skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in that case, the answer to your question is trivially: other people place value on the impractical, ephemeral aspects of the world, that you don't.

The problem is not that he's projected values onto you, but rather that you're failing to empathize with others (because your original question was essentially "why do people care about it?"; not "why should I care about it).

And if you assume that some or even many people do care about status symbols, and we have evidence of it in that these status markets do exist, then it becomes trivial to see where the value lies.

If you want to get into why do people place values on status symbols, the simple answer is that as a society we primarily communicate by such means; we build internal representations and assumptions and initially learn the value systems of other people based on the initial perception -- this may prove wrong, and may be corrected in longer conversation, but the vast majority of people we see we will never engage with thoroughly enough to use language as the primary basis of communication.

We need something quicker, and often we need a good filter, because we simply do not have the time, energy or interest to engage with every individual properly. It is extremely useful to be able to identify someone interesting in a crowd/party, and it is optimal to spend the majority of your time with people who interest you.

And of course there are many symbols and flags one might be interested in -- gold watches and iphones to signify wealth and prestige; reputation and parties to signify social connections; references to TV, movies, artists etc to signify cultural background and interests; clothing to signify class
Over a quarter of those downloads seem to be due to a package called deep-equals (https://www.npmjs.com/package/deep-equal) having it as a dependency.
Open source software is dying because software is dying. Once upon a time people lines up for hours to get the latest software. Boxes were and CDs were proudly displayed on office shelves. But software isn't the hot thing. Services are king. Facebook and youtube aren't software. TikTok isn't software. They are services and services are much harder to open source.

There are a few. Tor and Signal are good examples. They are software that enables an underlying service. So they get attention. People want to contribute. Imho if F/OSS wants to thrive it has to focus on those projects that provide services that people can proudly say that they use and to which they can proudly contribute time and energy.
This sucks and I consider this a serious breach of privacy.
Generally Mutt users don't.

Personally I find the need for HTML email extremely unusual (maybe once every year or two?). My guess is that, for the average Mutt user, it's less than that.
No, you don't: GDPR makes zero stipulations about that, and only requires consent if you're dealing with cookies that either contain PII, or themselves act as PII for cross-site tracking purposes.

Sites are entirely free to set as many cookies as they like for any and all "non-essential" site purposes because anything in place to make a website work can be trivially argued in any court to be essential to running that particular business in the most cost effective manner: page metrics, heat maps, front door proxying, A/B testing, optimization etc. are all part of running a business on the web. Whether you as user consider that essential, or what your opinion is on what qualifies as "cost effective" is entirely irrelevant. Will the site work without an analytics cookie, and an optimizely cookie, and a cloudfront cookie, etc. ? Sure. But if a business decides they need a service that needs cookies set to work properly, as long as no PII is involved, that is not GDPR's concern in the slightest.
Same. With Termux I was able to set up a rudimentary Node.js dev environment on my device - useful for showing people stuff I was working on which wasn't published.
What are the problems with earlier stage screening? Without knowing much about pancreatic cancer screening in particular, it sounds like it might be one of those screenings that aren't recommended "because of the risk of false positives", which is a failure of the medical system rather than a deficiency in the medical technology.

Some cancer screenings aren't recommended below whatever age because if you have a false positive test, it may lead to worse outcomes due to anxiety, low trust in future tests, or large costs and risks from additional more invasive tests the doctors feel they have to recommend [0]. The medium term solution should be better education and cleverer processes for recommending the invasive tests - if the false positive risk is high, maybe just make sure they get screened again every year - but instead it's just to stop the screening. Pick your own narrative about whether the root cause here is poor application of medical ethics, fear of malpractice cases, or the principal/agent problem in health insurance.

Having less information should never be advantageous. And if the benefits are marginal, doing millions of screens "for real" incentivizes improving the process far more then when it's just a research problem.

Is early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer something like this that needs to be fixed in the "system" or just something we don't have the technology to do?

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041220002224.h... - I'm sure there are better resources but just one paper about how early screening can be "bad" even if it's free.
1.) Typical definition of apolitical is: not interested or involved in politics. Or, having aversion to politics.

There is large gap between that and "dropping everything rushing to fix everything, being activist".

2.) "not being political is political" refers to the fact that even if you are completely apathetic, your apathy has political consequences - favors this or that political side. Which is why some people are strongly promoting apathy and others are strongly opposing it.

