skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm absolutely in favor of progressive tax functions (minus the numerous loopholes, e.g., tax shields) for corporations. in fact, there's no reason to have differing corporate and individual tax functions (smoothly varying, as opposed to discontinuous, stepped rates), especially when corporations have gained favored personhood status, and are treated better and more deferentially relative to actual people. note that the biden global tax is a tax floor, and discontinuities just beg to be gamed.

moreover there's no reason to preclude one for the other. let's do both, and more, to make markets competitive and work for the common welfare, rather than decidedly favoring consolidation and capital-holders.
They might have a model of version control in their head that predates distributed version control systems - I never used one myself, but the code base I work on still has scars here and there from the era when only one developer could have any single file checked out.
Seriously? I would never, ever consider doing that to my employees. It’s plainly obvious if someone is doing their work or not without tracking their mouse movements.

What’s the name of your company so I can tell everyone I know to avoid it like the plague? My company is gingrapp.com. We’re hiring and would never subject anyone to this.
Crypto-mining gangs are running amok on free cloud computing platforms
When I was on Debian I was pretty satisfied with Openbox + XFCE panel (and I guess buy in piecemeal other XFCE bits as need) wishing came from the Crunchbang days. It was pretty lightweight and low-maintenance.

With Wayland finally taking off (color management be damned sad), maybe you could give Sway, the Rust tiling manager, a go. Debian has a page for it https://wiki.debian.org/sway
And so commercial vendors decide to apply to Android instead.
It is not clear to me where the "deception" is, even if the rest of what you said is right. The things mentioned in this thread are common knowledge and widely discussed.
You have one engineer that you send to enumerate the “Credential Dumping” TTP, read every reference, and model controls and detections. Mimikatz? Great, recompile the source code, modify the args, what’s left and how do you protect / detect? DCsync? How does it work? What events are triggered? How do you mitigate through defensive controls?

You have another that you send to read about cached credentials in a textbook.

You’re telling me the former does not come out ahead of the latter?
Tata Nano factory moving from WB to Gujarat, not exactly a paper tiger.
Facetime already has a lot of limitations . While I do love it, it's very data heavy - have you ever looked at how much data it consumes? Also, it's a fn batteryand heat hog. It freaking makes all my phones hot and uses tons of power.

You can't easily record a call (unless I am unaware) it's hard to take screenshots, and you can't take a shot of just the other party, it always will have your personal view in a corner.

The call logs suck.

And obviously the walked garden.

I'm typing this on android, but I also have an iPhone on me that's wifi only such that I can facetime and imessages.

However imessage is broken as well: I can text people but some people can't text me back.

I also have a google voice account and somehow these three platforms have confused the system, as messages constantly get lost ,,,
The same author also has an article on Tether.[1] Tether remains scary. Tether has a market cap of US $62 billion. They're approaching the market cap of General Motors, and are up there with big mutual funds. And nobody has any idea where the money is being stored.

The "commercial paper" story does not hold water. If Tether really had that much commercial paper, Tether would be the 7th largest buyer of it. Since commercial paper is short-term, a few months at most, they'd have to have a busy trading desk rolling over their commercial paper.

They don't. The big players in commercial paper are not seeing any Tether activity.[2] Uh oh.

Their "commercial paper" is probably just notes from other crypto companies. Or their own crypto company.

[1] https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/06/10/how-big-is-tether/

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/342966af-98dc-4b48-b997-38c008042...
There's a reason humans have conquered the world and cats are our pets.
Venture capitalists in general are pretty clueless...
I definitely haven't. Is it something you reference? Some of the technical aspects seem as fine as anything you could google, but the whole kill-chain thing always seemed a little overblown. I agree with your comment about it not benefiting practitioners as much.
Young people make the least money on stocks
AWS, for example, charges for cross-AZ data transfers. Naive setups with multiple AZs (us-west-1a, 1b, etc.) and a centralized Prometheus setup will rack up quite the cost.
I can't think of any foreign companies in a monopoly/monopolistic position in the US that don't have a US counterpart in a similar position.

T-Mobile is/was German and is in a monopolistic position, but it doesn't have any specific advantage over AT&T or Verizon, and is subject to the same type of regulatory scrutiny over aquisitions, etc.

There's a lot of foreign pharma corps, but afaik, they don't do anything more monopolistic than US pharma corps. Same with oil and chemical companies.

Would be happy to consider something I missed, however.
I definitely agree on the mixed bag nature of certs. It can be frustrating being ignored by HR because you're lacking the special four letters they want to see, and that situation is more common than I think we'd like to admit. You'll probably need at least one or two unless you're a real Rockstar who can show value on your resume in some significant other way (CVEs, extensive GitHub, etc.).

