skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth noting that 'crypto' creates an opening for new ways to fund open-source development. Let's try not strangling that in its crib? We're approaching the 40th anniversary of the GNU Manifesto, and if the older funding models were going to take free software beyond the niches it's found, we'd see that by now.
Toshiba Makes Breakthrough Towards the Quantum Internet
Wanna buy a one legged duck?
People who will want this are low end system builders who can add the "Has an SSD" who market to people have no idea how fast a 2 legged duck can run....
I couldn’t agree more.

I’m a massive music fan and podcast listener.

Spotify had been my go to for music, but the combination of podcast and music has absolutely killed my experience.

I love both, but when I’m listening to music, I don’t want to listen to podcasts and vice versa. They serve different purposes for me, all audio is not the same.

I’ve recently switched to YouTube Music. I will occasionally use Spotify for podcasts.
Netflix launches two Android games in Poland
This is an interesting idea. I agree with you that going to get a Covid test from a local pharmacy has made me wish that other similar diagnosis were available from pharmacies, rather than requiring a trip to a hospital.

I'm curious as to how you will integrate into the existing UK healthcare system. Will you have access to my NHS records? Will the results of these tests appear on my NHS records? Will these tests be covered by the NHS?

(I'm not in the healthcare profession so please forgive me if these questions are obvious to those that work in the UK healthcare!)
GrapheneOS is great as a daily driver. The only breaking point might be the incompatibility of certain apps that depend on google play services, but this is a highly subjective matter and depends on how far you go in restricting yourself. (Strict with only FOSS apps vs loose with some privacy invading apps from the play store via Aurora)

But since there are plenty of apps in the froid store there are plenty of free alternatives...
So if it's true that there are 1B active iPhone users, then Google pays $15 per user per year.
Very true. Visit high minimum wage areas like San Francisco and Seattle, with no visible misery at all.
Or they could just scan the songs themselves. Why bother with hashing when you have full control? This is a red herring.

Since they have had the ability and incentive to stop music piracy that way for at least a decade, and haven't done it, that should tell you something.
Well to me it's defence in depth.

I've used Ruby in a cryptocurrency project and I've used Rust. I know there are no guarantees but I wouldn't go back to ruby. There are just too many times when the compiler catches something I missed.
You have fair points and much more experience than I have in this domain.

Yeah, $5 even at a 1M users is probably not that much, having to maintain drivers, and as you mentioned serving updates, that would require a team.

With regards to the Google apps, I think a company would be better off trying to make something of their own, or collaborate with some app makers, at least for difficult stuff like maps, camera, gallery, browser(not sure about the paid codecs)

As for the app store, I know that's a big project, but that would have to be custom and a core product of the company.

Hope you'll eventually find a way to monetize your ROM.
It should be called atlas-glibc or even himalaya-glibc, not related to alpine at all.
The products I design/sell generate the inputs for this kind of thing for the semiconductor industry.

It always makes cocktail party conversation complicated.
Why CEOs are failing software engineers and other creative teams (2020)
Yahoo shuts down news sites in India
A lot of important work is happening, and it is hard going. Describing it as "surprisingly well" is a reach, though. From 30 million individuals before European colonization, to a minimum of 1,000, to now 21,000...that's still 3 orders of magnitude off. And that population will never recover to pre-colonization because their former habitat is now largely ranches and farms. Yet another example of how mankind utterly obliterated a whole cross-section of the ecosystem for its own ends and cannot restore it.
I certainly don't want DNS resolution inside the kernel, and outside the kernel, libc is as "base OS" as "base OS" comes, imo.
Is Sailfish running on top of Android in this case? I'm a little confused on why Android version is relevant.
I run LineageOS with zero Google services (no microG either - no need for it) as my daily phone, and have been for several years now across a series of devices (currently, a Moto z3 Play and an Essential PH-1).

I prefer to use FOSS apps where I can, and as such, most of my installed apps come from F-Droid. When I do need something from the Play Store, I simply use the Aurora Store to grab those applications (which are really just Paypal and Slack for work).

Potential issues you might run into are some apps like banking and such not functioning thanks to SafetyNet. For banking, I just use the browser anyway, have never had the need to use my local bank's mobile app.

It really depends all on your needs, but you will find that using a de-Googled device is very doable as a daily driver, and I have been doing it for a number of years now - I can't tell you when the last time I signed into a "Googled" Android device was.

I also have a few PinePhones (my first testing grounds for Sailfish, interestingly enough) and am a huge proponent of Linux phones. I throw my SIM in my Pinephone sometimes and use it often for testing development stuff. For daily driving, however, my de-Googled devices are still what I reach for the most.
I think the most direct competitor to discord (for gaming and related communities) is guilded.gg which is basically a clone of discord that offers additional features as well, including offering most of the features that discord has paywalled behind "nitro" for free.