3.) All of this is standard English. Performative "I don't understand common English words and expressions" is effort and is also part of politics.
Hah! I am basically like that with mine, but with “;)”. It goes through successive waves of being funny, useful and tiresome, which in itself is funny to me.
This is an attempt to solve a human problem with a technical solution.

Our election trouble in the US boils down to corruption, and I will be blunt:

The people responsible for trustworthy elections aren't interested. Where they are, simple, time tested, production proven ways and means work just fine and are very robust.

Trust starts with people being involved in the civics. Every layer of complexity comes with both a barrier to trust and an opportunity to exploit the process to control the election outcome.

Electronic voting started out this way.

So far, no scheme has even made economic sense. At any given time and population size, there are always people available for the civics.

Paper has one property no electronic system has presented to date:

The chain of trust between voter intent and the record of their vote is unbroken. When we mark media, we record a direct expression of voter intent and that expression is used directly to determine the final tally, and with that, the election outcome.

Electronic votes are votes by proxy. Voters must trust the tech to interpret and maintain the accuracy of their vote intent. This, by nature, is untrustworthy given we don't actually need to vote by proxy in the vast majority of cases.

This is all exacerbated by voter anonymity and freedom to vote or not. Having both of those in play highlight the dynamic nature of electronic records.

Flat out, this problem is not well aligned to technology.

Getting people involved and insuring elections embody these ideas to the maximum possible is how we run trustworthy elections:

--Freedom to vote or not.

--Anonymity, no vote shall be personally identifiable to the person who cast it.

--Transparency. The law, means, ways, methods, shall be visible to all impacted by the election. It should be simple to understand how an expression of voter intent is recorded and followed through to the final tally.

--Oversight. Not only must the law, process means and methods allow for public involvement, this must be encouraged and actually done and discussed. Legitimacy is made or broken here.

These are all human problems, not technological ones.

Human solutions are in use all over the world.

The US stands fairly unique in both its general denial about the state of its elections and ongoing efforts to fix human problems with ever increasingly complex technology that does not get at the root causes.

People need to be involved. The process needs to be simple, robust, records available, human readable in a court of law and leaders need to lead by example and cultivate trust and people involvement.
China could anyway consume internally all the fish .. things meat be regulated and rules respected there should be a global entity that regulate that
What was the last time ESR did something of relevance? NTPSec is... questionably relevant. We shouldn't be surprised at his statements here: this is the same person who said that gays got AIDS because they were promiscuous[1] and that police should be suspicious of black people (in a certain age range)[2].

We are better off.

[1]: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=26

[2]: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7239
A computer without software is no longer a computer?
strange, they choose signal to communicate https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/24/21150918/european-commiss...
"we received a call from Apple"

is this a literal statement where some human from Apple called on the telephone to speak to someone about this situation, or is this a phrase that actually means they received an email notification about the situation? I ask because it seems well outside the norm of no-human contact regarding support from FAANG companies.
Just wanted to add that this is a superb and informative book, and was one of my favorite non-fiction reads in a long time.
We need to establish the use of encryption as a basic human right. I'm so tired of this cropping up every couple years.
> Who was trying to remove statues of Lincoln?

Both Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt statues were torn down: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/portland-protesters-tea...

Sure, you could say, “oh but that was two years later”. That’s not a coincidence, it’s the slope of the line when the left encourages an insurrection.
This is the side effect when people espouse "scaling software" and "software is eating the world". Whoever scales first eats the world.
1) and 3) are simply nonsense.

The guidelines are quite specific. What has happened is that over time new applications and use cases have arisen for which the guidelines were never designed for e.g. remote app streaming.

Also Adobe, Google and Microsoft contribute significantly to Apple's bottom line and they have all had apps blocked.
That is the problem. Indeed unless you plan on doing the job properly I would question the value of even trying. It requires a strong sense of purpose and a full communication with the public on what is being attempted. The good thing is that the infection pattern of this thing is pretty well understood at this stage so this should be possible.
If it's because of errors by staff, then there's on reasonable expectation that it would affect Trump voters more than Biden voters.

You'd also need a high error rate for it to make a difference. The staff can't have been failing indefinitely.
Did you consider a chromebook? I've been thinking about getting a chromebook as an ssh terminal for a while.
From ZDnet[0]

> RansomEXX is what security researchers call a "big-game hunter" or "human-operated ransomware." [...]

