skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well sure but a simple function if a!=b print(f"{a} is not {b}") could do the job fine.
If I remember correctly, he went to Nokia, killed MeeGo, made the deal to make Nokia produce Microsoft phones, then left to become a Microsoft exec => I hated him for doing all that.
At least with Comcast Business, I never had this problem.

I used my own modem and router, and the few times I had a line problem they just asked me to connect my laptop directly to the modem with an ethernet cable to troubleshoot.
Nervtag meeting on SARS-CoV-2 variant under investigation VUI-202012/01
The comparison is being drawn between employees who joined say google, amazon, or netflix - and those who joined startups. The employees at the public company benefit in negotiations with the employer by having price transparency on the value of their equity as well as liquidity.

You could work for Facebook, but think Apple is a better bet and sell your equity every month to buy apple shares. Most startup employees overvalue their equity and accept lower total compensation compared to their public company counterparts and receive illiquid or potentially even negative value financial instruments in return.
https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects
Hey I replied to your comment in the other thread to address your point.
> There are lots of angel investors in the bay area because of exits that netted them 2-5M or higher ($10-20M) as regular employees.

But that happened back in the day when an early employee got a good cut of the stock. VCs have been perfecting their process, especially since the early 2010s. The contracts are different now -- the founders and the VCs get pretty much all the equity now.

Look at even the biggest IPOs this year. Look at how much equity was in the employee stock pools. Not nearly as much as it used to be.

> Today Stripe seems like a good choice to get a good equity return as an employee on IPO

That's highly unlikely. The company is doing well, but a new employee will get a tiny fraction of the equity.
I don't doubt that, but it definitely seems "fringe", while OP was presenting this as the general zeitgeist.
This is 100% correct.
Depends who you ask, yeah certainly not fashionable in UNIX circles, but that is more to computing than that.

And since we are speaking about games here,

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/...
Or was it Joel Spolskey?
Ah that makes sense. I've never tried it on mismatched screens.
NSO is owned by a European company Novalpina Capital with headquarters in London.
PhaaS

We can call the setup a PhaaSer. You're welcome world.
> Its equally likely that you just don't have the education and experience to perceive their contributions as valuable.

This is a common dodge used by professions that don't want to admit how much of what they do is not making any net contribution to society.

It is true that hedge funds contribute to making stock and bond trading markets more efficient, and that is a genuine net contribution.

It is also true, however, that in the course of doing this, hedge funds siphon lots of money from other people's pockets into theirs in zero-sum trades. Not to mention that many very smart people who could be making much greater genuine net contributions in other fields are attracted to hedge funds because of the money-making potential.

The question for society as a whole, as with any profession whose genuine contributions have not so nice side effects (which is just about any profession), is whether the genuine contributions are worth the not so nice side effects. One way society as a whole expresses its judgments about such questions is social approval or disapproval of particular professions based on people's estimate of the tradeoffs.
So.... "Be Best" ???
He's only being used as an example because he is, presumably, the richest person on the planet. The author of the article does not make any comment on the makers of the vaccine, presumably because they are not even close to the same league when it comes to wealth. The whole point of that section is pointing out how the rich are becoming richer and the poor are becoming poorer. What better example of the rich getting richer can you find than the wealthiest man in the world?
Copy and paste makes the developer aware of how much they are dragging in. Its easy to run yarn add and then import millions of lines of code. If you tried to do that by hand you would stop and rethink if isOdd() actually requires that much code.
Most countries were unprepared, except for Taiwan. The government of China lied about SARS outbreaks and Taiwan has since had scientists that study disease outbreaks in China. Covid was spotted in December, but the WHO is under the influence of China and didn't listen.....

It's strange how the Chinese government: lied about the disease, allowed it to spread throughout the world without warning anyone, and purchased all of the PPE (creating a shortage and possibly causing even more deaths).

Yet here we are, blaming Trump.
Well, induced coma has all sorts of problems and some potentially very dangerous or serious side effects. It would be something like that, but fully safe and with no negatives.
In fashion, "newness" is a function.
I want you to know that any downvotes might have less to do with 2020 or identity politics and more so your sloppy style of conversation. Throwing out a wildly undifferentiated blanket statement and ending on a passive aggressive "cue the downvotes" is bad content in my opinion.

It enjoy being subjected to different views. I hope we can uphold a certain standard for expressing them around here.
This article is very long and having skimmed it I'm still not entirely sure: is monosodium glutamate unhealthy or not after all?
> Why is it always poorer Eastern European Polish

seriously?

I didn't even know that there are (popular) porn stars from my country, yet alone on the top of lists
Thanks! That may be very useful at some point.
Yes, it does, because Nokia had its fingers in both bowls of porridge, to the extent where people like Michael Meeks were fighting really hard to keep a small library like kcalendar out of Maemo.

