skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one nice thing about the array language style is that it's possible to talk about variations on algorithms where the relevant code snippets, being a few characters, fits inline into the discussion; more traditional vertically-oriented languages that take handfuls or dozens of lines to say the same things need to intersperse code display blocks with expository prose
From the article:

'On Vancouver Island—about 10 times closer to the mainland—the genetic diversity of any future grizzly population shouldn’t be a problem. As we’ve seen, “there’ll be males coming over to mix up the genes,” McLellan says. And now, perhaps, the odd female too."'
As ex-Nokia, it was a game changer in the US market where Symbian didn't had much luck in the market.

Symbian development community wasn't that happy with Windows on Nokia phones, that is why most pivoted into Android and iOS.

Nokia was mostly an anti-Microsot culture shop when I joined in 2004, we had HP-UX, Solaris, Red-Hat Linux and Symbian. Windows was only used as thin client.
https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/intro-to-personal-...
Name and shame doesn't work. What does work is prison terms for ceos.
What do you want that LineageOS (plus F-Droid) doesn't do?
I also mostly enjoy Sudoku variants, most of which I discovered via Geocaches, interestingly.
After solving a few I then implemented a solver with customizable constraints, if anyone's interested, should still be available here:

https://www.sudoku-solver.ch/
Specifically "Fifth Freedom" flights, but they are a minority of Emirates flights, often with a subset of the people that flew the Dubai connecting section.
Observation: no one asked
I think i enjoy hard sci-fi, if my username is any indication of the genre - it's from "A Signal Shattered" by Eric S. Nylund.

However i am curious what sort of Sci-fi you meant, where it's plausible but there's SCP/analog horror elements. Evidently a prior comment in the thread about memetics wiped an edge on the graph that would let me infer the sorts of thing you're talking about.
When they say "the arts", they generally mean high status arts.

The things young people like rarely fit into that category.
Yes it is.

It converts a regular rent payment into a one time fee, and scares the crap out of anyone thinking to do something similar.
I honestly don't understand why someone can't say "we should get rid of these bad regulations which are causing problems" without someone hearing "we should get rid of all laws of any kind whatsoever".
It's huge difference between death and kill.

Holodomor (genocide of Ukrainians by USSR) was planned for 8 years, and then carefully executed, while nobody plans deaths of starvation because of overpopulation.
Maybe they could just host the newsletter and contact form plugins to cover 97% of WordPress sites and email other plugin updates to the remaining 3% on a weekly basis?
Fisher's Fountain
It’s even hard to find the uboot patches for clockworkpi hardware, and they open source almost everything.
WebOS was absolutely amazing. The Palm Pre on the other hand felt like plastic trash. I was young enough when it came out that I was dependent on my parents to buy and pay for my phone still and I dragged my dad to a Sprint store at 5:00am to make sure we were first in line to get one so they didn't sell out. When we got there I figured I must have the wrong date because we were the entire line.

I used that Pre until the plastic shell started falling apart and by then the writing was on the wall that it wasn't going to be the next big thing for phones and I regretfully bought my first Android phone with my own hard earned money.
That one is a bit odd, because the central bit looks like a roundabout but is not. To navigate it you need to forget the central bit and focus on the five mini roundabouts
> how will you ever debug it?

By being so smart that your program has obviously zero bugs in it!
If a banking app or DRM-encumbered streaming app can run in the official attested VM, what would be the benefit of running such closed apps in unmodified Linux VMs?

If banks and streaming vendors don't trust unmodified VMs, why would open-source Linux VMs trust closed apps with binary blobs?

One benefit of running open-source Linux VMs is access to the vast corpus of mature open-source software applications packaged by Debian, Fedora, etc.
The average bank/company would rather have an average solution maintained by 10 easily replaceable average developers than a nutty, smart solution only understood by 1 highly talented developer.
Some of them can, if they are in good physical condition. There's a reason why there haven't been any females who swam across until now.
depends on the premium, obviously
In Seattle, we have trash can roundabout (really just round traffic calming islands, we don’t consider them roundabouts) and stop signs at the same intersections.
> I'm not aware of any actual attack that ping allows?

DoS.

There may have been a time once, when some of us may have been minors, that using a command like "ping -f -s 1000" from a well-connected host to a specific dialup user's IP address may have been able to completely obliterate their connection to the point that it would fuck up their network stack enough to reliably disconnect their PPP session and send them back into redialing the local ISP's busy modem pool.

Maybe.

And that kind of thing might still work today for devices that respond to ICMP pings. (I'm no longer an angsty teenager so I wouldn't know, but angsty teenagers are still things that get made in factories every day.)
Well... yeah, don't do that. I mean this seriously, not facetiously; when I say I want a Linux phone what I mean is I want a phone that runs Debian or whatever (on bare metal, with good quality of experience, and with a mainline kernel) and where I install software out of the official repos using apt (or whatever).