The big issue they have is building up a large enough network effect. I really can't see the discord communities I am a part of moving over there any time soon. Also, they were recently acquired by roblox, and nobody knows for sure what the new ownership will end up doing to the platform.
but they can then revoke your license anytime?
Every time biometrics is on HN i end up losing karma cause people disagree with me.

I did my PhD on biometrics and while i've transitioned to a different field since graduation, i'd like to think i have some insight into the field (which i still try to follow through journals like IEEE TIFS or conference proceedings from ICB/IJCB). Fundamentally, a biometric is both a _username_ and a _password_ at the same time. It identifies who is logging in (username) while authenticating them (password). There is some literature to address the elephant in the room about 'changing the password' where the key created and stored from the biometric can be changed. But again, fundamentally, the goal should be about how to treat the data like a username/password pair that's just as sensitive as something like a SSN. For law enforcement, i completely agree that it's useful, but for digital access i have yet to see proof that system architects are acknowledging that relationship when thinking about cybersecurity and any ramifications of a breach.

edit: LOL this just hit my RSS feed from HN -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28314993
This was a problem with the Adata XPG SX8200 Pro, which LTT covered in this video[1].

[1] https://youtu.be/K07sEM6y4Uc
We could. And it would be about as safe as much medicine that we use today. But like many drugs that could be useful... steroids === bad.
You're absolutely right. I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote this last night.

I meant to say that formal treatments are based around being able to find arbitrarily small neighborhoods around a point, and that this only works when you have something the size of the reals, for which you can find a real-sized space between any two points.

It's this infinite self-similarity at any arbitrarily small scale that is at the heart of calculus.
Some things like this do exist. Some programs or even entire customized distros will LD_PRELOAD jemalloc for size or hardened malloc for security (I'm sure there's a performance-optimized version out there I don't know about). There's nothing at all stopping developers from providing optimized subsets of libc intended for more specific use cases than the fully-general system-wide libc.

Note that when you're comparing Centos 6 to Debian 10, you're comparing a system released in 2011 that went end of life last November to a system released in 2019. I don't think it's that surprising that 8 years of development brought a 500% performance increase. Presumably, Centos 8 (released 17 days after Debian 10) would have had the newer glibc.
FYI - For some reason clicking on England flag still redirects to French version.
I don't doubt it. I believe it was a results personalization issue. A history of queries related to one game caused it to include that game in all game-related queries. Maybe exacerbated by the heroes:legendary relationship? Who knows. I don't even recognize the Google algorithm year to year anymore. I don't expect to be able to reproduce anything.
Capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. The relentless drive to shave fractions of a cent off costs in the short term creates the conditions you describe in the long term. In other words, it's like being penny wise and pound foolish on a global scale.
Sailfish does not run on top of Android. It is a gnu/linux system with a Qt interface. It has an Android layer called AlienDalvik which runs on top of it. But it also has native apps written in C++/Qt. You can also run FlatPack apps which is interesting. I believe it uses Wayland for it's display server.

The Android apps blend pretty seamlessly with the whole experience. For example, the keyboard that pops up in Android apps is the same as the one in that pops up in native apps.
And that about sums up the argument why Apple isn't really serious about privacy. Your data is always up for sale if someone bids high enough. And $15 billion is easy to part with when Google considers Apple's market share, especially for mobile phones and all the delicious location data they emit.
Weird downvotes on this. People are willing to bet their life on a PCR test? Even if you were asymptomatic? We're letting that cycle count do a lot of work. Seems like an antibody test is prudent if you're going to consider skipping the vaccine.
The only reason drug prohibition doesn't work is because people abuse the system by dealing illegal drugs.
I wish Apple would roll their own- free of ads. But hey- $15B is a lot of money.
Just like the US Postal Service, The USDA has uniformed law enforcement and special agents who investigate crimes concerning the USDA, similarly to US Postal Inspectors who investigate mail fraud and other mail-related crimes.
The user already had to go out of their way to install it; I'm not sure adding an extra flag is a huge difference.
Not sure I fully agree.

The features we're talking about here are in the developer space, not the end-user space. When a browser maker implements a brand new web standard, I don't think the correlation with new end-users is that strong. It takes forever before any new standard is popularized and widely used.

Check release notes of browsers, almost all features no user will ever directly experience.
If you’re referring to Covid vaccines I’m not sure the vouchers would have made much difference. The FDA moved as fast as possible.
The problem with creating excessive types in production systems (which is what I want people to avoid and can happen if you go too far with Pydantic models + type annotations into pseudo-"static typing") is that you move outside the area that Python's core is already designed to generically cover in idiomatic ways. You end up wasting your own (and reviewers') time creating unnecessary code that future you will have to now maintain and extend to more generic cases.

