skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) If it's us-vs-them about truth vs disinformation, then I don't see how you can possibly make it a left vs right issue. The Right wing invented the Orwellian term for "fake news" to mean "truths that are inconvenient to me", and spent 4 years gaslighting the public about blatant lies and misdirection.

2) Turning "woke" into an insult for everything progressive completely removes all nuance from a bunch of political positions that while frequently shared between similar people are completely unrelated. "Woke" was a term that came about with regards to social and specifically RACIAL justice.

The fact that the internet left is full of people so far extreme as to be actually Stalinist (and by that i mean would support guillotining the rich or sending them to gulags), does not negate the value of discussion of unions, or social inequalities between the races.

I would urge any sensible-minded individual to dismiss using "woke" from their lexicon as an insult because it immediately devalues your opinion (see also: SJW, Feminist, etc)

3) "For example, Im big into mountain biking, and here is a recent example of this (read the comments)"

I'm super not clear about your point here. Amazon ripped off an independent seller's design. Is that not a problem? Do people not have the right to be upset?
Further some companies like https://www.freeman.com have leaned heavily into making hybrid events a real thing that works well.

I think the point is some people find one vs the other better, not that there’s one true way for all. The world will be better if we can figure out how to be inclusive of all styles, not just the style extroverts prefer.

I think in a hybrid event you would both have a crowd in a room and a crowd remote. This seems fine.
Things no longer work this way. Old skool modems took advantage of existing lines designed for voice, so the tones were somewhat audible. Now, it's pretty much an ethernet connection straight to your house (a gross over simplification), but modern connections to ISPs are no longer the same.
Out of interest, why wouldn't you host it on something like a raspberry pi?

Having your local network depend on an external network makes my old school sysadmin bones tingle for some reason.
Certainly true, but it doesn't counter the original claim: Anonymized telemetry collection with proper privacy considerations can have a net positive impact on the product.
Suppressing a gene by using its antibody can lead to tooth growth: animal study
At minimum if you operate an app store on your own platform that takes a cut the platform should allow alternative 3rd party stores to be used. Android/Windows/web/MacOS are already there on that software front. iOS/Consoles/SmartTVs and many others are not. It's probably why you hear about the Apple App Store 30% but not the Play/Microsoft Store 30% - those aren't the only options to distribute an app on those platforms. Users are definitely steered and incentivized to use them but not forced.

That in itself isn't a fix all, for example the Amazon app store for Android based devices still takes a 30% cut at the moment, but it opens the floodgates to stores like this that could start to create natural competition. And even if not at least you have the choice to try not to do that, look at Fortnite. Not for the court case but because they took a 0% cut on Android by distributing the app via their own store when they got kicked off due to that battle. Obviously not an option for everyone but you can still load the app on Android devices and Epic Games Store actually only takes a 12% cut as it's trying to compete. Even if none of this ends up mattering - at least one can load what they want on their devices.

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At the more extreme end there is always antitrust action like the oft cited idea of splitting the likes of Apple or so on into "Apple Hardware" and "Apple Software" which would definitely blow away some anti-competition tendencies (How many use ios+safari+apple-hardware because that's what they would pick vs that's the only option to get any of the above? Probably less than 100%...) but at the same time are probably a bit extreme when we have tried tamer things like the above before.
Are people buying software through steam because they like the consolidated experience? Or because they trust it more than an exe from a random website? Or because steam already has their credit card info stored? Or because it's the only place to obtain certain games?

It's some combination of these things (and some others I haven't considered), and the value all of this added up, minus steam's downsides, is apparently worth an extra 30% if this cost is sufficiently hidden from the consumer.

Would people still pay a 30% fee if the store were forced to actually show the fee, and there were alternatives? I'm not so sure.

You're right that there's some value there, but it's probably closer to 3% than 30%.
If you're saying they are the product, that's a very old trope and easily falsified. For example, advertisers come to Facebook because, and only because, users are there. If users stopped liking Facebook, they wouldn't be there anymore. If they aren't there anymore, advertisers don't want to be there either. Thus, Facebook is incentivized to keep users happy - they are the most important people to Facebook. From what I've heard, Facebook struggles to get engineers to work on ads. If advertisers were the true customers, I imagine most engineers would be more gung-ho to work on ads because that would align more closely with career success at the company.

The above doesn't justify unrestrained tracking of user activity - but let's not pretend companies get to where they are because they create a first-class space for advertisers. They get to where they are because they, at least at one point, created a great product for their customers.
Go Dawgs!
The criticism I was replying to was that the info the journalists were reporting wasn't reliable, not that they weren't adding additional value.
Yes, you can use ILMerge to merge all other DLLS into the main exe/dll: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8077570/how-to-merge-mul...
This argument taken ad infinitum though devolves into a pit of moral relativism. I happen to completely agree with your argument—ethics can be derived as a functional application of rational logic. But I think the more germane point being made was that establishing the normative sociocultural definition of collective Ethics, is ultimately an emotional determination (if guided by rational logic). There exists no metaphysical Ethics which can always be axiomatically derived on the basis of rational logical. At least I think that was the argument anyways…
Another option if you're still on .NET framework is to use a collection initializer extension method. I add a comment when I do this and place the extension method in a separate namespace.

