skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> merely part of an attempt to boost their environmentalist cred and blunt the impact rival environmentalist parties while in actuality doing the absolute minimum

Yeah, it fully is. The major parties in Canada are slowly, and much too late, getting the message that the environment is the biggest election issue this year. They haven't been taking it seriously at all til now, hence this kind of bandwagon jumping. We're still going to hold them to the promise though.
OpenArena Live – Quake3 In-Browser Using WebAssembly and WebRTC
Sort of. There's a big difference between working to raise your cousin's kids and working to raise your own.
Is anyone else slightly bothered by the fact the browser logo is now "Fox wrapped around generic purple circle" instead of "Fox wrapped around earth"?
> Absolutely nobody but a very select few people would care.

Are you kidding me, it would be on the front page of the Journal. People would care after that.
This is amateur hour RIAA damages calculations. To get a truly spicy number you gotta multiply the number of downloads by the statutory limit for willful infringement--$150,000 per infringed song.

So your ipod 4th gen with 5000 songs is worth $750 million.
I suspect you are surprised a lot by people and things in life, and I suspect you are also often surprised by this surprise.
Outside of a dormitory situation (and sometimes even then), how many people are seriously willing to dispense with even the most minimal kitchen (say, refrigerator, burner, toaster oven, kitchen sink, maybe microwave)? To a first approximation, no one wants to order out for an egg and a couple slides of toast in the morning.

So most probably can't/don't want to eliminate the kitchen entirely and that minimal kitchen is probably not that different from a lot of urban kitchens in areas like Manhattan.
This reminds of the GNOME 3 debacle.
The "Alan Kay" references in the video is a good cue of what's on the author's mind -- I guess the goal is to create an environment for contents, not something like a general-purpose desktop.

Quite ambitious I'd say! But I would also suggest that this goal (if I guess it right) could be better explained than just claiming this to be a "desktop reimagined", considering that a commodity desktop has neither a trackpad or eye-tracking device.

The discussion here has already made it clear -- hashtags for file organization is anything but new. It can be even simulated with a filesystem pretty easily. Just post everything into a big content folder, and then create a folder for each tag, then `ln -s`.

It'd be more awesome if a miner extracts semantic tags and metadata from the files. Not a new idea either, there were google desktop, gnome-tracker etc. macOS spotlight seems to be the most popular descendant these days. Microsoft is making another push with Cortana/MS Graph/Windows Search or whatever they call it.

The relationship between the contents is also an interesting aspect. Hashtags just throw things into hash buckets but do not help to relate in a broader sense. Even wiki links/hyperlinks are more effective. Project Xanadu also has interesting ideas that a reference link addresses by content so that you can reference a portion of the source (without the source defining them, unlike html anchors).

But again, this was the vision of the pioneers, but did not take off smoothly. IMHO partly because this idea is too big and involves a lot of smaller (yet still challenging) pieces (natural language understanding, resource description, app interop, and also, including the UX problem that the op is trying to solve) and none of the previous trials have both the depth and breadth to cover enough aspect of a user's everyday routine with a desktop environment.
only tangential, but I've wanted to carry my Yubikey on my keyring, but have always been nervous about making it unreadable by sullying the contacts. Should I be concerned about this? Where do you all carry them?
I'm pretty sure the poster meant no 3rd party connections initiated by Firefox independently of what's in the actual HTML it's loading. No telemetry, in other words. I strongly agree that telemetry features should be excluded.
whoah nifty
> You say spyware; I say software that guarantees there is a
> password, that there is a reasonable lock-out time, that
> encryption is enabled, etc.

I am undecided if in the end the additional software is a net positive. I am totally on your side that some basic security measures need to be enforced. And I know that this might be possible in terms of culture and processes like onboarding with a small number of employees.

And I know, that in a global corp this isn't feasible.

Non the less am I not sure that just throwing software at a basic problem of awareness really helps in the end. Esp. if the to be enforced standards like ISO 27001 are in some cases weakening the security.

I am enforced to use shorter passwords now. And I need to rotate them after a specific amount of time. I automatically have software installed (because next to security stuff we get some additional software) that does not exactly have a reputation of being secure.

So while there is light there is also quite some shadow.

If in the end this proves to be net positive. We will have to wait and see.

Any yes: I call it spyware. It has its own SSL certs, could potentially open my connections, monitors all and every connection my device makes, can (without me knowing) download any file on my device. And also can plant any file on my device without my knowledge.

As root it can add any additional functionality without my knowledge. And it does, as far as I have been told, scan any network I connect to for unmanaged devices and transmits (to quote) "a rich set of information for the located assets, including the hostname, MAC and IP addresses, device manufacturer, operating systems, open ports, applications, and historical information such as the first and last time the asset was seen on the network."

