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> I've yet to encounter another distro that deliberately breaks 3rd party software the way Nix did it to rebar3

Except that your anecdote is completely misleading given that the patched version was intended for creating Nix packages. You could've just used the unmodified version instead.

Furthermore, upstream developers complain about how distros are breaking their software all[1] the[2] time[3]. Again not a Nix specific problem. Nix even alleviates some of the problems because you can use different versions of the same software, meaning that different packages don't have to share dependencies as aggressively as other distros do.

> Which distros? Can you share a comparison in number of tests/coverage?

Arch, Debian, CentOS, and Homebrew, though the last one isn't strictly a Linux distro. I can't possibly count the numbers given that the sheer number of packages available, so it's based on experiences at looking at package definitions. I tend to check package definitions across distros a lot to write packages fir Nix.

> It depends on your threat model. Mine is stricter.

If you have a problem with software projects accepting outside contributions even if they go through review, you have a problem with using free and open source software in general. It makes me wonder how you even manage to use the Linux kernel.

> Once again, it breaks the cryptographic chain of custody set by the upstream. In my threat model that's not acceptable.

Then use the unmodified rebar3 for your project instead. But anyways, if your threat model involves not trusting SHA256, you likely have a problem with your said cryptographic chain of custody too.

> Nix not only doesn't help, but also introduces additional footguns with world-readable configuration files.

> FHS accounts for secret management, among other things.

That's an outright lie. NixOS doesn't prevent you from storing secrets in a file and applying your usual UNIX permissions. FHS has absolutely nothing to do with it.

[1]: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5599
[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20181021091049/https://github.co...
[3]: https://twitter.com/videolan/status/1153963312981389312
growth of law = growth of budgets
Popular vote destroys any shred of state sovereignty that remains. Why would states remain in the union if California and New York forever dictate the direction of the country? This is a dark path to tread.
Yes!! Here's a link of an experiment I did some time ago to do just what you're describing: https://twitter.com/juancampa/status/1033495489637961729?s=1...
Hilariously as I tried to read more comments on the reddit post, I was prompted to make an account and log in.
When the only real solution is to outlaw encryption, it is disingenuous for government (or the EU president to ask member governments) to “call on industry to work together.”

By working together the President means “we hate encryption but it’s politically distasteful to ban it, so we’re going to make you ban it instead or else we’ll backdate your Irish taxes to be Belgian ones instead.”
Sounds great. I'm a bit busy the next two weeks ... :S I'm in Asia Pacific right now. Will sent you a mail this week. Happy to talk to you.

I listened to Dark Horse a couple of times and really don't liked what I heard ... leading me also to post this podcast episode. Later, I was checking in with Majority Report. Most of the time Seder is unbearable to me, yet he makes some good points against the podcast and the IDW (Weinstein's, Harris etc.).

I grew up in the German hacker bubble. It's very positive about Antifa and generally anarchy, knowing my biases :)

Really like hackernews for the conversations here as well.
For scripts requiring any degree of complexity regarding data structures or architecture, for sure, use Python.

But like, you can't just use Python to interact with your system. It will be such a pain in the ass.

Piping and redirection in Bash is a million times more concise and expressive. Working with streams like this is what it excels at. But if you need to to populate some data structure and access data by key... python is better.

Python's import system requires multiple lines. Python's spacing requirements require multiple lines and awkward spacing when typing directly in the shell. Sometimes you are writing a script, and sometimes you just want to do ${action} to ${file}_${i} in the directory.

You owe it to yourself to be proficient in bash if you are working a lot in a unix-like environment.
> Most modern consumer tech products do not exist separate from the company and are not "Buy it for life."

Oh? What products would those be? Glancing around, I've got mice, trackballs, keyboards, laptops, desktops, assorted Android phones and tablets, routers, switches, bluetooth speakers and headphones, some lights, a Nintendo Switch, and a Chromecast. Of those, only the Chromecast would be affected if the manufacturer disappeared tomorrow. The desktop is from 2011, and the laptops span ~5-10 years old, not one running the original OS (and many with hardware upgrades). The phones did require bootloader unlocking (kudos to Motorola for making this painless) and aftermarket ROMs to stay up to date, but even without that they'd work without needing any company help. Likewise I'll concede that some routers/switches are a pain (I was grumpy at the hoops I had to jump through to switch my Edgerouter to OpenWRT) but it's fine and again even the default options didn't require an online account or any service from the manufacturer. I don't think this is a foregone conclusion at all.
I have found that an Apple Watch or an android equivalent makes a good dumb smartphone, and regularly leave my phone far away or at home if I need to focus.
I came here to say something similar, but with a different industry. None of the people/groups I know using matlab have moved to pytorch, or even gnu octave which is a much closer fit.

