skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I take your point that companies can falsely advertise their products. I think there is a place for a government body to make sure claims about healthcare products are factual.

The problem is that deciding whether something is factual is a lot easier for simple things. For something like this, there are vaguer connections between facts like plaque removal and more nebulous things like meaningful outcomes for patients.

> In this particular case we are talking about a drug that appears to not cause any harm.

Other than brain swelling or bleeding, headache, falling, diarrhea, and confusion, delirium or disorientation, you mean?
But then once you get the mental model you spend the other 90% of the time figuring out what magic incantations are needed to transform the graph in the way you want.
Psychedelics are a tool. You don’t ban powerful lasers because someone might get hurt. You regulate and prescribe how they may be used safely. And they are a very powerful tool, not only as a medicine to treat addiction and depression but also as a lens to inspect the nature of consciousness.
Fuchsia is a much more secure and updatable platform. It'd be wonderful if there was a Pine-like for Fuchsia, especially if they can use open drivers.
The official SwiftUI tutorials are absolutely amazing though. But I agree about SwiftUI-labs and the app, they are fantastic resources if you want to go deeper.
To each their own, but I find it hilarious that the weather widget is the straw that broke the camel’s back for you not wanting Windows anymore. There are so many better reasons to move away from Windows.
What sandboxing/app-deployment systems does Linux offer today, and which one is the most promising?

Are they secure, and do they offer fine-grained permissions?
I don't think that actually is a problem though. For specific GNOME apps it's true, they tend to avoid having a lot of configuration settings. You can just avoid using those apps and use other ones.

The one part you can't replace is the shell, but you can pretty much configure every aspect of that using extensions. If you don't like the way the shell operates on a fundamental level, then you would probably be better served by using a different desktop.
Most (all?) the drivers will be closed source since the license allows it.
Someone will always own it, it just won’t be you.
I'm sure they don't need my recommendation, and the whole thing is moot today if Rust has fixed the issues in the years since.

But to play with counterfactual history: Apparently Go is fairly big there. There was a Usenix paper about a Go kernel a while back, and there's also gVisor. Then there is Ada, and Kotlin native, and various safe dialects of C. MS did one in .NET - there were lots of options.
Mid 2000s I had one and loved it. Used it with a good mic to do the audio side of video recordings for art school projects. This combo produced very good quality audio compared to your average handheld camera.
"Life success" is such an ideological concept.

The stereotype of winners and losers stems from social darwinism.

I'd answer with those lyrics from Marilyn Manson:

"Slave never dreams to be free"

"Slave only dreams to be King"
Audio is much faster. McDs is way behind with mobile order and pickup. I've done curbside orders where I sat in the slot and watched the entire DT empty out before someone came out with my food.

If you want to see a group that has their technical shit together, check out Chik-Fil-A.
Nostalgia is not really about the places and things you're reminiscing about; it's more about remembering the positive way you felt when you experienced those places and things in the past. We miss those feelings and want to recapture them in some way, but we can't. That's why nostalgia is painful in a strange, indescribable way.
The biggest performance issue is going to be the browser. Because for any type of rendering performance hardware acceleration is a must. And Firefox disables that by default on Linux (needs to be manually enabled in about:config).

The second issue, which I saw based on reviews alone was a very slow camera interface.

One surprise with PinePhone optimized distros is Ubuntu Touch (ubports). Not sure what type of magic they are on, but accelerate 1080p video in the browser and fluid mobile interfaces.

Check out the Short Circuit youtube channel for their PinePhone video. Watched it expecting to see just laggy interfaces, but ubports really takes it to the next level.
> They sell by the tens of millions

There’re billions of active Android devices. That’s 2 orders of magnitude difference. Compared to these volumes, consoles are niche devices.

And don’t forget about alternatives. If you wanna play videogames you don’t have to buy a console, you can get a PC and buy Windows games from gog, steam, epic or origin. And in some cases like take-two directly from developer. And recently there were multiple attempts to make cloud gaming work, pretty sure some day someone will do that successfully.

Because customers have so many alternatives, xbox and playstation are not a monopoly despite MS/Sony are selling devices locked to their respective stores.

For smartphones, customers only have 2 alternatives. It’s for this reason apple and google are a monopoly, and we should treat them this way i.e. regulate the hell out of them.

> It wasn’t common for things like cameras to have open development platforms either.

I don’t think many people care about open platforms. They care about choice. Back in the days, if you didn’t like e.g. Sony pushing their overprices memory sticks, you could buy a camera that’s not Sony, there were many other good vendors on the market. Nowadays, the cameras are either prosumer and professional (i.e. expensive), or non-existent because smartphones killed them. And while there’re many companies making smartphones, all these smartphones are controlled by just two.
ScyllaDB says it's 26x Cloud Bigtable
We were burned back in the day very heavily by mongodb marketing, now while mongo has changed dramatically since then and certainly a viable option now for many use cases, I am from that experience very wary of databases that restrict comments and open discussion on their marketing materials. ScyllaDB has YouTube comments turned off and no commenting on their blogs. Hard not to be suspicious of that. Considering putting JaniceGraph on top of Cassandra, Scylla or bigtable, anyone having an experience here or recommendations? Thx.
Congratulations Israel, that was a close one.