> These groups buy access or breach networks themselves, expand access to as many systems as possible, and then manually deploy their ransomware binary as a final payload to cripple as much of the target's infrastructure as possible.

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-version-of-ransomexx-ran...
We need to stop doing business with China period. They're going to leapfrog our knowledge industries, leading to total economic stagnation of the West.

We shouldn't do business with a country that steals, doesn't play fair, is the embodiment of 1984, and above all, commits genocide.

Get the G7 countries, Korea, India, etc. on board with the plan. Start doing manufacturing in India, Vietnam, Africa, and Mexico. Copy their Belt initiative, but make the countries that do business with us allies rather than devastatingly indebted.

Agree in unison to cancel Chinese debts owed as repayment for technologies stolen.

Defend the South China Sea for energy exploration by other neighboring countries. Defend Vietnam's water rights.

Strengthen alliance with Vietnam, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. In the extreme case, offer recognition of independence to Taiwan or even US statehood.

Brain drain China. Offer immigration packages and economic incentives to Chinese PhD students.

We have to be proactive about the situation. Xi has played the CCP's hand early, and we have a chance to nip their ambitions in the bud.

Before anyone accuses me of racism, I care deeply about the Chinese people. I also acknowledge the problems of the West - racial injustice, inequality, ongoing wars. But compared to democracy, as flawed as it is, I think the future posed by Communist China is nightmare fuel and has the potential to eclipse the future we are trying to build.
Forgive me for not knowing this, I've never financed a phone (I used those $40-80 walmart smartphones until fairly recently).

Do phone loans of this sort not function as collateralized loans? In such a loan, ownership reverts to the lender when payments aren't made, or perhaps several payments (depending on the contract).
I hate to be flippant, but that's a well-known business model called "contracting". It's possible, absolutely, but it requires a substantial investment of time and effort in business concerns on top of the actual software development. In practice, most leaders of contracting businesses don't have time to write code, and most contracting businesses end up deciding they need to release closed-source extensions.
Nah.

If the current crop of developers leaves the platform then another crop will take their place.
Yes, regularly!
I liked the write up, it's very clean and understandable. Though I feel the point about practice should be more emphasized. Solving complex cs/math programming problems makes you better as cs/math problems. No matter what techniques you know, without intuition (which comes from practice) you cannot really use those techniques effectively.
Then you've re-invented being a software vendor that can't even pay it's developers reliably?
I was told that this only happens in authoritarian regimes like China. Turns out that while everybody was talking about China exact same things were happening here in the West. It's as if the whole focus on China was specifically designed to distract people from what's happening in their own countries.
I think when he gained his US citizenship became an american. Besides he lived most of his life in the US, marriedan american, had american children, chose to die in america and his best work is in america as an american. Not sure on the canada-us naturalization laws. But I distinctly remember he became a US citizen some time ago. Regardless of his nationality, truly a great loss. One of the iconic figures of american television.
hmmm maybe others can chime in but its hard to say, and I don't have a simple answer

but to help maybe you can corroborate the following:

there is an ancestral lineage to the founding documents and frameworks of countries, with branches also connecting and merging

most countries in the form and shape that we know them today have had a major revision in or replacement of their constitution over the last 100 years. so even though people say the US is "young", many old world countries are younger or are operating under a framework which is much younger

when people say the US has been exporting democracy, this would be true. The US has a habit of creating temporary vassal states without really taking any resources or expanding its territorial boundaries, thats kind of new on the world stage, and in parallel the concepts have been inspirational to other states.

and of course its not all related to the US and supernational institutions as it all evolves in parallel, but they do all influence each other.
There are other options, though. For upgrades, a virtual machine snapshot is a perfect backup, and with really large databases, you would likely have something using WAL archiving, which provides a continuous backup until the point that you shut down the database for upgrade. Finally, if you have a database replica, that can also functionally act as your backup.
Eh, just because you'd benefit from something that can only be achieved politically, doesn't mean you have to do the work.

This is a classic free-rider situation. I mean, I'd like house prices to be lower by increasing the supply in high demand areas. But I haven't actually done anything towards that.
There is usually a much better primary source behind any post of Phoronix.
This is copied from https://www.sketch.com/blog/2020/10/22/from-one-to-one-milli..., which breaks the site guidelines:

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you're referring to the US, our problem isn't democracy, it's the lack of policy at the broadest and highest levels.

