skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Most young people don’t even use Facebook anymore

My theory is that they dont use it as a Social Network anymore. That is happening more in Instagram or elsewhere. But they do have a Facebook account for other activities.
Exactly. The remedy for the original package author is to put up a banner on their project that says, "I will not be answering questions about my package on NixOS because I disagree with how NixOS packages my library." Failing that they could release their project under a non-free license that restricts redistribution in a way that excludes NixOS.

I don't understand what their intent was in requesting that the NixOS packagers voluntarily give up rights that the author had explicitly granted them, via the MIT License.
No. He is just astonished. I am also astonished that a so called good manager will outsource a project to a "third world" country because he thinks this is cheaper and the poor guy in the third world country must reinvent the wheel and be "creative" because he is denied money (for equipment) and knowledge. ("just take this code and continue").
I only ever get insurance for significant life disasters. Home insurance, vehicle and overseas medical insurance (European so I don't need domestic health insurance).

When it comes to something like a phone, I just figure 'it's a risk I am willing to take'.
Magnet here to a sample, I think this will work -

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:55c4d5de85b8f4509f3fd99a1d32fc9d59688281 (Malware duh)

> “Padding it out with racist slurs told me all I needed to know about its creator.”

It was " nigger". I think there's a lot to tell, like it's not a company or a Western agency.

Others can look deeper, but maybe there's more to it than blocking pirate sites. That could be a red herring. Stopping people going back to the torrent sites, stops bad reviews and people reading comments.

Currently hundreds of new torrents are being created. Many seed dead, I assume to pollute results. One had the padding changed to rubbish instead. Could still be one person (who doesn't like Ali-TPB for instance)
Convincing would be a large double blind controlled study.
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Hey, fellow connoisseur! Points fingers at my and your noses.
Lots of bug bounties are really just hush money, that you have to sign an NDA to get.

Always just publish your research. You can optionally offer it privately to the affected party in advance, but don't agree to any TOSes to do free work.

Full disclosure is responsible, too.
This article's core thesis is wonderful and correct, but the article is weakened by only focusing on theory.

An actual set of examples is vital to communicate the extent of the profit. For my part I offer that the life insurance offered "on the market" in japan cost 10x the actuary table for my young age. An obvious aspect of such self-selecting insurance is adverse selection.

Insurance ironically has many pitfalls. The worst pitfall being fake "financial advisors" who are nothing more than insurance salesmen hoping to convert your savings into premiums and kickbacks. Every country has different restrictions, but here in Japan "financial advisor" is a title almost 100% implying insurance salesman.

There is a reason during the PS3 era it was not TVs, or Cameras, or games, or movies which kept Sony going: it was insurance. It turns out insuring the rich & long living + national healthcare is good business.
I would like to argue the direct opposite conclusion of the title.

License, alone, governs behavior in open source. The terms and the guidelines of the OSD matter. If you are trying to enforce behavior that is counter to the guidelines of the OSD then we are no longer talking about open source software.

Your software should then be publicly derided for abusing an open source license.
I strongly agree on this one. As a programmer and someone who's always been interested in mathematics, having a way to check proofs without relying on trust of my own logic or a third agent, but solely on a prover like Lean or Coq is a really big difference.
I love Ruby more than Python. But I’ve got to admit it can be much more confusing and the learning curve is steep. I mean, getting to the point where you love and appreciate Ruby is a lot of work.
I don't know where your rage is coming from, other than to be a pedant.

Downloading the entirety of Linux, coreutils, etc. _is_ the point. Right now a kid with an iPhone is limited to programming it with whatever toy apps Apple has decided to allow on their app store. Or on Android you're lucky to be allowed to use Termux to run a little proot environment to mostly use core linux tools. There's _no_ way for that kid to learn and use 'real' programming languages and tools--want to learn rust? Sorry, you're SOL. Want to program some Go? Not going to happen. Etc.

But give that kid a browser window that's a full POSIX shell with gcc and all the coreutils built. Perhaps some CDN hosting precompiled packages just like apt/rpm/etc. repos... and now we're talking. They can do _anything_ and no app store limit or whatever will stop them.

This is precisely for geek circles. The kind of geek that opens up that weird qbasic.exe they found rooting around their parents DOS machine and then blew their mind at the possibilities. We don't have anything like that for kids today and it's a real shame, but the birth and death of JS demo here made into reality can change that. I look forward to the day some kid clicks a link, sees a blinking bash prompt and a pointer to read some man pages or help files and has their mind blown too.
Thanks for the info.

But I'm not sure I would consider it a complete success. It looks to me like he stole them then people surrounded him and forced him to give them back a minute later.
Such a great piece of Steve Jobs fanfiction
Gas (or rather the additive we talk about here) itself also does not smell "foul" to me. Intense and very distinct, but not foul, or disgusting.
They get the vuln in all cases if you are talking to them: either for free if you post it to f-d, or for some reduced rate (and hushed up) if you agree to the NDA to get the bounty.