Because its not really about matlab so much has the huge collection of library/extensions for matlab or its close relationship to simulink. Decades of industry specific modeling/simulation/tooling built into peoples workflows are hard to change.

If you look at the "applications" section here https://www.mathworks.com/products.html?s_tid=gn_ps pytorch really only touches on a couple of them AFAIK.

Deep engineering tooling is one of the places where opensource really hasn't yet made inroads. From the lack of a good solidworks/cad toolchain to the modeling/simulation space. Even EDA remains deeply dependent on proprietary tooling despite the recent success in a number of places. So while board level design with kicad may start eating into the Altium space now that its beginning to get RF/etc capabilities. I don't see it biting into the cadence/synopsis/mentor space anytime in the near future if ever due to the secrecy of the foundries.

I think a large part of that is there is a lot of breath in this space, and the customer base is generally quite small.

So I think a good opensource PCB layout/modeling tool, and a decent parametric 3d cad program will happen a lot sooner.
Yes. Perhaps you're just skipping over the word "the" when reading that sentence? In the context it has a pretty important meaning, so it pays to read all the words, not just the ones that support your preconception.

I have learned not to make the specific mistakes that the linter used to tell me off for making, so it doesn't tell me off any more. That's a very different thing from "I don't make mistakes", which is what you incorrectly claimed that I said (even with quote marks around it, implying a direct quote!)
Gotta imagine the margin for error within a ground effect envelope is ULTRA thin. A plane loses a little altitude so what, catch a wave ... I can imagine that's not good.
Clickety, click, click...

Amazon. Make your fingers happy.

I would.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designing_Your_Life

> The New York Times best-selling book was published in 2016 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group and utilizes a series of exercises throughout its eleven chapters in order to provide others with a sense of structure in their lives. These creative and thought provoking exercises allow the reader to reflect on their life and determine what they should do with their future. They can then generate a road map and plan how to accomplish their goals.

The book is largely geared towards working people but I think it’s actually more relevant if you have the freedom to do anything you want. Figure out what you want to be doing and motivation will follow.
Honestly I suggest just spending it. A yacht, fractional jet, a couple of mcclarens, maybe some investment in space technology, etc. Seems like most fortunes I have seen don’t withstand this level of spending. In 7 or 8 years you could completely have your motivation back :)
I don't think enough data is available yet.
Thanks, those are fair points; I do appreciate the thorough answer to my question. And for what it's worth, I'm Canadian, but I'm pretty happy with the moderate dealmaker Biden as the eventual nominee (and President-elect). I agree with you that given the existing situation, a public option as opposed to a complete replacement of the existing system is a more realistic path to providing healthcare to everyone, with less room for catastrophic error. Unfortunately it seems unlikely that even that will happen now, but who knows.

As for the rest, some aspects of it do look a bit unrealistic to me. Others look ambitious but morally right, and something I'd like to see up here too, like a real focus on basic housing as a universal right, and a corresponding push to end homelessness. Regardless, you did help me see the opposing point of view; thanks.
Considering that iSH is about to be removed from the App Store[0] and that the beta can only hold 10,000 people[1], using AltStore is one of the easiest ways to get iSH on iOS now.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25028252

[1] iSH Discord server
The dismissals in your links were "interesting", at least based on the information contained within the links.

You also said:

"It's relatively difficult to pull off hoodwink when you've got adversarial observers standing there."

But this being 2020 and the topic politics, he who makes the first assertion wins.

Not that it matters really. Perception is reality, and the media has more control of the perception of Americans than any other entity. Welcome to a brave new world - enjoy your stay, citizen.
That was the case until a few years ago, so fair mistake!
P.S. or you could just have a go at solving homelessness in silicon valley :)
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Here’s what our Scaler Baishali Ghosh had to say about the online program,

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The growth that one achieves is more than just on a professional level – it invokes an overall personality development and makes you confident enough to tackle new challenges.”

