skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long have you been using Gnome for? I'd been a while for me, but back when I was using Linux it seemed like Nautilus was frequently dropping features for things I didn't care about.

https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/gnom...

Gnome may be different now, but they were part of a pattern in the GNU/Linux community that ultimately caused me to leave it. I knew I couldn't rely on either Gnome or distros themselves because they seemed to have no problem changing things out from underneath you, and more often than not it seemed like those things were done as a form of self promotion.

This wasn't a one off thing. This was the Linux world for a good number of years, in my experience. Anyone who used Ubuntu or Debian from 2008 to around 2013 might remember the forks that happened because DEs up and decided that they knew better than their own users.

Not specifically about Gnome, but I brought up FFmpeg (or rather libav) as another example of the bullshit of Linux. Some devs decided that they didn't like the architecture of FFmpeg and wanted it to be organized to their liking, so they forked it into Libav/avconv, which was inferior to FFmpeg but the people who run the Debian repositories were convinced that Libav was the future so they replaced FFmpeg with an alias to avconv that had a totally misleading deprecation message that was basically a lie.

So yeah, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Gnome one day decided to get rid of thumbnails and not provide an option to turn them back on. Yes, I am bitter from the latter years of my Linux usage. Somehow macOS can update and upgrade its versions without causing me to question whether aspects of the UI I rely upon will spontaneously disappear or gaslight me into thinking I shouldn't be using those things anymore.
As many have already mentioned in prior discussions, 5-star reviews are meaningless and Amazon does not care.
Your cite includes a chart that very clearly shows wages rising with inflation.
A set that I found interesting:

- Defense (protecting something)

- Fencing (protecting yourself with a sword)

- Fence (a wall that protects your property)

- Fence (someone who buys stolen goods which allows the thief to protect themselves from getting caught)
If you are using SSO (to enforce U2F) and password managers (really, basic levels of enterprise auth competence in 2021) then signing in multiple times per day isn't a huge hassle because it's just a click and a tap.
Luckily my wife wakes up if a pin falls on the ground. Also, the volume for my earbuds is quite low, and I can still here the kids going to the bathroom at night.
AFAIK Kraken and Newton don't trade Chia. Newton looks very, very similar to Coinberry. None of them trade Chia yet. The crazy thing is that on crypto.com I can _buy_ Chia, but I can't transfer in and sell it.

> I think 'looking like money laundering' sort of just comes with the territory right now.

Lmao. That'll be a hard pass for me then. $10k would be a lot of money for me, but I'd rather watch what I thought might be $5-10k disappear instead of ending up on the government's radar.
Ever clicked on document.exe?
Can you please stop perpetuating this flamewar? It's extremely not helping.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. If you think another commenter is abusing HN you can flag their posts and/or email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it. But pouring fuel on the flames makes you as destructive a contributor as they are, which is why the guidelines explicitly ask people not to.
airplanes use no energy, they offer a marketplace where token of fuel consumption are exchanged for weak guarantees of transportation
Western EU states seek to force Greece to take refugees back
Pretty sure the value of gold only truly fluctuates against fiat currencies. It's not the intrinsic value of gold that fluctuates. In Roman times the value of an ounce of gold would buy a handmade robe, belt, and shoes. At today's value $1800, you could do exactly the same.
These are exactly the kinds of issues antitrust legislation needs to be updated to handle.

I have no issue with a company running a store and selling its own products within, but it has to provide a level playing field.

It's good they fixed it -- that the VP in question didn't know it had been done and then nixed it -- but this shouldn't even be legal in the first place.
Lojack has often been installed on construction equipment since the 80s or 90s.
I had a similar experience in April. I reported the seller to Amazon, including lots of evidence (links to reviews by other buyers complaining about the same thing, etc.) They assured me that they would take care of it, but the product is still available and it seems that nothing has changed.
I've never heard smartchain before, that's terrific marketing, I bet it's gonna fool a ton of people.
Congratulations! Always great to see SFU students in the wild :)
And to quote a different famous author: "A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive."
It's very counterintuitive, but actually the more unbanked you are the more you needs loans/savings and the more complicated your personal financial balance sheet is. I'd recommend the book 'the poor and their money'[1] for the details on this, but essentially if you haven't got savings you are constantly borrowing and lending informally with your community to meet life needs like a new roof or school fees.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Their-Money-Oxford-India-Paperbacks/d...
It's only a good argument if you assume that Apple is fundamentally interested in consumer security. It isn't. Apple is fundamentally interested in control. Security, however Apple defines it, is a chosen means to the extent that is fulfills the company's primary goal.
That's not to say that Apple should behave like a charitable force. A company's goals and decisions are its own prerogative. But as we've seen with the revelations of the Epic trial, the Darth Vader-style rule changes, updates that interfere with the basic operation of the device, etc., you're not just buying into a remotely managed system like a remote desktop at a colocation center. You're buying into the blackbox of Apple's present and future business decisions whether that suits your needs or not.
Should security no longer justify the cost to Apple, they'll contort the meaning of the word to suit their ends just like Tim Cook has done to the word "equal" during his congressional hearing.
The way I see it, Vagrant does for VMs what Docker does for containers: provides a way to build, deploy, manage, and teardown VMs consistently and without much manual effort. For example, I used Vagrant when learning to use Kubernetes, because I could quickly spin up a 3 node cluster on my laptop and destroy it if I messed up.

