skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please give us a specific example of "big tech suppressing dissenting voices". I can certainly see how you could lay that charge on the Hearst Corporation, for example, but I have a hard time seeing how it applies to companies who will record and disseminate your writings, photos, and videos worldwide without charge and almost without regard to the content thereof.
>Instead of breaking them up though, we should simply be more stringent with anti trust hearings and merger approvals. There have been a few mergers recently that absolutely shouldn’t have been approved.

Recently? Competition bureaus have been green lighting consolidation in key industry sectors for bullshit reasons with bad evidence for decades.

Also, if we acknowledge that bureaus have allowed the over-consolidation of a number of industries, then why wouldn't we break them up?

The harm to competition is already done - we already have titans accumulating the lucre of uncompetitive margins. The market's health cannot be judged in respect of what margins currently are; they have to be judged in respect of what they would be under situations of proper competition.
https://medium.com/cybersecurity-for-democracy/far-right-new...

Where is the evidence? Because by in large, the use and effectiveness of these platforms in study after study goes the other way.
> I could still go and argue about bands in chatrooms. I could talk to other writers and dream about my future best-selling novels. I could go read random opinions about any subject and get into an exhilarating flamewar about it.

But where? The venues where that happened are gone. You can have a public discussion with 100.000 eyeballs, but not the kind of more intimate, local environment that were earlier boards and chat rooms.
Imagine observing lower productivity in HCL, Wipro, Tata, Techmahindra. Having worked with all of them I assume detecting lower productivity would require a mirror to see if they were breathing.
Ok, but I said effectively. Not that it was 100% absolutely the only use.
It is not part of human nature. It does happen when a person has a restless mind, however.

How would you test this? The first way is direct: learn to quiet your own mind. The second way is through inference: observe a newborn baby who doesn't need food and when there isn't excessive stimulation (light sound, smell, pain, etc.) - they simply observe what is around them.
There is such a thing if one delves into definition of ideology. Depending on the definition, there either is or is not such a thing.
so we should expend the effort to fix the issues with the existing system..

But we should just throw out new systems like crypto because they still have issues that need "to be countered with effort" ?

I'm not claiming any system is perfect, but it seems odd to shrug at the issues in one system and demonize another system for having issues...
How Elbrus CPU helped me find a bug in Tar
How Elbrus CPU helped find a bug in Tar

https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?10081

Elbrus CPU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus-8SV) has a special protected mode of operation.
Technically accessible by compiling with a -m128 flag, it allows to capture, on the CPU level itself, memory access errors, so where a usual application would most often work just fine (with potential buffer overflow issues, of course), a protected mode application crashes.

Basically it does 2 things: first, catches going outside of allocated pointer size (each pointer is actually a 128-bit object, containing information about its allocated size); and second, catch access to uninitialized data.
So I've been experimenting with this mode on a 4-CPU Elbrus machine and compiled tar in this mode. Almost all tests passed just fine - except just one of nearly two hundred. That specific test that failed was working with a zero-byte archive file, and after examining the sources I found out that the file read function actually doesn't care much if it read less than 10240 bytes from file; the buffer (which isn't initialized) is passed on to different functions and is processed in various ways. So potentially it's a quite dangerous issue, it seems.

Hence I've submitted a patch for the Tar application (it's in the link).
Meanwhile I plan to experiment more with protected mode crash-tests. Main issue is that it's not easy to compile complex apps in protected mode, because you need to recompile the whole chain of dependent libraries - a protected-mode application can't link with "ordinary" ones at all.
I can relate somewhat and found that when the foundation of the relationship is "helping," then after that need is gone, most of the time so is the relationship. I was hoping for some sort of deeper or more meaningful friendships, or sense of community. It's been hard to come by from those situations. From my side, I realized that the longing for something deeper and authentic actually made the relationship transactional and inauthentic.
While I'm not entirely sure on the specifics, this is where Anbox can hopefully create a workable Android runtime layer. While it would be a bit overly optimistic to assume that "secure" authentication type apps would work, it could help with adoption for people like me who are missing that one vitally important app required to make the PinePhone a daily driver.
I wish basic IRS functions could be get the same level of attention as these efforts. What would be particularly good for consumers would be bringing some level of fairness to the tax system.
How come? I'd argue that he made a decent point - one bad action of an individual doesn't invalidate everything else they've done. Using sarcasm can turn a bland, potentially combative statement like that into a joke.
We agree. I said companies, plural, as a whole as in the whole economy.
Now just somehow generate an NFT for each one of them. Endless money from the crypto fan boys...
Maybe not completely, but they all profit from having an element of deception. They are drawing attention away from better projects by hoarding all the top spots on all the exchanges and ranking websites. They are destroying the industry and hurting people IMO.
Humans also require a lot of examples to learn a language - years of everyday practice for a young human. Learning algorithms are not the same, but you still need to train a large neural network - lots of neurons with lots of connections (weights) - whether it's in your head or in a datacenter.
Some prominent people involved feel Apollo was the mistake if the goal is to colonize space and other worlds asap

