skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Options have been removed in the main Homebrew/homebrew-core tap but are not deprecated for user taps.
Not everyone has a large $HOME directory. It might be mounted on a 128mb thumbdrive for all you know.
All student organizations at my (small) university have a website and an active public mailing list.

Yet, there is a constant push from their members for maintaining an account on Facebook. They know Facebook is evil, but "everyone is on Facebook and we have to be there to be visible".

And unfortunately they are right: announcing an event on Facebook makes it more popular.
There's a good analysis on CNN here:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/01/opinions/us-pulling-out-o...
"HN’s incredulity about insurance companies routinely paying out claims staggers the imagination. They’re highly regulated publicly traded companies which denominated claims expenses in (in this case) billions of dollars;"

I used to use the "smart money" heuristic a lot in my thinking - for all of the reasons you list above, and more.

Then the 2007/2008/2009 mortgage meltdown and liquidity crisis occurred and we saw that a lot of the "smart money", including the very insurance providers and investment banks (or subsidiaries thereof) were caught unawares. AIG[1], for instance, which was in very much the same league as Zurich RE, et. al.

I would take the size of these companies, and the billions at stake, and their regulators ... and all of it ... with a big grain of salt.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_International_Group#L...
Slight tangent, but I wish there was a standardized way to tell running processes to re-read their dotfiles.

If I change my .zshrc, I have to re-source it in each running instance of zsh. Sure, I could automate this. But I'd also like the same done in vim. And in weechat. And in mpv. And in everything using GNU Readline... you get the picture.

This is probably at the top of my list "biggest complaints that won't be resolved for numerous reasons." It sure would be nice though.
> when you have a correct model

I have a hunch that determining a correct model is like a science all on its own. Are there any good books/blog posts/etc on that?
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If it was completely controllable, I’d have the ability to control where they are and put them out of my way. Lazy programmers use home as a default.

Home directories have become the *nix version of the Windows Registry.
The planet has been hijacked by billionaires
So a race to the bottom is somehow a good idea now?
When I found a punch card in the cookbook
That’s not a CTO decision.
Even better; it means that your preferences will be literally portable.
Novell Netware lived on for a long time running as a VM. Doing that makes it much easier to support new hardware.
That is correct. It’s unlikely we could ever bring the prices down. But if we build new housing for every new job we create, we can at least stop the bleeding and keep it from getting worse. And it will get worse. More people keep coming because there are jobs here. The problem will keep getting worse till we build enough to keep up with migration in.
No I didn't, by your logic breeding pornography of married couples should be ok.
I love brew. But I have heard a lot of complaints against it, and arguments that Nix (and probably Guix) is better. I tried it once, and had a tough time getting my old scripts to find the exact versions. I gave up on Nix. Can someone eli5 why Nix-like approaches are far superior to systems like brew?
> I visited Seattle for the first time a month ago and was warned someone might throw a bottle at my car for my California plates.

This same crap was literally in the air almost 30 years ago when I lived in LA and traveled to Seattle and Portland regularly on business. Californians were responsible for the traffic on the 5, and not being able to get into restaurants, etc. etc.

Also...

> There is an apocalyptic amount of people moving into California, and no one blames them for the overcrowding and the shifting culture.

Really?
I agree they're creepy. I disagree that not finding it creepy means you're not a woman or have no empathy for women. I know tons of women who love the Beastie Boys and I've never heard a single person complain about or even comment on Brass Monkey lyrics.
Why not _shame_ openssh? Or vim? Or emacs? I would advise not calling for shame on any of these projects because they have a pattern to support that has been in place longer than the XDG standard has been in place. You can change gnupg's home dir, but it would break a lot of currently functional setups if it just moved.
That's an intellectually lazy thought. If everyone had that attitude we wouldn't have modern society at all (grow your food, don't expect someone else to grow it for you).
It's /home/Epskampie/.home
"Mondelez likely threatened Zurich with extensive lawsuits when they realized the companies were an order of magnitude apart (10 vs 100mm), and Zurich threatened back with their version of Judge Smalls -- you'll get nothing, and like it!"

It's easy to grin, when your ship comes in, and you've got the stock market beat ... but the man who's worthwhile, is the man who can smile, when his pants are too tight in the seat!
How to bankrupt a corrupt Russian government? Induce them to spend a lot of money on their military. Worked in the Cold War.
Very likely you do have the control. You simply haven't taken the time to learn how to configure things.
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I think it is a multi-pronged approach to Chinese economic, political, and military containment - trade war, attack on Chinese tech, arms race, etc. It will apply various pressure points to China's economy, political structure, and world standing. This added pressure will force Xi's regime to take more extreme measures to retain control, thus adding more systemic pressure. US allies are also beginning to adopt these policies.

