skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that it has a set number. The two ways that is see self governance succeeding is through a strong, homogeneous national (cultural) identity, or through philosophical enlightenment in the form of expansive tolerance of others and the suppression of natural tribalistic behavior.

The national/cultural identity can be fragile due to the population changing and situations evolving. I do think population size plays a part in this, but I don't think there a hard number.

The tolerance of others and avoiding tribalism is nearly impossible due to human nature. Just drawing the line on what is tolerable and what should be punished (law and crime) will at least divide the population into lawful citizens and criminals, if not political factions. Most people don't have the ability to self recognize confirmation bias (even very difficult for trained people to do).
It might not be Spotify's fault, but it is certainly their problem. Their business survival depends on being able to fix it before a rival does, because consumers don't want to keep paying for a service that sucks for them, 'because it isn't their fault'.
Heh Model 3 lease starts at $1336 NZD/month and is for businesses only (not Tesla direct tho). Completely out of reach with reality.
Settings -> general -> keyboard -> hardware keyboard
Isn't it more like "literally any LEO or pseudo-LEO in a 'friendly' country" at this point based on what we know at this point?

I think the threat model here is less about a hostile actor subverting the backups than the extreme ease of access to all data on those systems that is given to law enforcement?
so it's "poke" without facebook
> Main reason for leaving was that Nix package maintainers have to heavily patch all software.

Any widely used distros do this. Plus, the statement that you have to patch all packages is false. In many cases, all you have to do is set the right build flags and environment variables, which is handled by standard helpers in nixpkgs.

I'd also like to add that nixpkgs has the most extensive testing for packages compared to any other distros I've seen.

> Packaging for nix is more like porting software to another operating system.

Dramatic, but again, simply not the case.

> note that they have automated tools for patching the most common problems, so the problem is even worse.

This is a good thing. Manual patching for the most common problems isn't sustainable, especially if you maintain a large number of packages. Just ask packages maintainers of any major distros.

> I was able to merge some pretty large patches to nix-packages from an anonymous and sketchy-looking github account, and they weren't scrutinized much

All packages in nixpkgs has a mandatory review process as you should very well know. As scary as you make it sound, I'm pretty sure at least one committer have taken a look at your code to see if there was anything malicious in it.

> Moreover, Nix breaks the chain of trust for the language packages.

After a quick look, it seems like you can still use the unmodified erlang package manager? The patched version you've mentioned seems to be there for facilitating creation of Nix packages and it looks like the main intent was to remove the ability to download packages from the internet. If this is the case, it wouldn't be a security problem at all because the dependencies would have to be prefetched and their hashes precomputed.

> /nix directory is readable by all users, so you cannot use Nix to manage secrets

Why not store secrets in a private location, just like you would on any other distros??? What is it that other distros have that Nix is missing? I'm not seeing your point here.

With that being said, note that this feature is being worked on, and systemd very recently introduced a new feature for secrets management [1].

> You cannot install opam packages without dealing with incompatiblities, you cannot easily install games from Gog without dealing with incompatibilities

Matbe take a look at buildFHSEnv.

> do you really need such degree of reproducibility for your very own dev machine?

Yes, it saves me from having to do a clean install of my system every few months. I haven't done a clean install at all the last few years since I started using NixOS.

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/59#issuecomment-624723733
A feature that's existed for over a decade and doesn't really seem to be an issue nor abused?
If she actually cared about getting a deal for stimulus she’d scrap the unrelated nonsense like national elimination of voter ID: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/05/23/fac...

That’s just one of the many impossible pills in that bill that make it a non-starter. Knowingly including garbage like that in what is framed as a COVID stimulus bill is deliberate sabotage.
I have recently become convinced to use Python 3 scripts instead of all but trivial Bash scripts, however with one constraint: no libraries outside of the standard library for the minimum target platform, since requiring their installation is often non-trivial.
>The only workaround for legacy Android devices is to install the Firefox browser

You can still install the root certificate "ISRG Root X1" by hand, no?
“There are two types of genius. Ordinary geniuses do great things, but they leave you room to believe that you could do the same if only you worked hard enough. Then there are magicians, and you can have no idea how they do it. Feynman was a magician.“
— Hans Bethe (remembering that Bethe himself was a Nobel laureate.)
> but Google is locking the Android ecosystem progressively for regular users.

FLAG_SECURE has existed for as long as Android has. It can't possibly be evidence of locking down the ecosystem progressively as it's always been part of the ecosystem.
Also wven if it does not exhilarated user data now, it's one update from doing that tomorrow. Quite possible even via a targeted update on some specific people "not in favor".

