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Stewart Lee's selection of negative criticism of Stewart Lee, 2004-06 – 2011-06
> The Lancet's credibility is kind of in the toilet right now thanks to publishing that Hydroxychloroquine study

This statement is utterly absurd. The credibility of an entire scientific journal with nearly 200 years of operation is not shaken by accepting a scientific paper that after being subjected to peer review didn't held to scrutiny.

This line of critisicm reveals a profound ignorance regarding the whole scientific establishment. I mean, only someone entirely ignorant and oblivious to the whole scientific process would assume that passing the review stage of a scientific journal is a rubber-stamp of approval that all observations and ideas and conclusions represent the final and unquestionable proof. That's now how it works. Papers are published to expose ideas to peers and thus subject them to scrutiny. Some ideas don't pan out, some might be misguided, and there might even be some instances of straight pure scientific fraud. But that's not what the aim of the acceptance process, is it?

The upside of this sort of case is that suddenly we have random people caring about science and the scientific process. It's a shame though that they don't educate themselves on the very basics and instead are more interested in dragging institutions through the mud.
I think the combined market cap/revenue of all the companies you mention would still be less than any of the 4 biggest tech companies of the US. Even the Chinese companies are way bigger.

> A much more likely reason to me seems that Europe is much more diversified in law and culture, a Paris company has a much harder time expanding to London or Berlin than an San Fransisco one will have for Los Angeles or New York. This naturally leads to more, smaller companies.

I am not sure that's the case. The EU car companies had overtaken the US car companies, inspite of the above scenarios.
The loss of balance happens when someone uses excessive force and pushes a person.

He never reached for any weapon. Take a better look.
This. A good example was the Ozone hole. After CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) propellants were regulated and partially banned it still took like 10 years before we saw significant results.
Like this you mean?
https://steveblank.com/2016/01/26/hacking-for-defense-stanfo...
Yes, I understand perfectly what is is.

But people attribute security properties to it that it doesn't have!

What good is protection against MITM if I can just read it off your device while you type it?

You have no security with mobile devices.
It is foolish to think so.
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Just Don't
Guix also has rollbacks (and a learning curve) like Nix(OS).

https://guix.gnu.org/
Do you have any tools to attempt prove correctness of critical code beyond traditional testing?
>Perhaps there are aliens out there who would laugh our cognitive abilities--their's being so much better than ours.

Yeah, but their brains would either be much bigger and/or use a lot more energy, or they will have a fundamentally different architecture (i.e. they are manufactured instead of evolved).

For the given amount of perceptions/calculations that our brain makes, and the hard constraint of being a biological process, we have pretty much fantastically efficient brains.

My computer, extremely slow when compared to the likes of DeepMind, has a power source of 750 watts, while human brains consume in average 12 watts.
What would be the ideal situation? Like you said, having too many competing companies doesn't lead to great services at low cost because of the extra overhead and lack of volume, and having a monopoly gives one company too much power, then isn't duopoly a nice equilibrium?
By default its not e2e encrypted and if you want to use e2e you lose lots of capability. That is simply not acceptable in a modern messenger.
Was going to say the same... I've been in projects where the abstractions made what should be a trivial 30-60min change, with tests, blows up to almost a week just because all of the layers that need to be worked through.

To GP: schema debt is usually from adding stuff before you need it... it's almost always pre-mature and one should have a good migration strategy in place early on in order to support destructive (or at least not-simple) restructuring over time.
It's not that it can't be won, it's that there's an incentive to never finish and stay there.
Here is a much more fair comparison: Ocaml vs Crystal vs Go:

https://gist.github.com/s0kil/155b78580d1b68768a6c601a66f8e2...
The lockdown controversy. And I was asking a question, not saying it needed to be that way.
The point is not whether it is reasonable to do so or not; I agree that phishing sites should go.

The point is that there is a large lobby out there for knocking different types of content offline, and they don't show much concern for whether their demands also seem reasonable.

Most registrars feel they should not be in the content policing or law enforcement business. Google volunteering to do it in one area that makes sense opens the door for pressure to do it in other areas that make less sense.
Toward 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies
Please...

> Are users aware that they are participating in the largest scale applied-psychology lab ever existed?

You are. I am. Everyone on this thread is. Soon, most people will be aware.

> Econ 101 has this classic output function: labor x capital x productivity = output.

BS. This is not economic theory, and you are not an economist, friend. If so, please quantify with numbers so we can compare (don't wast your time).

> When these three come together, the resulting monopolistic dynamics is unprecedented and incomparable to that of commodities, utilities and other old-school services, and we would be fools to make light of it.

Lofty claims here. I'll raise you - people die because they can't afford medicine but nobody died because of big tech.
This article seems to contradict itself:

> UC Berkeley sleep scientists have begun to reveal what it is about fragmented nightly sleep that leads to the fatty arterial plaque buildup known as atherosclerosis that can result in fatal heart disease.

