skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to guard against persistent malware, you don't want your system partition to be writable. You also additionally need a chain of trust in the boot process to get to this (trusted and signed) immutable file system. That still leaves the issue of user-downloaded apps/code and how to run them securely in a sandboxed manner. Which Android does reasonably well, but it is perhaps too restrictive for server/general use cases which silverblue is trying to address.

About the configuration issue, if configurations are transactional, you get transactional properties. And that would be quite significant. If you hose your system with an apt/yum update, you don't have much recourse unless you also took a filesystem snapshot before it (which you can do with zfs/btrfs/lvm-thin etc. and people shoehorn these things for precisely this reason). They are all different means to approximate the same end which is transactional package management.
Can you link to some cables that are certified to implement the entire standard? Even that has been difficult for me to find.
It seems this comment was made before reading the whole of the article, which goes into much detail about the invention and the many iterations that were needed to arrive at the current design.
Cool. You're one tough dude. We're all jealous of you. Congratulations, it's gonna be a fun life.
In any country, every body say something about human rights but at the end of the day countries implement human-right laws/regulations as they see fit.

What about those drones the Americans sent to kill random people?

What about police brutality?

Per-individual base, human also tend to use phrases like "human rights" to cover up their problems. I find it interesting that in the US, the people argue a lot about Abortion vs Right-to-Live meanwhile in California, they glamorized Sex for all ages. American Pies and a bunch of other chick-flick/high-school football movies that often highlights sex-on-prom-day. Social pressure of having sex between unmarried couple. I wonder if those contributes to the need for abortion just because they're not ready.

"human rights"
NetBSD also happens to be a completely different operating system and pkgsrc is likely to contain NetBSD-specific patches.
It has nothing to do with the number of products, it’s what they do with their influence over the market. See AMP and incompatibilities between Gmail & IMAP, for example.
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Fixed indeed. Brace yourself for the downvotes. :o
It would be perfect for several of my clients if only it was a web based app.
The author's insight of viewing a company/office as an ecosystem is really useful.

(I was ready to dismiss this article based on the title being too tropey, ironically)
You can always enter the iTunes password instead of using biometrics. I’ve done that using ApplePay on occasion with my phone.
Amazon is absolutely not a monopsony for unskilled labor, or even for warehouse labor. UPS and FedEx each have roughly the same number of employees as Amazon. Walmart has more than double.
You're probably not representative
From 2014. ( http://adamcadre.ac/14lyttle.html )

"Obama chuckled. “You mean the Chaos Emeralds?”"
> will you please let us know?

What's the best way to do that?
> expensive, flimsy bicycles are completely useless in a world with poor roads and deep wealth inequality.

You make a last great point with this.

Without paved roads, rubber, decent springs; all of the shortcomings are amplified. The gear drive works, but if you have a wood wheel, with a wood axle, w/ wood cogs, the tolerances to be both comfortable and effective on cobblestone or dirt would be troublesome.
Anyone interested in following a fantastic Twitter account that is always doing fun stuff in Blender, especially with Grease Pencil.

This is a 2D animation generated from a 3D environment. Mind blowing ->

https://twitter.com/5agado/status/1146021523460935681
Our hiring process doesn't take 6 months -- we're only able to find a candidate, interview them, negotiate, and have them accept an offer every 6 months. Our biggest problem is just finding people to apply. In the last ~8 years I count only about 100 total applicants to our jobs (I'm not counting internship job listings where we got a lot of student applicants). We tried posting jobs on HN Who's Hiring for about 6 months and got zero serious candidates, so we stopped.
This is ridiculous. Bicycles were near 50 years old by 1930. There was a ton of riding done before nicely paved roads were everywhere. The Tour De France is happening right now, it was first run in 1903 and covered 1500 miles, with riders doing up to 250 miles in one day.

Bicycles do fine on dirt roads & trails, pavement is absolutely not required. Bicycles have adapted to better roads over time but they never required glass smooth modern paved roads.
And to add, Shenzhen is a special economic zone (SEZ), which has relatively less harsh attitudes towards enforcing visa rules.

It felt like an extremely capitalist city when I visited a few years ago - everyone is trying to make a buck. I did see hundreds of cops get bused in to deal with some sort of street vendor fight (which at the time reminded me of when I visited South Lake Tahoe one night).
A step closer to self-aware machines–a robot that can imagine itself
You can even make it so it sends a request to the parent's phone asking for permission to make a purchase.
I don't think they are exactly equivalent. It's certainly not true that all 1000 person orgs are equally difficult to run (regardless of sector). I didn't claim that.

