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> If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted.

Such an ego!

"I alone know the truth about the universe! The rest of you are lacking in cognitive tools, i.e, stupid."
I think what that means is, most people don't (and wouldn't want to) do something that you choose to do, at least occasionally. I also meditate, on occasion. But I note that many methods of meditation involve giving you something to do (slow walking meditation, for example), perhaps precisely for this reason?
It's the most accessible on any corporate computer, but also fast to start and fast to use.

I use Greenshot to capture images, but its image editor cannot move rasterized bitmap around... so I still need to go to MS Paint or equivalent.

Interestingly, the Paint 3D that now ships with Windows, is a strangely unfocused app.
Sure, but how many years of my life will I waste, wringing my hands in fearful anticipation of when the job market tanks?

Either way, I’m fairly confident I’ll be able to get a job, or have enough saved to weather the storm. In the meantime, the sense of freedom that comes from WFH is unparalleled.
Also

<@root> irc cloud is banned cuz fck irc cloud
<@root> this was not an accident
<@root> not a mistake
<@root> actually it was supposed to happen a logn time ago
monero is the only one that's actually worth a damn as a...y'know, currency, except because it's inflationary nobody talks about it because it's harder to make a profit.

it's actually private, has fast and cheap transactions and is pretty stable. only problem imo is that it's POW (and mined on the cpu which means it makes crypto mining malware more common)
Leventhal's CPU series was pretty good, also every manufacturer makes reference manuals for their instruction sets. I still have mine (pretty dog eared, just for sentimental value, unlikely to ever be used again).
Fraud detection is a feature, not an issue. Default spending limits on debit cards are a feature, not an issue. It's a very good idea that debit cards have default maximum spends, as long as it is simple to raise them permanently.
Of course, I agree. I hope my comment didn't imply otherwise.

Actually I would argue for the wholesale reduction of the category "food animal". Its largely unnecessary, there are very few people (e.g. with unusual medical needs or living in unusual situations) for whom eating other animals is necessary.
> It doesn't feel like we are any closer to normal people using it for normal real world transactions/finance.

Crypto was always just a way for nerds to legally get rich quick. (When before that opportunity was limited to various finance types.)

Whether that's good or bad is up to you. (It's not like the various non-digital "financial instruments" we've had for a long time before crypto were doing much good for normal real world transactions.)
I guess its just matter of subjective preference, like some people hate eating chocolate some people loves it.
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> This is diversity of thought and lifestyle.

Compared to everyone who is not a member of those communities, perhaps. But for the people who grow inside those communities, there's no diversity, the nail that sticks up is hammered down and everyone is just like everyone else. After all, those are religious cults that actively discourage diversity and encourage conformity to the community's norms.
There are smart actors that plan, but that is rare, since most humans are short term thinkers (or are negative term thinkers, e.g. dwelling too much on their past failures to plan ahead).
Yes, which means you can grep for vulnerabilities.
> You seem to be imagining that a trillion dollar business is just a really big version of a small business

You are extrapolating. Of course I’m aware shareholders would just fire me.

However, adding tens of caveats to what was merely a statement of my visceral and spontaneous reaction to being put in such a situation was, and is, kind of moot.
There are a great many pages that are not usable on a browser that does not implement JS. None of these things are "hypertext" anymore, the original idea was that all web locations would fall back to simple text rendering of the content, the fact that much of the modern web can't be read on a base HTML renderer is more of a statement of what a website is now - an application server.
Reading the comments, everybody wants a Linux phone at a shit price but even that not just yet - first it has to gets close to Android and iOS performance. Such fans!
Please don't cross into personal attack or respond by breaking the site guidelines yourself. Regardless of how bad or annoying another comment is (or you feel it is), you owe the community better if you're participating here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My understanding is when many of these tablets (not Ashurbanipal’s specifically) were removed to the moister confines of Europe they became unreadable
I'd guesstimate that a scroll could contain something like 33 kB of text (in modern equivalent single-byte encoding with inter-word spaces), since the Iliad is divided into 24 "books" (presumably scrolls - the division may even have taken place in Alexandria itself!), has around 120000 characters, and the average Greek word length as per https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1076/jqul.8.3.175.409... is around 5.5 (add 1 for inter-word spaces). Assuming there were 400000 of such scrolls in the library (that seems to be a higher end estimate), it comes out as something like 12 GB.
The “culture wars” are the exact opposite of interesting. They’re cliche and banal, especially HN’s take on this subject.
No general purpose. I know the guy who made this and the hype actually started on a Minecraft forum for developers where there were a lot of Eclipse vs. IntelliJ arguments. It was a hilarious addition to any “What is the best IDE?” threads! He became quite interested in OCR and thought this would be a fun project and thus MS Paint IDE was born!
I have to admit, after I fought for remote work with a bunch of hiring managers before the pandemic, I feel quite a bit Schadenfreude right now.