The people selling to rogue states and TAO aren't talking to the vendor in the first place.

Bug bounty programs are, for the most part, bullshit.
Neddy doesn't believe in insurance. He considers it a form of gambling.
The article assumes that everyone has a lot of savings tucked away for the "lesser" damages like floor flooding (which might spiral out of control once the true extent of the damage is revealed...)

It definitely makes sense if you've got a good emergency fund, but I come from a background of people where cash savings are limited and all their money is in the big purchases (house, car etc.) and work in minimum wage jobs

A £7000 floor flooding scenario would almost certainly put them into hardship without insurance...
This tool seems amazing. I'm kinda upset I haven't discovered it before.
My take as a finance person but not an insurance person:

- Some events are low probability but high cost. You're unlikely to crash your car, but if you do, it might cost you a heck of a lot to fix. Nearly everyone is in this situation, so it makes sense for everyone to pay a little at a time and give that pot to whoever ends up crashing.

- The insurance pool cares about the average outcome, ie average cost. They need to collect more than this. The insurance buyer cares about the extreme case, where they end up crashing. So in there we have space for a trade. Yes they care about the extremes too of course, since they wouldn't want a bunch of payouts at the same time, but that's something actuaries have thought extensively about.

- You want people in the pool to be similar risks. If they aren't and they know they aren't the low risk people will decide they don't need to insure, leaving everyone else with a higher average cost. Also, the high risk people will see a good deal and join. Adverse selection.

- If the thing you're insuring isn't a catastrophic cost, you're less likely to want to pay over the odds. Maybe your £200 phone doesn't need a £30 annual insurance, because you have lots of money to buy a new phone. If you're really rich maybe that car crash scenario doesn't matter for you either (but of course there are laws about insurance).

- The insurance company holds a free float. All the premiums are coming in, but only pay out now and again. That gives some room for investing the free float.
>Insurance companies (same as betting companies) always need to bill you more than the chance you get your big payoff.

In theory, couldn't they charge less if the ROI of the premiums was large enough?
Think of the gift government gives the insurance industry when it mandates it?

Since I started driving in CA, I always felt the rate was to high for minimum auto insurance.

The big players have had some competition with pay per mile, but you need a computer connection to use the service, and even then it's gimmicky.

I have been told the Insurance Lobby in Sacramento basically runs the show. They give politicians a lot of money.

I can't prove collusion, but mandatory insurance seems wrong.

And yes--there will be the obligatory story about the uninsured driver, but 15k, 30k, 5k liability doesn't cover much. So little why mandate it?

I would like to see large economy's, like CA, self insure. I bet we could pull it off, and rates might be halfed?

Be it auto, homeowners, etc., I don't think insurance should be mandated, especially for profit.
Property taxes are a significant burden on people with fixed incomes. It amounts to a permanent rent, and requires an income. It amounts to a form of servitude to the government I think.

Though it's certainly a privilege to own land.
> I can start building in React today, and style literally everything without really thinking about it.

And be cursed into oblivion by the first user.

> I can start with Qt5 today, and give up screaming in rage tomorrow because I can’t get my select dropdown to display what I want.

File a bug report. Oh, i forgot, developers want to develop, not to fix bugs.
Man, I love Hyperion.
Miniaturizing quantum computers is the absolute last priority issue in the field right now.

Making quantum computers “scalable” means overcoming challenges in qubit coherence times and operational fidelities, as well as manufacturing yield.

Putting a quantum computer—that doesn’t do anything remotely useful—on a rack, or in a glass case, or whatever is, in my not so humble opinion, just a gimmick.

While I think the miniaturization is a gimmick, it’s nonetheless nice to see another quantum computer built with respectable fidelities. It’s not good enough to do anything other than further science experiments, but it does show the scientists’ care for the details and the design.
You could in theory replace the interest rate with a tax. Private banks put their profit margin on top. Governments always issue 0% debt.

It is a slightly less broken system than the one we have today (no endless nominal growth required) but functionally it is identical. So your idea is a good approximation.
I put up an "Under Construction" page for an insurance claims processing site at my first internship while I worked on changes to something or other.

In production.

That didn't stay up for very long :)
Crossposting from yesterday’s thread where Phoenix is somehow getting held up as the platonic ideal of water responsibility:

> Phoenix has made strides, but largely because it started from such a low, low bar. Exemplified by the Navajo Generating Plant, one of the largest coal fired power plants ever built, just to power pumps for lifting Colorado River water 2900ft up to Phoenix.