https://twitter.com/ZachWeiner/status/1402314414515273728?s=...
Just FYI, like most studies of behaviors and their causes in large populations, the hypothesis that lead exposure resulted in more crime is not proven, see e.g.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5801257/

My priors (from a Bayesian perspective) that lead, which in high doses provably can result in brain damage, can have more subtle effects on behavioral inhibition and executive function is pretty high, but I still do not know that I would feel confident saying the evidence is clear.
Porn only "fixes" loneliness if you have the feeling unconditionally linked to sex, which in a way is quite sad.
Funny thing is that I would have said "Accomodating and feeding people are among the most cheap and reasonable things to do, with great ROI."
An obvious possible explanation is that work from home was running on the momentum early on and once people started having to move on to new tasks and new projects work from home got in the way.
Personally, it was books!
Bait and switch is not acceptable. If they want to make money from D3, they should charge for D3. What they're doing is disingenuous and has strong similarities to the drug trade. I don't expect people to work for me for free but I do expect people to not tell me they're going to do something for me for free and then try to find a way to charge me for it later. If they want to make a living from D3, they should be upfront about it and charge accordingly.
Yeah, that's fair. I felt it was worth calling out that it's not a perfect 1:1 map of behavior, since the Android-back does contain multitudes and it's hard to say what a given person expects it to do in their own usage.

Honestly, having used both, I prefer the iOS separation of concerns. I've seen a lot of non-technical people get confused about what Android's "back" is going to do, so a button that'll do something different based on the context of how your reached the current screen apparently doesn't map well to many people's mental models of their phones.
Recently went to a security conference and really wanted a secure low-feature phone to coordinate with friends and keep up with email/web... Speed and features don't matter, don't need games or even video. Can't imagine I'm alone... is this a niche market for a linux smartphone to take off?
I'm curious, what apps do you use day to day that need to be native?

For me, 99% could easily be web-based, which makes "mobile web" the standard, and not necessarily "linux-phone."
The very first statement in that link directly contradicts what you said. It says:

> The certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than the punishment.

The “certainty of being caught” is the threat of punishment. You’ve gotten it confused with the severity of punishment.
I had a coworker critical of my position while working with Qt when I complained about poor documentation, saying that if I needed to know how something worked, I should just read the source.
Now I’m curious: why do you care about human suffering?
But does it work with Wine?
Was it Mark Twain who said the coldest winter he ever experienced was a summer in San Francisco?

>>> My friend Al, with Tesla Owners of East Bay, invited me to crash with him and his family and he advised me to get a jacket. Mind you, I was in the Louisiana heat and it was 95 degrees with 100% humidity, so I thought he was exaggerating. California is supposed to be warm right? In June?
Metadata phrenology has been around for a long time
Antitrust enforcement on large platforms should be done by enforcing vertical separation and interoperability, not by simple breakup. Even the AT&T breakup didn't create a plurality of incompatible landline networks; the resulting companies were all connected in a single phone network, and could seamlessly interoperate. A large interoperable platform can easily preserve its total market share over any foreign competitor aspiring to a monopoly of their own, since it derives greater benefits from network effects.
They’re playing to their audience, managerial types with dreams of becoming C-levels or C-levels who want to become venture capitalists.
I'm sorry if that's been your experience but this generalisation is a bit much.

I probably watch about as much porn as I do Netflix - around 30 minutes per day on average. I enjoy it, it's very relaxing and pleasureful. I'm in a committed long-term relationship of 3 years and have had the same habits through other 3 relationships of about the same length. They've all had a full sex life and I enjoy both separately. I'm sure many people have the same experience.
To answer the headline: I'd actually pay extra for a human driver. This stuff is giving me the creeps. Not even as a passenger, must more as a blind pedestrian.
I agree, but this doesn't happen with just crypto. Some people post meta commentary about a submission's topic — often without reading the article itself. Then, others who also don't want to read the article read that meta commentary instead, and upvote it.

