skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah my response to Marc Andreessen on what we should build:

A tax system like the one that lifted the families of these rich trolls before they lobbied to tear it all down.

Watch us make tons of money off technology that was initially funded by government because the rich, as usual, didn’t want to invest in it themselves.

IBM got gifted what would today be billions in handouts by being the only seller of machines produced originally by taxes.

It’s a mathematical fact how that all shook out for that entire generation: benefited immensely from government socialism. Then lobbied to take it away from the next generation, acting instead like a grifting middle man on their agency.

Let’s build a world that does that handout shit for everyone.

Do we build iPhone because of markets or because holy shit this is cool?

Fuck these outdated semantics for what we do shit. These guys aren’t gods.
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Snap is not auto-updating, auto-updating is not snap.

Snap is more than just an update system. Even if snap's only concern was auto-updating, it would still carry a set of implementation decisions regarding auto-updating and it's irresponsible to rhetorically treat criticism/praise of an implementation as inseparable from the concept in general.

>from a distance to me this resembles the systemd vs init controversy.

Yes, people are again playing fast and loose with the distinction between features, and holistic analysis of systems that implement those features.
Windows has a long history of tech-illiterate users downloading optimizer tools from shady websites that mess with registry keys and break stuff in surprising ways. And it's always Microsoft who gets the blame, not the shady utility. From that POV, I can understand Microsoft being reserved about gating this kind of stuff behind registry keys. These days, you can only do this stuff with group policies if I'm not mistaken, a feature that regular home users don't have access to.
Maintaining forks of old versions is expensive and error prone.
You came off that “terrible schools” comment pretty quick. If you’re already going to home school it makes sense to keep taxes lower. But like I said, I’ll trust the experts who went to school and have ongoing training to educate my kids. That way I can focus on being a parent.

The way you jump between Cook County and Chicago is also a strange way to measure things. You can live in Cook County and not be in Chicago proper. Cook County has places like Evanston, Hinsdale, Kenilworth, Glenview, and Oak Park with some of the best schools in the country.
> Discord and VSCode keep occasionally prompting me to manually download and install .deb files. I'd really prefer if they just updated automatically

I installed VSCode from the .deb package on the VSCode website and it automatically added the update repository so that it auto updates via apt.

"Installing the .deb package will automatically install the apt repository and signing key to enable auto-updating using the system's package manager"
See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux

Discord doesn't, though.
Perhaps you can find a position within the intersection of development and security? I don't think this is in any way mutually exclusive.
Maybe the reason there's been such a low rate of death is that the MMR vaccine had some effect on the Coronavirus? I'm not a scientist, I write Javascript.
Pretty sure residential mortgages cannot be called.

Edit: assuming the borrower is current.
Anyone have any idea what Debian's LTS security posture looks like? Is it also restricted to 'main' and does it also ignore 'contrib' and 'non-free'?
There is a comment at the bottom of the article from an expert in the Air Force:

> William Hargus, lead of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Program, is a co-author of the study and began working with Ahmed on the project last summer.

> "As an advanced propulsion spectroscopist, I recognized some of the unique challenges in the observation of hydrogen-detonation structures," Hargus said. "After consulting with Professor Ahmed, we were able to formulate a slightly modified experimental apparatus that significantly increased the relevant signal strength."

> "These research results already are having repercussions across the international research community," Hargus said. "Several projects are now re-examining hydrogen detonation combustion within rotating detonation rocket engines because of these results. I am very proud to be associated with this high-quality research."
The Achilles’ heel for use as a simple wiki, IMO, is that you can’t just make a simple table for layout, it has to be a “database”. This is OK as long as you stay in Notion, but it sucks for exporting.

Dropbox Paper’s table implementation is really nice (now if they’d just hurry up with their Dropbox 2020 thing and unify Paper and regular Dropbox folders...)
Yeah, I ended up using reader mode but somehow all of the pictures got shifted by 1 paragraph. Sill better than the original layout
Arch is a rolling release, upgrades are expected to break the system at some point. Windows updates aren't meant to.

Most Windows updates are security or bug fixes only. The exception being the twice yearly feature updates. These have been an issue mostly because Microsoft had been using a random subset of Home users as beta testers for new updates. However, they are being less aggressive with this now.
The rules are extremely simple and easy to grasp. And once you've grasped it, you'll never have to think twice about it.

Parentheses take precedence.

The first symbol is the operator (add, subtract, sum, multiply, etc.).

Everything else is operated on from left to right.

(+ 2 5 7)

2+5+7

It's also not a Clojure thing. It applies to all Lisps or related like Scheme.
> It's odd, Windows and Linux switched spots in that time. Windows 10 is faster, more stable, and more understandable than Ubuntu.