// ListExtensions.cs
internal static class
ListExtensions
{
public static void Add(this List<KeyValuePair<string, int>> list, string key, int value)
{
list.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, int>(key, value));
}
}

// new w/extension method
var x = new List<KeyValuePair<string, int>>
{
{"a", 1},
{"b", 2},
};
Blockchain is a useful tech.
Crypto currencies are an interesting idea, but easily manipulated by launderers, i.e. the guys over at Wall Street.
NFTs are basically a ponzi scheme: most of headlining ones are bought by artists themselves, or folks who stand to benefit from NFTs becoming popular.

As with everything, the rule still stands: don't spend money you're not willing to lose. Crypto and NFTs are NOT an investment: they are a gamble… just like most of the stock market "game". :X
Who ever buys this tweet owns my programming language
The real tragedy is that their treatment is certainly a dis-incentive for drug and other companies to ever do anything pro-bono / for the benefit of humanity again. Well done EU!
Ah that makes more sense and seems like a serious limitation
There's a cautionary note at the end of the article reminding the reader that git still relies on sha1 (with mitigations). Recall that $10k worth of GTX1060's produced a sha1 collision in late 2019.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentat...
I'm not joking, and I know basics of history and feudalism, but I always found the definitions too abstract to grasp intuitively. Sure there is always the evil feudal lord oppressing the poor peasants. It's too hard for me to grok how that society worked, so I find it helpful to find modern structures that are close to isomorphic to feudalism for better intuitive understanding. "Ah it's like a company but each piece of land and everyone on it is automatically in it." That's a lot easier to see.
The idiom is a mistranslation of petitio principii, which is the Latin phrase meaning to assume the intended point, and which itself is a 16th-century mistranslation of Aristotle from around 2,300 years ago, so it’s a wonder that anyone still understands this phrase at all.

I recommend treating this phrase, “to beg the question”, as an irregular verb. The component words provide the inflections, but not the meaning, although there may be some poetic utility.
Close, hardkernel has a intel quad core J4115 for $119. Similar size, somewhat more expensive, 2x2.5G ethernet, 2 sodimms (max 32GB), M.2 port, etc.

Not quite direct competition, but pretty close. Maybe more directly similar to the Pi 4CM with a daughter card for NVMe, network, sata, etc.
No kidding, I grew up there as well! The not-wanting-to-ever-return feeling is very relatable. I wouldn’t have re-explored DFW were it not for the current state of life in the Bay Area. As it stands, things have changed a lot in the past 10 years, or perhaps I’ve grown up. There’s a lot going on in DFW, and as an adult having explored all over I’m comfortable giving DFW another look.
Often the benefit is mutual. A better product is good for both the business and the users.
You do know what hyperbole is, right.
As much as I love this type of app, I can't help but feel depressed that before we know it there will be an app that does the opposite.
We are allowing governments and billionaires to pollute our view of the cosmos.
The night sky is such an important part of the human experience and most people never experience it in all its beauty.
Allowing American business owners and world militaries to block it from above just makes my stomach turn if I am honest.
I have never ever seen "plausible deniability" keep someone out of trouble. I have seen attempts at applying it several times, but never successfully.

As an excuse for why to not do the right thing I really hate "plausible deniability".
This seems incredibly clunky and most people are probably not doing something that involves typing the ARN of their MFA device on a day to day basis. To be tenable on a daily basis you need something like “aws login” with username, password, and code that sets up your credentials file correctly. Expect people to copy and paste values around, and you’ve already lost.

Not to mention legacy code that only knows about access key ID and secret, and doesn’t have a place to even put a token.

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/authe...
>IMO using what we have intelligently is easier.

many people switch not simply for the security/security-theatre, but because they no longer want to support a company with such poor security strategy after it is revealed that they have internal issues.
I didn’t offer a diagnosis.
I really don't understand why they haven't added implicit conversion operators between the modern ValueTuple and the legacy value-types like KeyValuePair, Tuple, and Pair, grumble. It's a non-breaking change!
I was curious, so I read Wikipedia.

