skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Quite the opposite, you want to make sure that all goods and services are being provided, but only enough so that the primary goal can be achieved: to give people as much stress-free spare time as possible without breaking the economy.

That's solved. 10 square meters, 18°C during winter, 2500 calories a day, and basic health insurance. It's cheap enough that we can supply that to everyone. It's just that people want 40 square meters, 22°C and food that's tasty and diverse and not just nutritious, and they want entertainment and technology etc etc. The basics can easily be taken care of (and are in most Western nations), but nobody wants to be limited to the basics.

> I hope to see societies and economies that prioritize something else than short term economical gain and meaningless widgets that get thrown in a pile after years or even months.

It's the majority of people that prioritize that which you do not like, it's not some hidden force that makes them. You might give them something else: bring back religion. Not for the elites, but for the masses. The void has to be filled. If you don't want to fill it with consumption, fill it with something else.
been thinking about this because my current project has suffered from management repeatedly setting unreasonable dates. which causes flailing to get stuff put in, and then we the date finally gets moved out, more stuff to paper over that crappy stuff.

but you have to admit that without a date developers will just noodle around forever.

I think the only recourse is to constantly be evaluating the current slate and the date and keep sliding it out as necessary or throw stuff off the train.

really, you should never miss a date. you should have realized some time ago that it wasn't going to happen and slid it out already.
On a post like this I would like to direct peoples attention to the fact that Ross Ulbricht is still sitting in jail on a life sentence for running a website. His family can use any and all support they can get to set him free, please consider donating or signing the petition.

[0] https://freeross.org/
History repeats itself. I'm willing to bet none of these people are aware of the failure of Epcot, the first smart city effort, when they take their families to Disneyworld. There are just too many people in this world who would prefer to say no to change.
> We don’t know about

We also don't know how fast and reliable 5G will be (beyond the severely limited range) but it was at the top of your list of advantages. Some of the disadvantages of current Gees you mentioned seem to be exacerbated by your mobile carrier and they may very well apply to 5G.

> each one is either so minor as to be a non-issue

For the purpose of making your argument you were willing to just downplay every disadvantage, ignore it, or just glance over it, and pump up every advantage. Many others aren't. The reason 5G is going ahead as such (half baked and expensive, more so than 4G was in its time) is that most people don't know what they want, or what they get. But enough have the money and the promotional material says it's the thing to get. If it weren't for the slowing smartphone market nobody would have considered going ahead with this. But the phone market is catatonic so suddenly here you are convinced that your RPi with sensors can only work over 5G, ignoring that LoRa may be an even better choice for such applications. LoRa doesn't have great marketing though.

WiFi is genuinely better for some of the applications you listed. Voice is still 4G. And the law of diminishing returns strongly suggests that the jump brings less noticeable real world difference than the numbers suggest.
> Self-proclaimed "luxury brands" have a dwindling market.

There's no evidence that supports that as a comprehensive statement. It very much varies from brand to brand and situation to situation.

The king of luxury, Bernard Arnault (LVMH), recently became one of the richest people on the planet (current net worth of $76 billion) because luxury has been massively expansive over the past decade. His wealth increased four fold over eight years up to the pandemic.

Another person in the same luxury boat as Arnault is Francois Pinault. $31 billion net worth. His wealth also increased four fold in roughly eight years, from $11b to $43b, up to the pandemic. Don't tell these people luxury is dwindling - their outcomes indicate it has boomed.

Ferrari's business has doubled in size and they have a market cap higher than Ford or GM because luxury has done so extraordinarily well over the last decade. Their stock hasn't crashed during the pandemic, unlike most auto stocks. Do you know why? The luxury buyers are not hurting like everyone else is (thus far). Times are good for Ferrari.

So what situations are causing this? China for one. And more broadly, the emergence of greater wealth all around the world, rather than it mostly being contained to the well-established developed nations of the post WW2 era. That global wealth increase is not matched by there being a lot more high-end luxury goods makers like Ferrari or LVMH, so the result is they've spent most of the past decade dealing with more business than they can easily keep up with.
Same. Once I learned how to use it, I can't go back.

Recently my work laptop was switched to a Dell without the nub and I noticed reduced workflow immediately.
China is an authoritarian one-party state. There might be a difference, but it's pretty slim.
I added YouTube.com under the restricted sites (not specifically as an adult site, just restricted) and it did stop my kids from going there directly, but they figured out that they can Shazam a song, use its “show song on Youtube” feature to get a fully functioning YouTube page and start working from there.

They can’t even read yet.

I am at the same time very proud at the l33t hacking skills and upset at their disregard for rules. But mostly proud.

I will check if “adult” blocking works better.
Ads are just conversations at scale.

