skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not if the network blocks QUIC in its entirety to force clients to fallback to HTTP1. I'm pretty sure the network I'm currently on does this.

But, it looks like the type of fingerprinting in the article utilizes the fact that VPN connected devices are only connected to and sending data mostly to only one host, which using QUIC won't help with - you'd need to add some sort of "noisemaking" functionality involving sending bogus packets outside the tunnel, or possibly route VPN traffic across multiple nodes before forwarding to the actual vpn server ala Tor (as they propose in the conclusion).
I generally copy / paste the whole transcript into Notepad++ then search it there as a workaround
I'm clearly not basing everything on my experience and pointed to a medical researcher Dr. Jessica Eccles who is doing large studies. Like many people who end up in this state I talk to many other people who also ended up in this state.

The advent of covid and the long covid that has brought with it has resulted in a large number of people who were previously well and are now very sick. There are public studies done around this cohort and I've done a number of private studies of > 60 people with long covid and I have the WGS of > 15 people who have the SNPs that I'm interested in - which is a rather large number for a 'rare' disease and especially large for a private person.

Attribution is difficult, it's very easy to mistake one thing for another, disambiguation requires careful consideration.
Sometimes it’s still hard to tackle people psychology who are used to “comfort” of the “sta[b]le” branches.

So at work I came up with the following observation: if you are a consumer and are afraid of unpredictable events at head of master/main branch - if you use the head of master/main from 21 days ago, you have 3 weeks of completely predictable and modifiable future.

Any cherry picks made are made during the build process, so there is no branch divergence - if the fix gets up streamed it is not cherry picked anymore.

Thus, unlike with stable branches, by default it converges back to master.

“But what if the fix is not upstreamed ?” - then it gets to be there, and depending on the nature of the code it bears a bigger or smaller ongoing cost - which reflects well the technical debt as it is.

This has worked pretty well for the past 4-5 years and is now used for quite a few projects.
Ohhhhh it's finally out! I know he's been working on it for ages. it looks beautiful.

Not sure if I'll get it though. It costs a lot (I won't call it expensive because I know the quality is worth it). And it takes up a lot of space.

I already have the PiDP-8 and PiDP-11. This PiDP-10 looks like even better quality. Wow.

The attention to detail in these kits is awesome. He spent so much time getting the frontpanel just right, with the multicolour printing, the blur layer etc. I used to have access to a real PDP-11 and I have to say it's really well done.
IE didn't lose in the market when Firefox came along. IE lost when the government fined Microsoft billions of dollars and forced it to relinquish it's monopoly position.

Meanwhile the current market is Chrome, reskinned Chrome and Safari. Hardly a healthy marketplace.
> Procrastination isn't poor time management; it's poor emotional management. Be gentle with yourself. Know that you can be scared, frustrated, or angry but don't have to let those emotions define you. CBT works really well here. Don't define emotions as "good" or "bad". Define them as "useful". If the emotion you feel isn't useful, acknowledge it, but realize it's fleeting and let it pass on. Some people like to visualize emotions as clouds drifting by.

As someone who has suffered from depression and related procrastination, thank you for your kind words.
It worked for Wayland... sort of.
For goods that has utility, like a car, wrong.

For investments of which the only purpose is to make more money, right.

Of course it's not that black and white, since every investment technically has at least two utility purposes: 1) hedging 2) emotional utility (the false hope of getting rich).
Regarding monoliths...when there's an issue, now everyone who made a PR is subject to forensics to try to identify cause. I rather make a separate app that is infrequently changed, resulting in less faults and shorter investigations. Being on the hook to try to figure out when someone breaks "related" to my team's code, is also a waste of developer time. There is a middle ground for optimizing developer time, but putting everything in the same app is absurd, regardless of how much money it makes.
Looks nice! Congrats on the launch.
Nvidia. Pretty much the only founder-led megacompany, still disrupting the world. Pushing forward at a time when the competition decided to pull the brake on dGPU development, pushing forward on gpgpu long before it was cool (many years of “haha Jensen said nvidia is a software company, what a moron).

People are butthurt prices are creeping up in the post-Moores law price era, but that’s just kind of the economics of the product. Gpus are the most sensitive to silicon pricing, being the biggest piece of silicon consumers use on a daily basis and all. They’ve always been intimately tied to Moores law (which is in fact jensen’s original insight about the niche that led to the company in the first place).

