skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Installing Gentoo is super simple. It only takes three commands to install Gentoo.

# cfdisk /dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/grub.conf.samp le /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6

That's the first one...
http://bash.org/?464385
I’ve been using software products past 25 years, and been developing them for quite a while, in my opinion scale of a company has a minor relevancy to software quality after a certain size.

I never worked at google but I’m willing to bet giant firms like Google have bunch of problems with their organization size which limits their code quality, product delivery times, and their agileness. A smaller, more agile company can definitely produce better products than Google (case in point: protonmail).

It will decrease income inequality because profits will go to different shareholders / employees.
Sounds like you're not an arch person (which is fine).

I find arch refreshing.

by the way, I like yad.
> suicide

Is this supposed to be a violent crime now? Cops should not even deal with the police.
Your average Apple consumer doesn’t want a painful time when they lose or damage their hardware token and don’t have a spare, while also not backing up their recovery codes. This happens. It sucks.

Apple is a trillion dollar company because they make their users happy enough. Perfect security is not necessarily the best security posture; usability is still a concern.
I'd say its still exceptional and noteworthy. When you think "beauty queen" is a word you associate with them "anime" or "programming?"

Norms and culture are certainly shifting but there still exists a lot of prejudice against nerd culture AND gatekeeping within nerd culture.

Anecdotally I know a few women who have switched into tech in the last few years. They all talk about how they never even knew it was a viable path for someone like them. (And "someone like them" means "normal" young woman.)
Thanks fo sharing this! Will take a look later today!
Not sure what this snark gets you, other than obscure what you're trying to communicate.

<It's a slippery slope to do something once?>
<Apples to oranges comparison about Apple, Inc which never had close to a monopoly>
<Something about the justification for breaking up a company that's also apples to oranges>
<Whataboutism>

<Something about central planning that isn't clear and doesn't apply to monopoly power>
$129 is fine with me. The quality you get out of a DSLR is really good.

I’ve entered that phase in my cycle where I’d rather buy separate pieces that are good quality and put them together.
What does skill have to do with difficulty?

Big red flag if you think the only way to impress someone of your coding skills is if you overengineer a solution. If some candidate submitted an overengineered solution, I wouldn't hire them.

I agree on needing time to solve the take-home. That's the biggest con with this approach.

If you don't have the desire to complete the take-home exercise, then you probably don't want to work there in the first place.
Thanks for this reply and the additional level of detail. I didn't mean to imply that one method is generally better than another. The combination of a variety of methods applied to the same problem space is certainly the way to go whenever we really want to unravel molecular mechanisms.
Which smaller ISP in the US is able to resell lines from Comcast, TW, AT&T, and Verizon with nationwide coverage?

I'm not aware of the US mandating lines be resold at controlled costs dictated by the FCC, but I don't deal with consumer/eyeball networks so perhaps I'm missing something? From the frequent complaints I see about duopolies in most US networks, I'm quite skeptical of this.

In metro Vancouver, I'm able to purchase 1G VPLS fiber links for around $800/mo, and dark fiber in the $1000-$2000/mo range for the most part, with similar pricing in Calgary and Toronto. Quotes I've seen in Seattle and Los Angeles have been typically 3-6x that range.

I can purchase municipal dark fiber in Coquitlam or New Westminster (suburbs of Vancouver) for $400/mo, and I believe Montreal is $500/mo. I'm not aware of being able to buy metro dark fiber for anywhere near that anywhere in the US.
> Can you name a single example project on Github where you think a Python programmer with 2-3 years experience could contribute?

I'd love to find one too! :) And better yet, a project backed by a company that is hiring remote open source devs.
usb 2.0, 14Mbit mjpeg, not exactly broadcast quality. Almost makes you say not to argue due to $11 price point, except there are some USB 3.0 dongles promising "1080P 60fps Recording" starting at $16.
I've been using Julia REPL as s scientific calculator for a few months. I'm impressed how wonderful it is. Thank you for the article!
Still, it has been part of capitalism since its dawn... not saying its the best for us all - far from it, but no huge multinational corporation grew to its size by playing nice and polite.

The thing is, amoral behavior can be seen left and right, through large part of history of Silicon Valley (remember Gates & Jobs & Xerox).

To me as an end consumer, Facebook has a true monopoly and progressively shittier products compared to Google - ads comprising half of my feed, their core product is still broken and buggy in many places but that's another topic. Recent UI changes made it much worse product. Google looks great compared. But again that's very personal and limited view.
When? Or if?
Been a big fan of whisper systems since the redphone project. Great to see them maturing.