Nokia started with GTK and when they went to Qt, they never stopped their involvement with GTK/GNOME -- they seemed to have expected the idiots in both camps to just work together for the good of free software, and like the idiots we were, we didn't.

Good grief, the painful conversations we had after the Dublin MeeGo conf ended, between people from both camps...

I was there; I wrote code; I had employees, I went to the various conferences and trade shows. My company provided one of the default apps on the N9...
Yes, same with China. Tier 1 = Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou. Tier 2 is debatable but also cities have lot of economic activity / people that you would have heard of.
> more unstable in last couple years.

Having used Windows for decades, I more pleased with Windows update now than I remember ever having been. Although some of that may be because I don’t have a team responsible for patching Windows servers anymore. But my workstation performs great and the update process for Windows 10 has seemed very reliable (relative to versions past).
I'm just trying to understand the power of those machines compared to the only piece of equipment I daily use and can compare to.

I know it can be like comparing apples to oranges but I was just curious how fast this can be.
https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module is also great for anyone that wants to setup just a streaming server. However, it doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, but there are some maintained forks.

I made a Docker setup a while back to simplify the configuration with basic settings for anyone curious:
https://github.com/alfg/docker-nginx-rtmp
My VC has leveraged his connections in the industry, mentored me on a few related things like marketing, and has also enabled me to afford a lot of the infrastructure and development to provide the product I wanted to provide. I am worried that people will take this new feel-good Hacker News trend too seriously and end up cheating themselves out of an opportunity to grow.
> It sure looks like Gnome 3 took the wind out of Gnome's sails.

For me, GNOME made three mistakes and made them back to back:

- No 3D graphics, no desktop for you (wrong timing).
- All advanced settings is embedded in a registry-like structure (too much OS X influence, sent the wrong message, made a lot of things hard).
- Extreme paradigm shift without communication (GNOME 3 became something different, almost OS X like, also Canonical's influence did this IMHO).

As a result GNOME3 didn't evolve. It went through metamorphosis. It's core qualities (low resource usage, balance between customization power & approachability, and more importantly familiarity) disappeared. Compounded with backlash (MATE mainly) took the excitement out of GNOME.
Can you please explain why it seems obviously superior to GNOME? I'm in the market for a new DE after using i3 for a while and would be interested in your reasoning.
Perhaps. But more landfill trash? That sounds like a 20th Century business model.

But to your point, let's take it a step further. Most people aren't going to bother to upgrade their RAM. It's likely they won't even know. Even so after three years they'll want some new feature. But who do you give that to? At least if the RAM could be upgraded, it could have some added use. I'm not so sure that bonus round is being filled with new hardware.

Put another way, a used Brand X is good shape would be a gateway to a new customer and a new purchase next time. Why not lease laptops to the consumer market? Or offer trade-up deals like phones?

There's got to be a way that's better for consumers, the environment, and manufacturers.
coming from macos and wanting something low fuss, gnome with a few settings (ex dock enabled) should be pretty close
> MSG is a naturally occurring food substance, with a distinctive savory taste known by Japanese as umami. “It’s a chemical the same way water is a chemical,” said LeMesurier, who is herself of Korean descent, raised by white parents. “If you have ever eaten aged cheese or heirloom tomatoes, you’ve eaten MSG.” Its powdered form was created in 1908 by a chemist in Japan, and it made its way with Chinese immigrants to the United States, where it was commonly added to dishes in Chinese restaurants.

> More recently, studies have roundly debunked the idea that MSG is harmful. Multiple studies using placebos have shown no difference in effects on people eating food with or without MSG. In 1995, the Food and Drug Administration asked an independent scientific group, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, to study MSG’s safety. It found that only a small number of people experienced any side effects, and that was only after consuming six times the normal serving of MSG on an empty stomach.
Why does everything have to be labeled Racist? It makes the entire article read like some SJW's Twitter rant rather than something worth reading.
I have found it to increase blood sugars drastically.
I knew it! Ok, I've melted the title down further.
I don't like the design, but the lack of USB-C is a deal breaker. I can't understand why apple persists with lightening even when the other side of the cable is USB-C.
> breaking screen recording/sharing etc

That's a scary one IMO.

I mean, if you are a dev who has devoted an enormous amount of your efforts into making a replacement for the stuff that displays all the stuff from all the other GUIs, seems like the identity function would be recording the shit you're displaying. The fact that OBS doesn't yet work under Wayland makes me wonder if sufficient (or any) dogfooding is going on.