(Also plenty of people on desktop Linux do `curl | sh`, and some of us are getting most of our Android apps out of F-Droid; I'm not sure the distinction runs quite the way you're suggesting.)
That's the general wisdom I've seen.

I work on the Nerves project which does Elixir on top of Buildroot and there we use fwup (https://github.com/fwup-home/fwup) which does a very nice job of a lot of this. Including signing, hashing and more.

This is a real example of a config:
https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_system_rpi4/blob/ma...
Yes, I do. I use it a ton when on the road, see [0] but I wasn't sure how much I'd use it at home.

Turns out that I'll typically be at my standing desk for some / most of the morning then move to the Vision Pro in another part of the apartment in the PM. I enjoy using the VP a lot, even after 8 months it still has a magical feel for me, but I also find that immersion is a great focus boost.

One recent app that sucked up a lot of "Vision Time" for me was Fly [1], which is basically Google Earth in the VP. Flying above 3D cities in particular is amazing and being able to dip into Street View to look around a location very cool.

Yup, it's heavy and not particularly comfortable, though I've long since grown accustomed to both, but if it broke I would likely buy another. It's that useful/enjoyable for me.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40663619

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fly-explore-the-earth/id650196...
Where I live the "accidental" part doesn't really get you off the hook. Negligence is better than intention but still.

If it kills someone or causes grievous bodily harm, it's still on you. Yes, even if it's a burglar. You also have to think about the fully legal situations when it's firefighter or a cop with a warrant. Or an edge case like a stupid kid.
Normally I would concur, but I recently fell into a klondike solitaire binge and the only way out was to write a solver.
I wasted too much time in my youth trying to min-max, and now I get bored as soon as I figure out, roughly, what the rules and mechanics look like for any game.
What is annoying to me is that in this internet-connected age, the storage units I see still don't have better per-unit security.

Just a phone alert to say "door to unit #xyz has been opened" would be a huge improvement. Wire up a cheap webcam for extra credit.
> A FOSS phone doesn't have to support Whatsapp.

What apps does it have to support, in your opinion? A computer in my pocket is useful for a lot of things, but central to its usefulness is communication. it can choose to not support all possible modes of communication, but it needs to at least support some of them, in order for there to be any adoption.
Only thing to add that it was funny how Blackberry didn't get for years that the browser is so important in the phones. Others missed that as well, everyone was doing the stupid half-browser thing. Of course they did as a normal browser needed a level up from their hardwares to be a PC leauge player.

This would have maybe delayed the inevitable though for some years anyway, just sayin.
Just grab a mirror.
My father had a first hand account from McAuliffe, like the other three, and had no reason whatsoever to misrepresent it.

> Is it all a grand conspiracy to protect the good name and reputation of McAuliffe?

A small conspiracy is not at all far-fetched. First off, it's an inconsequential thing. Secondly, if one of the three told the truth, then he'd be called a liar by the other two. Who needs that? If you're in the military, you don't get ahead by contradicting the narrative. (My dad found that out the hard way - he was punished more than once for not writing reports that fit the narrative.)

For a grand conspiracy, consider how long Biden's staff held out insisting that Biden was sharp as a tack and writing off contrary reports as disinformation.

The most compelling bit about my evidence is the frankly laughable idea that a GI would use the word "nuts".
My take away from the GP was that it's not so much as an issue with Apple'version of VR but about the state of the technology itself. The hardware today is too bulky and difficult to use as a daily driver.

May be Google was on to something with their glasses and may be some version of electrochromic glass goggles that also works as a display is the answer.

I agree that Apple is not what it used to be. They normally don't go for still evolving tech and swoop in with a better product(and experience) only after the product's viability is established.
> you'll have to use Chrome

That isn't sufficient. You'll also need to use an OS which provides "acceptable" hardware attestation capabilities (as defined by Google) required to verify that the copy of Chrome is legitimate (otherwise this could be spoofed). In practice that most likely means your options are limited to: Windows 11, macOS with System Integrity Protection enabled, Chrome OS, stock Android with Google services installed as system apps, iOS.

Google's first attempt at bringing attestation to the web, WEI, was shot down by hackers, but it won't be the last. Please continue to fight against this.
That's not my reading.

> If the urandom source has not yet been initialized, then getrandom() will block, unless GRND_NONBLOCK is specified in flags.

And glibc's implementation doesn't specify any flags. https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/e67f8e6dbd5ec98578a775b...

Where as GRND_RANDOM is about switching to the random source instead of the urandom source.

> GRND_RANDOM

> If this bit is set, then random bytes are drawn from the random source (i.e., the same source as the /dev/random device) instead of the urandom source....