This is a causal claim, emphasis mine, which contradicts:

> “To the best of our knowledge, these data are the first to associate sleep fragmentation, inflammation and atherosclerosis in humans,” said study lead author Raphael Vallat

which is a correlative claim, emphasis also mine, and they use "linked" throughout the article, which is also correlative.

So does fitful sleep "lead to" chronic inflammation and arterial plaque, or are chronic inflammation and arterial plaque simply typical of people in poorer health and/or overweight, which can itself potentially cause sleep disorders, ie. a correlation? I'm not sure we know the actual root causes here.
This sounds like a claim that wars happen because of weapons.

Protesters, and police sometimes have incompatible goals (say crowd wants to block traffic somewhere, and police ordered to prevent it), and the conflict is inevitable in such circumstances. It's a little naïve to claim that it would not happen if one, or even both sides would come unprepared for violence. Deescalation is preferred way, but it works as much as either protesters would be ready to back off (and some protesters may see it as a surrender), or political power giving orders to police is ready to let protesters get what they want (and it's not always possible for them for variety of reasons). Also, ability to show force often plays a role in deescalation strategies.
You have to ask that on the Reddit.
I find this perspective kind of funny, because every medium-sized Ruby project I've worked on takes 10+ seconds just to load and start rspec (before it runs any of my tests) or a REPL.

Because of this, working with Ruby is actually substantially slower than working with a similarly sized Go project, in my experience, even though Go theoretically has the disadvantage of needing to compile things before running them.

Plus, Go's type system will catch tons of bugs that Ruby optimistically treats as "maybe you meant to do this". Obviously Rust's type system is really awesome, but Go's is still really helpful, while compiling much faster than Rust.

Since Rust and Crystal are both LLVM-based, I would guess that Crystal's compile times also tend to be a bit painful on medium-sized projects, like Rust, but I've never actually used Crystal for anything more than "Hello, World".

(I've been paid to work full time with Ruby, Rust, and Go over the years, and they each have pros and cons, but I just don't think I would ever personally choose Ruby for any new project in 2020, if I had a say in it, given how great Go is for web development.)
thanks but the bloom is off.
think I will wait on a fresh batch of politicians.
Adding to my dotfiles, thx!
I think I'm losing my mind.

https://www.investigativepost.org/2020/06/05/police-unit-res...

> “Fifty-seven [officers] resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders,” said John Evans, PBA president.

> The announcement comes one day after two members were suspended without pay when a video surfaced, showing the officers pushing over a 75-year-old protestor, causing injury. The BPD Internal Affairs unit has opened an investigation into the incident.
Looking back at how Signal works
As a 3rd party who thought he understood this, but then realized he didn't: thank you for explaining it
It’s just been remastered and re released on consoles I think.
> Why in the fuck is dialog an optional dependency?

Not all people who use netctl want wifi-menu.

> it isn't mentioned anywhere in the documentation

It sure is. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide -> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration -> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netctl And there on the top of the netctl page it lists in a table dialog as a dependency of wifi-menu.

> Which sort of ties into my next problem which is that Arch simply isn't opinionated enough.

Maybe, but not all people have the same opinions...
Completely understandable. It would be great to have more control over how and when the updates are run.
What I really want is a really stable base OS that's managed totally separately from the individual packages I install. It's the experience one gets with MacOS + Homebrew and it's way better than an "... and the kitchen sink" distro that manages your kernel and basic interface-providing software with the same tool & process that installs and updates Super Tux.

(yes I know there are ways to use another package manager on a given Linux distro, even homebrew, but I'd rather see a strong distro built around that idea, not even trying to provide every-friggin'-thing in the distro's software repos)
Please stop parroting stupid stuff you've heard on the radio or on Fox News. Anyone can watch the incident, someone shared the link on youtube in another comment.

> Seems like the loss of balance and fall was out of their control

They pushed him and caused him to fall over backwards.

> raising your hands toward their weapons

He's got stuff in both his hands and he's very clearly not trying to take their weapons away. His hands are roughly at the same height as their "weapons," yes.

Yours is a rhetorically sneaky way of suggesting it was reasonable for them to believe he was reaching for their batons. It's similar to the way LA cops used to murder unarmed people and suggest that they were "reaching for their waistband." Literally anyone whose arms are of normal length is at any given time "reaching for their waistband" if their hands aren't on their heads. Don't be this dishonest, it's pathetic.
A book that speculates on military strategy and conflict with China (from a US-centric perspective) is Crouching Tiger by Peter Navarro. It's a riveting read, and I'm not usually into this kind of stuff: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25982736-crouching-tiger
This polemic attitude is really bad for open-source.