It'd be like if in the 90s you still couldn't easily compile code from inside Emacs. It's a smell.
Secret Santa on the Blockchain
At what CAGR has their vehicle production scaled over the past 5 years?
It could have. Both maemo and meego were lightyears ahead anything at that time. I had a N900. Best smartphone ever. Android is a hot mess compared to it.
Easy way to make things right
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True, but I also feel this might also be part in staying relevant with touch displays. The dumbification of UI coincided with the rise of tablet computers and touchscreen devices. Windows 8 came out around that time too.

I personally preferred Gnome 2 when Gnome 3 came out, but I've gotten pretty used to the top-left corner flick after a couple weeks. I sometimes do it on Windows and get disappointed when nothing happens :) This sounds somewhat perverse, but I kind of like the fact that it takes a little extra effort to switch applications. I'd say it keeps me maybe 5-10% more productive!

Ideally, UI's should be tailored for the device they get installed on, but I'm happy Gnome was able to accept a few design compromises in order to keep moving the project forward.
Honestly, the credit card processor is going to be the real limiting factor. They obviously won't permit anything illegal, but there are also going to be whole categories of legal-but-risky services that they won't allow either. If I'm correct in understanding that OP is using Stripe, they've got a whole page of things they won't deal with:

https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses
That's not really a straw man argument though, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Edit: I too read the Microsoft analysis/decompilation. It looks like it was developed by a competent team that either was comfortable with using English correctly for the various symbols, or went out of their way to do so.
My original comment asked if we should assume that the NSO Group arsenal is shared with the Israeli Intelligence Community, given that we've talking about an Israeli company.

That's a valid question, because hosting such a company is a major diplomatic liability. Why would you consider this question, as you said, a slander?
Via a large-scale, peer-reviewed, double-blind study?
But you don't doubt that the vaccines are safe, right? After all, the FDA told us so!
Cyanide is also a naturally occurring chemical found in food items like Cassava and to a lesser extent, potatoes. That didn't make it harmless.
Tbh I'd much rather fight this on the front of "let's not need to run untrusted and borderline malicious programs regularly" than breaking the free world in order to make it possible.
You may've seen my comment before I edited in the second excerpt.

We've pretty clear evidence of harm from certain doses of cyanide. We don't have it for MSG, despite a whole lot of trying.
Like weed, which many people actually grow themselves?
This is a bit over the top. It works for someone whose only computing task is text editing. Working off an SD is painful if you have a non-trivial amount of IO.
>SOC2 is pretty heavy duty to achieve and to maintain.

As an auditee who dealt with SOC2 for the last 3 years I'd say that's not true. It's heavy on reviewing documentation and not the true efficacy of your security program.
This is the power law dynamic of increased network effects. Incumbents will not be displaced until some fundamental tech revolution or catastrophic (financial crisis or antitrust) remedy. Even then, tech revolutions are far more powerful than legal ones...
Dave Chang has a small scene in one of his Ugly Delicious (great show, by the way) episodes where he gets a group of non-Asian Americans, who claim to be MSG-allergic, to come and share their stories of MSG-related symptoms after eating at Chinese restaurants. He then hands out Doritos and American products that the participants claim they love and can eat all day. Hard to see where this is going... he says, all these umami flavored products contain MSG. Finally, Dave proposes, “do you think racism plays a part?”
one person, reviewed by me, and 20/20 vision...
Sorry, showing my age and inability to spell and lack of appreciation of the pain of inscrutable acronyms... in a post about inscrutable languages. Ouch on me.
His effective powerful prayers brought my lover back just in 24 hours.......

He has solution to all relationship/marriage problem and health issues such as herpes…? ???????????? ??? ??? ??

Robinson.buckler @ ‘ ‘ yahoo ‘ ‘ . ‘ ‘ com !!!!!!!

Thank you!!!!!!!
KDE is an extremely integrated and batteries included DE. File manager can manage SVN/Git/Mercurial repositories and connect to anything. Akonadi can handle your mail and calendars at the background. Included apps (Gwenview and Okular) are very powerful.

Desktop effects are not gimmicky but useful (e.g: dim inactive windows). Power management makes sense and is reliable.

KDE can behave like anything you like and doesn't bury power-user related features somewhere. It's all visible. Multi-speaker & multi sound card management is also better, more obvious.
In summary,

NERVTAG has moderate confidence that VUI-202012/01 demonstrates a substantial increase in transmissibility compared to other variants.

• NERVTAG concluded that there are currently insufficient data to draw any conclusion on:

- Underlying mechanism of increased transmissibility (e.g. increased viral load, tissue distribution of virus replication, serial interval etc)

- The age distribution of cases

- Disease severity: 4 deaths in around 1000 cases have been identified but further work is needed to compare this fatality rate with comparable data sets.

- Antigenic escape. The location of the mutations in the receptor binding domain of the spike glycoprotein raises the possibility that this variant is antigenically distinct from prior variants.