A 4070 at $500 is actually less than an inflation-adjusted GTX 670 after all, $600 is barely an increase. If that’s your reason for hating probably the most innovative silicon company on the planet, well…

It’s also a situation like valve where they probably aren’t the most innovative they could possibly be under a more competitive market… but their competition is so bad they can’t help constantly shooting themselves in the head constantly. Like apple/metal is probably the only real serious alternative at this point.
What you're describing is exactly the kind of problematic culture difference that I'm warning about. This is what I said earlier:

> because the organization's culture stays synchronous and in-person-oriented

Asynchronous does not mean slow, but it is different and requires structuring your work differently. Remote works much better asynchronously, but at an organization that has too few remote employees will never learn to do that.

It's not that you're doing something wrong or that they are, it's that your organization is designed to be incompatible with remote workers. If you're not willing to adapt, then you're absolutely on the right track by phasing out remote, but don't take your anecdotes from working in an organization that refused to change as evidence that remote doesn't work.

> When our senior engineers are physically available I can put myself in their office or at their desk and demand they help me.

Slight tangent, but this is exactly why a lot of people like myself will never go back into an office. I don't want to be paid to be at someone's beck and call whenever they want to interrupt me, I want to be given a large chunk of work that I can work on independently without interruption unless I'm specifically designated to be on call as part of a regular rotation (at which point you can interrupt me just as well on slack as you could in the office).
If only they still made Heritage Minutes.
The flip side is of course that in this scenario they would have to finance most improvements. In Linux land the cost of development is shared across many, which one might expect to yield a generally better product.
When it becomes beneficial to game a system (fame, power, money), people will learn to game the system. "Weird Nerds" weren't drawn to their interests with the intent to game the system. Sometimes "weird nerds" can achieve more success if they find a political animal who recognizes the benefit of teaming with them.
I think it's similar to one thing I learned about dog training. If your dog starts freaking out and barking uncontrollably at another dog, because they're afraid, once you get them away there's a sense of relief. "Oh good, I got away. Whatever I did that time definitely worked."

It takes an active approach to pierce through anxiety and fear. Repeatedly becoming terrified of something will more likely just make us feel bad, and helpless. Actively perceiving something frightening as tolerable is the kind of exposure that helps.
> a social life which is satisfied by coworkers.

Why does every argument against working in an office end in a (at best thinly veiled) insult that these people must have no social life?

Is it that hard to believe that a person who enjoys working in an office also has a social life outside of work?

> Your scenario can only work with no family

Obviously false. People with families have successfully (and unsuccessfully) worked in offices for decades.
I generally follow this process:

1. Get it working: write the code for the desired behavior, not worrying about making it beautiful, testable, whatever.

2. Get it working well: manually testing and finding edge cases, refactoring to get it testable and writing tests to solidify behavior.

3. Get it working fast: optimizing it to be as fast as I need it to be (can sometimes skip this step). No tests should change here, but only new tests.
XP-Dev alternative with support of SVN
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>It always bums me out when people just want to

In school people will say things like "I want to program video games!" and you never hear "I want to work for a bank and file 100 lines of paperwork for every line of code I write", but at the end of the day that bank job and that industrial robot job are the ones that typically pay a living and what most of those people that play around with the stuff and end up in the industry do at the end of the day.
> Is anyone using it?

Not really
Two California doctors accused of gross negligence for excessive opiate prescriptions -- The Medical Board of California recommended that Drs. Robert D. Siew and Elisa Cuellar Alvarado have their licenses revoked or suspended
Show HN: SecBrain – AI Voice recorder, because I always forget my ideas
Hey, Brazilian maker here!

I always have many ideas for solutions for my products or code bugs.

And I use voice memos, notes, and paper notes every day! A lot of them. After some time, I decided to develop an app. I tried to create something fast, so I used Flutterflow to make 80% of the features and coded the rest in typescript inside the SupaBase.

The main thing is: Record audio, and the app will transcribe, optimize the text to remove redundancy or errors, create a title, select an emoji, and classify with tags.

After that, I put other functions like Enrich to generate two more paragraphs to give some more ideas, and the tasks function transforms my notes into a task list.

If you also have this problem, test it, and feel free to ask any questions or give any feedback/advice.

Thank you very much.
> The publishers note that other red flags include extremely low pricing. This is due to the Pirate Sellers offering books in PDF format when “legitimate distributors rarely, if ever, sell their textbooks in PDF form.” That Google allegedly helps users to refine their searches by adding ‘pdf’ via a dedicated button, only makes matters worse, they add.

Yep, instead legitimate publishers sell in some proprietary format that is only readable by special software that screams their hate at legitimate customers by a horrifying UX.
The AI Effect, but for robots.
> And if you go by that definition you see that things like dishwasher, washing machines, elevators, full authority digital engine controls, surface to air missiles are all robots.

