skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> windows is a place where people download random one off pieces of software that may or may not be safe, will likely never be updated, and will sit and rot on your computer until the end of time, and are entirely unvetted

We should tell all the people who have been using Windows for two decades about this.

> whereas linux maintains all of your software for you, keeps it frequently up to date, manages dependencies and does at least SOME level of vetting.

First of all, what vetting? Anyone can become a package maintainer. They then do a package update, but nobody is verifying that they did it correctly. Anyone can sneak a backdoor into a new release of a package. And any hacker can backdoor the source code before it gets packaged. This has happened many times.

Also, the distro often does not keep it up to date. Debian has probably been the worst offender here. Its software is often so ridiculously out of date that you have to use some crappy bleeding-edge release to get a recent version of some software. Or users end up piping an http get into a bash shell as root, which is a super idea.

Finally: dep management? Really? The one thing everyone on Linux bitches about and is always creating some new hokey package manager to solve?

> there definitely are problems with current implementations of app stores in phones, but the idea in general has been a huge boon for security and maintainability.

"This week Google removed 17 Android applications from the official Play Store. According to Viral Gandhi, a security researcher from Zscaler, all 17 applications were infected with Joker (aka Bread). Malware on the Play Store is a common phenomenon and it is a collective duty of both Google and users to deal with them." https://www.gizchina.com/2020/11/02/malware-found-in-the-goo...

Google Play Store: The main source of malware (https://www.androidguys.com/promoted-news/google-play-store-...)

Dangerous Android Malware Returns To Beat Google Play Store Protection (https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/07/09/ldangerou...)

Two-thirds of Android malware comes through Google Play (https://www.tomsguide.com/news/android-malware-google-play)

> if you think that android would be better off without google play you are insane. people would be running insecure nonsense that would be doing stuff like stealing their bank information and all sorts of stuff.

Good thing that never happens on Android, as long as people have the Google Play Store.

Newly Found Malware can steal bank details on Android phones (https://www.hackread.com/malware-can-steal-bank-details-andr...) - "Flash player does not come from the protected Google Play Store but rather from bogus websites and messages which trick the users into installing them in their devices. Websites that the malware usually exists on include adobeplayerdownload.com, adobeflashplaayer.com, and flashplayeerupdate.com."
Your analysis is wrong in assuming that when developers acquire permissions, demolish buildings, rent machinery and pour concrete, buyers still behave as if there is shortage of housing.

Nathan Robinson's analysis might be wrong too, but it is still more nuanced.
If you're talking about GME its not really a grand scale. The US Stock market cap is $50 trillion. GME is $22bn as of Friday afternoon or 5 basis points of the rest of the market.

Yes, big SD moves happen frequently enough that we have to revisit our normal distribution models. But GME isn't really the reason to do this.
Considering that Earthbound parodied Western cultural stuff, the names probably wouldn't need to be Japan-specific.
[Am author] I chose WhatsApp because it was a good example for a case study and because recent events made it a hot topic. I also described two non-WhatsApp examples exhibiting user domestication (one of which wasn't even an instant messenger). It wasn't my intention to imply that WhatsApp was the first instant messenger to exhibit these behaviors; I even linked to a Wikipedia article comparing instant messenger protocols to illustrate how WhatsApp wasn't a newcomer.

That being said, several others have mentioned how WhatsApp wasn't the first IM platform of its kind. When a misinterpretation is this prevalent, it's the author's (i.e. my) fault: https://xkcd.com/1984/

I've since updated the article to clarify that point. Diff: https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/seirdy.one/commit/93846a469b5581ec...

> It then made its point about User domestication. Which really is a FOSS, GPL, Richard Stallman angle on Software. I argue it would be the same with many of today's software.

So did I; I listed two more examples. User domestication is a widespread problem worth addressing. WhatsApp is a good example.
Void Linux uses its own init system and it's pretty nice and familiar. The distribution has gotten a lot better over the years.

https://voidlinux.org
This is why using multiple burner SMS accounts from various countries, I understand why most apps use filters of known SMS numbers but this is why this can be a pretty big deal.

Sometimes you can get logged out going from wifi to LTE/mobile data on either of those apps, I have had that happen, and this can create issues like this which means you will have to create another account and may not have your contact list etc... which is impossible if you're trying to use your mobile number you use.

It's kind of crazy that all of our over-paranoid back ups and ad-hoc solutions have been so damn necessary for even the normal person in the last 10 years, be it PgP, burner sms numbers, cryptocurrency, apps like TG and Signal etc...

