skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These roots you profess as being our core are more modern than you think in terms of our overall history as a people.
- For waring more complicated and denser societies were required than our hunter gatherere tribes of old

- For Pillaging, and power grabs, jealousy, envy individual ownership was required that didn't emerge until we settled down with farming anywhere at 10,000 bc

>decamping to somewhere more promising when the vaunted Land Of My Ancestors crapped out

This too did not happen until we started settling down and consuming all the local resources until they ran dry. Hunter gatherers foraged from larger areas of land with lower population density like wolves or other big predators of today and in a more sustainable way. I'm sure as tribes prospered and grew they split off exploring for greener pastures. One could argue why they couldn't just have a conflict with their neighbours, it's because beyond a certain size tribes tend to be very violent and dangerous governing structures for their constituents. That's the reason why we don't see geographically contiguous tribes beyond a certain size and they usually move to a more chieftan structure of governance.

I think all of this is a round about way of saying, I don't think there are innate, universal, roots that humans are bound by. Beyond our mammalian firmware, and human firmware, most of the rest would be a software programmed through your experiences with the world, that's why there is such an expansive manifold of how humans can live and behave for better or worse.
I sincerely doubt the tag line, “Financial support from governments may have reduced one potential cause of despair” has absolutely anything to do with it

Suicide is rarely about true despair, I would say it is more about loss of purpose. When you are scrounging to get by or have bigger fish to fry than some existential demons, suicide falls to the back of your mind. When there is time to ponder bigger questions it returns.
Nothing wrong with these protections. Insurance is a good thing, exchanges should be insured as well.

We just don't like the costs typically associated with these nice things. We gain protections and stability but in exchange we are subjected to the whims of government: arbitrary freezing of accounts, invasion of privacy, erosion of freedom, abusive taxation, highly inflationary monetary policy... It's no wonder people like a system that lets them escape all of that if they want.
Use "I" phrasings. Instead of "You think X, where X is wrong", say, "I think Y." Describe Y in detail, contrasting it with X where necessary but not making the wrongness of X the point.

The original poster may well see that as talking about them and reply in the usual flamebait way -- possibly with an extra dig for failing to engage them or trying to hide it. That's the risk you take when arguing on the Internet.

But if everybody really is interested in discussion rather than arguing, it sets up a reply more along the lines of trying to merge X and Y, or even changing their minds, or other constructive behavior. It starts with making it about the issues and a clear understanding of how different viewpoints lead to different conclusions based on the same facts -- all of the facts, not just the ones that support your arguments and diminish theirs.
Yes. They're actually police, with attendant legal status and powers.
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I guess it can depend from your life-stage really. As a lonely kid with different interests I really hated living in such a close-knit village, and felt great moving away from there. Yet now after years of living in the city, with a stable relationship and all, I constantly dream of moving to rural countryside and raising my future children there, in a more stable and calm environment.

I believe it's quite natural for young people to go seek new life and opportunities elsewhere from their place of birth, as many of them have always done historically. But having to constantly move in search of them, never finding a place where you could stay permanently, now that really isn't a good way of living for the vast majority of people, even though modern employment market encourages it.

As far Finnish block of flats go, I would argue that rental buildings with high turnover rate have quite low level of trust between neighbours and way more problems, while those owned by their residents have high trust and less issues. Some of it can be attributed to socioeconomic factors of course, but lack of roots and feeling of attachment to rental property is definitely also a factor.
Very off topic, but does this mean that wrecks from warships lost during, say, WWII are still owned by their respective navies?
I agree with the sentiment but the example taken for software in this xkcd is wrong. There is a fundamental problem of trust when using software for voting systems that is not linked to the reliability of software but to the nature of voting systems and the properties we want.
> It the same issue

No, its not. The racial justics movement predates OWS, and was active when OWS was a thing. Its true that BLM was, triggered, or coincided with a reenergization of that movement, but it wasn’t grounded in OWS’s complaints. (There was a big-money sponsored grouo which coopted some OWS complaints but shifted the focus go better serve particular institutiobal interests; but it was the Tea Party Patriots, not BLM.)

> What I see mega corps are doing now is try to shift that frustration from a discussion of class to a discussion of race.

At the time BLM emerged, much less when theie efforts started bringing corporations around, its not like there was a widely salient class-based but race-free narrative that institutions paying lip service to BLM werr marginalizing.

> Suddenly the white working class outside of major economic centers, the same ones who have seen their economic prospects erode over a generation due to deindustrialization can be painted as the villain and racists

The BLM movement is about powerful institutions and the lack of unequal lack of accountability and concern they exhibit by race.