If it was open source there is some chance a backdoor would be spotted (eq. by Linux distropackage msintainers), but not when a company is pushing obfuscated binary blobs preatty much directly to users.
And even if it passes parliament there is still a chance that it will squashed by the ECHR.
While it doesn't use a CRT as its display, perhaps this 1973 portable is what you are looking for?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCM/70
Thanks for the feedback! I originally had a similar thought but haven't experienced this yet or seen it in the early feedback. For example I'd setup a topic to get ideas for guest speakers to an upcoming staff meeting from a relatively small team I know well - and was unable to delineate who said what (and it felt more authentic that way, which was reassuring).
From Apple's POV, a completely unlocked system that allows the user can do anything is like selling a solid cube of untouched marble. It's the default. The Apple ecosystem on the other hand is a completed sculpture. They removed parts to craft a very specific vision. Yes you get less marble, but most people aren't sculptors, and they're not buying it for the marble. They're buying Apple's vision.
They go for much higher now. I'm down to just one Model M left that I use every day, and I regret not trying to rescue the several that failed along the way.
> people simply won't adhere to lockdown restrictions

This is something that policymakers should probably keep in mind.

Unpopular regulations (such as certain highway speed limits) that are not strictly and universally enforced can simply be ignored until they become largely irrelevant.

Moreover, there is probably widespread voter opposition to extended, strict lockdowns - even if they are called for by public health officials.
It's very Disney Land. A superficial facade you're not meant to look behind.
Sadly farm fishing as it stands now relies on the bulk catch of wild fishing. Farm fishing is a machine to turn unsalable tralled fish into commercially desirable delicious fish. Fish farming cannot yet exist without wild trawling.
This is so short sighted. More roads = more traffic. Make the road a bit longer, because our history can't be replaced.
I've been following iSH for a while and was very happy when it finally came out of beta. iOS needs a good shell and iSH seemed perfect. I actually thought this will fit into apple's strategy of marketing ipad as a replacement for Laptop
Is a fetus considered a human baby? This is one of those 2 sided debates that regularly occurs and the problem is that no amount of science will be able to give a definitive answer. It's a personal worldview and both sides have valid arguments.
Why on earth would anyone choose Python as an improvement over bash when there are several mature dynamic languages which are much better suited to shell scripting? Ruby, Perl and Lua come to mind.

Python is a concise more expressive language

No it is not, and that's why I'd put it last on the list. Kreist, Python doesn't even have baked-in regex support. And forget one-liners - Python just doesn't cut it. Nearly everything in Python has to be fully qualified which works against conciseness. Sure, you can import a function but it isn't idiomatic Python.

It has a massive built-in library

So does Ruby which also has so many more methods built into the kernel that you don't end-up having to fully qualify everything, eg. random.random().
There is enough people who enjoy it, however; the proof is that those artists used to be able to make a living through their followers in the past.

The issue is that attention is a scarce resource, and the means to keep it through market formulas and analysis of trends have become way too effective. Artists are now in a race to the bottom where they have to choose between playing the game, and changing their style, message and work to chase engagement metrics, or resign themselves to be drowned and forgotten for staying "real"

Youtubers suffer the same fate. You can see people moving from tech reviews to game streaming and then to music production or vlogging in their search for views. But they (most of them) are more businessmen than artists, and don't feel tied to a message or artistic vision that they need to communicate.

I'd argue that an ideal system should have a place for artistic quality to shine beyond entertainment, and that used to happen, at least to a higher degree than it does now. Which is not to say that everything's worse: the tools to become a creator are better and more accessible than ever (hardware, resources to learn, etc).
This looked so clean flying around https://youtu.be/GqQTfflBjnc?t=60
you can also just buy a new one from https://www.pckeyboard.com

I have both an original model M and a modern one, and my fingers cannot tell the difference.
“As a luxury brand, our customers are more likely to have a home where they can charge a vehicle, an office where they can charge a vehicle, their favorite spots to go where they can charge a vehicle"

Translation: don't expect a lot of range from our heavy and aerodynamically inefficient vehicles.
From all the people making up wild ass nonsensical shit with no relation to link? The link is a bug. Screenshots stop working if there's a .nomedia file in the screenshot directory, removing it fixes it. That file isn't normally there and it's unclear how it ended up there, but it's just a silly bug. There hasn't been any policy change. Nothing changed with screenshots. They behave the same way today that they did 5 years ago.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25020678
Totally looks like something straight from the TV show The Thunderbirds.
UK is looking grim. People have stopped caring

Mask compliance is patchy at best even in places like shops where lockdown rules say it’s compulsory
A fun fact is that this originated as a way to install the gba4ios emulator (now renamed to Delta). Riley is an awesome dev!
So this is interesting, care to elaborate?
Have you taken a look at buildFHSUserEnv[1]? In the Mozilla Nixpkgs overlay it is used to package[2] the Vidyo desktop application.