However, I do think there is an aspect of complexity that is inherent in scaling and reach which is just unavoidable. If you operate in multiple countries/jurisdictions. If you have multiple locations & plants. If you have distinct branches with different goals. If you operate in multiple languages. etc. etc. These things are inherent complexities, and as you get bigger, they are harder to manage well.

I see what you are getting at, but I don't think failure rate is a particularly useful comparison, for two reasons. (1) (as noted before) charities can survive mismanagement for longer, typically. (2) Lots of organizations have a sort of "useful lifetime", not everything is going to become a multigenerational organization, and that's fine. I would argue that due to types of mission, charities skew longer here (e.g. the work is often unlikely to ever go away) than corporations.

Fundamentally what I was objecting to was the idea that charities are somehow inherently easy to run, so they should do fine with people who either aren't skilled or are incredibly self-sacrificing (you'll mostly find the former). That's just crazy to me.

So I don't think anything you've brought up invalidates what I said; it just points out an orthogonal problem - that it is harder to evaluate "good management" in the context of charities. Not that it wasn't already hard to evaluate.
Also the most expensive option and limited in terms of maximum length.
Since you like simple responses I will try my hand at it. :)

The problem is, "filtering" for jobs across multiple industries is harder than doing it for one industry.
Redstone is by design made for implementing logic, so it belongs to slightly different category. Although I think Redstones introduction was prompted by people building logic without it in the olden days.
Managing machine learning in the enterprise: Lessons from banking and healthcare
My company blog first - yes! Except that I can go from idea to post in 12 hours with Medium, and that's not at all the experience for the official posts when multiple teams want to chime in...
This is addressed in the article to some degree. Wheels and the frame can be made of wood. Wheels can be lined with iron or bronze plating. Ball bearings are not strictly necessary. Chain can be replaced with belts or some alternative transfer mechanism. The result would not be as comfy as a road bike today, but it would be a functional vehicle.
I assume the explore-every-corner-of-the-map thing he was doing made it hard to make money
Your results may be bad for the first week, but the better results you get later on have everything to do with Google’s long-term user-base.
Well, I am not doing heavy weight editing or making movies. Most of the time I need to remove audio, resize and re-compress for web, cut the first and last seconds, or splice together 2 videos. Generate thumbs. etc.

I have also fully replaced image editors with imagemagick on the cli and some bash scripts.
Typical crypto "transparency"? What was neglected to be mentioned:

1. The $.00012 token kickers constitute 1/4th of the entire supply. That's a 2500x return when sold at the .30c price or even more going by the current OTC price.

2. The market was in a full blown mania in fall 2017 so a market barely out of a crushing crypto winter can somehow support a higher .30c price now vs .12c back then?
Actually the omnibox made it really easy to switch to ddg. With an occasional fallback to google.

I have no problem with advertising etc. but the tracking and selling of data is such an idiotic thing. We as consumers should have a global internet-law, and be reimbursed for data leaks or usage outside the scope of the application.

By no problem with ads I mean the original ads of google. Very clear they were ads and not intermingled with the results. Scrolling down for the results is nuts. I will click ads if they’re relevant, regardless of if they’re on the right or in the results. So please stop supporting this fraud against advertisers.
While I voted you up for the general point, I also think that perhaps cutting off the parent quote where you did is a little unfair:

> rather than demonizing the market conditions that have led to Amazon warehouses being a place people are willing to work.

It's appropriate to "demonize" Amazon, but isn't that observation also correct? Amazon's taking advantage of desperate people, and no matter the job market conditions, it's unethical for them to do so. But doesn't the fact that they can treat workers this way and still have workers suggest they're taking advantage of a systemic problem that needs to be addressed?
First mover advantage? Upright bikes are everywhere, and I could easily find one to learn, plus they're cheap. Recumbent simply don't offer enough perceived advantage to justify the investment to even try one out.
A retired teacher found some seahorses and built a secret world for them
I'm criticizing the approach. I too would like to see changes.
I believe Gibson actually did mean that bright blue. If memory serves his TV at the time didn't do grey analog static, and he generalized somewhat hastily.
On a related note:

I live in a city where trash collection rates are tied to how big of a trashcan you have. Along with recycling and compost collection programs, this is intended to deter people from overusing the landfill.

BUT, as a result of having a very small trashcan (to minimize my personal cost) I end up putting the can out every week if the can is even 1/4 full, as I occasionally have a heavy week due to an event or seasonal cleaning and I don't want to have garbage around the place for extra week(s). The desired effect on my waste habits, i.e. reducing the amount of landfill trash I ultimately produce, is negligible.

Therefore the garbage truck must stop at my house roughly twice as often as it would if there was no disincentive cost to having a large can. If enough other people in my city operate like I do, then we're running a significant amount of extra trucks and labor for virtually no benefit.
You can't take seriously a book which spends half of its pages talking about lexing and parsing.

