skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Provided that isolation is not required... it be nice if there is a 'type-c power/data router' where you can plug multiple devices to and get both power and data though. The box itself just needs to have a gigabit port and a power port.

Requires device makers to make port be both PD and at least USB ethernet host. The router perhaps can try simulating usb ethernet gadget or something.
How to make AWS not suck [video]
American style options are inherently more valuable. Imagine you had options on a stock that experienced a sharp but possibly temporary move. As a holder of an American style option, you could benefit from that temporary move, making it more valuable.
> Jack Dorsey wasn't able to promise a non-censored town hall

I believe his version of twitter was the closest thing we could get to an "uncensored" twitter. Everything is relative. How do you run and sustain a platform where people who call for genocide are getting their voice amplified? And is that even legal? Like, the platform has to take responsibility if it isn't going to "censor" speech.

Freedom of speech shouldn't mean freedom of reach. Yeah, if you want to make some ill-taste racist jokes, you must be shadow banned so that unless people specifically search for your name, the platform shouldn't amplify their voice.

> it won't come back because everyone learned the lesson that it doesn't make money

How can anyone dismiss Twitter earning >$5B in revenue as something not viable? Dorsey's twitter had too many employees. IIRC, their personnel costs alone was something like a $1B. Why do you need such a big team? Why are you hiring so many people and running mini experiments in the company hoping that you can become facebook level money making machine?

Dorsey should have realized that they are never going to become facebook level rich and just stay content with what they have and grow modestly and layoff people. Keep working on your core features. You don't need to be the next facebook, you are already twitter, heck, you have your company's name as a noun in a dictionary. Reduce your costs and coast. Nothing wrong with that.

But you need to be content with yourself first to think about company's decisions like that.

What has happened with twitter is truly shameful and Dorsey got with the wrong people (that's what i believe happened since he rolled his old twitter equity into x(itter) equity).
Megafauna 3D
No, they will also be required to block VPNs if you do this. The government has been clear that it is stopping at nothing in the name of stopping piracy (which won't be stopped).

The way the government will change their mind is if the internet entirely shuts down in Italy, but that won't happen because there are enough people willing to risk a year in prison to make money. Piracy, of course, would continue over leased lines.
Is it only a packaging job for a desktop developer?
Darktable is great for people who want to screw around with code and not photography. Or as one of the (former) devs put it, darktable is:

a Vim editor for image processing, truly usable only from (broken) keyboard
shortcuts known only by the hardcore geeks that made them

One of the stated goals for his fork (Ansel) is:

to make the general UI nicer to people who don't have a master's in computer
science and more efficient to use for people actually interested in photography.

The catch is, of course, Aurélien ripped a bunch of stuff out in Ansel that you may actually want like styles/presets or macos support. If Aurélien can keep up the momentum I think Ansel could be quite promising for photo processing on Linux.

OTOH with the way that the devs condescend to its users darktable looks doomed to be a basket case. Seriously. Try clicking on or scrolling over whitespace and watch as you send random widgets off into a tizzy.
To each their own, but the puzzles you linked seem really convoluted compared to regular Sudoku.

The last puzzle has no fewer than 9 custom rules, in addition to the regular Sudoku rules, and then it also says “every clue is wrogn [sic]” implying there is some meta out-of-the-box thinking required to even understand what the rules are. That is more a riddle than a logic puzzle.

By contrast, the charm of classical Sudoku is that the rules are extremely simple and straightforward (fill the grid using digits 1 through 9, so that each digit occurs exactly once in each row, column, and 3x3 box) and any difficulty solving comes from the configuration of the grid.
*I think you meant "(you weren't going to be solving real problems, you were there to boost your managers head count)". Probably too late to fix the typo too.
The README says it compares matrix multiplication, but it is actually comparing the speed of random number generation libraries.

For every element in the matrix, there are two random number generator invocations, and a single double-precision multiplication. Generating a random number (especially double-precision float) is significantly more complex than just multiplying.

As for the difference, the implementations are vastly different. Rust is known to include more secure-by-default implementations for hashing and random numbers, which may explain why it is slower. Using something like the fastrand crate would help.
Obviously such things do vary across organisations. Usually these job titles reflect levels of trust and impact across the organisation. In my experience, a senior will be the backbone of a team while a staff engineer will have impact across multiple teams.

If you can't identify and communicate to the rest of the organisation about technical people who are providing a higher order of value, then it shouldn't be too much of a surprise if its hard to progress without going into management. I get that programmers tend to be slightly anarchic and distrustful of authority but these titles exist to support a technical career path.
Then change from the bank equivalent to MVNO into a real bank with a website.
There are still finite people willing to buy whatever the intermediate or end product of that fancy sand is. And finite energy and space. And only 5 billion years until the sun goes red giant.

