skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
interesting (the ‘materialize’ option in Arq). I wonder what it does to the files it ‘materializes’ after the backup … does it leave them on the local disk or does Arq instruct the service (dropbox or icloud) to make it cloud only again? I guess I’m wondering about the case where the total cloud footprint is larger than the local disk footprint.
That’s strong commitment to sticking with the original tech stack if it’s not just reskinned the error pages
I know people many suffered with this and in some cases the suffering was real. For most people it was just an inconvenience.

And I am a bit ashamed to say, the panic from users users who could not get to Office 365 or their Windows PC cannot boot still brings a bit of a smile to my face. I think there is a German word for this :)

A relative worked from my house for those days because their internet was also broken. We worked for 2 different companies, me on a Linux Workstation, him on Windows 11 spending time with his help desk with me "translating".

One lesson learned, the Help Desk people should be trained to avoid Tech Words when dealing with people who's workflow is just Email and Excel. Both the Help Desk and my relative had nothing but a high level of frustration dealing with each other.
My parents were both medical doctors. They were extremely concerned about hypochondria, to the point where it was essentially forbidden to think about one’s own body or health. To me that’s just as unhealthy as hypochondria, and in a sense its inverse.
It's fine that it CAN be used online.

It's a deal breaker for me if it it (even once) HAVE to be.

It's a deal breaker if it artificially limits functionality, for example, by only providing dictionary functionality via an online service, or a substantially worse offline alternative.

It's a deal breaker if it continually nags me to connect it. It can ask once or twice, or show a "disconnected" status icon just fine, but it shouldn't nag, it shouldn't pop up dialogs reminding me to connect or otherwise hinder me in using it for it's primary purpose.

It should be able to fulfill it's primary purpose (for an ebook reader: provide a comfortable and convenient reading experience) should be 100% available without me needing to ever put it online.

Forced software update on first boot is an absolute deal-breaker. Any kind of enforced scheduled update is a deal breaker.

As for the motivation: Control, predictability, reliablity.

Control: I want to buy a product that is in some known state, and then myself decide if I want to risk an update (for an ebook reader that's so badly done that it needs a software update to do the one thing it's supposed to do, that's a nogo).

Predictability: I generally don't want my stuff to change, I like my stuff for what it is, and if I want it to change, I want it to be MY decision, and not something forced upon me.

Reliability: I prefer the bugs I know, and can work around today, to the bugs that I don't know, and must learn to work around tomorrow.

Reliability is more than simply uptime for me, it's also that I'm able to rely on exact behaviors, I want to be able to rely on the thing to behave the same way tomorrow and in 10 years, as it does today. I want to be able to learn how it works, and not have to throw away what I know at random times for no reason.
one server down here, best luck to the engineers.
"currently no estimated time for resolution"
Again, the same rant about "social medias" and "internet".

But it is just correlated to the problem. The same kind of depression and mental issues of kids were encountered at schools in all times. It is not just social media and AI that are showing perfect girls. It is on TV, and magazines and advertisements since like forever.

And some people, like Sephora, are selling these products to kids without even a second thought, too happy by the generated benefits of not asking questions...
Japan's tourism boom is becoming a headache for its credit card companies
> Musk expect that a right wing government will align with him, and be in favor of blocking China and that would open the door for him to buy the mining companies instead..

Things in Brazil are not simple as that. Bolsonaro, the latest right wing president, did more business with china and russia than expected. He was one of the first chief of state to fly to Moscou when Russia invade Ukraine, to reinsure brazil would be neutral on this war. (same position of Lula).
dobby looms are an automated version of draw looms. Some use a draw boy, small child in the loom itself to draw up the warps as required for the patter. Later shortened to dobby.
1. iSH. Works, a bit slow and buggy.

2. repl.it supports C and C++ through a browser. They have a free plan.

3. Set up a small VPS at DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud, etc. and ssh into that. You get the most control that way. A VPS costing less than $10/mo will work.

I work exclusively on an iPad as a full-time programmer and system admin, but mostly I do that over ssh to remote servers owned by my customers.
Not everything, there are companies that do not own, or use any single windows machine for this exact reason waiting to happen. Was this worse than msblaster or? I remember that, painful.
? Why would it be suppressed for 99%?

Yeah its harder to censor people out in the open. FB and Zuck hid it - but i believe he recently said he regretted doing that.

I dont see how hiding your motivation and allowing free speech is in fact anti-free-speech.

Why do you see it as an attack? You are arguing that brazil has the right to limit free speech and that Elon should comply and censor his platform. That is what they've done in many countries, DDR for example. Do you not agree?
'Just black sky up there'–50 years on transatlantic flight speed record unbroken
You also decrease entropy by having a minimum length rule.
The point of these rules is only to forbid weak passwords.
This is why I like HN
Thanks for making OpenPanel OSS and easy to self-host!
>I think there is a German word for this :)

That would be ‘schadenfreude.’
I’m still suffering from this; somehow in this hack <<something>> happened to my LastPass account and login/unlocking it became impossible. LastPass support (rightly) can’t help, so 3 or so years later I’m still stumbling into sites that I can no longer access.