And it is not only being marketed as being compliant to GDPR, but actively helping and supporting companies to become compliant with this exact feature.
The number who've given up looking is more worrisome than lower jobs growth
Crappy Tech Journalism
Literally the first paragraph:

> Last year we added two-factor authentication to provide another layer of protection for your 1Password account. When this is enabled, you are prompted to enter your second factor any time you sign in from a new device.

If you read it carefully, you'll have the answer to your question.
Huawei’s secretive plans to develop an OS to rival Google's Android
But was this really in the nature of the technology, or was it a choice on the part of the German planners? Choosing to only have an invasion plan, and not bother scheduling out the 80%-option which leaves not quite as many troops but all on your side of the border, and so on down? That sounds like the generals wishing for war, to me, and limiting their masters' options.

Not quite parallel, but IIRC it emerged afterwards that the Soviets had no non-nuclear battle plans for Germany. While the US planners kept two sets ready.
I see monthly payment plans for $25 shirts.

I didn't realize it had gotten this bad until that moment, but we've been creeping toward installment plans and subscription services over ownership for a few years now and it's absolutely wild that it's not a warning sign that no one can actually afford to own anything upfront anymore.
That's handled by point 6. You would be able to have shared ownership of the log files, but you wouldn't be able to just write to it willy-nilly. In this case, the specialized application would be trivial because it would just need to ensure that writes are append-only.

> Applications can provide the ability for shared ownership, but those would by specialized applications capable of handling and merging simultaneous changes.
I currently work within a profit-share-based flat-org. We have a rule to never exceed 12 people in company size. Sure there might be several of us that are "core" members and others that come and go throughout the years. So in a sense this seniority has translated to hierarchy to some degree.

We're all mostly web developers so the mind-share is important since our technologies move fast. Decision making doesn't cost us a lot of time because there aren't many big decisions to make. Our only producer and founder see client faces the most, but not exclusively. We do good work and rely solely on previous clients and referrals banging our doors down for more work – so we fortunately don't have to worry on that front or "crown someone" with biz dev because it's on autopilot for the most part (definitely over-simplifying the work it takes to get a client in the door but you get the picture).

One would assume that our profits would cap out eventually because we aren't scaling the labor-force, but we just keep getting better paying projects and have a few internal projects that provide some passive revenue – so we've been able to nearly double our revenue year-over-year for the last few years and is now stably seven figures.

Our big decisions come down to whether or not to hire a specialized dev for an upcoming scope or maybe what conference we attend that year. These decisions don't happen often but they happen openly and almost everyone is satisfied with the result almost all of the time. "Almost" is used unapologetically because we all know there's never been a perfect organization and that keeps everyone involved perfectly happy. We can't always be skipping around in the cotton candy fields and enjoying the sugar rain like the unicorns we truly are on the inside – so when we have to go to work we recognize that our pattern is better than the vast majority of agency-models here in NYC and are still delighted by our cumulative work experience day to day.

Flat-org is sometimes tossed around as if it projects itself as a silver bullet to organizational overhead. But anyone that cares to think clearly for a moment can recognize that any org structure has a place and time and that there will never be a one-size-fits-all solution to managing people.
YAS!
Here is the advice:

- Avoid vertical lines

- Avoid “boxing up” cells, usually 3 horizontal lines are
enough: above, below, and after heading (see examples in
this guide)

- Avoid double horizontal lines

- Enough space between rows

- If in doubt, align left

I agree with this, although some of his examples I would tweak slightly, and sometimes I wonder about how much better "align left" ends up working.
Yes, but consider what this would mean during the winter. It would still get dark significantly earlier than in summer, and it would likely be dark when you wake up.
I'm afraid I agree with basically nothing you've written here!

I trust Troy Hunt more than I trust OP's examples of Facebook and Verizon. I also trust his competence more than I trust theirs. Whose to say that anybody won't make any of the mistakes you mention. FWIW I would doubt he would sell to either of these companies, but it's undeniable that you give up control when you sell and people have made incorrect judgments before.

Nobody is suggesting he continue alone, rather that, if he feels that they're the only two options, he take some venture capital instead of selling the business.

The main reason not to do this is the one that he's given: it may not be the best thing for him personally, and the venture capital plan may be particularly negative for him. I think this reasoning has a lot of merit.
Looks like capitalism has blunted Hanlon's razor :-)
American apathy is a real thing. People used to love public works and public institutions, then the funds supporting these public good endeavors were slowly slashed and looted in the second half of the 20th century, leading to a lack of maintenance and improvement all while the population was growing.

People look at a destroyed public bathroom and blame society, smirk at how shitty and nonfunctional the government is, and put on their blinders and move on with their lives. People don't look at the bathroom and say "we should hire more public custodians to support our city services." People even vote, and campaign against education funding measures.

We've reached a point where there is so much inertia to improve the smallest things, that's pretty scary.
Maybe they are self-employed or otherwise has a job that allows them to take vacations more often.

