skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In you view, why do you think the society has an issue when a “machine “ makes a decision vs a human? Can you think of a legitimate areas where trust in machine outputs wouldn’t be favoured vs a human?
There are certainly a lot of bad aspects to the popularity contest which is the current internet. Sorry if I sounded too panglossian about recent changes, but I think people overlook just how profoundly our lives have been and are being transformed.
Everything except magit. magit is life magit is love.
It does not exist.
Reminds me of some bizarro Android permission issues, when I wanted to install a TLS client certificate (pfx) file. I downloaded it via web browser to a phone, opened the certificate management app, and the file was grayed out, no explanation, nada. No way to click on it, no error messages, no confusing permission flags in the file list. I thought the format of the file was wrong, so I tried regenerating it a few times in different formats, wasting an hour or two.

Turns out, you have to copy the file to some folder via adb command line, to make it usable by Android. Copying directly to a uSD card would have probably worked too, but how many people just have a uSD card reader lying around.

But I didn't get a confusing security prompt when downloading from a https:// url, that I might not have understood, so I was better off I guess. /s
This breed was originally created to hunt small rodents on farms and such.
No SBOM will help you if the people know they have to act but they don't -- out of malice, bureaucratic slowdown, policy restriction and what-have-you.

If you don't have hardware and software that can't be tampered with and that automatically apply / enforce the SBOM, then it is essentially worthless.
For some reason I totally missed this time. Can you let me know when the demoscene roughly had its peak?

Friends of mine had the police search their houses in 1987 for exchanging cracked C64 games with people all over West Germany. They were still adolescents, so they got away with a 100DM fine.

I was just a harmless teenager, copying games from friends (but also buying quite a few), but it seems I closer to some high profile crackers than I would have imagined. I wonder how many of them became part of the Demoscene.
Half marathon (~21km or ~13 miles).
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And in some countries entrapment isn't even a thing. You broke the law, you'll get punished regardless if coerced by a cop or not.
Landlock: Unprivileged Access Control
NP-hard refers to solving the problem in the general case - for a given specific instance it may be possible to find an optimal solution more easily by exploiting specific features of the graph (for instance, a series of nodes arranged in a ring would have a trivial optimal solution).
What it's like to live in the robocall capital of America
I see someone added the vintage 2006 dateline.

This really does stand the test of time, one of the gems;

>Bill Gates was amazingly technical. He understood Variants, and COM objects, and IDispatch and why Automation is different than vtables and why this might lead to dual interfaces. He worried about date functions. He didn’t meddle in software if he trusted the people who were working on it, but you couldn’t bullshit him for a minute because he was a programmer. A real, actual, programmer.

>Watching non-programmers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf.

>“It’s ok! I have great advisors standing on the shore telling me what to do!” they say, and then fall off the board, again and again. The standard cry of the MBA who believes that management is a generic function. Is Ballmer going to be another John Sculley, who nearly drove Apple into extinction because the board of directors thought that selling Pepsi was good preparation for running a computer company? The cult of the MBA likes to believe that you can run organizations that do things that you don’t understand.

This part is more about Ballmer than Gates.
I'm not too sure about "falling behind Windows", personally. The major lines of defense that Windows appears to rely on are code signing and a signature database, with behavioral AV being a relatively recent creation that still doesn't cover a lot of big holes. (for instance: What if I manage to fake my way through an OV/EV cert or use a leaked one? What if I use polymorphic code obfuscation that can generate hundreds of different signatures, but is also used by "legitimate" programs as DRM?) There's SafeSearch, but many people just click past those warnings anyway.

It's just as easy for a Windows .exe to create a service that runs when you log in as it is for a Linux app to write something to .bashrc - so its not a uniquely Linux problem.

macOS has the big Apple hammer to force developers to comply - Apple has the power to say "from this release on, all permissions need to be requested for or they won't work". Comparing the two companies, Apple uses the big hammer they have to force some compliance from app devs, while Microsoft often tries not to break stuff.

Linux doesn't have a big, central hammer like Apple does, so progress like Flatpak's isolation has to happen in steps, or else you end up in this chicken and egg problem:

- App devs won't support Flatpak with stuff like using portals because Flatpak has a small userbase
- Users won't use Flatpak because it doesn't have apps that they want, and will instead go about doing things the old way

This "we'll give them $HOME for now and let them fix it eventually" is deliberate - you need to drive adoption for Flatpak before apps consider adding special code paths for it. The goal is to eventually fade out $HOME access or severely restrict it, but unfortunately this is the norm.