The limits may be very large, but they aren’t infinite.
Airline websites are mostly OK. Border crossings too. Even though X-passports are very rare, they are becoming much less so and of course customs officials deal with thousands every day so they still un into them regularly. I don't have one yet but I heard no problems with them from other NB people in decent countries.

As for no being permitted in Dubai and Qatar etc, I consider this more as a 'feature' than a 'bug'. These countries are known for harrassing non-gender-conformant people anyway and this way I have a fully documented way to refuse a Dubai transfer if my work wants to send me somewhere with a Dubai connection. Rather than pleading because I don't want to run the risk I can now just give them a hard and documented NO. My employer publicly prides itself on being LGBTQI+ inclusive so they can't refuse that.

The biggest problems centered around this seem to involve more local government. Old local council or federal systems not able to deal with it, or the communication between those systems not handling it properly because some ancient validator routine somewhere drops the message, leading in all sorts of procedural gaps. It's a bit reminiscent of the Y2K problem.
The magic (image resampling) kernel
Why are you so skeptical? Think about how it works and then you'll understand that cache invalidation bugs are completely inevitable. Hell, cache invalidation is notoriously difficult to get right even when you aren't building it on top of a complex tool that was never designed for aggressive caching.

Just search the bugs for "hash":

https://github.com/ccache/ccache/issues?q=is%3Aissue+hash+is...
Does is support any kind of caching for server side rendering? Without caching running JS framework based SSR is slow and hard to scale in my experience.
ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading service Cobalt for mass scraping
I guess the key indicator for the martens is that grey squirrels are simply a larger meal.
What might that tell us?

The reason to use republican judges was that republicans are sympathetic to republican ideas, opinion etc., and so if they choose to ban a user, it won't be because that user expresses republican opinions.

What might another group tell us?
smart, deep, intellectual conversation. must be only idiots replying to you.
Quite a lot, for things like simulation code

Less so for general programming.
It’s a bet on the continued existence, and willingness/ability to honor its obligations, of the US federal government.

If that bets goes bad, the typical investor in Treasuries has perhaps bigger problems to worry about, but it’s still a bet IMO (and one which will inevitably eventually go bad).
I don't think so. No matter the code complexity, copilot gives me good enough suggestions that it saves me time. It often simply writes the exact line I had in mind.
There was at least one study during the pandemic that showed efficacy of these things. The problem for studies is knowing exactly how much they're used. I've used the Boots version in the UK for a long time on the basis that there's half decent evidence that it's effective and the only real side effect is on my wallet. It would be great to see a challenge study of these things but I'm going to keep using them regardless.

One study during the pandemic which showed efficacy which could control for use by targeting healthcare workers in their workplace: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8493111/
https://malwaretech.com/2024/08/exploiting-CVE-2024-38063.ht... is very worthwhile reading as a write on up this - it's nothing inherent in IPv6 and was a bug in Windows's packet processing of reassembled packets.

I'm not convinced it would be particularly exploitable with a firewall between the system and the rest of the internet blocking unsolicited incoming traffic -which is what most consumer routers etc are doing for IPv6.
200GB Free Cloud for Your Files
A guide describing how to create your own (and most importantly free) cloud storage with a capacity of nearly 200GB. Step by step about how to get a free VPS from Oracle (4xOCPU, 24GB RAM and 200GB storage), install Docker on it, run Portainer, NGINX Proxy Manager and Nextcloud (with MariaDB database). In addition, it describes how to connect a domain via Cloudflare or FreeDNS:42 with SSL connection encryption.
Notwithstanding the fact that this was a user misconfiguration, S3 allows you to configure public access blocks to prevent this sort of thing.
Is this still the best resource? Looking for something first principles, simple, dumbed down, stripping away the unnecessary.
The way you've phrased this comes across as a counterpoint, but both of these things can be true and need fixing. It doesn't have to be either / or.
In the UK we actually only have one provider that does - EE. They do native v6 and 464xlat for v4 connectivity where handsets support it.

Every other major provider is doing a horrible mess of IPv4 CGNAT with no native v6 still.
I have never had to use them directly but the use-now-pay-later model feels scary to me for the same reason. Maybe they allow setting the upper cap to the monthly bill (crossing which they don't serve you until you intervene) but I have never heard of it. On the other hand there are many stories extremely ballooned bills for some unforeseen reasons.
> And if your product backlog is full and people who designed the microservices are still around, it’s unlikely to happen.

Oh man I feel this
How does it not answer the question "why would women avoid fu over foo"? I thought it was clear that "fu" means "fuck up" or even "fuck you", a sexual swear word, while "foo" means nothing at all.
I missed it on the first read-through but there is a link to the code used to run the simulations in the first appendix.