The combo seems to imply both sources can block, urandom is just less likely to.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrandom.2.html
What depends on the premium? In my mind, you state the item and the value, they tell you the premium they would cover it at. Where's the perverse incentive, and why is it relevant what anybody else would pay for it?
Blackberry did eventually get their act together, but it was too late. There was a Blackberry KEY2 phone based on Android, with a valiant effort to sandbox Android/Google with Blackberry security policy controls. That phone belongs in a museum of adversarial interoperability, alongside Godzilla/Kong memes.

We need more devices with runtime competition between tech titans. Some is visible on iOS with Apple v. Facebook on ad targeting and contact databases.
The problem with open mobile phones is neither the phone hardware or software. The main problem is the damn cellular network carriers.

Until some government agency gets serious about forcing the cellular carriers to actually allow phones on their network without having to go through the anal violation that is "certification" for their network, the open mobile phone ecosystem will continue to suck.
sounds similar to weasel words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

There's another term, i'm sure, because politicians use it all the time; "I never said X" when it was very heavily implied, and the listener was led down the garden path to the conclusion, only to find out the conclusion is bitter and unpleasant. The speaker can say "oh, that's your own biases/misconceptions/dogma, i never said <something extremely specific>"

I'm in the weeds here, but a simple analogy would be: "I don't like sunny days without clouds or fog." and i say "why don't you like blue skies?" and they say "i never said that" when the salient points of a sunny day with no clouds or fog are 1) there's a sun, and 2) the sky is blue.
I think people are misreading the statement. The full statement is:

> Listen, I’m struggling with medical debts and financial obligations incurred by the closing of my conference and publishing businesses

People are reading it as

> Listen, I’m struggling with (medical debts and financial obligations) (incurred by the closing of my conference and publishing businesses)

but I suspect it was meant to be read as

> Listen, I’m struggling with (medical debts) and (financial obligations incurred by the closing of my conference and publishing businesses)
6.5 Years of My Curated Font Collection ( For Free Now)
I have no doubt. When cold and dirty and wet and hungry, hot food is the greatest!
Umm no.
I’ve seen it used for OTC option pricing - there’s no liquid market, so you are more of a market maker than a market taker.
If you only care about Android app compatibility but not safety net, try waydroid?
There has been another thread on HN, with a research starting from this, which has developed a concrete suitable for use on Moon or on Mars, where there is no danger of it being broken down by water and where its production would be simplified by this choice, because starch must be produced anyway for food, so making concrete does not require additional production facilities.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41751122

Therefore even research results that do not seem useful in normal conditions may find some circumstances where their use becomes preferable.
The devices ship with a kernel that can use them. Is there anything we can do to make it easier to extract whatever device tree or other information from the compiled kernel it ships with, so it can be used with any other Linux kernel?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753826
https://maps.app.goo.gl/aBMc8ik6B1zZbBPQ7

It's not quite the middle of nowhere, but definitely quite rural. I wouldn't expect to find pedestrians out there.
New Kuiper Belt objects lurk farther away than we ever thought
Device tree is a file in /boot that can be decompiled. The missing artifact is open-source driver code.
Sure, we can build a bridge here. I'm not convinced voter fraud is such a "distraction" or insignificant because 1) there is a ton of concern about this with multiple court cases etc., and 2) precisely because there isn't as much transparency in the process of verifying election results.

That said, I'm all for fixing most, if not all, of the things you mentioned. I'm just adding one more to that list. Additionally, considering the context of this thread, it's not so much about advocating for voter ID, as much as questioning why it was banned completely from the state.
>I stayed because I believe in the work we do. I believe in the open web and owning your own content. I’ve devoted nearly three decades of work to this cause, and when I chose to move in-house, I knew there was only one house that would suit me. In nearly six years at Automattic, I’ve been able to do work that mattered to me and helped others, and I know that the best is yet to come.

As the layoffs and hiriing hesitation has increased over the past 1-2 years I have seen an increased amount of copium coming from engineers work at prestigious jobs.

If you work at a for profit company, I believe that you believe in their mission.

That mission is to make money.

If you work at a company where your job role pays out enough that you could retire of a few years of salary from the position, and you stay after the company pivots to something you didn't think was a good idea, you are there for money.

If you work at a company where your job role pays out enough that you could retire of a few years of salary from the position, and you stay after the company lays off a large number of your coworkers that you think could have been a net benefit to the company, you are there for money.

If you work at a company where your job role pays out enough that you could retire of a few years of salary from the position, and you stay after the company lays off many coworkers that you had a positive, personal relationship with, you are there for money.

I see people in this thread lauding this person for making what I believe is an ultimately selfish decision, and trying to pretend he is not.

I am tired of seeing all these software luminaries discussing how brave they are for {getting a fuck ton of money but pretending it is difficult to accept because they dont get to control everything}.