I believe the US will start countering Belt and Road initiatives with alternative economic packages to African and Asian nations. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if the US backed off of Russian aggression in exchange for anti-China support. I bet there's a white paper somewhere in Washington which lays out a similar strategy.
From almost exactly ten years ago: How the Itanium Killed the Computer Industry

https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2339629,00.asp

> The MIPS chip, the DEC Alpha (perhaps the fastest chip of its era), and anything else in the pipeline were all cancelled or deemphasized. Why? Because Itanium was the future for all computing. Why bother wasting money on good ideas that didn't include it?

> The failure of this chip to do anything more than exist as a niche processor sealed the fate of Intel—and perhaps the entire industry, since from 1997 to 2001 everyone waited for the messiah of chips to take us all to the next level.

> It did that all right. It took us to the next level. But we didn't know that the next level was below us, not above. The next level was the basement, in fact. Hopefully Intel won't come up with any more bright ideas like the Itanium. We can't afford to excavate another level down.
Also on macOS, where [~]/Library/ApplicationSupport is the designed and recommended place to store config files, logs, preferences and all kinds of persistent data, the home directory still gets cluttered.

It's a laziness issue, it won't be solved solely by making is easier to access the right locations on each system/platform, but that would be a step in the right direction.
Back in 2012, Oracle published some interesting (and IMHO amusing) internal HP documents re Intel and ongoing Itanium development.

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/itanium-346707.h...
I wonder what the long tail costs are for not paying the claim?

If I had any insurance policies with this company I would cancel and look elsewhere. The insurance company must have modeled both scenarios.
NYC isn’t nearly as expensive. I know people who have bought affordable houses in places like New Jersey and have reasonable commutes. That just isn’t possible in the Bay Area.
Linux has been and is a tinker OS for folks who know wtf they are doing.

As time progressed it has become easy enough folks who dont know what they are doing can use many of the distributions.

Those folks are destroying what used to be a wonderful intelligent linux community.
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I guess I was being nice to old programs. Also, these are programs that a lot of external tools interact with. Nobody cares about where firefox stores its data- except the now almost dead flash plugin.
I can't take any of that environmentalism seriously as long as they keep manufacturing simply badly designed charger/lightning cables.
I chuckled. Which was silly as I missed the boat with Linux until Ubuntu came along. The versions of Linux I first saw were mere toys compared to the SGI awesomeness I knew at the time.
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GP didn't say that we should usurp freight rails for passenger trains, they said we should build rails for passenger trains..
I'm not saying you're wrong, and I agree that the data supports "rest and fluids".

But I have relatives that make similar statements about lots of health treatments that are absolutely not supported by the data, and probably just demonstrate variability and placebo effect.
True about Turmeric but for sore throat / coughs it's the Black pepper that really gives the quick relief.
Literally none of those are cto decisions.
Their original goal of being a charity promoting education in computing? I think you got the goals mixed up there.
> Flash's vector graphics make SVG look bad

And I suppose by this you mean what you said elsewhere, that Flash's editor is second to none? Because I'm pretty sure that the graphics quality for both is about the same.
Yes but the military industrial complex that likely lobbied for this would have huge profits if a new arms race starts.
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Diversity is our strenght.
It’s a LAZY place to store user data that works across platforms.

FTFY.

If you don’t want to follow the spec, keep your program’s data in your program’s directory. If another program needs the data it can follow the $PATH, or ask the user.

Even better, ask the user at first run. You know, when asking people to accept some Byzantine EULA, license, and permission to track their grandmother.
It depends upon your definitions of "good" and "router". If you are ok with <300 Mbps speeds, the Raspberry Pi 3B+ makes a surprisingly good router with openwrt. I suspect a lot of similar devices also work at Gbps speeds for very reasonable prices.

If you also need an access point, the cost does start to increase a little, but it still isn't bad at all, IMO.
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23andme only searches for known snips (SNPs, single nucleotide polymorphisms), they don't scan the genome, that is still a fairly costly and slow procedure (although it's radically getting cheaper and cheaper!).

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Of course the housing crisis has many factors contributing to it. This is a major one. If a place has a majority of renters, has a prevailing political culture of socialism and activism, and the rents start going up fast, you likely end up with an erosion of property rights with rent control and other restrictions on landlords. Tyranny of the majority. If landlords are seen by the local culture as bad people this quickly this becomes true. Only assholes and faceless corporations looking for maximum ROI are going to buck the social stigma and be an evil landlord.