I mean, you can claim a lot of stuff about lot of things, but saying Windows is understandable is pretty rich. You can’t even reliably cron a single script to run once an hour without weird, unfathomable, undebuggable bugs starting to pop up.

Care to elaborate exactly what you mean?
> Do you really think the NYT is uncritical of politicians?

NYT On Trump: On Thursday, he speculated about treatments involving the use of household disinfectants. Some experts disagree.

From their own WH Correspondent: Once again, wondering how Trump would have fared had he ever run for office in NY and had to face either the NYC or Albany press corp.

... guess the NYT doesn't think highly of themselves at all.

NYT On Biden: We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.

Later removed because "the [Biden] campaign thought that the phrasing was awkward"

The NYT is flaming garbage.
> They have to rely on vendors making those assessments for them.

That's why I run Debian stable, which provides security updates and critical bugfixes for 5 years or more post-release with very limited changes otherwise. Maximized benefit, minimal cost.
The hard part is when there is a offense opportunity that it at odds with the most prudent defense. It is different for every situation and is a high stakes game.
> Remember that Wells Fargo is the 26th largest corporation in the world. They have plenty of money. They have lots of smart people (insert your "stupid banker" joke here) working for them.

I remembered this:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/us-money-blog/2016/oct/...

"disclosed that it would fork over $185m in penalties to regulators after an audit discovered that employees opened as many as 2m deposit and credit accounts in customers’ names but without their consent"

But do agree, however much of the market is driven by such actions and if they are right or wrong, their move will make it more inclined to happen than had they made no such move. Which is an aspect that plays out in many financial markets in various forms.
Both statements are true at the same time.

So my answer to HR's answer is:

If we offer industry standard pay for games companies, we get industry standard hiring crisis and candidate quality, as seen at other games companies. Have you researched hiring success at other companies and not just salaries?

Experience suggests the answer to that from HR would be cultural inertia though, so it's not really them you'd need to persuade. It's a strategic decision for the company leaders, whether they think it's worth spending more to attract hires of the type who get better offers elsewhere.
I might defend this if the updates were something like a remote wormable hole, but the updates are more likely to be improvements to drawing avatar icons in Dark Mode or something similarly trivial.
Then why the fuck is it an "order" to wear a mask!?
What a piece of crap.

"An immunity passport is the same thing as ICVP"

No, it is not! To get the Immunity passport, you have to suffer through the decease. To get an ICVP, you only need to get vaccinated. There's quite an obvious difference in the mortality rate, let alone that vaccination doesn't cause you to spread the virus.

The only reason why anyone would want an immunity pass is for the benefits it promises. It's quite irresponsible to give people a reason to seek an infection!

Oh, by the way: do you know what's also immune to the virus? Doorknobs! Doesn't stop them from spreading it, though.
No one is “destroying the earth”. The earth will be here long after we have pumped enough carbon in the air to change the climate and kill ourselves.

We are just killing ourselves slowly. Kind of like running a car in an enclosed garage but at a massive scale.

We can build carbon extraction plants to reverse this. We just need to wake up as a species to the issue at hand and stop saying the world is ending.
Can anyone recommend good rpm based distro for desktop(business env)?
This presentation really helped me understand what was going on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4kbgfpKCw
I’ve been working professionally in the web for decades and I can’t remember anyone ever using the term “real-time”. I hear “live” a lot. Live updates.
Yes, I know. I am saying refining an idea is done all the time. But you have to realize that designers are only dealing with an abstract idea. It is easy to cut a thing in half and reconfigure components of that thing into abstract perfection when that thing (aka Design) lives only in your imagination.

Such is not the case for an idea that has already been materialized. There are high costs to modifying an idea that is already implemented.

The cost is so high that often developers don't reconfigure the product from scratch, what they do is build patches, grafts and superficial additions on top of the core product so that the implementation of the idea looks like the actual idea.

Like patching up an old car, eventually the accumulated ugliness reaches an apex and the core product must be rebuilt from scratch. I would say for the vast majority of projects implemented in the real world, the squiggle is in the opposite direction.

Most Designers tend to not understand the realities of what happens to their designs in production. The design of a system should not end at implementation. Implementation is just the beginning of the journey.

The best designers are the ones that can create designs that account for the inevitable degradations that happen to an idea that has already been crystallized.

The best designers are ones that can modify a design to take into account current limitations of technology and flaws while the idea is being executed in production.
> Gardening Notion boards becomes an activity in itself … Notion doesn’t get out of the way, it’s malleability always invites you to tweak your boards further, to add another property, to connect another relation, to add another view, to go through your board and complete data on all cards.

