skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Harmful" is a rather poor summary of [their actual position][1], which is closer to "this is a big change and we don't know what kind of effect this will have, so we're going to wait and see":

> There is a lot to consider with web packaging. Many of the technical concerns are relatively minor. There are security problems, but most are well managed. There are operational concerns, but those can be overcome. It’s a complex addition to the platform, but we can justify complication in exchange for significant benefits.

> [...]

> Big changes need strong justification and support. This particular change is bigger than most and presents a number of challenges. The increased exposure to security problems and the unknown effects of this on power dynamics is significant enough that we have to regard this as harmful until more information is available.

I think that's a reasonable position. I certainly wouldn't summarize it the way they did though.

[1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ha00dSGKmjoEh2mRiG8FIA5s...
Whom are you arguing against? Where did I say anything about policing "thought crimes" or wanting mainstream viewpoints?
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For the moment, we're targeting sysadmins who already run qmail (or netqmail). Much later, when we begin to approach feature parity with Postfix, notqmail might start being an interesting alternative. We hope that time will come. If you can't figure out why you'd run it right now, you're probably right :-)
> But disks? Isn’t their firmware closed?

Encrypt your data in-memory with a file system feature (or something like LUKS/dm-crypt) before it's sent down the SATA cable to the disk.

The NSA has gone after disk firmware:

* https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/17/kaspersky_labs_equa...
A radical new idea erases quantum theory’s weird uncertainties
The thing is that the only people who can do anything about it are the people who are the most unwilling to do so because it would jeopardize their wealth.

There are more than 2000 billionaires in the world right now. If only the richest elite of those got together tomorrow and decided to put an end to industrial pollution, they could do it.

However climate change is a direct consequence of capitalism. Halting pollution would ruin the economy. Factories would have to be shut down, entire categories of products could no longer be produced, masses would become unemployed. The global financial system would tank. Surviving this change would require abandoning capitalism.

So a naive hope might be that some of the billionaire "preppers" are planning for exactly this scenario and intent on causing it once they've set up their little luxury bunkers to ensure their "quality of life" once their money becomes worthless.

A less optimistic and more realistic view would be that they know capitalism is unsustainable but want to make sure they still get the most out of it and ensure their comfort outlasts the civilisation they're helping destroy, i.e. "screw you, I got mine".
This is the debugger counterpart to the Language Server Protocol. (Which also uses http/jsonrpc)

https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifi...
Chip and pin is very uncommon in the US. It took forever just to get to chip and signature.
Not liking antifa's tactics doesn't mean you are pro fascist. The irony is that the "anti-bullies" are hard to differentiate from bullies.
Donate Your Voice for an NLP Radio Data Project for Crop Disease Mapping
We at Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Research Lab at Makerere University, Uganda are doing a project where we are collecting speech data for use in analysing radio programs related to agriculture, we will use this data to help in mapping and understanding the spread of crop disease.

Help us out by taking some time and recording some words.

https://rcrops.github.io
I’ve been using the card for several weeks, couple of thoughts:

- signup and activation is pretty slick

- Like the physical card

- privacy element if it is real is best selling point - not sure it’s real, but really the only reason I would keep using the card

- rewards are lackluster (but enjoy daily cash remit)

- can’t download your transactions which is idiotic

- transaction categorization is pretty poor at the moment (e.g. United Airlines (Travel) shows up as United Club (Food Dining)

- interest rate is high for those that might carry a balance

- ancillary benefits are limited/lackluster I.e. status in a hotel chain or insurance coverage etc.
Implying TempleOS isn't already the ultimate OS
Now I feel old as my first thought is 1995's NewsRadio.
Sounds like a dream. I went from private office to WFH (2 years), and now back on-site in a cube farm. My focus, productivity and happiness went from high to very high, then all time low. The cubes I sit in are a mixed environment with developers, reception, IT, etc. so the noise is almost unbearable. I tend to do my best work in complete silence (sometimes low music). Considering asking my boss for a private office and if not then seeking alternative employment.
Gamma correction and monitor settings usually go criminally unnoticed. I had problems just working with designers, I can't imagine what silent mistakes it produces in color-critical applications, like medical imaging. Some monitors are a finger brush away from auto-adjusting and messing up carefully selected settings.
Yes :)

60% of the program attendees are pretty much as you described, including my co founder. They have found the tech partners here.
It's not really Star Wars (which isn't quite original either; borrowed heavily from WW2 and various Sci-Fi/Fantasy blends), but more Simulation and Simulacra (I think the creators even talked about that book being one of their influences).

I mean, all stories tend to follow a Hero's Journey. It's difficult to create a good/entertaining story that doesn't.
Reasons to Use a VM for Development
(from November, 2008)
> It says all products are restricted as stated there.