Oakland used to at least let small landowners who lived at a multiple unit building they owed not to be under the strong tenet laws. Last election cycle a proposition changed that. Now a landowner can't refuse to renew a month-to-month rental contract that is a standard after a year lease. These small landlords were the last refuge for people in many cases. You actually had a relationship with the owner and they would often keep rents way below market because they liked you, enjoyed living next to you, didn't need the extra cash as they bought the property many years ago, and didn't want to try and find somebody else to move in.

It is too bad that being a landlord has become so onerous in the Bay area. The state passed a law that forces cities to allow small 600sqft mother-in-law units to be built on properties, if the lot is not too small. This could really help with the housing crisis. As the rents in Oakland have doubled over the last 4 years or so, myself and other people I know were thinking about investing the 150-200k that it takes in the high cost Bay Area to build one of these units or convert a large house into a duplex/triplex. People are not much less interested in doing so now that this new law has passed. Oh well. Maybe cash out and go elsewhere? Who would have thought that Carl's juniors $6 burger would have to be discontinued so soon due to the fact that they would have to charge more than six bucks for it. Now it would be called the $19 burger.
It should not be covered because there is a statement in the policy that it is not covered. The only controversial thing here is whether or not this actually was an act of war, and that is something the insurance company must prove.
From a user standpoint, a lot of of unrecognizable things show up if you pass that -l flag.

In my opinion, having a conventional place to look for user configuration in plain text is a good thing, not a bad thing, and of course I would want it to be in the directory on my system where I'm the sole owner. As somebody else mentioned, this means backing up my personal settings and files is braindead simple, too.

Asking programmers to respect $XDG_HOME_CONFIG is not a bad idea, but it's no replacement for home directory hygiene. I believe that ultimately, cleanliness is a personal responsibility.

Edit: reduced smugness quotient while trying to preserve my argument. I apologize for the pre-edit tone issues with this post.
Rather than separating claims into "covered" and "not covered", I recommend a third bucket "might be covered". I think this goes into that third bucket. Whether or not this particular claim should be paid doesn't mean it's not in the third bucket.

When buying insurance, you shouldn't rely on payments for claims in the third bucket, especially not without a legal fight.

Many consumers don't understand any of this. But I expect (hope) that most large businesses are sophisticated enough to understand this.

I don't think this will hurt Zurich's business, because most of their customers probably understand this.
I'll never understand why so many businesses in this industry seem to be so short-sighted when it comes to talent development. What these companies need is an experienced leader and a small team of more entry level people, some of whom will stick with the career and become tomorrow's experienced leaders. This is how it has worked for time immemorial. Why do so many companies seem to be looking for only one or the other level of experience? You need both!
I didn't know that was public. It's available at https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/ for anyone curious
There are security fixes here... is there any perspective given on how critical these are? I'm curious about the urgency of upgrading existing firewalls with the new release.
I assume op is talking about this https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/effort-to-co...
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1,000_genome, the cost for whole genome sequencing is now under $1000, with some companies now coming very close to 23andMe's $100-$200 price. I haven't found any info on whether 23andMe is moving in this direction instead of their current methodology.
And this kind of thinking is why it’s never “The year of Linux on the desktop.”
California property taxes about are about 1.5%, not 6.5%
Better than asymmetrical capabilities.
It's hard to work in places that have affordable housing. Nearly everyone I know who has a mortgage (I know very few people who own) had their parents pay their deposit.
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The first sentence of the Wikipedia article says: “In economics, moral hazard occurs when someone increases their exposure to risk when insured ...”

Can you explain where the fiduciary duty comes in?
It's crazy for the US to be bound to such a treaty with Russia while the most powerful country of the last 200 years not named the United States is rising rapidly to superpower status and is entirely unbound by the treaty. Not just unbound, they would never sign it under any circumstances.

Russia is a joke of a potential problem next to China, both economically and militarily. As China's technological capabilities mature in the military sphere, the former USSR will be a joke compared to what China will be capable of. The USSR always struggled with true global projection, that's not a problem China is going to have eventually.