If you can use containers for local dev, great, but not everyone can or wants to migrate to containers. Vagrant still solves a very important use case.
PhantomBuster makes you fork over your Slack cookie in order to use it. Could easily be that or something similar.
> “We are removing the manual boost and the search results should be more relevant now,” wrote Apple app search lead Debankur Naskar, after the company was confronted by Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney over Apple’s Files app showing up first when searching for Dropbox. “Dropbox wasn’t even visible on the first page [of search results],” Sweeney wrote.
Token issuance is analogous to a loan economically (it creates new money supply) and in terms of its ability to finance economic growth. Anyone can do it, which is a massive improvement on access to finance today (or, in some countries, would be if not for outdated securities regulation).

Given that each token is traceable, it is very clear what risk one is holding if one holds a basket of tokens, much more so than for holders of bank equity or securitised loans.
Google's Airtable competitor experiment graduating to full product
Normally it does, but seldom are the stakes high enough to sue. The concept is called "detrimental reliance."

But it looks like she was already unemployed and the job was remote (so she didn't have to move). If it was at-will, and she hadn't done any work yet, there's probably not much there. Online embarassment is hard to value, unfortunately.
consumer watchdogs are useless. the only good deterrent against fraud is jail time
We lost that discussion before it even began: It was just the standard everywhere, so it was hard for a particular group of employees to change it, especially considering the state and priorities of unions.

Now this is a new development, a new discussion. Workers in tech actually have leverage, so it is a good time and situation to advocate for better rights.
Possible, but not exactly trivial to do the same with an IP address in the same city and from the same ASN as the impersonation victim.

There are definitely some mitigations you can do servers use to reduce the likelihood of success of this kind of attack.

Now I want to go build an auth system. :D
How Big Is Tether?
Neat! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Deseret
Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management in the age of containers
Yet another browser-specific CSP quirk: Safari and the base-URI directive
The Mysterious Murasame Castle
The $922 sounds about right. That jibes with my estimates.

There's another (unofficial!) calculator at http://liangzan.net/aws-glacier-calculator/ you can toy with.
The difference between AMD and Nvidia is _huge_ when you look at software support and drivers and etc. Part of this is network effects and part of it is just AMD itself. But the hard reality is I'd never buy AMD for compute, even if in specs it were better.

Just as a random anecdote, I grabbed an AMD 5700xt around when those came out (for gaming). Since I had it sitting around between gaming sessions, I figured I'd try to use it for some compute, for Go AI training. For _1.5 years_ there existed a showstopping bug with this, it just could not function for all of that time. They _still_ do not support this card in their ROCm library platform last I checked. The focus and support from AMD is just not there.
OK, then how about inviting friends with kids into your kitchen and study their similarities...
Eh, it got spammed and transactions slowed to BTC level (but still with no fees) for a couple months. Spam is a solvable problem. A hard limit of 4 transactions per second isn't.

Ya know what doesn't have security and trust? Putting your entire country on two custodial wallets and having all your citizen's wealth in the hands of two foreign companies (channel factoried or no). No one in El Salvador actually owns any Bitcoin. It baffles me how anyone could get on board with the original ideals of BTC, then defend what's happening now.
There’s still promissory estoppel, though.
The world’s first ‘net zero energy’ high-rise apartment building
I fear I don't. Probably I'll end up using the web in general a lot less.
Yeah, this was forever ago, so on hindsight, maybe I shouldn't have even brought it up. haha
Ever heard of Windows Defender?
But how did the Pi get there? Was it just some NASA employee's project? Or was there physical intrustion and the Pi was part of the plan?
Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM_cartridge ?

I think Nintendo uses https://www.mxic.com.tw/en-us/products/ROM/Pages/default.asp...

https://www.mxic.com.tw/CachePages/en-us-Product-ROM-default...
> You're buying into the blackbox of Apple's present and future business decisions whether whether that suits your needs or not.

