skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be great on the right laptop. Most of the OpenBSD developers use thinkpads, from what I can tell.

It wouldn’t fly at work for me at the moment, and I don’t do much computing at home, so I played around with it a bit on a laptop, but didn’t switch. The results were encouraging, though.

My biggest beef with it right now is the upgrade story, but that’s because I need to update my router (through a serial console!) and am afraid of what happens if I brick it.
That was the same argument gnome 3 used when it wasn't working in my Nvidia GPU: the driver is buggy, not our fault.

This is very hard to explain to your users, because there's nothing they can do.

So yes, it really doesn't matter too much why if the software doesn't work. I don't mind X until Wayland is ready for all.
What about "History Will Not Be Kind to Apple"?

Ultimately, ALL of these apparent flaws were approved by the Apple and Ive isn't even a company officer. Further, the average consumer has no idea who Jony Ive is. Apple created the iPhone, not Ive.
Matryoshka Doll
Freedom of religion (at least in the US constitutional sense) is a negative right in that it obliges inaction (Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof). Did you mean to imply it was a positive right?

Miranda rights are positive rights (you have the right to). Much of the Constitutional rights are negative (shall not infringe on...)
How to Write the Perfect Postmortem Report
I misspoke in my first comment; I meant 'stated policy' - we all know both of them aren't really in favor of privacy. Also, while there is no mention of encryption or cryptography, you might find the bits on the necessity of guaranteeing military network security interesting. This policy paper, of course, came out near the time of Stuxnet.
> Would you rather have the Chinese regime oppressing the people with their current level of wealth, or the same regime oppressing a people with 1% of their current wealth (e.g. North Korea)?

You hit the nail on the head. Every time someone brings up "human rights" as a reason to stop trading with China is just hiding behind a pretentious facade, and an obvious one at that. It's totally understandable to feel threatened by the rise of China, it's totally understandable to feel competitive pressure from a country that deploys many unfair strategies, but it's not ok to pretend to care about the "human rights" of a country's citizen while being absolutely ok devastating an economy of 1.4 billion people.

Someone on Reddit literally said because CCP doesn't respect human rights, we should send the country back to the middle age and cut off them completely from the rest of the world.

You know what, I bet even if China were a completely democratic country, there would still be many who hold extremely hostile/defensive attitude towards the them, for a myriad of reasons that I'm not going to spell out.
Is this on topic to the subject at hand?
Depends on the definition.

unlocking a carrier-locked phone under contract

-vs-

unlocking a carrier-locked phone out of contract

-vs-

unlocking a phone (password or fingerprint locked)

-vs-

unlocking a phone stolen/you don't own (hacking)
Orgmode sort of standardizes a bunch of things that are useful for project management and note taking. Things like putting due dates and then building an agenda for the week based on that.

How you use it is largely up to you. I usually break things into files when I feel like it's its own high level "thing".
when an escalator breaks down, it can speed up and injure or kill people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Rome_escalator_accident
https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Elevator_incidents
Device verification now required for login to GitHub?
But managing an IRC server cluster for 10.000+ users is no simple task.

Paying experts in their field (chat tools in this case) is most of the time the most reliable and cheapest variant. You must also include that Slack has plenty of features that are not available in IRC and mean the productivity is not as good.
From TFA . . .

> Tech companies like Apple, Google and Facebook have ncreasingly

> built end-to-end encryption into their products and software

> in recent years — billing it as a privacy and security feature

Because Facebook and Google are known for being so concerned about your privacy.
this is a perfect candidate for abou:config variable but there is o about:config and eho knows if there is going to be one...
Proposal: don't change anything so we can keep complaining about the same things forever.
> Why this model isn't more popular is really confusing to me. Technically trained people have the skills that make the world go round

If you are brilliant at engine design does not mean you are brilliant at selling cars.

Selling cars make money. There is negative value in a bunch of engines lying around.

As software engineers we design automation to make a business more efficient.

To make money you need to run a business.
Wait, what? I own a razer laptop but I bought it with knowledge that if anything goes wrong Razer support is worse than useless.
Only reason why hybrid kernels and Linux is popular is the stable driver API, otherwise recompilation is necessary (which was new to me when I discovered it).

OpenBSD is suited for simple workstations or as a tablet substitute, but I don't think the OpenBSD desktop will quite take off, unless driver developers will return to releasing obfuscated code.
I hope you realize that "more" vs "less" DRM, is not the same as DRM vs no-DRM. In any case, I don't see anything I can respond to.. so.. thanks for the comment.
> Edit: At this moment, the story above this one on the front page is "Apple Moves Mac Pro Production to China".

Well yeah, this one started to get penalized before it was even up 1 hour (before that, it was firmly glued to the very top), and is now completely off the front page.