[1] https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-fhs-environment...
[2] https://github.com/mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla/blob/master/pkgs/...
VW also did it quite early in the Golf GTI, but I think that is around the same time (2011?), although not with recordings but actual engine noise, or so they claimed.
Just went back to their site, and looks like they sell a bypass kit for ANR, so maybe Im not the only person that wasnt a fan...

https://catalog.pac-audio.com/catalog/amplifier-integration-...
<waving> Hi W. </waving>

Interesting, it seems that even after several years away from the company, I have fallen foul of the Foundry's culture of secrecy.

> I had the privilege of using 4 red rockets, all of which broke.

Unsurprising; the original RR was a repurposed DVS Atomix with custom firmware. Now redundant since R3D decoding on GPU was released. RED's overpriced, unreliable hardware is my #1 gripe, but not really relevant to this discussion.

> I was there when Whitmore got the email about redcode, and not using the official SDK. That we "had illegally reverse engineered proprietary code".

I didn't know that a non-SDK-based REDCODE integration was ever in Nuke. If correct, to be honest that was an unwise move anyway; RED have always warned against reverse engineering in their licence agreements (and yes, reverse engineering was necessary to read R3Ds without the SDK, it was never plain vanilla JPEG2000 and didn't use the tar format at all). If Whitmore allowed it, he should have expected RED's response.

The legal grey area is that reverse engineering a file format isn't the same thing as reverse engineering proprietary executable code by disassembly. However, after having had a similar run-in with RED regarding reverse engineering, I have no doubt that Jannard's legal team would have persisted and come out on top.

> I was there looking at the RED forums where they were sharing the cracked version.

Sure, some end users pirated Storm like other Foundry software because the licence manager had been cracked long before, but that wasn't RED's fault.

> RED saw the software, stole the interface and made a free version.

The interfaces were no more similar that any two "pro" video apps (REDCINE-X looked particularly awful at launch). RED built a competing app with an overlapping feature set. This happens all the time.

> "it turns out they like storm a lot, but not enough to pay for it"

And why should they have? RED established a team that could develop their app without charging end users (a loss leader, I suppose), while still remaining profitable. The Foundry failed, or declined, to do so. Storm could have been expanded to cater for the needs of the DSLR (and later mirrorless) filmmaking communities; a much bigger market than indie RED shooters that was crying out for reliable and affordable post software. Instead, Storm was assimilated into Hiero with a big price tag for a handful of customers.

Years later, Bill told me that Storm was ultimately killed "because we didn't understand the low-end market". They could have just asked.
Thanks for your feedback. It turns out this hunch you have is spot on. A favorite use case is to set a topic for personal or team feedback and leave it in your email signature. There is some cultural thing that happens in this use case where many times you don't see much feedback come in. That said, some teams do - a lot more. May be something here around quantifiably improving team performance around this dynamic. Might turn out that in teams like this, those who need it most start to get more of it.
It matches most other arts, where the value is in the physical artwork. Writing is the interesting one, as it didn't even exist as a paying art form until technology allowed for relatively cheap duplication (and education for popular consumption!). And then a second disruption is the same for writing as it is for Music, that will be playing out for the next decade or so; Authors being able to distribute directly to Consumers rather than requiring Publishers.
I will say it again. The one thing Apple will try to defend is the concept of an app/container. I wrote a similar comment supporting their actions with video game streaming platforms the other day[1]. Any app that creates some kind of a wedge into another kind of app/container ecosystem is not going to fly. I do believe this will get solved by having a store within a store model. It just means all the packages/apps that are run from within the other platform will need to have some kind of listing/metadata shared and controllable in some fashion by Apple. The interesting thing will be the relationship with devs. Does Apple need to have a direct one or not?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25022746
Pigs (and farmed fish, and probably other species) are also fed fish on very large scale. I wonder if that's included in that statistic?
How do you guarantee anonymity to the users filling out the survey? The surveyor could send different increment URLs to different users.
I don't even know what you are talking about, I think that you know either and that you are simply a troll.