You don't have to install updates.
I feel like the offloaded liability is just a technicality and is a poor lack of incentive for Amazon to do anything. Sure, the product was sold by a non-Amazon third party, but from the user perspective the defective product was purchased on Amazon. The company can deflect blame to the marketplace sellers all they want, but it's still Amazon's reputation that receives the most lasting damage.
Generally no, because the unit of write is a page.
It doesn't, in practice, if they all ask for it and people are conditioned to always grant it.
The problem happens when you estimate it will only take a few hours and at the end of the first hour it's 1% done, or it nears completion and crashes, in a loop. Now what?
>A representative for the hackers told Motherboard in an online chat

Isn't it strange how hacking groups more and more seem to behave like valid businesses nowadays?
Docker has never been about such things, even if it's a nice solution for developing them.
A VM can still use systemd as init rather than an entrypoint script, so if you're developing systemd units, you need a VM. There is also the issue of running your application in a container in the first place. Docker in Docker is possible, but cumbersome. Redhat has certainly made it easier with Podman, but Docker still dominates developer mindshare. It's also quite a bit easier to persist changes in a VM, so rather than rearchitecting the OS or toolchain secrets management, user-specific configuration in a VM can just be done by the user after first launch and it sticks around. Simpler to do that than providing instructions and capability to mount git credentials store and gpg trust dbs into a container, then worrying about making sure you have the same UID in the container and out of it, so you don't mess up permissions.

Containers are largely just not a great medium for interactive work, i.e. development. They're great for resident applications that use a single process run via a service account.
I've had some thoughts about it too. In addition, I think, entities which want a piece of your data, should be able to somehow define "queries" and the "custodian" (in your terms) should be able either to tell yes or no (if you accept to answer to the query).

I imagine it this way, you have some kind of device, wanna drink in a bar? The bartender can "query" whether you are over 21 or not, you see the query, authenticate (with bio and pin/password) and your device confirms that you are over 21.

Wanna take a credit, the entity queries to check if your credit score is over 9000, and if you agree to let them know then your device just answers yes/no.

But there must be ways to protect the data, ideally the data should be encrypted at rest (wherever) and decrypted only in your device in some kind of secure enclave, so that your custodian can sign the result of the query being sure that it is not altered.
We use vagrant with ansible to build a local dev environment and almost the same production environment from the same ansible project.

We experimented with docker, but it is still extremly slow on windows and our production machine is provisioned with ansible, so vagrant is a natural fit...

Very happy most of the time, only some strange ssh errors happen from time to time...
Interesting, that was new to me. Wirth's work is not the worst source for inspiration of course.

I still find the adoption of Go interesting though, considering how limiting Pascal/Modula/Oberon felt to me when leaving them behind.
The cost of Java's EnumSet – A criticism of the ecosystem
"Flash shredders exist, too, but in order to be compliant the actual chips in their cases need to be broken. So what they produce is usually much finer grained, a “sand” of plastics and silicon."

For metal, chip credit cards I can't shred, I put them on a brick in the back yard, and torch them with a weed burner. There's a psychological bonus here, if for example Amex made me change cards through no choice of my own because they were hacked.

This wouldn't be "compliant" for a flash drive, but it would be effective.
MSL uses a RTG which means it has nuclear material onboard which means it falls under ITAR.

That said, I don't see where this is especially valuable to hackers at this point. There are much easier ways to steal nuclear material these days than to target the one on Mars.
This is an incredibly expensive treatment meant for incredibly desperate people. If you were in a situation where a parent had alzheimers it would be hard not to feel guilty if you didn't try it, no matter the price.

To approve the drug despite the lack of efficacy is unethical, especially considering there are potentially severe side effects like brain swelling.
depleted might be the wrong word, becomes inactive perhaps? I agree with your general assessments though, volcanic activity doesn't seem like a reliable source of energy.
Yes. There's a legal concept called "promissory estoppel". Essentially, a promise is a promise, and if I act on your promise and you later break it, and I suffer economic losses because I assumed you wouldn't, you're liable.

That still wouldn't cover the inconvenience of looking for a new job, but it is something.
My guess is this approach would also be desegregating.
Yes, you could.

The issue is getting that off label insulin distributed. Insulin must be refrigerated which really makes distribution difficult. A pharmacy isn't going to store it in their refrigerators and stores aren't going to plop it down next to the milk.

Then, of course, you run into the risk that you get sued anyways by current insulin manufacturers for patent violations (good luck with that!).

Oh, and you also run the risk that someone takes your insulin and sues you for a bad reaction. With FDA approval, there's a much lower legal risk.

And finally, after you setup your insulin product, you simply run the risk that nobody uses it because it's off label and their doctors didn't prescribe it.

Oh, and for certain, your insurance will not cover it at all. So, bunch of risks with minimal rewards. Still completely legal. Can be done doesn't mean will be done.
and yet, despite occasional problems, the same hasn't happened in the Android sphere with sideloading. Problems? Sure... but not "ZOMG MILLIONS!"