Such testimonials from our Scaler’s explains why we do what we do & motivates us to strive harder to make this coding community a stronger one.
I do not like designers.
Maybe ... actually in 2016 you'd have needed PA,MI,WI (and actually know with certainty those would have been the tipping point states, for which MI,WI at least weren't supposed to be that close, if I remember correctly)
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If there was war on American soil - which there isn't - I'd actually think media was more responsible for bringing it than Trump.
There is a developer mode on macOS to disable that though, you just boot into recovery and do “csrutil disable”. And even without that I can still install binaries I get from outside the App Store as long as the developer self signed them at some point (and the signature lasts for as long as they want). We need that on the iPad at least, and maybe the iPhone, as you mention.
> I mean more of a competence/confidence issue leading to destructive behaviour, not malicious intent.

I should have walked away from a co-founder in a similar situation.

Short answer: Your co-founder is probably a good person. Plenty of people are good people. The qualities of running a successful startup are hard to come by, and the sooner you realize your co-founder can't do it, the sooner you should walk away.

Long answer: I worked with a guy who I really hit it off with; who was a good person. But after a year I realized he was mostly letting his imagination run away, and didn't have the leadership qualities needed to design or run a startup. I should have walked away much earlier when he fundamentally misunderstood certain rules about asking the CTO to build an idea, and I should have walked away when he couldn't articulate a one-page business plan after we locked ourselves away for a week.

When I called it quits, we remained friends and he even helped me meet his wife. But, I think things would have been smoother if I walked away when I suspected problems, instead of assuming things would work out.
Unless you are China/WeChat
You are not the only one. I'm curious as well. I always expect a few statistical oddities per election year, but there was a whole lot more than I usually recall hearing about this year.
Agree. I feel like the division in which designers only work in Figma/Sketch/etc. without actually being able to implement those things in HTML and CSS leads to designs that are often impractical for the platform. Shouldn't the person responsible for drawing the user experience have an understanding as to what is actually capable on the platform that they are designing for?
I'm in the same boat. Really, I got my ticket about a year ago and still haven't transmitted.
Bits from the Debian release team: winter^Wfreeze is coming
Maybe it has crunched data on Joe Biden's health / age and it's predicting he will die before he is sworn in?
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This is somewhat true, but the power of the Presidency is much more than the power of the Prime Minister in Westminster systems.
Maybe it's scraping Wikipedia, and someone changed the table structure on the Wikipedia page? Would be nice if WolframAlpha showed it's sources more precisely (it just says "Wikipedia " among others).
Is it only me or nobody else also having problem accessing website?
> With no shred evidence of voter fraud at any level

I feel like this is actually the most suspicious thing here. In a country of over 300 million, in one of the most contentious elections in living memory, not one person was found to have committed voter fraud? It seems more likely that we're just terrible at detecting voter fraud rather than that there were literally zero instances of voter fraud anywhere.

Which implies we might need some better measures to detect it. The thing they were trying to do with dead voters is promising but has the obvious problem that there could have been legitimate ballots submitted, or unintentionally illegitimate ballots, if the death was recent etc. But the general idea seems to hold. Maybe we should add a few percent fictitious entries to the voter rolls and then see if any of them votes next time.

Anybody have any good ideas for how we could be detecting this, if it's happening?

If it isn't happening then having some measures in place like this would be good to point to as affirmative evidence that it isn't rather than merely the absence of evidence that it is. And if it is happening, it would be good to know that too.
Any plans of adding the usual email sign up? I wanted to try it out, but due to Google/Facebook login, I did not proceed.
The AirFish is a smaller version of this. The cupped shape of its wings does not appear to have curves, which means it will crease like oragami (welded sheet metal sections?)

Since the in-ground effect is limited to a couple dozen feet - this craft is compatible only with the calm waters of a bay/lake/river. Maybe shorelines, but large breaking swells would be rough for the small, personal vessel anyways. That is why it's safe - unleaded gasoline spinning a prop with similar horsepower of a V8 barely suspended above the low friction and cushion
of flat water. An error (equipment or operator) would occur at low altitude and the optimum resolution would be to skid-to-a-float (last resort safety measure is to guarantee the nose is up at sufficient angle because the marine body is both landing gear and airbag in a sense).