HN, publish flags and votes. Show us the underbelly.

edit: and even though this story is now on page THREE, my comment got a downvote instantly, aww. Like not calling it out would change what some people are.
Family domain name extension choices
My wife has expressed an interest in getting a family domain name that I would manage for us and and the children. Everyone would get fn@domain name.

What would HN say is the better choice:

fn@surnamefamily.org

or

firstname@surname.family

I'm not sure which would be better. I also wonder how viable anything not com/net/org really is.
So ill be honest here, im not a STEM person...but how exactly do you "crack down" on something thats essentially just really great math?

What, if anything, is the government hoping to do to stop people from using GPG/PGP? I mean i guess you could force companies in the US to not ship phones encrypted by default, but they could just sneak a menu asking if you want it encrypted before the first power on.

How does the cat go back in the bag after 2015? Snowden has basically put the word "encryption" in the mouth and ears of every American. We know the government spies on us. We know it uses this information to hold theater trials of people it just doesnt like.

How do you crack down on math?
After 18 years struggling with the Linux desktop, I switched to Windows for my GUI needs. Everything just works, if somewhat slowly. My "working environment" is a Linux VM. If I need to run a graphical app from the VM, there are plenty of rootless X servers for Windows, plus Windows 10 has workspaces.

I get the best of both worlds: real vendor support for hardware, and the best software for getting work done (windows business software, Linux coding software). Honestly, this feels like the future to me, and I hope M$ is working towards this being a normalized hybrid platform.
Especially since Gnome is basically the only DE that works on Wayland.
Users don't care whose fault it is. Once you start laying blame you've already lost.
Not if you're sponsored by a hostile actor with functionally limitless resources. E2E isn't just about stopping legitimate law enforcement from conducting investigations.
This is nearly a tautology. Economic engagement with the rest of the world is obviously good for any single country (especially when you're essentially cherrypicking the rules you follow while the rest of the world is mostly compliant). But if that country is poised to become the next superpower and its leaders are the modern day analogue of imperial Japan or the USSR, that economic engagement is probably not good for the rest of the world (in the long-term).
The last time I tried, OneNote was very slow with this. It took a day or two after saving before my handwritten text would be found by search.
Wasn't a big part of "old school actual investigation" looking at the communications of suspects?
So regarding your point 2 I have, at the very least anecdotally, seen this happen in practice. I work in a tech startup and as such we have a lot of highly talented engineers sitting in the top spots throughout the engineering org. We have recently had the case where some of these top engineers have shifted focus and we as a company watched as the engineers beneath them rose to the occasion.

This is definitely a phenomenon that can happen, but it has a dark side that I feel is rarely accounted for. While you want to have senior talent and empower your engineers to grow, you also need to have junior/mid level engineers to support them. All to often the reason you have 20% of the employees making 80% of the effort is because they have no supporting infrastructure to help them with their jobs, or they are powerless to leverage the other employees for help without interacting with, sometimes multiple, management levels.

When we started to expand the engineering org it became readily apparent what we needed wasn't more senior talent, but more, for lack of a better word, grunts to help with the mundane tasks that the senior engineers shouldn't be working on. This same thing happens in most other organizations outside of software development as well. Essentially one way to ensure that you don't have your engineers burn out, is to ensure they have a team they can fall back on completely outside of management. I personally appreciate getting recognition from my manager and the higher ups at the company I work at. However I appreciate the team I can rely on far more. I think generally HR/Managers should get out of the way more often, and instead of directly acting make it easier for teams to help/support each other.
I am the rock. Though currently I am experiencing this body.
There seems to be an opportunity for a language to fill the data science/AI space for people who want something more performant and safe (ie, statically typed) than Python. I see people coming into /r/Haskell and other forums all the time looking for something that fits this category but there's never a really good answer that is better than the compromise that is Python with some C or whatever based optimizations.
But usually nobody quibbles about the same sort of definition for say a $250 3d printer (which requires all that fiddling too)
I think they idea was to pick up the pieces when Slack implodes. Most of these businesses, looking for 10x growth, do so at some point.

gitlab and bitbucket ain't github, but as github started burning, they started picking up steam. github sold for $7.5 billion. If they can get 1% of that value, that's still $75 million. If they can do so on the cheap, maintaining control, that's not a bad return. I doubt something like gitlab requires more than 5 people to do well enough to achieve that, given patient, low-overhead investors. Done well, that's $75 million returns for a $10 million investment. If you toss the investor $50 mil, and each employee $5 mil, it's not bad.

On the other hand, as far as I know, patient low-overhead investors are a myth.
OpenBSD

Alpine Linux

Void Linux (+ Nix package manager)

9front (militant esoterica)

I use OpenBSD on my Thinkpad T410i and Void on an older AMD box. You can use vmm to run alpine images to run docker apps or Linux stuff. My only gripe is firefox runs slowish on OpenBSD though chrome doesn't suffer as such. I use both and only chrome if FF cant handle the site im on.