Every interview with successful businessmen mentions that as the most obvious and crucial problem.

The US used to be a world-leader in effective policy, which you can see from our victories in WW2 and the Marshall Plan.

But when you look at the disaster that ACA was/is, the CDC turtling during COVID-19, the lack of border enforcement and the CCP encroachment and elite capture, it's clear that the people we elected for the past few decades haven't done their jobs.

The BLM riots aren't really isolated incidents - even our mayors can't devise a policy to save their own downtowns.
Haven't slept in a few days, but I feel like there are some strong implication here that I'm not grasping. Can you explain?
I'd say GPLv3 avoidance demonstrates respect[fear] of the license, not abuse of it. To abuse it would be to use that software while not respecting the terms of the license.
Equity and profits are different. Tesla has a huge pile of investor money to play with, but are their various business units actually profitable?
First step is finding a way to educate the mainstream (including politicians) on the dangers of master keys and backdoors.

It is too easy for many politicians and security agencies to think that their master keys and backdoors won't ever fall into the wrong hands, that they're careful, etc. And if you point out the problem, they'll tell you they'll be even more careful.

Think about it from a non-techie perspective. I don't think most people even understand the concept that a message that goes from sender to recipient in WhatsApp can't be decrypted by Facebook, let alone by anyone else. I don't even know if there is a common analogue-world comparison you can draw, this is an utterly new concept for people who don't understand encryption.
"...the allegations were unsupported."

If one was to read this very carefully, they're not saying it didn't happen, they're just saying the evidence to support the allegations no longer exists. For a top secret program, that sounds about right.
So to which EU politician do I send GDPR complaint to?

The EU politicians have completely isolated themselves from the common folk through their bureaucratical system.
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You forgot PowerShell and SQL Server.

This whole situation makes me feel a little sick if I'm honest. It's ok to have platforms, but it's not ok to blur the lines because everyone needs an exit plan.
It's a literal statement. Apple has phone calls with developers on occasion, especially in cases like this. Unusual, but not at all unprecedented.

I'll just mention the famous case when a developer actually recorded the phone call with Apple: https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story
I don't have a nice name for people in EU parliament that write these things, they don't really understand what encryption is. It's not a technology. You can't ban encryption. Terrorists can just use unencrypted chat and either use their own encryption or they can use predefined words and sentences that actually have a totally different meaning.
Lenovo Chromebook Duet, it is an awesone little chromebook tablet that suport android apps and linux containers. 128gb storage and 4gb of ram for about 300 dlls. it was on sale for about 230 last week.
It would seem that the constant change is a good thing, makes the gatekeeping all that much easier.
https://screenshieldkit.com/ doesn’t seem to agree, though I have no idea if they’re still effective two years later.
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The Chinese straight-up don't care about legal claims (see: the galapagos islands fishing incidents), unless you are willing to use force and sink offending vessels they don't really care what you think or say about it.
Why does it say "accidental" genius? Did the creator not create the app on purpose to be a "ping" for humans?
As far as I understand, the AGPL still allows a service provider to use an unmodified binary internally, as long as the user of that service never accesses it directly. If my understanding is correct, that means if GNU were to switch to AGPL, it wouldn't help the users of SaaS webapps that internally use GNU tools at all.
I concur, the iPad is not yet a good place for development, except for python and JS perhaps if it's reasonably self contained.

I tried with the Pro, the best setup was to remote into a raspberry pi. Editors are becoming better but it's still clunky partly because of the git integration that must be done with another app and the general lack of multi-windowing.

A chromebook with the linux install seems a best choice for now (didn't try but looked viable enough)
It is shameful that that wikipedia entry doesn't have a single picture of the original enterprise as seen on TV. All those pics are of the more recent digital recreations. TOS's use of models gave it a realism that is sadly lacking today.

https://scifanatic-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upload...

That is a real object. Held up by strings, but it is a physical thing, built by hand out of wood and duct tape. That's why it doesn't have that clean shimmering look of perfectly flat non-existent digital surfaces. But put it up against an image of any realworld spacecraft and that model is closer to reality than any digital creation.

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1280px...