Elon Musk has conversations at scale on Twitter, no ads needed.

If you know who would use your product, find them and have conversations. Talking to real people is the first step to great ads anyway.

If you don't want to have conversations with your users, or don't know who they would be, maybe you would be better off building something else.
It could also be the case where lockdown countries are paying up front in economic damage AND will also pay later in deaths because there won't be a vaccine in time to stop this from spreading to everyone anyways.
With gig work and the internet, you can find a tailor or contact someone on Etsy for less than a boutique experience.

Off the rack is globally commoditized now, so you're paying for a trendy location, labels, personal shoppers, or design IP. If those things don't matter to you...
or if during the hack, the code was deleted after copying

regardless, I agree.
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What about problems people mention here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22969469

I love ThinkPad and planning to buy one soon, but reporters of problems with sound and WiFi drivers concerning.
It is funny that Zoom was one of the companies that I flagged in my head as the worst (or rather, most dangerous) up-and-coming tech company and I considered Keybase one of the most promising up-and-coming tech companies.

Keybase solves a (to me) nontrivial problem: How to bring private keys into social media. Just a silly example: You don't use the same private-public key exchange in Whatsapp as you would use for your emails, or to sign your packages. It's a bit of the now infamous Dropbox situation: Most people can sign things with private keys and properly keep track of it, but they don't get around to doing it. It's only critical cases where the use is common (like signing packages). It took a long time even for HTTPS to become standard practise, though I guess the situation with your browser is a bit different.
The article says the issue is Corona not Canada?
Same. I love my X1 Carbon.
(Just to let you know I automatically downvote links to Youtube that have no description of what to expect. Nothing personal.)

That was weird, but not bad. But it doesn't have anything to do with this thread. (It's a funky dance video.) You seem to be spamming that link on HN. Please don't. You'll just get banned.
Lazy thinkers like to measure dates because they're easy to measure. I don't think I've ever, in my professional career, seen a date get "hit" - by me or by anybody else - and I've also never seen it matter.
You're wrong. There is an opt-in for wallet key generation. The opt-in does not say that when you opt-in to generate a wallet keypair, it will also do a second operation and use your existing keybase identity keys to sign an attestation that will then be permanently affixed to your profile.

The text alludes to that being possible, but it doesn't tell you it's going to actually do that, or that it will then be impossible to remove the ad from your profile after you do.

The specific opt-in consent text matters. It says a thing, you click ok, but then it does that thing but also a second thing.

Ultimately this doesn't matter though, because keybase is toast now.
Mr Bean was ITV, and The IT Crowd was Channel 4. Hopefully they'll both follow suit!
Probably because a lot of units are synonyms in normal English aren’t synonyms in science. If you look up synonyms for energy power is one of them. Just like mass and weight.
The immune system has multiple effects channels, only some of which involve antibodies. It takes a while to produce antibodies in detectible quantities and sometimes viral infections are cleared before that happens.
They're going to be shipping Fedora on some of their laptops, although I think not these ones unfortunately.
The keys are all there - laptop review from 2020.
I wipe machines on arrival as a matter of course, so I never stopped buying Lenovo machines, but I only buy Thinkpads and AFAIK they were only pulling that shit with consumer-level machines (which are already a wasteland across most manufacturers—not an excuse, to be sure).
Saying sorry doesn't fix the losses. Pro traders are used to taking losses and can manage it. But it is super bad when we lose more than 50% of a huge profit in case of a exceptional market move just because of Kite not able to handle the load and accept an order. Or worst when there is an exceptional loss that just doubles because of system failure. You guys did a great job on the platform, but you should provide reliability to professionals who don't mind paying you extra for that
Hey, you can turn on biometric 2FA on your smartphone, or use TOTP (Kite web -> My profile -> Password and security).

The static PIN is a legacy hole that has to be plugged. Coincidentally, we wrote to the regulator about this exact same matter recently. We'll hopefully see a regulatory announcement mandating "real" 2FA for everyone.
An all zero s-box would give some, how shall we say, useful toeholds to an attacker.

That's not how S-boxes work, and crypto is best done with sane defaults.
10 years ago I was able to get good result from ads, but now it is an absolute waste of money and it's not worth it anymore.
Just tax empty places, isn't that what Vancouver does? Leaving a place empty/inhabited should be very expensive.
You have to exchange data (public keys and the actual encrypted content) and if you can't do that peer to peer, you need something that facilitates that. For example, webrtc clients can talk over an encrypted channel to each other p2p if they are inside the same network. If not they need a TURN server to relay that information and do NAT (firewall traversal). For obvious reasons no one wants to be the service provider of anonymous encrypted content, hence a business opportunity.
> How do you force everyone to be nice?