I don't know the root cause exactly, but it is a pretty annoying trend.
KDEConnect is supported in KDE/Plasma-based distros. Work is in progress to add it to Gnome/Phosh. KDEConnect is definitely a killer app!

Can't speak for the other distros, but Mobian/Phosh has reached a point where it's usable as a primary phone. Tons of work from the community has brought battery lifetimes up from ~1 hour to the point where it lasts me the day under normal use. Firefox is usable, and most every piece of software I need has a workable counterpart.

That said, the experience is still quirky (think c.a. 2000 linux on desktops). Most things work, but the final mile still requires a decent amount of poking at config files and trawling wikis. Doable, but not everyone's cup of tea.

(Posted from a pinephone)
An old memory just popped up
> The Wadsworth Constant is the idea (and 2011 meme) that one can safely skip past the first 30 percent of any YouTube video without missing any important content.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/pop-culture/the-wadsworth-const...

The funniest part of that meme is that YouTube implemented a (now obviously removed) "wadsworth" query parameter that skipped the first 30% of a video.
This seems to me like a problem the community can readily solve without demanding that the head of Observable solve it for them. Make a nice neutrally-positioned (i.e. not openly hostile to Observable) site that manages plain JS examples and perhaps you can even get Observable to link to it!
They are steering users away from non Apple apps. If a user installs Dropbox, it seems more likely that they wouldn't want to install and pay for icloud storage. If Apple wasn't benefiting from surfacing their app in front of a non Apple app, why would someone at Apple go through the trouble of setting it up that way?
> Comparing the Library of Alexandria with random web sites is unwarranted. Libraries are curated

I wasn't trying to compare, just making an analogy / metaphor. As in: how many libraries of Alexandria do we lose each day on the web? Because it it's too high a number, then the web is fundamentally broken.

> And websites who can't afford hosting, and there's hosting for $5 these days, BTW, self-curate themselves out of existence

But it shouldn't have to be like that. I've seen some real gems out there that disappeared and weren't backed up on Wayback. Literally all the owner needed was $5 as you say and the site could continue.
This. It also happens with everything, not just the old internet. It is the fun aspect of being one of the few first to reach a certain resource.
In general I really like that this is a low-end device, affordable. I feel like phone prices have gotten totally out of control, but meanwhile we have very low cost pretty excellent chips available. It feels like ARM has let their low end cores languish, which seems to be changing, and I'm hoping we see some natural, logical follow ups to this phone in ~2023.

That said, Snapdragon 845 is inching towards becoming a good general purpose Linux platform, with decent upstream support, and some phone platforms supported. Alas, like the rest of the Android ecosystem, only like 2% of the phones made with this chipset have unlocked bootloaders & will be able to be good long term devices that are well supported by mainline kernels. The rest of these devices are already running out the end of their support life, either no longer getting security updates or real soon about to end support.

I feel like once a device manufacturer no longer offers security support, then is when Right to Repair laws have a moral, ethical, legal obligation to step in & demand the bootloader be unlocked, so it's possible for owners to maintain their devices, given that the manufacturer wont.
BBS forums are still in abundance. Many of them seem relatively clunkier now and are niche, but they exist. And they all end up starting Discord servers.
It allows you to select a region of the screen, then copies it to your clipboard, so you can easily paste it to other programs.
It’s the best workflow there is because it requires no other running tools, and the binding is even simpler than ctrl+cmd+shift+4 on MacOS.
Source: https://tedium.co/2021/05/26/pinephone-mobile-linux-review/
I see you've met a CMM 3+ process. They are great things to behold, not so much to be the bloke playing the part of a cog to execute on them though. Most OPS people I've met like the 3+ range of capability maturity.

Most software developers seem to operate best in a CMM1-3 range before getting bored. 1-2 is where there is always something new to learn from.
Some of those featured stories did reach the front page.
The thing that's even easier to forget is that back then, a much smaller fraction of people were online and thus we had a very special self-selected group. Going on the Internet basically guaranteed you'd find someone interesting. Then the commercialization happened (Al Gore remember?), AOL hordes came in, trolls came in, jocks figured out how to use it, and it went down the toilet from there.
Because all plugins, all samples and stencils on popular websites rarely support anything other than the later version. You can do without upgrading version of Sketch for maybe 6months, but then you'll run into problems, and in 18 months it'll be just what it is, cloud features gone, modern plugin versions gone too, no official libraries are of any use.
I do! First gen. Works just fine. But I also occasionally use regular earbuds via... the headphone jack.
They already do so for Vine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uxJd7aoFM4
I'm struggling with the idea of hybrid WFH.