Homegrown python code (i.e. not a library), very nicely laid out. And would form a good basis for more experiments for anyone interested. I think I'll have a play around later and try and train my intuition.
This is the kind of well written, in depth technical narrative I visit HN for. I definitely learned from it. Thanks for posting!
Squeeze as much money from the customers until their pain is big enough and they migrate away from VMware.
There are plenty of brown-field sites where NIMBYs have managed to block housing, including places like old gas works, which thankfully seems to be changing under the new government. We don't need to build or have high speed limits on Dartmoor, which is what we're talking about here.
Spanning 2002-2018:

SSDs, Flash, .NET, Dynamic web apps (Web 2.0), HD, Broadband, HTML5(+Websockets), Framework Eco-systems for non-server side code.
Wow, the video jumped right at me when I was browsing the site, despite my turned on content blocker and of course disable of pop-ups. Why would somebody do that? Or it’s just a quirk of Safari on my iPhone?
Does he? Don’t most people in tech roll their eyes when the suits, be it business or economy, talk about growth? Not saying what he said is wrong or stupid or whatever. I just thought that was the status quo outside of the business bubble.
> Every dollar WPE makes is a dollar Automattic doesn't.

This is the same fallacy as "immigrants are taking our jobs".

No, this is not true. The market can expand, competition spurs innovation, they put in marketing and so forth. The income of Automattic in a world where WPE doesn't exist is less , likely much less than the income of real Automattic plus WPE.

You have been posting nonsense ever since you started, just stop.
It's WebKit, so effectively Apple if I'm not wrong
Sounds good, we've gone only in the opposite direction for far too long.
I added OC72 to my crystal set in 1961. It costed 530 markka, while children's tram ticket was 30 markka !1!!
> The problem starts in assuming “the portion humans operate in” is relevant or reasonable

the question is whether humans have control over their actions. human operations are definitionally relevant.

you seem to suggest throwing away determinism because there are open questions at extreme scales. but determinism does explain reality at the scale we're interested in, and you haven't offered a comparable explanation.

occam's razor would suggest we take determinism seriously until we have another theory which more clearly explains the phenomena of interest while also addressing the challenges you've raised. and it seems that most people do take determinism seriously, which is why free will is such a debated question.
I'm interested in calling go from python, gopy generates python bindings to cgo. Maybe HPy<->cgo would have less overhead.
A Working Turing Machine Hits Lego Ideas
If the censoring miners or ”validators” both have the majority and refuse to build on top of blocks that happen to include the transactions they don’t like, such transactions would be completely blocked from the blockchain. Thus, censorship at the consensus layer is very dangerous for digital freedoms.
> My best guess is that we'll find out that a few food additives that became popular 50 years ago upset the intestinal microbiome in a way that promotes obesity.

People can get drunk enough to fail a breath test, just from eating industrialized bread.

There's so much chemical crap added to industrialized food we're not even aware of, unless we send each item to a lab for testing before we eat.

But yeah, people sure must be getting fat because the McDonald's cashier gave them a receipt made of bad paper...
What 8k screen are you using? Do you recommend it?
Not good. There is a spectrum of choices between not having enough reservoirs and power generation on one end and paving over the entire country on the other. I would trade having bats confused at night in order to have more housing within 2 miles of a major city.
Yeah, you're right, it's not evidence of abuse. I just find the designed system is vulnerable to it. Whether that's the case would require more data.
> They read as if written by a ghost. It is almost impossible to spot the lie in Sebald. One of his final essays, “Campo Santo,” (2003) makes an unlikely pivot in its final moments to speak of the modern world, meditating on the place of the dead in an increasingly crowded physical world

There's this older Japanese horror movie, Pulse, which would have fit perfectly - it's about a world where hell is full and the dead 'invade' living spaces via the internet. But it's not a traditional horror movie, the invasion can also be a stain in the dark that slowly grows, until the human is swallowed up. It's weirdly meditative and melancholic, in the context of OP it's a weird documentary about how the internet invades real spaces.
That is not distribution.
So it might not be on stripes end. We as consumers regularly use payment systems that generate a unique card number for subscription services. Then we load up a card with whatever is needed for one month of the subscription service then just don't ever add money to it again. This way we can make use of the first month bonuses or reductions/free products companies provide for initial 1 month get em into the system sales tactics they use but don't have to worry about actually canceling the service once a month's up. The card just bounces and declines payments until it ceases to exist.

You might be experiencing the company end of this...for us the consumer it's easier to do this than it is to keep track of canceling the service after 1 month and also less effort.
> The world needs Matt

Is the Wordpress community so weak that after all these years they couldn't weather Matt retiring?