"A peer-reviewed study published in Environmental Research Letters estimated that approximately 59 premature deaths will be caused by the excess pollution produced between 2008 and 2015 by vehicles equipped with the defeat device in the United States"

Not quite "thousands". Obviously still an egregious act from the company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal#D...
I've been hosting my own friends & family mail since the late 90's and switched to Courier probably maybe 15 years ago (I used Cyrus before). If there is a next iteration, it will be Dovecot. I do not know whether there will be one: I do not see much benefit anymore, I haven't kept up with the latest advances and I'm increasingly removed from practizing sysadmin - so next major incident (we haven't had one since a busted disk a decade ago) we'll probably find that our MTTR is terrible. The main benefit I see is taking a stand against the mail oligopoly - I could still get that using a small mail host. Or maybe I'll join a bigger co-op than us three-old friends who don't sysadmin much anymore...
The FreeBSD kernel debugger is available via serial console and is really useful when it's useful. If you manage to have a system that breaks your kernel, chances are switching instances won't help, and figuring it out will help. If it crashes, you can get a core dump, but if it loops in a bad place and that only breaks some things, the debugger can show things quickly.

Also serial console is pretty handy when you push bad firewall rules and don't want to throw away your instance.
Out of curiosity, how old is your car?
> I'm worried if we trust a press that can be so easily and obviously misled.

Roughly ~55% of Americans don't trust the press. What's more worrying is the void that leaves, to be filled with marketing / spam / "fake news" style manipulation that tells people what they want to hear.
In that if you're already there and just want water, it's totally reasonable. It'll get you wet.

If you went there for tap water, yeah, maybe there are better options.
They do exist in small shops that are doing EV conversions every day (and have been for years).

The thing missing is mass production to drive costs down from it being an artisanal thing with used Tesla and pinball machine parts to being a reliable mini-industry. Those artisanal projects are on the market though, and have been for some time. They have a market price, it's just that that price isn't as cheap as we would all like it to be, hence the emphasis on mass production being a currently unfilled need and that it is on at least one manufacturer's stated roadmap and should have been on at least one other's. The flipside is already happening "while we wait". Some of those artisanal shops are standardizing their own tools and producing their own kits, and speeding up their processes and building on economies of scale to get those things cheaper, and if the manufacturers won't officially support it, the aftermarket will, as it often does.
My stating Russell flirted with eugenics need not be apologised for. Are you saying I am wrong, and that Russell did not show an interest?

Given the current toxic 'quick to judge' forum behaviour on the internet, it is almost certain a latter-day Russell would not have been allowed to continue his work and thoughts in public, as your mischaracterisation of my post shows.
Yeah. They should have written it twenty years ago in a datacenter with public cloud in mind
This is just class action ambulance chasing. Almost all of these guys are assholes.
Right now? 1. But that's about to change, that's why I'm reading these comments. I was planning on buying a bunch of Ubiquiti APs.
Yep, I have my controller running on a Synology 720+ NAS that has zero ‘wide area network’ access. Everything is local to my home.

I am deeply saddened by Ubiquiti’s fall from grace... they were so good.
Actual problem: believing that the distinction between those two is relevant.
> This in turn means that the pay that people recieve is worth whatever the working conditions are

> people can quit and go find easier job at any time

There's no basis for this, by your own observation. Offering bottles of water in the desert is not a fair trade of value. You have a hostage negotiation.

> There isn't a single shred of credible evidence that this is a widespread problem

Except for all the evidence you want to ignore or have laid before you to dismiss.

It's tiring at how poorly this rhetoric is thought out. I'll skip to my favorite part.

> Unionization is messing with the free market,

What does free market mean in this context? Oh right, whatever you think works because it makes sense in a closed system with immediate feedback. Reality does not match this. Major Airlines don't hire less people because they have unions (white collar and blue collar, typically).

Most of the post is some strange worldview using open language that has no weight or typical strawman theorycrafting.
It depends on a ton of factors. In general there's more uncertainty for lower satellites, especially ones that straddle the thermopause. The error isn't necessarily constant, it depends on hard to predict events like space weather.

For something in LEO, an arcsecond of error is only a few meters. If you're plugging data into a standard orbital model like SDP4, a few meters is within the typical error margin basically as soon as the TLEs are published.

A full degree of error would take a while. For what it's worth, NORAD publishes new TLEs for things in LEO pretty regularly, sometimes multiple times a day. For higher up objects it can be more than a week before the refresh the data.
What do the ice-road places normally do in the summer? Freezing later and thawing earlier implies that freezing and thawing were expected anyway.
Maybe this is Volkswagen passive-aggressively mocking the American sustainability crowd.
People were still doing iPhone stuff before the iPhone. You had blackberry and palm offering email, internet, games, and mms to the masses and the devices were quite popular for those who could afford them.