Russia can't keep up with either the US or China. The US added $1.1-$1.2 trillion to its economic output in 2018. Russia's entire annual economic output is $1.5 trillion. At a 3% of GDP defense spending rate, the US can add 1/2 of Russia's defense spending every year (even after you adjust for the difference in costs between them, it's an impossible situation for Russia). China was the size of Russia's economy 20 years ago, now it's nearing ten times larger. Russia will never be able to spend the money necessary to keep up with the two superpowers on conventional forces and technology, they'll only be able to keep up on very narrow high value tech (eg hypersonic missiles or the S-300/400/500 missile systems). As Russia's economy goes nowhere for the next decade, they'll continue to try to flex their regional power to divert attention. However, Russia is never going to be more than a regional problem.

If you're the US, you don't want to be in a position of dramatic military weakness to China at any point or in any critical weapons segment over the next 20-30 years at least. While the US can just withdraw from Asia and go home (nicely protected by the enomority of the Pacific), if the US doesn't keep up with China (ideally working in tandem with its allies to offset the burden of cost), it ultimately leaves Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines and every other ally in greater Asia in a very vulnerable position of forced deference as China's military pushes outward.
You seriously underestimate the cost of a significant wreck in the US. The medical bills alone could reach into the hundreds of thousands. The pain of paying $100/mo for insurance vs having to come up with $250,000 all at once makes insurance a no-brainer.

My state used to allow drivers to self-insure (I think they removed the option for individuals recently). I was a really bad deal though, since you had to give the state a minimum $50,000 deposit interest free. It's cheaper to just pay for insurance and earn the returns on your cash.
FTA: >"In addition to giving Russia free rein to build and deploy an unlimited number of intermediate-range missiles that could potentially be fitted with nuclear weapons,

withdrawing from the treaty would allow Putin to deflect responsibility and blame the US for both the treaty's collapse and any ensuing arms race."
When in all of human history have things been so good for so many people? Access to information and free communication is at a high, violent crime is at an all time low, racism and sexism against historical minorities is at an all time low.

Yes there are problems but there's never been a time in human history where so many people have enjoyed a basic quality of life plus some very real luxuries as they do today.
> The Russian counter is that the "missile shield" being deployed by NATO in Europe, to knock out russian missiles before they reach their intended target, can also be modified from their "defensive" use to also attack (as regular missiles).

Are you sure that's what has been said? That they might be re-purposed for delivering nuclear warheads? That's crazy.

Their use in assisting a US first strike would be to help neutralize Russia's offensive threat, making whatever retaliatory response Russia could muster that much more survivable. From Russia's point of view, that's bad enough.

It's the sort of thing that was always a big roadblock to disarmament in the eighties, when people still cared about disarmament. You need to coordinate bringing up defensive weapons with retiring offensive weapons in a way that preserves some strategic balance, and if one side doesn't have the right sort of defensive weapons, or a good place to put them... It's why notions like the US partnering with the USSR to deploy defensive weapons were publicly floated.

“A President of the United States could offer to give that same defensive weapon to them to prove to them that there was no longer any need for keeping these missiles,” explained Reagan. “Or with that defense, he could then say to them, ‘I am willing to do away with all my missiles. You do away with yours’”
It works in the short run because a lot of people who own homes here bought them back when they were much cheaper, and are now sitting on piles of equity. The market price is driven by the high end of income, who are the people who actually bid for the limited supply of housing on the market.
I'm curious - what kind of industrial equipment and communication protocols are you talking about? PLCs? Something else?
For another, there are specific KRACK mitigations. Remember that little bug? [0]

[0] https://www.krackattacks.com/
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Linux has been on my desktop for 20 years.

Not my fault you dont run it there ;)
That was my knee-jerk reaction too, but if you read the comment carefully you’ll see “truly affordable”. That’s the key. If we keep doing what we’re doing now, affordability gets worse.
If we build at a fevered pace we might be able to keep up with migration and keep prices where they are.
Building enough to bring prices down in the Bay Area enough to make it truly affordable is probably not feasible.
It’ll take a combination of rapid building and another crash to do that. Or the complete destruction of the tech industry.
But it’s unlikely we’ll convince people to allow even a little bit more building, let alone the lots more we’d need to stop the rising prices.
I believe that brew makes it much easier to support multiple versions of the same package installed simultaneously.
No I don’t think Google is on the forefront of that type of thing. It’s more of a practical craft. There may be people doing interesting PL research at Google but they aren’t in the language platform team. That said these are probably some of the tightest, safest, and best-tested large-scale C++ programs ever.
The other way-- and I'm sorry for how smug this sounds-- is to just not litter in your own home directory without cleaning it up.

How about the other way is I’ll just stop using your product/service/business that doesn’t respect my machine?