9front's vmx is mature enough to run an alpine VM and then native x client so the vm runs without an x server and the linux applications run in individual windows giving you a seamless 9front/linux desktop that can run a full browser. This route is only for the truly enlightened ones.

Unix philosophy isn't about keeping the cruft around but building useful systems using simple tools. The idea is do not duplicate functionality if it already exists. I see so many programs attempt to sidestep dependency hell by baking in functionality. This is the overall communities fault and the fault of modern software development which somehow lost the art of pragmatism. The simple part has been long lost in a sea of complexity driven by ignorance and fueled by greed.
It may not even be possible to manufacture electronics at Apple’s scale outside of Shenzhen. The Mac Pro is one thing, but moving all of Apple including iPhone out of China could be functionally impossible.
The latter will still get rejected by a lot of software with crappy regex validation, fwiw.
Can you provide an example? I’m guessing you’re skewed by the week old article (where RH replacement is better anyway)
Try using the keyboard e.g. Alt+Tab in Windows.
Google can't monetize it if they can't read it. Why do you think e2e email encryption is still not the default.
Edit: My bad, nevermind.
Anyone remember Luke Young's Talking Burrito? It was a goofy little "choose your own adventure" style story that a college student threw together about a talking burrito and aliens and stuff. (And I think that's the right name.)

The choices were made by clicking hyperlinks. Hypertext is so normal now that it's hard to relate, but at the time it was fun to see the transformation from book format to hypertext. It was just such a natural fit.
$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core I9-9980XE
William Nordhaus and his cost estimates are themselves controversial and by no means some kind of standard in the field of climate mitigation economics. For people who paid attention, this was brought up when he won his prize. [1]

I dare say the IPCC knows better than both Econlib and Nordhaus. There isn't much of an analysis here. They ignore the most obvious huge cost: the risk of reaching the tipping-point after which global warming would be unstoppable. They ignore the positive externalities of climate action, which are plenty in themselves. They ignore the fact that it is not possible to not act now and then suddenly put on the brakes on warming when we reach whatever target they deem appropriate.

1. https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/06/the-nobel-prize-for-cli...
Dropbox feels like they are in the same shitty spot that Evernote is in. They took way too much cash from investors and can't run a great little file-syncing-and-sharing business.
Looking at the conversation here, I'd like to see some stats correlating average/high temperatures and AC use. According to wikipedia, average summer highs in Paris are only a couple of degrees lower than Montevideo, yet in Montevideo it's very common for (middle class) homes to have AC and in Paris it's rare.
Well, okay, maybe you won't be able to buy a non-DRM version of a game you really like. That is a problem for the creator. If people simply walked out of a situation where they don't agree with the terms, maybe more creators would notice.
Gumroad?
Hey HN, this is Kevin Hale, one of the partners at YC. I'll be hosting this year's Startup School alongside Adora Cheung. We learned a lot from last year's class and the Startup School team is really excited about this next iteration. Over the next few weeks, we're going to talk about some of those changes in more detail--about the data that drove those decisions and the new software we made to improve the experience for founders.

If you have any immediate questions about the course, please do let us know.
Essentialist Explanations (199x-2017)
>I work until the job is done (or I'm cut) and the workplace is safe. It's the employer's responsibility to pay me at least the legal minimum wage for hours worked. If that means I'm going into OT because they can't organize shift changes properly, that's their problem.

My experience working in factories as a young man was that employers hawked over time cards obsessively and threatened to fire you for a first or second time offense if you went into OT.
RIP, X11. You had the correct architecture. I still believe that the goals of Wayland would have been better achieved as a collection of X extensions than as an entirely new system that's lost many of the capabilities of X, including network transparency, input configuration, and window manager decoupling. Wayland is great if you want to build a Windows clone that works exactly the way Red Hat wants it to work --- but it represents a decline from the Unix ideal of configurability, experimentation, and simplicity.
How Big Mike, a Barbershop Painter, Broke into the Art World
That’s mostly true in countries where proper long lasting institutional democracy has no societal feasibility (Saudi Arabia for example).
Oh yeah! Look at IBM's previous acquisitions especially over the last decade. They're one of the worst tech employers too, for anyone remotely senior. I give it a year max before the 1st RH layoff wave (in IBMese, a "Resource Action" or RA).
Every new piece of software is not progress, very little of it is actually innovative, none is better in every way and not that much of it is even usable. Having options at least accepts that, respects people's time and allows people to avoid suffering through it until it eventually dies anyway.

Speaking of stagnation, reinventing anything "not invented here" is also stagnation, not progress.
It's common practice to use commas for this in anglophone countries, but it collisions with french decimal separator; so it's a reasonable choice.
Trust me, it’s not dry here right now. It feels more like Panama than Perigord. We’ve been hovering around 38-40 at 80%+ humidity a few days now, and sweating isn’t effective. Thankfully the house has meter thick stone walls, so is as cool as a cave inside - but it’s unbearable outside.