All that being said, I do think a well written cert course can be an excellent framework for learning a new technology. Having guidance on what is actually important when getting started can be a huge accelerator for your personal development, just make sure you avoid the trash ones (CEH!!!). The HR stamp of approval will hopefully just be the icing on the cake at that point.
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Problem with the OSCP is that they decided to now have proctors watching through a webcam for the duration of the exam (24 hours). Not sure if a lot of people in the industry are comfortable with such a gross invasion of their privacy.

Otherwise, I'd say that the courses are not very good but the labs are really well made and the exam is definitely interesting (but I would never try another exam from them now that they implemented that proctoring rule)
<rant>I wish Debian would stop shipping hacked versions upstream projects. I mean, not stop completely; but to me it seems to be a cultural problem, a bit like NIH. It looks like makework.</rant>

Multiple upstream dependencies: that's a different problem.

Well, your test-and-build system should pull in the latest dependencies on commit, and run the test suite. If tests fail because of incompatible upstream version changes, then you have to pin one or both of the upstream versions, until the incompatibility is resolved.

Not ideal. What if you have 250 upstream dependencies, like Node.js developers have to deal with every day?
This is the first time I hear of KDE Connect and I am amazed! Thank you, you just made my electronic-related life significantly easier!
I was left unsatisfied, but also grateful that the author is capable of being vulnerable by being forthright in their introspection.

May I have that courage if needed.
This younger generation would be happy with an Internet that would constantly stream video content that they have ANY control over (AKA TV) ... that doesn't mean that it is better... WTF am I reading...
IMO GNOME is too tablet-oriented. I don't like it, this kind of UI is foreign on desktop. They waste an entire top bar. Top bar is not compatible with tabbed applications (mainly browsers). Application launcher screen is absolutely weird for desktop, it reminds me of Windows 8.
I didn't go into it expecting her to have any answers. If there were easy answers, they would already have been implemented. I thought it was a good read, and admired her bravery, honesty, and self examination.
Sometimes you have to look in the headers. I don't know why it doesn't get parsed into the docs. Here's the documentation for loadSimulatedRequest:

/*! @abstract Sets the webpage contents from the passed data as if it was the
response to the supplied request. The request is never actually sent to the
supplied URL, though loads of resources defined in the NSData object would
be performed.
@param request The request specifying the base URL and other loading details
to be used while interpreting the supplied data object.
@param response A response that is used to interpret the supplied data object.
@param data The data to use as the contents of the webpage.
@result A new navigation.
*/
It really depends on how you enter and where you enter into the industry.

Overall I find these certs to be a waste of time and money, and when hiring candidates I usually filter out those who have every ISC2 cert under the sun.

In fact I tend to dismiss CVs for non entry jobs that have certificates listed at all.

If you have 10+ years of experience I don’t care about your “education” if those 10 years can’t speak for themselves you’re probably not the candidate I’m looking for.
yeah porn is a pandemic, NOT.

here is a secret: we are hardwired to reproduce. you may think you have a choice but you are wired to fsck everything that has even a remote chance of resulting into you passing your genes forward.

porn is a way to release some of the tension that comes with this wiring. nothing more, nothing less.
It reminded me of when I went through and ripped my CD collection. I'd estimate that almost a third of the album data was complete trash, and there were a shockingly bad number of spelling errors. I couldn't help but wonder if someone was deliberately poisoning data.
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Your reading of this is rather extreme, and I feel you've missed the point by thinking that Russell is advocating to avoid fun intentionally at times so as to preserve a happy life. I read it as more an observation that the boring times, those in which there's a lack of stimulation, are an important part of a balanced, healthy life.

A more modern take on his advice would be to avoid mindlessly surfing the internet every dull moment in which we are waiting a few minutes for some time to pass. If you haven't taken an extended, conscious break from the internet outside of your work needs (no social media, no news, etc), I recommend it. It was very enlightening for me to feel this lack of stimulation. I certainly enjoy my time on the internet when I'm there because I want to be there, not because I'm just looking for something to kill the time.

Similarly, I've stopped listening to music while coding because I realized that the listening without mindfulness was killing my passion. After doing so, the passion has been restored.

His words, too, remind me of the drug user's plight. My sister works in drug rehabilitation and has told me about the struggles many go through known as Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome. From my naive understanding, these people have adapted to the constant, unnatural amount of dopamine flowing through the brains during addiction by producing more dopamine receptors. When the drug is gone, those receptors are still there. But, the body is not capable of naturally releasing the dopamine required to fill these receptors even during the highest of natural moments, leading these people to experience serious anhedonia -- an intense lack of pleasure from everyday life. It takes a long time for these receptors to downregulate, which is the reason for such a high rate of relapse for certain drug types.