Snap packages are good, and such efforts may help get the Linux desktop rise over the 3%.

Lenovo announced they are fully supporting Ubuntu desktop for two lines of computers.
From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_office...:

> According to the FBI, which publishes the data in the Uniform Crime Reports, from 1980–2018, an average of 85 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed per year. Those killed in accidents in the line of duty are not included in that number.

From https://www.theroot.com/here-s-how-many-people-police-killed...:

> In all, there were 1,112 non-suicide-related deaths at the hands of police in 2019
Good to know, but they are not officially supported by NVidia.

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux&...
This really cuts to the chase:

> Work email inboxes have been filled with “in light of recent events” expressions of solidarity and anti-racism. Is this leadership or lip service? Asking the following are important determinants:

Are blacks represented in senior leadership at your organization?

Are mechanisms and resources devoted to recruit, retain, develop, and promote black employees?

Would your black employees say they are treated and paid equitably? Have you asked them?

Would your black employees find your messaging consistent with their experience in your organization? Have you asked them?

Is diversity and inclusion isolated to singular events (e.g. Black History Month; when there are massive global protests) or part of a sustained effort and the ongoing fabric of the culture and values of your organization?

Is your senior leadership involved and supportive of these efforts?

Is your organization actively investing in the black communities in which they are based and operate?

Does your organization invest in cultivating black businesses as vendor partners and service providers?

Have you personally mentored a black associate?

> Lack of representation relative to population doesn’t prove these companies are racist or that they aren’t trying to make up the difference. But the numbers show the trying needs to hurry up: We have a ways to go.
You can use the @. macro to dot an entire block.

I personally like the dot syntax. It's ergonomic, and provides cool stuff like this: https://julialang.org/blog/2017/01/moredots/

I don't know of an equivalent functionality in any other language.
No one has suggested openSUSE so I'll go ahead and do that.
Mature, stable and great-looking (with KDE).

Been using it for years, including one installation of their rolling release, Tumbleweed, which is surprisingly stable for a bleeding edge distro.
This is materially false. Throughout history capital has been used to stop competitors. Capital is not necessarily money in a practical sense. Regardless, money has decided these things for hundreds of years as well. Whether nation states rose or fell depended on whether they could pay mercenaries to fight for them. The largest brick castle in the world, Malbork fell when the Teutonic order was besieged and could no longer pay the castles defenders. They were then “bought out” by a Polish general. This doesn’t just apply to mercenary armies, or war, by the way. This isn’t just some product of “modern capitalism”.
Honestly for everything but desktop non dev usage linux containers (e.g. docker) do all the thinks you need and potentially better.

Dev Ides and similar are done just fine by normal package managers as they tend to find enough voluntary work and dev tend to not like thinks like auto updates and similar for them as long as they do get updated.

Only for 3rd party non developer tools does it make sense like office tooling, music apps and similar. Ironically not necessarily for many games.

But for this we have alternatives, like flatpack which seems to be less prone to business bias due to being fully open source with a clear statement against any form of vendor lock-in. Its endorsed by Read Hat, adopted by Clear Linux and the last time I looked at it I remember that I preferred the way they did it over snaps. Also it's not a "Ubuntu thing" but a "for all distributions Linux thing" and seems to be slowly become the standard for "packed/distro decoupled" apps...

Also just to become clear I could imagine that at some point Flathub will have some commercialization, but even if it does so and fails it wouldn't kill flatpack (while the Ubuntu app store not being much trustable kinda partially killed snap for desktop users).
Umm, police have been terrorizing citizens legally for decades.
Please tell me you're fucking joking. You can't be serious. This ties into one of my other comments about how god awful the documentation is for beginners (or even intermediates) after scrapping the beginner's guide.

> Maybe, but not all people have the same opinions...

Yes. And that's fucking fine. Arch Linux isn't opinionated. Which is great, but not what I (or others) might be looking for in a distro.
What are you doubting? The fact that she can be attractive and can also code and has business skills?

This kind of instant dismissal based on looks is one of those unconscious bigotry/judgement that we've learnt the past few week still control us and have been getting our fellow human brothers and sisters killed...
Very cool! That is what the videos were like.
Do they do release upgrades yet?
Without converting to punycode?
That's just liberal.

Liberals want to take care of people (more generous welfare state -- universal health care etc.), but still believe in the market.