The iPhone only became a device for the masses, truly, when carriers started subsidizing the older models for zero down, around the iPhone 4g era. This has continued today where Verizon currently offers the iPhone SE for "$0/mo" like some cheap flip phone of old. Before that, the iPhone was exclusively rich persons phone, and probably still would have been in the U.S. at least (like it is in the rest of the world) had it not been for carrier subsidies and cheaper mobile internet plans (or maybe just the normalization of spending so much on a mobile plan every month). The iPhone didn't even get third party apps until years after launch, and when it did, the most popular of that sweet sweet software during those early days were mostly dumb stuff like apps that make gunshot sounds, or flash game clones. The real gems during that era was software written by the jailbreak community, and a lot of that added functionality was cloned by apple in later OS versions.
> You need Docker and Docker Compose

> mailcow requires the latest version of docker-compose. [...] Package managers (e.g. apt, yum) likely won't give you the latest version

I read no further.
> Nobody does that anymore.

I use Ctrl+'+' all the time to zoom text.
Are you sure? My personal reluctance to C# has been that it's not handy for the stuff I do that needs to run on Windows, Mac, and Linux, which is everything.
Because historically implementing something like Zookeeper yourself from scratch is notoriously difficult?
I once had a second-hand Sun Sparc system, and several Sun amd64 systems (discounted for startups), and I remember Sun having a fairly sophisticated serial-attached firmware console. Though a fail-open default configuration that permitted trivially bypassing authentication seems more like something one would see w/ an x86 BIOS or bootloader. I wouldn't claim the serial-attached bootloaders on my x86 lab machines don't somehow permit bypassing login(1) authentication. But at least w/ EC2 and other hypervisors that element should be out of the equation.
> Nothing more frustrating than reviewing a PR with var's all over.

ooh you gotta try reviewing your PRs within visual studio [1] (and be sure to use VS internal diff tool as well) - var is no longer annoying with intellisense

[1] https://github.com/github/VisualStudio/blob/master/docs/usin...
Here's a sketch of a proof explaining why this is impossible (under the Church-Turing thesis).

Suppose you have written a Y-program y that takes an X-program x as input, and computes whether or not x halts (say, on no input), AND y halts every time.

If X is a Turing-complete language, then for a given Turing Machine t we write an X-program xt that simulates t and halts iff t does. Then we run y on xt. This decides whether or not t halts, and works for all TMs t; therefore y solves the halting problem for all Turing Machines. But we know from Turing's "twisted self-reference" that no Turing Machine can do this, so the language Y must be strictly more computationally powerful than the Turing Machine model. This would disprove the Church-Turing thesis, which would be pretty incredible if true, but seems highly unlikely (since modern computers, and even quantum computers, are polynomial time equivalent to TMs).

Otherwise, X is not a Turing-complete language. This is valid, I guess, but not really relevant to the problem of halting, since such a language would be very underpowered for most useful purposes. Now, regular languages are decidable, which is great for lots of computations that can be encoded using predicate logic and first-order arithmetic. Even climbing one rung up the computational complexity to context-free languages brings undecidability, though, since many problems (e.g. whether or not two context-free grammars generate the same language) are undecidable.
I mean, sure. If you have the capability and the inclination, go for it. I live in a house that is quite large and I can't come close to fully populating a 24 port switch in a useful way.

I would not detract from your network going the extra mile. I suspect that for most people, the value-to-effort ratio of link aggregation just isn't there in a residential setting.
Nearby WiFi spots can be easily used to track device location. Here is a neat little project that does exactly that for IOT tracking [1].

[1] https://github.com/dmsl/anyplace
Such an important point.

And, as with most things, there’s an XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/978/
At my high school, it was to create a folder with an… incriminating name. Then, screenshot the desktop, delete the folder, and then set the background to the screenshot.

When the …mark… sits down, inevitably with several… "witnesses" behind them, who then point out in "astonishment" the folder on their desktop, they try (in vain) to highlight it to delete it.

(Not appropriate for the workplace, of course.)

Also, scotch tape is not transparent to optical mice? and blocks the sensor. Had that one pulled on me once, took a while to figure it out.
No, no there is nothing actually unique about about an NFT. You can make as many as tokens as you want that point to the same resource (or a bit-perfect copy of it). You cant copy the token, but you can copy its contents.
"Cloud-based" is the implementation; the killer feature is the single pane of glass. It's just hard to implement that without putting a bunch of logic in the cloud.

Hard in what way? As long as the control traffic has paths between all relevant devices over the management LAN, why does the cloud need to be used at all?
Yup, funny for an April fools joke, would have worked better on April 1st though.

What has happened to everyone?
and large container ship rescue specialists too.
I have found overwork has caused the symptoms you describe, but not so much getting older. As a developer in their early 50s, I have certainly noticed becoming slightly slower, but in no way less creative. I have seen colleagues work effectively well into their 60s, but I suspect this is different between people.
> The images are public domain.

They are permissively licensed, but the photographers still own the copyrights. They are not public domain.
Not all of it is inaccessible to users. CPU profiles of ChromeOS, for example, are collected on user devices, aggregated, and checked into the public source code repos where anyone can use them, usually for optimizing a chromium build but any purpose you can think of.