These conditions are lethal, for plenty - the very old and the very young tend to suffer the most.
Out of curiosity what do you prefer in it when compared to Win7?

For me Windows 10 has been a huge step backwards. Settings are spread out in multiple UWP style apps and the classic settings programs. The update scheme is annoying, and Microsoft is pushing out more buggy updates than ever before. Clicking “check for updates” surprise enrolls you into their beta channel. The telemetry is forced and they regularly reset your preferences.

I absolutely hate Win10, and this is coming from a guy who didn’t mind Win8.
Infringing on copyright law to play a game or a movie doesn't quite have the same 'civil disobedience' ring to it as fighting slavery.
My absolute favorite book of all time, Neal Stephenson is an international treasure.
Does it bother you that this mythical animal metaphor is being extended to yet another creature? But since we are here, I would consider Falkor the Luckdragon to be a better choice instead of a Pegasus.
The first order problem is that VCs are desperate and dumb, in a low interest rate economy everyone is looking for high yields and that desperation will lead you to believe that a note taking app is worth a billion dollars.

The second order effect is that the valley is still way too concentrated, there are billion dollar ideas out there that can really make a dent in the universe, and inspiring entrepreneurs across the globe -- but with such a myopic view, Sand Hill Road will never be able to reach out farther than suburban Redwood City.
Neo Kernel
Meanwhile, Windows has become an acceptable Unix. (I'm not trolling.) I don't want to admit this, but I've been wondering whether, over the long term, FOSS stuff really can't match the quality of a sustained commercial endeavor.
It might be worth while reading wikipedia on "Chilling Effect". The Supreme Court has already agreed with the gpp some 70 years ago now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect

The term chilling effect has been in use in the United States since as early as 1950.[8] The United States Supreme Court first refers to the "chilling effect" in the context of the United States Constitution in Wieman v. Updegraff in 1952.[9]
The content is very well paced and engaging. The use of Jupyter Notebook really is a great way to demo code. I took Part 1 online (free) and then Part 2 in person ($2000) and feel the money was well spent. TBH, I haven't used it yet, but I enjoyed the classes (they were exciting at times) and I do have a project I'm working towards where I'll use this.
That’s less true the deeper you dig into history. Major political change doesn’t always make a big splash into history.

New leadership in a dictatorship often means a quiet realignment at the top. China tends to use the corruption excuse, but look at the upper leadership after such transitions and you find many new faces.
This is maybe slightly off-topic but one reason I prefer Java to C# when it comes to reading code outside an IDE is that it forces you to explicitly declare where every external class is being imported from, which makes it much easier to go looking for the definition if you need it, when you don't have access to the IDE's right-click "Go to Definition".
Canada does have a military, and yes, the US is a nuclear deterrent. Also of note is that the US has a lot more enemies- especially among groups that hate freedom, how morally weird we are, or how we butter our toast.

Want to scare the world and become known? Canada probably isn't the place to do so, the US is way bigger, has more news outlets, and enough targets that you can probably hit at least one of them.

Want to show the world how cruel you can be, and inspire revenge? Attack Canada out of the blue- the stereotype of Canadians being super chill and apologizing is international, and attacking them will get everyone and their dog angry at you.

Want to do a lot of damage? US.

Want to show that your country is capable of going toe-to-toe with a first-world country? The USA is your best bet.

As alluded to by other commenters, Canada is also protected because its physical barriers touch the United States', and anything major that affects Canada will also affect the US, too.
Do you know how raw Julia and Nim stack up on those fronts?
The article mentions "tech companies." But isn't SSL end to end encrypted? And doesn't nearly every business that makes transactions online use SSL?
Oh. How do investments work?
Tl;dr: q:why? a:fuck knows!
With my proposed system though, there is no way for the chip to "transmit" anything. It's a passive, write-only storage chip that requires physical optical examination with expensive hardware to extract information from it.
> How do you crack down on math?

Same way you crack down on anything else. Round up people and throw them in prison if they break the law.

Sure you cannot stop people from using encryption but if it's a criminal offense to incorporate it into a consumer application then you could easily go after the company, it's executives, developers, or even users. The first three of those is already enough to have a chilling effect on the rest of the industry.
> there isn't anything better i'm aware of

I've been enjoying Joplin[1] very much. I could criticize a few things about it, but it does have a web clipper (which was Evernote's killer feature for me), and supports cross-device sync. It even has a decent mobile client (I use it on iOS, I won't speak for the Android one), as well as a CLI (also haven't used it).

1 - https://github.com/laurent22/joplin
Is Trump a Rapist?
And chat, e.g. whatsapp and alack
That’s the first part of the game ;-)