Many sites have forgotten password flows, they’re easy, but many other sites related to municipal services, etc, require hours on calls, often on hold, proving my identity and getting access reinstated.
quite funny and probably true
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SpaceX rocket explosion shredded the upper atmosphere
As a programmer and Shepherdess I can tell you that sheep have enough intelligence as is. Contrary to popular belief they are not stupid but certainly have a very different world view.
I dont believe he is altruistic - his actions in this instance is however positive and i enjoy seeing that.
It ain’t easy to make Elon look like the good guy these days. parabens!
In my opinion, the most important "infrastructure" tech companies are credit card companies and banks. It's kind of wild that all digital money-handling is done by a third party that isn't regulated like a utility.
No real insights here, just high level explanation and empty quotes from folks.

> The root cause analysis (RCA) means that a CrowdStrike programmer(s) did not check their inputs before pushing an update to the CrowdStrike Falcon Windows Sensor in production.

How is it this isn’t just automated and / or that update automatically run in a VM or something and when it crashed the rollout prevented?

It’s not a new concept…
I came to a belief recently that memorization is way too underrated of a skill. Most of programmers, myself included believe that why you should memorize something if you can look it up, but... I'm not really sure by now.

Perhaps we rely too much on our ego that we can come up with everything on the fly where we should instead look into how other crafts did it in the past?
They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headphone jack socket
> It was 2 700 km (almost 1 700 miles) and charging was not a problem.

1700 miles is two trips across Texas (which can also be done in a Tesla without a problem). I live in the US and the distances here compared to Europe still occasionally shock me.
Seems to be valid now.
No new information, just a reporter collecting quotes and pasting them onto some basics.
Private equity owned businesses are run in an even more predatory manner, not for next quarter's profits but just to extract every dime of equity as fees and services for their parent or as loan principal that can never be paid back.

And then venture-backed companies are ticking time bombs that abruptly close shop when they run out of money or are acquired, or at best themselves turn into the publicly traded companies you loathe.

"Good" companies are mostly just a consumer-friendly stage of the investment lifecycle.
AT&T was a breakup within a utility. Huge problem to have entrenched advantage and regulatory capture of phone lines. AT&T doesn't make money off of POTS or long distance land lines anymore. It's cable and mobile, so the the new company is nothing like the old one.

I agree it is depressing the degree to which our government is incapable of breaking up monopolies and restricting/penalizing anticompetitive behavior. It's just another aspect of near total political control by corporations in America.

But the laws are on the books, they are just going unenforced by DOJ, and the shadow money system that buys judicial favor in virtually all corporate cases.
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It seems like a much broader issue than disability. A general approach to difficulty switched from attempting to overcome, to acknowledging and accepting. That being said, this sounds suspiciously similar to what every older generation would say about every younger generation. I wonder if there's any data to back this up.
Surely it is AWKward?
That is incredibly interesting. I have a combination of flat feet and clenching my jaw, with a few posture issues and back/neck pain. So this gives me some insights to talk to my physio about - thanks for sharing!
never diagnose family members, i had a friend who had a mild attack of polio as a kid, and his medic dad just ignored all the first symptoms because he couldn't accept them.
Hey man, I'm getting started on the platform. Mind sharing your username?
Agreed. Apptainer is great for this use case.
AFAICT, you would be able to build and sign everything yourself.
Talking about the Baby Bells reforming is a bit misleading because not all of the Baby Bells reformed into AT&T and breaking them into other companies allowed other TelCos to grow so by the time these mergers happened there were other competitors in this space which is the entire point of breaking up these companies.
Of course, or so said your friend I assume ;)
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Hard agree with this sentiment. Large companies can wield levels of power that distort the economy, legal systems, innovation, immigration, fair competition, standards, etc.

Amazon entering a market absolutely warps that market.
Mickey Mouse Smoking: AI Image Tools Are Generating Content-Moderation Problems
AI could revolutionize app development, shifting power to individual developers and consultants. With AI coding assistants, they might build custom apps for businesses in days instead of months. These AI-powered apps could even maintain and upgrade themselves, matching or surpassing traditional software support.

This shift could level the playing field. Small businesses could access tailored software solutions without huge teams or long wait times. It's democratizing app development, potentially breaking the dominance of tech giants and creating a more balanced, competitive digital landscape.
Documentation of this seems to have disappeared into the ether, but I'm reminded of the time that glxgears (or a distro package of it?) briefly turned off FPS output by default, with the argument to turn it on being something like --i-acknowledge-that-this-tool-is-not-a-benchmark

Basically, people were complaining about "major regressions" in glxgears frame rates that were really just minor fluctuations in how long it took to clear and swap buffers, since glxgears does almost no actual rendering (by modern standards).
Quoting OP's:

|> it inspired me to create this small game.