As a class, the “white working class outsidd of major economic centers” is not a focus, positive or negative of BLM activism, and are only really relevant, in any negative sense, to the extent they actively or passively support or participate inbthe racist institutions and actions BLM addresses.
ASN.1 and stuff were developed with crypto agility in mind [0]. Right now ed25519 is enough but maybe in the future we might be using quantum ready algorithms instead. Your 32 bytes in the wire protocol might not be enough for that. And how would it know when given a hex string whether it's an ed25519 key or a post quantum crypto key? If it's ASN.1 encoded, you can just check the OIDs.

Of course it all depends on your domain. Maybe you build an app that won't be used any more in 3 years. But if you feel like your protocol will be implemented by many vendors and you might want to allow vendors to use multiple algorithms so that support for alternatives is already present if a vulnerability is found in algorithm, it's better to have self describing key data instead.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_agility
Fun fact: the place for the team to talk is sometimes called "retrospective", it is officially a part of Scrum, and it is the part of Scrum that almost every company leaves out.
They are code names.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_codenames
Presumably to put someone in prison for being a money thief, one would need to prove where that money went...

Were all these people accused of theft with not a single record of the yachts they bought with all the money they supposedly stole?

I would assume most of these people would be able to turn over a complete financial record of their lives (ie. I was paid £x, I paid taxes of £y, and here is a bank statement showing how I spent it, and here is whats leftover). How exactly can you imprison someone for theft of money if they can present that?
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Also, counties often have their own sheriffs with a separate set of powers and responsibilities. Sometimes court systems have their own enforcement arms, separate from other agencies.

The US often seems to have more layers of administration and law-making than some other places. Making individual officers work through which set of powers and laws they're dealing with in a given moment seems like it might at times be a daunting prospect. You could in theory organize them into a single bureau, but I suspect you'd inevitably wind up with specialized sections to deal with the particular laws in given cities.
The broader point, I think, is that Apple has never really competed on specs before. Not meaningfully, anyway. They’ve competed on whole product. Competing on specs opens them up to new challenges.
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Yup! From https://cr.yp.to/ecdh.html

> How do I validate Curve25519 public keys?
> Don't. The Curve25519 function was carefully designed to allow all 32-byte strings as Diffie-Hellman public keys.
(minor exceptions follow)
What about it is so amazing? Did you test the 8gb or the 16gb version?

Is it really a gamechanger for surfing, coding, videos, etc?

Curious because I might grab the base mac mini 8gb for music production, surfing, Java coding etc.
You mean this:

https://www.bcg.com/publications/1968/business-unit-strategy...
Using "nginx" in DDG will never return websites that have apache2 (and not a single mention of nginx) as a match, Google will.

As for the last sentence, I was using the said example to generalise that it's far better to learn which website is right for the query and add a bang. In this case "<something obscure> nginx !sf", which will return serverfault.com results, which also won't do this stupid thing of equating apache2 and nginx.
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1. Except now you need a new PCB, a new subassembly, new procedures...

2. You need a lot of fancy things, just not cell balancing. That “battery health indicator” all iphones have, guess where that’s from.

You can take it from someone who has built several devices with replaceable batteries, or we can just keep debating until I’ve fully explain to you how you actually build one of these.

The thing is, I don’t want to waste more time on this, you can do your research on your own, or just keep your preconceptions, whatever floats your boat.
Public keys are 32 bytes long, and private keys are 64 bytes long. The Ed25519 functions check to make sure the key is the correct length before using them:

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/d4bfe006155ea0d9c2970e22fc...

The types would ideally use fixed-length arrays, but at the time the API was designed, Go didn't allow conversions between slices and array pointers, which would have made the API annoying to use:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24376#issuecomment-37278...

Go is now adding support for such conversions, but the Ed25519 API can't be changed due to backwards compatibility guarantees.
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No, that's still presumption of guilt.

If you're going to convict someone of stealing £59,000, the very first thing you should have to show is that £59,000 actually got stolen. If there is reasonable doubt that the crime took place, no one can be guilty beyond that reasonable doubt. If the defendant claims the computer system got it wrong, it's not enough to say you are unaware of bugs, the prosecution should have to show that the computer's output was consistent with the results of doing the calculation by another method.
That’s not the right part, the 5800U is the low power Ryzen competitor.
That isn't what I was trying to say or imply. Both markets seem pretty irrational and baffling to me.
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It's worth bearing in mind that, as I understand it, other countries haven't yet released their suicide numbers for the period of the pandemic during which Japan's suicide rates rose - they apparently publish theirs more promptly than most places for some reason, which is why people have been keeping an eye on Japan as an early warning.
There appears to be contrary data to that as well:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/04/pandemic-...