Also, I think, in the long run remote work will level the playing field between introverts and extroverts quite a bit.
The difference is that GameStop actually has a way to receive cash outside of an investor. They're a real business with revenue. GameStop is using the inflated valuation to raise money to pay off debt and expand its business. While it's unlikely, it's possible that they will eventually make enough profit to justify it's valuation.
> 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?

We'd have to take into consideration how the demand will change at the companies who are refusing remote work right now. I'd expect that it wouldn't diminish: they will still have business goals that will require developers to fulfill. They won't suddenly say "No software people want to work for us? Eh, we don't need them anyways. Let's build toasters instead".
That's a performance which doesn't actually punish the dead person because the dead person is...well...dead.
I think that’s a very good comment.

I don’t understand all parts of it though.

What do you mean by

- discounted and preferential liquidity?

- perpetual block?

- the entire last sentence?

I’d love to get a deeper understanding
I've found that it's much harder to form social bonds, especially cross-team, when working remotely and never seeing people in person. Socializing via Zoom is not the same. The lack of lunch and hallway conversation hurts a lot without even getting into the outside of work socializing. That in turn leads to minor issues exploding because no one has a sense of empathy built for anyone else.
I fail to understand why universities are involved in sexual assault or any other criminal matter. They should be dealt with by the criminal justice system. If a court finds someone guilty than the university can act further based upon that finding.
Because that's all a new born baby can do (and often they're not happy about it). As soon as they're mobile they will interact with their environment whenever they can.
Putting a network connection between your application abstractions was always a dicey proposition. (See EJB 1.0)

Making it the entire basis for application abstraction is lunacy, the sort of extremely clever idiocy that can only occur in the tech world.
Good for you. Just don't be surprised if you're the only one at the office when you get there, though. You might need to find human interaction outside work.
Poor ears
Why not join up with some other Cinnamon users in Debian, and share some of the responsibility of maintaining the packages?
The precursors to the iPhone were just garbage (I say this as a power user of these devices). There is a reason Android dropped their existing plans to mirror the iPhone form factor. It was a fundamental shift that fixed so many usability problems that it started the entire smartphone revolution.

> And don't forget ARM was initially a UK/EU design.

For sure, but ARM doesn’t manufacture and has not meaningfully stepped into the datacenter where low power could be a home run with some more effort.

>Arduino and Pi still are.

Yep, but these serve very little of the public. The Pi as a desktop for regular users has failed.

These are great companies but they don’t have the engineering and financial muscle to completely reshape entire industries. You need to own the stack top to bottom to do that kind of change and those companies are innovators at just one level.
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Yes. And what is the issue with that? As long as you don’t actually dump into the river what you were forbidden to? Unlike quite a few companies all over the world.
Logic errors in unsafe blocks usually aren't grepable.

Speaking from experience using managed languages, and almost safe systems languages, with unsafe blocks support.
i thought this was going to generate code based on drawings you made in ms paint.
I think this is probably sample bias. HN on the weekend isn't a different beast entirely, and FWIW my and other mods' time off doesn't particularly correlate with weekends. Thanks for the kind words in any case!
I already did. I got fired from the job, found another job that gave me roughly a 60% raise (!) (including publicly tradeable equity), and now I rent a private office in a coworking space with some of the extra cash. This was a victory.

A consequence of this is a price tag on how much anger I have, and it's fairly small. More peaceful for me this way.
> has strong similarities to the drug trade.

well that's a bit over the top.
The original idea of the first step in outer space exploration by Korolev & co was a mission to circumnavigate Venus (before the surface conditions were known) or Mars. The N family or rockets, the concept of which had been studied before R-7 ever flew, was envisioned as a tool to assemble the large modular interplanetary spaceship in LEO.

Moon wasn't terribly popular among Soviet space engineers because orbital construction was seen as necessary tech, and a single launch mission would have accomplished nothing towards it. But the party decided to participate in the moon race so the largest rocket in the family, N-1, which was never optimized for TLI missions, has been selected and repurposed for this task (and never flew since the concept itself turned out to be flawed in several regards unlike R-7).

Hard to say whether this vision was right - too many unknowns, and they would probably have finished in early 80s at best - but the outcome of that idea was the modular space station tech.
An able-bodied person with decent income should have no trouble being at least mostly vegetarian, if not most vegan, in North America.
During the covid pandemic. Many just shopped online for all their errands.

And their social interactions were limited to zoom happy hours.
Two companies that play on the same league, curious to see you think otherwise.
WFH will also be the ultimate hiring perk. It now basically costs nothing, since the costs have already been realized. Also, everybody wants it, so it’s high value among candidates. You can basically offer the same comp as a current employer but add WFH and you have a compelling offer.
Why hurt the middle class to help "consumers"? Nah.