However, given the topic title it would have been nice to see some actual documentation on how signal actually works rather than just claims that it doesnt work like the others.
Coming from someone who used to be seen as a white man and is now seen as a white woman, it matters. Noticing that it mattered for me made me take notice when it happens to others. Spoiler: it happens a lot. I shut it down real fast when it happens in front of me, but I used to be part of the problem as well. It's (usually) not malice; people genuinely don't realize that "cultural fit" is usually code for "like me". That ability to be blind to things like that is essentially the nature of what people call "privilege". Doesn't make you a bad person, it just means you should probably listen to other perspectives before you interject your own.

"Affirmative action" isn't a thing. It never really was. All it ever meant was ensuring that opportunities were offered to minorities to interview, but those opportunities still paid out at a below-average rate relative to straight / white / male people. Your company won't share diversity numbers outside of HR, but if you have a friend you can usually get them off the record. They don't share them because the numbers are bad.
> You're not advancing a cause by getting killed by feds or rotting/dying in prison

My grandfather and his brothers would disagree. They believed so strongly in the independence of their country, they were willing to go to jail for it. And they did spend much time there, though not as much as the leaders they followed. Civil disobedience works. So does violent disobedience. It all depends on what you believe in. And how strongly you believe in it.
My belief is that Telegram excels at security theatre
> Signed HTTP Exchanges

Has anyone compiled a list of sites which offer Signed HTTP Exchanges/Real URL AMP feeds? Is there a straightforward way to make one?
I started school in 1995 with a Pentium 75 with 16MB of RAM and "S3 Trio64" graphics. The machine came with a bunch of games, but was too fast to play some of them. There was a really buggy Robocop game and a space shooter that ran so fast they were basically impossible to play. Doom and later Doom2 ran buttery smooth on it.

By the time I graduated I had it overclocked to 100Mhz and had to add a Matrox G200 to try keep up. Even then it was too slow for most games.

Compare that to today where my machine is running with a 7 year old i5-3570k and it can still run pretty much everything.
Imagine thinking he was not dangerous and not violent.
The reviews on Aliexpress are quite good, picked one up. Thanks for sharing!
Payment processors refusing to do business is a new thing. As is cloudflare and dns providers refusing service.
> I gather that you simply want something more opinionated than Arch, and that is OK, even the BSDs have a more opinionated install procedure than Arch.

Yes, this is why I emphasized the "install and go" aspect of Manjaro. It requires a certain amount of "opinionatedness" by the maintainers, which of course isn't a priority for Arch, which is also fine.

I saw and understood the reasons for scrapping the beginner's guide. I still disagreed with it. All I saw was that the Arch community was unwilling to provide for beginners. Yes, it's a lot of effort and it is to a degree duplication, but it's duplication in the same way that Simple Wikipedia is a duplication of Wikipedia. It sort of is, but it sort of isn't.

It's duplicated effort, definitely, and if you don't prioritize onboarding beginners, then it's also wasted effort. But as somebody who personally used the guide a lot, as somebody who takes no pleasure in scouring through 5 different 30 page long wiki pages to find an answer to something trivial, the documentation as is simply isn't an adequate replacement for the beginner's guide. I've accepted that the Arch community has decided that it's the best solution, but I won't stop criticizing them in discussions like this for sacrificing such a great resource just because we happen to have different priorities.
The only effect of downvotes is that I have to highlight text to be able to read it. I'm not sure what the point of the system is.
> , in my opinion scale of a company has a minor relevancy to software quality after a certain size.

Possible, but I didn't talk about software quality, I talked about number of users.

> (case in point: protonmail).

I think your case undermines your argument. Protonmail is not a very successful product. It is behind even many paid mail services. If that is your idea of success then sure, many small companies will become like protonmail, while tencent mail might become the new gmail.
There is definitely a case to be made there.

In a very idealistic case, I would even go further and say it should be under the umbrella of the UN to accommodate other cultures, and be politics-agnostic.

I do believe that we are at the time when decent internet access should be pushed by the UN (or any other entity, hopefully in a non-commercial non-political way like food, shelter, and education.
They pair really well together too.

At the moment Signal really thrives at replacing texts (ephemeral one-to-one chats), while riot excels at team communication.
This is great! Though I'm not entirely sure why she's loitering around on the Google MTV campus in those pictures captioned San Francisco :/
I don't think that the earn it act will affect Signal - they aren't a publisher by any reasonable standard so they don't need the 230 exemption in the first place.
I suspect you are massively outnumbered by people who do use it because it integrates with their existing phone book, and is a drop-in replacement for the default SMS app. Without those things it'd be just another niche app for weird nerds.
Never seen it before today, found it interesting.
It's Time to Bust Police Unions
> One way that works well in most situations is to divide the story arc up in Situation, Complication and Solution. [...] I believe the structure was first created, or popularized by McKinsey, who depending on your views, have a core business of turning slides into billion dollar revenue streams.