I've mentioned this on other posts, but this is deliberately why Flatpak's messaging on their website[0] is focused on ease of distribution instead of security. In addition, if you feel like you can put up with an app having a restricted view of the filesystem (for example, you don't think you'll touch anything outside ~/Documents/Models with Blender), you can adjust the sandbox to fit your needs.

[0]: https://flatpak.org/
That’s interesting - has philosophy not settled on English as a working lingua franca like other fields?
What do you do for the rest of the week? I assume you have some hobby or passion you pursue?
Azure? The PaaS offerings are cheap enough, and they have small Vm offerings too.
What are you on about? Did you buy something with a fan?
LKML mailing list post with further links https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210316204252.427806-1-mic@dig...
That is not what net neutrality meant. It has always meant that a carrier could not discriminate based on the origin of the packet, not the content of the packet.
FYI, this is often easier to read and better generally than wikipedia for a lot of articles.

If you want to know more about a hairy or highly contested subject, this is a great starting point. Content, in philosophy, is usually best got from the source. Frame though... I think you need an outside frame.

It's very hard to understand Marx, Rand, Popper, Kant or whatnot without a frame. First (eg Kant), a lot of philosophical work is overly complicated, so it's much easier approach once you have an approximate idea of where it's going. Second, a lot of modern philosophy is happens within an argument. Marx was writing in counter to Ricardo, political liberals and communists. Ayn Rand was writing a response to Trotsky, Kant and other rivals. It's hard to jump into the argument midway.

That's where SEC shines. It gets you started. It gives you an understanding of how philosophies are structured, as well as the basic teams and rivalries dynamics that you need for context. Form there, it's much easier to approach philosophy.
Seriously? A narrow category of problems?

ML has been used and is being used to significantly advance image processing, video processing, image classification, speech-to-text, natural language understanding, medical imaging interpretation, medical notes and differential diagnosis, warehouse management, shipping and delivery, transportation, networking, agriculture, biomedical research, insurance, law practice (document scanning), journalism, politics (through better polling, targeting, gerrymandering, whatever), probably other things I'm missing.
Oh that's good, you had me going for a while.
The important difference between programming and reading/writing is that written language is just another representation of natural language. All the complexity is in understanding and using natural language. Reading itself is trivial once you have some practice.

Programming on the other hand is creating new abstractions (i.e modelling). It never becomes trivial, because it's not just a new encoding of existing abstractions.

I think programming is no different than maths. Yes, everyone will have to know a little bit of it, but very few will be capable of modelling complex problems or implementing large software systems.
I agree, but nobody seems to be really working on (user-friendly) sandboxing of applications distributed through traditional package managers.

You can use Firejail or bubblewrap, but they are not exactly user-friendly solutions.
That’s because the only people who complain about “taxes” in general terms are propagandists like Grover Norquist who don’t care about reality. People actually trying to skip on their tax bills like Musk tend to do it quietly and make up excuses.

Anyone who lives here knows perfectly well that their neighbor who bought a house in the 80s has a property tax bill 10x lower than theirs - actually I live next to several car dealerships who’d pay less than I would if I could afford a house here. That’s the power of Prop 13.

Besides that, CA residents are probably getting a tax refund this year because the state has a budget surplus.
Yes, there certainly are operational reasons to go big with non consumer-grade servers. In many cases, it is warranted. I was only imagining the lower end of infrastructure needs where a provider can get away with consumer grade hardware and achieve substantially lower costs. Say, a provider building their own racks of ITX motherboards with consumer CPUs. I’m sure there are enough Retail SKUs to be purchased in open market for small scale...

I think backblaze did just that with hard drives when they were starting out
Discriminating on the origin of the packet does not require any kind of deep inspection since the originator is in IP metadata. Net neutrality means not discriminating on the originator of the packet, not the content.
Some NP-complete problems have provably bad approximations if P!=NP. You don't get the same polynomial reduction behavior if you are using approximation algorithms. So for some problems we may have utterly practical algorithms and for others we never will (assuming P!=NP).
That doesn't sound like thermal throttling. That sounds like you're running out of SLC cache space and writing at TLC speed, minus the overhead of the drive flushing the SLC cache in the background while you're still writing more data.