It's the book from the times when single-pass compilers were a thing, and that's what it's about, a primitive single pass compiler. The field has advanced too much since then.

Things you wont find in dragon book: type inference and modern type systems, modern GC implementations, exceptions and error handling, modern register allocations and optimizations, modules and parametric modules. Seriously, a book spends 300 pages on parsers and 4 pages on type inference and unification.
You can get the same from other companies at similar price. Just with a traditional fingerprint scanner rather than touch id (Same thing really), or a face unlock (which at least works when you have wet hands)
Paying for extra stuff and more expensive cables, for what benefit again? I could throw out all my USB peripherals and buy new ones that use USB type C, but at the end what have I achieved aside from setting a few $100 bills on fire?
Why would you ever use a debit card over a credit card?
> Why not? How else are they going to learn how to handle money?

Cash? You don't need a debit/credit card to pay for things. You can buy iTunes/Google gift cards with cash if you want funds for your account.
Maybe you should actually spend some time in China before making silly assumptions.

The Chinese government is not overly concerned with individual citizens sharing anti-government sentiment. It's not a problem for most people that aren't activists. Most people are concerned with much more basic aspects of life... supporting their families, getting good jobs, time for leisure...

It doesn't mean it's acceptable, but assuming that every Chinese citizen lives in fear of the government cracking down on their political complaints is totally unfounded. The exchange student you know could just as well have been sick of westerners thinking they know more about the CCP than someone raised in China.
If we're going to start nationalizing the resources of private companies in the name of public good, I think internet tech giants that offer up their services for free should be last on the list. On the top of the list should be corporations that dominate resources like life-saving drugs and residential property.
Next: nano-tech
> Too late for the British aerospace industry, which saw competitors like Boeing and Lockheed, slower to market with their own jetliners but perceived to be more safe, seize and hold the crown of king of the Jet Age for America.

Irony.
The Haya people from contemporary Tanzania began making steel 2,000 years ago.

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi385.htm
> As with all companies paying workers to do a job, the compensation should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market.

The market has no moral compass. If you decide that the market dictates what we should do, then your actions will reflect the morals of the market, i.e., none.

Supply and demand is a statement of what "is", not what "should be". To some approximation.
Gave the credit card .. I don't think the credit card is always save locked away .. I mean I also did steal (not 1000s !!) out of my moms wallet, when I was a child .. just for bubble gum or so ..

To take the credit card is easy .. no Pin code .. nothing does protect the card ..
> Would you have brought up other social/political/environmental challenges that Texas faces (oh i don't know, like racial equity, or floods)?

Yes. For examples, look at the top comments for the top three HN articles on Foxconn in Wisconsin.
Made in America - The RED MINI-MAG Lie
To amplify number 2; I just spent a week in Rome; Cobblestone would seemingly destroy the fragility.

Anecdotally, on a bike ride recently, on a modern bike, hopping an inch curb snapped a chain.
Bicycle chains are pretty complicated, but steam powered devices (mills, saws, etc) were using flat leather belts for decades, and rope drive existed as well. Many modern bicycles come with belt drives. Also periodically people produce shaft drive bicycles which require a bit more machining, but have few moving parts and are quite reliable.
The typical route would be to 20% with the team for a couple quarters to learn the ropes and demonstrate your skills, and then transfer 100% once the destination team has the headcount to absorb you. I know multiple people who have done this, although not specifically to the WebGL team.
The Myth of Professional Beggars Spawned Today’s Enduring Stereotypes
Might not rubber belts have been possible instead of chains? Rubber was available 18th Century - maybe not in industrial quantities but still. In fact, latex was was available to the Mayans and Aztecs according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rubber#History
As it's a single speed with no derailleur and the missing braces would be in tension, might not the chain itself fulfill the role?
App store games don't get rated by the ESRB
Indeed. I think it's fundamentally key to fixing this that profit from fraudulent activity be confiscated. (I'm sure we can find a responsible way to spend it, compensating victims of fraud or something similar.)

With ad slots being an auction of sorts, Google benefits from increased bidding when there are more bidders... including fraudulent ones. So there's zero reason for them to prevent fraud. If upon a fraudulent account being reported and shut down, they lost all of their profit from that account's history, they would have a significant incentive to prevent fraud on the platform, since any fraudulent "winners" would completely zero out an ad slot for them.
But nothing has changed on my build servers which are running Solaris 10, so OS change cannot be the cause; without additional information, that leaves us with one or more breakage(s) caused by someone in the core SBCL team.
Agreed, and people may not be away of how egregious the budgets of their favorite non-profit/charity are.