If you wanted to make the tax system "more fair" it would mean lowering the outrageously high taxes on the middle class, but that's not within the Overton window and not what you're talking about.
This is an old trope that has been recycled forever. Huxley noted it in 1945

https://m.imgur.com/i1JVHn0
But you don't need to live as close, right? A one hour commute sounds like hell, but once a week? Meh.

I work from home, and my team is distributed, so we work fine online, but there are a few times when we say 'we'll have that conversation over a beer when we meet in person'.
I agree with most of this, but: "SEC has stepped in pretty heavily to classify most crypto as securities" is pretty much not true. The SEC has been pretty heavy handed with ICO's, but most cryptocurrencies are not currently regulated as securities. If they were, all existent US based exchanges would be illegal.
It's always September somewhere on the Internet ...
Too bad most food animals are tortured, sometimes for their entire life, before being killed. The unluckiest ones are the females kept alive for breeding.
Since I no longer play games on my mobile device, I’m comfortable with lower performance (to run Anki, a password manager, Firefox, text editing, play music and podcasts and audiobooks and text-to-speech ebooks—this might be resource-intensive?, record and view photos and videos, send and receive texts and calls). Battery life is also important, though most of my phone use is while it is plugged in.
1) what an odd place to ask this question

2) this is not a bad first place: https://www.w3schools.com/
> most religions ... have an apologetic discipline – a deliberate arm open to debate.

Is it generally seen as an arm open to debate? I have a very religious friend who has gotten into apologetics in the last 6mo or so, and he explicitly describes it as "defending the faith." That seems much less drawing conclusions from evidence and much more drawing evidence from conclusions.

Maybe he's an exception to apologetics, though, as I know he has some admittedly extreme views in some ways.
iPad != Mac
Yeah - both Bitcoin and Ethereum have issues with transfer prices. I'm getting a lil worried about Cardano/ADA as well, as it appears its a 1 ADA fee for transfer.

There is also the problem of transaction volume. No coin can currently handle anything close to the number of transactions the visa network can.

Sadly, as much as I hate how its being pumped, that was one thing doge got right - cheap and fast. And for years the price was stable. This made it really nice for transfers between exchanges.
The last High Sierra update was 7 months ago and it's now unsupported. It's not going to get anymore now that Big Sur has launched as Apple only supports 2 versions back.

So no security updates for starters, software slowly starts to leave behind old versions too.
The Sinclair ZX81 manual had the full list of Z80 opcodes in it - Appendix A in http://zxnext.narod.ru/manuals/ZX81_Manual.pdf . So with that you could start PEEKing and POKEing and experimenting.

I never really did any Z80 coding on the ZX81 itself, but that section of the manual came in really useful when I got an Amstrad CPC, which is what I learned Z80 on. To that I added The Ins & Outs of the Amstrad (https://cpcrulez.fr/book_english-the_ins_and_outs_of_the_ams...), which documented the firmware and other CPC-specific stuff.
While I agree with the bag of technical knowledge desirable for an infosec job, it's worth noting that many who hold such role have pivoted from another more or less technical field of work. A software developer who got familiar with networking, crypto, pentesting along the years makes a smooth transition within the same company, ramps up with the details in a few weeks and proudly wears the hat. Similarly, devops/cloud/site reliability enginners, and more commonly sysadmins, and security consultants have an easy time transitioning.
This is not a good list.

A better use of time is to internalize the ATT&CK matrix and compose multi-axis controls and detections for each tactic and technique.
I've been thinking about a good way to explain this for a couple of days I think the best way is convert the ASN.1 to some psuedo-typed-JSON.

For an X.509v3 public key, the ASN.1 would look like this in JSON-with-types:

[
[
[type:<oid>]: "1.2.840.113549.1.1.1",
[type:<null>]
],
[type:<bitstring>]: <encoded>[
[type:<bigint>]: 39054839120582390568029762340674230...,
[type:<bigint>]: 65537
]
]

"<encoded>" here means an ASN.1 value is serialized and then contained as a binary string.

As you can see here, you only know the structure and type. This falls apart here at the "bitstring" value -- it's an opaque binary blob, which happens to be ASN.1 again, which you would only know if you know the schema.