> But nobody, not even roboticist, calls those things robots. You don't need a roboticist to load your dishes, or to get to the floor of your meeting, or shoot down an enemy airplane.

I guess I'm a roboticist, and yeah, I call all of those robots. Those are _tantastic_ robots that just get their jobs done.
Do you mean moving away from using Nginx, like Cloudflare moved to a custom replacement? [1]

I don't think that's as needed for Netflix. My understanding is their CDN nodes are using Nginx to serve static files --- their content management system directs off peak transfers, and routes clients to nodes that it knows has the files. They don't run a traditional caching (reverse) proxy, and they most likely don't hit a lot of the things Cloudflare was hitting, because their use case is so different.

(I haven't seen a discussion of how Netflix handles live events, that's clearly a different process than their traditional prerecorded media)

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-t...
Well, I was thinking vs. commercial organic.... and basically home garden labour is free!

But, yeah - farmers are very clever people.
I think the point about Tuxedo is, that they are selling the (rebranded) laptops with explicit Linux support. So you can have the trust, that things work. That is often the truth for many laptops, but few other manufacturers guarantee that.
I don't think using DRM makes a company evil, unless the DRM is so intrusive it screws with the rest of the system (Sony rootkits, Denuvo, etc.) It's just a reality of digital marketplaces where piracy is rampant. Lootboxes and always-on servers actually kinda help with that, at the expense of truly being a subscription and not ownership.

I know HN skews wanting to "own" games, but that's just not a big deal to most gamers. Physical media and DRM-free have always competed with Steam and GamePass and uPlay etc, but the latter are increasingly popular.

Countries are free to have their values, of course, but regardless, I don't think the presence of lootboxes in a couple games overrides all the other good Valve has done for the PC gaming community.

Other companies can (and do) implement loot boxes too. Fortnite's are much worse, being pay to win (in its original Save the World coop mode, not the more popular Battle Royale mode), but Epic's game store and exclusivity policies are much worse for the community. Activision, EA, Ubi, etc have similar lootboxes, often with similar DRM, but without any of the good of Steam and the customer focus of Valve.

Those are industry wide problems that probably should be resolved with regulation. But that doesn't make Valve a good or bad company, IMO. Of course others can disagree.

As for parents and kids, yeah, it's another discussion, but sounds like the same old thing about video games ruining kids. Whether it's Wolfenstein and violence or lootboxes or TikTok addiction or whatever, it still comes down to parental guidance. Its not an excuse, it's just a reality that kids grow up with way more technology and marketing than in the past, and that's a cultural issue way bigger than any one company (or government, for that matter). That's not on Valve.
> Same goes for a certain distro that at some point thought that their users was just people who couldn't afford Macs and threw out an IMO rather well functioning Gnome 2 setup for a what I consider a clone of the desktop of Mac OS X that had almost all of the problems from Mac OS X but unlike couldn't run Mac OS X software.

Ooh! Ooh! Lemme guess! Are we talking about… Deepin Linux? Or is it Elementary OS? I hope it’s not Pop OS, I’m on that now but haven’t seen COSMIC yet
Spherity GmbH is hiring Software Engineers - (https://www.spherity.com/)

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Spherity is building decentralized identity management solutions to power the 4th Industrial Revolution, bringing secure identities to machines, algorithms, and other non-human entities.

The client focus is primarily on technical industries like pharmaceuticals, mobility and logistics. In particular, Spherity is supporting the introduction of identity solutions in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market, which is expected to have a value of over €400 billion by 2030 and 75 billion connected devices by 2025.

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The reason is that there was a recent controversy[0]. Many people have moved to alacritty/kitty/wezterm.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432446
> "What I know is that there is no evidence that we are going to get human level artificial intelligence any time soon"

Disagree with this statement - it's too broad. There are plenty of tasks where AI's can fully outperform humans, and the number of tasks where AI's can fully outperform humans seems to increase every week.

Then it depends what we mean by "human level" - the median human is different to the smartest person in the room.
> which using QUIC won't help with
curious why not?
Yeah, the whole commercial real
estate thing is overblown. I think it's simpler: executive-level positions attract people who don't get very much fulfillment from their home lives.