It does not say this, it says:

> Licensee is granted a right to use the Software for small projects and evaluation purposes without charge provided that use of the Software is within the "Free Usage Quota"

The free usage quotas only exist on the commercial products which I've already linked to https://servicestack.net/download#free-quotas

On the free products pages, like ServiceStack.Text product page [1] and GitHub project page [2] and #Script home page [3] all specifically mention they're free to use. Whilst all of ServiceStack's non .NET libraries like the JS/Typescript clients [5], Swift [6], Java/Kotlin [7], Dart/Flutter [8], CefGlue Support, etc are all published with liberal BSD/MIT OSS licenses.

[1] https://servicestack.net/text

[2] https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Text

[3] https://sharpscript.net/#free

[5] https://github.com/ServiceStack/servicestack-client

[6] https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Swift

[7] https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Java

[8] https://github.com/ServiceStack/servicestack-dart

[9] https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.CefGlue
I think this is fiction.

We have lived in a creator-based morality ever since behavioural modernity (50-70,000 years ago). Teaching, trading, inventing, etc - because two heads (perspectives) are better than one. Small, isolated societies stagnate. Over time, "societies" have grown larger, more open, more inclusive.

Over time, the larger open society beats the small closed one. (even if that larger group isn't recognized as a "society", it need only communicate, share ideas and build on them).

So we needn't fear a tiny billionaire society, even with a head start (at least, not in the long term...).

> What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader?

Historically, this is a hard problem (et tu, Brutus?). It's easy to keep the masses in check; just create a "nobility" who also benefit from subjugation, all the way down. Resource them, health, education, training, armoury. Propaganda that they are better (fairy tales, clothes, etc). But hard to be safe in that inner circle... Power is a problem.

> if they can’t get a seat on the rocket to Mars.

After the worst possible imaginable apocalypse, Earth will still be far more habitable than Mars.
Pay for it with taxes, pay for it with premiums and bills. You’re paying for it.

No one works for free, the medicine costs money. The money comes from somewhere.
No, she gets upset because people ignore the fact that she had to work to become that good.

Also, any random person can learn to play violin sufficient enough to play in an orchestra (besides a physical or mental disability maybe). Maybe not professionally because that needs addition passion and dedication and there is a lot of competition. But playing good enough for a community orchestra that requires audition, pretty much anyone can achieve.
Why a promising, potent cancer therapy isn’t used in the US
I was shocked to see the browser market share graph. Chrome appears to be collapsing on itself, dropping from from an all-time high of 65.4% to 55.4% in just 16 months, effectively losing all share gains since 2016.

But then I looked closer at the data, noticing that only net 120 basis points of the change can be explained by share changes in the other browsers. The rest of the data seems to be missing, as the numbers add up to less than 100%.

What the heck is going on?

Edit: It goes without saying that the article's failure to address this point fundamentally discredits the author. It should be obvious that the first thing an article claiming monopoly would need to do is explain the plummeting market share of the thing that is allegedly a monopoly..
Me too. I think I was using fb with the mbasic.facebook.com URL.
You really don't want people to have ready to use antibiotics at home. It's already very difficult to contain bacteria resistance to antibiotics.

Very soon people would not only die from rare bacteria related decease but any kind of random bacteria infection.
Isn't that exactly what you're implying? Wrong think because you don't agree with every host Joe has on the show?
I open sourced Bezie (https://github.com/jperler/bezie), a library I wrote three years ago for MIDI automation curves. It includes some good examples of how to interpolate cubic and quadratic bezier curves given drag points on the curves. I used Pomax's bezier write ups as a starting point, which really helped out a lot (thanks Pomax!). If anyone is interested, take a look in `bezie/app/utils`, specifically the `getControl` methods that allow you to derive control points.
Announcing the General Availability of Python Support in Azure Functions
>He hates antifa which for me means you are silent when fascism comes crawling.

This is your misguided statement. Not only is it logically flawed, it's the, "if you aren't for us, you're against us" reasoning. Maybe you should research antifa a little more before you get in bed with them ideologically. I see a bunch of goons in masks punching people.
> Every large enterprise I've worked at in the last say 10 years, has software deployed across multiple dev stacks, with .Net being just one.