As some have mentioned Moxie said he wants to move away from phone based accounts, and now that Elon sent him a ton of new users from all walks of Life that this may need to be accelerated, which from what I garnered from his podcast with JR it's just not well staffed and is in need of some your guys' talents.
disgruntled employee?
Its like the geezus medias reaction to nietzsche:

“Goog is dead”
-hackernoon

“Hackernoon is dead”
-goog
Does Windows use an app store these days? They might have one, but my experience is largely I'm still downloading EXE files from a /download page somewhere. But I only use for my work so not installing much. I still feel like the app store on OSX is meh. I download DMG files 99% of the time from a /download page somewhere. Seems to work fine, what am I missing?

You're making it sound like app stores have fixed something but I'm failing to see what. Maybe on iOS it gives some exposure/discoverability to new apps. But I don't see that as an overwhelming feature for end users. This used to exist outside of app stores as web based directories and that worked better in my opinion.
Agreed. I dont need Spotify to try to understand my mood, I actively dont want them to.

I DO need them to understand (or give me a manual way to tell them) which playist is for my 4yo and stop trying to play me their songs when I’ve selected a playlist for me. Drives me nuts.
ZFS is only 15 years old and continues to be improved (though granted, all of the real innovations have already happened). It works on (in order) Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis
Privacy issues aside, this seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen. "It sensed I was having a party and drove me to drink more" or "it sensed I was sad and led me to self harm" both seem like plausible cases.
Yes, I agree. To fail to register as the default program for all the extensions you support, ideally optionally, is surely the fault of the installer not the os?

There are perhaps better anecdotes for reasons to dislike windows...
Four Near-Death Experiences by Age 21 and Running Ayahuasca Retreats
company’s foundational principle was quietly proven false by the creator of JavaScript [...] Eich created Brave to fundamentally change the economics of the internet. [...] Disclaimers: The author owns a small number of Basic Attention Tokens (the utility token that makes Brave’s model possible)

TL;DR: This looks like a thinly disguised BAT shill. I'm an occasional Brave user (but not a BAT holder), and I'm less than convinced by this theory.
Interesting! Like what.. a genre name?
Sam Barberie: Indignant Pessimism and Exploring Health, Data, and Technology
I think you would be shocked at how much salt and fat go into dishes at fine restaurants.

The average home cook would likely recoil at putting those amounts into their own food

This may be a bit of a cherry-picked example but I had a tasty side dish at a nice restaurant so I thought I would try making it at home so I looked up the recipe

The first one that came up was this:

https://www.tastingtable.com/cook/recipes/Pommes-Aligot-Reci...

It contains 1.5 lbs of cheese, a cup of heavy cream, and makes... 4 servings

I didn’t make it.
I have trouble understanding how much cheaper it is to simply not sort objects into the right categories.

I guess it must be significantly cheaper at scale. But it's such a waste of time for everybody it's infuriating.
It isn't about "not being able to afford". Why pay $1 when a free alternative is available?
I live in the US, but was born and raised in France and Greeks are considered white there. If the 1998 football team described as "black-blanc-beur" had included players of Greek descent (and maybe it did?), they would have been part of the "blancs", just like Youri Djorkaeff.

Take what you read with a grain of salt. I'm certainly very skeptical of the implied claim that Germans wouldn't consider Greeks as white.

Note that being considered white doesn't preclude Greeks from being discriminated against, just like some people discriminate against e.g. white Poles.
1. Even if some shorts are in trouble (you don't know whether or not it's the same people as at the beginning of the run), others are willing to take their places.

2. Long whales also have plenty of incentive to sell. Namely they can bank their profits on a stock that is likely to collapse quickly
TeaVM and Flavour are an improvement over GWT. Why is TeaVM better?

* Full threading implementation

* Fast builds

* Designer-friendly HTML/CSS

Detailed comparison: https://frequal.com/TeaVM/TeaVmVsGwt.html
Even 25k is a huge amount of stress gone compared to 3k in the bank. With 25k I can ride out some emergencies. If I lose my job I’m not at risk of being on the street. If I total my car I can still get to work.

I’ve lived pay cheque to pay cheque, it wasn’t fun. Even though I was young and could theoretically move back with my parents if shit really hit the fan I was constantly worried about money. Soon as I paid off my student loans and had a bit of emergency fund, things were a lot better.
Why the extreme sarcasm? Apple apparently thinks it's eccentric for users to clone their internal storage. I think they have the numbers to support it as well. Making Time Machine backups is very convenient.

What I've done personally, is started making backups to an SSD. In the event of a problem, I buy a new Mac and restore it to that, in a very fast manner. This means that, including shopping, roughly half a day of work will be lost. This is acceptable to me.

If you really can't wait, then don't sell your old Mac and keep it around for as long as it's supported.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather Apple didn't drop this function. But I do understand that cloning is a feature that's not used much, and that temporarily falls by the wayside in the development process.
Audio-only social app has Twitter on alert
Yes. That is correct. But is it applied consistently. The op I responded was calling a group terrorist. I see many comments attacking a religion. I don't any reply suggestion a ban for these. Or I can't see those messages? Whatever be consistent.
Why repost this in 2021? This is from 2017 and clearly hasn't aged well.
That’s interesting… people in that thread have the same questions, but they are not answered. Perhaps we will eventually find out after the SEC investigation… or perhaps someone will just stop by and explain it.
It's obvious: when you know very well of something, you start to understand it's weakness unglyness negativity, those things will stuck you hard if you were previously drawn to that thing because of the opposite side.