Sounds exactly like the problem so many folks here are having with Emacs. Malleable tools, while powerful, often become a huge time sink if you go into the rabbit hole of tweaking them too much. And it's often hard to resist.
Berkshire Hathaway's site is interesting. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
I mean, they could, but that doesn’t change matters - house pricing has been consistent for decades. While larger buildings and new tech put downward pressure, things like better building standards, tighter codes, efficiency programs, more expensive materials, permitting and so on, add cost.
I have. It wasn't called wsl but bash on windows back then. You had to disable bunch of services related to scanning files (windows defender?) to make it barely usable but since v2, they are using a lightweight vm so the speeds are significantly better compared to what you got on bash on windows or wsl 1.

I don't have anything to say about your other nitpick.

A good reason to use windows is games, Adobe and office. Games using anti-cheat will not be available on linux and if you can get them to work, good luck not getting banned.
The website makes is appear that roles are only onsite. Are all of them potentially remote?
Author here. I'm sad to hear this and want to understand how we can do better.

Do you mind following up over email? I'm calvin at segment.
If you want to professionally sysadmin your system, don't use a consumer convenience-oriented OS and userspace apps.
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There also really isn’t much of an incentive to sell unless you plan on buying more homes in the Bay Area. The tax hit is too high to simply cash out.
+1 for Manjaro.

I always shill for it.

It's like Ubuntu if Ubuntu were rolling (so much faster drivers and DE features, but nerfed delivery to minimize breakage and still really user-friendly, with a GUI kernel and driver switcher) and if instead of PPAs it had a big repo that just had everything on it (the AUR, which Manjaro's GUI package manager, Pamac, works with once the setting's toggled).
How does it eject this energy to propulse through space, if it's just spinning in circles inside the engine?
I like Notion and I can't stand it. The interface is entirely unsuited and too slow for what it's trying to do.
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What? The play store lets you disable auto-updates, at least per-app.
I’d assume newspapers, radio, and cable—the media with social currency in american society. There is certainly no shortage of criticism to be had from the left, either, so this attitude that “there is only conservative bias in mainstream media” is a little head scratching to me when ever I hear it.
My point was about making clear that snap is not a flatpack clone, the 2 projects were started from 2 different perspective and have different architectures, just wanted to inform some people that would think that are the exact same thing and Canonical can JUST drop snap and adopt flatpack.

Edit: about autoupdates, I agree, the user should always have the choice.
Isn't the whole point of the RP in RPG that the player is responsible for fleshing out the character?
> Honestly I don't have a problem with that. But if they don't give power user the option to opt out, this is just disrespectful

The problem is that "power users" can't be trusted to use this power responsibly, or they operate based on assumptions that won't always be true. Either way they end up hurting other people in enough situations that this becomes an ecosystem issue.

Power users often help others set up their systems like they do, but those users can't manage them. Other times, power users will move on. When they were managing the systems, it wasn't a problem. Now that someone else is, the systems stop getting updated and someone has to clear up the mess. Yes, good power users help transition things properly, but don't kid yourself on the number of times this actually happens.

This phenomenon is prevalent in software. Just looks at the defaults which "power users" frequently choose (cf. JWT).
Agreed. In my area, without third parties, the only delivery available would be pizza and Chinese chains. There was no serious delivery infrastructure before GrubHub moved in.
Good ideas except they should not invest in the stock market, there is no guarantee that we hit the bottom even though many would like to believe so. Better to put that money in gold or other similarly scarce assets.
Schmidt and McNamara are similar, but not alike enough to warrant prediction, I think.

Reading through their Wiki pages briefly, the thing that stands out to me the most are the ages. McNamara was 42 when he became SecDef. Schmidt is currently 65. Those 23 years matter on the back end. Schmidt may have the dynamism still, but his career is set and his life's trajectory is on the downslope. McNamara's career apexed with the SecDef role. He was at the height of his working life. Sure, Schmidt is smart and hard working, but that fire doesn't seem to be there like it was with McNamara, understandably.
Especially with rents as high as they are. Some higher end 1BR condos are cash flow positive immediately at purchase at the moment. Much more tax efficient, too.
Why would you? lz4 decompresses at ~5GB/s on a modern CPU [1] with good compression ratios, that's still more than most SSDs can push nowadays. Most applications are small fraction of that size on-disk.

The problems arise when you start using xz-compressed squashfs images. LZMA2 is optimized for compression ratio and typically decompresses several times slower than even zlib deflate (which is already ~10 slower than lz4).

[1] https://github.com/lz4/lz4
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> The problem is if you want to distribute an important security update, what do you do? Ask everyone nicely to upgrade? How? Again, what % of users will manually update their software? Not a lot.

The thing is, I do not give a rats ass what the maintainer of the software wants.