Apologies if you get paywalled.
"If a country is known to have a hacker program"

In other words, any modern country?

Drives should be zeroed before getting sent off anyways.
after: is my favorite so far. Almost every search I do these days brings up results using very old versions of the JS/CSS libraries involved in my search, and adding "after:2019" or "after:2020" helps bring more relevant results.
I think google does a great job of organizing information, that's why it's useful. As I've used google for as long as I had access to internet I've built up a mental network of things in the internet and also skills associated with finding reliable information in the web.

Just knowing how to search something is not enough, knowing what to search is even more important and what links to follow.

Google is like a huge personal notebook available to me so that I don't have to take notes and can look up easily when I forget something.
Unpaywalled article

https://archive.is/06hRj
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Yeah but that githook will only be installed on that one repo on that one machine. And they may have no or a different version of bash installed (on e.g. MacOS or Windows). IMHO, POSIX-compatible portable shell scripts are more trouble than portable Python scripts.

Pre-commit requires Python and pre-commit to be installed (and then it downloads every hook function).

This fetches the latest version of every hook defined in the .pre-commit-config.yml:

pre-commit autoupdate

https://pre-commit.com/#pre-commit-autoupdate

A person could easily `ln -s repo/.hooks/hook*.sh repo/.git/hooks/` after every git clone.
> But why are the aligned on this issue now when they never were before?

Major institutions were brought around by activist pressure to pay lip service to racial justics issues before by thr Civil Rights Movement; BLM isn’t unique in that.

> Less than 20 years ago the same people unanimously told us that the war in Iraq was good and necessary.

No, the people positions of influence supporting BLM do bot consist exclusively of people who were Iraq war supporters.
The successful welfare state is the product of your neighbours who tacitly agree to maintain society in many ways including of course paying for it. It's a mistake to suppose that that stance is a given in perpetuity.
This has happened to me with iTunes, and Apple's contention in the suit has been expressed to me by Apple support.

A few months ago, I was browsing my iTunes cloud library and noticed that an album I had purchased years prior was missing a few songs. I contacted support, and the support agent explained to me that the rights holder had removed the songs from the store, and thus they were now removed from my library. (Inexplicably, the entire album is still available on iTunes, but apparently the version I bought was removed.)

The rep also helpfully recommended that I back up my downloads in the future. While I did in fact have all the songs downloaded on my Mac, I’m not sure what the official solution would be for someone whose primary device is an iPad or an iPhone.
It’s not their fault. We do not have even primitive means to access (except the html part) or participate in the internet, despite FOSS everything. Backups/storage? Dropbox/Google. Send a file to your buddy? Telegram/GDrive. Remote help? TeamViewer. Hosting a site? Facebook/Wix. We failed everything, and only very tech-savvy users can (and have time to) do one of the above without depending on something corporate.

Imagine if every browser had UI->API connection to popular hostings (or a local pc) and could allow users (and businesses) to exchange files, documents, messages, media, etc, and also had established UIs for all of that. All these instagrams, facebooks, google services, dropboxes simply exploited OS shortcomings and stupid complexity of its operation. If a user could just tap to publish a photo, they wouldn’t need a platform/service and a separate app for that. If a user could bypass NAT, they wouldn’t need remote help services. IIRC, the top comment on Dropbox was along the lines of “will not fly, everyone can rsync/email their files for free”. Turned out nobody can. We still use corporate services to send files across the same room, because even simple file sharing still doesn’t fucking work, not to mention media-exchange/play and UIs for that. It’s not “Most users don’t have any clue ...”, it’s “All users don’t ...”.
The more I re-read and think about this article, the less meaning I find in it. There's a fair bit of lamenting, but it's ultimately difficult to ascertain what exactly is the issue the cause and the consequences of this great uprooting to any further granularity than: things are different than they used to be and it's never going to be the same.

This is true, but to what end. Will we truly end in civil war or anarchy because I don't live on the Italian countryside of the great grandparents I've never met?

As far as the metaphor of rootedness: a plant does not wither and die upon being uprooted if it is planted in new soil in a reasonable amount of time (in fact, international houseplant shipping is done bare-rooted due to phytosanitary regulations). Upon replanting, the plant will go into shock and probably have a few weeks/months/years (depending on the size of the plant) of acclimation where you'll see no new growth. Perhaps it will die if the new environment is not offering good conditions.