The solution is to get an enterprise drive, because they don't use SLC write caching and can usually sustain somewhat better write speeds as a result (plus, they're generally rated for more write endurance).
I "retired" at 33 after working in tech for 12 years and saving a ton of money. With my free time I run a fun hobby business teaching kayaking which is way more fun and brings me way more happiness than anything I did in 2019 or before.
Well, in our case, the templating is done with Hugo in partials. We just needed the interactivity.
So in a nutshell, the LE was stroking man's temptation and it turns out he had low enough threshold to follow through. It's almost like a thought crime. Why something like this is legal in the US?
> recent AMD CPUs for the consumer segment

CPUs yes, but not APUs. This matters especially for SFF builds where you might not want a dGPU. For those, you specifically have to hunt for Ryzen Pro APUs which do have ECC support.
So enterprise usage.
One would hope so, but those backups are maintained by the same crew who did this...
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I was fully down the path you're talking about, and would have agreed with you... until COVID happened and I've been stuck working from home on a fairly low bandwidth (rural) Internet connection with source code that can't (because of BigCorp policy) be on my local machine. So it's SSH for most things, and suddenly my 25+ year old emacs skills (such as they are) have come back to be a big help.

That and even when I was able to do development locally, it has been on a massive codebase (Chromium) that CLion literally cannot index (freezes, fails, lags etc.) and yet somehow clangd & lsp etc. don't have problems.

So hoorah for the continued excellence of emacs and assorted related open source tools. They may not be slick or well packaged but they are on the whole resilient because they're flexible.
It's a small thing actually.

Despite the theory, here in Belgium we have had only one real lock down, and that was two weeks in April 2020. The relentless car traffic was gone and there were no planes.

As a consequence, the sky turned a shade of blue I (and others) only remembered from my childhood.

Sadly this was short lived as the many further lock downs were mostly just paper pretends, with so many "exceptions" that it was near impossible to distinguish road traffic volume and structural traffic jams from their pre-covid times.
Having a Discord server with friends. On weekends there’s almost always someone on playing some game and I can pop in and chat for a bit. As an extrovert it’s been a really meaningful outlet to stay connected during the pandemic. Plus with fast internet speeds you can basically emulate a local LAN by streaming each other’s games and watching a bit while you play your own.
He wasn't 'prodded', he was given an opportunity to do something he was already doing and any suggestion that this is entrapment is only made by people who have no idea what that word actually means. This sort of investigative technique would be perfectly valid in most countries and I think you really have no idea what you are talking about.
This. There are so many real world, practical, and pragmatic uses for EE. This example, which is basically knowing that the hardware specifications cannot meet the claims that are being made about a product, in an accurate or reliable fashion, is one I use on an everyday basis.

You don’t fall for marketing gimmicks.

Another thing is you know the relative price (ballpark figure) of the technology, as in how much it costs to make something, often just by eyeballing the actual product or by looking at its specifications. Sometimes this translates to more abstract and somewhat unrelated fields such as medications (if you read the patents and study them).
Summers could last for half the year by 2100
Wikipedia does great on philosophy, but you can't cite it. SEP is great as a secondary resource if you want to make sure you have a "handle" on a concept or author.
For me Flatpak is akin to Arch’s AUR.

As such, rebuilding Flatpak and its various layers should be easily rebuilt from source or equivalent as available as an option (but not the default).
That would prevent some of the issues.

It would also introduce bugs, but at least you would have the option.
Getting a nice car.

I’m prone to depression if I stay in the house too long.

Having a nice car means when I roll out of bed in the morning, I’m able to head straight to a nice, comfortable, private, warm space and start listening to meaningful podcasts, audiobooks, get breakfast, head to the gym, and get a consistent good start on the day.

I’m not sure if I can go back to city living at this point if it means giving up a car.
Coinbase’s Direct Listing Pushed Back to April
I commented about that in the other thread, but fwiw I'm not near Cairo.
I went back to my roots and created a barbecue smoker. https://airtite.uk
The end user here being the person writing the union SQL query?
Forgive me for my ignorance, but could the issue have not been the ML but rather, put simply, the input data? Is it the case that we truly know what signals to measure to get a clear indication of intent? It seems to me the answer is no (then ML is not going to help)?
A type of drum smoker. Check it out: https://airtite.uk
Adoption of Mypy for Python type checking: 45% already use it, 40% don't plan to
I admit I have not checked it Azure in recent times, but back in the day it was just as expensive as AWS.
I had to vouch for this comment.