It's actually the Hegelian dialectic triad (thesis-antithesis-synthesis) from the late 1700s [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis
The point is that a "universal packages for Linux" system shouldn't have a hard dependency on systemd in particular. systemd isn't Linux.
This is a classic market failure / coordination problem. Most of us understand the articles don't write themselves (AI summaries and fake news bots notwithstanding), first party research and fact-checking is time-consuming and expensive, and newspapers are merely responding to cutthroat market pressures. There's zero Slack [0] in the online news business.

I think it's more a problem of convenience than refusal to pay. I continue to find it surprising that browsers haven't made a more aggressive push into business models for micro-payments, or Netflix-style clustered content subscriptions, where each article incurs zero marginal cost, and some fixed recurring stream is divvied up based on what is read. I get why Google doesn't do this, so as to not cannibalize the bread and butter of their ad revenue, but it seems to align with Mozilla's and Apple's interests, and a differentiator against the current market leader. Brave [1] is at least a good start.

If we really wanted to disincentivize clickbait fluff (not to mention abysmal reading experiences), maybe even give sites/articles a little extra share in response to browser-integrated micro-surveys. Readers usually know when they're being bullshitted, and when they've consumed something of substance, and I suspect would be eager to reward/punish accordingly.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/12/studies-on-slack/

[1] https://brave.com/
It sounds like you want to say conspiracies don't exist. Do you? Because many have existed in history. Many exist today. People conspire. To get power, money.

This is not a conspiracy theory but fact :) conspiracy theories can be true.
I have always wondering how Azure, BrowserStack and such support Safari or macOS. Do they have custom licensing with Apple to allow to run it virtualised or are they actually running it on Macs?

If I remember correctly you can only run macOS on their hardware.
He's definitely a good historian. But, as shown in his book about the Amiga, The Future Was Here, he's also pretty knowledgeable about programming.
Jeff Bezos: “I got this email from a customer and wanted to share my response.”
Maybe you need to reconsider the way your communicate with your parents if you can't convince them, and your best alternative is to censor everything out there.
Good point, I'd be surprised if lighting and orientation doesn't overwhelm all other information at this level of blur.

But I've been surprised by impressive digital forensics before—what if you can determine lighting and orientation from the rest of the photo, and then simulate them on each passport photo/mugshot? I'd still feel much more comfortable if they pixelized and color-discretized before blurring, and I still think the aesthetic effect would be much the same.
Several years ago, I wrote a maze generator using POV-Ray [0]. It's interesting trying to write a queue in a language that only has simple fixed-length arrays.

IMO, the recursive backtracking algorithm looks the best, and I'd probably use that if I were to ever return to this quick little project.

[0]https://youtu.be/VwuA2Z1tCaw
Sarcasm warning:

The answer to all your questions is obviously:

Fork it

or

Submit a pull request

or

Rewrite it in Rust

——

More seriously, when all we had was magic / religion everything was magic / religious; when all we had was stream machines, all our analogies were based on that...

And thusly, when all your dreams are centred around the Big-exit Software Start-up VC Backed lottery, that’ll be the he framework within which you extrude all your knowledge.

But, to be fair, that doesn’t mean there is anything to learn from that model of reality. Government certainly may benefit from being more swift to react and faster to iterate.

Though I fear Conway’s Law will be the biggest hurdle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Right now I am listening to a fantastic history podcast for the first time. Mike Duncan's French revolution series. This reminds me of the logic used by the French monarchy right before the revolution started breaking out to literally spend their way out of financial difficulty
i know a person who did this. he wanted to acquire a company and asked to be hired on for 3 months before it was announced. This way he had time to figure out who was good, who was awesome and who was toxic.
So ironic with a game that actively proves to you that it's a mindless waste of time.
> Mobile numbers are much more trackable then email addresses in my opinion. And I do not understand at all why others should be able to see them so easily.

This is why I refuse to have Whatsapp and Signal, especially when you live in 3rd world country. It just take ONE SCREENSHOT of you saying something controversial in group chat, that screenshot goes viral to certain radical group, then your phone get spammed death threat.

Not to mention you can and will go to jail if those radical group sue you, thanks to draconian laws (UU ITE) here in Indonesia. You didn't get to jail because you said something that actually insulting someone, you get jailed because you are TRANSMITTING something that can be interpreted as an insult.
If that’s the case doesn’t it matter even less that signal requires it since it’s already known anyway?

Signal’s use of phone numbers as IDs means they don’t have to have any of your contacts sent to their servers.

As shown in the article they have no metadata and nothing to reveal beyond your phone number and when you signed up.

These other apps send your social graph to their servers, track and store metadata, don’t have encryption on by default, roll their own cryptography, or some combination of all of these things.

The phone number obsession on HN seems dumb to me - a meaningless thing for people to repeat and complain about that doesn’t actually matter so they can sound like they know what they’re talking about.

I don’t get it.

