the first page of results altogether, because it's all unendings walls of AI generated garbage.

I can't read Twitter, Reddit and many other sites now, because they want to sell the content to AI training companies themselves.

Up to 20% of my time on the web is now spent solving captchas, that are used to 1) help train AI and 2) to protect from AI scrapers.

AI sends all my useful email to junk folder, so I now have to check two folders instead of one.

Creative people are losing jobs right and left because AI can produce shitty "art" much cheaper. And this shitty "art" is now everywhere, polluting my brain.

AI uses enormous amount of energy and contributes to climate catastrophe.

AI is actively used to kill people in both currently ongoing wars.

Today's Guardian: China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns.
Not a film, but 'Apollo: Race to the Moon' by Murray and Cox is a book covering the engineering and management efforts that went into Apollo, and is the closest, most interesting and entertaining thing I've found that is similar in spirit to the LEM episode of 'From the Earth to the Moon.'
This is just speculation but, a shift in software engineering philosophy. The software of early probes was viewed, as a fixed part of the flight avionics and command sequencer. It was programmed well in advance to allow physical manufacture of the ROMs, tested as a whole unit, and the software became fixed quite early on in the project. Like a simple microcontroller, basically.

By the late 70s the modern understanding of software development was taking hold. They wanted to be able to download arbitrary programs, as needed, in flight. And so instead of having it mostly in ROM, the Voyager computers are like any other general purpose computer and all their main memory is RAM.

Updating a live system in RAM isn't as risky as it might sound when you consider there are three different computers on board, each dually redundant, serving a supervisor role for the other two.
4090 works fine on Linux.
macOS ARM is not a solution for getting more than 10 years out of a computer. 9-10 is about the max lifecycle of a Mac, including the trailing security updates following 6-7 years of support.
Wouldn't that apply to all cloud providers, not just AWS? All of them are heavily based on open source software, from Linux, KVM/Xen, and K8s to MySQL/Postgres, Kafka, Cassandra, etc.?
It's not a 10 year old OS unless you believe Windows 11 is a fundamentally different kernel and Win32 API version with major backwards incompatibility - which we know isn't the case.
Do it! Every day Linux is better and better than before, where as windows is... not so good.

Sure there are edge cases like having to use Libre Office instead of Word, but just think of that $100/y saving you'll be having by switching! & Possibly even get a more responsive system!
When looking at a Linux kernel build problem last week I noticed how gmake still tries to handle SCCS by default. So if another level of obfuscation is needed for the next supply chain attack it is ready to be used.
Ostensibly this was the same deal they made with Windows XP: "We're not forcing anyone to move to Vista, we're just dropping support for XP. You don't have to upgrade if you don't want to - but of course you do want, who doesn't want to have the latest and greatest, right?"

Turned out, a lot of people accepted that deal and stayed on XP. So many that MS got increasingly upset and put up pressure by adding nag screens, etc.

I'm completely sure, should enough people here actually try and stay in Win10, they will do the same. Especially since the main motivation for Win11 seems to be additional capabilities for DRM/locking down the system, so MS has a specific motivation to get as many people as possible to switch.
Curious, thats quite high RAM, hows the performance? Do you experience lag?
>you contract with another business to employ them

That another business is liable to pay them
> the networking can be disabled in the hypervisor

The hypervisor is software. Software has bugs. I'm sure the NSA has some hypervisor escape zero-days...
Eyecandy – Visual Technique Library
Location: Iran, Tehran
Remote: Yes.
Willing to relocate: Yes.
Tools: Figma / Adobe XD / Sketch / Zeplin illustrator / Photoshop / InDesign Rhino 3D / Matrix / Jitter Prototyping / Wireframing / HTML CSS / UX Research / Wordpress
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I'm Zahra Jamali, and I'm all about creating digital experiences that feel like home to users. For 3 years, I've been diving deep into the world of UI/UX design, where I've picked up a few tricks along the way.
Already being done with glasses [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/05/loose-fr...
I use word and excel via Playonlinux, a Wine front end.
For those with large screens to watch it on, Apollo 11 is a heartbreakingly beautiful documentary of the first moon landing using restored film material.