I’m sure they’d like their software to be patched quickly on all the PC’s that use it, and more power to them. But I do not want their decision to patch something to affect my system unless I explicitly tell it to, period.

If I do want my software to update automatically, I’ll enable that. Just don’t force it onto me.
With all the money to be made you might imagine the industry staffed by colorful get-rich-quick characters.
I apologise for this comment, you've done some great coding, but this scares the shit out of me.

There's a reason medical certifications are so hard to get, and medical software is so expensive.

You're storing patient information in postgres. What certifications do you have to assert that the patient data is stored securely, in line with your government guidelines on patient/medical data? There's a damn good reason this is the "holy grail" of information security certifications.

You've got critical alerting built into the browser window using JavaScript.

This "alerting" is the kind of critical thing that sometimes needs *immediate" intervention, or someone could die. What happens if your browser experiences a JavaScript error blocking processing? And your alerts don't fire?

What happens if they fire too often and you get "alert fatigue" because they're not tuned correctly or in line with the other alerts available at the bedside/nursing station?

How much testing have you done to correctly assert that you're interpreting the HL7 or other specs correctly? And aren't misinterpreting data for some conditions or types of individual?

The "throw things together quickly" startup mentality might (I stress might!) Be okay where it's the difference between nothing at all and something that can save lives, in a country like Sri Lanka, during a global pandemic, fine.

But afterwards, this is so much junk without serious thought and time put into certifying it.

Medical, Aerospace -- really, any safety critical industry where your code working or not could mean someone is seriously injured or dies as a result -- is an industry that needs disruption, but that disruption should happen slowly, carefully, and safely.
I might have parsed it in my head differently, allow me to expound.

I said, "CPS is terrible". You said that grade schools are hit or miss, but 5 of the top high schools in Illinois are in CPS, and that there are always magnet schools that require a lottery. In my mind, if you can't offer consistent quality across your territory (Chicago proper) and grade levels (K-12), you are a subpar institution, ie "terrible". There are pockets of success (the high schools you mention, and the luck of my kids getting into a magnet school) but one should not rely on luck for something as critical as their child's education.

I bring up the dollars involved (cook county, property taxes, Chicago debt) because that is the fuel for the education engine, and that fuel is running out (pension obligations are protected by the Illinois constitution, education is not). Therefore, it is very likely the education experience in Chicago continues to decline. If it's already bad today (which it is objectively is, based on our subthread discussion and how weighted luck is as a component of your child's experience and success), why would one double down on it (accept fate and put your kids into CPS) while also being financially exposed and locked into the structural decline?

Blindly trusting experts is a recipe for disaster. Experts don't always have your individual interests at heart. As an individual, it is your job to optimize for you and your family. I hope this clarifies my admittedly poorly constructed thesis further up the thread. I'm off to make more coffee.
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I think developers worry far too much about platform native look and feel.
Users don’t care, nice design, ease of use, ease of learning with intuitive obvious paths to functionality that solves their needs, is all they care about.
Even developers as users don’t care, as proven by the success of VSCode.
How would you indicate to a package manager that something is a critical bugfix release, rather than a non-critical feature release?

Package managers (including snapd) basically just "think" in semver. Semver is one-dimensional: releases are arranged on a big line, and they'll know to auto-update based on e.g. whether a given release is close to your current release on the line.

For the cases where we do distinct security updates (e.g. kernel updates), we seem to do them using all sorts of hacks.

Maybe we just need a superset of semver, that can encode more than just the "newness" dimension, but also the "criticality" dimension?
I'd probably use "live updates" as well when casually talking about a feature. I think I'd use "real-time" when describing the system as a whole.
Getting Real, by the makers of Ruby on Rails and Basecamp, is one of the only books on the subject that ever resonated with me. Also, it's free.
So the landing page emphasizes a "network" aspect. Which really confused me, since I thought this was some VPN/Wireguard alternative.

The header on "Start Developing" is more informative: "The SAFE Network is a scalable, distributed application platform"

It seems to be something like IPFS or Dat, with app development tooling, monetization, SSO, and a "privacy-first network".
I wish I could even start a B2B startup, but I have zero experience in any other industry beyond software, which pretty much limits my possibilities to just making software tools.

God I wish I had knowledge in more domains.
FWIW, you can pass the "-t" parameter to "df" to limit the output to specific filesystem types (e.g., "ext4", "xfs", etc.).
I agree with this.

I've collapsed everything to Workflowy for myself, and Basecamp for projects with collaboration, or that may someday need significant collaboration. Documentation lives in repos in text files. Everything else starts to feel like busywork.
"the second best pizzeria in seattle"

Sold! I've found going for second best almost always has a superior cost-value ratio! You can eat sushi in Tokyo at Jiro's... or go to the second best place at a fraction of the cost.
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