Maybe the vacation is “just” a weekend-vacation only requiring to take half a day off to have more time for transport.
Somewhat OT: How do you guarantee for quality/consistency when you have multiple suppliers for a part as sensitive as this?
CFIUS was established in 1975, got extensive powers to block deals in 1988, and even in 2013-2015 20% of their cases involved China.
Why not let go of said idiot and keep the culture as it was? Why ruin it for everybody because of one bad apple? Why punish everybody and send a sign of mistrust to everybody for one idiot?
He was on the Rogan podcast a few weeks back. Hoping this works well for him.
I think it's very unlikely that any significant number of people can type faster than they can speak.

Depending on the complexity of the task, you might very well have to press "hundreds of buttons" in order to achieve the same result as a single sub vocalized voice command. Not to mention that speech can be far more intuitive than keyboard shortcuts or nested sub-menus for certain tasks.

Again though, this isn't about replacing keyboard input, it's about supplementing it.
Gotcha, thanks. Hardly "eye-bleed" worthy IMO, but noticeable for sure.
You keep spamming about poverty in this thread. That is 100% irrelevant and an obvious distraction. Do better.
Yeah, voice based interfaces have huge potential but maybe its easier to we adapt ourselves to match what its expecting. Like a shorthand for voice. We already learn seemingly random words/numbers/spcial characters in terms of programming syntax. We could do that for voice too.. Or maybe a 'grunt' based interface? A grunt is pretty universal right? :P
So containers with a new bi-directional hardlink "Firmlink" (intended to be invisible to applications, link between encrypted containers), with read only volumes protecting system software.

ZFS send/receive style volume serialization for replication backup, etc. File system snapshot support included.

iOS or should I say iPadOS supports external USB media and SMB.

What seems to be missing is block level checksumming and integrity checks, scrubbing, block level duplication to protect important files, etc. No whiff of deduplication either, but that might be too memory intensive for Apple's purposes.
One "good" thing about it is that if they are stupid enough to do it anyway the damage means they are less likely to be capable of repeating their mistakes with the same magnitude.

Granted the circumstances can still set the stage afterwards for future conflicts even if the fools responsible lost power as unfortunately demonstrated by WW2.
I remember that thread now. Well, looks like standard Google behavior then.
Are there examples of flat organizations that have to meet make-or-break deadlines? I'm a little skeptical of a flat org's ability to hold itself accountable to externally-imposed deadlines/requirements/etc.
> could be better explained than just claiming this to be a "desktop reimagined", considering that a commodity desktop has neither a trackpad or eye-tracking device.

s/desktop/laptop/ and you're golden.
Oh, great news, thanks for letting me know!
I think firewall rules would be your next line of defense. I'm not sure how configurable most home routers are though.
How about instead of attempting to kill people you direct your petty rage at your local city council meeting and remind the good local government officials of their responsibility toward enforcing traffic ordinances that are already in the books.
In the diagram, there are just two directories, and mount points could easily handle that case. In the video he describes how the scale of things makes using mount points here unwieldy.
The World’s Most Playfully Named Creatures
If you inspect the insecure warning, is it a certificate issue or an in-page resources issue?
I thought he was implying Mozilla Foundation's outreach and advocacy programs.
No, communication is implemented as message-passing (but that is largely irrelevant), but ultimately the end result is changing physical state.
Short History of Markov Chain MonteCarlo: Subjective Recollection IncompleteData
FYI, there is no Fair Use Act (other than a failed attempt to amend the copyright law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR_USE_Act).

The principle of fair use is just part of copyright law, and there's no need to explicitly invoke it when availing yourself of it.
Why do you say "buy a motorcycle" instead of "buy a horn and a bike with disc brakes?" Is there something intrinsically wrong with going fast without at least a quarter ton of steel with you?

For that matter you can easily achieve 25 km/h on a normal unpowered bike. They don't seem to kill as many people as motorcycles though.
Well, eliminated is a bit strong, as you can never eliminate an ideology.

The main point, however, is that Europe has shown over a span of several decades that restricting hate speech a) does not lead to any slippery slope where other forms of speech are restricted and b) that restrictions of hate speech are effective at reducing racism in society.
I want to have both options because traditional folders and a tag based file system solve different problems.

Let's say I go on vacation with my dog and make pictures. After I am home again I want to sort the pictures but then I have a problem: the pictures in which you can see my dog in belong into the '2019 vacation to Bavaria' collection _and_ also in the 'Best pictures of my dog' collection.

I'd love to have some sort of universal file-database where I can store all my "final" images and then create collections by adding tags.
Sounds a lot like consent (not consensus) as practiced in Sociocracy or Holacracy.

https://patterns.sociocracy30.org/consent-decision-making.ht...
Yes. So you keep that simple script simple, and you let systemd do the heavy lifting.
>lets not pretend that the Panthers were some mild group either.