"Apple makes a good argument" Their argument doesn't give near enough excuses for their mafia level racket to shake down businesses of protection money. "Pay us or Joey will break your kneecaps. Its for your own protection."
For those looking for more info and practical advice on this topic: check out the Huberman Lab podcast. The host, Dr. Andrew Huberman, spends four episodes talking about sleep. He actually draws a lot of research from the folks at UCSF (mentioned in the article).
Bucardo has no performance impact, it just adds a trigger to every mutation. Negligible!

I really think articles of this kind are not useless, but need to explicitly narrow their audience to set expectation at the start. This particular topic is PG replication for users who aren't very sensitive to write latency.
I stumbled on to the Wiki ELF page doing research on Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower! The stimulation of resonance in the ionosphere would cause it to "ring like a bell" and roll around the perimeter of the earth on that level many (tens of?) times, according to the article on Schumann Resonance. I wonder then how one harnesses this energy. I saw an image from a theorized way to harness it that looked like lots of little Wardenclyffe towers acting like water pumps to extract the energy (potential difference?) from the earth. Maybe you have some insight into how this could theoretically work? It seems like we have strong enough tech to make it happen today. I had a dream where a Wardenclyffe-like tower could have elbows so it could be oriented in a variety of postures, perhaps that would help in this endeavor.
Isn't Vue like 13kb? By what measure is that considered big?
Hello HN! I'm one of the founders of HashiCorp and original creators of Vagrant.

Vagrant isn't "HN hip" these days ;) and I feel like folks tend to think if they don't see it here it must be dead. Vagrant has been the opposite: downloads have still only gone up, and we're seeing it used in more and more places on the regular. Most people are quiet about it because it does what it was built to do well and quite honestly, its moved more into the stereotypically "boring" organizations. For example, I recently ran into an engineer that works at a local city utility who was raving about how they just adopted Vagrant last year and it has been completely life-changing for their team. This is 2021, Vagrant came out 2012. Products have super long lifecycles and the market is massive.

Regardless, we've remained committed to Vagrant. We've always had a team dedicated to Vagrant, and the Vagrant team is awesome and has continued to push out new features and new releases for the past decade.

We're super excited for Vagrant 3.0! There's a lot we have planned for it and the transition to Go is going to bring a lot of those improvements.

I think one topic that is interesting for the HN crowd: why are we rewriting Vagrant in Go? Is that too expensive or time consuming? Does that cause too much user pain?

HashiCorp has built dozens of products now in Go and we've built a large foundation of libraries and utilities for Go-based projects. All our products share the same CLI library (that we wrote), the same plugin framework (that we wrote), the same distributed systems libraries (that we wrote), etc. Besides code, we've built a security team and release engineering team that has pipelines ready to go for Go-based projects. And more.

This means that we move fast with Go, and we can do it confidently, and we can do it without a lot of overhead. From the moment we decided to port Vagrant to Go, the Vagrant team had a working demo in just a few weeks, and an "alpha" release they're ready to ship to users in a few months. We got this speed cause we just wrapped Vagrant around the same architecture and libraries that our other products are built on.

For our users, there are a bunch of improvements (mentioned in the blog post). We're being very careful about backwards compatibility and have a multi-year plan to ensure that existing Vagrantfiles and plugins continue to work. We're starting with continuing to embed a Ruby with our installers while the core is running Go. Over time, we'll ask users to bring their own Ruby (and we'll validate it) to use "older" Ruby-based plugins and Vagrantfiles.

Feel free to ask any questions, I'll try to be present in this thread.

-----------------------------------------------------

Also, if you're a Vagrant user, we also recently made our VMware plugin free and open source. Check it out: https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1402729560823664641
Fiat currencies fluctuate too, even a big pair like USD/EUR has a high of ~0.9 and low of ~0.8 this year and if we are talking about smaller currencies like say the Turkish Lira, you're looking at much larger changes.

Gold isn't used directly because it's not convenient, are you gonna transport a heavy metal that you can't divide into small portions to pay for stuff? No! Lightning network wallets makes even tiny payments of couple satoshis very easy/instant/almost free.
I always thought it was strange the way the Black Hills are said to be a sacred part of Lakota culture but they only held that area for not even 100 years between genociding off the origibal Cheyenne in the area and getting genocided by white settlers. Like how come their feelings about land they killed for mean more than other people who killed for the same land. It's strange how we treat Natives in this racist way where we ignore the fact that they were racist murdering people just like the Europeans.
Does anyone know of any other standards or libraries for self-describing directories (eg manifest files)?

I have a need for this in my own data archiving and it would be nice to not reinvent the wheel.
More like "Found: an epigenetic change in sperm that seems to correlate with genes we know are involved in autism".