While the software engineering aspects are left to the more obscure corners of the Apollo lore, Margaret Hamiltons groundbreaking contributions to the program should be known to enyone who programs professionally. Her teams work does show up, as the Apollo landing computer runs out of memory during the landing:

- "1202 Alarm"
- "1202? It's executive overflow, if it does not occur again we are fine"

They were fine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_(2019_film)
Weak antitrust enforcement in decades prior allowed Microsoft to gain a near monopoly over desktop operating systems.

Now that the monopoly is established, users don't need to be kept happy.
> nobody can use its code on open-source projects any more

This just shows you have no idea what sspl entails. It states you can use it for whatever you want, but if you want to provide the product as a service, you need to share all your infrastructure code for providing the service.

Its basically agpl with a carve-out for AWS and that is so valid because AWS are vultures. They probably make the most money in the world from postgres but aren't even in the top 3 contributors[0].

[0] - https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/importance-of-giving-back-...
> from all the extra weight.

It ain't just the weight. Military jump situations are seldom optimized for joint safely - jumping at night, landing on rough terrain, etc. And neither military culture nor hostile defending forces encourage a "if you think you might have injured a joint, then remain in place and signal for medical attention..." approach.

(My cousin served from the later 70's to early 10's, mostly in the 5th Special Forces Group. Plenty of action, but rather tight lipped on details - as he should be.)
The whole open source model is scratching each others back but your own just a little bit more. But you make it sound as if aws was hypocritical for contributing and at the same time making money with it. Well ehh, isn't that the whole deal?
Home server. I was running a home media server on an Ubuntu derivative but I switched to Open Media Vault after my Ethernet port became corrupted in the OS. Now most of my services are in their own docker containers.
Nope, that machine has a 512GB SSD and runs just as fast as modern corporate dev spec laptops I've used with the same core count. That being said, my static analyzer would definitely benefit from a more modern CPU!
The fact that no one here mentions 'aliens', given the headline, disappoints me.
Couldn't you declare a variable that is mapped to the danger zone and canary it.
That's the anti-capitalist narrative where AWS is the root cause for a small heroic company called Redis to defend themselves against the evil capitalist thieves.

In reality, the vast majority of commits on Redis in recent history weren't coming from Redis the company (a VC funded entity looking to do an IPO) at all but from the collective users of Redis. Which include such small companies as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc. many of whom have a long history of having offered Redis as part of their cloud platforms. Redis was benefiting enormously from these contributions. The notion that VCs somehow own this codebase and are the victim of other public companies abusing their intellectual property is nonsensical.

They unilaterally created a fork of the up until then open source code base that all these companies have been contributing to. This is completely legal under the BSD license and they are well within their rights to do so. Just like every other user of Redis. Including the before mentioned large software companies. But unlike Redis, they continue to contribute to the open source code base and share the code. It's Redis that has turned all greedy and capitalist here, not AWS. Redis never paid AWS for their contributions. Or Google. Or Microsoft. That's how open source works.

This developer community is of course continuing to work on the various forks that they already had (for the purpose of developing and contributing back changes) and will continue to share code with each other. Why would they stop doing that? Nominally, Valkey, which has been created under the Linux Foundation seems to be emerging as the dominant shared fork used for that. AWS is merely announcing that they indeed plan to rally behind that one.

It's logical, sensible, and completely consistent with what they have been doing for many years, which is to offer a Redis/Valkey based service to their users and collaborate with other users and companies on the open source code base. I expect more announcements from the vast majority of companies using redis in the next weeks. The only thing that changed is that Redis the company cut themselves loose from that ecosystem. Most of the code and business was never theirs. They owned neither the copyright nor the moral rights to any of that.
Surprisingly, I still get a buzz from learning new tricks on Linux.

Back in the early 2000's as a practicing psychotherapist, a colleague had her laptop stolen from her car with her client files. At the time even I knew that there was a recovery disk called "trinity rescue" that removed the password from windows machines.

This for me was the drive to learn about encryption, privacy and security especially when managing confidential stuff like client files.

So. full disk encryption was the beginning to a whole new world for me. Bring on Linux. Dumped my old windows 95 and windows ME operating systems and installed Linux. Ubuntu and Linux mint back then.