H-1B visas don't change the voting landscape AT ALL as in absolutely no impact at all. Visa holders can't vote.

Additionally, Hispanics do not represent the demographics of the typical "big tech" / consulting hire. They are statistically going to be East Asian/Asian with a smattering of Canadian thrown in for good measure.

I'm sure at this point nothing will convince you of that though as you seem consumed by your conspiracy theory.
> This may be a surprise, but there is 'Common Ground' on almost all of the issues, even the most difficult, like abortion.

There's no middle ground on abortion when there's a number of people that won't even accept the abortion of a fetus that is already dead. There's no middle ground when a significant number of people believe that a fetus should have the same legal protections as a human, so any abortion is murder and make no exceptions for rape, incest, or even when the pregnancy is threatening the life of the mother.

> Americans would overwhelmingly accept some kind of Amnesty for children of migrants

Eh not really. I know this is merely anecdata, but I personally know someone who firmly believes that an immigrant overstaying their visa has committed a crime, is now a criminal, and they (and their family) need to be deported immediately.
> functionality that should really be present out of the box (install whatever software you please on hardware you paid a ton of money for)

I know that this sentiment is going to resonate here, but I'm not sure it's representative of the overwhelming majority of the people actually paying for said hardware. The reality is that what tech people complain about in terms of lack of control over their devices has been a huge boon in device security for people who neither care about nor want such control.
It is abused, just not widely. I have seen a few apps that use it. There should never be a situation where the user is not able to screenshot their own device.
You've just said it. The difference is the package management. What Apple is defending here is the notion of a store around apps/containers. Apple does not want to provide leaks/wedges into other app ecosystems through native apps. Safari is the only way.
Calling out someone for being a dick is not equivalent to being a dick in the first place!
I am intrigued to find the yellow "joy" bubbles.

I wonder if they're celebrating the election result? (Or maybe some people just want to spread positive feelings, but that seems less likely to me?)

Presumably people aren't experiencing joy from the pandemic itself.
You could argue that being able to hear the actual engine noise more clearly does have some practical benefits especially with a manual transmission, although only really if you're driving it around a track (or if it would be totally silent inside otherwise).
There's nothing about the gdpr that forced cookie banners for each website. The tech industry could have implemented the requirements differently, but they haven't done that, instead taking the most annoying and obvious route. The closest thing to a technical solution that was widespread is do-not-track, but since it gets thoroughly ignored nowadays, it's worthless. As an example, since the DNT header is a pretty clear signal that you don't want to consent for various tracking, websites wouldn't have to display the consent-form for that and could only use essential cookies (or leave a choice for cookies for other purposes, if there are any).
Recital 32:
"This could include ticking a box when visiting an internet website, choosing technical settings for information society services or another statement or conduct which clearly indicates in this context the data subject’s acceptance of the proposed processing of his or her personal data."

And according to the ico (https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...), the common click-this-button-to-get-through or do annoying things is not valid consent: "You may not rely on silence, inactivity, default settings, pre-ticked boxes or your general terms and conditions, or seek to take advantage of inertia, inattention or default bias in any other way.".

The reason why you don't want a specific technical provision in this law (and almost all laws) is that they get outdated in less than five years. For example, imagine a framework based on http-headers fixed in law. That would've made it (almost) impossible for google to introduce spdy in europe, since it isn't http. Or, more general, the EU initiative to use micro-usb connectors would have made the switch to usb-c impossible, if they were written into law. And that's a comparatively slow moving field, with a very specific applications (charging mobile phones).
"Red Queen's Race" is the term often used for that.
There is a middle ground between hundreds of thousands of untested, unaudited implementations of a roughly-similar functions, and packages which auto update without the developer doing anything at all.

At the least you want some oversight when a dependency changes under you.
Theory of inventive problem solving, an in-depth methodology developed in the soviet union.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ
fyne: https://fyne.io/
Wouldn’t you have this as part of a defense in depth strategy? Apple’s public vs. private APIs and similar things seem to indicate that at least part of their security model involves static analysis of binaries and only allowing a set of approved APIs.
President-Elect Joe Biden: Official Transition Website
I remember there was a chapter in one of the Marathi textbook with the initials "Pu La". Not sure which grade. In any case, I was not aware what a talented person he was. Nice!
NDAs and lawyers.

Also don’t add personal gh accounts to your companies org.
Ransomware uses encryption to harm people.