I think of Emerson's words a bit: "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!"
No, it's a bit of a myth that those techs just magically scale everything. They don't make that problem go away at all. You still need to find homes for the services to run on. It does make it a single function call to potentially start up a new service on a remote node, but if you need to be careful about resource use you're hardly any better off than you are with anything else. In a way that can end up being too easy to just add work to systems rather willy-nilly, the ceremony in kubernetes or any other more explicit system can be a good thing.
The mortgages didn't have positive value, but they had the actual homes as collateral which provided intrinsic value. A mortgage goes under and you have a house to short sell and recoup your losses. A cryptocurrency goes bust and you have nothing. It is the difference between losing 20% of your investment and losing 100% of your investment.
Google returns that site as the #1 result for "world socialist", and "world socialist web site" and the Facebook accounts that were supposedly "purged" are all online, for example https://www.facebook.com/iyssesdsu. So, again, please provide specific examples of accounts that were suppressed for dissension, and apparently also I need to ask you to think critically about whether and how such suppression was achieved.
> Life does not revolve around a child

Of course it does - while they actually are children they should be your number 1 priority and the focus of all you do. But once they're adults it's a different story altogether.
Creating tutorials is not bait and switch. Any competent web dev can learn from the documentation instead. The Observable tutorials are no different from e.g. Heroku tutorials on Rails, or the usual web tech blog spam Logrocket churns out.
To a small minority, programming is an interest in itself. To most programmers, programming is a tool for achieving something they want. I learned to program mainly to make video games and websites.

For a general purpose programming language, I might suggest Lua. It's much less cryptic than most.
> Even Linux desktop suffers from a lack of contributors.

After IBM intervention and their contribution to GNOME 40 - I'm not sure about suffering anymore.

So yeah, we need more players on mobile Linux field.
Yes, I found it is simplest to drag the 'karate2_msx.rom' to your browser and select 'Cartidge 1' from the popup.
If your >95% of your codebase doesn't feature unsafe, your rare human with the review skills only has to look at the remaining 5%, maybe 10% in order to understand what the 5% are doing.
Yes, actually, it is.

Omnivorous diets can be unhealthy, but not due to nutrition deficiency. The problems with those diets are all solved with moderation. Vegan diets have to deal with nutrient deficiency. Filling gaps in nutrition deficiency takes targeted food intake or supplements. Those aren't always available or cheap. People have food allergies that can eliminate them as candidates. They are hard to incorporate into existing diets and available foods.

I find it a lot more morally objectionable that your privileged culture-less self would pretend to know what's better for the rest of humanity than they are capable of determining for themselves. There's a reason people who care about food refer to vegans with names like the "Hezbollah of vegetarians". You're not diet advocates, you're religious extremists.
Completely disagree, there is probably 100x more content now compared to 10-15 years ago, sure garbage also increased but excellent content is there and internet of today is better overall.
I want something small like Palm Phone, which is beautiful and refined.

But Palm Phone totally screws it up by marketing themselves as "companion phone" (your second mobile phone, why would I have 2 phones??) and the battery life is 5h (wtf is this??).

Other minimal phones focuses on calling, and guess what? 99% of my calls in the past few years were with spam.

Currently, there is absolutely no minimal small smart phone.
You may not be interested in the culture wars, but the culture wars are interested in you.

-Lean Trotsky (paraphrased)
> Since we're basically stuck with TLS, Gemini asks the question of how to make TLS make a run for its money - and this is by using TLS asymmetric crypto keys for persistent or semi-persistant identity handled by the client. The HTTP web still doesn't have single sign-on, but Gemini does. Just present the same key everywhere.

and the selling point is 'no tracking'? i must be missing something.
So if I understand correctly there’s no equivalent to git squash merging branches?
I need to figure out how to segregate my work issued laptop from the rest of my home network when I'm working from home. I don't trust work IT to not be scanning traffic on my home network.
Your complete lack of self awareness makes me understand this conversation will go nowhere, so perhaps we'd better stop here.

You don't get to cherry pick what you like and what you don't like. Your funny book says this, verbatim (NRSV): “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”. Therefore putting oxen, donkey, slaves, and wives on the same category: your property. So regarding this:

> This is just false. commandment 9 is don't covet neighbor's wife and commandment 10 is don't covet neighbor's property.

I suggest you learn more about your own religion and realise there's no numbering in the bible, it's only a matter of tradition, and some traditions divide it one way and other another (summary table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments#Numbering).

Regarding adultery: opinions are divided about what it means (already a sign that perhaps such a vague, easily misinterpreted passage might not be the eternal perfect word of god...). Influent people such as St Paul or Calvin say it refers to relations outside a formally declared marriage. And citing Corinthians 6:

“Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”

therefore putting thieves and fraudsters in the same category as me as a homosexual "adulterer".