I wasn't. Gun control isn't usually brought in against mild groups.

>walking around with fully automatic weapons 'for defense'

To be fair, the opposition had previously bombed them from the air. Having automatic weapons is usually overdoing it for defense, but if your opponent can manage a ramshackle air force, then it may be warranted.
AN: this all is US-centric, other countries typically have lower cash-back rates and may have differing laws and regulations.

1. Cashback. You can expect a minimum of 2% with relatively easy to get cards.

2. Consumer protection. A bunch of this has been extended to debit cards, but it's more of a courtesy from Visa et al rather than a legal obligation. In short, you are legally protected from being made to pay debts that you do not rightfully owe. Anything you pay for with a credit card is incurring a debt rather than giving someone money. This is important because if the merchant uses fraud or misrepresentation and is not willing to fix things, you can assert your legal protection against the invalid debt through a charge-back. If you use cash, your legal recourse is suing them, which at the minimum will cost you a full day in small claims court.

3. Credit card float - buy now, pay a month from now. This isn't as big of a deal as the cash back, since you should have cash at least a month in advance, but at least it gets you the interest payments. The real benefit is that you can largely eliminate non-planned transactions from hitting your bank account balance, which gives you certainty of avoiding overdraft fees. If your everyday spend is on credit, you can look up last month's credit card statement balances and known fixed expenses (like rent) and verify that your bank account will remain positive through the end of the month.

4. Better fraud-handling flow. Your bank has 10 days to refund or give provisional credit for debit fraud. So it means you can be out thousands of dollars for over a week while they investigate. Credit card fraud has a much better flow - the issuer cancels your card and mails you a new one, and never collects any money from you.
The one advantage I've heard about taking the train is that prices are usually flat. If you need to book a trip the next day you will pay through the nose for most airfare. Train trips on the other hand will mostly be the same price no matter when you book. Aside from that small exception, air travel is MUCH faster/cheaper/convenient.
The shift can influence on easy a admin/mod will ban certain thread and comments if content "diss China". Again, like how the action of Israel is rarely (never) mentioned by politician.
Neat. Lots on electrical, though not much on gas pipelines (natural and gasoline). There are some strange ones too, such as fertilizer, that are not mapped.
Decisions in a flat organization are made by the informal hierarchy that you have to discover through trial and error. Be careful not to antagonize anyone important while you do it!
I did it, and it's great. It's possible to get Ryzen + GTX 2070 for a price of a Mac Mini. Of course it's a big ugly box, but it plays latest games without a hitch, even on 120hz/1440p "Ultra" graphics settings.
Exactly, voice works amazingly as a "3rd interface" complementing keyboards and mice which aren't completely accurate, either, fwiw. Voice gives us more speed, frees up UI clutter and can free up our hands.

I'm working on a tool that explores this area more: https://www.lipsurf.com
It's been a generic blue circle for a while.
Yeah, so this happens to me about twice a week. Most recently yesterday morning. Don't need a flashlight anymore though, got used to the gesture of blindly moving my pointer to my avatar and clicking on it.
Not a deal breaker though I think. We can simply bind the menus to some key chords/combos.
Spring for Kafka Deep Dive: Continuous Delivery of Event Streaming Pipelines
Any idea how this might affect (or help) projects like iSH, or similar?

I've been fighting to be productive on my iPad, and currently that takes the form of a remote terminal.

I've been craving the ability to run a proper Unix shell locally.
> although less profit

You mentioned the problem.

Maybe they could eat a few % with some spin, but I'm not sure shareholders would be okay with much more.
The actual efficiency of algae growth is irrelevant in this case, because we're not paying for the sunlight and there's an excess of seaweed available free for the picking up.

Measures of the theoretical efficiency of solar panels generally don't include the costs of manufacture and maintenance. Until panels become a really cheap and disposable commodity, land-based customers will always be able to outbid someone who wants to put them on the ocean, because of lower maintenance costs.

Solar energy is perfect for dry distillation. It's free.
Yes, first you pretend to be a buisness, then you are a business, then you sell out. The dark side of the force knows many secrets, for example reviving past successes by selling your soul. Let the longing flow through you..
Sounds to me like you should write those articles.
macOS' Finder has had tag support for some time.

That's ~10% of desktops in the world (and 1 of the 3 "mainstream" desktop OS out there, counting linux)

I'm too much of a mess to use them, but they're there.
Is that only true in France? Bird and Lime capped their scooters to 15mph in my city so they can be considered bicycle-type vehicles by traffic law (and not a moped that you need to register and get a license plate and insurance for). The apps even recommend you stay in bike lanes wherever possible. When they first appeared out of thin air in my city, limes had the muscle to go 20mph (birds didn't have the oomph to break 15 unless going downhill).