This was a necessary stepping stone to get Lapid into office in a maximum of two years.

If this government can stick together long enough to pass the necessary reforms to avoid future PMs from enacting extreme resolutions like Netanyahu did for so long, Israel will be an attractive place to continue funding with US taxpayers as the center government will be able to match US civil rights ideals and implement due process instead of rationalizing destructive responses based on rumors. Its not so absurd to imagine getting a court order to seize a property and prosecute individuals that are using military grade munitions. Right now it might seem to be, but it isn't.

If the government doesn't stick together long enough, Lapid gets into office sooner, but it would remain to be seen if there would be any will for restricting the PM power or passing reforms at that point.
Remember that was predicated on a new butt in every seat every game. Which is quite improbable.
You could always switch distro, instead
This is comedy gold:

> `left-pad.io` is 100% REST-compliant as defined by some guy on Hacker News with
maximal opinions and minimal evidence.
At least they won’t break with every minor update.
Lempel-Ziv compression is used by some file compression utilities.[1] The ratio of original size to compressed size is essentially the Lempel-Ziv complexity. If you compress a file of AAAAAAAA..., you will get a very small file, and a low complexity. If you compress a file of random numbers, the file will not compress much, if at all, and you get a high complexity.

"Lempel-Ziv complexity is the number of different sub-strings (or sub-words) encountered as the binary sequence is viewed as a stream (from left to right)"[2] This leads to a compression algorithm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Wel...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel-Ziv_complexity
If, for newcomers, there was literally nothing else you could do, short of obtaining a compatible bachelors degree (another form of certification), to prepare for entry into the field, then yes, it would be unhelpful and inaccurate to say that certification is entirely useless.

But there are other things you can do, and so the effort involved in acquiring a certification --- even if an employer is paying for it --- has to be weighted against those other things. Research, open source development, writing, CTFs, keeping abreast of research, networking (even just "going to Defcon" --- and I don't like Defcon!), investing more time in researching career opportunities, bug bounties... these things all have a much higher payoff than certification does, and any time you spend pursuing a certification is coming at the expense of those other things.

It's also letting you kid yourself about the work and whether it's a fit for what you want to be doing, because one thing you should notice about that random list of things I just generated is that it covers a lot of what infosec people actually do. A certification process provides structure and forcing functions and activation energy (for a dumb process that won't get you any meaningful advantage professionally). But if you can't generate that kind of activation energy yourself, in this climate, with this many available resources, with the kinds of career payoffs people are regularly obtaining, maybe this isn't really what you want to be doing?
Nigerians will 'lead Bitcoin,' says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
Well, the FBI could make it illegal to own Bitcoins that can be traced to criminal activity.
Things are not moving towards the generalized end of privacy and ownership. That may be the case for a specific subset of the population (the 99 percenters), but overall things are simply moving towards a centralization in information availability and asset ownership.

The "elites" (sorry for the boogeyman word Overton window'd out of acceptable use, but it's accurate) own more and more, know more and more about you and your peers, and you still don't know anything about them, or have any democratic control over them.

For someone presumably working in the information industry, calling privacy a petty issue is an interesting opinion, when data is the underlying lifeblood of most of our businesses.
linux ecosystem?

with what apps? cat, ls, htop?
It's easy to recognize the religious belief in he stereotype of winners and losers that stems from social darwinism in such article.

Those lyrics from Marilyn Manson are quite relevant:

"Slave never dreams to be free"

"Slave only dreams to be King"
Independence yes, but complete independence in every way? Of course not. There is an offramping period, and for many, the benefits of familial bonds continue throughout life including things like a safety net in case you lose your job.
Close indeed. Undermining democracy seems to be the new trend.
Take every ounce of energy you would have put into OCSP and plow it into bug bounties, build a portfolio of findings, and get a pentest job. Take a year and figure out where you want to pivot to from there.