> Is the threat of being sued for "not being nice enough" an improvement for society?

I never said anything about force, nor certainly anything about suing people for not being nice (which is so ridiculous it barely warrants a response...) You're reading a great deal more into what I said than what I actually said, and in a very uncharitable way.

> I think there are more important things than compassion, e.g. work/status, marriage and family

Smart people will be more likely to support social policies that help people in those regards if they are taught to be compassionate from a young age. I'm earnestly surprised to receive pushback on what I'm suggesting, and it's probably because you don't understand what I'm suggesting. Maybe providing a concrete example of what I propose will help you understand what I mean: one possibility is to encourage clever kids to participate in intellectually inclusive extramural activities where they can form social bonds with people less clever than themselves. Track and field or the swim team are two good options, contrasted with science olympiad (which is generally inaccessible to dull children.)
My understanding is that the Thinkpad line is a bit segmented from the rest of the company. As a result, those poor decisions haven't effected the Thinkpad line. It helps also that I immediately switch everything over to Linux

I do understanding that it's entirely feasible for them to rootkit Linux from the BIOS and install malware onto their Thinkpads but I just haven't seen it happen yet
Can that be a personal decision, for example:

Person #1) I'm at risk and there are no good treatments, so I will self-isolate, waiting for vaccines, better treatment, and/or this to go away.

Person #2) I'm young, my risk is negligable, hospitals are not overwhelmed, and I have to support my family, my kids need to go to school, etc.

Why does person #1 get to tell person #2 what to do?
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What we need is for people to understand how to choose better for themselves. Not a technology patch.

Google only has one hammer: the algorithm. It just comes in different colors.

Traffic? Waymo algorithm.

Municipal planning? Smart Cities algorithm.

Advertising? AdSense algorithm.

Journalism? Google News algorithm.

Google, and certain other tech companies, need to learn that not every problem can be solved by a computer.
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The idea of "fast fashion" is noxious! All those faddish things worn for a season then to take up space in landfills. I don't think I've found affordable clothes made to last anymore (a good quality wool sweater, maybe?) I can't remember when was the last time I was at the mall, or what was the last thing I really really like to buy to wear.
It's a non-issue if you're not using windows. Basically it's a windows "feature" where if a certain ACPI table is present in the firmware, it will download and execute it. There isn't actually any malware/spyware executing on the firmware itself.
lol, how the compiler didn't warn about uninitialized variable
This is not true based on the amount of money originating lenders get when the sell off bad debt. Generally they receive less than 5%(sometimes less than 1%).

To the original lender, 5% of the defaulted debt generally just covers the cost of writing off the debt and maybe a bit more. It does not move the needle at all for loan availability.
We already have foreign investors taking a lease of the section hwy 407 in Toronto and wrestling ministry of transportation to not extend license plates of people who did not pay fee. The reason included not sending bills, false billings, denying plates after official bankruptcy etc. And those ever increasing tolls. Thank you very much for your business and corruption.
Is this functionality something that would make sense for LetsEncrypt to implement?
It seems to me this would be a function of available alternatives more than anything else. Some Lenovo products, as best I can tell, make for excellent Linux machines. What are the alternatives if that's your criteria? There are alternatives which might be acceptable depending on your other requirements for hardware, form factor, price, or geographic availability. But for some subset of requirements, Lenovo is still going to be the best option by a wide margin which is going to push someone to making that tradeoff. I don't think it's a function of time.

edit: "some Lenovo products"
What display did you go for?
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I got massively lucky. It's a personal project that grew bigger. If I could do it again, I'd already have another website up and running. I've been thinking about it, but I'm coming to terms with being a one-hit wonder.

I get paid a living wage for very little work. The reasons are irrelevant. The most important aspect here is the outcome, which was quite similar to UBI.

Give anyone the humble monthly income I'm given, and they'll find a way to have fun. I just wanted to confirm that it's indeed quite nice.

One thing I didn't mention is that my revenue could plunge at any moment. It did because of COVID-19, for example. This is not the case with UBI.
You can actually buy one with Ubuntu pre-installed. Check this out https://lenovo.com/linux
I think that's only ssh keys, not including gpg keys.
For what it's worth, I also own quite a few of their older laptop lines (Mainly X230's) and I've been slowly flashing Coreboot onto them

I know that's not feasible for their newer lines, which I also own
Would love to see NixOS available as an image for Windows Subsystem for Linux. Looks like it's been an open issue for awhile.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/30391

Seems someone may have figured it out -

https://github.com/Trundle/NixOS-WSL
Sure, but isn't the point of git to be able to roll back all changes on any branch? And since GitHub is owned by Microsoft, they themselves would surely be able to regain ownership of the account.