Then you feel sad and then start looking for venting.
At ASTM, overcoming those type of problems with complete consensus, then independently publishing and maintaining the resulting Standard Specification into the next century or beyond is just an everyday (everyyear actually) occurrence.

That's exactly the reason for the existence of the Society to begin with.

I would start by calling for action from an appropriate committee, submitting all available documentation from NTFS-3G plus from Paragon. Microsoft, and anyone else who has anything to offer that they would not like to become overlooked.

Then hammer away in committee, especially with the full cooperation of Microsoft and all the great engineers who do have some rare expertise, it should be possible to publish like never before as an international ASTM Standard within a year, and maintain it from that point forward with all revisions rigorously reviewed and documented.

After that engineers everywhere will have the technical reference material they have been lacking when they need to make sure their implementations of NTFS are as compatible with each other as they can be, even better allowing for absolute full compliance by all going forward.
I'm not going to lie, the idea of the 401K kinda scares me now. We were always told to keep it safe, invest in index fund, let compound interests do its thing with your pretax money. But during the financial crisis, most "commoners" took a heavy hit that took a very long time to recover and it felt like we were the last on the priority list to recover and the WSB saga really shows how unfair it is. But my big question is what is the alternative? Real estate?
I was going to mention the debian distro. I've got a 'cleanse' script that has grown over time for Ubuntu installs that I first install stock Ubuntu, then cleanse it of snap, systemd, modem-manager, and a couple of other things. And then add the packages that I like. But every release it gets more onerous to do this.
Why are you calling them out?
And how many people own Google shares that post here?
Yet another reason why infinite-scrolling pages suck.
>"Whiteness" is a US concept, which doesn't make much sense in a German context.

This is true, unfortunately the supremacy of American culture over the last century means that all of these concepts that do not fit very well into other contexts have been exported, I often run into situations in Denmark that would be horrifyingly racist in the U.S (not to say that Denmark doesn't have it's own racist traditions, but the grafting on of the American viewpoint does not exactly fit).

Of course when the concept is exported it in some way becomes the thing over time, and then people try to import the solutions to the problem.
> I decided to take his advice and am up 115K on the year.

This is what is so wrong with the system. When it fails to work for so many people (last 12 months the worst year for the average person for decades), but the wealthy are making record profits, a correction is long overdue. Whether that’s a correction with Guiletines or fascism or just a stock market crash doesn’t matter.

When you have 200m you’re sitting pretty. When 200m have nothing you’re screwed.

I’m glad you recognise it, most on HN are immensely wealthy high income champagne guzzlers first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
The 90s weren't great. We had wars in Yugoslavia, Chechnya, and more.

But, in general, I do have a sense it was a uniquely optimistic decade for many people in the former First World, mainly because the Cold War ended and there was a sense that we had "won". Western Europe in particular demilitarized a lot as a result, the EU was formalized, the Good Friday Agreement was signed, Oslo Accords happened, end of apartheid etc.

For Americans I think 9/11 derailed things again.

Outside of the former First World, I'm not sure they'd see the 90s the same way.
> provided this notice appears in all copies.

A derivative isn't generally a copy. Which is one of the weaknesses of the ISC license that doesn't appear in either the N-Clause BSD licenses or the MIT license.

Because of the poor wording, permission is granted, but the notice is only required on things considered to be copies, rather than all the "children" of the original work.

You really want something like:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the work.
Just started watching the Lovecraft Country series on HBO, Baldwin features heavily and I'm grateful for all the exposure he's getting.
return on assets over the last 2 decades has far outpaced wage growth. Read: The rich get richer.

In addition, with inflation at or above 2%, the average person needs to see a substantial hike in their wages to keep pace with their current standard of living.
I think you’re misinterpreting the linked statement - they’re saying A can’t lend the same share to both B and C at the same time. If B borrows the share and then sells to C, C has a share with a clean title and can then lend to D. Otherwise there would be two different prices for lent and unlent shares, since you can make interest off one but not the other.

I’m not 100% sure this is correct though, someone please let me know if I’m wrong.
The others have given you some good advice on techniques (Live Cheaply + Earn Well + Boring Stock Index Investments) but I'll throw some maths at you that you might find helpful.

There's a handy little formula that you can play around with in order to work out a suitable target and savings timeline. Although it ignores the stochastic nature of stock markets by assuming a constant return, it's a good ballpark figure, especially if you use conservative estimates for things.