They get paid enough to have double-shift coverage on children, or they don't have children at all. Since they don't have to be home as much, they aren't. They don't mind the commute because they get to drive a fancy car, park in a reserved spot, and are usually on the road before the traffic starts. They get all their jollies from being in an office, talking to other people with the same lifestyle, and they can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to be in an office (aside from malice or laziness). And they derive their energy from seeing all the activity -- people going to meetings, milling about, etc. They see that stuff and conclude that yes, problems are being solved, innovation is happening, and that gets them excited. It's all just vibes. No one actually doing the math on this stuff has seen a slam-dunk case for draconian in-office policies.
Yeah I rode these a fair bit when they were available in my area and they basically just cut the power (or reduced it massively) when entering an area that is out of bounds like parks etc. It's not really dangerous because you can propel the scooter manually in those areas - it's just a bit tiring because it's not light like a normal kick scooter.
Based on the first article, it's all cosmetic items, which I think matters a lot to the ethics.
That sounds... terrible.

Having to constantly put out fires is always a sign of larger issues, especially in an engineering context.
I grew up in the 1990s, when it was fashionable to teach kids to “question authority” and “think for themselves.” The problem is, most people aren’t smart enough to think for themselves and come to reliable conclusions on any remotely complicated subject matter. During COVID, surveys showed that virtually everyone had erroneous beliefs about the risks of the disease (either vastly over or under estimating the risk). Most people didn’t understand the statistics and come to rational conclusions, they just clung to their own trust networks.

I think that’s the direct cause of why anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy theorists are so common today. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the generation most supportive of Trump is Gen X: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/16/voters-grou.... We spent a couple of generations telling kids not to trust authority, and we act shocked that they now don’t trust authority.
What does grinding leetcode mean here?

The way you prepare is important. A focused approach yields more learning.

Math is typically taught in a focused approach that builds on itself.

Random leetcode grinding does not build on itself.

But non random leetcode grind where you focus on specific topics can yield an underlying intuition similar to the one you would gain from a math first background.

I would argue that in the vast majority of cases, this approach has a better ROI of your time.

Interviewers seeking to "expose you" with math tricks are probably not people you want to be working with.
Man, that is a costly domain TLD to be playing around with. Nice 2-character domain you got. Best of luck and have fun.
It’s ridiculous. Everyone is investing in Newcomen’s Engine for the Raising of Water by Fire - but it’s just a flash in the pan, and nothing can be accomplished by steam that can’t be accomplished by a good horse.
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Sounds incredibly dangerous while also being ineffectual.
Fascinating. Is “the future of transportation” shutting down access if you don’t conform to en vogue cultural shibboleths?
I have tried to de-couple from big tech, and each time I changed something, it has been better. Kagi is much better than google search. I use proton for mail/calendar/(vpn sometimes), and no ads with the same features. I have my own domain that I can take where ever I want to take it to without fear for future account access.

Android -> Graphene is also a very nice change. The minimal UI and minimal features are nice. The reality is that smart phones have not had a significant innovation since 2012. Most newer features are net-negative for users except better cpu/memory/camera/security.

I have been on linux for a while, but have backup laptops with windows/osx. The linux experience is just better. Most major distros get out of your way and let you work. I find that if I want to make a complex configuration, I can get it working as opposed to it either works or doesn't on windows/osx. Less telemetry. Less new features trying to creep in. My desktop environment is essentially unchanged for a decade unless I changed it. I have an immense level of control, and I don't wrestle with anyone or anything. Ads are blocked at the OS level. Linux is stable on servers, and its stable for desktop users too. The only app that I missed is photoshop, but learning gimp felt like it was worth it and even more so with recent news.

In some ways, linux has the most innovative/cutting edge desktop experience because developers are entirely unrestricted. I have an i3 configuration and watched those features get backported to gnome then windows. As a developer, I often get the easiest access to newest technologies like docker or rust. Comparing install instructions between linux/osx/windows is often comparing one line of bash to 3-5 steps on the others. Scripting out setting up a new install is easy.

I set up a small wireguard server for a vpn. I clone my files to another server over ssh. I use github to share code and config between different computers.

Learning to own your infrastructure has its benefits. Like learning how your car works or plumbing, electricity, home maintenance. It has a cost, but the results are intangible like knowledge and power.
Even if it was specifically targeted it could still be pro-gay and anti-trans. So they are drawing a long bow to say it is homophobia.
It's funny: kids ruining a murale propped up by the ruling authorities are not framed as rebels but as homophobes. I guess this is what happens when your movement stops being the underdog and gets a taste of power
The government will spend to protect the port and the city, it’s the surroundings that will go to hell. That said, the defenses they built are sinking a little faster than they thought

-a resident
My favourite laptop I ever owned was from Tuxedo. It was a 17-inch screen diagonal thing with a removable battery and a DVD drive. Unfortunately after about 4 years the CMOS battery died and I tried replacing it myself. Managed to snap the battery holder in 2. Biggest mistake of my life, it's impossible to find another laptop with those specs (17 inch, removable battery, DVD drive).