If you're a blue team type, you're not interested in OCSP, but the answer for you would instead be to build a portfolio of meaty PRs on security open source projects.
His whole website is pretty cool and filled with retro gaming goodness. Thanks for sharing!
To be fair, some people of all genders get their kicks from being sexually dominated. The issue is knowing where the other person’s limits are and having good communication. This becomes a problem when people find discussing their sexual preferences embarrassing, even with their partners. My sex life improved greatly when I started asking my partners if they have any fantasies and exploring them together. Sometimes porn can help people discover things that they otherwise would have been too shy to bring up. However, If you’re watching porn five times per day and find yourself less and less stimulated by IRL sex, you need a detox.
I don't agree with this at all. I spent a solid decade doing predominantly Windows development and I haven't felt the need to buy a book on any Microsoft topic since, like - "learn Visual Basic 5". While they probably had a good stretch of years from like after VS2008 until maybe after VS2015 where the documentation was clearly not a focus, I've never had any trouble learning first-and-foremost from the documentation and have often used MSDN as a good example of not needing to already understand the entire topic to benefit from first-party documentation on that topic.
A diet is not implicitly nutrient complete simply because it contains animal products. You can still easily miss out on nutrients. All diets require ensuring that you have access to important vitamins and minerals. Like I said and showed, you can get all these things without eating animals products.

You’re saying that I have no culture and that I’m a religious extremist (which seems contradictory a bit) for saying that you can get all the vitamins and minerals you need from non-animal sources. That seems a little disingenuous and ad-hominem, no?
It is all explained in the paper, they had all the necessary licences.

One noteworthy point is that they only took sane adults with experience in psychedelics (that's the tl;dr).
I can't think of a worse analogy for my Koala repellant startup.
Microsoft employees slept in data centers during pandemic lockdown, exec says
I'm convinced that distributed teams, where team members need to cooperate a lot, will be almost always (often significantly) less productive than co-located teams.

I'll mention something trivial yet having strong effects. While working, I often come up with a bunch of random work questions. When co-located, I often look at the person who could answer / I could discuss with. Are they in the office currently? Are they currently looking deeply focused or are they already distracted / looking bored so asking them would not probably cause an issue? If yes, I can ask them and get an immediate answer to solve a problem / clarify my thinking etc.

There's no corresponding possibility with WFH which leads me to shooting an IM which is often answered too late thus delaying the problem-solving. You could say that the difference between getting an answer in 1 minute or 10 minutes does not make much difference, but in reality it can have big consequences. With 10 minutes latency, you've probably already switched contexts and will take a look at the answer later, thus introducing even more delay.

Another thing I noticed that different people manage differently with WFH. Some people communicate often and even build relationships over Zoom calls with ease. Such people typically have great communication / interpersonal skills in the first place. But OTOH there are people who hardly ever initiate communication, very often keep muted in most calls etc. Those are usually the more quiet ones in IRL, but in WFH they are even quieter, and it shows. This is very much amplified when the team did not ever meet each other IRL.

I think that the "best WFH performers" can form great distributed teams. But it's not going to work for the majority of teams, who are likely to see productivity decrease.

I actually believe most of the WFH communication problems could be solved / mitigated with better technology (VR office), but we're simply _nowhere near_ that.
>>We are complaining about maintenance of old COBOL code but God be with the poor people who in 20 years will have to maintain the monstrosities we are creating today.

I'm hoping for some major tax changes right before my retirement so I can dust off my COBOL and get phat lewt!

I wonder how many people that have actually written COBOL will be left by 2030? No one mentions it here, but I'm sure there must be programmers deep in the bowels of banks and insurance companies that are learning COBOL even now?

Oh - And RPG... wonder if there's any of that left ?
There is lots of potential benefits that far outweigh any downsides,so it's worth investigating. They were made illegal for political reasons rather than for scientific or evidence based reasons
Same with most "higher" education. Just hoop jumping.
> There seems to be a lot of friction against giving KDE a go, and I just don't understand it.

It's called NIH syndrome.
Haha, will roll with it. Thanks!
Eh he's pretty similar to Netanyahu with no difference with regard to the Palestinians. In fact he could be more hawkish.
While many functioning porn users will dismiss your comment as nonsense, I believe it really is a massive problem in society.

Porn in its current iteration, is similar to social media in that it literally programs your brain. We program computers but are ignorant to the fact that computers can program our behaviour if we are not careful. Yes, it is a poor substitute for intimacy but it also creates dangerous thought patterns and belief systems. These so called kinks have little to do with healthy sexual biological functioning. The perversions can become so ingrained that one will see it in real life instead of what is actually there.

Remember, that a human being is programmed through our beliefs and habits, which are formed through repetitions. So be extremely careful of what you consume in this age of the Internet.
FlatPak is working on adding support for fine-grained sandboxing, but they're not there yet.
No it’s about factory farming. If you were specifically talking about animal testing, the video I linked is irrelevant. I was talking about what we do to animals in general, not just testing.