I get that this looks misogynistic, but what parent describes is exactly my experience. It literally describes my post break-up relationship with my wife. the meddling of her led to poisoning of my relationship with the kids. she was the one who was hitting me any time there was an argument, threw plates and glass, or became physical in other ways that I had no choice than call the police because I was scared of further escalation. When the police came to the house they said it was protocol to remove the male from the home for a night so that the woman can look after the kids. Once, when my son was playing with my daughter in their room and we were in the kitchen (I made coffee standing ~4m away from her) she started screaming hysterically my son's name and saying "quick please come your father is hitting me" (despite me never once raising my hand to her). My son until this day thinks I hit her. At other times (when I was severely depressed for months and couldn't get out of bed) my daughter asked why I wasn't at the dinner table with them she said to them "he is just lazy". Once I got sick and fainted so she left me lying unconscious in the bathroom for a whole night without calling 911 ... I have hundreds of memories like this, and later realized a lot of it was an attempt to implant memories on our kids that didn't happen. Once I was brave enough to talk about it to others I noticed there are many men like myself who refuse to engage in physical violence towards women and are actually at the receiving end of it.

I never spoke up because I was too embarrassed and nobody among my family or friends would have understood (and I knew that I wasn't able to give up my kids because this would have been the result of a break-up so I rather went to work with a bruised face claiming I fell of the bike or the snowboard - again!)

My problem was that she might actually be bi-polar or suffer from some kind of undiagnosed mental condition (at least to me this was the only explanation for such level of "evil"). In the end it doesn't matter what's the cause what counts is that I got out of it. Oddly having the responsibility of children was the reason I put up with this for so long. When I asked myself if this is the template I want to pass on to them I walked because I hope that if they ever find themselves in such a place they should walk regardless of how many kids they have.
At the heart of progressive thought is concern over the twin evils of oppression and exploitation. O'Reilly’s piece focuses on the latter but relies on the assumption that profit==exploitation. I’m not convinced it is that simple.

I wish I could have had a chat with Milton about the Friedman doctrine [1]. I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. From my perspective, shareholder value is a relatively easy measure that acts as a proxy for the true goal of a corporation: creating sustainable customer value.

Within the context of his original article, Friedman was arguing that customers, employees, and shareholders could choose to give to charity, for instance, but it is wrong for a corporation to do it on their behalf. The concept is not intuitive but it is far from promoting selfishness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine
I just wanted to say you’re awesome and I’m so happy you’re doing something you enjoy. I’m also glad you’re still hanging out around HN too. :)
Stop being so snarky and read the comment again please. What I were replying to were a comment stating that "the suspect is unwilling, unlikely or under no suspicion of committing a crime" for it to be entrapment, which is false in most places no matter what happens in the case from the article. It's unrelated.

If a cop asks me if I want to buy drugs and I say yes, they most definitely have no case whatsoever here in Denmark even though I were willing to buy. Luckily we don't have these insane laws that cause police to get people in a bad place and then punish them for it.
Music. Just playing around to practice does wonders. Might be harmful to your bank account if you start amassing gear, though.
Different situation than in say, natural science. Philosophy is much more diverse in terms of inputs and outputs.

When your source materials are in German (Marx, Adorno, Nietzsche, Hegel, Freud, Heidegger, etc.) or French (Deleuze, Badiou, Foucault, etc.) you end up needing to learn those languages to make any serious academic progress. Philosophy is much less fungible than physics, in other words. So while there are no doubt more papers in English, the tradition and institutions in German and French speaking countries are probably more influential.
Agreed, the current state is such that many developers either rely on package managers for auto-updates (thus lacks sandboxing anyway) or use Snap (which is usually similarly not sandboxed and you have to put your trust in some proprietary cloud platform to push code to your computer). Just getting devs to support Flatpak is an effort, but once that's done sandboxing can be worked on later.
My son, born few weeks ago
Family, overall
Therapy
It sounds like they intended to nuke only the Roaming Profiles of certain expired users, failed to test that it only did that, and discovered it nuked every profile after running it.

I wish them luck recovering from this, and hope they learn to test better and have good backups.
Seems perfectly plausibile to be a manipulation. SDR+beamforming. The end of GPS as we know it.
What on earth is projecting health?
Wouldn't having to advertise your out of date dependencies help to shame companies into upgrading on a reasonable schedule? So that upgrades are actually a priority and not just a thing that happens when literally everything else is already done?
Maybe the majority of well paid people are paid for their behavioral predictability than ingenuities...
> APR 1, 2021

Really? April Fool’s already?
Android only uses the Linux kernel, everything else is completly unrelated to GNU/Linux, besides the lockdown enforced via LinuxSE and seccomp, so Google could naturally make this kind of customization.
The solution to this problem is not bureaucracy. The solution is in the reproducible builds project, Guix and Nix.
Dark is racist.
What's your idea that would save Linux desktop?