Re-read his comment. And be less angry. He wasn't saying that he worked on cross-platform .NET projects 10 years ago, just that big companies generally had/still have .NET projects, besides other tech stacks.
Yes this has been true of major RDBMS for a long time. A conventional OS bootstraps Oracle (for example) and Oracle handles its own memory management, process scheduling, IPC, talks directly to storage, handles logins and interactive use, etc etc. Same with SQL Server. The AS/400 takes it to the extreme.
There was a lot wrong with ActiveX, starting with the fact that it was proprietary and Windows/X86 only, but the basic concept of cleanly embeddable controls was extremely sound and is something the modern Javascript world is only slowly groping towards.
Biased Journalism not taken far enough. Either be explicit about your bias or don't. In between feels gross.
I too have the second question. My medium page got me more followers than any of my previous blogs.
(again). Goto fail comes to mind.
> ‘We thought that, in general, all of these amino acids would react similarly because they are structurally similar,’ says Leman. But while almost all the experiments did produce oligomers, the three proteinogenic amino acids reacted more efficiently and produced fewer side products compared with their non-proteinogenic counterparts. ‘That came as a real surprise. We thought “Is this for real?”,’ Leman says.

Looking at the structures, I would not expect similar reactivity:

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/116/33/16338/F1.large.jpg?...

They differ in both size and shape. More importantly, they differ in the length of the tether to the positively charged group which could easily play a role in carbonyl activation by this unit, either in the forward direction (peptide formation) or reverse (peptide hydrolysis).

The paper doesn't mention autocatalysis (catalysis of external amino acids or short peptides themselves), but this is also a possibility. There's a large body of synthetic chemistry in which amino acids and short peptides show remarkable catalytic activity.

But the main problem with this study is that peptides are made biologically through catalysis. What we observe in isolated system reactivity has no reason to translate into what's seen in nature because enzymes offer lower-energy transition states.
There will likely be a day when it's very difficult to install anything you want on macOS. Same with Windows. They keep trying really hard to make it happen but, for now, people keep pushing back even harder. For me, the fact that they're even trying is enough to leave.
Market share is an appreciable concern here. Macs haven't been more than 20% of the market for a long time. iPhones are a much larger market share, especially among affluent users. I don't think we'd see any widespread viruses, but there would certainly be a ton of people losing their financial info from their own irresponsibility.
Just got to see it by using Facebook to redirect the page load:

https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bostonglobe...

The first two paragraphs:

> A well-known member of the MIT Media Lab plans to resign over revelations that the research center and its top leader took money from Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased financier who was accused of trafficking in underage girls.

> Ethan Zuckerman, director of the lab’s Center for Civic Media, last week told officials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of his plans.

While looking for a non-paywalled version, I found a Reddit comment that pointed to a more detailed Medium blog post by Ethan Zuckermann that gives more details, and here is the Medium-free version from Zuckermann’s own blog:

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2019/08/20/on-me-and-the-...

EDIT: just tried loading the FB redirect URL with "Open link in a new private window" and got “The Boston Glove / You’re using a browser set to private or incognito mode.”, but you can avoid it if you disable Javascript before loading the page.
A 3-byte layout can be worse for performance, I think the simplest solution would be to add a special format that always matches the PNG's format, that way you always get RGB from RGB images, grayscale from grayscale images, etc. This wouldn't require a conversion step.
It should work fine in the examples, but it won't work if you also attempt to use the -1 in the next slot to tell you which items are non-free.
> The content part is encoded using utf-8.

https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/overview#...
Really it's all about pounding the pavement. You have to be monastic, slogging through poor weather and always being on point with your surroundings -- enjoying those good days out there. It's hard and unforgiving -- you'll go whole months without making a single decent photograph, thousands of wasted frames all for that single moment when the entropy of the street arranges itself well.

Of course then you get the inverse of that -- people like Nikos Economopoulos -- who argue that street photography is already hard so why make it harder and go outside when the light is poor? It's all about finding your drive -- why are you out there doing it?

Daniel Arnold has a quote recently where he said: "I don't know. I don't know what it's worth. I don't know if there's a purpose to any of this work. Certainly, there's a great argument to be made that walking around the street all day looking at things and pressing a button is a stupid use of my life, but my life doesn't feel stupid. It feels full." I think that's the head space you have to get in as you continue to press and develop your skills and vision. Keep picking new things to work on as well -- I like to make achievements like: I want to make a good photograph where you can feel the congestion of overtourism, then keeping that feeling in mind (along with dozens of other things) go out and try to achieve that. On the inverse sometimes things just align and all you have to do is press the shutter and you aren't sure why, but the photograph is gorgeous.

Last thing of course is to study photographs of the masters. Find the sub-genre that sticks with you. The painterly Henri-Cartier Bresson, the facts clearly describe of Garry Winogrand, the ethereal loneliness of Josef Koudelka, the emotional connection with the mundane of Henry Wessel, the color pallets of Saul Leiter, the elaborate colors of Nikos Economopoulos or the raw grit of Richard Sandler. It's all out there to be studied and to try to emulate while you make your way.