"Nationwide, the mean salaries of chief executives at nonprofit hospitals rose 93% since 2005 to reach $3.1 million in 2015, according to an October 2018 study in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nonprofit-hospitals-criticized-...
Let “QUIPU” organise your research so you spend more time to explore content
SBCL is not alone in neglecting Solaris. For instance, the GNU Debugger is not usable on Solaris any more. And it won't even read core files post-mortem. There is an open bug for this, unsolved.

My TXR runs on Solaris (Intel x86, note). I roll a build for Solaris 10 for every release.

TXR Lisp isn't an implementation of Common Lisp, however.

I build on Solaris because by doing so, I can tick off a little mental checkbox: "[ ] Runs on at least one OS that has Bell Labs Unix DNA".

It's only x86 because I don't have a port of jmp.S for SPARC. A quick an dirty port could be done using setjmp/lonjmp, without delimited continuations. (Or maybe even with?)

I've had to debug a few things in the past that showed up only on Solaris. For that it was worth it to have that Solaris port; but the debugging was difficult without GDB. For instance, most recently, a GC-related bug (potentially affecting all platforms) only reproduced, by chance, on Solaris.
‘Millionaire Beggar’ Myth Crushed by San Francisco Panhandler Survey
If we are to believe the charts from the article, about half of the unmarried men are illiterate. That's insane. Back to your point, Chinese who worked in the US are educated (fairly rich too) and will do just fine.

Also, don't be surprised by prices going up ten fold over a decade. Inflation in developed countries can be 2 digits per year, everything is going up crazy quick.
The very best startup ideas tend to be something the founders themselves want, that they can build, and that few others realise are worth doing

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Your reply on "coming straight out of gamers' pockets" reminded me of something. I wonder if there's an official term in economics for it. But it comes up when people discuss levying new taxes on various product categories (we might consider it in this thread as Epic raising their fee back up to an industry standard) and a counterargument would go something like "companies will just pass the cost through to the consumer". Except that's not what happens, what happens is the company just has to eat it and try to survive. The market has already priced the good and has reached an equilibrium. If a company could get away with raising the price to a new value, and even after accounting for a decrease in sales still end up with the same or higher profit within a static time frame, they would have already done it.

One can also look at the possibilities by modeling more than just the $60 game in isolation. Include the cost, it took $X to create, and each $60 sale chips away at $X by some $Y so that after enough sales over some time window breakeven is reached (and profit after that). A new tax means that $Y becomes smaller, so you need more sales than before to reach breakeven within the same time. Except you won't get more sales than before, because the price is the same. You have to eat the tax. You could try raising the price to say $70 or whatever is needed so that $Y remains the same, and now you only need the same number of sales as before, let the customers eat it. Except you won't get the same number of sales as before, because the increase in the product's price will result in a decrease in customer demand, you'll have fewer sales than before within the same time frame. Compared to the difference with $X, it's still the company who has eaten the tax and has to deal with its consequences on their continued existence.
SpaceX IDs cause of Dragon explosion, says crewed launch in 2019 is 'difficult'
Commoners got rich in commerce and in agriculture and landlording for most of Chinese history. A merchant legendarily put the first emperor's father on the throne of Qin in the third century BC.

The merchants were despised, as merchants everywhere are; the rich farmers weren't. And a hereditary distinction between commoners and nobles was gone by the tenth century.

So I'd want to hear a little more context to the claim that "the iron industry was shut down because of the effrontery of commoners getting rich there".
> The length of the bike is LONGER then a Smart Fortwo

Yes, and that's another big disadvantage. One of the criticisms against cars is that they waste a lot of space, but recumbent bikes reduce that advantage. Bicycle lanes can get quite packed already.
I noticed that in a lot of articles example code is just missing, like this one, on mobile:

https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-redux-toast-not...

I don’t know who’s to blame here but I already hate Medium with a passion and this is not helping.
DP1.2a should be enough for 60Hz at UHD/2160p. 1.4 is needed for HDR support, 5K, higher refresh rates, etc.
Ah ha! Just as I had suspected!

The new way to marginalize disposable team members is to replace "interns" with "remote" workers.

The savings are likely shifted over to cutting costs for the on-site office footprint, instead of optimizing for freebie slave labor from the lesser skilled, green college newbies. This also probably carries a quality over quantity trade off, in terms of hours spent working (college kids sweating 70 hour burn-out weeks, because paying dues or whatever).

Tech is mature enough, that there are enough veterans in the talent pool shrewdly compromising the level of their engagements, and there is less novelty to attract wide-eyed, coffee fetching would-be script kiddies anymore.
Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice? (2017)
> be worth the considerable expense of purchasing

Anyone with the means to pay would much rather use an animal-pulled cart instead of literally making an ass of himself.

Or just ride a horse like a gentleman. (Until the 'mad dogs and Englishmen' craze hit.)