The feeling I am getting from this blog post and the reaction to it, is the same reaction I got to hearing about how Linus Torvalds was all for the concept of Free Software and then checking his wikipedia page to find out that the chain of links to his famous ancestors goes back to at least his grandparents.

Like no shit you "stayed", you got bank for it. Don't try and spin it as a moral good under

> I stayed because I believe in the work we do.
Replited: Replicate SQLite to anywhere (S3\FTP\webdav\Google Drive\Dropbox,etc.)
I don't think it is good, I'm strongly anti-tax. If I was in charge there'd probably be a $-per-capita tax large enough to fund a reasonable military and that'd be that. Maybe some other nominal spending.

But if we're going to go beyond that, which we are, a "sunlight tax" sounds like it'd be roughly equivalent to a land tax (or corporate tax, or what have you), and a land tax is broadly superior to an income tax for any metric I care about. So it sounds good to me. There is an asset (sunlight on land), it doesn't require investment to maintain it. There isn't any complexity to measuring the amount of sun that I can think of. It is reasonable to tax the owner; they are getting free wealth [0] so it doesn't discourage them from doing anything. They owner worse off, but that is the nature of taxes and if we're levying a tax that isn't in principle something that we are too worried about because we can't escape that without a small-government strategy.

> If someone grows potatoes in their back yard and labor, should they have pay for it just so that they have to work harder?

That is how tax systems are broadly set up. I don't think it is reasonable to come from a position that an income tax is ok but that sort of tax isn't. The only reason that specific activity doesn't get taxed is the enforcement is too tricky to implement in practice [1] but there isn't a theoretical reason not to beyond that. If I grow potatoes for you I'd get taxed, so I don't see why me growing potatoes for me would be above taxation. It is the same amount and nature of work.

And, again, California's implementation might be terrible - but just pointing out they are talking about taxing solar generation doesn't seem like a strong point. There is an idea there that makes a lot of sense.

[0] Which is important and what separates this from a typical wealth tax. The annual sunlight is a renewable resource they are getting - a sort of natural rent on the land.

[1] Ie, how does the tax office detect if you have a pirate potato operation, and if they do how is it done cost-effectively so the tax take is higher than the enforcement cost.
You don't really have to worry about keeping track of tons of functions, variables, structs, classes, etc., and trying to keep all the names straight in your head - all you need is to know the symbols, so it's in some ways easier than reading a complex function in more verbose languages where you might need to lookup stuff from several libraries just to understand what's going on. Also, that one line is ~100 characters, each of which probably covers ~0.5-1 lines in other languages, so you should expect to set aside a similar amount of time to reading and understanding it.
Mutual insurance companies have been a thing for hundreds of years. Some well known US mutual insurance companies are State Farm, Amica, Mutual of Omaha, and most non Elevance Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliated insurance companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_insurance
The unforgivable part for me was Google prohibiting Android forks in their vendor licensing agreements for their add-on software.

It was a deeply cynical way of doing an end-run around the GPL, and I've held them in utter contempt ever since.
I still use Sailfish OS, but it's becoming more frustrating with more and more things locked into proprietary apps (which are only available for android and ios) with no option to do things over a web interface. Just the other day I had to leave a laundromat because they only accepted payment via their mobile app.
If you've port scanned your public IP(s) and there are zero open ports, then you only have to worry about bugs in the TCP/IP stack, services listening on UDP, and intentional backdoors (which shouldn't happen but keep popping up). If there are exposed ports, then there's even more attack surface.

Edit: actually I forgot the like of UPnP so that's not exhaustive.
It's not their job. It would be easy to adopt laws requiring insurance companies to separate insurance pool money (used to pay out insurance) and operational money (used to pay employees and profits), and have these separated when showing the price of insurance. That would reduce the moral hazard of insurance companies paying profit out of the pool.
"I personally haven't been affected by this, so it's not a problem" is not a compelling argument.
I was bullied by 3 separate bullies in my school years, every time it ended when I reached some deep rage in me and hit back.

One time I've thrown the bully down the stairs, other time I've hit him with a chair and the last time it was when the bully stole my phone, started going through the photos my girlfriend sent me and commenting them inappropriately - I've smashed his face so hard, the glasses flew like 4 meters away. I was short and overweight, they've never expected the amounts of power I could generate when in rage mode.

So from my limited, anegdotal experience - it works. It also shows other people that they can stand up to the bully and the bully is not some all-powerful being that has to define their present and future.
No. The focal distance for most headsets is further than monitor distance so in theory it’s less strain on the eyes, but other lensing considerations put it at about equal
Honest question - how? I run Linux, Firefox, etc. but I don't know what else I can do to help restore a healthy ecosystem. Run for office with the pirate party?