I must say that more and more counsellors and psychotherapists are returning to paper files locked in secure containers. As we have all learnt over the years, nothing is safe online or on your PC, laptop. For without confidentiality there is no trust.

In the early days of the internet I noticed that my sisters wifi password was her surname and post code, so I started looking onto wifi hacking. 6 digit passwords were the norm back then, how times have changed. This is the arena I learned most about linux and its tools.

The buzz of getting the hash with aircrack-ng and then running hashcat or JTR to crack it. Building very large password databases. learned basic sed, awk, grep, sort, bash scripting etc.

Even though I was in my 40's then, it definitely appealed to the 15 year old introvert inside me. I never had any intention to do anything criminal, it was, for me, always just the challenge.

Plus being a psychotherapist, all that empathy and humanity back then, for balance sake, I needed to use and develop the other hemisphere of my brain.

Linux and open source for me is still the way to an egalitarian free society.
The linux society way versus the Microsoft society way.

Recently I found and installed the rust version of coreutils.

I promote linux to everyone I meet. I install it for anyone who is interested.
I love this.

What would keep me from using it is that my handwriting is bad,
but worse it is easily recognizable.

I guess if I had a typewriter (remember those) I could use it
to fill out the postcard.

If I glued it to a regular sheet of paper I might be able to
write on the postcard by trail and error.
I think the postcard could be too big and hard to make it through
the printer.

I could buy printer sheets with lables on it and blue those in.
That I might be my best idea so far, but still a typewriter
would make it simple.

or just print it out on regular sheet of paper with margins
and all ensuring i keep it to the right size and then glue that on.
That is even easier.
Wondering if Excel VBA Macro works with this ?
> If I was the power distribution owner I would not trust the drone meters.

Understandable.

> then all the drone has to do is authenticate a valid customer id for billing

I mean you can ask for anything, but how do you police it? If the drone is by a recognisable entity doing legitimate things sure you can fine them if they don’t comply. But what do you do with literal fly-by-night operators?
Karpathy's "Neural Networks: Zero-to-hero" series has been very useful for me: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThs...
I view the manned space program back then as something highly pathological. It was enormously expensive and arguably of little benefit. Do taxpayers really need to be on the hook for prestige of the government (read: politicians)? The adulation of astronauts as heroes was just part of the sickness.
> Qubes is awesome, but it's no substitute for an air gap.

In many cases it's even more secure, especially if you're constantly exchanging untrusted files via USB sticks: https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#how-does-qubes-os-compare-to-u...
Many people can't upgrade.

Running an unsupported and insecure OS on the internet is untenable.

Windows 10 may be a 10 year old OS but Windows 11 has only been around for 2.5 years.

Last I checked, Windows was also an end-user product and not just for industries.

There will absolutely be computers that are less than 5 years old that will go to e-waste.
If I offered a paid service where you could pay me $20 a month and I would draw you copyrighted works that are in my internal neural network that would also be illegal
been playing on a 3070 quite happily on linux for the last year or so, on a dual boot win11/fedora box... but after i installed fedora i never booted into win11 again!

Just forked out for a 4070 ti super so i toy with some AI stuff... when it arrives I'm doing a clean fresh build. Fedora only. no windows at home anymore.

While I would loved to have bought an AMD GPU, the power suck on those high end cards is an order of magnitude more than the Nvidia
Interestingly, the only religious scripture that has any chapter dedicated to the concept similar to wormhole is the Quran Chapter 70 or surah Al-Maarij, and translated literally as "The Ways of Ascent" [1],[2].

There is also another Quran Chapter 17 or surah Al-Isra' where Muhammad performed Isra' from Mecca to Baitul Maqdis in Jerusalem and then from there performed the ascension to heaven or Mi'raj, or more popular known as Isra' Mi'raj event that is believed to use this special facility of Maarij for the ascension to heaven. This event is considered holidays in most Muslim countries where solat or pray (second pillar of Islam) was first officially prescribed [3].