But to that point, the first chapter of Peter Singer’s “Animal Liberation” covers what animal testing is, and how horrific it can be, if you’d like to learn more about just how aware these animals are about what we are doing to them.
So either you live in a place where human rights don't exist, or will be in an entirely new world of pain and humiliation once you are found out. And in the meantime, since can't own up to your snooping, you can't act on it at ALL without parallel construction, i.e. without being a liar and a cheat. What you gain by this is only valuable to those who can't lead and inspire. What you lose is invaluable yet unknown to you. Sad.
In government contracting jobs? I assume that's what you mean, because nobody in industry gives an electron-microscropy-detectable fuck about clearance.
I got rid of a 14 year old car and replaced with a 2 year old car. I think there's some potential benefits to newer cars - better safety standards, better gas mileage, generally newer little luxuries (rear camera, bluetooth, better lights, etc).

By 10+ years old on that car, I was starting to have to do non-zero-cost maintenance (above oil change, etc), so having a newer car will remove those costs (and annoyances) at the cost of a bit more up front now. Small, calculated tradeoffs, I guess.

But in the discussion with the guy I referenced above, he's... a car salesman. Part time. But he's sold enough that he can 'borrow' any car he wants, and constantly rotates through phenomenally nice/upscale cars. He has a hard time imagining have to go back to driving 'dumpy, low-end' cars like my Focus. I have a hard time imagining going back to 'check to check' living and always being behind on bills. He's not necessarily in that situation, but I know him well enough to know he doesn't have 3 years of expenses saved up.
>In fact I tend to dismiss CVs for non entry jobs that have certificates listed at all

Listed? I guess every employer has their own little biases.
CNIL Approves First European Code of Conduct for Cloud Infrastructure Providers
Oh the nostalgia... I bought an 701 when it came out. I spent soo much time adding proper metadata to the music on my MDs, I feel like I could still use the device blindly because it is ingrained that deep into muscle memory although I haven't used it anymore since 22 years.
Fun fact: lapid does not have a bachelor's degree.
Fuchsia has separated the drivers from the kernel[1], enabling proprietary drivers that are never updated to become acceptable. This can result in Blueborne[2], GPU vulnerabilities[3], and any other proprietary driver remaining permanently vulnerable as the hardware manufacturer has no incentive to update the driver.

In Fuchsia's model, you can run the latest OS with these vulnerable, non-updated drivers, or your device ODM could even release nothing and you don't have the GPLv2 to fall back on to get the Board Support Package for your hardware to build your own updates with.

1 - https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/8/22163225/google-fuchsia-o...

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueBorne_(security_vulnerabil...

3 - https://redd.it/s48lz
>Israel will be an attractive place to continue funding with US taxpayers

Hopefully not, US taxpayers should see this aid spent on themselves in their own nation.
>I have never got all these jokes.

If you mean that literally, this joke is referencing another joke meme in the functional programming community, explained here: https://blog.merovius.de/2018/01/08/monads-are-just-monoids....

If you mean, you don't get why people joke about Git being hard, it probably isn't for most professional programmers already accustomed to some kind of source control, just perhaps to anyone new to it.
That's a really interesting take. History must have had a role to play here, although I wonder in what way that could've influenced the current outlook and mindset of the peoples.
Telecom monopolies are to blame for the flat line in tech from 2010-2020.

Computer advances follow network bandwidth increases. Network upload bandwidth has been stagnant for almost 20 years.

Give everybody symmetrical gigabit and watch the sparks fly.
FWIW, I just overheard a colleague the other day saying that “2021 could be the year of the Linux smartphone”
There's usually a vague "communication skills" aspect of interviewing, but it's not formalized. I'd be interested in hearing how you evaluate candidates for this.
Respectfully, it is neither of the presented options.

Something to keep in mind: I am the one who posted my opinion. Not the nebulous Hacker News gestalt. I, speaking just for myself, find parents willfully rejecting all of their children, at any age, to be ugly across the board. I would say the same if it had been the husband fleeing to a Monastic order, and I would say the same about (for example) Jobs' treatment of his first daughter.

I know we all form general ideas of how any particular forum will think. Boards have moods. But if we allow ourselves to see that impression as a person, of course we will be annoyed at the perceived inconsistencies and hypocrisies. But that is a false impression- those would only hold true if it were an single individual making such varied claims.
People like you ruin planet earth, really, try to put more trust in people. Oh and if you didn't yet, watch Black Mirror.
Yeah it ran, at low res and low FPS, I remember I had one too. It was barely playable. You really wanted a Pentium
Worse yet, the OS itself is non-GPL, an OEM can modify Fuchsia outside just the drivers to support their device (eg: create a board support package) and never release their modifications to their customers, meaning the community can't compile their own updates to the software running on the device (worse than our current Android situation).
Appreciated, thank you.
Hmm - not sure I follow - the transfers were for more then 1 ADA, so wouldn't the utxo already be over 1 ADA? (and this was wallet to wallet, so I'd assume that would be a 'pure ada' transaction?

Anyway - glad to hear its going down. The Eth gas prices are really showing how much of a killer transaction costs can be. (On top of all the places that stopped taking Bitcoin when the xfers got so expensive)
I look at it. Its design looks bulky...

Small is good though.