X = The amount you will need to save and invest each year until retirement

T = Your target amount (Between 25 to 30 times your desired living expenses in retirement - See the Trinity Study and the 4% rule)

R = The expected rate of return after inflation

N = Number of years until you want to retire

X = T * R / ((1 + R)^N - 1)

Assuming a relatively conservative rate of return like 0.04, and a modest but liveable target of $500,000 in 10 years:

X = 500,000 * 0.04 / (1.04^10 - 1)) = $41,645

If you can keep your living expenses low, that could potentially be done on an $80,000 or $90,000 salary. Notice that your current age does not factor in this formula, only the number of years until you'd like to retire. Now obviously, if you'd started at say 28, you could retire at your current age with the same savings amount, or take the full 20 years but only have to save $16,791 each year, but overall, you'll be fine getting started right now.

You can also flip the formula around to work out how long it would take on a particular savings target:

N = log(base 1 + R) ((T * R) / X + 1)

Your calculator might only have ln, so you can just divide by ln(1 + R) in order to get the same thing:

N = ln((T * R) / X + 1) / ln(1 + R)

Like before:

N = ln((500,000 * 0.04) / 41,645 + 1) / ln(1.04) = 10 years

Play around with those numbers and you should be able to find a plan that feels attainable, even on a relatively modest income compared to some thrown around here. In all likelihood, you'll end up exceeding your savings target as you pick up a few salary increases along the way. And if you can save especially hard in the first couple of years, those early investments will put you ahead of schedule which gives you flexibility later on.

One more thing... On decade or shorter timescales, the rate of return doesn't really matter that much. That said, you'll need to invest your savings by the time you retire, so may as well get comfortable with it now - just keep it nice and boring.

Fingers crossed I've written those formulas correctly and that they are clear enough. Hope that it all helps!
So what has the better expected return between a) invest lump sum all at once into a low-volatility portfolio b) invest the lump sum progressively into a slightly higher-volatility portfolio, such that the expected regret remains the same?
If you've watched the big short, you'll understand that the challenge with a short is the timing. You have to get the timing right.

For Melvin Capital, they were right, until they were not - when WSB showed up. They have eaten a loss on this.

But that doesn't mean to say that someone else was not willing to buy their shorts, for a hefty discount, with a significantly longer term time frame strategy (because they don't have to borrow on margin), believing that once it becomes clear that Melvin are out, that Redditors will want out of GME, and GME will likely crash back to something close to its prior levels.
After seeing the philosophical landscape in places like YouTube, I can't help but agree. A large proportion of Philosophy YouTube channels push forward arguments that are completely wild and outside the realm of experience of the normal citizen. Instead of philosophies that match real-life, these positions are instead supported by clever linguistic tricks and sophistry.

Take for example postmodernism, under which there can be no legitimate communication between people, and all arguments are power plays between the speakers. In such conditions it's very easy to foment cynicism and conflict, since without the ability to communicate you will not be able to solve conflicts or grievances.
> I understand that it feels like the odds are stacked against you. But I’m asking you to please reconsider... [ followed by table of great S&P outcomes ]

I think the author misunderstands the threat here, and it's much graver than they think. Remember the U2 album Apple pushed to everybody's iphones?

Same thing here. What happened last week is the cracks showing, people being forcibly reminded that they are not in control. In Apple's case it was iphone owners being jolted out of the pleasant fantasy that their phone is a little piece of territory they alone control. In GME's case, it's people thinking of the stock market as something that exists for them to use, like a supermarket. And the jolting reality is that the stock market has become a vast and incomprehensible playground for billionaires to gamble with derivatives, in which the retail investor is incidentally allowed to participate only insofar as their money is helping to push up prices.

So the threat to the market is not what the author seems to be speaking to (a hypothetical investor who will buy in late, lose money, and get sore about it). The threat is people getting the general feeling that the stock market is shady, and deciding to buy a rental property, start a small business, etc.
Needs a (2017) tag?
>1. Going to your own link, Newsweek did not call "GME investors "far-right extremists"". The article clearly states that far-right extremists were instead using the "stick-it-to-the-man" ethos driving a lot of the GME investor chatter to recruit. There is a huge difference.

The point of the article is to associate WSB with far-right extremists. It's a common manipulation tactic, they're making them seem guilty by association.

>As other's have pointed out, WaPo published an Op Ed, this was not something under their Editorial Board or a news article. Saying "The Washington Post is comparing the situation to the Capitol riots" is deliberately misleading.

People often say that "op-eds don't represent the official opinion of the paper", but it's provably false.

There's no shortage of people who are willing to write pro-Trump op-eds, after all, almost half of the country voted for him. How come they aren't getting published in NYT, WaPo etc.? Because publishing an op-ed is a soft endorsement. It doesn't necessarily mean that they 100% agree with it, but it definitely means that they consider the opinion "acceptable".