> Not to mention the damage to the Colorado, which no longer has enough flow to reach the ocean. That “Net groundwater contributor” comment? It’s because Phoenix drains the Colorado and pumps it into the city’s private aquifers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27556422
> while the country’s tertiary gross enrollment rate (GER) spiked from 7.6 percent to 50 percent (compared with a current average GER of 75 percent in high income countries, per UNESCO).

It appears that they still haven't caught up.
Indeed. And besides, didn't I account for precisely that scenario? Memory-constrained embedded development is a specialized situation that could call for using NUL-terminated strings.
Which can only siphon your data and play games.
I disagree, I think that is just the way idiomatic C code looks like and should look like. A post incremented dereferenced pointer for example is an idiom, it is so common that at some point you will immediately recognize it for what it is. These idioms keep the code concise, which has a lot of value in itself, since they make it easier to recognize what the code is all about instead of figuring out code that essentially expresses the same intent but does it in some non-idiomatic way. They are like chords in music, standard positions in chess, etc.
Average salary for teachers is $63k, across all states. In NY or CA, it is about $85k [1]. This does not include benefits (e.g., health care or a ~$50k/y pension for retirement at age 60 [2])

And there are 2.5 months in the summer for r&r or for working additional jobs [3]. You need two wage earners to be solidly middle class, but this is not a "grossly underpaid" profession. For comparison, a university engineering professor salary in Netherlands starts at 65k euros ($77k).

Bottomline: teaching is not going to make you rich but you aren't grossly underpaid.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_211.60.a...
[2]
https://www.teacherpensions.org/states
[3] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2019/07/11/tea...
This is almost certainly fan fiction. The behavior (eg: Jobs' purported focus on himself — 'was it because I was being rude?' — instead of Apple or the industry) seems very out-of-character.
Profit (creatively shielded from tax) above all. (Rotten) Apple.
There is a "risk" that bill Gates is actually an alien and has been putting microchips into the vaccine.

Pretty much all risks are identified within a short period, it's very rare for there to be long term risks.So yes there may be some theoretical long term risk, but it's soo small that it is misleading to talk about it as a serious risk. Expecially compared to the real and known dangers of Ivermectin and covid.
MetaboFix Review, Legit or a Scam?
Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1
I always assumed it was common sense to stash away some cash for a rainy day, but so many people we know live paycheck to paycheck and rely on credit cards and insurance to cope with the anxiety/illiquidity this causes.

I think the far more important takeaway is to always have that cash set aside for an emergency. Once you have the breathing space, so many types of poor financial habits seem to just sort themself out.
I sometimes see an acute accent used instead of an apostrophe in reddit comments. People aren't scanning old books into reddit comments. It's the keyboard layout.

Also the article author seems to be pretty confident in his ability to detect plagiarized content, and didn't seem to think that stuff was plagiarized.

I personally sometimes type the acute accent instead of an apostrophe. I have the Spain Spanish keyboard installed in Windows in addition to the American English keyboard. I meant to install the Mexican Spanish keyboard but installed the Spain Spanish keyboard by mistake. It was many months until I realized my mistake, and by then I was more used to the Spain Spanish layout than the Mexican Spanish layout, so I kept it. When I'm practicing Spanish I switch to the Spanish keyboard, and often forget about it, so then type an acute accent when I want to type an apostrophe.
Isolated to the crypto ecosystem. The ramifications to fiat assets and financials is limited by the fact that there's not much free flow between crypto and fiat.
> "I'm not a medical doctor, but here is a bunch of medical advice that should be used to prosecute this defendant."

On a side note, I think you'd be sad to learn how common it is for this to apply to testifying coroners.
"Working conditions should improve when the workers have other options."

So when the workers have not other options, working conditions can stay low?
Those things will be built over time. It's a large field out there waiting to be explored.
You can post a bond as an alternative to insurance in most states (it's $35,000 in California). The system is opt-out and people can self-insure if they feel like it's a bad deal.

Generally, it's a better deal to stick with the insurance. The real killer for a car accident is if there is a lawsuit and the insurer can do those much more cheaply than you can.
Before doing the select I would probably want to show the schema. Since the JSON could be arbitrarily complex... How would I do that?
I lived in Melbourne, AU for a while, and their system seemed good. The third-party insurance wasn't mandatory (like here in the EU), only recommended. But you could buy insurance (something like reverse third party insurance) where if someone crashed into you, the insurance would pay you for the damages and then they'd get the money from the other person. It was very cheap.
I am curious whether there are any systems that let parents choose teachers within a school — and let teachers admit students they will take. So they can make more if they are in demand — and that students that are "problems" will result in greater income for the teachers that take them.

A kind of "choice-based" market system within a school.
Why not just simply write a new type of License that would explicitly ban organizations and entities from using the work in any forms, but, in contrast, would grant large possibilities to use the project for individuals for free?

Such approach is no doubt contradicts FOSS principals, but I don't see how else we can defend ourselves from the business exploitation these days.