If we converted this to something more self-describing it would look more like (borrowed kind of from TJSON):

{
"publicKeyInfo:<o<oid,...>>": {
"publicKeyType:<oid>": "1.2.840.113549.1.1.1",
"publicKeyParams:<null>": null
},
"publicKey:<o>": {
"n:<bigint>": "39054839120582390568029762340674230...",
"e:<bigint>": "65537"
}
}

Having this kind of human description in addition to the type and structure makes it easier to work with if you don't know what's inside the structures.
Direct browser support for Markdown would accomplish many of the same goals.
The problem most people have is with the very idea that there are 'universal human patterns'.
For reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290834

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17958021

I’m glad to see this continue blowing up! Love you RubbaBoy <3
The current state of affairs is that we have a labor shortage. The country needs more and more service workers. Tech is the go to backup plan for any college graduate (from any major), so the white collar work is perfectly saturated at the moment due to tech (not just developers, pm’s, sales, designers, etc). The only need for h1b are for the truly ruthless cost cutters. Otherwise, you can continuously undercut just here locally with new college graduates or career-changers (bootcamps, etc).
The person you're responding to was not saying that "stop drinking" is directionally incorrect, but that it was not helpful (that it will not lead to an equivalent level of success).
My Pinephone doesn't work for me as a primary phone (yet), but I think it's still a very capable device at home with good integration (via KDE connect).

Without millions of dollars in corporate support, hardware vendors like Pine64 and Linux on mobile developers need user support to make progress. If you want a performant Linux phone, put some skin in the game.
That's fine! (I've said this in another similar thread recently:) The push here (to the extent that it's organized) should not be "abolish offices, everyone is remote". It should be "trust people to choose the environment where they work best". If you like the office, then you should be able to choose a company that has an office for you to work in. I personally work remotely and find it suits me. But I wouldn't mind working in a hybrid situation either, where being in the office was occasional/available.
I would also be really interested in a repeat of the experiment but with differing age groups. My hypothesis is that younger men would perhaps find it "manly" to suffer electric shocks (perhaps even if just as a bar story for later) while older people would not feel the need for such activities anymore.
> yes, and the focus on tech is a red herring distraction du jour. every company over $100MM should be scrutinized for breakup into smaller entities.

Or we could just levy punitive corporate taxes on large companies over $100MM, and let market participants figure out the most efficient breakup arrangement. Come to think of it, this doesn't look all that different from what the Biden administration seems to be planning re: global corporate taxation.
Being the only one talking to the VPs and CEO in the office during lunch is probably going to be a great career boost. So don't be surprised when the people who go into the office get the nice promotions and you don't.

Interestingly my whole team is very much in favor of being in the office a few days a week.
You are right in that lawmakers and judges won’t.

However, it can happen with both investors or managers instead. Or clients, when you’re a freelancer.

And I thought of the selling option, but it would just mean that someone else would bend what you built to that third party’s will.

It’s vain, and probably egotistical, I know.
> I despise the water cooler theory because I’m perfectly capable of socializing over voip or IM

Different people have different work styles. The water cooler theory is predicated on random, unplanned interactions, which are much harder over those channels. At the proverbial water cooler, an employee might engage with someone they had not planned to speak with, or maybe don't even know, and get some information or connection of value. Maybe you overhear* a couple of other people talking there and you join the conversation because the subject happens to impact you. I'm not sure how well that's replicated by Discord/Slack channels.

After a year+ WFH during the Inside Times, I have come to see the value of at least quarterly, if not monthly, face-to-face team meetings or casual events. Of course, if you have employees in different cities, like west and east coast, you can't affordably meet very often.

* I would hope people would not have a conversation that should be private in a public space, so being overheard is not a bad thing.
Intel in talks to acquire RISC-V firm SiFive for $2B
I was walking around the LES Wednesday night with some friends down by 169 bar and was realizing that the city has started to feel younger and more wild again. People drinking beers on the street, smoking weed everywhere, just out and joyous. It was reminding me of being 23 in the city again (I’m 37 now), before Brooklyn hyper gentrified.

Maybe it’s just everyone brushing off the past year of isolation, but some of that young magic felt more palpable than I had felt right before the pandemic hit. I’m happy the younger kids are out doing their thing again.
> Or even if there is a text article, it's obscured by cookie consent forms, ads, "subscribe to my newsletter" popups, padded intros and outros, and most likely scraped instructions from elsewhere.

The worst are the ones that obviously scrape content from StackOverflow and then reword it.

> It's safer to search directly on Q&A sites or specific forums with the `site:` operator than to try to get lucky with random search results.

This indeed, and DuckDuckGo automates it further with their bang shortcuts like !w for Wikipedia, or !reddit, !ebay, etc.

But even though DuckDuckGo has mostly shaped up to be a good alternative to Google (I rarely use !g anymore), it's vulnerable to SEO tricks in its own right. Searching specific sites helps a lot, but it shouldn't have to be that way.
FWIW, there's a lot of Debian users in the Xfce forums.
I don't think 50% of Torontonians are foreign-born, at least 5 years ago it was 36% https://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/economy/demographics/census/cen...

Looks like NYC is 40% foreign-born, so your point stands as in they are both similarly multi-cultural.

(iirc Brampton – a Toronto suburb – has passed the 50% mark.)
Anyone that has a problem with the idea that these exist is not living in the real world.