Could the wing sections fold along the creases and temporarily adopt a more aero dynamic configuration in order to "leap" across impediments to a smooth surface? Flat land could also be a surface off of which a fuselage could propel itself via in-ground effect wingspan geometry, in which case "roads" would only need to be relatively flat and straight "lanes" with wingspan accommodation. Impact buffer would be suspension and durable tires (along with similar software interventions - "if impact imminent then nose up to skid instead of tumble") instead of sufficiently deep water and a marine body.
You dont get to vote on how federal revenues are spent. You already have representatives to do that job.

Why should an individual state get more say in who the president should be if we already have congress critters to argue budget?
your link mentions nothing about ventilation. vodka is also a good disinfectant, but you wouldn't want to necessarily aerosolize it and vent it through a building.
They obviously don't have the decoder because Apple didn't implement them.
Obviously they don't think they're doing that.

In fact they might be "firing the customers" who might not be monetizable anyhow.

People buy sony and microsoft game consoles every day with the same sort of onerous shenanigans.
This really illustrates how ignorant a lot of HN comments are outside of the high wealth / tech bubble.

Swollen batteries, bad batteries that were third party batteries were a pretty major iphone repair issue. Trying to cut down this obvious type of brand damaging behaviour is obviously good business to preserve reputation. I've been in line listening to a store employee try to explain that this wasn't their battery (before the whole crackdown). People literally still think Apple should repair these swollen phones (I bought it from XXX who told me that battery was good - it showed 100%, now its swollen / broken - fix it!).

Apple doesn't know the battery life of a made in china battery. They charge an insane premium (including in used form) because of the flat out trust folks have in these devices. The tech inside does not generate this premium - their margins are mind blowing for what could be a commodity.

The slow down issue was because apple was trying to extend useful life of their devices, at least that is one, not unreasonable view. Note - they support their devices far far LONGER than their "open" competitors - which often ship with old software (adware laden) and then never update.

I keep my phone about 3 years and it's never been able to get latest iOS. My elderly parents kept their phones for 6 years and theirs was getting point releases still of an older iOS (not sure how that works but it did).

for my parents especially - the trust issue is absolutely huge. They just don't trust that HTC or whomever won't ship with impossible to uninstall crap on the phone. same with carriers - again, apple has locked down much harder and so carriers are not "free" to install their stuff - lots of complaints, but for many users (not all) this is a positive not a negative. They don't have time to research which carrier installed app is crap, they don't know how to uninstall them etc.

I'm going to let this one lie because any defense of Apple just get's voted into oblivion.
A HEPA filter should work pretty well too
The person I immediately think of after reading this is Bret Victor and how I felt after watching his “Stop Drawing Dead Fish” presentation [1]. The presentation was so well thought out, and the concepts follow one another so clearly that you can’t help but think that you are the one having the insights as they are being presented. Plus, the tool be built to create the presentation seems to just feel like magic!

[1] http://worrydream.com/#!/StopDrawingDeadFish
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They would also be a self-selecting population.
I wish Sketch was available for Windows or Linux. I don't think I'll buy a Mac ever again. More and more people are moving away from Apple altogether as the ecosystem has become an inescapable walled garden. I think ARM will become that last nail in the "walled garden" coffin.
First, we do detect a small number of voter fraud cases. People have gone to prison for it.

But your premise is also broken. You assume we should see regular attempts at voter fraud, given our enormous sample size. But voter fraud, on the "retail" level, is heavily penalized and extremely unlikely to impact outcomes. There are all sorts of crimes that could occur, but don't, because there's no point.
I use a model-f terminal keyboard with a small microcontroller to convert it to usb. It's pretty great.

I used to use model-ms but they became hard to get, and I gave away far too many of them back at a time when they weren't scarce. (I still have two, but can't replace them at a reasonable price if they fail)

The extra keys on the model-f terminal keyboards are handy too.

There was a window where I worried that my two remaining model-ms were going to have to last me the rest of my life.

Fortunately there are now a lot of mechanical keyboards available at reasonable prices. I like the model-m and model-f keyboards somewhat better, but many other mechanical keyboard choices are pretty good too.
Molotov cocktails are on a different level to actual military equipment