The only real criticism I have for signal is that they’re not federated so they’re vulnerable to shutdown. I think that’s okay though because we have Matrix working on that problem and having both is probably a good thing.

It’s also a thoughtful and intentional choice: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

The response from Matrix: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom
Signal has an option to prevent this by locking the number with your PIN. This capability introduces plausible deniability that a phone number assigned to a SIM is actually associated with the number of a Signal account. Don't know if that matters legally or not.

Also the people doing shady things are generally hopping accounts regularly anyway.
Corporate Power, Protests and the Breakdown of a Social Contract
To clarify that was an actual strategy used by the accountants of the crown to right the ship.
Yeah, that is the theory for a scenario where the USA or European mainland was attacked first but...

First, if you were (say) France and China launched in the Pacific, would you really doom millions of you’re people by joining in? Really?

Second, NATO obligations are limited to defence, so if the USA launched first (or otherwise started the conflict) other members would be free to opt out. If China hit Japan or Taiwan, NATO would not be involved, the USA would be obliged to get involved (japan is an ally). At that point NATO has no obligation at all and the USA and China are racing to get missiles in the air.

Third, NATO obligations only apply to attacks in Europe or North America (plus French Algeria and a few other “specials”). That’s why the UK fought the falklands solo (often with NATO allies actively undermining it). So there are a lot of US bases that a first strike against wouldn’t actually trigger NATO commitments for. I think (check my geography)than an invasion of Guam wouldn’t be covered. Not sure about Hawaii, but it doesn’t seem to be covered either.

NATO is sort of a mess and since the fall of communism has struggled to find a purpose beyond honouring commitments and organising military activities for preagreed conflicts. But convincing France to sacrifice Paris is a bigger deal than asking for 100 troops for peace keeping in Afghanistan.
Uh yeah, that's just Firefox in general, from a snap or a deb.
Lenovo, in their announcement, they start by saying that they made the move because the Linux desktop stands at 2.7%.
And they want in, in this 2.7% market.
If the Linux desktop becomes a 5% market, or a 8% market, then it will open the floodgates to other companies offering support to desktop Linux.

Source: https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-brin...

What I see on HN is perpetual bitching and anti-Ubuntu sentiment. As if the Linux desktop is a zero-sum game. One wins and the rest are gone. In the harsh reality, if the Linux desktop gets like 5% or more, it will signal other companies to start supporting.

The chromium issue has been around since October 2019, https://snapcraft.io/blog/chromium-in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-tra...
Ubuntu cannot support a deb package because Chromium is huge in their dependencies and cannot provide timely updates. Therefore, there is only a snap package. And, what happens if the end-user tries the chromium browser? The system transparently installs the snap package instead of presenting an essay to explain the full background.

Is it so difficult to say respectfully, "everyone do your thing to increase the marketshare of desktop Linux so that it eventually opens the floodgates of support".

You cannot increase the Linux desktop marketshare by staying within the 2.7% of the Linux desktop. You just need to attract new Windows users, not steal Ubuntu users.
Signal’s official statement on the EARN It Act is here:
https://signal.org/blog/earn-it/
I used to be when I was younger. I used to spend days and weeks on this stuff and enjoyed it. But nowadays I have more important (and interesting) things to do (from my perspective).
> Its much easier to trust democratic governments than autocratic ones.

History shows otherwise. They are equally shady. After all, it was a democracy that broke every treaty with the natives and exterminated them. But I guess it all depends on your biases and agenda. Certainly, nobody can objectively say that US, Britain, France, etc as any less shadier than any autocratic countries.

> If China were a democracy I highly doubt this would be the case.

Really? Bolivia is a democracy. Venezuela is a democracy. Russia is a democracy. If china were a democracy, the chinese people would vote to fully annex hong kong and taiwan. And being a democracy, I suppose the chinese government would have to follow through, huh?

> The push back that China receives is also because of their economic colonialism and I guess rightfully so.

Now this is rather absurd. Especially considering it is us trying to force china to adopt our ways. But agenda tends to blind people.

> German car companies for example dont receive as much push back. Ericsson/Nokia doesn't receive as much pushback as their counterpart Huwawei.

But iranian, venezuelan, russian, etc companies do. And conveniently saudi arabian companies don't. They are not a democracy.

So there goes your theory about democracy. It has nothing to do with democracy. It's about geopolitics and power. The need to maintain dominance over the world as long as we can.
apt cannot revert, not even in principle. snap can in principle, and it should just be one command. It looks like it didn't work in this case because of a bug in Rocket.Chat's snap packaging. But bugs happen in everything despite their packaging format, and most users are affected by regressions in apt package updates anyway.
If it’s on AliExpress it wouldn’t surprise me if those were exactly the same devices but with 1080P in the description.
There are definitely snaps that are useful on servers, like LXD and Nextcloud.