> you seem bent on believing despite all evidence to the contrary that you alone control the universe

Aaaaaaaaaaaa! The lack of self-awareness is out of this world! Precisely it's you who claim that the universe, the stars, all laws of nature, and our own tiny tiny rock floating through space, were made for YOU and that YOU are the centre of the universe! You can't get any more megalomaniacal than that :)

Here's a suggestion: contemplate this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pale_Blu...

while listening to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F2NeH_-f34

PS:

> If you've ever been part of AA you'd know that accepting there is a power other than you in control is essential to happiness and satisfaction in life

I had happiness and satisfaction in life when I embraced Humanism in detriment of religion. I like the person which I am today! So I'm happy for you that you're happy with your religion, so long as it doesn't motivate you to evil. But please kindly refrain from insulting other people who don't share your views.
Strangely, the best documentation I've seen so far has been PHP. The only reason: because developers could comment right below the documentation. It's like having StackOverflow right there, in the documentation page.

(Note: I haven't touched PHP since 20 years or so, so not sure if it's still the case).
Given the high-inflation environment we seem to be in currently, I wonder if employees might actually start to capture some of that increased productivity in the form of increased compensation?

I don't expect employers to pay more willingly, but if these supply/demand changes continue, perhaps they won't have an alternative?
I'm sure I don't want to know, but what is 1/6?
Why is it even legal to conduct LSD experiments? There was some animal testing post earlier, but giving people illegal consciousness altering drugs seems so much worse.
These schemes have merely been replaced by variations on a theme. Without wanting to sound too dramatic, it’s just an arms race and having seen some this up-close myself, there is always another structure sitting on the shelf for when the current one is retired.
Modular interfaces are great, but why require communication over those interfaces to go via network traffic? Can't you just use a library/package?
I’m unsure if you’re saying I shouldn’t be criticising him or should be more critical?

If he’d just been doing something sexually odd on his own I have no issue with almost anything that might be - but what he was doing abused his power and hurt other people.
Do you work in this field? I don't, but even as a layman I'm quite certain that the research process is more involved than you appear to be suggesting. As far as I'm aware, trials in animal models don't stop at mice — I've heard of researchers testing for safety and efficacy on mice, and then progressing to guinea pigs and subsequently macaques. Some animal anatomies behave more similarly to humans when confronted with the same disease than others.

I know what I'm an expert in and it certainly isn't this. I trust actual scientists to know what they're doing.
> by the very action of charging a higher price, it helps compensate for a negative effect that would not be priced in otherwise

that is charitable interpretation to say the least.. Once monopoly revenue is passing hands, who is to say that safety, service and responsible behavior strengthens? There are manifold examples of a whole range of outcomes.

A defense of oil monopoly markets is particulalry distasteful in light of a global, literal crisis due to oil consumption by the billions of barrels, right?
I think literate programming moves _some_ context _closer_ to the code. Sadly I think the modern version of this is the notebook, and these are not things that are built to last. But really I'm picturing working on codebases where lots and lots of freeform text, either in the same file or elsewhere, isn't necessary, because the language or framework guides you to express everything all at once. It's a fuzzy picture, I'll grant you.
This implies that lumber is a tiny portion of the basket of goods and is irrelevant for the majority of consumers.

Edit: My point is that if it is such a tiny portion, then a nation wide change in demand can have a huge impact on pricing without necessarily requiring monetary policy as cause.
Well, yes, adding noise increases the fractal dimension of a signal.

"Shannon entropy" is noise.

"Lempel-Ziv complexity" is "how long is the zip file".
It's more nuanced than that. Vaccinated people who get breakthrough infections don't end up in the hospital.
It is difficult for me not to believe that a portion of the Russia hysteria is not driven by our own three letter agencies for political purposes. Russia doesn't hold a monopoly on cyber criminals, because there are many Asian countries with a very capable and active cyber criminal community.
Except that's misleading considering that hospitalization is not a prerequisite for death and the statistic in that group is higher than 0.2%

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics

the death rate in that cohort is 0.36% or about 1 in 300

14,387 deaths in 3,978,547 cases

considering that they are on the high end of that bracket the next higher bracket is about 1.3% mortality rate or about 1 in 100 though that houses the group up to age 64 so it's more likely closer to the 0.5%-0.8% mortality rate but that's interpolating the data so it's messy.
IPFS mirroring would probably be ideal for simple websites like this.
The question wasn't "how to magically scale everything".

The question was why not eliminate the difference between in-process async call and a service, and that's basically what Erlang and actors do.
Italy halts AstraZeneca vaccine for under-60s