I'm curious why you don't consider yourself a liberal, or what ideology you think is mixed up in it that you reject?
"... associational results in humans mirror recent data in which experimentally manipulated sleep disruption in mice led to higher levels of circulating inflammation"
Eventually, the hardware will break, so it's a good idea to plan for that. There are ways to interface with old hardware using new hardware, including special modern motherboards that have ISA slots, or USB2ISA converters
Upvoted for the imagery. :)
So? systemd isn't the only daemon-manager.
Police Brutality Map
Ask HN: What are good GUI tools for editing JSON?
Hi everyone,

there are many extremely useful JSON viewers around, as well as tools to transform JSON on the command line (e.g. JQ which is currently mentioned in one of the frontpage posts again)

However, I've not yet found a lot of tools that let you visually edit a JSON file.

Of course you can use a text editor, but I believe dedicated JSON support could make life a lot easier. Some things I imagine such a tool could do would be e.g.:

- ensure the document is always proper JSON

- let you cut/copy/paste subtrees

- take advantage of the JSON structure for navigation (e.g. using commands like "go to next entry" / "go to previous entry" / "go up one level")

- automatically escape/unescape strings

Do you guys know if anything like this exists?
Do VCs charge themselves fees?
According to this, 25% of privately owned firearms are due to previous or active military service. Switzerland also has compulsory military service and you can't carry in public.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/switzerlan...
I feel like you meant the question to be rhetorical, but for the sake of clarifying: there is tremendous value in protecting against MITM, even if there remain other attack vectors.

Encrypting traffic end-to-end over the network protects against entire categories of attack. For some attackers (for example: ISPs), end-to-end encryption essentially removes their ability to compromise traffic contents. For other attackers, it forces them to ignore those categories of attack and instead narrows them to things like compromising the device. Notably, Linux is not magically immune to device compromise, even if you’re running a magical open-source BIOS. And unlike Windows/OSX, Linux doesn’t have Apple/Microsoft paying large, motivated security teams whose work is pushed to all their devices. At best, Linux has commercial distro providers like RedHat paying for security work. At worst, it relies on the good will and skill sets of open source maintainers. In trade, Apple/Microsoft offer lower customizability/visibility into the OS. But since the average user is not interested in (or qualified to do) security hardening of devices, Linux isn’t likely to buy them anything meaningful in the field of device security.

All of this is to say “life is hard. We shouldn’t make it harder by protesting the concept of E2E encryption due to the obvious fact that it does not cure all ailments.”
"apt" packages are handmade. And they depend on hand-made dependencies. It becomes increasingly difficult to maintain packages like chromium, because they have too many dependencies, that have to be packaged individually.

The "universe" repository has tens of thousands of packages. Do you know that a majority of them are not maintained because it is too much effort and not many helping hands?
The packages are somewhat tested, but "you are participating in the development of Debian when you are tracking testing or unstable" [1]. My feeling is Debian testing is a little less stable than non-LTS Ubuntu.

See, I'd like to use LXDE, and right now I use Lubuntu. I'm interested in switching to Debian, but then I read someone say Debian testing is "more stable than the name would suggest, as long as you follow a few reasonable best-practices" [2]. Then I look at these best practices [3] and I'm like, I don't really have time for all that...

But maybe that person is just overly cautious. So I look at Debian's page [1] for best practices and it wants me to use btrfs or LVM snapshots in case an update puts the system into an unrecoverable position. I... don't think I have time for that.

Maybe I can use Debian stable and just get software not available in Debian stable via... snap [4]. Ok, they also list Flatpak and docker, but this is getting frustrating... Is that really the best way to go about this? Because other than snap auto-updating on my machines behind my back, Lubuntu's been working great up to now.

So basically, is there a Ubuntu / Lubuntu that just doesn't have snap auto-updates? If anyone knows, I'd really appreciate it!

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#What_are_some_best_pr...
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23038222
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23044878
[4]: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Snap
There was one called Mathematics for Machine Learning on Coursera check it out its by Imperial College London
Twenty years ago, a bearded man in a cave ("Ali Baba") and his 19 "thieves" have managed to attack the superpower with a combined security budget (military and all intelligence agencies) of around 1.000 billions (1) on its soil, (2) using only box cutters!

The explanation offered to the world by the superpower was: Everyone failed. Yet, no one of those in high positions in the security aparatus of the superpower who has failed at doing his highly responsible job has resigned and no one was prosecuted.

What sounds like a (bad) fairytale really happened. Over 3.000 people died that day and many more thousands have died and are still dying as a consequence of what happened that day.

Attackers budget was probably 0.00...1% of the budget of the superpower.
How do you go about organizing/prioritizing work, and executing?

1) what workflow methodology you use (e.g. scrum/sprint, Kanban, etc)

2) where does requirements come from?

3) how granular is your code-review process?
It really does seem like the run up to this November is going to do lasting damage to a lot of social media platforms. Friends are gonna turn on friends on some platforms, and on others people are going to lather themselves into blind uncontrollable rage. Beyond not being healthy I don't see users being happy with spending their time doing this. The addictive rush of having your biases confirmed can only provide so much joy.