It was inspiration, not a simulation nor it claimed to be realistic. This is the type of artistic license that game designers have always had at their disposal.
Rails 8: 15,000 requests/second with SQLite on $220/month EPYC 48-core Hetzner
i think for this kind of thing it makes sense to pop up a low-pass-filtered translucent numeric entry keyboard on top of the values being displayed, the way touchscreen controls for games like fortnite and minetest work (check out handcam streamer videos on youtube if you haven't seen this). then you can use the whole display to display the numbers you're working on, so a 3–4" screen (4000mm²?) can display dozens of numbers. maybe the numeric entry keyboard should only be open while you're holding down a numeric-entry button with your other thumb, but anyway it shouldn't occupy screen real estate; it should overlay screen real estate

you called two different things 'roll'; one of them is indeed rot in forth but the other is depth 1- roll
This site offers vague promises and little substantive information, but the worst part is the idea itself. I guarantee that no job applicants want to be handled the way they're proposing.
These sort of things happen occasionally despite all the possible safeguards you can set up. It's just gonna be something else you didn't predict and frankly the wrong thing to focus on.

The real problem this exposed is that somehow it's apparently the law for corporations to introduce a single point of failure into their entire IT system with absolutely zero fallback capacity or any workarounds at all. It's just entropy meeting stupidity.

It's like it was mandated for planes to have a built in off switch that can be triggered remotely and people then blame the company for accidentally triggering it, crashing every single one and killing everyone, instead of asking why the fuck do all planes have an off switch?!
You sound like you have been doing this for way too long to know what it takes to teach beginners.
There is a simple solution for this problem: increase the payout for people who are affected by overweight vehicles.

Have a law, define a target weight + speed and then make it REALLY expensive to insure or kill people with your car.

Also in the law: if you drive around without insurance, the car is instantly taken away from you, as it is a weapon to conduct a crime :-)

Still people will drive big cars around, but the market will limit the number of people who can pay for it. And of course: new cars only and when ownership is transferred. No additional tax for existing owners.

The market would solve this problem VERY VERY quickly.
It helps to identify if you’ve read it before.
I guess if you never put anything in `/Users/me/me` on your mac, and only ever treat it as a mirror of your desktop?
Fig leaves are proving to demonstrate strong anti-cancer properties for roughly half of cancer patients, though more testing is required because those anti-cancer properties could become toxic in excess quantities. That is evidence of plants curing diseases without a microbial origin.
Fails to load on my end right now. Firefox says:

"nvd.nist.gov has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can't add an exception to visit this site.

(...) there is nothing you can do to resolve it."
I don't think we disagree on this? Maybe I misread something...
I’m working with it every day. It’s pretty capable even today. Server side rendering is in!
If you actually want to solve the problems of monopolies and have a working free market you should. And in most countries monopolies are not allowed or frowned upon, regulation is already often in place

Look at the cat and mouse game the EU and apple are playing in regulation.

Where actually they are a full monopoly in the App Store market. Only way to solve it, is to break it up.
General market monopolies exist and always have existed due to government giving warrant to particular groups. Econ 101
Building houses? Wooden furniture? Can't imagine this getting out of fashion anytime soon. Methods and materials may change, the mission not so much.

With wooden furniture you are (at least for some time) also blocking release of stored CO2 back into atmosphere, a fate all other wood faces.
Because no one talks about units of Ws. It's all Wh or kWh. Or they talk about power instead of energy.
I'm pretty sure that there have been disk formats that only write files to consecutive sectors just like memory allocators that only return contiguous blocks of memory.

Then you need frequent compaction of the space because it ends up full of small unallocated blocks.

See https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/file-allocation-methods/
My understanding is this update crashed very consistently.
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A 30-hour workweek in America? It nearly became law
Swapy – Drag-to-swap, framework-agnostic layouts
Part of the answer is "PV is very cheap." Batteries less so, but daytime PV charging at workplaces and Tesla superchargers is a thing, and home charging at night with PV and a Powerwall (or equivalent) is too.

This is not the whole story but it contributes to why the grid doom and gloom predictions are taking longer to come true.
Also the baby bells had a physical monopoly on the last mile, which they still basically have because expensive to run multiple providers into a house for vs the monthly fees available. Wholesale got way more competitive though. Breaking up tech would not be the same because their monopoly isn't physical and would be much weaker if the parts had to operate independently.
They mean they were were using the laptops for basic bug fixing in the middle of the desert, so although the CFs are not very snappy that was not too much of an issue (compared to not having a working laptop).
I did think I had killed the CPU at the time, but being an impoverished student at the time I had no choice but to see if it was OK - and thankfully it was.