[1]Al-Maarij:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Maarij

[2] Wormholes:

https://www.miracles-of-quran.com/wormholes.html

[3] Isra' and Mi'raj:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isra%27_and_Mi%27raj
Nearly every game will just work, unless you play a Competitive Game with a kernel anti-cheat. (Looking at you valorant). Https://protondb.com search for the game(s) you play, and hey presto it's fine.

Obviously it's primarily targeted at steam games, Lutris will sort you out with any other windows game (a game manager like steam but for _nearly every_ game)
It's nearly impossible to compete with AWS on hosting. People host their stuff on AWS, it's so much easier to take the fully integrated solutions of AWS than a third party vendor that they have realistically no chance of competing. That plus the fact that a competitor wanting to sell to AWS customers would have to host their own offering on AWS for bandwidth cost and latency reasons, and being forced to pay a competitor to play is always a sign that unfair competition is going on.

The rule of thumb is that you should be either be a platform or participate in the competition on that platform but never do both (applies to App Store, Amazon Marketplace, etc etc)
Kinda like "what type of decision would you never make with a Magic 8 Ball?".
$10 is half a day's wage where I live. Do I not deserve internet search?
The film "It's quieter in the twilight" might be of interest to folks on this thread. I saw it on Amazon Prime, but I think it is available on quite a few platforms, according to https://www.itsquieterfilm.com/where-to-watch
The only brainwashing is by companies who built their customer base and reputation on open source convincing anyone that changing the rules is a fair thing to do to the community that made them successful. The idea that changing the Redis license will keep people from moving to AWS’s hosted version is sadly delusional. But bailing on open source entirely does ensure that many folks will no longer give Redis a second glance.

What happened here is not that AWS and Valkey forked Redis. Rather, Redis forked itself into a closed system and Valkey et al are picking up the torch of the open source project.
Karpathy’s video “Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out” helped me a lot:

https://youtu.be/kCc8FmEb1nY
When wizards and orcs came to death row
Anti-crime humps in medieval Venice
No, not given the people who created Redis, built distribution, made it a standard didn’t get paid. Open source isn’t about letting someone else gain from your work. It’s about openness. That’s why it’s of course in AWS’ benefit to support a fork. They claim to have helped the project therefore should be trusted going forward, despite latching onto it after the work was done to gain adoption. That’s fairly controlling and manipulative.
Or about 1/30th of your salary, here.
The fact that Apple has not gone for it yet tells a lot about the actual usability of such devices imho.
I think a MARD of <= 14 would be required to be useful.
Gakken Ex-System
In at lest some (many?) companies AGPL and SSPL are not in the list of allowed licenses (developers not allowed to use open sources components unless they have one of approved licenses). Even if technically they can use Redis not breaking SSPL, lawyers often err on a side of caution.
Some people have a higher tolerance for abuse and I think we are the canary in the coal mine, the first to be killed by the enshittification and a warning to other users.

Even VSCode is starting to turn to shit. They are adding all this voice bloat to VSCode, at no time ever while programming have I ever wanted to leave a voice comment, it's inefficient and stupid. I could understand if it was a plugin or extension but to add it to the core? Plus all the other garbage they are shoveling in it which could have just been extensions. They have lost the plot. Also I feel it getting a little sluggish to the point where I am planning on finding a good enough past version and locking on it and rejecting all future updates.

With the March update the only thing that seemed it could be useful was the "locked scrolling" feature.
Been using Fastmail for several years now, and Kagi for several months. Can heartily recommend both
> arguable it took the rise of Git and Github for them to be used nearly everywhere.

This is fairly accurate according to my experience. It seemed absolutely crazy to me when I started computer science at uni in the early 2000s that nobody was using version control. It wasn't even mentioned as a thing we might want to look into. I had to go and look for something and found SVN. I ran my own server and thought it would be perfect for when we had a group piece of work, but I was unable to convince the rest of the group to install the weird software and cooperate. By '09 I'd discovered git and it was a breath of fresh air.

> SCCS stored each version’s delta along with metadata ... In principle, it is how most version control systems work today.

I think this is one of the most misleading and confusing things people seem to get taught about version control systems. Whether they store deltas or not underneath is actually an irrelevant implementation detail. But surely it's easier to think of version control systems as storing version? It's right there in the name! It's not called a delta control system.