It still means that I need to live near the office. Instead of a cheaper, quieter place far away from cities.

Besides making middle-management happy, I'm not sure what is the benefit of having one required day per week at the office.
I favor reducing our collective impact so that other life may also thrive. If enough of us scale back our resource-use enough then we don’t need to intentionally limit our numbers.

I’m not outraged, but saddened by what we’ve done and continue to do. I’m also excited/interested/awed by what we’ve done and contribute to do, and curious about our potential. I’d like for us to stretch our collective story unbroken (unlike what my ancestors did to indigenous groups in North America, for example, significantly reducing language and oral-history diversity) for another ten thousand years or more, why not?

I try not to be outraged (nor to dwell in sadness) over things I have little to no influence over. I’m practicing letting the waves of emotion crash and subside.
The anti-monopoly movement has been a struggle for the past 70 years, but has managed to notch some wins. However, the digital economy has only recently come into focus that aligns with past understand of monopoly (legal). As a result, the anti-monopoly movement floundered in the start of the 21st century. Here is a great overview from the Harvard Business Review:

https://hbr.org/2017/12/the-rise-fall-and-rebirth-of-the-u-s...

The reason why this committee is bipartisan, I believe, is because social progressives on one side and free-market conservatives on the other are finally seeing the problem with today's monopolies. (Unfortunately this is just one giant problem out of many giant problems facing modern government, so maybe let's not position it as, "well if they can't fix X they shouldn't bother to fix Y and Z.")

I'm most interested in the platform monopoly legislation. There's an entire new legal vocabulary required to even talk about this. Or so I think.
Here is a video of the sculpture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ACoHa3lqM

The sculpture was commissioned by a company called musicMagpie who let you buy and sell used electronic devices (as well as other things).

More about the sculpture in this page from the musicMagpie site, including statistics about the amount of e-waste in the US, Japan, Germany and the UK:

https://www.musicmagpie.co.uk/mountrecyclemore
The Zebrafish Information Network
Check out https://www.replicated.com/ and https://kots.io/
Well, things I think about:

-this ‘Universe’ (seems to me) is so incredibly intelligible and information rich (information theory rise, e.g. entropy timeline of the observable universe).

-there seems to be something rather than nothing

-there doesn’t seem to be anything that happens without a cause (except, it seems to me, our will).

These seem to be important data points… :)
It's true that HN has gotten more crowded with more noise, but it is still the best there is. I won't be going anywhere.

I am constantly amazed at the thoughtful comments from people who are informed on a subject and take their time to layout a cogent argument. This makes it worthwhile to spend some time scanning more and more other stuff. I am getting to be quite a speed reader in this place.

HN will be just fine as long as Dang (and the other guy) spend so much energy here.
That is how Chromecast works. And it doesn't require you to setup a local file share, then browse to it via another interface.

For example you can open a video in a player (like VLC) and choose "Render -> to Chromecast".
It generally does, yes. Without more details, it is really hard to say what actually happened. I'm not aware of any breaking changes to the Cargo.toml format, though maybe I missed something.

They may have also meant "a new dependency version broke", not literally that Cargo couldn't understand Cargo.toml. Need more details.
Erase from the repo, a little non-standard, but fine. Being asked to remove it from all developer machines sounds like someone misunderstood how version control works. Was that a real life example you hit?
I hear this a lot of times recently — what I'm interested by now is where the new equilibrium will be going forward.

So far us software engineers have often seen jobs as replaceable and we know we'll have another one at the snip of a finger should we quit.

But with enough people actually quitting, how many remote or soon-remote companies will there be to scoop up the supply until quitting an office job cold could be a bad decision?

Genuinely curious here: Any of those quitting for the same reason recently, how hard was it to land an equally well paid remote job?
Well, you can still stream for free online.
I would buy a pinephone at the moment but the performance is just not that much compared to Android phones. It's not good for a daily phone to use at the moment. Until then, I'll stick with my OnePlus 7 Pro until there's a linux phone with good performance, even if it costs more.
I can't believe intelligent people still hold this view.
As an inside perspective on the culture wars I found it interesting. Universities and tech, these are the two epicenters of diversity, equity & inclusion.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2...
>> It’s also still a relatively small number in absolute terms:

> In April, the share of U.S. workers leaving jobs was 2.7%, according to the Labor Department, a jump from 1.6% a year earlier to the highest level since at least 2000.

If those are monthly figures they are roughly going from "quit once every five years" to once every three. It's a pretty big change, I think. Positive, IMO -- mobility is healthy for the economy.