The heat was quick and intense enough that I took my finger off very quickly - it may have actually overheated and shut down faster than I took my finger (knuckle of my pinky) off, which might have saved me from a more lasting burn.
You wildly overestimate the capabilities of AI, while underestimating their cost.
It's not a political problem if somebody actually has to do the physical work of growing the crops and harvesting them. Somebody has to do them and that somebody wants to get paid for it.

If you could remove the somebody from the chain then the entire cost to produce food at that point would be "fiction", ie it would be possible to make it free. But as long as human labor is involved in the production it cannot be free.
If frustration or suffering of other people brings a good smile on your face, just because their employer has different IT policies compared to yours, that's not really cool or something to brag about, rather contrary.
Network effects like Big Tech employs ensures that inferior products will still be dominant in the market. Network effects strangle markets.

You could argue that markets are just the wrong kind of social formation for mediating software production and distribution, since software is not a commodity.
I get the feeling that we are told to look at AI for danger (there prolly is, but as of yet it not that evident to me; at this point I'd say AI is simply better and more blackboxy algorithms).

But the danger with big tech to me is much more similar to how big-MSM is dangerous.

There's a lot of proof now that big-tech + MSM have been behaving against the interests of "the people" in the C19 response and the 2020 elections.

Zukerberg was telling his C-fam to not take the vax while his platform was pushing the vax (not allowing critique of the vax) in all kinds of nasty ways.

Similar things have come out regarding the 2020 elections. Where "Russian meddling" turned out to be "DNC meddling".
Okta is inexpensive for small companies (our bill for 200+ employees is like, $3000 a year; it's a couple bucks per user per month). You can use Okta as a password manager as well - just add a new "application" and pick the choice for "shared username and password", which basically makes Okta's browser extension just autofill the password for the user. Works great for sites that don't have SSO as an option.
Fun fact: you can do even weirder shit with IP addresses, and it can break a ton of filters and other processing as well.

Take news.ycombinator.com. At the moment it resolves to 209.216.230.207 - and running curl on it will yield a redirect to the canonical domain name. But so will do "curl -v 0xD1D8E6CF" (hex) or "curl -v 3520653007" (decimal) or "curl -v 032166163317" (octal joined) or "curl -v 0321.0330.0346.0317" (octal split). And curl isn't the only application - ping on macOS works just the same.

All of that are valid representations of IP addresses that many libc/OS or whatever IP stack implementations will resolve [1] and you should be very careful when trying to check for URLs. I think there's also a binary form but can't find one that works in curl at the moment.

Funnier Fact: cURL has a bug in here. I'd expect the Host header to equal just what I wrote, not a normalized form:

$ curl -v 032166163317
* Trying 209.216.230.207:80...
* Connected to 209.216.230.207 (209.216.230.207) port 80
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: 209.216.230.207

[1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/04/19/curl-those-funny-ipv4...
Why do APIs like this even exist? There's no legitimate reason for an HTML webpage to need this, it's just creating more attack surface for bad actors.
This is amazing, represents a beautiful playground similar to the early systems, Basic, Amos, aso.
Just checked, and its indeed doing this nonsense in the browser extension (on firefox). Its implemented sensibly in the Android app, and I haven't tested the website vault viewer or the desktop app.
The rate of misdiagnosis in the medical field is genuinely frightening. Its not uncommon for chronically ill people to need 20 to hundreds of appointments to get a diagnosis for the disease they clearly have. Worse I think is all the "hysteria" and "hypochondria" misdiagnoses along the way that extend how long it takes to get the diagnosis and causes denial of treatment by other clinicians.

This stuff has a very long history and I can't tell they exist or not what I can say is that doctors miss the real condition all the time. For chronic illness the actual appointment to diagnosis rate is less than 5%, that is an enormous waste of everyones time and money and its made worse by the fact it comes along with a bad diagnosis that dismisses the patient. This is a much bigger problem than investigating someone who thinks they are ill and actually isn't.
The network of central planners is astronomically smaller than individual companies acting on their own for their own success. A central planner wouldn't know how to begin to use all that data because their motivations would be to make the impossible reality rather than let the ecosystem of the market thrive. They can say that's what they want, but their day to day would be to control the economy as a whole.
If you look at how these machines were programmed, rather than used, you'll learn a lot
Great to hear you've faced the issue too.

Certainly give it a try, let me know if you have questions. Happy to help
Lags for me as well on a recent Macbook pro. (Nice game though)
oh cool mouse!
I wrote a very small interpreter (incomplete) for a build what you want capstone project. almost everyone wrote a website or some web app but I chose to write this in C and it was one of the projects I had a lot of fun on
I'll actually go back and complete it
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