In the right conditions, you don't even need the full plant with original roots, you can just take a cutting off many plants and grow new roots in water or moss, then transplant to soil. In the houseplant community, propagating plants through cuttings in this way is much more common than reproduction by seed.
I hadn't heard about the story until the BBC started re-running this series this week. Absolutely shocking that flaws in the system were dismissed and suspicion thrown on the sub-postmasters instead.
I can see the differences in Chrome too though? I came to the comments to see if anyone else could tell that the AVIF example is inferior to alternatives.
You are being downvoted, but this is not as off-topic as it may seem.

Simone Weil had a brother, André Weil. You may not know his name on the top of your head, but I guarantee you that you've heard of the pseuodonym he created together with some other mathematicians: Nicolas Bourbaki.

I'm sure Weil and/or Bourbaki has lots to say about these topics.
I'm building a project where my service would plug with the (unstrusted) JS code of users.

I first thought it would be easy to sandbox and have something decent running, but after making some research on sandboxing, I realize how hard it is, and the many ways bad actors can exploit a service running untrusted code.

Kudos to GitHub and GitLab for taking the challenge of providing a RCE service with a free plan.
> I would argue that rental buildings with high turnover rate ... while those owned by their residents

Note that in the Finnish context (at least in the more-populated south), this isn’t a rental/owned distinction. that is, the expectation for privacy also applies to blocks of flats where residents own their flat and may live there for decades.
It's only bad when we don't like that country, I suppose.
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You can actually opt out of using a cryptocurrency bank.
I physically own about 1000 commercial disks (stored in Logic cases) I'll never part with. Ripped to HD, instantly available, no network needed.

Result is quite different from a 'license' to 'stream' since 1984. Solar flare, no worries. House fire, HD backup. Big Tech dies, network gone, meh. Got my tunes.
Ah you're right, i'm the one who confused the two and remembered the weird setup of the iPad, the iMac's Tech Specs page does just state "8GB (configurable to 16GB)" for the entire range (whereas it's quite clear that the "low end" iMac with only 7 GPU cores can only be BTO'd to 1TB SSD, versus 2 for the 8-cores).
Fair enough, thanks, will adopt those. An interesting question is why heavy googling and stackoverflow diving looking for "how to publish ed25519" and related things failed to turn this up.
Even you're misconstruing their recommendation. "LEGO is always an adjective" implies there is no plural form, because there is no noun to begin with. You're supposed to say "LEGO brick(s)", apparently...
Has become more common in some communities though...

Suicides among Black people doubled during COVID-19 lockdowns, while suicides in white individuals were cut in half during the same period.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-12-17/...
You're missing the point: the fact that people are willing to pay a lot means that there is a large incentive to provide the best level of entertainment.

If you take the profit away, you risk misaligned incentives.
It doesn't say until a few paragraphs in that the study only covers the early months of the pandemic, and it's pretty misleading to focus only on succesful suicide attempts to try and paint things as not that bad. Overdoses, suicide attempts, and child abuse were significantly higher in 2020.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33533876/
Totally, and if anyone was selling bricks called “Full Self Driving Bricks”, they’d probably be in trouble.
I use "bricks" (or the very neat tearm "Klemmbausteine" in German) in any context where Lego legal might want to interfere, and stick to Lego/Legos otherwise. It's a common term beyond any reasonable doubt by now, and corporations really shouldn't pry their greedy tentacles that deeply into everyday life.
I know, but just setting MemoryDenyWriteExecute=yes is even easier.
Ransomware, ransomware, ransomware but the numbers do not lie
5 years for free is plenty of time to make reasonable income on your creations; after that, you're just seeking rent from society.

I strongly dispute this statement, unless your definition of reasonable income does not include at least making back the money you spent on producing the content in the first place. You're ignoring all the small creators who produce new material for niche markets, possibly as a side income rather than their main jobs, and rely on the long tail of sales of that original work to make it financially worthwhile. Not every copyright holder is a Hollywood movie studio, big name record label or international book publisher you've heard of.

Your longer periods might be more realistic in those cases, and even 10 years might not be enough to break even.
The no particular fitness of purpose clause in nearly every EULA you’ve ever clicked through is literally that.
I buy a lot of obscure stuff off ebay. Mostly old computers / engineering equipment build for a specific purpose.

Because of this, i normally try to google around for the product to see if I can get some information or a manual on it so I don't end up with something next to useless because I can't figure out how to use it. Unfortunately a lot of the time I get these sort of sites that are basically just archives of previous or current ebay listings.

Even weirder, I'll get some really strange URLS (I swear one or two I've found before didn't even look like the TLD's were real). The text below the link will often look like a keyword dump that just happens to have what I typed in plus all sorts of other random words and such. Clicking on them usually just leads to an unresolved link.
I have to admit this is right. Even my old 2012 i7 Mac mini is still a perfectly serviceable machine to this day.