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by jka 5y ago
A couple of security-research links related to this virus: - (a high-level summary) https://www.welivesecurity.com/2022/02/24/hermeticwiper-new-... - (a more-detailed technical analysis) https://ww
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by jka 5y ago
For anyone looking for translations[1] of the original tweets[2] by the (blue-tick, verified) director: "The garbage that your talented businessmen have put into low-Earth orbit is produced exclusively by the engines of the Russian Pro
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by jka 5y ago
Not great advice, probably, but an answer to your question: I stubbornly try to rebuild the same thing ("a search engine for food"), over and over again, and each time learn slightly more and have better (software) tools and exper
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DeepMind Research – code to accompany DeepMind publications(github.com)
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As a hypothetical employer of said hypothetical developer, I wouldn't want them to dive straight into the code; I'd want them to demonstrate an understanding of the business and technical problem we face internally, develop some i
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by jka 5y ago
"Proof of work" is the straightforward answer to this; not in the sense that it's used within cryptocurrency, but purely in terms of: does an individual contribute value and take on some/most of the effort to investigate
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by jka 5y ago
It doesn't have to be different; your own employees are developers and can learn to become just as effective at contributing to any given project (and after time, many different projects) if you ask them to and provide them with time t
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by jka 5y ago
Thanks, that's a good observation of traditional (online?) community evolution. It seems like software could potentially be a little different though, given zero-cost-of-copy, zero-cost-of-communication, and zero barriers (other than s
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by jka 5y ago
Source credit: afavour's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30436355
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Web Share API(developer.mozilla.org)
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Meanwhile, history also rewards communities who support and listen to the underserved in order to improve collective wellbeing. You can build a movement based on inclusion.
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Ok, thanks - I'm more ambivalent about the situation: I think it can be unclear, and can depend on people's perspectives regarding privacy and control, and the behaviours of the platforms and software available (all of which can b
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by jka 5y ago
Agreed; and similarly, some developers might not want to participate on that kind of basis. (this is one of the things I worry about most, with regards to open source funding: I think there needs to be a lot of space for negotiation and dif
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by jka 5y ago
Can you see any ways in which uploading your videos to one of a (very) small number of market-leading platforms could be problematic, in contrast?
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by jka 5y ago
Following some of the spirit of open source, perhaps it could make sense to encourage companies/speakers to make recordings of these kind of discussions available under Creative Commons licenses? (that might also help to discourage the
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by jka 5y ago
Well, in comparison to RSS: git's fairly good at negotiating and transferring a subset of relevant commits over the wire, whereas RSS feeds (naively, as I understand it, and without really considering ETags or other magic) tend to be r
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by jka 5y ago
> I dunno, isn't this the same thing as blaming climate change on the people who take a single vacation by plane per year It could be, yep. And it could be accurate. Although that behaviour is probably what a lot of us consider no
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US women's national team reach agreement with US soccer over equal pay(bbc.co.uk)
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I'm skeptical too, but the CDC seems to be reporting similar findings for the 2020-2021 flu season: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2020-2021.htm
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by jka 5y ago
Well, it could enable a few things: - Fetching the latest updates from a network of your peers selectively, a bit like RSS feeds - Merging histories from your peer network into a linear format (straightforward since there shouldn't be
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by jka 5y ago
A feature I'm strangely excited by in Gnome 42 is the ability for the display server (Mutter) to read input events at the device's native rate[1] -- previously they were limited to the refresh rate of your monitor. I have a hardwa
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Influenza disappearance proves eradication of SARS-CoV-2, more possible (2021)(wsws.org)
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by jka 5y ago
Moving your application from one type of infrastructure to another always involves effort, whether it's from a single hosted server to a set of load-balanced hosts, or from one cloud provider to another. Unless you expect to migrate be
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Ask HN: Does anyone use Git as their blog?
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buildah-build – GitHub Action to use 'buildah' to build a container image(github.com)
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by jka 5y ago
There's already at least one effort to gather a list of games that are no longer available* on Steam: https://steam-tracker.com/ I wonder how many of those can be retrieved (and are playable) from archived copies? Edit
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by jka 5y ago
Hehe, thank you. I'll try to keep a mental note about the FP-55.
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"As a bonus, today is also a global strobogrammatic day when viewed on a seven-segment display, i.e., for all three date formats, today's date when shown, without the delimiters, on a seven-segment display appears the same when ro
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by jka 5y ago
And you remind me of a friend of mine, and a funny story about them - apparently they once threw someone's food out of a window, apparently unprovoked. A bit jealous, irritable or aggrieved about something, I'd expect - those hap
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by jka 5y ago
Sometimes I think of URLs as being a building block of effective modern communication - long may they continue. Used carefully they can provide context, strengthen arguments, open windows of thought, and provide historical reference (clear

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