In addition, I would also explicitly state in such License, that the author preserving exclusive rights of the work. To keep an IP in hands of it's creator. When one keeps exclusive ownership rights, it could be clearer how to defend them in the legal field, rather than something developed by uncertain set of contributors.

GPL and other FOSS licenses were initial designed for crowd development. But let's face the truth, a lot of nice software projects are practically developing by individuals exclusively. Their authors don't really require crowd contribution even for maintenance. Yet, society(by "society" I mean independent programmers and individual users, not corporations) can still benefit from using of their work.

It's a common practice in many other fields of creativity. We rarely see books, visual art creations, scientific articles, etc made by crowd. And there are many examples of outstanding works made this way. And all that works are quit well defended by just normal Copyright laws. So, why shouldn't we, the programmers, avoid such obvious and well defined practice?

Of course, FOSS could still be applied for large infrastructure things. Such as Linux maybe, or Wikimedia. Crowd development is beneficial in many aspects, but individual creativity is not crowd development. So, my point is that individual authors just shouldn't adopt FOSS licenses by default.
In one way, I guess. But only if they had a stash of tinned food. There wouldn't be much in the way of well-stocked supermarkets up there to raid, and then you'd have little to no access to water or growing your own food. I'd probably take my chances almost anywhere else than ride out a shock and then have to survive in that area!
> Front ends could be drag and drop native GUIs instead of electron apps

> We had Visual Basic. We had Dreamweaver. We had Microsoft FrontPage. What went wrong?

Visual basic was only used to run macros in Office documents. And then viruses. And then MS killed it.
Dreamweaver ? Hello Adobe.
Frontpage ? Was broken by design.

SW is only about inovations. It does not need to last. It must be new.

> Most web pages really aren't doing anything that exciting.

Data collection is a very exciting thing, so I heard.
I'm guessing that insurance works differently in the US (assuming that it's where this author lives) since the question about insuring against hitting random Bentleys is a non-issue here: motor liability insurance is mandatory for all drivers. And really the most important thing about the insurance isn't even the fact that it covers super-expensive luxury cars like Bentleys (who even has one?) but rather that it covers healthcare costs for both parties.

I also don't have a separate coverage plan for my phone but my phone, alongside with my computers, TV, etc, are covered by my home insurance. Granted, the deductible is 150 € but it's quite a lot cheaper than replacing the screen on my iPhone 11 Pro, which is about 310 €. And I don't really even want to guess how much it'd be if I spilled a drink on a laptop. And of course, the most important part is that if there's a fire or a pipe breaks, the home insurance also covers that part. And the premium is also only 190 €/year, so I think it's pretty well worth it.
I think this is true for important but dangerous things, but I think it's vacuous and false for dangerous and unimportant things.
Once you become too big to fail, an ability to ignore issues is one of the perks.
Meaning you think this is fabricated and not true?
Polygon's ETH bridge is behind a proxy smart contract that is controlled by a 5 of 8 multi signature contract.

Polygon has repeatedly made confusing statements towards their tech. In their FAQ, Polygon clearly states that they're a "side chain". Their FAQ reads super weirdly and not like a neutral technical document.

https://docs.matic.network/docs/home/faq/#what-is-matic-netw...

You may also be interested in learning why smart contracts don't work on Plasma.

https://ethresear.ch/t/why-smart-contracts-are-not-feasible-...

I see a conflict for Polygon wrt this point. In case of the network's crash, how are funds that e.g. are locked in Polygon contracts, distributed? That won't be automatically resolved like e.g. on Optimism. It'd be a major drama.

I'm not putting my money there.
You could also get there by camel (loads of feral camels north of there) and bike (I've seen people crossing the continent on bikes). So, pretty much just rules out watercraft and large planes!
I thought the same thing. The story and style of writing just come across absurdly. Does this sound to people like the writing voice of a man nearing fifty in a senior role at apple?
Yes, but the restrictions on investment that insurance companies are under means that you'd be better of if you invested it yourself
There's a big difference in how you develop, ship and share the code.

I would say a page loading a 1KB JS file better off than a WASM binary blob that's 2MB.

Edit: to be clear, I'm not focusing on performance
Of course it's from the lab. What are the odds that a pandemic randomly starts in a city that has a virology lab which studies just that kind of virus?

But also: of course we need more solid evidence before official accusations.
Ions or neutral atoms don’t need the same kind of cooling as superconducting qubits need, which might be what you’re thinking.
Good point, I should add that to the docs. You can see the schema in a couple of ways:

sqlite-utils memory blah.json "select sql from sqlite_master"

Or

sqlite-utils memory blah.json --dump

The second option will dump out both the SQL schema and the INSERT statements, so you probably want to | head that.

You've inspired me to add a --schema option which does the dump without also including the inserted rows. Issue here: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/288