And if Automattic is such a business which can only exist as a monopoly then it shouldn't exist. Because that's what you are implying.

Once again: if WP Engine misuses trademarks which Matt holds then by all means send a C&D to them and if they resist then sue them. That's a completely normal business behavior. What's happening here is lunacy.
In the world of late-stage capitalism we live in, sensibility and morals are cutting into profit margins. In effect, having either is as good as leaving money on the table. Here Automattic have figured out a novel way to shut out competition, and more.

This same thread has already seen the next step in the playbook, too: reassign ownership of plugins that have high-severity CVEs open for more than 30 days, in the name of protecting the product, its integrity, and the community. The blunt word for that would be "theft".

Just like a sibling comment to yours rightly called this tactic "extortion".
Really good article about retries, its consequences and how load amplification works. Loved it
I don’t know if I’d want to go back to an office regardless of how it looks but a cubicle seems perfect to me. I honestly thought about turning my office at home into a cubicle. Like, I have a large room in the basement (36 square meters or something like that) and it is office, gym, hobby room and TV / Gaming room all in one. I’d love to just have a little corner sectioned off to separate the office parts of it.

Same with the house of course. I somewhat achieved that but only through luck and I’m renting (which is fine here in Germany) but man do cubicles seem nice.

It’s kinda like the rooms in IKEA. If I built my own house, I’d just buy complete rooms from IKEA and build a house around it. They’re all so small and cosy.
> Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Better: Don't base your decisions on imaginary scenarios that haven't been relevant for decades.

There's no "good" in blocking ICMP packets and especially ping. You won't protect yourself from DDoS attacks but you might summon some obscure, hard to diagnose networking issues.

If you gave me your IP and your consent, I could rent a DDoS-for-hire service for lunch money and take you offline. They don't rely on their victims taking themselves offline with response packets.
Android has a security model that protects the OS from applications and applications from users. A sane security model would put the user in control.
Someone should collate exceptional human coding achievements to test future AI.

AFAICT AI cannot replicate this, yet, will be interesting when that day comes.
Should be easy enough to test if you have a thermal printer.

Just spread lemon juice on paper, wait for it to dry, and try printing on it.
Without giving away too much PII, some of it is interest from various savings accounts and subscriptions/donations from Patreon etc. and some from sporadic sales.
psst "reined in" https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/do-you-rein-in-or-re...
What makes me money is staying aware of changes in German bureaucracy, and other things that recent immigrants should know about.

My solution is information streams. I set up various stream that surface important information so that I don’t need to seek it. It saves me an absurd amount of time.

This includes people who write to me when specific things in their field change, a WhatsApp group of relocation consultants, and monitoring lots of German laws for changes with Wachete. I also follow the monthly changes gazette from the German government. This covers 90% of what I need to know.

I am now designing a tool to gather feedback from my readers about unobservable things such as the processing times at the immigration office. This would be insanely valuable to people who apply for a residence permit.

In summary, I automate the surfacing of important information, and make sure the updates come at a reasonable frequency, with as little noise as possible.

For everything else, I just don’t care. Knowing the latest and greatest in tech does not affect my income. I can build valuable things with old, boring tech.
it's not 'fractured', it's just fragmented, and it's not necessarily a bad thing, it gives plenty of room for R&D and experimentation

if something doesn't end up working well, you pivot
Sam blinks furiously when he's not telling the truth.
I think the difference is not a bit of scrolling, but rather the whole program on half a page vs 10 files à 200 lines of mostly noise
Next step, make it legally required to apply the additive. Like filters in chimneys, catalytic converters in cars, etc. and have fines attached to not using it.

If that doesn’t work, increase fines and/or add criminal charges and prison.
On linux there's a suite of audio effects that work with pipewire. Compressor and limiter are included so it should be possible to do what you need.

https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects
Amazon EC2 can disable vCPU now to reduce software license cost
you are right you still need the number of clusters
Oh these are nice, I didn't realise they'd updated them with 2.5Gbit ports :)

For something a bit more affordable, the Turris Omnia or Mox are nice options too - https://www.turris.com/

I'm not the biggest fan of OpenWRT et al (or pfSense/OPNsense, for that matter), but they're reasonably friendly for a technical user.

Personally, I still really like a small, low power x86 box running normal Linux as a firewall & router. Sadly the options are either very expensive or from questionable sources (eg aliexpress x86 low power machines are common). I miss PC Engines - https://www.pcengines.ch/eol.htm :/
I never get this desire for micro services. You IDE can help if there are 500 functions, but nothing would help you if you have 500 micro services. Almost no one fully understands such a system. Is is hard to argue who parts of code are unused. And large scale refactoring is impossible.

The upside seems to be some mythical infinite scalability which will collapse under such positive feedback loops.