Four probable reinfections have been identified amongst 915 subjects with this variant but further work is needed to compare this reinfection rate with comparable data sets.

• The committee discussed the geographic extent of spread of the variant:

- Within the UK, the variant is concentrated in the London, South East and East of England but has been detected in various parts of the UK.

- Few cases of this variant have been reported internationally but one confirmed export from the UK to Australia has been reported.

It was noted that other countries have lower sequencing capability than the UK.
It depends on your options, but most likely there are no tax loopholes to take advantage of -- in most cases they are taxed like regular income and treated as deferred income for tax purposes.

That being said, if their value is over $1MM, a lot of financial advisors will gladly review your stock agreements and give you a free consultation. They do this because they hope you will sign up for their services after you become rich.
But they are not an "Israeli Company". They are owned by a European Private Equity group, with HQ in London, despite what the Guardian's "reporter" "Jassar Al-Tahat" says.

Should we assume that comments and logs for Hacker News are all shared with the UK Intelligence Community because Paul Graham was born in Weymouth, UK?
Even Microsoft didn't have a place for Elop after all his Nokia wreckage and in 2016 he ended up in Australia working for Telstra, last I heard.
I think gnome deserves a countervoice.

I have been using KDE since pre 1.0. Back in the days my internet was so slow I went to the university and copied KDE down on 5? floppy disks.

I used KDE through all iterations and looked at Gnome in dismayal.

Two years ago I tried Gnome. I was fed up with KDE screwing up with Wayland. And should I tell you? I love Gnome!

I was productive from day two. Ok, its opinionated and there is much less to configure than in KDE. But otoh it keeps me focused on work instead of fiddling with the DE. Imho a DE should just do two things: Make frequent steps easy to do but otherwise go out of the way. Gnome does that for me.
That fight was long long lost. We will never ever make things like video games open source. But we can sandbox them. Even open source tools could do with being sandboxed.

I don't see why this is an issue. The user still has full power to do anything and its is only programs which are restricted. Under the new model, instead of a tool just grabbing your screen, it must now make a request to the OS which will show a popup asking if you want to allow access and if you accept the program can continue as it would have before.
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My first interaction with IceWM was in 2008 with Puppy Linux. It still amazes me how they were able to provide a full desktop in such a minimalist way.
I player this on an MSX.
As a person who travels (or use to??) yes it is.

Even the best parts of American (I owned a condo in Snowbird) are demonstrable worse than most of Northern Europe.

It is everything from the schools, food and health. America is still a place of personal reinvention but not of social capital. In Norway, every single person is a local currency millionaire. Every man,woman and child has wealth worth over USD 250,000 due to the Oil Fund.

Sweden has more billionaire per capita than America. The main difference is time. Time for life and time culture.
Perceptual Control Theory
Sure, but the implication that congressional representation should closely track percentage of the population is ludicrous. I mean, according to a quick Google search, nearly 40% of Americans are under age 30, the minimum age for a US Senator. Should we be mad none of them are Senators, or heck, that not one of the nearly a quarter of Americans who are under 18 (aka children) are in Congress?
It's possible to simply disagree with somebody who has an opinion that something is racist without belittling them or lamenting that "everything has to be labeled racist".
How remote working in the post-Covid-19 era could transform LA and other cities
You can’t both value and devalue something at once…
Closer to the underlying originals CLI: https://www.videohelp.com/software/FFmpeg-Batch
Makes sense. I didn't read that part about the controlled studies that disproved it before commenting.
... I never done LISP in professional life but I have learned it and used it for side projects. I've read SCIP and found that everything said there can be applied to most programming languages. I don't understand what you're comment is supposed to imply? That I don't understand match cos I didn't write first reddit version?

I've spent 25 years discovering languages and concepts in computer science. I've even played with Smalltalk, Ada and some Algol variant. Even wrote COBOL for short while. What's your point?
Aside from portability, power consumption tends to be a drawback with desktop computers. The difference may not be a factor for most people, but it sounds like it would be an factor for the author.

Given the author's mention of the environmental impact of producing computers, it is also worth asking what it amounts to for desktops. While the longevity of the machine will help, the additional materials and replacement components (to achieve that longevity) will have an additional impact. The question is how much, since I doubt that it scales linearly with mass.
No one put a gun to that guy's head, society won't even ask him any questions about nor assume what he does in his personal time, whereas that same politeness doesn't extend to sex workers. That's just the tip of the iceberg as far as the difference between these two goes, as I see it
Something I've been working on lately. Not really a GUI wrapper, but more a command generator for some of the common operations.

https://alfg.github.io/ffmpeg-commander/
High blood pressure like eating too much table salt?