Good luck in your street photography journey. If you have an instagram please share it and I'll give you a follow. Always nice to find other photographers out there putting in the work.
But the problem here isn't capitalism. Politicians certainly want to set low retirement ages and high pensions, but they have to deal with the reality that the government simply cannot afford it. If you over promise then that's going to eventually blow up in your face. Every economic system would have this problem.
HN isn't going to like that comment but it's true.
> “I shall alter that when I have a little more time”?

We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is. It is the realisation of this profound and neglected truth (which, by the way, I have not discovered) that has led me to the minute practical examina-tion of daily time- expenditure.
In our office we use a shared takeaway system called Seamless. We each submit our order ahead of a cutoff time, pay, then when it arrives each container is individually named so you know what belongs to each person.

Something like this could be really good for shared grocery orders for flat shares, but ideally you'd have buy-in from the grocers, so that the bags are separated and there's no quibbling about who ordered what.
It's strange, as someone who primarily consumed/consumes American media, I almost never see the "adversarial" interviews you discuss. I know they're commonplace on the BBC, but reporting in the States is largely a matter of someone having a guest on the air to push whatever they're pushing with little if any token resistance to anything.

I wish my media was more adversarial, especially in politics since so many politicians go on TV and spout complete nonsense with no challenge whatsoever by the people who really ought to know it's nonsense.
With a bit of Larry King in terms of the unchallenging interview style. Larry King was able to get a lot of guests because of his softball questions.
It would NOT be covered by OHIP. He'd need travel insurance, which most Canadians have via benefits (depending on how established his company was, he may or may not have it). Most travel insurance will pay up to the point of bringing you back home when it's medically safe.
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Just seems to cost a lot more in total in the USA than it does elsewhere.
Oh yea, absolutely. I've become weary of trying new Microsoft stuff. One example I had recently is with their Bot framework. They came out with a shiny new template earlier this year, they called it the Enterprise Bot Template. Since we were gonna build a bot, we decided to use this, because it was a nice template with all the best practices and lots of features included. Now that we are finished with the bot, I tried to look up the documentation that explains how to deploy it. Guess what? Documentation is _deleted_. Completely gone. Turns out they have already discontinued the template and have yet _another_ template in place, that's only been around for a few months. Of course many things are/work differently, so migrating is a pain. And there is no good migration guide. They basically just say "create a new project with the new template and make all your code changes there". It's infuriating... At least keep the old documentation only, don't just delete it.
Intel fights back with power-sipping Lakefield chip for weird new PCS
Not OP, but I too have been to the lake. It is India's most famous trek and quite a lot of people head up there every year. I don't have my images uploaded anywhere but you may find the information here[1] useful.

[1] https://indiahikes.com/roopkund/

Edit: Seems like the trek has been put on hold for the time being.
Yes, but consider that the US taxpayer pays per capita more or less what the Canadian taxpayer does on health care, while covering only Medicaid and Medicare.

The Canadian, on the other hand, doesn’t have insurance premiums or deductibles.

(For the record, I hate the CND health care system. It’s just that, knowing both systems, the US’ is worse :)
Erm, to clarify.

Making labor saving inventions, communication, improvements to infrastructure, discovering new science.

I did not mean weapons.
You raise a point - we have a bunch of small operating systems running on top of our existing operating systems. DBMSes, editors (emacs), browsers, and more. There's a great amount of inefficiences being added because everyone is re-inventing OSes and/or DBMSes at every layer.
Leadership in the Toxic Work Environment – A Beginning for the Middle Manager
Well, they did invent (and patent!) One Click purchase - so they at least did care about UX at one point.
The other two are also "obviously wrong", since people paid into the retirement scheme on the assumption of receiving particular benefits at particular times.
Phatic communication:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phatic_expression
You summed up my issue's with him perfectly. I used to have a lot of the same dumb conversations he has with his guests with my roommates in college. The difference was our conversations were limited to a couple of dumb college kids and anyone else in the dorm room at the time. He has one of the most popular podcasts in the world and has the clout to attract some really powerful/smart people, but also some real scumbags who get to leverage his platform unchallenged.
One-lined Python
This is brilliant! I find Splitwise annoying...need yet another account, need to use an app or clunky web interface, etc.

This is perfect. Breath of fresh air. I will use it the next time I need it!

Lately I've been using a local app on my phone, which I find more reliable (no need for data or reliance on a website) but of course it doesn't allow for collaboration with others.
Caspers Mattress Dilemma
big matrix fan but to me it also feels like a period piece, with the matrix itself being designed around the millenium era of human existence (our peak, before AI) and the whole land line/payphone/cellphone thing for example..... it worked at the time the movie was released because that was our reality

weird/hard to go back to that, but jumping it ahead to current day seems weird too. I dunno