I'm skeptical that the people that produce the kind of abomination you encountered would produce something less horrible if they went to town with static typing. I've seen too much Java to fall for that ;) I'm not averse to putting in some annotations and data validation chokepoints here and there.

I'd ask Steve why he called it `foo(bar)` rather than `set_width(width)`. Static typing fans shift the semantics of code onto a type system. I'd prefer it if they focused more on better naming than spending time on designing complicated Pydantic models.
You're absolutely right. I was going for a different concept. See explanation above. I should stop writing after 02:00.
I'm not this does anything for privacy though. In my tin-foil hat mode, I think they take your data and use it how ever they want. If you have this enabled, they do these "local to you" type of things, and if it is disabled then it goes to the main search. However, that does not prevent them from saving that data linked to you in another table/database. It just means you no longer get the "benefit", but you never prevent Googs from benefiting.
Yes. Someday Tether will implode like all scams do. The results will be spectacular.
All of these places suffering from severe housing shortages have some government policy which can clearly be linked to it. Sweden has rent control, London has a labyrinth of building restrictions based on historical preservation among other things, etc.

There's an obvious solution here, it's just not one most people living in these areas wants to hear.
Madoff's scam lasted for 17 years and only collapsed because of sharp economic downturn. It could have lasted for much longer if people suddenly didn't need the cash.

Bitcoin is often described as distributed Ponzi. There is little value (skipping over regulations is about the only thing it's useful for) and a lot artificial pumping. It will collapse when people need money for something else so either economic downturn (exactly the thing crypto believers think they are hedging against) or when it slowly goes out of fashion (probably either due to regulation catching up or something much better coming about). Till then the show goes on. Even if there is just 10% of real dollars behind those valuations it will not matter until there is a bit of a run to cash out.
That's a real stretch, to put it charitably.
Mining is definitely renewable UNfriendly. Hardware is too expensive to turn it down at night, or when winds are weak. It's 24/7 constant demand, the worst possible for solar/wind.

It's indeed location independent, but that's more compatible with previously uneconomical fossil fuels (eg. methane in locations where transferring it out isn't economical).
Like how China banned it in May, and it has been creeping back?
You can't ban mining. At least not in any jurisdiction with free speech type laws.
Be careful what you are asking for -- the ability to run arbitrary software should not be controlled by governments.
Thanks, I had no idea about this. I've been using Samsung drives in all of my machines and servers and I run Linux exclusively. With a mixture of 850, 860 and 870's I must be at least partially affected.
My girlfriend still plays 2048 everyday. The game is still a gem. Thanks for making it :)
towards the end of 2018 netflix took a nosedive
People in the data science world with dubious coding practices should keep their data in commonly used types such as Pandas tables. The last thing we should want from them is encoding their data with ill-conceived class/type systems. Not sure if that is what you mean.

I'd say Python's large scale adoption is exactly a good example of dynamic typing delivering on its promises.
This literally has happened to multiple subreddits too, it's not like this tactic hasn't been effective in the past. /r/punchablefaces comes to mind.
What do you use for maps/navigation?
Redundancy assumes that either the original still exists, the encoded copy was lossless, the original was JPEG (which can be losslessly upgraded to JPEG XL), or that the new lossless copy of the old lossy intermediate will outperform. In reality the vast majority of AVIF and WebP images are lossy without the original copy meaning such a change will either force worse overall efficiency to now be a lossless reproduction of a lossy image or generational loss each time a new format takes over.

Not to mention the breakage and work effort during such change periods.
Ugly has very little to do with my pain points. My issue is that he uses it mainly as an info dump for his personal tracking and it's not very well set up for use from a development perspective. It's essentially just a multi-column checklist. I'm starting to think I may be better off tracking issues assigned to me using whatever system I choose and then just updating the "complete" column on his end when appropriate.
I'm imagining whatever product would use git as a base, but Github wiki's itself doesn't offer anything that would benefit someone doing research, from UX to creating relationships between documents.
For a start, do you have a better method? Let us know which country is "not totally corrupt" and why is it so? Checks and balances in any system reduces efficiency and places a lower limit on how bad things can get. On the topic of adding these to the curriculum, I'd say its a good thing, although most of these 12 Xi thoughts are pure platitudes.
Graphene was a little too restrictive for my liking, personally. It also felt dated. Calyx has been a sweet spot between privacy and features.
Many basic economic principles work only in imaginary simplified scenarios.
It doesn't have to be by default. Like many other preferences Apple asks when it pushes a new version of iOS or macOS, why couldn't this be a choice for users?
Their competitor is Intel which stands for I am NoT really Even trying Lol
Help (Australian) government hack or face 10 years' jail
> Let me clear things up for you:

If by "clear things up", you mean behave with hostility towards someone pointing out your bullshit, sure, you sure did.