This seems like a non-story.
The odd thing is that I don't remember this, do you have a link. I mean, I remember the Bloomberg article that claimed unauthorized physical embeds on PCBs from China. But I don't remember the Indestructible Lenovo Spyware scandal!
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What are some ways a company providing services like Keybase can sustain itself and have a healthy business model.
Finding City Market Fit
Question is what two generations of amyloid experts will do with their careers once it is seen that amyloids are just a response to a problem, not the problem. Discover new prions, maybe?

But the first priority has to be to get the purse strings and publication barriers out of the hands of amyloid partisans. Anybody deep in amyloids will have some time to find another gig, because the whole Amyloid Industrial Complex will take an appalling length of time to dismantle. Peer reviewed publication and grants are profoundly conservative, with only very occasional exceptions.
If someone doesn’t ask, how will we learn from those with something to teach? I ask because I’m curious!
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Bob Martin's new book "Clean Agile" covers this topic well. The problem isn't dates or deadlines, it's arbitrary dates or deadlines that are not backed up by data that indicates whether or not they are achievable. Often we create estimates with no prior knowledge of the team composition and particularly their ability to apply their skills to the problem at hand. The only way to make good estimates is to give them work, let them start doing it, and observe their progress. You then can manipulate the scope of your project to determine what you want done (the highest value things) and estimate when you can get those things. The alternative levers (add a bunch of people, sacrifice quality) end up not working in software projects and become the "value destroying mistakes."
You can get traction on projects without running ads. Show your product off to relevant communities of people asking for feedback, etc. If people start buying, start considering ads.
I would say some form of spreadsheet software will be with us for awhile.
It's not, CNBC says "Toronto was expected to make its final decision on whether or not to let the project move forward on May 20."

COVID has nothing to do with it.
Housing prices would tell you there is actually less of everything, relatively. Demand has surged, sufficient supply has yet to be constructed, queue housing crisis. Not enough housing is being built in California's cities.
Breaking Down the Botched Coup Attempt Against Venezuela's Maduro
> The wireless transmission takes only a few milliseconds – a tiny fraction of the time it would take a car moving at 70 miles an hour to cross a four-foot charging zone. The only limiting factor, Fan said, will be how fast the car’s batteries can absorb all the power.

Well, yes, moving tens of kilowatt-hours of energy in milliseconds wirelessly to a moving target with a lithium based rechargeable battery is an unsolved problem.

Who woulda thunk.
There's a big difference between considering national security issues and bungling foreign direct investment completely (except for real estate). It's also no excuse for the protection of oligopolies that don't act in the best interests of Canadians.
I've been running Arch on X1Y2 no problem
Can you explain how the creditors of 4bn in Neiman Marcus debt are making money off this?
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Yep, pretty much extortion with a gun to the head: https://imgur.com/a/OER5oxZ
Yes, this is the gap between "I wish everyone had this", and "UBI is a great idea". I don't know if the economics can scale to an entire population, but I really wish it did.
Well, I hope those are better under linux than the A485 and aren't running as hot and a sluggish wireless driver ... it has been a disappointment.
You beat Google!
But the opening of a conversation influences the rest of it. It's like the old experiment about guessing the number of countries in Africa.
Interesting that your build times are slower with clang. I've found on most of my projects clang is roughly 30% faster to compile in debug, but release I haven't seen a huge difference between the two.
> This is incorrect. In practice, for larger code bases, upgrading to a newer version of GCC or Clang is something that must be done purposefully, and you must test.
Sometimes it turns out that your code relies on some compiler behavior which has changed. Sometimes newer compilers are stricter than older compilers. There are plenty of real-world cases of these problems!

So if you hit issues, do what you do on every other system which is "installing older Xcode / Visual Studio" ? That would not be an issue at all if the toolchain wasn't vendored as part of the distro, you'd just have something like rustup that allows you to use whatever version of the toolchain your project requires.

> There are a number of features that are specific to the macOS toolchain which make this possible. Take a look at the "-mmacosx-version-min" flag on the macOS compiler. This selectively enables and disables various APIs.

yes ? https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C_002b_002b-Dialect-Optio...

> We're talking about Linux here. The Windows toolchain is radically different.

what I'm saying is exactly that the Linux desktop world would be in a far better place if Linux followed the Windows / macOS way of vendoring toolchains.

The only thing that is an actual issue on Linux if you want backward compatibility is glibc which does not have an easy way (AFAIK) to say "I want to target this old glibc version". But that's not the issue for what we are talking about which is "getting newer compilers on a given distro" - Red Hat & derivatives manage this without issue with the various devtoolsets for instance.