> I don't see any claim by me that I was explaining why it is more elegant.

Yes, from _my_ post.

> Elegance is a term developers love to throw around to get out of having to define why something is or is not good. Your answer is nothing more than "I like it more".

> Would you say the same about beauty?

Philosophical debates are cute and this is whataboutism. You're using a subjective term to compare two concepts as though that term is shared universally by others. It's not. To quote me: You like it more.

> 1. Just because you don't explain something (why 0-based is elegant) doesn't make it any less true or more subjective.

Not don't, can't. Or more directly, it's subjective. You like it more. You saying why you think something is more elegant doesn't make any other person agree with you. Because it's subjective.

> 2. Lots of things like beauty and elegance are PARTIALLY subjective. There is room for debate. But that doesn't mean that everyone completely disagrees with each other and there's no shared consensus.

Cute whataboutism.

> 3. Elegance doesn't just mean "you like it more". Beauty and elegance are reasons to like things more.

Subjective reasons to like something more.

> This is a weird debate.

It would be a debate if it were possible to have debates about things that were subjective, but it's not, which is my whole point. You like it more.
I didn't say anything about the methodology of this CDC study or the study that this comment section is attached to, only that they both say the same thing. They both say that getting the Pfizer vaccine after infection confers additional protection against reinfection. There is no disagreement between these studies' conclusions.

An alternate conclusion to your own is that people who get the vaccine did so in order to take advantage of the reduced restrictions on vaccinated people at the time.
I think you may have missed this part?

> Data adequacy in this sense means an agreement that the protections in place are similar in two countries, with the idea of ensuring that personal information remains safe. It is a key part of EU regulations and was a minor sticking point in the Brexit negotiations.
Interesting. They supposedly shared content previously that indicated they were not a woman:

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditoroftheday/comments/bdl3o/max...

Maybe, maybe not. What is the proof of the connection? Just the time of disappearance and the username? That is pretty circumstantial, but maybe. Not conclusive though.

EDIT: This article seems to have more evidence and is at least interesting: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/is-ghislaine-maxwell-secret... I think there is definitely a chance it is her. Strange.
The alternative to rent control that doesn’t distort the market as much is direct subsidy of rent by the local govt.

Rents go up from $800 to $1600? Well, the local govt coughs up $600 to soften the blow.

Now that seems egregious right? The govt enriching these rentier landlords? Well yeah.

Why is it better? Because the govt will do anything to avoid such payments. I don’t know, things like building more housing?

It’s a great arrangement! Make the pain focused on the people who can actually do something about it.
>Economists agree that rent control is not the most profitable way to price housing

I don't think that that's what economists are talking about when they say rent controls "don't work". I think the consensus is more specifically that it is not an effective way to increase the total supply of affordable housing. For example, see this survey [0] of notable economists where 2% agreed that:

>Local ordinances that limit rent increases for some rental housing units, such as in New York and San Francisco, have had a positive impact over the past three decades on the amount and quality of broadly affordable rental housing in cities that have used them.

Reading through the economists' comments, the consensus seems to be: 1) helps incumbent renters by reducing pricing for them, 2) reduces total supply, 3) hurts non-rent-protected residents (mediated by 2).

Possibly the answer is still "doesn't matter, achieved 1)", but I don't think it's fair to characterize it as a magical policy lever that only hurts profiteering landlords.

[0] https://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/rent-control/
Big plus one; the add-on community is wonderful as well, with new extensions available pretty regularly, and active discord.
So there's no possible valid logic for not wanting an mRNA vaccine. It's all completely "delusion" stemming from propaganda? Anyone who does not have complete faith at this point is in the wrong?

Am I understanding you correctly?
Conductor: We Migrated from Kubernetes to Nomad
> which means the rise of Linux desktop or Fediverse platforms, and that's gonna be a while, but not impossible.

I like to hope you're right, but I don't believe you are.

Most people don't want to learn more about tech. They just want tech to be intuitive enough to pick up and use.

The mobile market appeared because Windows is too big and cumbersome. That's why people advertised it as a skill on their resume. It isn't fun. Windows is a chore to most people.

Nobody puts "experienced Android user" on their resume because it is expected that just by being alive you should be capable of using every function of an Android device. Very little functionality is abstracted away into 20 year old UI's or shell commands. There is a button for everything, and the button makes sense.

So if Windows didn't stand a chance, there is absolutely zero chance Linux will catch on at the scale it needs to for your post to come true.